Billionaires are accustomed to getting the US government to do their bidding, and feeling poor compared to decabillionaires, that they believe they naturally deserve to rule and don't grasp what poor Americans suffer.

*'I Bough...—I, I Got Them': Bloomberg Almost Admits to Buying Members of Congress.*

I suppose he was going to say that he bought their offices for them rather than that he bought them. After all, slavery is still illegal in the US, and so is bribery — unless it is indirect and disguised.