Trump and the Billionaires
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 588 Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode Nicole Roussell and Prof. Richard Wolff discuss venture capital and Big Tech billionaires like Elon Musk coming out in support of Donald Trump.
Professor Richard Wolff is an author & co-founder of the organization Democracy at Work. You can find his work at rdwolff.com.
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| 0:00.0 | After an assassination attempt against Trump this weekend, Elon Musk was one of a few billionaires |
| 0:06.6 | who came out and endorsed Trump's campaign. |
| 0:09.9 | Then when Trump announced J.D. Vance as his running mate, who has a background in tech venture |
| 0:14.3 | capital, even more billionaires signed on to the Faray campaign. |
| 0:18.7 | Musk is reportedly funneling $45 million per month to support Trump. |
| 0:24.6 | We need a new system. |
| 0:25.6 | We need a new society. |
| 0:27.6 | We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, |
| 0:32.6 | but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. We are very excited to have Professor Richard Wolfe join us for a regular weekly segment where we discuss the biggest stories relating to the economy, the state of the working class, and the crimes of big business. |
| 1:09.0 | I'm Nicole Roussel, sitting in for your host, Brian |
| 1:11.8 | Becker. The Socialist Program brings you content several days a week thanks to the support of our |
| 1:16.4 | patrons at patreon.com slash The Socialist Program. We appreciate all of your support and |
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| 1:26.5 | Richard Wolf is the co-founder of the organization Democracy at Work and the author of many books, |
| 1:31.3 | including the forthcoming book Understanding Capitalism, which will be out very soon. |
| 1:35.3 | You can check out all of his work and find that book at R-D-W-L-F.com. |
| 1:41.3 | Richard, welcome back to the show. Thank you, Nicole. Very glad to be here. |
| 1:48.5 | So, billionaire owner of Twitter, Tesla, and other companies, Elon Musk, endorsed Trump this weekend after the assassination attempt on his life. |
| 1:56.7 | We won't go into great detail on that right now, Richard, because we're going to focus on that in our show tonight on YouTube. |
| 2:02.2 | It's with Eugene per year at 7 p.m. Eastern. Make sure to join us. But like Trump, Musk also grew up with a silver spoon in his mouth. |
| 2:10.3 | Now that Trump has picked J.D. Vance as his VP candidate. And like I said, after the shooting, more billionaires are jumping in on support in Trump. |
| 2:19.8 | Bans are the former venture capitalist, which is to say a vulture who plays with people's lives, |
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