Jon Ossoff
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And so, and obvious and obvious, and, you know, like you take something like, um, okay.
Uh, taxes on the ultra rich.
It's like, it's almost like an 80, 20.
issue in public opinion.
Um, but everyone knows that the reason that it never happens is because of the financial power and therefore the political power of super wealthy people, regardless of who's in charge.
So, you know, we're, we're, we have to focus on not exclusively, but we have to make sure people are aware that, um,
Donald Trump, his administration are engaged in some of the most brazen and overt corruption.
It's happening like in the world right now, right?
I mean, they're operating like some of the most shameless foreign leaders who mix state business with family wealth and personal business.
But we also have to get at the underlying corruption in American politics.
Yeah, we should all be extremely concerned by this.
I mean, you got the president.
standing on air force one threatening to take news broadcasters off the air because he thinks their coverage is too negative right this is this like this is north korea i mean it is so beyond the pale and you know before i was uh a candidate for any office
I ran a business that produced investigative journalism for international news media.
We held power to account.
We exposed war crimes, human rights abuses, undercover investigations of official corruption.
Once you chill and stifle and destroy the free press, that is how authoritarianism really entrenches.