Trump’s Midterm Meltdown Is Everybody’s Problem - featuring Brad Bannon

good.

But yeah, it's just thinking about Elon Musk, putting all this money into the races.

He has lost before, like in Wisconsin, he poured a lot of money into the, I think it was the Supreme Court.

seat and they lost and uh and he i mean this is the whole thing about money in politics you and i can only donate what's it five thousand dollars that's yeah that's the limit how is musk a all of these backdoor pack dirty pack dark money ways to get money into an election is absolutely abhorrent and anti-democratic.

And to

that we can thank the Supreme Court in the

Citizens United decision.

That's

right.

In Citizens United the Supreme Court said that business PAC, political action committees, independent expenditure committees, have unlimited free speech in the form of political contributions.

Disgusting.

And that means they can spend as much money as they want.

Yeah, that's their speech.

That's how they talk with money, apparently.

Yeah, they talk

with money.

And the Supreme Court said that that speech by independent business groups could not be limited because it was violating those limits for a violation of the First Amendment.

And that was probably the, well... one of the worst Supreme Court decisions in recent memory because it enabled big money Republicans, the billionaires who were getting the tax cuts from Donald Trump, to spend virtually as much money as they want.

And some of this money, they don't even have to report spending.

That's the worst part of it.

So it's really ugly, and that's the Republican lifeline.

Yeah, and just thinking about all the money he put into, I'm looking at the report here, $158 million into the Senate Leadership Fund.

Yes.

America PAC.

That's

good.

But yeah, it's just thinking about Elon Musk, putting all this money into the races.

He has lost before, like in Wisconsin, he poured a lot of money into the, I think it was the Supreme Court.

seat and they lost and uh and he i mean this is the whole thing about money in politics you and i can only donate what's it five thousand dollars that's yeah that's the limit how is musk a all of these backdoor pack dirty pack dark money ways to get money into an election is absolutely abhorrent and anti-democratic.

And to

that we can thank the Supreme Court in the

Citizens United decision.

That's

right.

In Citizens United the Supreme Court said that business PAC, political action committees, independent expenditure committees, have unlimited free speech in the form of political contributions.

Disgusting.

And that means they can spend as much money as they want.

Yeah, that's their speech.

That's how they talk with money, apparently.

Yeah, they talk

with money.

And the Supreme Court said that that speech by independent business groups could not be limited because it was violating those limits for a violation of the First Amendment.

And that was probably the, well... one of the worst Supreme Court decisions in recent memory because it enabled big money Republicans, the billionaires who were getting the tax cuts from Donald Trump, to spend virtually as much money as they want.

And some of this money, they don't even have to report spending.

That's the worst part of it.

So it's really ugly, and that's the Republican lifeline.

Yeah, and just thinking about all the money he put into, I'm looking at the report here, $158 million into the Senate Leadership Fund.

Yes.

America PAC.

That's