Hartmann: Yeah. Well, Bill Barr has been the Republican fixer since 1992, when he helped George H. W. Bush pardon Caspar Weinberger, Ollie North and all of these other guys in order to blow up the Iran Contra prosecution. Just to widen the lens a little bit, you know, I sent five bucks off to the Trump campaign, along with a bunch of other campaigns, back in 2015, when they were just starting up, just to get on their lists. And I'm now getting" on some days I'll get five or six of these fundraising appeals and they all use the same Trump/Pence logo. They're the same graphic logos. They all look like they're coming from the same place, but I'm getting them from Our President 45, these are super PACS" I don't even remember all the names"there's a half a dozen of them or so. And I remember when super PACS first became a thing after Citizens United and Stephen Colbert did this thing where he ran for public office for a senator from North Carolina, as I recall, and created a super PAC, and then he had his lawyer on afterwards and said, okay, we got a hundred thousand bucks in the super PAC, what do I do with the money? And his lawyer said, well, you can take it basically. I mean, you've got to circumscribe slightly how you use this money, but basically you can use it to live off for the rest of your life. And it looks to me like Trump is acquiring, and because these are super PACS, there's no campaign donation limits, that he's probably acquiring hundreds of millions of dollars that he and his grifter buddies are gonna live on for the rest of their lives. Do you know anybody who's investigating this?
Palast: No" Not in the Justice Department. And keep in mind, Donald Trump was the very first candidate to ever say I'm going to be the first candidate ever to earn a profit off running for president. He announced it.
Hartmann: Well, they did that with the inaugural fund"
Palast: Exactly. And it's a way for guys like Paul "The Vulture" Singer, who gave a million dollars to Trump. He was Never Trump and so to get in his good graces he threw in a million. And if it leaks out into the Donald's pocket, The Vulture ain't going to complain, cause that's kinda the idea, isn't it? It's all wink, wink. And by the way, just one little aside, I can't resist. Kris Kobach, when I was investigating him for Rolling Stone and he was trying to talk me out of writing the article, he did mention to me proudly that he's the one who told Trump that the Mexicans will pay for the wall. He told Trump how to get it done and yet Kobach is saying, well, the Mexicans will pay for the wall, but in the meantime, just make out the checks to me or We Build the Wall, which is mostly "we" and not much wall.
Hartmann: Right, which leads us straight to a 105-foot yacht with Steve Bannon on it, which is all pretty breathtaking stuff.
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