"I pulled Ted Striker's record, but I don't think you're gonna like it!"
https://twitter.com/TayFromCA/status/1660803704574836736?s=20
There is A LOT more where that came from!
He’s a rat.
Best I’ve seen so far. This phony is trying to rewrite history
RDS can’t wait to run on his record - the most anti-woke governor in America.
Not of fan of Ron’s, but would he be getting the same colorectal exam if weren’t running against Trump? And would conservatives be circling the wagons for him?
"I pulled Ted Striker's record, but I don't think you're gonna like it!"
It's not an issue with many here, but it should be.
The Dems (who WANT Mister Trump to get the GOP nod) will do non-stop, perpetual, multi-media spots aimed at low info voters (many, many who have entered the electorate since 16 and 20) and it will be...
"Trump indicted" and "porn star hush money".
Fair?
Of course not. Think Bill Clinton here.
Effective?
Absolutely. It will guarantee a Trump loss, and down ballot giveaways to the Dems.
Fault?
Mister Trump, a man who makes decisions based on woefully incomplete analyses.
His record of conservative victories?
His record of winning elections?
Speaking of records, if you ever decide to donate to MAGA, Inc, make sure you pay attention to the default check boxes. You might end up emptying out whatever legacy you had hoped to pass on to your loved ones. An elderly hospice patient figuratively at the Death’s Door (is there any other kind?) had his bank account zeroed out.
It was a big sum for a 63-year-old battling cancer and living in Kansas City on less than $1,000 per month. But that single contribution — federal records show it was his first ever — quickly multiplied. Another $500 was withdrawn the next day, then $500 the next week and every week through mid-October, without his knowledge — until Mr. Blatt’s bank account had been depleted and frozen. When his utility and rent payments bounced, he called his brother, Russell, for help.
What the Blatts soon discovered was $3,000 in withdrawals by the Trump campaign in less than 30 days. They called their bank and said they thought they were victims of fraud.
“It felt,” Russell said, “like it was a scam.”
But what the Blatts believed was duplicity was actually an intentional scheme to boost revenues by the Trump campaign and the for-profit company that processed its online donations, WinRed. Facing a cash crunch and getting badly outspent by the Democrats, the campaign had begun last September to set up recurring donations by default for online donors, for every week until the election.
Contributors had to wade through a fine-print disclaimer and manually uncheck a box to opt out.]
Post-election, the Trump campaign ended up refunding $64m to unwitting contributors. Turns out the whole post-election “Fight the Fraud” come-ons for small donors was an effort to make Trump’s campaign whole for the over-charges that had already been spent on the election. The donors who had been overcharged needed to be repaid the $64m they had inadvertently given to Trump. Individual contribution limits meant the overcharges weren’t just unethical - they were illegal.
“Bandits!” said Victor Amelino, a 78-year-old Californian, who made a $990 online donation to Mr. Trump in early September via WinRed. It recurred seven more times — adding up to almost $8,000. “I’m retired. I can’t afford to pay all that damn money.”
The sheer magnitude of the money involved is staggering for politics. In the final two and a half months of 2020, the Trump campaign, the Republican National Committee and their shared accounts issued more than 530,000 refunds worth $64.3 million to online donors. All campaigns make refunds for various reasons, including to people who give more than the legal limit. But the sum the Trump operation refunded dwarfed that of Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s campaign and his equivalent Democratic committees, which made 37,000 online refunds totaling $5.6 million in that time.
The recurring donations swelled Mr. Trump’s treasury in September and October, just as his finances were deteriorating. He was then able to use tens of millions of dollars he raised after the election, under the guise of fighting his fraud claims, to help cover the refunds he owed.]
The question has to be asked - could Trump, as a billionaire several times over, have reached into his own pocket for the $64m he overcharged his supporters, and spared them the angst of having to deal with credit card companies and credit bureaus to reverse those charges? If he lacked the cash, could he have taken out a low-interest loan until post-election contributions plugged the gap? Sure. But he chose not to. And that is another aspect of Trump’s personality that people need to know about. It’s not just ex-wives he screws over.
LOL! Thanks for posting that! “Vaccines are safe and effective...get your vaccine and you won’t get Covid.” “The party’s over.”
Twitter, linking to MSNBC and Willie Geist?
LOL, the Trumpers are beyond desperate. This should qualify as a pathetic vanity.
Lefty New York Magazine scribe talks about all the bad things that come to mind when he thinks about DeSantis:
But DeSantis’s aggressive COVID politics have also seen him take increasingly extreme positions. Over the past year, DeSantis’s defense of what he calls “freedom over Faucism” — which, in addition to keeping schools open, has involved blocking towns from mandating masks and businesses from requiring vaccines and at one point scolding high-school students for wearing masks at a photo op — has drawn him into the arms of the anti-vaccine movement. He has appeared at a press conference with an anti-vaxxer, suspended a state health official for encouraging his staff to increase their vaccine uptake, and appointed vaccine skeptic Joseph Ladapo to serve as the state’s top health official. (People are “being forced to put something in their bodies that we don’t know all there is to know about yet,” Ladapo claimed. “No matter what people on TV tell you, it’s not true. We’re going to learn more about the safety of these vaccines.”) After confirming he received his first shot last year off-camera, DeSantis has refused to say whether he got a booster.]
It's very interesting that DeSantis is being attacked by Trump and the democrats...almost as if both greatly fear him, as if for some reason the democrats would much rather have Trump as the opponent.