Answer: NEVER. He paid them all off via "campaign contributions."
And there's still people on FR who don't get it.
Wouldn't a look at FEC reports be interesting .... I wonder how much cash was bundled on behalf of Zuckerberg and Facebook for all these politicians.
I wouldn't be surprised to see Zuckerberg being far, far head of the NRA with his "contributions."
I mean that they’re bought and paid for.
The percentages who do “get it” here on FR is hugely larger than the local population. And there are pockets in the nation where most of the public understands what is happening and resisting.
Then there are huge exceptions to that statement. CA and a few other states are so misinformed they are totally neutered.
“To market official truth so at variance with reality, or to engineer consent to policies that mock American values, government must so thoroughly misinform the public as to poison the wellspring of democracy” (from memory)
(The Rocket’s Red Glare, when America goes to war https://www.amazon.com/Rockets-Red-Glare-America-Presidents/dp/0671732870)