Posted on 06/29/2023 10:48:11 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
The ‘Koch network’ group Americans for Prosperity Action is dropping $70M+ on a bid to stop President Donald J. Trump becoming the 47th President of the United States, according to a new report which suggests the libertarian billionaire backed organization is campaign in the Republican primaries “for the first time in its nearly 20 year history”.
The money is in addition to a $200M+ fund established by corporate backers for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s campaign, and will likely be used for “digital advertising on the issue of electability in the presidential race,” in addition to direct mail. In such scenarios, high percentages of donor cash ends up in the pockets of campaign consultants and vendors.
The Koch network includes groups such as Americans for Prosperity, Stand Together, i360, the American Legislative Exchange Council, the State Policy Network, the CATO Institute, Americans for Tax Reform, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Atlas Network, the Heritage Foundation, the Independent Women’s Forum, the Manhattan Institute, the Reason Foundation, the Texas Public Policy Foundation, and many more.
The organization’s LIBRE initiative even campaigns in favor of amnesty for illegal migrants.
The co-option of the Tea Party movement was spearheaded by the Kochs, who turned it from a citizen-led organization into a pro-corporate, libertarian shell, before dumping it when press attention became too inconvenient.
“The globalist Koch Brothers, who have become a total joke in real Republican circles, are against Strong Borders and Powerful Trade,” Trump tweeted in 2018. “I never sought their support because I don’t need their money or bad ideas.”
It should also be mentioned this is the liberal Koch trying to stop Trump. The moe conservative Koch died. #liberalsfordesantis
These typea have pushed me too far. They would kill MAGA as well as Trump.
“Did you say ‘donor money’? 🤗
- DeGriftis
Yep its his loonie, uber-left kids doing.
This is the same place CraZy Liz and the Alaska Kow got their funds.
If Trump is going to overcome, he should repent of that moronic peace plan he had his Son-in -Law put together.
You mean the Abraham Accords?? How would renouncing them boost President Trump? Or is there some other plan you mean?
It’sa spiritual law God has about dividing His land, and Trump did it.
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