The Thomas/Crow Affair [TEASER]
5-4
Prologue Projects
4.6 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2023
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
Just to refresh your memory - bribery is when you write "bribe in exchange for your vote" on the memo line of a check, OR when you sign a contract saying you are doing bribes and then drop a pillowcase full of cash off at someone's office while multiple DOJ officials are watching.
A billionaire ferrying a public official around on his private jet and super yacht, while he sits on the board of multiple organizations that are trying to influence the Court, is NOT bribery. It's just friends bein' friends!
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for joining us this evening. |
| 0:02.6 | And I think I'm sure you and all of us want to thank |
| 0:06.0 | Harlan Crow and his family for making this wonderful facility. |
| 0:10.2 | I know Harlan hates that. |
| 0:14.7 | So I knew we had to do it. |
| 0:15.9 | That's why I wouldn't say it. |
| 0:17.0 | I knew we had to do it. |
| 0:17.9 | I like to keep that friendship. |
| 0:19.3 | I know. |
| 0:20.5 | LAUGHTER |
| 0:21.7 | MUSIC |
| 0:24.7 | Hey, everyone. |
| 0:25.5 | This is Leon from Fiasco and Prolog Projects. |
| 0:29.1 | On this premium episode of 5-4, Peter, Riannan, and Michael |
| 0:33.4 | are talking about Clarence Thomas. |
| 0:35.8 | Again, Thomas has been in the news after investigations |
| 0:39.3 | by ProPublica revealed the depth of his financial entanglement |
| 0:42.8 | with billionaire Harlan Crow. |
| 0:44.9 | Crow, a major Republican donor, |
| 0:47.2 | defends his relationship with Thomas as a friendship. |
| 0:50.1 | More concretely, Crow is Thomas' mother's landlord, |
| 0:53.6 | and he has hosted Thomas as exclusive resorts |
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