Joe Biden: “If you go out and bundle $250K for me, all legal, and then you call me after I’m elected and say ‘Joe, I’d like to talk to you about something.’ I’m gonna say ‘Come on in.’ It’s human nature.” https://twitter.com/IbrahimAS97/status/1127031297505935360/video/1 …
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This seems like one of those Michael Kinsley gaffes where a politician is being pilloried for telling the truth. Biden is clearly explaining how money buys access in politics without outright bribery taking place, due in part to basic human nature.
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Safeguards against what? Taking legal contributions? Meeting with people who manage to raise a quarter million bucks for him? Those both sound like key things a politician should do.
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