'Outrageous': Jamie Raskin buries Eric Trump for raking in millions in foreign cash

Invited on CNN to discuss the bombshell report on Donald Trump and his family taking in millions from foreign governments while the former president was still in office, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) dropped the hammer on Eric Trump for trying to blow off concerns about the cash grab.

Speaking with CNN host John Berman, Raskin highlighted findings in the report that he co-authored with Democratic colleagues on the House Oversight Committee before being asked about Eric Trump's pushback.

With the report stating, "The presidency became the fulfillment of a get-rich-quick campaign he [Trump] reportedly described as 'the greatest infomercial in political history,'" Eric Trump fired back by excitedly claiming, "What a joke! All foreign government profits, for stays at our hotels and other properties while my father was in office, were voluntarily donated to the United States Treasury."

"Your response to Eric?" host Berman prompted.

"Yes, I love that excuse because he's saying, 'Well, trust us. We will go through all the numbers,' and they put in, I think, half a million dollars which kind of gives the game away."

"They know they're taking millions of dollars in unlawful, unconstitutional foreign government payments, but he says, 'Trust us, we will do our own accounting. We are not going to show it to you, but we will give some money back,'" he continued.

"The Constitution doesn't say that you can't keep profits from foreign governments, the Constitution says you can't keep any payments at all without going to Congress to have it accepted."

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"We are talking about an unbroken line of presidents accepting that and always coming to Congress to say we received some trinkets, we've received a statue, we've received a painting, whatever it is, and then it's up to Congress to decide what to do with it," he elaborated.

"Only Donald Trump has arrogated to himself the decision of whether or not he can keep the money and then he will deign to give us back what he calls the profits."

"It's an outrage, it's absurd and he has to give the entire $7.8 million back to the American people," he bluntly stated.

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