Bernie Sanders: “If you are a wealthy person, a billionaire, you can start…”

“And the answer has everything to do with money and a corrupt campaign finances. And I don't know how familiar people in Ireland are with our campaign finance system. But essentially, If you are a wealthy person, a billionaire, you can start what's called a super pac, put unlimited hundreds of millions of dollars. and then if you do what I don't want you to do, I'm going to beat you. So it's a corrupt system.” (01:26–01:34)

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