Big Law Firms: The Shadow Government Ruining America?
A handful of elite law firms play a massive role in protecting corporate power and wealth.
Trump says he’s taking them on, but he’s appointed multiple people directly from the world of Big Law.
To fight oligarchy we need a real reckoning with America’s biggest law firms.
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@lukeguastaferro7962
August 27, 2025 at 4:25 pm
Kirkland Ellis, they would be around 350-375 on Fortune 500 list if publicly traded
@travisbartow2861
August 27, 2025 at 4:25 pm
In summary, the threat is not actually powerful law firms representing banks and massive corporations for decades. The real threat is the Trump administration? If this video convinced me of anything, it’s that Trump may in fact be on the right side of history.
@moosejawrobinson
August 27, 2025 at 4:25 pm
And now we know why Wall Street execs were never charged for subprime.
@fuckdyoud2734
August 27, 2025 at 4:25 pm
The questions in itself proves you dont know anything about how the legal system has worked for the entirety of this countrys lifespan.
IT has always been a system abused by the rich and powerful.
@maaschu
August 27, 2025 at 4:25 pm
The govt is clear run by 'Big'. It's not lawyers running the game; it's not consultants, it's not politicians, it's not pharma, it's not gambling, it's the power they together share.
@AliveBoldTV
August 27, 2025 at 4:25 pm
The way everyone is so complicit is just so disgusting
@cmayo5659
August 27, 2025 at 4:25 pm
This video is an ad for Hulu!
@massappeal-u7w
August 27, 2025 at 4:25 pm
Then they came for the lawyers and I wasn't one of them so I said nothing
@ZenRider57
August 27, 2025 at 4:25 pm
Drain the swamp, discover swamp monsters…
@Alva999-q3r
August 27, 2025 at 4:25 pm
This is hidden from the algorithm. Share it around
@Taskdriper
August 27, 2025 at 4:25 pm
This was eye-opening 👀. The influence of Big Law on politics and corporate power is staggering — it really shows how much reform and innovation are needed in the legal space. Projects like LawColab are interesting because they’re exploring how tech could support more transparency and collaboration in law, which feels like the opposite of what “Big Law” represents here. ⚖️
@maxheadrom3088
August 27, 2025 at 4:25 pm
There are laws and rules in the US that are like the imperial system: only exist in the US. What I saw in this video – a lot of it – is illegal everywhere else. Why did Obama want that guy to be Attorney General? Why? Obama is quite smart … I don't understand. The explanation of incompetence doesn't seem to fit and that leaves only the explanation of corruption. It was Obama's handling of the 2008 crisis that got Trump elected … twice. The guy who ended the crisis was in the UK and his name is Gordon Brown. He waited and waited a decision from the US then got tired and told the Americans "eff that, I'm gonna save the British banks you do whatever you want.". Brown did stop the accute phase of the crisis but after that nothing was done and we're still living the 2008 crisis that is eating away at democracies all over the world. Ultra Nationalists in Europe exist because nothing was done about 2008. After 1929, Hoover and the American Bankers knew what they had to do but one kept demanding the other should do it. The banks did not want to ask to be saved and Hoover did not want to be remembered as the guy who saved the banks. Now Hebert Hoover is remembered as the person who contributed the most to Hitler's rise to power. From 1930 to 1933, Germany had a deflation of 25% – prices fell in average 25% just 10 years after the end of WWI. The only thing that makes prices fall like that is the extermination of all consumers – or, to be more precise, the extermination of the citizen's purchase power.
On one of the special releases of the documentary series World at War produced by Thames TV and considered the platinum standard for that type of work to this day, there's a British man telling the story of the day his mother went to visit him. She too a plane then a train and then a taxi. When they arrived at his son's home she tipped the taxi driver some Deutsch Marks. The taxi triver, the man recounts, first asked his mother if the tip was correct or if she had made a mistake; his mother tells "no, it's your tip – thank you, young man" and the driver starts to cry and in tears he tells her "thank you! today I'll be able to eat before goint to bed and have a good night of sleep for the first time in this month". That is what caused Hitler to raise into power. Some years ago Deutsche Welle released a documentary called "Being Poor in America" and they interviewed many persons who were working, 8 hours a day, but had to live in their cars because they could not afford to rent a home. I find it imcomprehensible how to this day I hear people saying that Putin got Trump elected of that Trump's supporters are morons (yes, morons – not my words, to be clear). Trump was elected because the American workers got tired and they will choose whoever offers them something different. I know for a fact that most of them woul prefer to vote for Bernie Sanders but … Democrats don't like him because, well, he's not only competent but also honest.
@maxheadrom3088
August 27, 2025 at 4:25 pm
The Dulles brothers were lawyers who worked for a big law firm. The reason they sponsored the coups in Iran and Guatemala was the fact that the American Fruit Company and the banks that lended money to the Iranian British Oil Company (now BP) were clients of the Law Firm they worked for before becoming the Sevretary of State and the Director of the CIA.
@johnedwards4080
August 27, 2025 at 4:25 pm
Was enjoying this video until the attacks on Trump while not condemning the countless egregious illegal acts committed by the corrupt Biden administration. If I want to listen to biased information, then I’ll watch our corporate owned legacy media news outlets.
Maybe we can listen to a few more years of lies from legacy media like their Trump Russian collusion hoax narrative that we all now know was perpetrated and paid for by Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
We literally had a national counter intelligence psychological operation committed against a presidential candidate and later elected U.S. President by CIA director John Brennan, DNI director James Clapper and FBI director James Comey each who routinely went before the U.S. Congress and appeared on national television networks to deliberately lie to the American people in an attempt to destroy the candidacy and later presidency of Trump.
We now know 100% for a fact that they were involved in psy ops against our nation which we have done inside of other nations to try to destroy political opponents, but this is the only time in American history that our intelligence agencies were targeted against the American people and our system of government.
If we had justice in the U.S., then each of these three traitors would be occupying a cell for the rest of their lives at ADX Supermax in Florence, Colorado.
@rsjeyt
August 27, 2025 at 4:25 pm
So Trump literally dismantled this by putting these rules in place
@DirtyFly
August 27, 2025 at 4:25 pm
We need better definitions for Monopolie!
@schutzi2282
August 27, 2025 at 4:25 pm
Is it possible to have any kind of reporting that doesn't eventually morph into an attack on Trump?
Why not focus on the 90% good that denying clearances to these criminal gangs does instead on focusing on the 10% potentially bad things that may hurt the enemies of the current administration?
I really wonder if the goal is indeed a "more perfect union" or are you just another attack group benefitting the entrenched oligarchy masquerading as the friends of the working man?
@RU4LOVE
August 27, 2025 at 4:25 pm
None of them are for every day people, stop believing that. The money and freedom they want to spread is yours.
@jeanwelch9440
August 27, 2025 at 4:25 pm
The content is good. It's hard to listen to because of the distracting and unnecessary background sound😢
@MadeinAmerica123
August 27, 2025 at 4:25 pm
This is a good video.
@LostAllFeeling
August 27, 2025 at 4:25 pm
First, your TDS is showing.
Secondly, no president can un-corrupt the corrupt. The best he can hope for is to control them while he is in office. Did you think this fallen world was going to reform? 😂
@9empress9
August 27, 2025 at 4:25 pm
Cromwellingism solicitor/solicitation of maritime commerce upon the land of north america
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