Current Affairs Donald Trump POS: Judgement cometh and that right soon
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This is at his own resort. If the room has an acoustic problem why did he choose it for the press conference? Pehroas it isn’t the room after all?
Donald Trump’s Get-Out-The-Vote Plan is Bonkers
Donald Trump’s Get-Out-The-Vote Plan is Bonkers. The Trump campaign is tasking the far-right Turning Point network with spearheading its ground game despite having no track record of success.
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Kirk won the fight. McDaniel quit under pressure. Then Trump took Kirk’s suggestion to install his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, as RNC co-chair. Republicans suspicious of Kirk told NBC News soon after McDaniel’s February ouster that Kirk pushed for it so Turning Point could take over the 2024 ground game and profit from it: At the “Restoring National Confidence” summit, hosted by Turning Point Action ahead of this month’s RNC winter meetings in Las Vegas, state and local GOP chairs were pitched on transitioning their voter outreach and canvassing efforts to an app created by Superfeed Technologies, a company led by Tyler Bowyer, the chief operating officer of Turning Point USA.
“This is why he was trying to get rid of Ronna,” [a] Trump ally said. “He shouldn’t make it sound like, ‘Oh, we’re tired of losing. We don’t have an early vote program.’ He should have just said, ‘Listen, he who controls the RNC controls millions of dollars and I want to get my hands on them.’ I mean, that would have been a more honest grift.”
In October, prominent conservative activist Erick Erickson sensed something fishy with the Turning Point plan, telling the Associated Press, “Any donor who thinks an organization needs $108 million for a three-state grassroots get-out-the-vote campaign is being taken advantage of. It sounds like a grift.”
Turning Point’s reputation as a grifting operation seems deserved. A 2020 investigation by ProPublica found that “three Turning Point insiders … won lucrative deals from the group to handle its printing, payroll processing and fundraising. The non-profit has also made misleading assertions about its finances to state and federal regulators.” An October 2023 Associated Press investigation found: “The organization also enriched Kirk and his allies … top Turning Point officials collected pricey salaries, enjoyed lavish perks and steered at least $15.2 million to companies they, their friends and associates are affiliated with.”
Kirk has made out particularly well. He “bought three high-end properties, all worth over a million dollars, which include his new Spanish-style mansion near Phoenix, as well as a nearby apartment and a beachside condo on Florida’s gulf coast.” Yet the report also noted, “for all that money, the group has struggled to help Republicans win general elections.”
How dare she!
Ive watched it several times already, brings me joy!
The eyeroll, the waving hands, the air quotes and intonation of “joy” like it is a bad thing
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Undeterred, Turning Point last year began shopping around a $108 million get-out-the-vote plan, now called “Chase the Vote,” focusing on Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin. Then-Chair of the Republican National Committee, Ronna McDaniel, gave this plan the cold shoulder. Kirk launched blistering attacks on McDaniel,claiming she was a Democratic plant and urging Trump to dump her. According to Real Clear Politics, McDaniel told Trump that Kirk’s penchant for insulting African Americans, such as saying Martin Luther King, Jr. did not deserve a holiday, would hurt efforts with Black voters.Donald Trump’s Get-Out-The-Vote Plan is Bonkers
Donald Trump’s Get-Out-The-Vote Plan is Bonkers. The Trump campaign is tasking the far-right Turning Point network with spearheading its ground game despite having no track record of success.
Kirk won the fight. McDaniel quit under pressure. Then Trump took Kirk’s suggestion to install his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, as RNC co-chair. Republicans suspicious of Kirk told NBC News soon after McDaniel’s February ouster that Kirk pushed for it so Turning Point could take over the 2024 ground game and profit from it: At the “Restoring National Confidence” summit, hosted by Turning Point Action ahead of this month’s RNC winter meetings in Las Vegas, state and local GOP chairs were pitched on transitioning their voter outreach and canvassing efforts to an app created by Superfeed Technologies, a company led by Tyler Bowyer, the chief operating officer of Turning Point USA.
“This is why he was trying to get rid of Ronna,” [a] Trump ally said. “He shouldn’t make it sound like, ‘Oh, we’re tired of losing. We don’t have an early vote program.’ He should have just said, ‘Listen, he who controls the RNC controls millions of dollars and I want to get my hands on them.’ I mean, that would have been a more honest grift.”
In October, prominent conservative activist Erick Erickson sensed something fishy with the Turning Point plan, telling the Associated Press, “Any donor who thinks an organization needs $108 million for a three-state grassroots get-out-the-vote campaign is being taken advantage of. It sounds like a grift.”
Turning Point’s reputation as a grifting operation seems deserved. A 2020 investigation by ProPublica found that “three Turning Point insiders … won lucrative deals from the group to handle its printing, payroll processing and fundraising. The non-profit has also made misleading assertions about its finances to state and federal regulators.” An October 2023 Associated Press investigation found: “The organization also enriched Kirk and his allies … top Turning Point officials collected pricey salaries, enjoyed lavish perks and steered at least $15.2 million to companies they, their friends and associates are affiliated with.”
Kirk has made out particularly well. He “bought three high-end properties, all worth over a million dollars, which include his new Spanish-style mansion near Phoenix, as well as a nearby apartment and a beachside condo on Florida’s gulf coast.” Yet the report also noted, “for all that money, the group has struggled to help Republicans win general elections.”
Is there a parable about a scorpion riding a scorpion across a river of scorpions? “It’s in my nature” they all say as they sting one another.
Trump used to regularly read out a poem with a similar message at his rallies called “the snake”.
“You knew damn well I was a snake before you took me in”
Btw the difference between him then and now is quite striking.
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When he accomplishes this I wonder whether the Committee will finally award him the Nobel Peace Prize? He really should have one in the bag already.
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Big shout to whoever in my city has been making homemade, handwritten signs that just read “Trump’s weird” and going around nailing them up about 20 feet off the ground on trees and telephone poles where they won’t be easy to rip down. Saw several of them today while I was out working. Will try and get a picture next time I see one.
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