Jon Ossoff
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sort of roving diplomat, Steve Wyckoff, who, by the way, the wars that they promised to end are still raging, whose son is doing business with the Trump boys in this world liberty financial vehicle that foreign sovereign wealth funds are pouring billions of dollars into.
You know, there is good reason to believe that they are shaping American grand strategy
around the personal financial interests of the first family.
And the hypocrisy is stunning.
Like one of the things I said at a rally a few months ago was like, Hunter Biden should have been more ambitious.
This is an insane level of corruption and self enrichment.
But I think there's a deeper,
story here about corruption in American politics, which is something the Democratic Party needs to focus on, which is that Trump, in my view, is a symptom of the deeper corruption in our politics.
How is it that we have a demagogue who promises to tear it all down
elected twice to the presidency.
It's in part because much of the American public has lost faith in our political system.
Since Citizens United, this political system has been corruption on steroids.
And that is a big part of why policy doesn't serve ordinary people.
So as Trump poses this sort of radical threat to the rule of law and the constitution, things that we have to protect, we can't just become mere guardians of the status quo.
We have to be about change and reform.
And money in politics is like the root of all of this.
We have to focus on that.
The vast sums of corporate and billionaire money in our political system, with or without Trump,