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Ron Johnson: “Eisenhower warned us about the military industrial complex…”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Senator Ron Johnson on the DarkHorse Podcast

Published | Video Starts at 08:20

But large businesses can certainly be corrupted by the power they can seize by capturing these agencies. I think that's, you know, that's really the lesson of COVID I saw it with, with the big pharma. Eisenhower warned us about the military industrial complex, but that's really a thing probably across the board in all these agencies. there's always going to be large corporate interests. They have the power, have the smarts to figure out how to capture those agencies. (08:20–08:27)

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