Jon Ossoff: “Citizens United opened the floodgates for secret corporate…”

“It is the underlying corruption in our political system, especially since Citizens United States, I think the most destructive court decision in modern American history that Citizens United opened the floodgates for secret corporate money, secret billionaire money to corrupt our politics. That underlying corruption that has twisted policymaking against the interests of the American people, that is what gave rise to a demagogue like Trump in the first place.” (11:04–11:21)

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