Alex Gibney
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first heard Sep 2024
last heard 27 Mar
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We're wearing body wires and going out a little ab scam ish to me.
And they were going out to dinner with Neil Clark and Larry Householder. And and it was amazing how candid they were about the scam that they were pulling off and what first energy.
We've come to accept it, but the, you know, the, In some of the rulings, and then the biggest ruling of all by the Supreme Court was of course the Citizens United decision. But in some of these rulings, the intent was, okay, we're gonna allow unlimited amounts of money to enter the political process by corporations and to some extent unions.
But the deal is we are concerned about, we're concerned, that sounds like Susan Collins, we're concerned about corruption. So we're going to insist that you can't give money directly to a candidate. You have to give it to an independent organization, a super PAC, or sometimes a 501c4, even better, because a super PAC, you have to disclose where the money comes from.
And they are not supposed to have any contact with each other. Well, you know, ridiculous. Of course they have contact with each other. It reminds me, it's sort of like recently, you know, this hundred, this, sorry, million dollar a person candlelight dinner at Mar-a-Lago. you know, for a super PAC called MAGA Inc, right? And by law, MAGA Inc can't coordinate with Trump's campaign organization.
So invitations say that Trump is a guest speaker.
This goes on in every state of the union. And the beauty of Ohio Confidential is you actually get to hear and see how it works because these guys were chuckling to each other over four or five martinis that the Citizens United is so great because now bribery is legal.
And so that was the aspect of it I found intriguing because while they did get caught and most people don't, we can assume, if you find, if you find a rat in your house, you got to assume it's not the only one.
We can assume these conversations, as you just said about Ron DeSantis are going on in every state in the union. And it's just bribery. It's quid pro quo. It's pay to play. And that's what we have to call out. Cause I think, you know, people I think are starting to get worked up about it. I, you know, in, in,
You know, in Wisconsin, the idea that the Supreme Court judge got through despite the amount of money that Musk spent because people are offended at the idea that you can just buy elections. But this idea of money in politics, we've become too cynical about it without really thinking that this is a system of bribery that we have to stop.
If you study this as a- I'm not sure how early we are. I mean, we're full on crony capitalism now. When you have a meme coin that's introduced, you know, right after the presidential election, you know, and cryptocurrency is flowing to the president of the United States, I mean, I think we're there. And I do point out in the film, you know, most of it centers on this Ohio corruption case.
But I do point out in the film that in, for example, in the, you know, in the. I call out the example of Reid Hoffman, who linked in, who gave or or was inclined to give Kamala Harris seven million dollars, but he wanted something in return. He wanted her to fire Lena Kahn at the FTC. Right. So that's where you get to that weird place where, oh, is that a quid pro quo?
Or is he just suggesting that it might be a good idea, you know, for her to fire Lena Kahn? And in exchange, well, let's not call it an exchange. And then surprise, surprise, I give you $7 million.
Larry Householder was reelected. I mean, but I think that goes to- A jury convicted him, right? And he gets reelected anyway. $60 million bribe. He's president of the United States, okay? And he was convicted. He's a felon. So- So, yeah, there's that.
And obviously, we've entered a world where we have such a tribal political system that it is very difficult to persuade people that they should do other than vote for their however they define the tribe to be.
But I also think in Ohio, the problem was compounded by this system of gerrymandering, which resulted in supermajority rule, so that Larry Householder came from a district that was so, so red that there was never going to be somebody who was going to, particularly on short notice, they just... They'd elect, you know, a dead cat before they'd elect a Democrat.
I think they are. I think they are. I hope they do, because they should be. They should be ripper at what's going on in their state. And not just at the passage of this bill, just as astounding to me was how the householder team, team householder, or generation now, how they muscled the repeal effort. Because in Ohio, you can mount... you can repeal laws by popular vote effectively.
Because the voters finally took over. Well, in this case, they were mounting a campaign to repeal House Bill 6.
secretly and we had a whistleblower who's amazing i mean like this is adds to the caper this is why yeah you get the crime play because you get the whistleblower who's talking about here's his best friend he realizes his best friend is trying to get him to do something super unethical he first turns him down then he gets uncomfortable he goes to the fbi they say go back
And now he wants to betray his own friend for the good of the state, which he does. He wears a wire and and ultimately reveals that. And this guy, the whistleblower, his name's Tyler Furman, who's working for an organization that's trying to drum up signatures against House Bill six. But he learns from his old pal who was ultimately convicted that.
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