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On the recordFebruary 5, 2019
And it's already super legal, as we have seen, for me to be a pretty bad guy. So it's even easier for the President of the United States to be one, I would assume?
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

She suggests that the President has fewer ethical constraints than Congress members.

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