Monday, April 08, 2024

For Sale Cheap!

I talking about Trump, get a load of his campaign fundraiser! Billionaire donors plan to shower Trump with millions in April: 'fundraising juggernaut'
Trump currently trails behind Biden in cash on hand
Fox News
By Andrew Mark Miller
April 5, 2024


Big-money donors are beginning to coalesce around former President Donald Trump after he has become the presumptive GOP nominee as he attempts to close the cash-on-hand gap with President Biden, who recently set a high-dollar fundraising record.

This weekend in Palm Beach, Florida, Trump will take part in what is being billed as an "Inaugural Leadership Dinner" that includes several Republican high-profile donors and signals the beginning of a major push to cut into Biden’s cash-on-hand lead.  

The event will be led by hedge-fund billionaire John Paulson and will be co-chaired by hedge fund tycoon Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah, oil tycoon Harold Hamm, hotelier Robert Bigelow and casino mogul Steve Wynn.

Bigelow and Hamm had previously funneled money to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in his ill-fated presidential run against Trump in the primary. Hamm previously donated to former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley's presidential campaign as well.
Trump put out his $$$Fire Sale$$$ sign and the billionaires are showering him in money!

And who is showering in with “Donation?” Why it is white supremacists…
Biden Campaign Slams Donald Trump For Donors' Controversial Record on Race
Former President Donald Trump and his inner-circle of billionaire donors are reportedly headed to Palm Beach, FL.
The Root
By Jessica Washington
April 5, 2024


The who’s who of wealthy MAGA Billionaires are reportedly heading to Palm Beach, Fla. this weekend for a massive fundraiser for former President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, hosted by hedge fund founder John Paulson.

According to CNN News and other reports, notable fundraiser guests will include Robert and Rebekah Mercer, Robert “Woody” Johnson, Wilbur Ross, John Catsimatidis, and Todd Rickets.

While they all share their passion for another Trump presidency, another bond connects some of Trump’s most avid supporters. Over the last several years, many of them have landed in hot water for allegedly controversial statements and actions related to race.

Billionaire Robert “Woody” Johnson is a prime example. In 2020, CNN reported that Johnson, a top donor who was serving as Trump’s ambassador to the United Kingdom, was being investigated by a State Department watchdog organization for racist comments about Black men.

Sources reportedly told CNN News that ahead of a Black History Month event, Johnson was agitated to have be around a “whole bunch of Black people” and said the “real challenge” for the Black community was Black fathers who didn’t want to stay with their families.
These are the type people Trump associates with!
Johnson isn’t the only guest with a controversial story. Hedge Fund billionaire Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah Mercer have come under fire for their multi-billion dollar investment in Breitbart, whose founder Steve Bannon called the website “a platform for the alt-right.” Paulson, who is reportedly throwing the event, also faced criticism after he denounced his daughter’s school for teaching about racism, arguing that they were engaging in “anti-white indoctrination.
The next question is where is all that money going to be spent? The Washington Post reported,
“This thing this weekend is a handful of billionaires figuring out how to pay his legal bills, and we’ve got millions of grass-roots donors who are powering our campaign,” said Rob Flaherty, a Biden deputy campaign manager.

[…]

But Trump’s campaign finance reports in recent months have shown the tremendous strain that his legal troubles are placing on his broader fundraising effort. Reports filed in January showed that two of Trump’s committees, the Save America leadership PAC and the Make America Great Again PAC, spent $55.6 million on legal bills in 2023 as Trump fights felony charges in four criminal cases.


Then what is this all about? When did the Republicans changed the rules?
Biden may have trouble getting on Ohio’s general election ballot, state’s top election official warns
In a letter to Ohio’s Democratic Party chair, Secretary of State Frank LaRose warns that the Democratic National Convention will take place after a state deadline to declare a candidate.
NBC News
By Emma Barnett and Alexandra Marquez
April 6, 2024


Ohio’s secretary of state on Friday signaled that the Democratic National Convention may take place too late for President Joe Biden to appear on the general election ballot in the state, according to a letter obtained by NBC News.

“The Democratic National Convention is scheduled to convene on August 19, 2024, which occurs more than a week after the August 7 deadline to certify a presidential candidate to the office,” Secretary of State Frank LaRose wrote to Ohio Democratic Party Chairwoman Liz Walters.

[...]

In the note, LaRose goes on to say that the oversight can be rectified in two ways: either by the Democratic Party moving up its nominating convention or by getting the Ohio state legislature to “create an exemption to this statutory requirement” by May 9 in accordance with state law.
Like I said, I don’t know anything about this law, but it sure is suspicious.



Then we have roadblocks like this that the Republican put in front of the voters to make it harder to vote.
States across the South are passing new restrictions on how votes are cast. Civil rights activists say it will reduce turnout among Black voters.
USA Today
By Erin Mansfield
April 6, 2024


When Michael McClanahan was growing up, his grandmother would tell him stories about what it was like to vote during the pre-Civil Rights era in their small town in northwest Louisiana.

Like a carnival game, white poll workers would ask Black voters to accurately count the number of jelly beans in a jar or pass other tests if they wanted to get their ballot, she told him.

“There was always intimidation if there was a big election,” McClanahan said. “She would talk about how the sheriff or the town police officers were there talking into the microphone trying to intimidate people.”

Those practices were outlawed by the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but new voting restrictions are being adopted in the South. And the new laws may alter the outcome of the 2024 election by lowering voting among Black Americans, who overwhelmingly choose Democrats.

Since 2020, states have tightened who can vote absentee and who can turn in absentee ballots. They've passed or stiffened voter identification laws. And, under pressure from Republicans who falsely claim the 2020 election was stolen through fraud, they're adjusting how they remove voters from the rolls.
Anything to keep the “wrong” voters from voting!

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