So you wonder why all of the superdelegates went to Hillary Clinton? Well, this is among the reasons. One of the reasons is they're like, "Hey, listen, we'll get some of our billionaire donors to throw some money in your direction too--whether it's the state parties or the DNC; and then you guys can use that for your own re-election."

"Hmmm... Some of the bribes come to me? OK, YES, OF COURSE! I'M WITH HILLARY!"

Or, at a bare minumum, "Nah, I'm not gonna to say who I'm with." -- That's the best case scenario.

Most of them just raise their hands right away: "Hillary! Hillary! I'm with Hillary! Gimme the money, gimme the money, gimme the money!"

Gee, I wonder why these politicians decided they were going to support Hillary Clinton instead of Bernie Sanders. It's because Bernie Sanders forgot to bribe them! (laughs) Silly Sanders!

And that's how we wash the money. And then by the time you hand it off to Hillary Clinton, it's all clean. That's called money laundering. Now, it's all legal because they legalize bribery, they legalize money laundering--as long as it goes to politicians, you can bribe them all they want.

MANY ASPERSIONS were cast in the wake of the 2000 presidential election debacle. A common theme involved former President Jimmy Carter, trusted monitor of more than 50 elections around the world, and how his talents were more needed at home.

Indeed, Mr. Carter and former President Gerald R. Ford were both quickly pressed into service to recommend election reforms. But they were mostly ignored.

Now, four years and another messy election later, Mr. Carter, 80, is being drafted for help again. Congress would be smart to listen to him this time if American elections are to rise above global laughingstock.

By the criteria Mr. Carter applies to other nations, U.S. elections are nowhere near fair. Candidates don't have equal access to the public through the media. There is no central election commission viewed as nonpartisan. Voting procedures aren't uniform, even on a statewide basis. And many places using electronic touch-screens, including Maryland, have no paper backup for recounts.

They know that I will be a president who, yes, I will listen to people but I will stand my ground and I know how to get things done.

Comey’s first brush with them (Bill & Hillary Clinton) came when Bill Clinton was president. Looking to get back into government after a stint in private practice, Comey signed on as deputy special counsel to the Senate Whitewater Committee. In 1996, after months of work, Comey came to some damning conclusions: Hillary Clinton was personally involved in mishandling documents and had ordered others to block investigators as they pursued their case. Worse, her behavior fit into a pattern of concealment: she and her husband had tried to hide their roles in two other matters under investigation by law enforcement. Taken together, the interference by White House officials, which included destruction of documents, amounted to “far more than just aggressive lawyering or political naiveté,” Comey and his fellow investigators concluded. It constituted “a highly improper pattern of deliberate misconduct.”

Comey parlayed the Whitewater job into top posts in Virginia and New York, returning to Manhattan in 2002 to be the top federal prosecutor there. One of his first cases as a line attorney in the same office 15 years earlier had been the successful prosecution of Marc Rich, a wealthy international financier, for tax evasion. But on his last day as President in 2001, Bill Clinton pardoned Rich. “I was stunned,” Comey later told Congress. As top U.S. prosecutor in New York in 2002, appointed by George W. Bush, Comey inherited the criminal probe into the Rich pardon and 175 others Clinton had made at the 11th hour.

June 21, 2002

The Justice Department yesterday declined to file charges in one of the more unusual cases of pardons and commutations issued by President Bill Clinton in his final days in office: allegations that the former president granted clemency to four Hasidic Jews after their tiny New York state community voted almost unanimously for Hillary Rodham Clinton in the 2000 senatorial race.

After months of silence on the matter, United States Attorney James B. Comey in Manhattan, who is overseeing investigations of 176 pardons and commutations granted in the final days of Clinton's presidency, said probes of the other cases would continue....

Comey declined to elaborate on other cases, but among the most publicized pardons was the one Clinton gave to fugitive commodities trader Marc Rich. Rich's ex-wife, Denise, was a major donor to the Democratic National Committee, Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Clinton library foundation.

Other pardons under investigation include those granted to two clients of Hillary Clinton's brother, Hugh Rodham, who received $400,000 in payments for representing them. Bill Clinton's brother, Roger, also was named in a recent House committee report for "a systematic effort to trade on his brother's name" in lobbying for pardons.

The pardon investigation began with considerable fanfare shortly after Bill Clinton's spate of last-minute legal forgiveness came to light. But it slowed after Sept. 11 (2001), when the New York FBI and U.S. attorney's offices became focused almost exclusively on the war on terrorism....

DAVID MUIR: Senator Sanders, ... How big a role does corporate America play in a healthy economy, and will corporate America love a President Sanders?

SEN. BERNIE SANDERS: No, I think they won’t. So Hillary and I have a difference. The CEOs of large multinationals may like Hillary. They ain’t going to like me, and Wall Street is going to like me even less. And the reason for that is we’ve got to deal with the elephant in the room, which is the greed, recklessness and illegal behavior on Wall Street. When you have six financial institutions in this country that issue two-thirds of the credit cards and one-third of the mortgages, when three out of four of them are larger today than when we bailed them out because they are too big to fail, we have got to re-establish Glass-Steagall. We have got to break the large financial institutions up. So I don’t think—having said that, I don’t think I’m going to get a whole lot of campaign contributions from Wall Street. I don’t have a super PAC. I don’t want campaign contributions from corporate America.

And let me be clear: While there are some great corporations creating jobs and trying to do the right thing, in my view—and I say this very seriously—the greed of the billionaire class, the greed of Wall Street is destroying this economy and is destroying the lives of millions of Americans. We need an economy that works for the middle class, not just a handful of billionaires. And I will fight and lead to make that happen.

They want obedient workers. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime, and the vanising pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it.

And now they're coming for your social security money. They want your fckn retirement money. They want it back, so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street. And you know something? They'll get it. They'll get it all from you sooner or later. 'Cause they own this fckn place. It's a big club. And you ain't in it. You and I are not in The Big Club....

The table is tilted, folks. The game is rigged . . .