The Charlie Kirk Show - February 05, 2021


The Unspoken Truth Behind Liz Cheney's D.C. Drama


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After the Capitol Hill riot last night, it's safe to say there were more than a few people in the room that didn't like the way things were going. And the answer may surprise you... it's not about politics. It's about campaign finance reform. And that's an issue that every American should care about.

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, what is going on with the Liz Cheney Marjorie Taylor Green story?
00:00:06.000 Is it about politics?
00:00:08.000 Is it about Republican establishment versus the grassroots conservatives?
00:00:11.000 It's actually a lot deeper than that.
00:00:13.000 It's about how we finance our elections in our country.
00:00:17.000 We have been talking about for some time campaign finance reform, and I will demonstrate to you in this episode why it is an issue that every American should care about and conservatives need to focus in on.
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00:00:39.000 And also, we will give away three signed copies of the MAGA Doctrine.
00:00:43.000 All you have to do is show us your subscribe to the Charlie Kirk show, screenshot it, and email it to us at freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:00:51.000 And just in the subject line, say campaign finance reform.
00:00:55.000 And do me a favor, in the body of the email, tell me your thoughts on this episode.
00:00:58.000 I worked really hard on it.
00:01:00.000 It's close to my heart, very passionate about one of the reforms I think we need in our country that I think will make a significant difference.
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00:03:01.000 Hey, everybody.
00:03:02.000 How are we doing today?
00:03:03.000 Welcome.
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00:03:07.000 This is the Charlie Kirk Show.
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00:03:10.000 There is a lot to go over.
00:03:12.000 I want to start today with a story about the Republican meeting late last night.
00:03:21.000 Republicans in the House of Representatives are trying to figure out what direction they're going to go.
00:03:29.000 Understandably, after the Capitol Hill riot tragedy, which is more and more looking like a premeditated infiltration than just a spontaneous act of randomness, I think that we have outlined that in great detail about how there were different groups of people.
00:03:52.000 There were professional agitators.
00:03:54.000 They were BLM Incorporated supporters.
00:03:56.000 There were militia types, which were the main infiltrators into the Capitol.
00:04:02.000 And then there were Trump supporters that, in their own description, joined in on it and regret it.
00:04:11.000 With the pipe bombs beforehand, it's more and more looking like an act of premeditation.
00:04:17.000 But that has now become the political focal point of all the fallout that we are covering.
00:04:25.000 From Liz Cheney to Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene to Alexandria Acasio-Cortez to impeachment.
00:04:38.000 January 6th is now the center point of all of it.
00:04:42.000 And understanding what really happened on that day is critically important.
00:04:47.000 But then understanding how a party should chart its future is also very, very important.
00:04:55.000 So last evening, Liz Cheney survived a vote to oust her as Republican leadership chair.
00:05:06.000 I believe that is the right title.
00:05:10.000 GOP Conference Chair.
00:05:13.000 Is that right?
00:05:14.000 Yeah.
00:05:15.000 They have all these titles.
00:05:15.000 Okay.
00:05:16.000 Third in command of the House of Representatives for the Republicans.
00:05:20.000 Third in command.
00:05:23.000 And so this was a private meeting that Republicans had last evening.
00:05:28.000 They've been under immense pressure from the activist media and from Democrats to address Marjorie Taylor Greene.
00:05:40.000 Marjorie Taylor Greene is a newly elected congresswoman from Georgia.
00:05:45.000 She had said some things that I completely and totally reject. 0.99
00:05:50.000 She apologized for them last evening, and she received a standing ovation from what I hear based on all reports from Republicans. 0.98
00:05:59.000 Marjorie Taylor Greene will now have a vote of whether or not to expel her from Congress.
00:06:08.000 And so the next chapter of this is how Liz Cheney was up for a vote last evening.
00:06:18.000 Now, Liz Cheney does not represent the Republican Party.
00:06:23.000 Liz Cheney, of course, the daughter of the former Vice President Dick Cheney, Congresswoman from Wyoming.
00:06:30.000 They have one congresswoman, one Congressman, Congresswoman.
00:06:33.000 She represents the entire state.
00:06:36.000 And Matt Gates, alongside other grassroots conservatives, forced a vote against Liz Cheney.
00:06:44.000 She survived with 61 votes against.
00:06:48.000 There's one part of this story, though, that everyone is missing.
00:06:53.000 There's a critically important part of the story that is not being covered, which is this was a private ballot.
00:07:01.000 How many people, if they would have had to go back to their constituents and justify that they would have someone who voted for the impeachment of President Trump to still stay in third command, they wouldn't be able to justify that.
00:07:15.000 The meeting was five hours long, five hours long. 0.86
00:07:21.000 And one of the reasons this is continually being a story is because Liz Cheney is now digging in.
00:07:30.000 Liz Cheney is almost saying, you think I'm so unpopular?
00:07:34.000 Come after me. 0.99
00:07:35.000 Now, the media is now running cover fire for Liz Cheney.
00:07:42.000 In a bizarre turn of events, the Cheneys are now media darlings.
00:07:47.000 If you remember anything about Bush-era politics, George W. Bush was hated.
00:07:52.000 Dick Cheney was the most hated Republican for a decade. 0.95
00:08:00.000 He was an apologist for gitmo tactics.
00:08:03.000 He was the chief sponsor behind the Iraq war, and many biographers say that he was the one that originally floated the idea, pushed the idea, theorized what it would look like, convinced the people within the Bush administration to go forward with the invasion of Iraq.
00:08:23.000 And so Liz Cheney is getting headlines saying she survives what a defeat for Trump Republicans.
00:08:34.000 First of all, just forcing a vote is a win.
00:08:39.000 That's number one.
00:08:40.000 Number two, six times as many Republicans voted to remove Liz Cheney from her position than impeach Donald Trump.
00:08:50.000 Six times as many. 0.85
00:08:52.000 Liz Cheney went and peached Donald Trump thinking that there would be this grassroots groundswell of people that would follow her, and it was like 11 people at most.
00:09:04.000 This was a five-hour meeting last evening.
00:09:13.000 And it really kind of showed where the private interests of Republican congressmen are.
00:09:23.000 It showed that in private, 61 Republicans do want to move on from the Bush-Cheney forever war agenda.
00:09:33.000 But in private, the vast majority of Republicans, let's get a final number of what that was.
00:09:38.000 I think it was 182 or something.
00:09:40.000 Republicans, they want to keep things as is.
00:09:45.000 Now, the fact that it's 61 is a reason to applaud that.
00:09:50.000 But what does Cheney represent?
00:09:52.000 Answer. 0.81
00:09:54.000 An unlimited flow of corporate dollars going into the reelection accounts of establishment Republicans.
00:10:01.000 145 to 61, more or less right on there.
00:10:06.000 So how does one actually fix this?
00:10:09.000 What is the solution to fix the Liz Cheney problem?
00:10:15.000 And I have a different answer than what most podcasters or pundits or writers will have here.
00:10:27.000 It's not about Liz Cheney.
00:10:29.000 It isn't. 1.00
00:10:30.000 Liz Cheney is just the latest manifestation of a broken campaign finance system. 1.00
00:10:36.000 Liz Cheney is just the latest empty suit to occupy a spokesperson for open border globalist corporate interests.
00:10:50.000 So the solution is not just about getting Liz Cheney out of Republican leadership. 0.99
00:10:56.000 That would have been great.
00:10:57.000 Terrific.
00:10:58.000 But the solution is actually much deeper here.
00:11:01.000 And it's twofold.
00:11:02.000 Number one, grassroots conservatives, we need to get better at organizing.
00:11:07.000 We need to get better at vote tallying and counting.
00:11:09.000 We need to get better at tactics and strategy because there were a lot of promises made that we have the votes, we're going to do it.
00:11:19.000 And my friend Matt Gates, credit to him for even being able to get the forces together to do this.
00:11:27.000 But the deeper issue here is if you remove Liz Cheney, okay, well, who's going to replace her? 0.71
00:11:36.000 Just another spokesperson for corporate America.
00:11:41.000 Another megaphone for the Chamber of Commerce.
00:11:45.000 Another person that is going to be walking the halls of Congress with a big binder that says dreams about Myanmar, about how they want to bring an aircraft carrier into the Bay of Bengal with a big show of force for a country of 54 million people and a GDP of 66 billion. 0.78
00:12:03.000 I'm half being sarcastic, but I wouldn't be surprised if Lindsey Graham is trolling the halls of the Senate today trying to get support for a ground invasion in Myanmar. 0.99
00:12:14.000 That's who Liz Cheney represents.
00:12:18.000 And so I want to explore this with you of how do we actually fix this problem?
00:12:22.000 Because it's actually not about Liz Cheney.
00:12:25.000 It's about the people behind her that have been doing so much damage to our country.
00:12:29.000 So Congresswoman Cheney is the third in command of the Republican Party of the House of Representatives, the House GOP Leadership Conference, I guess someone, that's one way to put it.
00:12:43.000 And she is definitely a spokesperson for corporate America. 0.93
00:12:47.000 She's a spokesperson for open borders. 0.61
00:12:50.000 She is a spokesperson for a different type of worldview than what is represented in grassroots conservatism.
00:12:58.000 It's definitely not consistent with traditional Wyoming values.
00:13:02.000 It's definitely not consistent with the values of the most conservative state in the entire country.
00:13:09.000 And that is exactly why her approval rating has plummeted.
00:13:12.000 And that is why the rally that Congressman Gates in Wyoming did so well. 0.99
00:13:18.000 But if you remove Liz Cheney, what's going to take her place? 1.00
00:13:23.000 The answer is just another ambitious person who is willing to take money from the top corporate interests in our country. 0.99
00:13:31.000 And so you can go to openseecrets.org and see her contributors. 0.61
00:13:35.000 You can see where she gets a vast majority of her contributions from.
00:13:39.000 You want to know why Liz Cheney is not speaking out against the GameStop saga?
00:13:45.000 It's pretty obvious.
00:13:47.000 She's funded by the very companies that were threatened by it.
00:13:52.000 She's funded by Morgan Stanley.
00:13:54.000 She's funded by Wells Fargo. 0.54
00:13:57.000 She's funded.
00:13:58.000 Oh, yeah, she's funded by Raytheon Technologies.
00:14:00.000 You don't know what they do?
00:14:01.000 Look it up.
00:14:04.000 Raytheon, they have a big whiteboard and it just says Burma on it.
00:14:10.000 She gets, oh, she got a lot of money from Lockheed Martin.
00:14:16.000 She got some money from Northup Grumman.
00:14:19.000 Sure, there's nothing to see there. 0.82
00:14:23.000 She gets funded by all the companies that are censoring conservatives.
00:14:30.000 You go through her list of biggest corporate donors.
00:14:33.000 It is like clockwork.
00:14:34.000 They give $10,000 to Liz Cheney's pack, one after the other, after the other, after the other.
00:14:42.000 And the corporations are going to do what's in their best interest.
00:14:46.000 They see someone willing to take their money, represent their interests on Capitol Hill.
00:14:50.000 They're going to do that.
00:14:53.000 And this is something that Cortez, Alexandria Casio-Cortez, when she isn't making broad fictional narratives, which we will get into, she's actually right on.
00:15:05.000 This is something that Matt Gates is right on.
00:15:07.000 The way we finance our elections is broken.
00:15:12.000 There was an old meme about a decade ago that is just as it's actually more applicable today than it was 10 years ago, which it says, why don't we have all the members of Congress walk around with their corporate sponsors like NASCAR drivers do?
00:15:30.000 Why doesn't Liz Cheney just leave the Republican conference meeting with a Lockheed Martin jacket or a Northrop Grumman jacket?
00:15:41.000 And by the way, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman do amazing work in regards to military technology.
00:15:48.000 Phenomenal.
00:15:50.000 Incredible engineering, innovation.
00:15:52.000 They deserve credit for that.
00:15:54.000 But the incentive structure when you're in the bomb-making business is to go make more bombs.
00:16:01.000 Where do you go use bombs?
00:16:02.000 I think the answer, we all know that.
00:16:06.000 And so if we're serious about actually reforming our country back to constitutional governance, if we're serious about giving a voice to those 61 people that rejected Liz Cheney, what they were really rejecting, and the reason why the other 146, is that right, 146 didn't go alongside with the rejection is because they were afraid of this corporate stream of money being put in jeopardy.
00:16:37.000 Verizon Communications, Charter Communications, Abbott Laboratories, Comcast Corp.
00:16:45.000 That's right, Comcast, who owns NBC Universal, donates to Liz Cheney.
00:16:53.000 Controlled opposition.
00:16:56.000 It's not about Liz Cheney, though. 0.92
00:16:58.000 You'd be stunned to find that a lot of Republicans take money from Comcast. 0.99
00:17:03.000 A lot of Republicans take money from the top law firms.
00:17:07.000 Berkshire Hathaway, owned by Warren Buffett, who owns Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad, Burlington, Northern Santa Fe Railroad, which benefited tremendously from the abolition of the Keystone XL pipeline.
00:17:26.000 Campaign finance is something that only Democrats have talked about with the exclusion of Matt Gates.
00:17:32.000 That's the real story here that everyone's missing.
00:17:35.000 That's really what's happening here.
00:17:37.000 That's why everyone is really skittish about saying anything bad about Liz Cheney.
00:17:42.000 Because she has figured out, she probably learned it from her father, how to master this corporate financing terrain.
00:17:50.000 The way we finance our elections is broken.
00:17:54.000 It's not just broken.
00:17:56.000 It's the reason why you feel our government is so disconnected from you.
00:18:01.000 It's a very simple argue of economics.
00:18:06.000 What is your incentive?
00:18:08.000 Economics, put as simply as possible, is the battle against scarcity.
00:18:17.000 But to explain economic behavior, to explain behavior in an economic market or in a market in general, you must look at incentives.
00:18:26.000 So what is the incentive of Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger?
00:18:30.000 What is the incentive of the Republican ruling class?
00:18:35.000 The incentivists to get reelected.
00:18:38.000 You see, grassroots conservatives care more about improving the country than ruling the country.
00:18:49.000 And so you have some power-hungry, sometimes sociopathic Sociopathic people that want to be in politics.
00:18:58.000 They just want to be there for a couple decades and they want to rule.
00:19:05.000 Since they want to rule, they're willing to broker deals to make them in charge for a long period of time.
00:19:16.000 Now, bribery is illegal in our country.
00:19:19.000 You cannot bribe a politician, but you can contribute a lot of money to their campaign account.
00:19:29.000 Now, if you're a retired business guy and you want to see the country move in a certain direction and you feel that Andy Biggs or you feel that Matt Gates or Madison Cawthorne is going to be the best way to save the country and you don't have any sort of immediate financial government contracting regulatory interest, I don't find that to be the main problem of campaign finance in our country.
00:19:54.000 I don't.
00:19:55.000 Could there be some conflict of interest?
00:19:58.000 Of course there could be.
00:20:00.000 But the real issue is when you have people that are on quarterly estimates that have to hit corporate projections, that have to report to a board of directors who have to go to corporate America.
00:20:15.000 I'm sorry, the corporate America then goes to the congressperson and says, hey, we are Raytheon.
00:20:22.000 Raytheon is a defense contractor.
00:20:27.000 And they do phenomenal work in regards to innovation and being able to have our military be the premier military in the country, on the planet, I mean.
00:20:42.000 However, the incentive structure at Raytheon or Northrop Grumman or Lockheed Martin, and yes, they do employ tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people, but their incentive structure is to make sure that there are congress people in positions of leadership that are going to purchase their products using taxpayer dollars.
00:21:00.000 And so when you go through the list at opensecrets.org and you see who actually finances your leaders, our rulers, it all kind of starts to make sense.
00:21:15.000 And yes, there are campaign contribution limits, but boy, do they max out those limits every single time.
00:21:24.000 So you have someone like Adam Kinzinger, Adam Kinzinger, who voted to impeach President Trump, Adam Kinzinger, who never misses an opportunity to defend the corporate agenda, not the small business agenda, not the muscular class agenda, but instead the Zoom and Skype class agenda, what protects the Chamber of Commerce.
00:21:48.000 That's who he represents.
00:21:50.000 And then you go and you say, well, I wonder who's funding Adam Kinzinger.
00:21:55.000 Well, it makes sense.
00:21:57.000 Verizon Communications basically maxed out to his campaign.
00:22:02.000 MasterCard maxed out to his campaign.
00:22:05.000 Intel maxed out to his campaign.
00:22:08.000 Dell maxed out to his campaign.
00:22:13.000 Motorola maxed out to his campaign.
00:22:15.000 Raytheon gave him a significant contribution.
00:22:21.000 Pfizer gave him a significant contribution.
00:22:28.000 So here's a guy who's supposed to represent rural Illinois, an area I know very well, who probably is more likely to answer and to represent the people that fill his campaign account than the constituents of Illinois' 16th congressional district.
00:22:49.000 The founding fathers never wanted a system where private business interests would be able to influence the creation of laws disproportionately.
00:23:03.000 Now, there's a fine counter argument to this, which is, well, Charlie, if you get rid of this, then how are these companies that employ a lot of people going to have their voices heard?
00:23:14.000 And that's a fair question.
00:23:16.000 However, I think a reasonable society, if we were interested in governing and fixing our systemic problems, could address that very quickly and reasonably.
00:23:28.000 Have a capacity where these companies are allowed to, through a lobbyist representative where it is disclosed, contact lawmakers and make it public exactly what was discussed.
00:23:39.000 For example, Comcast, which owns NBC Universal, Comcast, which owns Saturday Night Live, Comcast, which owns the most left-wing Democrat propaganda machine donated to Adam Kinzinger's campaign.
00:24:01.000 Because we as conservatives and grassroots activists have not made a bigger issue of the financing of elections, Adam Kinzinger takes the money from Comcast.
00:24:12.000 He's like, oh, they employ people in my district.
00:24:15.000 That's completely irrelevant.
00:24:16.000 So does Planned Parenthood, Adam Kinzinger.
00:24:18.000 Would you take money from Planned Parenthood?
00:24:20.000 Of course you would.
00:24:22.000 You see, we have, as conservatives, created some rules of engagement with campaign finance.
00:24:30.000 For example, if Adam Kinzinger were to take money from Planned Parenthood, he would get primarily and lose.
00:24:37.000 He might get primarily and lose anyway.
00:24:39.000 If you're listening to this on AM560, the answer, my friends in Chicago, go help with that.
00:24:47.000 If Adam Kinzinger took money from the teacher unions, he would come under backlash in his district.
00:24:52.000 If Adam Kinzinger took money from Mike Bloomberg, he'd come under fire in his district.
00:24:58.000 However, when he takes money from Comcast, he gets reelected.
00:25:04.000 The point is that we as conservatives have to realize that the flow of capital from these companies from the woke industrial complex, which is what they are, no different than Dwight D. Eisenhower warning us against the military industrial complex.
00:25:19.000 There's the woke industrial complex.
00:25:22.000 That's the problem. 0.71
00:25:22.000 So what's the solution? 0.71
00:25:24.000 Well, I don't think the solution is necessarily public financing of elections.
00:25:30.000 I don't.
00:25:33.000 But I would say we have to put limits on how much these companies can give, way more limits than they already have.
00:25:40.000 And I also think that you should not be able to, if you're a corporation that is actively seeking government contracts or dealing with federal regulation, I do not think you legally should be able to contribute to a member of Congress or a person running for Congress.
00:25:54.000 It is the clearest conflict of interest I could possibly imagine.
00:26:00.000 So it is illegal to bribe an elected official.
00:26:04.000 It's illegal if Comcast came to Adam Kinzinger's office with a briefcase of $10,000.
00:26:11.000 But it's legal if Comcast comes into Adam Kinzinger's office with a check for $10,000 to his campaign account.
00:26:17.000 That's legal.
00:26:22.000 Just a little funny side note, Adam Kinzinger received a max contribution from the John Bolton PAC, too.
00:26:30.000 John Bolton, who wanted to invade Venezuela.
00:26:33.000 And it's actually a real thing.
00:26:34.000 He was walking around with a binder, no, a notebook that said 10,000 troops to Venezuela.
00:26:40.000 And Liz Cheney has the same sort of corporate donors.
00:26:43.000 And so here's the fight, the metaphorical fight that we must Focus on.
00:26:49.000 And Congressman Matt Gates, to his credit, has been ahead of the curve here.
00:26:54.000 We, as grassroots conservatives, need to ask our representatives who's financing your campaigns.
00:27:00.000 Then you'll be able to find out whether or not they're going to pick the tough fights when they go to Washington, D.C.
00:27:05.000 It's that simple. 0.65
00:27:07.000 Liz Cheney receives $13,400 from Goldman Sachs.
00:27:12.000 She will do nothing to represent the people of Wyoming.
00:27:17.000 Goldman Sachs, otherwise known as government Sachs, runs the Treasury Department in our country.
00:27:24.000 There's a joke that Goldman Sachs is never on the wrong side of a deal.
00:27:27.000 Yeah, because they create the deals.
00:27:30.000 Hank Paulson, Timothy Geithner, what's the globalist?
00:27:34.000 Oh, Gary Cohn.
00:27:35.000 They all were Goldman guys.
00:27:40.000 And the left is on the right side of this issue.
00:27:43.000 That's right.
00:27:44.000 You heard me correctly.
00:27:45.000 Talib, Cortez, Omar, they reject corporate money.
00:27:50.000 Now, part of it is because Democrats are really good at giving small dollar donations.
00:27:55.000 It's part of the mob mentality.
00:27:56.000 They all think of themselves as a big kind of organism that is self-sufficient.
00:28:01.000 They give $10 a month to Cortez.
00:28:03.000 Hundreds of thousands of people do every single month.
00:28:06.000 Whereas Republicans, we love liberty.
00:28:10.000 Therefore, we love to be disengaged from the process because we want to go live our life.
00:28:14.000 Politics is not everything for us.
00:28:17.000 And so then Republicans use that as an excuse.
00:28:19.000 They say, well, I can't really raise small dollar donations.
00:28:22.000 I'm going to go to Raytheon.
00:28:25.000 I'm going to go to Goldman Sachs.
00:28:28.000 I'm going to go to Comcast and fill up my account.
00:28:33.000 It's one meeting.
00:28:34.000 It's one lunch.
00:28:35.000 It's not that big of a deal.
00:28:37.000 So the solution has to be number one.
00:28:39.000 We have to applaud and praise the Republicans that don't take this corporate money.
00:28:45.000 So the 61 people that voted yesterday privately, I would like to see that roll call vote.
00:28:53.000 Liz Cheney was elected not to represent the Republican Party, but to represent the people of Wyoming.
00:28:58.000 It's a big difference.
00:29:00.000 Washington, D.C. is Liz Cheney's home turf. 0.94
00:29:03.000 That's her kingdom. 1.00
00:29:04.000 That's what she occupies.
00:29:06.000 But the people of Wyoming are suffering right now.
00:29:09.000 The people are out of work.
00:29:11.000 The virus has crushed many of them.
00:29:13.000 The lockdowns have crushed a lot of them even more.
00:29:17.000 Their schools are struggling. 0.97
00:29:20.000 Yet Liz Cheney is taking money from corporations that are lobbying for the continued woke industrial complex, lobbying for lockdowns indefinitely. 1.00
00:29:32.000 That's who represents the people of Wyoming. 0.99
00:29:35.000 Not Liz Cheney, but the corporations that fund her campaign.
00:29:40.000 That's the issue that we must focus on through robust campaign finance reform, small dollar donation support, and lifting up and congratulating Republicans that reject the easy money just to get reelected.
00:29:55.000 I think that a lot of this discussion around the direction of the Republican Party needs to be who's going to be financing the Republican Party.
00:30:07.000 It's that simple.
00:30:08.000 We will keep on being disappointed.
00:30:10.000 Bills will continue to be killed that might benefit our country.
00:30:14.000 Bad bills will continually be proposed if we do not fix the way that this process works.
00:30:19.000 Right now, we have a group of 100 companies that finance a vast majority of all the political activity in our country.
00:30:29.000 And because of that, you, the American worker, the carpenter, the plumber, the teacher, the parent, where's your voice?
00:30:38.000 Your voice gets minimized.
00:30:41.000 And this is what made Donald Trump so different.
00:30:44.000 It made Donald Trump different because he took the small, he was able to build a small dollar donation army, something Republicans had never done before.
00:30:52.000 And instead, Liz Cheney doesn't think about, well, maybe Donald Trump was onto something to actually represent the muscular class in this country, the entrepreneurs, the people that start something from nothing, the people that are trying to create new,
00:31:08.000 not just the people that are trying to get favors from the government, not just people like Liz Cheney, something that her father perfected, which is how do I maximize the U.S. taxpayer for my own benefit.
00:31:23.000 There's nothing conservative about that.
00:31:25.000 That's corporatist.
00:31:26.000 There's nothing capitalist about that.
00:31:28.000 It's favoritism, pure and simple.
00:31:33.000 But the fact that we're even having this discussion is a very good development.
00:31:40.000 Because for years, the inside-out access that corporations had to our government went completely and totally unchecked and unchallenged. 0.84
00:31:49.000 Yes, Liz Cheney won the vote.
00:31:52.000 Why? 1.00
00:31:53.000 Because most Republicans actually just want to get reelected.
00:31:55.000 They don't want controversy.
00:31:57.000 They did it in private. 1.00
00:31:58.000 Liz Cheney doesn't just raise the money for herself, but she's the gatekeeper for a lot of these corporate interests for the other members of Congress.
00:32:09.000 For members of Congress like Adam Kinzinger, like Peter Meyer from Michigan, who decided to run as a grassroots conservative and then all of a sudden became a corporate type.
00:32:20.000 We won't forget that, Congressman Meyer, come the next elections.
00:32:23.000 I know people in Western Michigan are very, very fired up to primary you and to hold you accountable.
00:32:29.000 Congressman Meyer, we did a Super Saturday for you at Turning Point Action, and we wanted to see you win.
00:32:35.000 One of your first acts of Congress is indulge yourself in an unconstitutional circus.
00:32:43.000 You could have gave a House floor speech condemning Trump to the sky, but then as soon as you did the impeachment exercise, you went back on your promise to the voters of Western Michigan.
00:32:56.000 So that the 146 people that supported Liz Cheney, what they're really saying is, keep the easy money coming.
00:33:03.000 I don't want to have to pick the tough fights.
00:33:05.000 I don't have to go raise money for anyone that's outside of corporations, outside of Comcast, Raytheon.
00:33:11.000 And I hope you all understand that's easy money for these guys.
00:33:15.000 It's easy money.
00:33:18.000 You just promise that you won't challenge them on committees.
00:33:23.000 You give a wink and a nod that you won't have to make any alterations to the multi-trillion dollar stimulus, to the multi-trillion dollar bills.
00:33:31.000 And Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Comcast, and all those cast of characters will continue to contribute to your campaign account.
00:33:43.000 What's amazing is when you look at Liz Cheney's contributions, very little of her money is raised from Wyoming.
00:34:02.000 If Liz Cheney was representing the people of Wyoming, not the investment bankers on Goldman Sachs or the war planners at Raytheon, then she would have a ton of money from Wyoming.
00:34:13.000 Trust me, there's plenty of money to be raised in Wyoming.
00:34:15.000 Plenty.
00:34:16.000 And she's got some people here and there.
00:34:19.000 So that's the real issue that we must zero in on.
00:34:22.000 Nothing will change till we get to the fundamentals and we find solutions to this.
00:34:27.000 And a temporary solution outside we get of the legislative is that just Republicans that are watching this, you must demand from your elected officials that they will find ways to finance their campaigns through a people-focused agenda, not through a corporate-financed agenda.
00:34:45.000 You want to know why we're in this circus in D.C. where we talk about things that don't matter?
00:34:49.000 It's because if you actually got into the nuts and bolts of what actually is hurting the American people, maybe a couple of their corporate financiers might get a little bit upset.
00:35:01.000 And so for any Republican out there that doesn't take the free flow of money from corporate America, we will lift you up and applaud you.
00:35:08.000 Those that do, we'll continue to challenge you on this program.
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