The Weekly season 1, episode 5 recap: Inauguration, Inc.
THE WEEKLY “Inauguration, Inc.” Episode 5 (Airs Sunday; June 30, 10:00 pm/ep) — Pictured: Anthony Scaramucci sits in his office. CR: FX
The rich get richer
This includes Elliott Broidy, a man who pled guilty to bribing New York State officials and became a pariah for those in the Republican party looking for donations. Well, that is until Trump came along and made him the finance vice chairman and a key fundraiser.
Vogel takes over here and talks about how he received emails showing Broidy’s plans to invite foreign officials to exclusive inauguration events. One that The Weekly focuses on shows Broidy offering an inauguration invite that is essentially linked to foreign officials entering into a contract with his private security firm.
The security firm received $6 million. The officials were seen at the candlelight dinner.
These sorts of transactions continued after the inaugurations. The Weekly then zooms out to show how the Trump team as a whole cared less about the rules and were just find with taking money to give people access to the President.
Cut to the Chairman’s dinner, hosted by Barrack, on Jan. 17, 2017. Five hundred people are invited to this dinner that cost millions.
It was billed as a Washington tradition, a way for foreign dignitaries to meet the administration they’d be working with. So what is the owner of the New England Patriots doing there?
Well, top donors were also invited. People with connections to Barrack were also there—including wealthy investors from the Middle East cozied up next to executives from Barrack’s company.
The Weekly juxtaposes this with a clip of Trump lambasting Washington politics for how much money is able to influence politicians.
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As the episode wraps up, Rosenberg sits down with Anthony Scaramucci, the former White House communications director. It’s the perfect cap to this episode. Scaramucci talks about how greed always wins. Plus, he points out, no one is checking people in Washington, there’s no referee, so there’s a feeding frenzy.
Haberman ends this episode of The Weekly by saying that the Trump administration has blurred the line between public service and private gain. The events surrounding Trumps inauguration are a big reminder of that.
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