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Despite the fact that Trump campaigned against special interests and suggested his primary opponents who begged for Koch cash were puppets, he now seems to be happy to #StaffTheSwamp with Koch operatives.

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Charles Koch is sad that he and his brother don’t have as much influence over the 2016 election as they had hoped. In an interview with The Financial Times, Koch lamented the fact that he and his brother David had presented all of the Republican candidates with a list of things that they wanted to get out of the next president, and the candidates didn’t seem to care too much about those demands.

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The Koch brothers have been making criminal justice reform a centerpiece of their lobbying efforts, but don’t be fooled into thinking that they actually care about the fact that our prisons are being packed. Instead, the Kochs are trying to make it more difficult for white collar criminals to be prosecuted.

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