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L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
Fri Dec 29, 2017, 05:07 PM Dec 2017

Trump Donors Funding GOP Rep Who is Leading Attacks On Mueller and FBI

https://thesternfacts.com/trump-donors-funding-gop-rep-whos-leading-attacks-on-mueller-and-fbi-report-22f4aa595719

A new report details how one Republican Congressman benefitted from a surge in national donations from a group of 15 of the President’s largest donors over the last eighteen months, before turning into Trump’s very public attack dog, seeking delegitimize the FBI and become a Fox News darling.

Representative Ron DeSantis is a member of the Republican Tea Party’s Freedom Caucus, but his donor list is missing the kinds of Koch Brothers cash one might expect, instead filled with cash from major Trump donors which Politico calls his “billionaire kingmakers.”

However, concluding that Trump’s tweet caused top GOP donors to fill DeSantis’ coffers inverts the relationship between the two events and omits what’s being shown to the President on Fox News.

I assisted Democratic Coalition co-founder Scott Dworkin in preparing his first of his “Follow the Money” series of reports entitled, “Congressman DeSantis Funded By Trump’s Largest Donors,” upon which this story is based.

“Trump and DeSantis rely on the same people to fill their campaign coffers. We know what they want from Trump — the full-scale turnover of America to corporate interests,” says Dworkin ...............



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Trump Donors Funding GOP Rep Who is Leading Attacks On Mueller and FBI (Original Post) L. Coyote Dec 2017 OP
Interesting, but underwhelming. bearsfootball516 Dec 2017 #1
Agree, a bit disappointing. triron Dec 2017 #2
Follow the Money is a big picture, and we need to say "corruption" more often. L. Coyote Dec 2017 #3
Excellent graphic! liberalla Dec 2017 #4
kick for visibility L. Coyote Dec 2017 #5
Carl Bernstein responds to Trump's attacks calling the FBI L. Coyote Dec 2017 #6

bearsfootball516

(6,377 posts)
1. Interesting, but underwhelming.
Fri Dec 29, 2017, 05:13 PM
Dec 2017

Why wouldn’t Trump donars be giving money to congressman that are opposing Mueller’s investigation.

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
3. Follow the Money is a big picture, and we need to say "corruption" more often.
Fri Dec 29, 2017, 05:25 PM
Dec 2017

Also, "Bought and paid for" ... etc. The Rs actually recruit corrupt candidates.

Tying these so-called "representatives" to they billionaire kingmakers is important, the more so after the tax bill gave away the US Treasury.

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