Bankrolling Chaos: Meet The Tech Millionaire Paying For ICE Protests From China w/ Mark Mitchell & Joel Finkelstein – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 578

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Who is the tech millionaire funding ICE protests?

Mark Mitchell 0:02
Mark Mitchell is Vice President of Operations at Rasmussen Reports. He'll be my first guest here, overseeing polling operations, survey analysis, looking at sentiment, election integrity, political trends. And he says things have moved in a certain direction, and we're going to get a little report from him on that. Joel Finkelstein is Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer at the Network Contagion Research Institute. directs the network contagion lab at Rutgers University. He has got a big story to tell us about this billionaire who has already replaced Soros, but how deep this guy already has gone. He retreated to China and from there continues to influence this country. And then of course, Robert Barnes from Viva Barnes Law.
Mark Mitchell 0:43
And that's his podcast and streaming show with Viva Barnes, David Freiheit. He's a constitutional and criminal lawyer, civil rights attorney. And we're going to talk a little bit about the, amongst other things, the supremacy clause after this. Our laws, as it pertains to substances, are draconian and bizarre. The psychopath started this. He was an alcoholic because of social media and pornography, PTSD, love addiction, fentanyl and heroin. Ridiculous.

What connections does the billionaire have with the Chinese Communist Party?

Dr. Drew Pinsky 1:10
I'm a doctor for f***'s sake. Where the hell do you think I learned that?
Mark Mitchell 1:14
I'm just saying, you go to treatment before you kill people. I am a clinician. I observe things about these chemicals. Let's just deal with what's real. We used to get these calls on Loveline all the time. Educate adolescents and to prevent and to treat. If you have trouble, you can't stop and you want help stopping, I can help. I got a lot to say. I got a lot more to say.
Mark Mitchell 1:42
All right, we're going to start with Mark Mitchell, Vice President of Operations at Rasmussen Reports. Mark, thank you for being here. Welcome to the program. Yeah, really great to be back.

How does foreign funding influence U.S. activist organizations?

Mark Mitchell 1:51
Love your show. We love hearing from Rasmussen and all the insights you guys have. And as usual, you're just the facts, ma'am. You're just reporting the facts. And what are you seeing these days that would surprise people?
Unknown 2:07
You're definitely going to hear some numbers for sure. And I would say first is Donald Trump got elected on a very popular set of policies. In fact, almost every one of his major policies was more popular than he was. And he was elected because people trusted Trump more than the federal government. And so there's this mandate this time, I think that's existential, that Trump really needs to come through and The economy has gone to a place where it just doesn't work for many Americans now. And we have lost complete trust in our federal government, and we need that restored. And the window is closing. Because historically, what happens after a party gets into power in the following midterms, they'll lose Congress.
Unknown 2:47
And right now, the polling says that that's going to happen.

What role does polling play in understanding voter sentiment?

Unknown 2:50
Democrats are up four points. Now, it could be worse. They could be up higher. But what it means if they regain control of Congress is they're probably going to do some ridiculous stuff. It will probably be the death of Trump's legislative agenda. And I think they're going to come after people in his administration very aggressively from an anti-corruption standpoint. There's probably going to be impeachment. And I don't want to be a doomer. I've been offering advice because I think the bar is very low to be able to buck that trend. And plan A would be for the Republicans to govern. And unfortunately, I don't know how much of that we're getting. The polling has been sort of tepid on their performance so far.
Unknown 3:29
And we're going to get some stuff out of reconciliation. I don't know if it's going to be enough because the messaging isn't there. They aren't showing America that we have a path forward.

How are protests organized and funded in the U.S.?

Unknown 3:36
to restoring the middle class, the American dream. They're getting better. I think there has been a lot of movement in the last week and a half. But then this whole aspect of government corruption and really like cracking down on the deep state. That has always been promise number one. We just haven't seen it.

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