The Minnesota Chamber of Commerce is fighting to inject more
corruption through money in politics.
Now the first course of action is to destroy a progressive bill
passed by Minnesota state politicians.
So how exactly do they plan to destroy what progressives have accomplished in
terms of campaign finance laws?
First, let's take a look at the law, the Democracy for
the People Act bans companies with at least 5% ownership stake by
multiple foreign owners or a 1% stake by a single foreign owner.
From making political contributions in Minnesota state and
municipal elections, sounds like an I think that sounds like an excellent law.
The, progressives managed to accomplish that law in Minnesota and
now the Chamber of Commerce is going after it, which is interesting.
I mean, I thought that there was a lot of pushback with foreign money
flowing into American politics, but apparently not.
>> Okay, so I love what they did in Minnesota.
And there's another great part of this story,
which is that now that the Chamber of Commerce is flipping out and suing them,
they're going to run into Minnesota's Attorney General, who is Keith Ellison.
One of the best progressives in the country.
So they messed with the wrong ombre, so
we got a good crew in Minnesota and I love it.
So the reason I think this is a terrific idea by the Minnesota Democrats is because
it makes you go, wait, what percentage of businesses are foreign owned?
And then the Chamber of Commerce is forced to go, well,
a lot, so corporations aren't Americans?
Of course, that's what I've been saying for 20 years, they're not Americans,
they're not patriots, they're a machine.
>> You guys are gonna love what the Chamber of Commerce is arguing here, like,
the argument is just so ridiculous.
But first, let me give you a few other details.
The other thing this new law in Minnesota will do is prevent these entities,
these corporations that have foreign ownership,
from contributing dark money donations to Super PACs.
So they close those loopholes that these corporations usually like to take
advantage of, which is also good news.
And in response to that, the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce filed a lawsuit
last week in federal court to put a stop to this.
Okay, specifically, the Chamber is arguing that it might be hard,
might be really hard for these businesses to determine whether
they fall under the 5 or 1% thresholds established by the bill.
How would a company fail to identify that, how do you run a company like that?
I just need to understand.
>> No, And Anna, that's exactly right, and that's why I love this bill,
because then they have to go and say, well, I mean, what do you want me to do?
Go on the stock market and figure out who owns our stock and
find out that it's actually 38% owned from people not in America?
>> Yeah, that's.
>> Yeah that's exactly what we want you to do.
And then we want you to admit that it is not an American company that people from
all over the world can buy it whether it's the stock market or
it could be the shareholders.
Or executives of private equity companies that hold some of the private companies.
So, yeah, this whole fiction about how corporations are Americans and human,
and so now Delaware is trying to get them to vote and the LLCs can already vote.
>> It's crazy.
>> In the Chamber of Commerce in Minnesota saying, so what if they're foreign humans?
>> Yeah. >> Wait,
I thought they had constitutional rights because they were people, my friend,
that's what Mitt Romney and the supreme court say,
that's what every Republican says.
They're people, well, then where are they from, who owns them?
>> Who are these people exactly?
>> Who are these people?
>> Exactly. >> Right?
Minnesota's ask guys,
this is an amazing day because we have the Democratic governor of Wisconsin
fighting back against Republicans in an ingenious, creative, new way.
And now we have Democrats in Minnesota fighting back in an ingenious,
creative way, I've never seen Democrats fight back.
>> Dems going wild on a state level.
>> Yeah, way to go, guys, look at that, man, you do the right things,
we can't wait to give you credit, right?
It's just the Democratic leadership almost never does it, but here they are, yes.
>> Yeah. >> Keep going, I have more on this,
but go.
>> A little more from the argument from the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce.
So they argue that as a result of the elements of this new law,
most Minnesota corporations could avoid making contributions so
they don't run afoul of the law.
No, would they really do that?
We strongly believe this law is an unconstitutional impingement on the free
speech rights of members of the Minnesota business community.
>> Well, what if they're not from the Minnesota business community?
>> We look forward to restoring their ability as people in
the eyes of the law to participate in the democratic process.
>> He's perfectly named Doug Loon.
Okay, you'd have to be a Loon or someone in power to pretend that corporations
owned by people all across the world are somehow an individual
with constitutional rights of an American citizen.
You'd have to be an absolute lunatic to believe that, or
anyone who works in mainstream media and anyone who works in politics.
The people in power in this country have purposely lost their minds and
they gaslight you into believing insanity like this, thank you,
Democrats of Minnesota, for fighting back.
So now one last example, guys.
So Sheldon Adelson owned a casino company and
is one of the richest men in the world, and at this,
one of the richest men in the history of the world, he passed away recently.
But before he did, he gave the Republicans tons and tons of money,
he gave Donald Trump over $100 million twice, okay?
In his first election and second election through the super PACs, et cetera.
So why am I telling you this story about Sheldon Adelson,
who owns casinos in Las Vegas and is from America,
because that is not where the majority of the profits of his company are from.
The majority of his profits were from China,
where he held giant casinos in Macau.
So Adelson's company, that was human in the eyes of the law, and
they gave over $100 million in campaign contributions to
Donald Trump was mainly a Chinese company.
>> Wow.
>> But no one ever mentioned that.
>> Wow. >> None of his Republican
competitors mentioned that cuz they take Sheldon Adelson bribes, too,
none of the Democrats mentioned that cuz they take corporate donor bribes as well.
And the media didn't mention that, why?
They did, by the way, to be fair, when they went to go kiss his ring in 2016,
they ran articles on the Edelson primary.
Like that this guy whose main business in China was going to pick the next
Republican president, which he did.
Guess, as I write it in my book, Justice Is Coming,
the person who won the adolescent primary was Donald Trump.
Adelson picked the president, and his money mainly comes from China.
But if the mainstream media tells you that, then Adelson might not give $100
million to Trump, who then spends it on ads in mainstream media.
So the corruption goes straight into the pockets of the media company.
>> How did you find out about this, Adelson China link?
>> Simple, you just look at his holdings,
you see where the majority of his profits are coming from.
You look at the casinos he holds, remember, with most of these companies and
Jonathan Larson, our managing editor at TYT reports, does a great job with this.
You just look at their public offerings, they have to say for
with public companies, hey, here's where our money comes from,
here's how much we made, et cetera.
And then you see, most of the money comes from China.
So basically, since the great majority of the money came from China,
it's basically a Chinese company that decided who was gonna be the president of
the United States of America.
>> They didn't decide, but
they played a pretty big financial role in promoting Donald Trump.
>> They played a gigantic role, a gigantic.
It was so gigantic, as I explained in the book, even the press noticed it, and
they were like, whoa, every Republican candidate went and they said, please,
sir, please give us the bribes.
And Trump won that because he said, I'll do anything for you.
This is not just a plug, please, I'm telling you in the book,
I explain all the things that Trump gave back to Adelson in return for
that bribe, it'll make your head explode.
And you're MAGA?
You should read it more,
you'll be shocked at the corruption that Trump did with Sheldon Adelson.
So you can preorder tyt.com/justice, but
mainly Democrats of Minnesota, much love, keep going.