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The Hartmann Report

THE LONG GAME OF THE VERY RICH

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

The Hartmann Report, Climate Change, Democracy, News, America, Debate, Congress, Economics, Thom Hartmann

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

What are some of the tricks oligarchs are using to transfer massive amounts of money to politics? Brendan Fischer, Deputy Executive Director at Documented has been tracking the largest political donation in history- 1.6 billion dollars. Will corruption win, or can Progressives overcome the enthusiasm gap and defeat big money?


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This is the Tom Hartman program.

0:46.5

This is Tom Hartman program.

0:48.2

I'm Jefferson Smith, honoree with you. This is your show.

0:51.8

And right now, we are joined by Brendan Fisher, he's deputy executive director of

0:56.5

It's Documented. He quoted in the recent story on the $1.6 billion contribution.

1:04.1

I want to get into that a little bit more, just so you can understand.

1:07.4

This helps, like why am I still fixated on it?

1:09.6

It's a bigger budget than the Democratic Party has, right?

1:12.7

It's a bigger budget than the Republican Party has.

1:14.7

For perspective, this is the marble freedom trust is the name of the

1:19.3

Leonard Leo's organization that received the $1.6 billion contribution, largest political

1:25.2

contribution on record. It is slightly more.

1:28.6

The $1.6 billion that the marble trust reaped from the sale is slightly more than the total

1:34.8

of $1.5 billion in 2020 by 15 of the most politically active non-profit organizations

1:41.4

that generally align with Democrats.

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