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| title = [[Spiritual Correction]]
| caption = [https://knowledgefight.libsyn.com/knowledge-fight-spiritual-correction Listen to this episode on Libsyn]
| episodeNumber = [[Spiritual Correction|S003]]
| length = 00:05:29
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| name = Unknown Speaker
| timestamp = 00:00:00.000
| text = Andy in Kansas, you're on the air. Thanks for holding
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| name = Unknown Speaker
| timestamp = 00:00:03.839
| text = Hello Alex, I'm a first time caller. I'm a huge fan. I love your work. I love you. Hey everybody welcome back to Knowledge Fight
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| timestamp = 00:00:09.300
| text = I'm Dan. I'm Jordan. We're here really quick just to drop in with a what I'm gonna call a spiritual correction
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| timestamp = 00:00:15.919
| text = On the last episode we talked about
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| timestamp = 00:00:19.160
| text = campaign donations right that Trump had gotten and Hillary Clinton had gotten and we were not inaccurate
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| name = Unknown Speaker
| timestamp = 00:00:26.280
| text = but I found information later that after we'd recorded the episode that I feel like I would be remiss if I didn't point out and
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| timestamp = 00:00:33.679
| text = Call myself out on one of those things the thing that's most important is that
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| text = Renaissance Technologies the company that is owned by Robert Mercer gave Trump 15 million dollars in the campaign
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| timestamp = 00:00:46.799
| text = 15.5 million dollars, but I later found out he also gave Hillary 14 million dollars
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| timestamp = 00:00:52.159
| text = So so he's hedging his bets which is what literally every billionaire did absolutely like everybody at Goldman Sachs
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| text = Gave Hillary a shit ton of money and also Trump a shit ton of money
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| text = Well, actually they would have wound up in the cabinet either direction. Actually, that's kind of interesting
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| text = That's the other correction that I needed to make we weren't specific enough about the Goldman Sachs stuff with Trump
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| timestamp = 00:01:17.280
| text = Okay, the reality is that Goldman Sachs banned all their partners for making donations
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| timestamp = 00:01:23.480
| text = interest to Trump and Pence
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| text = interesting and the reason is that they had made a policy change about
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| timestamp = 00:01:32.000
| text = Supporting candidates running for state or local offices as well as giving money to people who are sitting state or local
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| text = officials running for federal office and quote from a memo that was distributed to Goldman Sachs employees
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| text = This policy change is meant to prevent inadvertently violating pay-to-play rules
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| timestamp = 00:01:50.400
| text = Particularly the look back provision when partners transition into roles covered by these rules
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| timestamp = 00:01:55.200
| text = The policy change is also meant to minimize potential
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| timestamp = 00:01:58.159
| text = Reputational damage caused by any false perception that the firm is attempting to circumvent pay-to-play rules particularly given
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| timestamp = 00:02:04.959
| text = Partners seniority and visibility. So basically what it says the company with all of its fucking former members in the goddamn
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| timestamp = 00:02:13.139
| text = Cabinet, right, right, but but here here's the issue
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| text = It has to do with state and local representatives, right? Because those are the people who can make rules that more
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| name = Unknown Speaker
| timestamp = 00:02:22.219
| text = directly
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| text = Fuck with yeah
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{{TranscriptBlock
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| text = yeah, so the
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| text = The situation is the bank's compliance team pointed to the Trump-Pence campaign as a donation
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| timestamp = 00:02:34.379
| text = No-go because Pence is the governor of Indiana giving him influence over state pensions
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| timestamp = 00:02:39.439
| text = Right, so that was a situation where they couldn't give to him because he was a state official
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| name = Unknown Speaker
| timestamp = 00:02:46.039
| text = Okay
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| text = Meanwhile the new rules at Goldman Sachs don't restrict contributions to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton because she currently doesn't hold office
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| text = Her vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine is a US senator
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| text = So wouldn't be subject to the rules either because he's not a state or local official. So Goldman Sachs employees were
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| timestamp = 00:03:04.539
| text = Unallowed to give money to the Trump campaign, but it wasn't because they hated Trump. It was because of state and local
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| name = Unknown Speaker
| timestamp = 00:03:14.379
| text = So this particular thing this particular rule that they implemented somehow
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| text = Wound up happening to the Trump campaign
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| text = it was
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| text = not
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| timestamp = 00:03:27.539
| text = Purposeful, it was just kind of coincidental if Tim Kaine had been a governor
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| timestamp = 00:03:31.979
| text = It would have been exactly exactly the same. He would have been they would have been banned from giving ready to Hillary Clinton
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| timestamp = 00:03:37.099
| text = But it's fine. It's fine that they gave
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| timestamp = 00:03:39.500
| text = Hillary Clinton money and they would have given Trump money. Yeah, if
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| timestamp = 00:03:43.740
| text = They could yeah sure and the other thing is I just you know, wow, I'm calling myself out
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| text = there were you know people who gave tens of millions of dollars to Hillary to and I feel like when I listened back to it I
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| name = Unknown Speaker
| timestamp = 00:03:56.740
| text = Was misrepresenting things by you know, these million dollar two million dollar donations
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| timestamp = 00:04:01.819
| text = And then we said Mercer gave 15 million to Trump right the appearance that she didn't have
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| timestamp = 00:04:07.939
| text = Large-scale donors right and that was kind of unfair of me. It was unintentional, but
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| text = But even though even then the larger point is billionaires don't give a fuck and they're just gonna give
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| timestamp = 00:04:19.579
| text = Millions to anybody. Yeah, because if they become president fuck it
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| timestamp = 00:04:23.800
| text = We already gave you millions, but also the other point is that a lot of those high
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| text = Donations on Hillary's side were from unions and stuff like that. Okay, so there were like teachers unions and stuff like that
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| name = Unknown Speaker
| timestamp = 00:04:36.160
| text = They're their political action committee. No one of the one of the larger like in the
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{{TranscriptBlock
| name = Unknown Speaker
| timestamp = 00:04:42.240
| text = Pantheon of donors there's billionaires and then there's unions that are not
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| timestamp = 00:04:48.399
| text = Equivalent, but they still give a shit ton of money. No. So anyway, this has been a tiny drop-in
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| timestamp = 00:04:53.639
| text = Please enjoy the longer episode today, but I just wanted to do this because you know
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| name = Unknown Speaker
| timestamp = 00:04:59.279
| text = It's about being above board and I felt like when I listen back to that episode. It was slightly unfair
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| timestamp = 00:05:05.279
| text = So something that Alex Jones is never done. Probably not. Anyway, thank you all for listening
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| timestamp = 00:05:12.120
| text = We do appreciate it. We'll talk to you real soon. But until then
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| timestamp = 00:05:15.959
| text = Rappaport he still lives
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| name = Unknown Speaker
| timestamp = 00:05:17.959
| text = He still lives
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| timestamp = 00:05:19.800
| text = Andy in Kansas you're on the air. Thanks for holding. Hello Alex. I'm a first-time caller. I'm a huge fan. I love your work
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