Many elected Democrat officials criticize wealthy people despite receiving funds from billionaires in the past.
While railings against billionaires have been popular for democratic rhetorical devices for decades, criticism has come to the forefront ever since Elon Musk led government efficiency and created many substantial governments. change President Donald Trump’s administration.
There is a long list of Democrat officials who have denounced the super-rich, but here are seven well-known Democrats who have recently made anti-salary statements despite accepting support from billionaires in the past.
Democrat Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren
Democrat Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren has been criticizing billionaires throughout her career and has created a policy of imposing wealthy people as a staple of her political campaign. Since 2019, Warren has been selling mugs that brand the word “billionaire’s tears” for the campaign’s $28 Website. When she started sale They were $25 in 2019.
According to the New York Post, Warren accepted funds from at least 3 billionaires from 2011 to 2019 despite her strong anti-biological sentiment review of her campaign donation.
Warren Posted With President Donald Trump’s run, he “promises” a tax cut for “wealthy hell donors” and “will not help workers a little.”
February 12th, Warren I said Rolling Stone, who is trying to “drift” people because Trump “can’t cut his family’s costs,” and he “plays.”[ing] Even billionaires. ”
George and Alex SorosFacebook COO Cheryl SandbergSusan Pretzker, wife of Hyatt Inheritance Nicholas Pretzker II, Christopher Sacca, venture capitalist who went to “shark” tanks, and wife of Github founder Tom Preston-Werner, and Tom Preston-Werner. David GeffenAccording to the New York Post, DreamWorks co-founders and many others have donated thousands of dollars to Warren’s President and Senate campaign.
Former President Joe Biden
Former President Joe Biden began his presidency in his inaugural address to call for “unification,” but warned that “oligarchy” “shapes the extreme wealth, power and the impact that literally threatens our democracy as a whole.”
Biden I’ve taken it According to Forbes, the funds were at least during the 2020 presidential election, at least during the 2020 presidential election, reaching 25% of the US billionaires at the time. Trump received money that year from just 14% of American billionaires.
Biden’s ultra-richbacker Menagery includes George Soros, Ralph Lauren, Melody Hobson, George Lucas’ wife, Eric Schmidt’s wife, former CEO of Google, founders of companies such as Doordash, Patagonia, Netflix, and heirs to the family of Walmart Forthing. Some billionaire donors gave thousands of dollars, while others gave up to $1.7 million.
Forbes also noted that at least 60 Biden Donners and co-founder of Biden Super Pack Facebook, Duskovitz, has donated $47 million, while Mike Bloomberg has rolled out $100 million.
Biden also awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to billionaire donor George Soros last month, along with Hillary Clinton and Denzel Washington.
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“I love Bernie, but not Bernie Sanders. I don’t think the reason we’re having trouble is 500 billion reasons,” Biden said. I said At the Brookings Institute in 2018. “The top people are not bad guys. I’m in trouble at parties when I say that wealthy Americans are just as patriotic as the poor. I didn’t find a distinction.”
Democrat Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison
In the video Posted On February 5th, Minnesota Democratic Attorney General Keith Ellison repeated former President Joe Biden’s “oligarch” claims. He concluded the video by calling for action. that We are trying to destroy our democracy, so if we unite, we can stop them. We are many people, they are money and we can overwhelm them. ” (Related: Charlamagne says that “Biden “talking” the “oli head” in his farewell speech was very hypocritical)
2018, Ellison It was accepted $100,000 from George Soros’ son and business successor Alex Soros, according to the Washington Free Beacon. This amount represents less than half of the funds raised by an independent spending committee dedicated to the success of Ellison’s campaign.
One of America’s great leaders and dear friend, Minnesota Attorney General @keithellison. pic.twitter.com/pdcncf6174
-Alexandersoros (@Alexandersoros) August 17, 2022
Alex Soros, like his father, is a left-wing billionaire philanthropist. “He’s far more fringes than his father,” Joseph Vazquez, a George Soros expert at Media Research Center, told the Daily Callenor News Foundation. “He’s going to be a much stronger political threat.”
Vazquez said Alex Soros could use his father’s business like “wrecking ball,” and “take that $32 billion empire and knock it down where it is necessary to turn his father’s vision into reality.”
Vasquez and Tom Olohan outline why Alex Soros could “be even worse” than his father in the MRC special Report The author entitled “Meet a New Boss,” concludes in his report that Alex Soros is “more radical than all fathers from abortion to climate change, racial weaponization, and demonizing political enemies.”
Ellison was one of several Democratic officials who filed Trump’s lawsuit. Presidential Order Children’s sex change is prohibited. he I said In a statement on February 7, “Our children deserve to be far better than being targeted…by the US president and his billionaire companions,” pointing to how child sexchange is “evidence-based” and the executive order is “mean and deeply hurt.” (Related: Trump signs executive order banning federal funding for child gender changes)
Democrat Minnesota Senator Amy Klobucher
Recently, Democrat Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobucher I was kidding As for Trump’s “for sale,” records show that she has accepted at least 21 billion funds.
“What is the difference between Greenland and Donald Trump? According to the Huffington Post, Klobuchar is the annual Congress dinner for the Washington Press Club Foundation, and Greenland is not on sale.”
She during Klobuchar’s 2020 presidential election It was accepted Donations from 1.5 billion or six spouses, including LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, according to an analysis of Forbes’ federal election survey.
DNC Chairman Ken Martin
Newly elected Democratic Party Chairman Ken Martin has contributed multiple times to this anti-profit story. “Trump and the billionaire cabinet… bought this country.” I wrote it X on February 7th. George Soros I gave it At least $250,000 for Martin’s Minnesota Democratic Farmera Ball (DFL) party in 2022, according to the American Experiment Center, a Minnesota-based think tank.
“We are robber barons, super wealthy billionaires, oil and gas polluters, Union Busters, or are we on the side of working families in America?” Martin I asked DNC crowd during his acceptance speech on February 1st.
On January 19th, Martin was still a candidate for DNC Chairman, but he came to the record saying that he would only receive money from “good billionaires” in the future. (Related: DNC Chair candidate Ken Martin will only receive money from future “good billionaires”)
Key Democratic Party Chair candidate Ken Martin says Democrats won’t receive money from “these bad billionaires” but will take money from “good billionaires” pic.twitter.com/dkjbzm2xss
– Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) January 19, 2025
Former Vice President Kamala Harris
Former Vice President Kamala Harris It was criticized The Washington Post and the LA Times have not supported the 2024 presidential run and have suggested that their enemies care about “Donald Trump’s Club Billionaire” during their podcast appearance with God.
Total of 8.3 billion support Harris’ presidential campaign, according to an analysis by Forbes FEC filing.
Prominent democratic PAC supporters include George Soros, Lauren Powell Jobs, Gordon Getty, and Bill Gates, who donated $50 million.
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-Alexandersoros (@Alexandersoros) July 21, 2024
Democrat California Rep. Nancy Pelosi
Democrat California Rep. Nancy I wrote it On February 10th, X, “Republicans are enabling financial predators to rip hardworking Americans to reward billionaire donors.”
Representative of Golden State tied up Dark Money’s nonprofit organization that received $3 million from Swiss billionaire Hansjorg Wyss in 2020 to accommodate a majority, according to Fox.
Pelosi has received much criticism for her own high net worth for her career.
Many suspect that Pelosi, along with her husband Paul Pelosi, is taking part in insider trading. Paul Pelosi has it Rebuttal These claims. (Related: Nancy Pelosi’s stock portfolio explodes in value, breaking the market by nearly 200%)
Bonus: Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders
Independent Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders announcement Plans are to fight “oligarchy” on February 12th. His spokesman Anna Barr told Politico that Sanders supported “working class people” and that “Donald Trump and Elon Musk will march towards authoritarianism, oligoarchy and kleptocracy.”
Washington Free Beacon reported a change in Senator’s rhetoric, from criticizing both “billionaires and billionaires” until the “billionaires” removed “billionaires” in 2019.
The federal application shows that Sanders received just under $500 in 2019 from billionaire donor Marta Thoma Hall, the wife of David Hall, the founder of billionaire Verodine. After Forbes notification Sanders’ campaign insisted they would not protect their money.
“As a citizen, you should be allowed to try and influence the political process,” Brian Doherty, bestselling author of the Los Angeles Times and senior editor at Libertarian Magazine, told DCNF. “You are allowed to have your voice.”
Doherty expressed skepticism about this anti-farming story. “I don’t think Democrats complaining about Elon Musk are really politically dissenting billionaires to fund political causes,” Doherty said. “It’s a rhetorical red herring.”
Doherty added that voters “are aware of the scope of truly rich people who fund both parties and the causes,” adding that they are likely to “lose that sense of anger” when it comes to the effects of wealthy donors.
The offices of Warren, Ellison, Pelosi, Martin, Harris, Klobuchar, Newsom and Sanders did not respond to DCNF’s request for comment.
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