When Donald Trump admitted to buying Hillary Clinton…
by BlackCatte
The establishment is turning on the appalling Donald Trump. But is it Trump’s grotesque racism and misogyny that are going to condemn him, or the fact he used FOX News as a platform to describe the US political system as “broken” and to admit politicians are basically for sale to billionaires?
In Counterpunch Mike Whitney publishes a transcript of Trump’s recent astonishing outburst on live TV. What was he thinking? Read and enjoy?
FOX News Brett Baier (talking to Trump): Now, 15 years ago, you called yourself a liberal on health care. You were for a single-payer system, a Canadian-style system. Why were you for that then and why aren’t you for it now?
TRUMP: As far as single payer, it works in Canada. It works incredibly well in Scotland. It could have worked in a different age, which is the age you’re talking about here.
What I’d like to see is a private system without the artificial lines around every state. I have a big company with thousands and thousands of employees. And if I’m negotiating in New York or in New Jersey or in California, I have like one bidder. Nobody can bid.
You know why?
Because the insurance companies are making a fortune because they have control of the politicians, of course, with the exception of the politicians on this stage. (uneasy laughter) But they have total control of the politicians. They’re making a fortune.
Get rid of the artificial lines and you will have…yourself great plans…
BAIER: Mr. Trump, it’s not just your past support for single-payer health care. You’ve also supported a host of other liberal policies….You’ve also donated to several Democratic candidates, Hillary Clinton included, and Nancy Pelosi. You explained away those donations saying you did that to get business-related favors. And you said recently, quote, “When you give, they do whatever the hell you want them to do.”
TRUMP: You’d better believe it.
BAIER: — they do?
TRUMP: If I ask them, if I need them, you know, most of the people on this stage I’ve given to, just so you understand, a lot of money.
TRUMP: I will tell you that our system is broken. I gave to many people, before this, before two months ago, I was a businessman. I give to everybody. When they call, I give. And do you know what? When I need something from them two years later, three years later, I call them, they are there for me. And that’s a broken system.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What did you get from Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi?
TRUMP: Well, I’ll tell you what, with Hillary Clinton, I said be at my wedding and she came to my wedding. You know why?
She didn’t have a choice because I gave. I gave to a foundation that, frankly, that foundation is supposed to do good. I didn’t know her money would be used on private jets going all over the world. It was.
BAIER: Hold on…..We’re going to — we’re going to move on.”
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Another thing exposed by the debate (as if we didn’t know it anyway) was the fact that Fox News blatantly flaunted their allegiance to the Republican Party. When Brett Baier asked all of the candidates to acknowledge that they would support the party’s candidate and not bolt and run as a third party candidate, it was an unbridled acknowledgement that they are anything but “fair and balanced”. Our system is so corrupt that few have actually asked why a supposedly balanced “newsman”, like Baier, should be concerned about party loyalty.