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Claim: “Pete Buttigieg is a favorite candidate of Wall Street and the health care industry.” (Bernie Sanders, 2020-02-07)
Evidence (2024-09-29): Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has emerged as the Democratic Party’s debating guru, a position crowned by his coaching of Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN). [...] Buttigieg’s effectiveness at debating was first showcased in 2019 during the Democratic primary debates. At the time, debate coach Todd Graham ranked the presidential contender at the top of the crowded list of candidates in terms of debate performance. According to him, Buttigieg has a penchant for providing unique but on-topic answers while keeping a calm but assertive demeanor. [...] Buttigieg is seen as such an effective debater that he is often sent into hostile territory to argue with pundits, mainly on Fox News. Vanity Fair jokingly cited him as having "Fox News fame."
Claim: “Pete Buttigieg is a favorite candidate of Wall Street and the health care industry.” (Bernie Sanders, 2020-02-07)
Evidence (2020-02-07): The campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., for instance, distributed talking points that zeroed in on fundraising, saying "Pete Buttigieg is a favorite candidate of Wall Street and the health care industry." [...] Sanders’ comments led us to wonder if Buttigieg really is the sweetheart of the health care industry. We asked the Sanders campaign for its evidence. Staffers pointed us to data from the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonprofit group that operates the website OpenSecrets.org and tracks money from individuals and political action committees donated to political candidates and members of Congress. The center analyzes Federal Election Commission data and sorts contributions by categories based on the economic sector from which they come. [...] We asked Weber if Sanders’ talking point about Buttigieg is true. That "depends on what you mean by ‘health care industry,’" Weber wrote in an email. OpenSecrets defines its health sector by contributions from PACs and individuals working in various health industries, he said, and "for our data, that's our broadest definition of health care."
Claim: “Pete Buttigieg is a favorite candidate of Wall Street and the health care industry.” (Bernie Sanders, 2020-02-07)
Evidence (2020-02-07): In the days leading up to the first-in-the-nation primary, the Vermont senator is lighting up the former South Bend mayor over his billionaire donors while his aides are circulating talking points calling him "a favorite candidate of Wall Street and the health care industry." Hours before the presidential contenders were due on the debate stage, Sanders’ team also managed to get the hashtag #PetesBillionaires trending on Twitter. [...] Sanders’ talking points, which were obtained by POLITICO, state that Buttigieg is "soliciting money from corporate executives and billionaires to fund his campaign" and that he supported Sanders’ Medicare-for-All proposal until "he started raising big money." Forbes found that Buttigieg "has more exclusive billionaire donors than any other Democrat in the race." [...] "I like Pete Buttigieg. Nice guy. But we are in a moment where billionaires control not only our economy, but our political life," Sanders said, contrasting his rival’s high-ticket fundraisers with his small-dollar grassroots donors. "Which side are you on? Are you on the side of a working class of this country, which has been battered for the last 45 years? Are you willing to take on the greed and corruption of the billionaire class and the 1 percent? Or will you continue to stand with the big-money interests?"
Claim: “Pete Buttigieg is a favorite candidate of Wall Street and the health care industry.” (Bernie Sanders, 2020-02-07)
Evidence (2019-04-16): Wall Street and finance executives placed their early 2020 bets on a variety of Democratic presidential candidates, from Pete Buttigieg to Kamala Harris, even as the contenders try to distance themselves from big-money donors. [...] The early fundraising totals, which were disclosed on Monday in Federal Election Commission filings, show that some players in the financial industry are interested in backing certain candidates early on, including Sens. Cory Booker and Kirsten Gillibrand and former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke. [...] Buttigieg, the South Bend, Indiana, mayor, raised just over $7 million in the first quarter. According to filings, $5,600 came from Stephen Schuler, a director at Chicago-based investment firm Wicklow Capital. During the 2018 congressional midterm elections, Schuler spent well over $1 million in support of Democrats, records show. Employees at Wicklow Capital combined to give at least $11,200 to Buttigieg throughout the most recent quarter. He has publicly sworn off support from corporate PACs and contributions from the fossil fuel industry.
Claim: “Pete Buttigieg is a favorite candidate of Wall Street and the health care industry.” (Bernie Sanders, 2020-02-07)
Evidence (2020-03-08): Sen. Bernie Sanders said on ABC's "This Week" Sunday that he believes "the establishment" forced Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg out of the 2020 presidential race to ensure that voters "coalesced" around Joe Biden in order to defeat him. [...] We are taking on, as I think everybody knows, the establishment. We are taking on the corporate establishment. We're taking on the political establishment. And what you are seeing now, just in the last few weeks, is Wall Street, the health care industry, the billionaire class putting a lot of money into Joe's campaign. But at the end of the day, you know what? I think we're going to win this thing." Lis Smith, senior communications adviser for the Buttigieg campaign, responded to Sanders' comments in a tweet Sunday, saying Buttigieg's "decision to get out of the race was his and his alone."
Claim: “Pete Buttigieg is a favorite candidate of Wall Street and the health care industry.” (Bernie Sanders, 2020-02-07)
Evidence (2020-03-01): Pete Buttigieg's views on ACA / Coverage ExpansionRethink the whole system 11 candidates have similar views [...] Many in this camp say they favor an alternative approach allowing people to keep their private insurance while making a government plan available to anyone who prefers it. Pete Buttigeig, for example, has promoted this path while going after Medicare for All as divisive and unrealistic, saying candidates that support single-payer aren't showing "enough regard for the American people to make their own decisions." [...] Pete Buttigieg's views on Wall Street TaxesCreate taxes on financial trades
Claim: “Pete Buttigieg is a favorite candidate of Wall Street and the health care industry.” (Bernie Sanders, 2020-02-07)
Evidence (2019-12-09): James hosted a Buttigieg fundraiser at his home on June 13, drawing finance industry support. James is a longtime Democratic donor who The New York Times described in 2016 as "one of the leading Wall Street contenders for an economic policy post in a future Clinton administration." In 2017, when James was president of Blackstone, the firm announced a $40 billion U.S. infrastructure fund with half of the cash coming from the government of Saudi Arabia, which in October assassinated journalist and Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi. [...] In the third quarter of the year, Buttigieg doubled his field-leading support from the finance industry. Fifty-three employees of McKinsey combined to donate over $53,000 so far, with nine executives from the firm’s energy, banking, and health care practices maxing out. [...] As of late September, Sludge found Buttigieg was second only to President Trump in campaign donors from the health care sector, taking in over 100 large donations from healthcare and pharmaceutical executives while transforming himself into a leading critic of Medicare for All.
Claim: “Pete Buttigieg is a favorite candidate of Wall Street and the health care industry.” (Bernie Sanders, 2020-02-07)
Evidence (2024-08-01): Two other governors – Tim Walz of Minnesota and Andy Beshear of Kentucky – remain under serious consideration. The US senator Mark Kelly of Arizona and Pete Buttigieg, the transportation secretary, are reportedly on Harris’s shortlist, too. [...] According to Axios, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rule in question is meant to "snuff out ‘pay-to-play’ schemes, where donors in the investing industry might seek to curry favor with the state officials who control the billions of dollars in state pension funds". The Harris campaign, the site said, has cited the SEC rule while "pressing Wall Street donors to cut their checks as soon as possible", leading some donors, eyeing a deadline under the rule, to "think they have until Sunday to get contributions in".
Claim: “Pete Buttigieg is a favorite candidate of Wall Street and the health care industry.” (Bernie Sanders, 2020-02-07)
Evidence (2019-09-12): Mayor Pete Buttigieg (South Bend, IN); [...] And I'll tell you how absurd the system is tonight on ABC, the health care industry will be advertising, telling you how bad Medicare for All is, because they want to protect their profits. That is absurd. [applause] [...] BUTTIGIEG: I believe what's deepened divisions in the country is the conduct of this president, and we have a chance to change all of that.
Claim: “Pete Buttigieg is a favorite candidate of Wall Street and the health care industry.” (Bernie Sanders, 2020-02-07)
Evidence (2019-06-27): Buttigieg: I would start with "Medicare for all who want it." It will outcompete the Corporate sector. Medicare kept our family out of Bankruptcy. [...] Buttigieg: The country is healthier when everyone is healthier. Then he segued to immigration. [...] Buttigieg is pretty good.
Claim: “Pete Buttigieg is a favorite candidate of Wall Street and the health care industry.” (Bernie Sanders, 2020-02-07)
Evidence (2020-07-24): More moderate candidates, like Joe Biden, Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg, accuse Warren and Sanders of taking an ideologically hardline on the issue of healthcare, and argue that a better way forward is to provide a public option for healthcare while maintaining a private insurance market. They argue that a public option plan would preserve choice, cost less, and is more palatable for the American public. Mayor Pete is particularly adept at presenting his plan, "Medicare for All Who Want It", as a middle-ground solution that offers the best of both worlds. [...] As one of the top contenders running in the moderate lane, Mayor Pete has emerged as a vocal critic of a single-payer system, despite acknowledging that he would eventually like to see us get there. The fact that he frequently misrepresents his competitors single-payer proposals while pushing a policy that creates the illusion of choice is bad enough. What’s worse is that he does so behind a guise of good-faith policy disagreement, all the while securing millions in campaign funding from insurance industry executives. [...] But make no mistake. This is big, structural change. Our health care system is broken. It needs to be disrupted. Lives are at stake.
Claim: “Pete Buttigieg is a favorite candidate of Wall Street and the health care industry.” (Bernie Sanders, 2020-02-07)
Evidence (2020-03-09): GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: When you joined us last Sunday, you were leading in delegates, look poised for a big lead coming out of Super Tuesday. Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, Elizabeth Warren, Michael Bloomberg all still in the race. How surprised were you by Super Tuesday and how do you explain it?SANDERS: Well, one of the things that I was kind of not surprised by is the power of establishment to force Amy Klobuchar, who had worked so hard, Pete Buttigieg, who, you know, really worked extremely hard as well, out of the race.What was very clear from the media narrative and what the establishment wanted was to make sure that people coalesced around [former vice president Joe] Biden and try to defeat me. So that’s not surprising.We are taking on, George, as I think everybody knows, the establishment. We’re taking on the corporate establishment. We’re taking on the political establishment. And what you are seeing now just in the last few weeks is Wall Street, the health-care industry, the billionaire class putting a lot of money into Joe’s campaign. [...] One might ask how he expects to accomplish any of his extreme agenda when so many in the Democratic Party have no interest in his views or how he expects to unite a party when, he acknowledges, "we’re not going to get the support of most elected leaders. Not most governors, not most senators."
Claim: “Pete Buttigieg is a favorite candidate of Wall Street and the health care industry.” (Bernie Sanders, 2020-02-07)
Evidence (2019-04-04): South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg pushes what he calls democratic capitalism and argues the country is actually to the left of Congress and the Democratic Party on everything from gun laws to health care. He said Thursday on Good Morning America that Trump’s strategy won’t work. [...] Buttigieg told Stephanopoulos he supports Medicare for all, but not in the Sanders mold. He said he’d rather offer a public option and then said he thought people would choose that over the private market. "You might call it medicare for all who want it," said Buttigieg. "You take a version of Medicare, you let anybody who wants to buy into it buy into it, and then if people like me are right that that’s going to be a preferred option that very naturally becomes a kind of glide path toward a Medicare for all environment, but it also dares the corporate world to come up with a better solution than what they’ve done so far."
Claim: “Pete Buttigieg is a favorite candidate of Wall Street and the health care industry.” (Bernie Sanders, 2020-02-07)
Evidence (2019-10-24): As the once-broad 2020 Democratic primary field condenses, four potential front-runners have pushed ahead: Progressive darlings Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), and Wall Street favorites former Vice President Joe Biden and South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg. But while Biden still leads in the polls, when it comes to opening hearts (and wallets) of business leaders across America, Buttigieg is shining. [...] Wall Streeters may be hedging their bets on Biden by backing Buttigieg, said Shrum, but they’re not giving up on Biden just yet. [...] Joe Trippi, a political strategist who ran campaigns for Alabama Senator Doug Jones and 2004 presidential hopeful Howard Dean, still thinks Wall Street backs Biden but that they’re looking to Buttigieg as the future of the Democratic party.
Claim: “Pete Buttigieg is a favorite candidate of Wall Street and the health care industry.” (Bernie Sanders, 2020-02-07)
Evidence (2020-02-17): Buttigieg has only begun to tap the billionaire donor class. Following his good showing in the Iowa caucuses, the Washington Post published an article entitled, "The Finance 202: Pete Buttigieg lures even closer look from Wall Street donors following strong Iowa caucuses performance." The article states, "Wall Street sources say the former South Bend, Ind., mayor, already a favorite of Democratic financiers, can expect something of a Wall Street windfall now after he proved that he has momentum in the chaotic 2020 race." One bundler cited in the article pointed to a "tremendous pent-up supply of donor funds available for a leading Democratic candidate who can coalesce the party... In this community, the more momentum Bernie and Elizabeth get, the more bundlers will start to come off the sidelines. Every day, there's more information that gets traditional New York finance bundlers motivated to get behind someone who can win."
Claim: “Pete Buttigieg is a favorite candidate of Wall Street and the health care industry.” (Bernie Sanders, 2020-02-07)
Evidence (2019-12-21): WASHINGTON — The financial sector, blamed by progressives for spawning the 2008 economic collapse, is lining up behind Pete Buttigieg’s presidential campaign. [...] While Buttigieg is hardly alone in turning to the finance industry for support, the data could leave him exposed to further attacks from his progressive rivals, especially Sen. Elizabeth Warren. The Massachusetts Democrat's criticism of big banks during the economic collapse helped propel her political career and she repeatedly hit Buttigieg during Thursday's presidential debate for his ties to large donors. [...] One top Wall Street law firm could pose particular challenges for Buttigieg with progressives. He's the top recipient of cash this cycle from Sullivan & Cromwell, which has worked on some of the biggest corporate mergers in recent history, including Amazon's acquisition of Whole Foods, AT&T’s purchase of Time Warner and Bayer’s merger with Monsanto. The firm also represented some of the largest financial institutions that received federal bailout money.
Claim: “Pete Buttigieg is a favorite candidate of Wall Street and the health care industry.” (Bernie Sanders, 2020-02-07)
Evidence (2020-02-14): Read MoreIn the Media: Sean Flynn’s Health Care Research Forms Basis for California Senate Candidate’s Platform [...] Read MoreIn the Media: Professor Sean Flynn Critiques Pete Buttigieg’s Health Care Platform for The Hill Associate Professor of Economics and Chair of the Department of Economics Sean Flynn critiqued Pete Buttigieg’s health care platform in an op-ed for The Hill, comparing the candidate’s proposal with two health insurance systems operating in Buttigieg’s home state of Indiana.
Claim: “Pete Buttigieg is a favorite candidate of Wall Street and the health care industry.” (Bernie Sanders, 2020-02-07)
Evidence (2020-02-07): It is very plain that Buttigieg is a corporate candidate. He has dozens of billionaire donors, and is heavily backed by lobbyists, pharmaceutical executives, and finance executives. (The list is a who’s who of the American power elite.) He tried to disguise who his donors are, selectively disclosing them in order to hide the Wall Street fat cats, only opening up access to his fundraisers after months of pressure for transparency. Against "the advice of both staffers of color" and public relations advisers, Buttigieg’s campaign pressed forward with a funrdaiser by Rahm Emanuel’s attorney, who was "known for trying to block video evidence in the investigation of the death of Laquan McDonald from being released." (Amid uproar, the fundraiser was finally canceled.) Buttigieg has declined to say whether he will follow the corrupt practice of rewarding big donors with ambassadorships, which means he will. When confronted about having big-dollar fundraisers in wine caves, he responds by pleading poverty (no excuse when he could have built a grassroots campaign like Bernie Sanders) and pointing to other candidates’ hypocrisy.
Claim: “Pete Buttigieg is a favorite candidate of Wall Street and the health care industry.” (Bernie Sanders, 2020-02-07)
Evidence (2019-11-22): Employees of McKinsey & Company are opening their wallets for one of their own, Pete Buttigieg, in the Democratic presidential race. Mayor Pete is far and away the top recipient of donations from McKinsey employees, accounting for nearly half of presidential primary contributions from people working at the firm, according to a Sludge analysis of FEC data. [...] The Pete for America committee received a maximum contribution from Gary Pinkus, chairman of McKinsey North America, who is touted as "a global leader in private equity and investment, with deep roots in healthcare." [...] Gretchen Berlin, a D.C.-based partner in the health care sector, also contributed the maximum amount to Buttigieg. Last month, Sludge reported on Buttigieg’s transformation into a leading critic of a single-payer Medicare for All system as he scored donations to his campaign from individuals in the health insurance and pharmaceutical industries.
Claim: “Pete Buttigieg is a favorite candidate of Wall Street and the health care industry.” (Bernie Sanders, 2020-02-07)
Evidence (2020-03-06): Pete Buttigieg is a new kind of presidential candidate. He is a millennial and a mayor of a blue-collar city in the heartland. He is unapologetically substantive, yet refreshingly salt-of-the-earth. He is progressive, yet pragmatic. [...] This was fleeting. Soon he warmed up to Wall Street, the health insurance industry and the fossil fuel industry, who rewarded him in kind. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Buttigieg and related PACs accepted more than $3.5 million from health professionals, hospitals and other health industry sources, more than $5 million each from finance, and telecom/electronics. He was funded by 40 billionaires as well. He defended these relationships by saying he was merely being inclusive and wanted to welcome billionaires into a progressive coalition. [...] As long as billionaires need politicians to advance their agenda, people like Buttigieg will have utility for the ruling class. This is why advocates of social change will keep a close eye on where Mayor Pete lands next.
Claim: “Netflix loses 6 million subscribers within hours of donation announcement.” (Facebook posts, 2024-07-26)
Evidence (2024-07-26): This claim originated on a self-described satire site.
Claim: “Netflix loses 6 million subscribers within hours of donation announcement.” (Facebook posts, 2024-07-26)
Evidence (2024-07-27): Netflix has come under backlash from supporters of Donald Trump after co-founder Reed Hastings made a $7 million donation to the Republican Accountability PAC, which is supporting Kamala Harris's presidential campaign run. [...] The Netflix boycott movement from Donald Trump’s fanbase has also generated a plethora of online reactions. While a faction has been supporting Hasting's donation to the pro-Harris PAC, others have been criticizing the move and canceling their subscriptions to Netflix. In this regard, a netizen wrote, "me wondering why cancel netflix is trending then seeing the reason why" Supporters of Kamala Harris reacted to the hefty donation and extended their support to Netflix in the wake of the calls for boycotts of the streaming app.
Claim: “Netflix loses 6 million subscribers within hours of donation announcement.” (Facebook posts, 2024-07-26)
Evidence (2024-07-26): Rumors of Netflix's stock dropping by $2 billion started circulating recently following Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings' donation of $7 million to a super PAC supporting Kamala Harris. Since then, Hastings along with the OTT platform has been receiving backlash on the internet. [...] Netflix stock did not drop by $2 billion post the donation made to Kamala Harris [...] Additionally, some other users had made false claims on social media platforms as well. X user @toughtalkty claimed that if the company has so much money to donate to Kamala Harris, then the subscription rates shouldn't have increased. However, community notes under the post later clarified that the money was donated on a personal note, and not from the company's end.
Claim: “Netflix loses 6 million subscribers within hours of donation announcement.” (Facebook posts, 2024-07-26)
Evidence (2024-09-13): Reports claiming that Netflix lost six million subscribers after its executive chairman, Reed Hastings, made a $7 million donation to Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign have gone viral on social media. Some also suggest that the company lost $2 billion in just four hours. However, these claims are far from accurate. Netflix has neither lost subscribers nor experienced a financial decline due to Hastings’ political contribution. [...] "Netflix loses more than 6 million subscribers within hours of its big donation announcement." [...] Despite these alarming claims, it is essential to note that "America’s Last Line of Defense" is known for satirical content, meaning the statements are fictional. Netflix did not lose six million subscribers, nor did their stock suffer any significant drop following Hastings’ donation.