Jim Acosta
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I remember being on the air and saying, do not take medical advice of the president.
And there were people getting poisoned.
And to me, like, okay, Erica Kirk can go off and shoot off fireworks at the Turning Point Convention, and yet Hakeem Jeffries is worried about going to Mamdani's inauguration.
We're just like, I would take it one step further.
I would say that the presence of dark money in our politics from all of these super PACs is destroying our democracy.
And the Citizens United decision that opened up the floodgates on this, I talked to Sheldon Whitehouse about this the other day, it is destroying this country.
And we have to get to a situation where either there are rules of the road because they argued in Citizens United that, hey, corporate donations, that's like free speech.
There's no way that a school teacher has the same amount of political influence as Exxon Mobil.
So the whole premise of it is built on a lie.
And until we get and inject some sanity into our campaign financing system in this country, the people are outgunned and outnumbered.
The other day, Elon Musk tweeted out that he had dinner with Trump and Melania again.
Remember, Elon over the summer saying, the reason why the Epstein files haven't been released is because Donald Trump is in the Epstein files.