Video: Former Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-VA05) Says “the bromance lasts as long as Donald Trump thinks there’s money going in his pocket somehow, based on Elon’s activities.”

Seem below for video and a transcript of former Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-VA05)’s alarming, but accurate, words last night on MSNBC.

• “I think it’s because [Republicans in Congress are] polling and crosstabs still show favorability to Donald Trump. I don’t really think they care about the American people, they care about winning in their specific district. And, you know, what’s amazing to me is that when, you know, when I was a Republican, way back in the day, when…big government picking winners and losers, you want small government. Well, now we have Republicans. And when you look at polling, people who are Trump and support Trump, all of a sudden they think big government is the way to go. And I just find it so interesting, right, this picking winners and losers is the thing that people want, when you’re looking at where where this is going. And I just find it fascinating and also absolutely disturbing that this is happening. You know, the flip to that, to allowing Elon to run through the woods like this without any security clearances. But the other thing is, is that it’s going against directly against the competitors that he has, which is something I know you mentioned at the beginning. But that also blows my mind when you talk about conflicts of interest for any type of contractual obligations. And the last thing is the security clearances. Vetting is awful. Julie knows this, vetting is long, it’s irritating, it’s frustrating. Nobody wants to fill out an SF86 – it sucks, right? But it is an absolutely necessary function because you don’t want a bunch of people looking through private files and payment files that haven’t been vetted properly. And I…think the cancer has been injected to the system. And I think we’re going to see it here down the road.”
• “I think, you know, Julie, god dang, I love being on here with you. When you get angry, it makes me happy. And you know the other thing, too, when you’re talking about the Musk-Trump bromance, I think it lasts as long as Trump thinks that he can actually gain wealth from Elon Musk’s participation in United States government. And you know, Julie’s exactly right about the language. It seems like the Democrats have no idea how to attack insanity, which happened over the last few years also. Well, I sort of do know how to attack insanity. You have to call it like you see it. And right now we really have a billionaire, you know, or actually, I would say an incel trapped in a billionaire’s body, running through our government organizations and wreaking havoc on it, putting fear into people, you know, with the damaging and threatening emails. But I think there’s something even worse, you know, and I think that is that we have data, United States data, in the hands of people that haven’t been vetted. Where is that data going? And when you see Elon Musk, and I know at the beginning…you said that, you know, he rails against big government. Well, he loves Chinese big government because people should look at the state-owned enterprises that have invested in Elon Musk’s companies. So where is all this money going? How are they directing those monies? What are they doing with contracts? How are they identifying the competitors in the spaces that are going directly against Elon? How is he enriching himself? But really, how is he enriching Donald Trump’s family? I think… the bromance lasts as long as Donald Trump thinks there’s money going in his pocket somehow, based on Elon’s activities.”