WHEN IT COMES TO THE FOREIGN INFLUENCE OF U.S. ELECTIONS
THERE ARE SOME ANGLES TO THE STORY THAT ARE ALMOST TOTALLY
IGNORED BY CORPORATE MEDIA.
THIS IS ONE OF THOSE STORIES HERE.
THE INTERCEPT IS REPORTING THAT A CHINESE STATE-OWNED CHEMICAL
FIRM IS POURING DARK MONEY INTO U.S. ELECTIONS.
LEE FANG
EXPLAINS --
>>SO TO GIVE PEOPLE SOME MORE SPECIFICS HERE, THEY FUNDED
LAST-MINUTE ADS TO TRY TO GET REPUBLICAN ERIC CANTOR
REELECTED, THEY GAVE $50,000 TO A SUPER PAC SUPPORTING DAVID
VITTER IN LOUISIANA, AND WHEN LOBBYING TO REVAMP CHEMICAL
SAFETY RULES THEY AIRED ADVERTISEMENTS FOR ALL THE
PROINDUSTRY REPUBLICANS.
AND I WANT TO GIVE YOU ONE MORE FACT
HERE, LEE FANG EXPLAINS --
>>THIS JUST GETS TO HOW MUCH OF A PARODY OUR LAWS ARE WHEN IT
COMES TO CAMPAIGN-FINANCE.
>>A NUMBER OF ISSUES HERE.
NUMBER ONE, THE IDEA THAT THESE
TRADE ASSOCIATIONS AREN'T SPENDING A MAJORITY OF THEIR
MONEY ON POLITICS IS LAUGHABLE.
THEY FORM A LOBBYING
ORGANIZATION TO DO WHAT?
MAINLY PLAY AROUND WITH CHEMICALS AND
HAVE FUN, BUT 49% OF THEIR MONEY GOES TO HELPING POLITICIANS WHO
VOTE WITH THEM ALL THE TIME?
HMM.
NO, IN REALITY THERE IS A
MOST NO CHECK ON THESE GUYS, THE FEC OLD ACT, SO THEY SPEND A
GREAT MAJORITY OF THEIR MONEY -- AND BY THE WAY, IF THEY ONLY
SPENT 49% OF THEIR MONEY ON POLITICS IT WOULD STILL BE
TERRIBLE.
WHAT IS THIS?
THIS IS A FOREIGN COMPANY PUTTING MONEY
INTO A TRADE ASSOCIATION WHICH THEN GIVES IT TO POLITICIANS.
I
BELIEVE THAT'S CALLED INTERFERING IN OUR ELECTIONS.
AND OF COURSE THEY AREN'T THE ONLY ONES, THE SAUDIS ALSO DO
IT, THEY ALSO HAVE A COMPANY THAT IS IN THE SAME GROUP FOR
THE CHEMICAL COMPANIES, THEY ALSO JOINED THAT TRADE GROUP,
THEY ALSO GIVE MONEY.
THERE IS A SECOND RULE THAT SAYS YOU'RE
SUPPOSED TO TAKE THE FOREIGN MONEY, LIKE THE SAUDI AND
CHINESE MONEY, AND MAKE SURE YOU DON'T SPEND THAT ON THE
ELECTIONS.
NUMBER ONE, AGAIN, NO ONE CHECKS, NUMBER TWO, IT'S
DARK MONEY SO YOU DON'T REALLY KNOW WHERE IT'S COMING FROM.
THE
ONLY PEOPLE WHO KNOW IS THE IRS BUT THEY HAVE BEEN COMPLETELY
NEUTERED SO WE CAN'T EVEN FIND OUT WHERE THE MONEY IS COMING
FROM OR GOING TO.
SO SOME EXCELLENT REPORTING BY THE
INTERCEPT TO FIND OUT THAT THESE GROUPS HAVE EVEN JOINED THIS
LOBBYING ORGANIZATION.
AND EVEN IF IT WERE ALL ON THE LEVEL AND
THEY TOOK THE SAUDI MONEY OR THE CHINESE MONEY, SAY THEY TAKE 10
MILLION, TO MAKE UP A NUMBER, AND THEY SAY I'M NOT SPENDING
THAT ON THE ELECTIONS, BUT LUCKY ME, THAT FREED UP $10 MILLION I
HAD OVER HERE TO SPEND ON THE ELECTIONS.
SO THIS IS ALL A
GIANT SHELL GAME.
>>I LOVE HOW THE SUPREME COURT TRIES TO ARGUE, WELL, FOREIGN
MONEY, YOU CAN'T ALLOW THAT INTO THE ELECTION BECAUSE IF YOU DO
THAT'S OBVIOUSLY CORRUPTION BECAUSE THEY ARE PAYING FOR
SOMETHING IN RETURN, FAVORABLE POLICIES -- BUT IF WALL STREET
AND BIG PHARMA AND THE FOR-PROFIT INSURANCE COMPANIES
AND THE OIL INDUSTRY AND ALL THESE OTHER GROUPS SPEND MONEY
ON THE ELECTION, THAT'S TOTALLY FINE AND IT'S NOT ONLY NOT
CORRUPTION, IT'S NOT EVEN THE APPEARANCE OF CORRUPTION
ACCORDING TO THE SUPREME COURT.
THIS IS HONESTLY LAUGHABLE.
IF
THERE WAS A MARTIAN WHO CAME DOWN AND YOU TRY TO EXPLAIN THE
LOGIC OF OUR CAMPAIGN FINANCE LAWS THEY WOULD BE LIKE, THAT'S
THE DUMBEST THING I'VE EVER HEARD, IT MAKES NO SENSE.
>>WE ARE GOING TO DO A POLL IN A SECOND ABOUT RUSSIA, I WANT
YOU TO VOTE AND IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT, I WILL CONNECTED BACK
TO THAT IN A SECOND.
ONE MORE EGREGIOUS THING ABOUT THIS AND
THEN I WANT TO EXPAND ON WHAT KYLE SAID, THE FEC IS BROKEN
DOWN TO THREE DEMOCRATS AND THREE REPUBLICANS.
THE DEMOCRATS
SAY IT LOOKS LIKE FOREIGN MONEY IS COMING IN, FORGET RUSSIA,
FROM CHINESE PEOPLE AND ALL THESE OTHERS, AFFECTING
POLITICS.
AND REPUBLICANS WENT WHATEVER, MAN, THEY ARE MAINLY
GIVING IT TO US.
WE VOTE NO.
SO THEY VOTED AT THE FEC TO DO
NOTHING ABOUT IT EVEN THOUGH IT'S CLEARLY FOREIGN MONEY
INTERFERING IN OUR ELECTIONS.
BUT JUST LIKE MITCH MCCONNELL IN
THE 2016 ELECTION, THEY ARE LIKE, WHICH SIDE IS GOING TO?
OUR CANDIDATES?
DON'T CARE, INTERFERE AWAY.
BY THE WAY NOW
YOU ARE SETTING UP AN AUCTION, MAYBE THE CHINESE DECIDE THEIR
INTERESTS ARE ON THE DEMOCRATIC SIDE.
AND TODAY, IF THEY BUY
ENOUGH DEMOCRATIC POLITICIANS, THEY WILL TOMORROW, SO NOW WHO
WOULD LIKE TO BUY AMERICAN POLITICIANS?
THE RUSSIANS, THE
CHINESE, THE SAUDIS?
THE NORWEGIANS?
WE'VE LEGALIZED
BRIBERY.
BUT THINK ABOUT IT IN A BROADER SENSE.
THERE IS THIS
PARTICULAR STORY THAT THE INTERCEPT DID A WONDERFUL JOB
BREAKING THAT DIRECTLY FUNNELS FOREIGN CORPORATE MONEY INTO OUR
POLITICIANS, BUT THEN THE U.S. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, WHICH IS
THE LARGEST LOBBYING GROUP FOR BUSINESS INTERESTS, ALSO TAKES
FOREIGN MONEY.
TO ALL THOSE GUYS WHO BRAG ABOUT THE CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE SUPPORTS ME, YOU ARE PARTLY SAYING THE SAUDI CHAMBER
OF COMMERCE SUPPORTS YOU. AND THINK ABOUT THE THIRD LAYER OF
IT, WHICH IS ALL PUBLIC CORPORATIONS ARE MULTINATIONAL
BY DEFINITION, BECAUSE THEY HAVE FOREIGN SHAREHOLDERS, THEY HAVE
DOMESTIC SHAREHOLDERS AND FOREIGN SHAREHOLDERS, THEY HAVE
DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN EXECUTIVES AND BOARD MEMBERS, SO HOW ARE
THEY AN AMERICAN CORPORATION?
IN THE LAST LOOPHOLE IS HILARIOUS.
IF A COMPANY COMES IN AND THEY ARE WHOLLY OWNED OUTSIDE OF THE
COUNTRY, MAYBE EVEN BY THEIR GOVERNMENTS, AS SOME OF THEM
ARE, BUT THEY SET UP A SUBSIDIARY IN AMERICA, THEY GET
TO DO WHATEVER THEY WANT.
THEY ARE LIKE, NO, THIS IS NOW AN
AMERICAN CORPORATION BECAUSE YOU SET UP A SHELL SUBSIDIARY IN
DELAWARE.
SO ALL OF OUR CAMPAIGN RULES ARE A JOKE, ALL THESE
FOREIGN COUNTRIES AND COMPANIES ARE BUYING US NONSTOP.
>>AND THE FINAL POINT I WANT TO MAKE ON THIS IS LOOK AT THE
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MAINSTREAM MEDIA ON ISSUES LIKE THIS AND
WHAT WE ARE DOING RIGHT NOW.
BECAUSE THE DEGREE TO WHICH THEY
DON'T THINK ABOUT, CARE ABOUT, TALK ABOUT THE INFLUENCE FROM
SAUDI ARABIA AND ISRAEL IN PARTICULAR BECAUSE THEY TEND TO
HAVE THE MOST INFLUENCE ON THE U.S. GOVERNMENT, WE JUST GAVE
$100 BILLION WEAPONS DEAL TO SAUDI ARABIA, THEY LOBBY IN THE
U.S. NONSTOP FOR STUFF LIKE THAT, TRUMP REGISTERED EIGHT
NEW BUSINESSES IN SAUDI ARABIA WHEN HE WAS ON THE CAMPAIGN
TRAIL, HE TOOK $270,000 FROM TOP SAUDI OFFICIALS AT ONE OF HIS
HOTELS AFTER HE WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT.
AND THEY DON'T TALK
ABOUT IT IN ANY WAY. AND IT'S LIKE, OKAY, THANK YOU FOR
LEAVING THE DOOR WIDE OPEN FOR INDEPENDENT NEW MEDIA TO STEP
IN, POINT OUT THE MOST OBVIOUS THING IN THE WORLD -- IT'S THE
MOST PATHETIC THING I'VE EVER SEEN.
>>THEY ARE MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS SO WHY WOULD THEY
POINT IT OUT?
>>THAT'S RIGHT, THEY ARE IN THE CLUB.
THEY ARE FRIENDS WITH THE
POLITICIANS.
>>SO OUR POLL QUESTION, WHO INTERFERED IN U.S. ELECTIONS
MORE?
A) RUSSIA, B)
MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS.
YOU
CAN VOTE ON TYTNETWORK.COM/ INTERFERENCE.
OBVIOUSLY WE ARE
PROVING A POINT HERE, BUT A LOT OF DEMOCRATS MIGHT VOTE RUSSIA,
I DON'T KNOW.
I BELIEVE I HAVE A LOT OF CREDIBILITY ON THIS ISSUE
BECAUSE I BELIEVE RUSSIA DID INTERFERE IN OUR ELECTIONS, KYLE
AND I HAVE ARGUED ABOUT THE SEVERITY OF THAT INTERFERENCE,
BUT I THINK RUSSIA DID INTERFERE AND THAT'S TERRIBLE.
BUT IS IT
AT THE SAME LEVEL OF MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS WHO
BUY ALL OF OUR POLITICIANS IN EVERY ELECTION?
THAT'S THE
BIGGEST NO-BRAINER IN THE WORLD.
BUT IF YOU VOTE MULTINATIONAL
CORPORATIONS AND WE SHOW THAT TO THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA THEY WILL
BE SHOCKED, THEY WILL BE LIKE OH MY GOD, WHAT KIND OF RADICALS
THINK THAT CORPORATIONS GIVING TO POLITICIANS IS INTERFERING IN
OUR ELECTIONS?
THEY OBVIOUSLY ARE DOING IT FOR THEIR HEALTH OR
BECAUSE THEY BELIEVE IN CHARITY.
THEY BELIEVE IN INSANITY.
CORPORATIONS GIVE MONEY TO POLITICIANS WHY?
TO BUY THEM!
I THINK RUSSIA DID INTERFERE BUT IS IT AT THE SAME LEVEL AS
MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS THAT BUY ALL OF OUR POLITICIANS
IN EVERY ELECTION?
THAT IS THE BIGGEST NO-BRAINER IN THE WORLD.
IF YOU GUYS VOTE MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS AND WE SHOW THAT
THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA THEY WILL BE SHOCKED.
THEY BELIEVE IN
INSANITY AND GIVE MONEY TO POLITICIANS TO BUY THEM.
THEY GET A RETURN ON INVESTMENT THE MUCH LARGER ISSUE IS
THAT WE HAVE ALLOWED FOR WHOLESALE BRIBERY OF ALL OF
OUR POLITICIANS.
IF YOU WANT TO STOP THAT, WOLF ñ PAC.COM.
FIGHT TO GET MONEY OUT OF POLITICS FOR EVERYBODY.
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