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dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
Wed Jan 20, 2016, 11:38 PM Jan 2016

All of you who knew Palin had a grift going on for her Trump endorsement...you were right:

Palin PAC sends fundraising pitch touting Trump endorsement



“Yesterday was a historic day,” reads an email from SarahPAC. “After touring the country for her book tour and hearing from thousands of people, Governor Palin went all in for Donald Trump.”

“SarahPAC plans to continue endorsing anti-establishment candidates who will not play politics as usual,” the email continues.

“In order to get Sarah to political events to support endorsed candidates we need your help to fundraise her travel.”

The email struck veteran fundraisers as unusual, because campaigns typically foot travel bills for surrogates and since it would appear discordant for Sarah PAC to donate to Trump’s campaign.

While Palin’s PAC has donated to dozens of endorsed candidates, Trump has cast his campaign as self-financed. Despite that, outside donors provided more cash than the candidate himself through the first nine months of the year.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/sarah-palin-donald-trump-endorsement-fundraising-218034
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Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
2. Yep! Keep them checks and cash acomin.
Thu Jan 21, 2016, 12:24 AM
Jan 2016

Got to pay the taxes on the Phoenix Mansion. And got to pay the Lawyer to make Tracks bad attitude go away . Just a Griften along,

rpannier

(24,328 posts)
5. Just think (try not to retch)
Thu Jan 21, 2016, 02:38 AM
Jan 2016

Trump wins
Palin gets a cabinet spot
How long do you think it would be before the half-term governor, full-time grifter would be 'forced' to leave because she couldn't afford to continue on such a paltry salary?

eridani

(51,907 posts)
6. What Sarah Palin Really Wants From Her Donald Trump Endorsement
Thu Jan 21, 2016, 07:46 AM
Jan 2016
http://www.nationofchange.org/news/2016/01/20/what-sarah-palin-really-wants-from-her-donald-trump-endorsement/

Sarah Palin is expected to endorse Donald Trump for president today, a move that could provide a needed boost for Trump as he heads into the competitive Iowa caucuses.

Does the former Alaska governor and 2008 vice presidential candidate want anything in return? Most likely, yes — Palin, who popularized the term “drill, baby, drill,” has said she’d like to be Trump’s Secretary of Energy. And Trump has said he’d be willing to give Palin a position in his cabinet, should he be elected president.

“I’d love that,” Trump said back in July during an interview with Mama Grizzly Radio, a station which offers only news about Sarah Palin. “Because she really is somebody who knows what’s happening and she’s a special person.”

Shortly afterward, Palin was asked on CNN what position she would like to have in Trump’s administration. Without missing a beat, Palin said she’d want to head the Department of Energy — but only so she could eventually get rid of it.

“I think a lot about the Department of Energy, because energy is my baby: oil and gas and minerals, those things that God has dumped on this part of the Earth for mankind’s use,” she said. “If I were head of that, I’d get rid of it.”

LuvNewcastle

(16,834 posts)
8. Holy shit, there is a station that does
Thu Jan 21, 2016, 10:02 AM
Jan 2016

nothing but Sarah Palin news. I seriously wonder sometimes if this country is salvageable.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
9. I can't tell if that site is extremely good at deep satire or at bad reporting.
Thu Jan 21, 2016, 01:55 PM
Jan 2016

I looked it up and it seems legit
but
what I took for satire was the part where Palin is asking to be head of Dept. of Energy.
There is, of course, no dept of Energy, but I do seem to recall that was a comment Palin made years ago.

malaise

(268,693 posts)
7. Duh!
Thu Jan 21, 2016, 08:07 AM
Jan 2016

It wasn't hard. I'm also betting that the no show in the morning was because the check wasn't 'deposited' . She's a bought and paid for circus act.

napkinz

(17,199 posts)
16. how did Trump put it ... oh, yeah, he and Palin are DISGUSTING!
Thu Jan 21, 2016, 04:31 PM
Jan 2016


"I thought she quit; I thought she gave up." ... he could be talking about Sarah Palin!

 

ChisolmTrailDem

(9,463 posts)
10. I wonder how much tRump paid her to say she supports him. Obviously more than ted...
Thu Jan 21, 2016, 02:34 PM
Jan 2016

...could borrow from Goldman Sachs.

Orsino

(37,428 posts)
11. I had no single grift in mind, I swear.
Thu Jan 21, 2016, 03:02 PM
Jan 2016

But grifting is her career. Her brand has fallen on hard times lately. She needs this.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
13. She is 50 now.....I don't think she likes that.
Thu Jan 21, 2016, 04:16 PM
Jan 2016

Her whole grift has to do with looking and acting good for the cameras.

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