WASHINGTON — Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer answered President Donald Trump on Thursday in a post on X, saying the corruption he had in mind was Trump’s own, and ticking off a long list of charges against the president.
He pointed first to what he described as 30,000 stock trades, more, he said, than all members of Congress combined. Then came a luxury jet gifted by Qatar, crypto scams, a Truth Social pay-to-play scheme and a ballroom funded by billionaires. He added an insurrectionist slush fund and pardons for big donors, and said those were only some of his examples, “just to name a few.”
“Senate Democrats will ban stock trading for all Members of Congress and White House officials, and hold you and your administration accountable for all the ways your rampant corruption has made life more expensive for families.”
Trump had set up the exchange in a post on Truth Social. Schumer, he wrote, had just stated that he wants to end corruption in the United States, and Trump said he assumed Schumer was referring to Democrat-run blue states such as California, Minnesota, Illinois, Maine and New York. Billions of dollars, Trump claimed, are being stolen on an hourly basis in those states. He offered no evidence in the post for that figure.
He closed on a mock-cooperative note. Hopefully Schumer’s words would ring true, Trump wrote, and it would be an honor to work with him on what he called a very big Democrat problem, one that, when solved, would “literally balance the Budget of the U.S.”
Schumer made a similar charge last week, when he called the Trump administration the “most corrupted administration by far in American history,” in an interview Virginia Times reported on Nov. 6.