John Hummel

2020-10-21 14:59:05

Pissing off the wrong people

Trump used his campaign war chest like an ATM. Now it's dead broke and GOP donors are furious

[Donnie, you of all people should know how dangerous it is to piss off rich people. And on the flip side: Of all the things that you should know, the dangers of pausing off the rich should be near the top. That you failed this test is perhaps the clearest evidence of your idiocy. This is supposed to be your bailiwick!]

Suckers. That's clearly how major GOP donors feel after realizing that Trump's campaign is basically dead broke, he's dragging down the entire party, and he's even put Democrats in position to potentially take back the Senate.

... Eberhart and others feel burned after the state of Trump's campaign war chest has come into clearer view in the final months of the race. Some Republicans donors even founded a separate pro-Trump super PAC, Preserve America, that was explicitly not run by Trump's people because he's clearly not sending his finest. Republican megadonor Sheldon Adelson recently poured million into that PAC instead of just handing it over to the Trump campaign.

[Let us pause to focus on the extreme irony and absurdity of this statement: "... a separate pro-Trump super PAC... explicitly not run by Trump's people..." In other words: These people feel they have to act as Trump's parents: "We'll give him some money, but he cannot be allowed to spend it himself."]

“You could literally have 10 monkeys with flamethrowers go after the money, and they wouldn’t have burned through it as stupidly,” veteran GOP strategist Mike Murphy told the AP of the Trump campaign's spending habits.

[Sorry. My bad. They don't view themselves as Trump's parents. They view themselves as Trump's zoo keepers. Come to think of it, that is a much better analogy.]

... Trump and his campaign aides burned through author='John Hummel' profile='https://pluspora.com/u/johnhummel' avatar='https://social.isurf.ca/photo/20992862505bbeb971be107618245555-5.png?ts=1602403051' link='https://pluspora.com/posts/e326f670f5db01385365005056264835' posted='2020-10-21 14:59:05' guid='e326f670f5db01385365005056264835' billion like they were on a drunken Beverly Hills lifestyles-of-the-rich-and-famous bender.

[The article goes on to list some of the expenditures. Reading the list makes it clear why Trump is a failure at business.]

#Trump #Election2020 #TrumpDonors

Trump used his campaign war chest like an ATM. Now it's dead broke and GOP donors are furious

Suckers. That's clearly how major GOP donors feel after realizing that Trump's campaign is basically dead broke, he's dragging down the entire party, and he's even put Democrats in position to potentially take back the Senate. “The Senate...

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John Hummel

2020-10-20 16:58:45

How perfectly Trumpian

Trump's campaign is broke, so it's using the federal treasury as his reelection slush fund

[Trump's entire "presidency" (like his entire existence) has been an exercise in theft on an enormous scale, and means of evading the law and his creditors.]

The Trump campaign is broke and broken with a candidate slipping further off the rails as the minutes tick by. But he's got a very powerful, albeit illegal to use, tool: the whole of the federal government. From day one, Trump's plan was to use the White House to expand his personal brand and make him some money. Now he's using the federal government to try to hang on to the White House, using taxpayer dollars as his own slush fund.

[Criminals gonna do what criminals gonna do.]

... Barr is also using the Justice Department—lawyers getting paid with taxpayer funds—to defend Trump personally against a defamation charge from E. Jean Carroll, who alleges Trump raped her in the 1990s... "Trump's effort to wield the power of the U.S. government to evade responsibility for his private misconduct is without precedent," Carroll's lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, told Politico, "and shows even more starkly how far he is willing to go to prevent the truth from coming out."

Trump has also been pushing Barr to prosecute Joe Biden and President Barack Obama for spying on his 2016 campaign...

[Desperate and shameless]

Then there's the things like his raid on the Medicare Trust fund, billion and change to send 0 bribes to seniors in the guise of prescription drug assistance. He and chief of staff Mark Meadows cooked up that scheme, and tried to get the pharmaceutical companies to pay for it. When they balked, they decided they may as well bilk the seniors they're supposedly helping by taking the money out of Medicare. This was all so last-minute and harebrained, it turns out that it probably can't be done before the election, so Trump is spending an extra million to send out letters telling them the bribe is on the way.

Trump also insisted that a letter signed by him be included in food boxes in the Farmer to Families program, federally funded food assistance that will have the campaign stamp on it...

He's been using the White House as the prop for his campaign, a Hatch Act violation...

[And let's not forget all the violations of the Emoluments Clause]

... "Trump is openly saying, 'I get to use this office, the authority and resources that come with it, to just advance my political interests in the most raw terms.'" That's what he's been doing all along, particularly by using Trump properties for official business. He's been intent on stealing everything he could get his hands on while in office, and is going to use the Treasury to keep him in office so he can steal the rest.

#Trump #Campaign2020 #Crime #Theft #KillTheRich #AndFeedThemToTheirOwnChildren

Trump's campaign is broke, so it's using the federal treasury as his reelection slush fund

The Trump campaign is broke and broken with a candidate slipping further off the rails as the minutes tick by. But he's got a very powerful, albeit illegal to use, tool: the whole of the federal government. From day one, Trump's plan was to use...

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