A SUPER PAC SUPPORTING HILLARY CLINTON HAS ACCEPTED HUNDREDS OF
THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS IN CAMPAIGN DONATIONS THAT ARE SPECIFICALLY
BANNED BY FEDERAL LAW.
IT IS --
>> IT IS NOT JUST A SUPER PAC BACKING HILLARY CLINTON, IT IS
ONE OF THE PRIME SUPER PACS BACKING HILLARY CLINTON.
UNFORTUNATELY --
>>
THAT IS ILLEGAL, YOU CAN'T DO THAT.
IF YOU HAVE CONTRACTS WITH
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT YOU CAN'T MAKE CAMPAIGN DONATIONS OF THIS
SORT.
NOW --
>>
THEY CANNOT BE FEDERAL CONTRACTORS, BUT IF THEY ARE
FEDERAL CONTRACTORS, WE WOULD LOVE YOUR MONEY.
WEIRD HOW THAT
WORKS OUT.
WHY ARE THEY ACCEPTING THIS MONEY?
WHY ARE
THEY NOT SCARED OF BEING IN LEGAL TROUBLE AS A RESULT OF
THIS?
THERE ARE SOME POTENTIAL EXPLANATIONS --
>> WHICH SOUNDS INTERESTING, BUT
IS IRRELEVANT BECAUSE THEY DON'T
NEED TO BECAUSE IT IS AGAINST THE LAW.
IF THEY WANT TO RULE ON
IT AT SOME POINT AND CHANGE THE LAW, GO AHEAD, YOU ARE FREE TO
DO THAT.
IS THE LAW TODAY THOUGH, WHICH MAKES THOSE CONSERVATIONS
ILLEGAL.
>>LET ME ADD A COMMENT IN THERE, THAT IS A COMMENTARY ON THE
SUPREME COURT, BOTH REPUBLICAN PARTY OFFICIALS AND SUPER PACS
AND DEMOCRATIC, AND THE ACTUAL DONORS THEMSELVES.
THEY ALL
BELIEVE THE SUPREME COURT WON'T CALL ANYTHING BRIBERY.
THEY JUST
REFUSE TO BELIEVE THAT THERE IS SUCH A THING AS CORRUPTION.
LOOK
WHAT HAPPENED THE OTHER DAY, GOVERNOR BOB MCDONNELL HAD
GOTTEN FERARRIS AND ROLEXES, AS ILLEGAL BRIBES, HE WAS
CONVICTED, FORMER GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA, HE WAS GOING TO JAIL
FOR IT, THE SUPREME COURT IS LIKE, NO, GETTING HER DAUGHTER'S
WEDDING PAID FOR, YOUR CREDIT CARD DEBTS, ROLEXES, NONE OF IT
IS BRIBERY.
>>I COULD ALMOST UNDERSTAND, SOMETIMES YOU WILL HEAR ABOUT
THEY RENOVATED HIS KITCHEN, YOU THINK THAT IS KIND OF WEIRD.
BUT
IF I WERE TO ASK YOU WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE AS A BRIBE, I BET BOTH
ROLEXES AND FERARRIS ARE IN THE TOP 10.
IT DOESN'T GET MORE OBVIOUS THAN THAT.
>>AND WHY DON'T YOU JUST GIVE ME MONEY?
FANCY GOWNS.
IT WAS
TEXTBOOK BRIBERY, THAT IS WHY HE WAS EASILY CONVICTED.
>>HE DIDN'T EVEN FIT INTO THE GOWNS, HE STILL ACCEPTED THEM.
THAT'S HOW EASY TO BRIBE HE WAS.
>>THE SUPER PACS AND DONORS ARE LIKE, WE ALREADY BOUGHT THE
SUPREME COURT, THERE ARE NO LAWS ANYMORE.
AND THE FEC WON'T DO ANYTHING.
>>THEY WON'T DO ANYTHING, IT IS GRIDLOCKED.
>>AND I WANT PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND THE GRIDLOCK, THE FEC
IS THE FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION, THERE'S TO MAKE SURE
YOU DON'T VIOLATE THE RULES OF ELECTIONS, BUT IT IS BIPARTISAN,
THREE DEMOCRATS, THREE REPUBLICANS, AND THE ONLY THING
THEY WILL AGREE ON IS EXONERATING FELLOW DEMOCRATS AND
REPUBLICANS.
EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE THEY COME OUT WITH A
RULING, LIKE, THAT IS NOT BRIBERY, THAT IS NOT ILLEGAL
EITHER, NOPE.
BUT IF SOMETIMES THE DEMOCRATS REALLY WANT TO GET
A REPUBLICAN OR THE PUBLICANS REALLY WANT TO GET A DEMOCRAT,
THEY WILL HAVE A 3-3 VOTE AND DO NOTHING.
SO THE ONLY THING THEY
CAN GET FROM THE FEC IS AND EXONERATION, THE ONLY THING
THEY COULD GET FROM THE SUPREME COURT IS NOTHING IS BRIBERY,
SO OF COURSE THEY WILL VIOLATE THE LAW AND RUB YOUR FACE IN IT.
>>AND SOME OF THESE GROUPS, THIS IS NOT THEIR FIRST -- THEY ARE
NOT LIKE DINESH DE SOUZA WHO GETS SO CONFUSED ABOUT CAMPAIGN
FINANCE LAWS THAT OOPS, I BROKE THE LAW --
>>ODD -- IT IS JUST THEM BEING GOOD AMERICANS WHO WANT TO
SUPPORT A CANDIDATE THEY LIKE, WHICH IS WHY THEY GIVE MONEY TO
EVERY CANDIDATE ON BOTH THE RIGHT AND THE LEFT.
IT IS NOT
ABOUT INFLUENCE, NOTHING LIKE THAT.
>>SORRY, JOHN, I WANTED TO JUMP IN BECAUSE THAT IS SUCH A GREAT
POINT.
IN 2012 SUFFOLK HAD ALREADY BEEN CAUGHT GIVING TO
MITT ROMNEY'S SUPER PAC, THERE WAS A BIG LA TIMES ARTICLE ABOUT
IT, THEY WERE "CAUGHT" AND THE FEC DID NOTHING.
SO NOW SUFFOLK
IN 2016 IS LIKE, GREAT, WE WERE CAUGHT BEFORE, BUT IT TURNS OUT
BEING CAUGHT DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING.
I HAVE A GET OUT OF
JAIL FREE CARD FOREVER, OF COURSE I WILL GIVE TO JEB BUSH
AND THEN HILLARY CLINTON AND THEN MARCO RUBIO.
BY THE WAY,
WHO ARE YOUR THREE TOP ESTABLISHMENT CANDIDATES?
HMM --
HILLARY CLINTON, JEB BUSH, MARCO RUBIO.
>>LINCOLN CHAFEE.
OH.
>>AND IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHO THE ESTABLISHMENT IS, IT IS THE
PEOPLE PRACTICING CRONY CAPITALISM.
THE PEOPLE WHO SAY I
WILL GIVE YOU MONEY AND THEN YOU WILL GIVE ME A LOT MORE MONEY
FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
THESE PEOPLE WHO GET THESE
BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN FEDERAL CONTRACTS ARE THE ENEMY OF CRONY
CAPITALISM.
SO IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHO IS IN THE
ESTABLISHMENT, LOOK AT WHO THEY DONATE TO.
IN THIS ELECTION
CYCLE IT WAS A HILLARY CLINTON, JEB BUSH, MARCO RUBIO.
AND HERE
IS ANOTHER INTERESTING PART OF THAT, WHO DID THE PRESS TELL YOU
FROM DAY ONE WAS GOING TO WIN?
EITHER HILLARY CLINTON, JEB
BUSH, OR MARCO RUBIO.
THEY WERE DEAD WRONG, TURNS OUT BERNIE
SANDERS GAVE A HUGE RUN TO HILLARY CLINTON AND DONALD
EASILY BEAT JEB BUSH AND MARCO RUBIO, BUT EVEN AS THEY WERE
BEING SLAUGHTERED ELECTORALLY THE PRESS WOULD COME OUT, MARCO
RUBIO IS TURNING AROUND, AND HERE COMES JEB BUSH'S COMEBACK.
IT WILL OBVIOUSLY NOT BE TRUMPED.
BECAUSE THEY ARE ALL
PART OF THE SAME CRAP SYSTEM, THE CORPORATE MEDIA,
CORPORATIONS, AND PEOPLE THEY BRIBE.
IT IS ONE BIG -- I COULD
USE A CRASS TERM HERE, WHAT IS THAT THING THAT IS CIRCULAR HERE
AND JERKS THE REST OF US AROUND.
>>A JACUZZI.
>> I'M SURE YOU GET THE IDEA.
>>A LOT OF THAT MONEY THAT GOES TO CANDIDATES IS SPENT ON
TELEVISION ADS.
>>BINGO, THEY TAKE OUR TAXPAYER MONEY AND GIVE IT TO THOSE
COMPANIES AND MILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF CONTRACTS, SOMETIMES
BILLIONS OF DOLLARS.
>>IT IS OBVIOUS CORRUPTION AND I AM NOT GOING TO REST UNTIL I
BENEFIT FROM IT.
>>THAT IS NORMALLY WHAT THEY SAY.
>>YES.
>>THINK ABOUT THIS, SUFFOLK HAS GOTTEN HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF
DOLLARS, THEY HAVE 2 BILLION IN REVENUE ANNUALLY, BUT JUST FROM
FEDERAL CONTRACTS SINCE 2008 ON, THEY HAVE HAD 169
MILLION DOLLARS.
>>THEY ARE GOOD INVESTORS.
>>THEY ARE BECAUSE THEY GAVE JEB BUSH $10,000, THEY GAVE HILLARY
200,000, THEY GAVE MARCO RUBIO A LITTLE BIT EXTRA -- THAT IS
NOTHING COMPARED TO $170 MILLION THEY WILL GET IN FEDERAL
CONTRACTS.
WHY DO YOU THINK THEY DO IT.
WHEN I DEBATE
CONSERVATIVES, THEY SAY THE GOVERNMENT AND POLITICIANS ARE
THE PROBLEM.
I SAY YOU ARE RIGHT, BUT HOW ABOUT THE PEOPLE
BRIBING THEM?
NO, THEY ARE JUST INNOCENT PEOPLE WHO BRIBE THEM AND
HAPPEN TO GET A LOT IN RETURN.
THEY DIDN'T KNOW WHAT THEY WERE DOING.
>>THAT IS WHY I LOVE THE COMMENTARY OF DONALD TRUMP, HE
IS TRYING TO CUT OUT THE MIDDLEMAN INSTEAD OF BUYING OFF
THE POLITICIANS, HE WILL SIBLEY BE THE POLITICIAN HE WOULD BE
BUYING OFF.
HE IS SO TIED INTO THE MARRIAGE BETWEEN POLITICIANS
AND ECONOMIC ELITES, HOW CAN ANYONE MAKE THE CASE THAT HE IS
GENUINELY APART FROM THE ESTABLISHMENT?
HIS RHETORIC IS
MILES AWAY FROM THEM, AND HE'S SO DISTASTEFUL THAT MANY
ESTABLISHMENT POLITICIANS DON'T LIKE HIM, BUT HIS GOALS ARE
THE CONTINUATION OF BUSINESS AS USUAL.
>>HE IS THE CORRUPTER INSTEAD OF THE CORRUPTEE, BUT NOW THAT HE
IS TAKING DONATIONS HE IS THE CORRUPTEE.
CONGRATULATIONS,
ANOTHER CIRCLE JERK THIS TIME JUST INVOLVING DONALD TRUMP, AND
SINCE HE IS SUCH A BIG JERK HE CAN MAKE AN ENTIRE CIRCLE.
BUT I
WANT TO DO ONE MORE SLAP IN THE FACE IN THIS STORY, THERE IS
SOMETHING CALLED THE CHEVRON LOOPHOLE.
WHERE DID IT COME
FROM?
IT CAME FROM A 2013 DECISION ABOUT CHEVRON.
PUBLIC
CITIZEN FIGURED OUT THAT CHEVRON WAS GIVING A TON OF MONEY, AND
RECEIVING HUNDREDS OF FEDERAL CONTRACTS, WORTH 1.5 BILLION
DOLLARS.
THEY TELL THE FEC, GUYS, THIS IS OBVIOUSLY THE
THING THE LAW IS WRITTEN ABOUT.
THE FEC RULES 5-1 AGAINST PUBLIC
CITIZEN IN FAVOR OF CHEVRON, BECAUSE THEY SAY NO, THAT WASN'T
CHEVRON, THAT WAS CHEVRON USA, THEIR SUBSIDIARY, HOUSED IN THE
SAME EXACT BUILDING.
NOW, WHO COULD POSSIBLY SAY THAT WITH A
STRAIGHT FACE IF THEY WEREN'T ALSO PART OF THE SAME CORRUPT
SYSTEM?
WHO THINKS CHEVRON AND CHEVRON USA, WHO ARE IN THE SAME
EXACT BUILDING, ARE ACTUALLY DIFFERENT ENTITIES?
AND CHEVRON
WAS LIKE, CHEVRON USA?
YOU GAVE MONEY TO POLITICIANS AND WE GOT
$1.5 BILLION IN CONTRACTS?
WHAT A COINCIDENCE.
AND YET THE FEC
BY ISSUING THAT RULING SAID THERE ARE NO LAWS, RULES, IT IS
THE WEST, CRIMINALS WIN, THE REST OF US LOSE, BRIBE WHOEVER
YOU LIKE.
AND THEN THE PEOPLE IN CORPORATE MEDIA ON TV HAVE THE
TEMERITY TO TURN AROUND AND GO, WHAT CORRUPTION?
WHAT IS ALL
THIS CONSPIRACY THEORY ABOUT CORRUPTION?
I'VE NEVER HEARD OF
IT.
>>AND THE AMAZING THING IS THAT A COUPLE OF YEARS AFTER THAT
DECISION, THERE WAS A CHALLENGE TO THIS PROVISION WE'VE BEEN
TALKING ABOUT THIS ENTIRE TIME -- WHAT WAS IT, 5-3 -- OH, AN
ELEVEN JUDGE PANEL, IT WAS RULED THAT THE CHALLENGE ON THE BEN OF
CONTRACTOR DONATIONS DURING CAMPAIGNS, THEY GOT RID OF IT.
YOU STILL CAN'T GIVE THIS MONEY, AND I DON'T KNOW IF THEY CAN
SOMEHOW MAKE THE CASE THAT SUFFOLK CAN USE THAT CHEVRON
LOOPHOLE, I HAVE NO IDEA.
USA IS IN THE PRIORITIES NAME, MAYBE THAT IS THE CONNECTION.
>>THAT IS WHAT IS HILARIOUS IS THAT SUFFOLK DIDN'T BOTHER TO
USE THE CHEVRON LOOPHOLE.
THE CHEVRON LOOPHOLE IS SO EASY, YOU
DON'T EVEN HAVE TO BE AS BRAZEN AS CHEVRON, YOU COULD BE LIKE
I'M GOING TO GET A PO BOX DOWN THE STREET AND CALL IT XYZ
CORPORATION, IT IS MY SUBSIDIARY.
THAT IS ALL THE FEC
NEEDS YOU TO DO.
YOU COULD CALL IT SUFFOLK SUFFOLK AND HAVE IT
IN THE SAME OFFICE, YOU COULD HAVE IT IN THE CEO'S SUITE, AND
STILL GET AWAY WITH IT.
BUT SUFFOLK THINKS, FUCK YOU AND
YOUR SUPPOSED WAS.
I'M NOT EVEN GOING TO BOTHER WITH THE
CHEVRON LOOPHOLE, I'M GOING TO PUT MY BALLS ON THE TABLE AND
SAY GOING TO BRIBE THESE GUYS IN VIOLATION OF CAMPAIGN FINANCE
LAWS AND NOT EVEN TO 10 MINUTES TO BOTHER HIDING IT.
FUCK YOU,
THAT'S WHAT THEY SAY, AND THE REST OF US SIT HERE AND TAKE IT.
AND THEN BY THE WAY IT'S NOT JUST THE CORPORATE MEDIA, BOTH
THE DEMOCRATIC AND REPUBLICAN PARTY ESTABLISHMENT WILL SAY,
WHAT CORRUPTION?