Jon Ossoff
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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.
And I think that their agenda is very clear and extremely dangerous.
I got to give at least like I know the bar is very low, but there were a couple of Republican elected officials who spoke out on it.
We have to reach out to folks on the other side and try to make sure this does not become a partisan issue.
And again, the public is with us.
I mean, getting back to reasons for us to feel optimistic about our prospects to win next year, just like the country is against defunding hospitals and nursing homes to cut taxes for the rich, the American people are against official censorship.
And this is a deep betrayal of some of what they proclaim to their followers animated propaganda.