Lifelong Republican Donor Quits GOP: 'Absolutely' Now The Party Of QAnon

[riversedge]

Source: huff post




01/30/2021 04:26 am ET Updated 2 hours ago

“If you stay in the Republican Party, you have to pay homage to Trump and I don’t do that. I don’t pray to any man,” said Houston immigration lawyer Jacob Monty.


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“I’m out,” the immigration lawyer from Houston told Erin Burnett on Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Outfront.” (Watch the video above).

Burnett asked Monty ― who voted for President Joe Biden in the 2020 election ― if the GOP was now more the party of the unhinged QAnon conspiracy theory than of conservatives like himself.

“Absolutely,” he replied. “Trump owns the party and Trump has always loved the conspiracy theories and this is Trump’s party now.”

“I tried for four years to be a Never Trumper in the Republican Party but it’s obvious now, everyone is paying homage to this ex-president,” he added. “No one will stand up to him.”
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“If my fellow Republicans are so blind they can defy reality and ignore the legal votes of millions of American citizens, there is no way I can convince them of the rightness of comprehensive immigration reform,” he added. ........................
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Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jacob-monty-quits-gop-donald-trump_n_60151bfcc5b6bde2f5bfa8e2

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[Maxheader]

1. Repubicon donor?

What? $$,? Community service? That would be nice.

[KS Toronado]

4. Chiefs win by 14

[Tarc]

5. opensecrets.org

https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/results?name=Jacob+Monty&order=desc&sort=A

Some Ds, mostly Rs, maybe around $200k over the years, rough count.

[Lasher]

10. Clickbait.

Lifelong donor maybe, but not a lifelong Republican donor

[Progressive Jones]

18. He may have been a Republican activist, locally. nt

[LeftInTX]

12. Not exactly the Koch bros..LOL

This isn't going to make or break candidates.

However, his most relevant donation was $1800 to the Republican Party of Harris County in 2009. Local parties are always strapped for cash and $1,800 is a sizable donation. Guess he won't be cozying up with them for awhile?

[Yeehah]

2. We need to see more stories like this

Who will continue to support the party of traitors?

[Ford_Prefect]

6. Anyone who needs to clean some cash...

That's been obvious since Nixon & Bebe Rebozo got rich together.

[WhiteTara]

17. I had completely forgotten Rebozo

[bucolic_frolic]

3. QOP

works for me

[plimsoll]

7. Welcome, and now for the contempt;

Well spotted.

[keithbvadu2]

8. Rather than write a new 2020 GOP party platform, they simply expressed fealty to their Messiah Trump

Rather than write a new 2020 GOP party platform, they simply expressed fealty to their Messiah Trump.

[tanyev]

9. Funny how they've been denying climate change for decades,

but the unmitigated bullshit of Qanon swept through the party in less than 5 years.

[JudyM]

16. Inability to discern reality esp. when it's inconveniently opposed to their preferred worldview?

[world wide wally]

11. The beauty of this is that in spite of being a sizable minority,

They are a minority none the less.
Maybe we can give them a preserve, like wild animals. Maybe in Guantanamo.

[eggplant]

13. Doesn't say he won't donate to individual candidates...

...or PACs.

[Maxheader]

14. Republipuke politicos don't change donations because of some higher ethical brainfart..

They do it to position themselves ....

[TexasBushwhacker]

15. A Republican immigration lawyer

Interesting