The son of late President Ronald Reagan told CNN on Sunday that President Donald Trump's children are "a bunch of grifters," for "mixing business with statecraft," to "profit off of the presidency."
Ron Reagan, an MSNBC commentator, told CNN's Ana Cabrera on Sunday that "we've got a bunch of grifters there in the White House," referring to Trump's family.
"They're treating this as a grift. They're mixing business with pleasure. They're mixing business with statecraft. They're using the hotels and the golf clubs to profit off of the presidency."
He went on to rip Trump's daughter, Ivanka Trump, and her husband, Jared Kushner, for holding senior positions in the White House despite not having any prior political experience. He noted his father would never have offered a senior post to one of his children.
"It would be terribly inappropriate," Reagan said. "I'm sure my father would've thought so, to practice the kind of nepotism that we see now. I mean, he would not be of a mind to appoint an unqualified person, whether that person was his child or not, to a position high in the White House, given no experience there. Why would you do that? Why would I even accept something like that?"
He added Trump has done a "tremendous amount of damage" to the GOP, noting the late President Reagan "would be horrified by the Republican Party right now. The spinelessness in the face of this pathological entity in the White House right now would shock him."
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