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Ted Cruz: “The richest people in America are the people who funded and…”

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Ignorance & Ideology: AOC's Twisted Commie History of America

Published | Video Starts at 06:41

That's how wealthy George Washington was. Thomas Jefferson likewise, was incredibly wealthy. A landowner in Virginia. It was. We didn't have billionaires at the time. No one had accumulated a billion dollars. But The richest people in America are the people who funded and supported the revolution against government power. And listen, like a little Marxist that she is, she takes that story and turns it on its head and says the revolution was against the American free enterprise that actually funded the revolution and what they were fighting for was giving government more power. (06:41–06:50)

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