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Archae

(46,301 posts)
Wed Jul 5, 2017, 10:12 AM Jul 2017

Just how crass and corrupt are republicans?

They will even make up bullshit about each other, just to sell shit.

GOP consultants linked to Trump and Pence exploiting DNC staffer’s murder to sell wrinkle cream

A Republican consulting firm previously hired by both President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence is promoting conspiracy theories about the murder of a DNC staffer to hawk wrinkle cream.

Websites linked to the Prosper Group digital consulting firm are sending out emails linking the Seth Rich murder to an “anti-aging” product supposedly developed by Fox News host Sean Hannity’s wife, reported The Daily Beast.

“Sean Hannity’s Wife Drops Bombshell Amidst Fox News Murder Investigation!” blares the email’s subject line, and it links to a “message from our sponsor” describing how Hannity’s coverage of the DNC staffer’s 2016 slaying had put the Fox News host under media scrutiny that uncovered the product.

“What journalist [sic] found about [Hannity’s wife] Jill’s net worth is even more mindblowing,” the ad claims, and goes on to promote a skin cream called Parisian Secret that produces “anti-aging results that before now were only possible through surgeons.”
The ad shows fake Facebook comments touting the product, and Hannity told The Daily Beast the ad’s claims are “all a lie” and that he’s considering possible legal action.

“I have my attorneys on it. Fake news,” he told the website.

The emails, which come from the sender “Lifelong Conservative,” have previously claimed the wrinkle cream was developed by the wife of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and it has shown bogus testimonials from Megyn Kelly and Kelly Ripa.

The Lifelong Conservative email list is operated by Mustard Seed Interactive, and the company rented the list to an advertiser selling the wrinkle cream.

Mustard Seed, according to incorporation records, is headquartered in the same suite in the same Greenwood, Indiana, office building as the Prosper Group, reported The Daily Beast.

Prosper’s co-founder and vice president, Kurt Luidhardt, is also Mustard Seed’s president, and the company’s only other listed executive is Kristen Luidhardt — Kurt’s wife and Prosper’s president.

Prosper has worked in the past for both Trump and Pence, the former Indiana governor, as well as Human Services Secretary Tom Price, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, and it’s already working on GOP congressional campaigns.
Trump boasted in June 2016 that Prosper had helped him raise $11 million online after changing course on the campaign’s digital strategy, which included hiring two firms — Rev and Cambridge Analytica — that had worked for his GOP rivals.

Mustard Seed has sold or rented its email list to presidential campaigns for Sen. Ted Cruz, Gov. John Kasich, and Sen. Marco Rubio, as well as the Republican National Committee, the National Republican Congressional Committee, and Speaker Paul Ryan’s joint fundraising committee.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/07/gop-consultants-linked-to-trump-and-pence-exploiting-dnc-staffers-murder-to-sell-wrinkle-cream/

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Just how crass and corrupt are republicans? (Original Post) Archae Jul 2017 OP
"Mustard Seed" - a dollar bet that it has a tie-in to a religious group packman Jul 2017 #1
Prosperity gospel Christians are true grifters kimbutgar Jul 2017 #2
Them, and "faith healers." Archae Jul 2017 #3
The GOP - they don't give a fuck and it shows! Initech Jul 2017 #4
 

packman

(16,296 posts)
1. "Mustard Seed" - a dollar bet that it has a tie-in to a religious group
Wed Jul 5, 2017, 10:24 AM
Jul 2017

And it is - a brief search shows:

The Mustard Seed Foundation is a Christian family foundation established in 1983 under the leadership of Dennis W. Bakke and Eileen Harvey Bakke. The Foundation was created as an expression of their desire to be faithful stewards of the financial resources entrusted to them, to bring together the members of their extended families into common ministry, and to advance the kingdom of God.


In other words, the duped faithful sent their contributions into the religious con-men who developed a list of the gullible and is selling it .

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