{"id":1422213,"date":"2022-04-06T15:45:09","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T19:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1422213"},"modified":"2022-04-06T15:45:20","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T19:45:20","slug":"exclusive-trump-at-rigged-premiere-it-shouldnt-be-allowed-for-mark-zuckerberg-to-privately-finance-election-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-trump-at-rigged-premiere-it-shouldnt-be-allowed-for-mark-zuckerberg-to-privately-finance-election-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive \u2014 Trump at \u2018Rigged\u2019 Premiere: \u2018It Shouldn\u2019t Be Allowed\u2019 for Mark Zuckerberg to Privately Finance Election Operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-trump-at-rigged-premiere-it-shouldnt-be-allowed-for-mark-zuckerberg-to-privately-finance-election-operations%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1422213&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">PALM BEACH, Florida \u2014 Former President Donald Trump told Breitbart News exclusively that states and the federal government should ban private financing of election operations, and make it illegal for people like Facebook\u2019s Mark Zuckerberg to funnel hundreds of millions of dollars into election offices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a law that one form or another\u2014whether it\u2019s state or federal\u2014it shouldn\u2019t be allowed,\u201d Trump said when asked about the Zuckerberg cash that flowed into election offices nationwide. \u201cThis should not be allowed. I\u2019ll tell you what else shouldn\u2019t be allowed\u2013is mail-in ballots, because nobody knows where they\u2019re coming from and how they\u2019re getting there. Mail-in ballots are rife for fraud and that\u2019s what happened. They used COVID as just another way of cheating. The number of ballots we had this year as opposed to any other year\u2014who knows where they came from? Nobody knows. Many people got two ballots, three ballots, or more than that. Frankly, they should stop with the mail-in ballots and they should have one-day elections like they used to. You vote on one day and you can only use a mail-in if you\u2019re in the military and away or if you\u2019re very ill. Otherwise, you aren\u2019t going to have honest elections.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_20552033\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/04\/President-Trump-is-interviewed-by-Breitbart-Newss-Matt-Boyle-at-screening-of-Rigged-in-Mar-a-Lago.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>President Trump is interviewed by Breitbart News\u2019s Matt Boyle at screening of Rigged in Mar-a-Lago. (Courtesy Citizens United)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Trump\u2019s comments came during an exclusive interview here at his Mar-a-Lago resort on Tuesday evening when Citizens United president David Bossie premiered his group\u2019s new documentary film <em>Rigged: The Zuckerberg Funded Plot to Defeat Donald Trump<\/em>. The film analyzes the approximately $400 million that Zuckerberg funneled to local election offices in predominantly Democrat areas in swing states nationwide. The film demonstrates that former President Barack Obama\u2019s former campaign manager David Plouffe\u2014among many other hard-left Democrat operatives\u2014oversaw the distribution and spending of the money, and that while some Trump counties and precincts got some grants, the overwhelmingly vast majority of the cash flowed into inner cities that boosted Democrat turnout.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery American needs to see <em>Rigged<\/em> in order to take away the education that this film provides so that every American understands how Donald Trump didn\u2019t lose the election but how it was for months beforehand set up for him to not be able to win,\u201d Bossie told Breitbart News at the premiere. \u201cHe says it was stolen or rigged\u2014it is. That\u2019s what Mark Zuckerberg did. Mark Zuckerberg spent $400 million to put his thumb on the scale to make sure that Joe Biden won the election.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>A stunning 92 percent of the Zuckerberg cash in 160 different large grants totaling over $400,000 per grant\u2014$270 million of the money in total\u2014went to areas that now-President Joe Biden, a Democrat, won. The film explores, too, the justification for the issuance of the grants, which was supposedly to have \u201csafe\u201d elections as the coronavirus pandemic raged in the United States\u2014even though no medical experts were ever employed by the array of nonprofits that Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan used to pump the money out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is somebody that put up $417 million,\u201d Trump told Breitbart News. \u201cNobody has ever heard of a thing like that. Yet if you go more than $5,600 they put you in jail. So nobody has ever heard of a thing like this where they put in $417 million. Think about it\u2014if you go $100 more than the $5,600 they do very bad things to you. It\u2019s a disgrace and they shouldn\u2019t be allowed to. If they get away with this, it will be a true disgrace to America. This, again, what this movie is about\u2014it\u2019s really a beautiful movie, I\u2019ve seen just a part of it and I\u2019m looking forward to seeing the whole thing\u2014but it\u2019s really something that reveals what went on in one aspect of the theft. One aspect\u2014there were many aspects of it. You have seen the numbers and you saw the kind of enthusiasm we had. You see a lot of the votes we had. Every day, look at what\u2019s going on in Wisconsin, look at what\u2019s going on in Pennsylvania, look at what\u2019s going on in Arizona. It\u2019s disgraceful what happened. But it happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The right-wing-star-studded premiere of the film felt almost like a 2016 Trump team reunion. Bossie, a 2016 Trump campaign aide, was hardly the only Trump 2016 crew member there on Tuesday night. Others included then-campaign manager Kellyanne Conway, communications adviser Hope Hicks, former Republican National Committee (RNC) chairman and Trump\u2019s first White House chief of staff Reince Priebus, Trump\u2019s other 2016 campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, and more. Trump\u2019s son Donald Trump Jr. and his fiancee Kimberly Guilfoyle were also present, as were conservative movement leaders like Rep. Jody Hice (R-GA), Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, conservative attorney Cleta Mitchell, TruthSocial CEO former Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), Winning Team Publishing\u2019s Sergio Gor, Fox News contributor Katie Pavlich, and Florida GOP vice chairman Christian Ziegler.<\/p>\n<p>Guests gathered at Mar-a-Lago for a reception, dinner, and then a screening of the movie. Trump stayed and watched the full film with the approximately 100 or so present, and spoke to the attendees multiple times. His interview with Breitbart News came right before the screening of the film, after he took photos with many of the guests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCitizens United, they\u2019re a very strong and very smart group of people,\u201d Trump told Breitbart News. \u201cDave Bossie has done a wonderful job, and all of the board. What they\u2019ve done is revealed one of the many ways they rigged the election. This was a rigged election. Now even the New York Times came out and said they didn\u2019t report the Hunter Biden story because of the fact that if they had done so before\u2013let\u2019s face it\u2013it would have amounted to 17 points in the polling. Those are just two of many other ways. There\u2019s so many ways this happened and it\u2019s a disgrace. Between the rigged elections and the open borders and all the other things happening to this country, including inflation, it\u2019s just a disaster.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Trump also called on Republicans to \u201cget a lot tougher.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re going to have to get a lot tougher,\u201d Trump said. \u201cThe Republicans are going to have to get a lot tougher. The vote counters were a disaster. There\u2019s an expression that the vote counters are more important than the candidate and you could use that expression here. What took place during this election is sinful.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_17609274\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Mark-Zuckerberg-is-the-cat-that-got-the-canary.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17609274\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Mark-Zuckerberg-is-the-cat-that-got-the-canary.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Mark Zuckerberg (Drew Angerer \/Getty)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Some of the facts in the film are explosive\u2014including the revelation that Zuckerberg\u2019s spending amounted to a total near the full 2020 cycle spending by the entire Democrat Party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Democrat National Committee in 2019 and 2020, a two-year presidential cycle, spent $460 million over two years on ads, offices, staff,\u201d Bossie told Breitbart News. \u201cNow we have $400 million in private money in the last four months of the election and totally off the books and non-disclosable. The only reason we found out about it was because of the IRS tax filings.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>The facts in this film are irrefutable, too, Bossie said, because they are based on tax documents that Zuckerberg\u2019s organizations filed with the IRS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s documented in the tax filings of the two 501c3s that the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative ran their money through claiming it was going to be nonpartisan and we\u2019ve proven in this movie it was the furthest thing from that,\u201d Bossie said.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s more, the hiring of not just Plouffe but several other hardcore leftist Democrat staffers to run the distribution of the cash is exposed in the film as well. \u201cIt\u2019s all not just Democrats\u2014but hardcore Democrats,\u201d Bossie said. \u201cThese are battle-hardened activists that were brought together, Obama-experienced partisans that came together to move this thing forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lewandowski and Conway both agreed that the hiring of Plouffe and other Democrats was particularly troubling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe movie is incredible. The work that Dave and his team have done to bring to light what one person who has unlimited resources and the potentially legal ability to do\u2014taking over $400 million and putting it into a system very systematically and doing it under the guise of COVID\u2014is phenomenal. Not just that, but the movie will articulate and you will see who Zuckerberg hired to spend that money. He didn\u2019t hire Johnny Smith or Billy Bob,\u201d Lewandowski said. \u201cHe hired David Plouffe, who was Barack Obama\u2019s campaign manager, and he hired Joel Benenson who was the chief strategist to the Clinton campaign. These are known Democratic operatives. Look, if somebody, if a rich guy out there wants to give Corey Lewandowski $400 million to oversee, I think I could probably have an impact on some of these elections. That\u2019s what Mark Zuckerberg did and I think there should be serious repercussions and what we\u2019re seeing now is states across the country are passing laws to make sure that never happens again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Conway added that Plouffe knows what he\u2019s doing in politics for the left.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14269562\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/kellyanne-conway-april2020-associated-press-photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14269562\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/kellyanne-conway-april2020-associated-press-photo.jpg\" alt=\"White House counselor Kellyanne Conway talks to reporters about the coronavirus at the White House, Wednesday, April 15, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo\/Evan Vucci)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>White House counselor Kellyanne Conway talks to reporters about the coronavirus at the White House, Wednesday, April 15, 2020, in Washington. (Evan Vucci\/AP)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cDavid Plouffe is a smart guy and helped Barack Obama get that White House over Hillary Clinton in 2008,\u201d Conway said. \u201cPlouffe says in the documentary, \u2018There are more conservatives than liberals in these counties and states and we have to be smart about it and make sure the liberals turn out.\u2019 He also said, \u2018Look at Wisconsin\u2014Trump won Wisconsin with 1.6 [million] and change in 2016, he\u2019s going to get a little bit more than that and we have to make sure we get even more.\u2019 He says it. He\u2019s hiding in plain sight in terms of what their intentions are. When I first watched this movie several months ago\u2014I happened to be here at Mar-a-Lago for something\u2014and we were sitting with the president and there were six or seven of us. He said, \u2018What do you think?\u2019 I think in Washington there is some shock he won Mississippi.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump Jr., the former president\u2019s eldest son, echoed his father telling Breitbart News at the premiere that this film exposed Big Tech for the Zuckerberg \u201celectioneering operation.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9134104\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/donald-trump-jr-closeup-getty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9134104\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/donald-trump-jr-closeup-getty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Donald Trump Jr. speaks during a get-out-the-vote rally for his father, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, at Ahern Manufacturing on November 3, 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (David Becker\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhat Big Tech did in 2020 was a disgrace,\u201d Trump Jr. said. \u201cThey silenced conservatives, censored stories that would hurt Joe Biden and spent millions of dollars to turn out Democrat voters. Rigged does the job the establishment media refuses to do and exposes Big Tech\u2019s electioneering operation for the scam that it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Guilfoyle noted that the film is fact-heavy, and is filled with evidence\u2014something critics will have a hard time refuting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think this film needed to happen because it leads with the facts and the evidence about what happened and what transpired during the 2020 election,\u201d Guilfoyle said. \u201cThe American people deserve to have that transparency and to understand what happened so it never happens again in political history. This movie delivers that evidence for the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11961347\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Devin-Nunes-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11961347\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Devin-Nunes-1.jpg\" alt=\"Ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Devin Nunes delivers opening remarks during the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence public hearing on the impeachment inquiry into US President Donald J. Trump, on Capitol Hill in Washington,DC on November 19, 2019. - President Donald Trump faces more potentially damning testimony in the Ukraine scandal as a critical week of public impeachment hearings opens Tuesday in the House of Representatives. (Photo by SHAWN THEW \/ POOL \/ AFP) (Photo by SHAWN THEW\/POOL\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Devin Nunes on November 19, 2019. (SHAWN THEW\/POOL\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Nunes, who now leads Trump\u2019s social media platform TruthSocial and was previously the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, told Breitbart News at the premiere that the film was a \u201cgood overview of how the Trump campaign successfully used Facebook in 2016 to win the election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFacebook\u2013they faced the wrath of the left and the censorship began, followed by the shakedown of $400 million given by Facebook to well-known Democrat operatives to harvest ballots,\u201d Nunes said, adding that the \u201chistory of the 2020 election is being buried\u201d but \u201cthis film begins to shed the light on what really happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Conway, during a brief interview after the screening of the film, said that while the Democrats did this in 2020, they will have a tough time replicating it down the road.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPast is always prologue. The same two people who ran as the presidential and vice presidential nominees in 2020 could be running again,\u201d Conway said. \u201cWe already know that the Democrats have a very poor hand to play in whom the country lacks confidence. They have no approval whatsoever of the jobs Biden and Harris are doing but on the other hand, the issue is for the Democrats either they have to find a way to get rid of them or they have to find a creative way to get them back in there. When you look at this Dave Bossie documentary <em>Rigged: 2020<\/em> you look at a few different things. I think Cleta Mitchell put it best which is you don\u2019t have to look at China, you don\u2019t even have to look at Dominion voting machines, you just have to look in the eyes of Mark Zuckerberg.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Conway also recounted how during the 2016 campaign Facebook was neutral between Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton, and since then there seems to have been \u201cguilt\u201d that prodded Zuckerberg to spend big to help Biden in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can tell you as the 2016 campaign manager, Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook stayed out of our way. They allowed us to compete in a free market system,\u201d Conway said. \u201c\u2018Send us a check and we\u2019ll run your ads on Facebook.\u2019 We had 10 times the ads that Hillary Clinton did on Facebook at any given time in those crucial last months. Why? Because she had all the king\u2019s horses and all the king\u2019s money and they were running ads on cable and broadcast TV. We split ours 50-50 between TV and social media and Facebook. Facebook also in 2016 offered us and the Hillary campaign an embed. \u2018We\u2019ll give you someone who\u2019s embedded in the campaign and will help you with your digital footprint.\u2019 I said yes right away\u2014we were the ones who were underestimated, the underdog under-resourced and understaffed. The Hillary people said, \u2018No. Thanks but no thanks.\u2019 After Donald Trump won and shocked the system, including the Facebook infrastructure system, Mark Zuckerberg took a lot of heat internally from many of his colleagues in Silicon Valley and elsewhere. \u2018You helped Donald Trump get elected\u2014how can you do that?\u2019 He didn\u2019t help. He just kept the playing field even. We played on it. But I think there was a certain level of guilt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More than $400 million is \u201cbig guilt, a lot of guilt,\u201d Conway added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of political correctness\u2014a lot of cancel or potentially be canceled,\u201d Conway said. \u201cSo he turns around and spends more than $400 million that we know of\u2014it could be closer to half a billion\u2014and you see the statistics. Most of that went to districts, precincts, and counties that Biden won overwhelmingly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Priebus, the former White House chief of staff who hails from Wisconsin, told Breitbart News that what he saw specifically about Wisconsin in the movie troubled him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I learned about Wisconsin is that the Wisconsin Election Commission directed municipalities to break the law,\u201d Priebus said. \u201cThat\u2019s why I think what happened in Wisconsin is something that isn\u2019t outlandish, it\u2019s not wild, it\u2019s not fiction. It\u2019s based on the fact that people who were supposed to be following the law were directed not to follow the law and it resulted in an enormous amount of ballots being cast that should have never been cast.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Priebus added that Wisconsin, in his view, needs a constitutional amendment passed to prevent this from ever happening again. \u201cI think the legislature has to pass a constitutional amendment to bypass the governor to make sure that the Wisconsin Election Commission can\u2019t do that ever again,\u201d Priebus said.<\/p>\n<p>Wisconsin was one of the three major states that the film argues the Zuckerberg cash particularly targeted, the other two being Arizona and Georgia. The Trump-backed gubernatorial candidate in Arizona\u2019s 2022 election, former TV news anchor Kari Lake, told Breitbart News at the premiere that the film \u201cwas one of the most important movies I\u2019ve ever seen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmericans are busy. They\u2019re running their lives. They cast their vote and they think they\u2019re being good citizens and they are. We\u2019re busy, we\u2019re trying to raise our kids, we\u2019re trying to deal with Joe Biden\u2019s inflation, we\u2019re trying to get through. That movie laid out what happened in one of the big thefts of our election, which was Mark Zuckerberg getting involved and trying to buy that election in a very sinister way. It\u2019s a confusing topic,\u201d Lake said. \u201cThey took 40 or 50 minutes and laid it all out. It\u2019s shocking what happened. I encourage our Democrat friends, our independent friends, and our Republican friends to sit down and watch that movie because we can\u2019t have our elections bought like that. We all love our kids\u2014I don\u2019t care if you\u2019re liberal or you\u2019re conservative. You love your children. Do you want your children to have a country? If we don\u2019t have honest elections, we won\u2019t have a country. I think every American needs to watch that with an open mind. We need to stop that kind of activity. We need to stop Mark Zuckerberg and we need to stop people like him\u2014any gazillionaire\u2014from pumping in money and trying to change the election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lake added, when asked what should be done to stop this in the future, that America needs more laws to block private financing of election operations and that she thinks Zuckerberg should be charged with a crime.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe already have some laws that are being enacted. Thankfully we have some great lawmakers in this country,\u201d Lake said. \u201cNot everybody in politics is bad. We have some people who are working to try to save this republic. We need more laws that prevent people like Mark Zuckerberg or anyone else on either side\u2014nobody should be able to this. In my race right now, if you wanted to donate\u2013which I would love it if you did\u2013you can donate $5,300. You donate one penny more than that and you are in trouble with the law. Mark Zuckerberg donated $400 million, or half a billion almost, and injected it into Democrat strongholds to affect our election. That is sinister. It\u2019s disgusting. It\u2019s un-American. Frankly, he should be charged with a crime for that. All 50 states should make a law that prevents that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Landry, Louisiana\u2019s Attorney General, told Breitbart News that he believes that what Zuckerberg did is illegal\u2014and he filed suit before the election, and that case is moving to discovery soon. Landry\u2019s litigation could, Bossie told Breitbart News, serve as \u201cthe blueprint investigation for how things should move forward\u201d and could be replicated by many other states soon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe it\u2019s illegal, and that\u2019s why we filed suit back in Louisiana back in October before the November election and we just won at the Louisiana third circuit in a 3-0 decision and we\u2019re going back to the trial court because we believe current Louisiana law prohibits this kind of gifting directly into our election system. It is a problem,\u201d Landry said.<\/p>\n<p>Landry also said every state should be auditing the Zuckerberg cash in their elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that every state should do an audit at the minimum,\u201d Landry told Breitbart News. \u201cStates should do an audit to find out who got money and what that money was spent on and how did it affect it. Then you run that audit over their laws to find out if they broke any laws. Certainly, if they didn\u2019t break any of those states\u2019 laws then that means it was awful but lawful\u2014and then those states should change their laws. We don\u2019t want oligarchs of Big Tech rigging our elections. That\u2019s exactly what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other states are fighting back too, and many have either passed measures banning this practice, or are trying to do so. Ziegler, the vice chair of the Florida GOP, told Breitbart News that states should follow Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis\u2019s lead in stopping this.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think all states have to do is watch what Gov. Ron DeSantis is doing,\u201d Ziegler said. \u201cBy banning the practice of ZuckerBucks, and having these private individuals funding public entities and helping with elections across the country is very concerning. We have tax dollars that fund these supervisors of elections and the operations for elections. All of that is public and done by the public and in Florida they\u2019re all elected and accountable to the people. We can\u2019t have people meddling in our elections and putting this money in. It\u2019s one thing to go to a campaign and a candidate who is an option on the ballot. It\u2019s a whole other thing when they\u2019re putting money into the operations of how elections are done. 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