Rahm Emanuel Warns The ‘Oval Office Will Become eBay’ As Trump Sells Favors to the Highest Bidder

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Rahm Emanuel, the former Obama aide and current ambassador to Japan, spoke with the New York Times’s Ezra Klein on Monday and warned President-elect Donald Trump will turn the Oval Office into eBay.

Klein asked Emanuel what gets him at night when he starts to worry about what a second Trump administration might do. “Here is what frustrates me. Donald Trump, I do agree, that President Trump — I keep doing that, I should, he’s President-elect Trump — is a threat to democracy,” Emanuel replied, adding:

We have those voters on “Hello.” If they think, that the issue of threat to democracy, threat to the rule of law — if they’re not a yes by now, they’re never going to be a yes. We had them on “Hello.”

Donald Trump is going to turn the Oval Office into eBay. He is going to sell it to every special interest, and you’re going to be left paying that tab. And the Democratic Party is the thin blue line between the pharmaceutical industry getting everything they want or you paying everything you have.

The Democratic Party is a thin blue line that will protect your kids from TikTok. And the Oval Office will become eBay. And whoever pays the highest price will get what they want, and you’ll be left paying through the nose.

Emanuel concluded by turning back to the Democrat’s failures during the election, “We should have turned what people think — this is what polling and focus groups are about. They do have a view of President Trump. Both his character and his strengths, his weaknesses. We never prosecuted the case of how his — not just character but how he’s going to run the Oval Office. And he did it. He used to say: Oh, they give me lots of money. I’m going to give them — like the oil and gas industry: They give me a billion dollars. I’m going to give them all the cuts and regulations.”

Listen to the full discussion here.