Jared's dad Charles Kushner & Fort Partners gave $40K to a PAC called One Surfside run by A Nevins, a PR mgr, who in 2016 posted docs on his blog he'd received from Russian hacker Guccifer 2.0. A South FL-based chain of pol CMTEs funded by big-time developers, incl. Kushner, steered 1000s$ into the 2024 Surfside election to support: then-mayor & other dev.-friendly town officials +source of the$ remained a mystery to voters thanks to FL's loosened regs.
We need to amplify Republican's deceit, their plan to further cut taxes will be so costly, that the social safety net will be eliminated:
"Within this new document from the Congressional Budget Office, you can see that Trump’s current plan to extend every expiring tax break in his 2017 tax law would cost $4.6 trillion — with trillions of that going exclusively to very wealthy households."
-Bharat Ramamurti
With GOP appointed judges, SCJs... bribes are just inadvertent technical issues, or 'personal hospitality'.
"Cannon, herself a Trump appointee, attended 2 seminars at a luxury resort in MT, but the privately funded seminar disclosures for both events weren't posted online until NPR began making inquiries. "Dozens of fed judges failed to fully disclose free luxury travel to judicial conferences, as required by internal judiciary rules & fed ethics law."
Sad, financial giants like Schwab, prefer #MAGA & #TFG to Pres Biden & Dems, because of tax cuts, more deregulation..., even though #democracy will end & chaos will ensue:
"Schwab Charity Funnels $250 Million to Right-Wing Causes
Money flows to conservative activist Leonard Leo’s network
85 Fund backs groups against trans rights, diversity programs-."
"Black intervenors in the Louisiana racial gerrymandering case have filed their notice appealing yesterday's ruling on the congressional map to SCOTUS."
-Michael Li
“Ramping up of giving to far-R & #MAGA-aligned groups since 2020: broader evolution of the mvt." Donors'💰: more toward insts. to push politics even further to the right.
The Bradley Impact Fund shares some BOD with the Lynde & Harry Bradley FND. The prv. FND with assets of >$900M has dispersed upward of $1B to back school choice, welfare reform, defund unions & funded “election integrity” efforts."
"The SC, amid an unprecedented crisis of legitimacy pertaining to unreported gifts to justices, debated whether a contractor making a $13K gratuity to a politician is similar to taking a teacher to Cheesecake Factory.
High-profile corruption cases in other states have been put on hold as prosecutors wait to see how the SC rules in Snyder v. US. Justices appeared poised to side with the convicted IN mayor."
Dismissed, with a fine, & it's confidential. Typical, & disappointing.
"Voting software firm Smartmatic and pro-Trump conspiracy network One America News have reached a confidential settlement in the defamation lawsuit accusing OAN of peddling lies about the 2020 presidential election."
Judge shopping by Republicans is benefiting the rich & powerful & harming Americans' rights & democracy.
Since Jan 2017, 63% of all Chamber of Commerce lawsuits challenging fed regs: filed at courts in the 5th Circuit *fighting to keep hearing these high-stakes cases, despite a backlash.
Corp. America & conservative activists agree: We live in the US of TX, LA & MS.
When #MAGA Republicans hold power, the Constitution isn't upheld:
#DeathSantis signed a new law today that guts oversight of police.
The law furthers limit local civilian police oversight boards by barring them from investigating allegations of police misconduct. Police unions support the law -it protects the rights of officers. Critics: another blow to police accountability efforts already shackled by existing state laws giving cops extraordinary legal protections-.
Corruption is endemic in the GOP Party & RW govts:
Rep S Lee faces an onslaught of far-right cash attacking her in her Apr 23 primary. A super PAC backed by Je Yass, the largest Republican donor in 2024, has spent $606K attacking Lee & boosting Patel, acc to a review of fed campaign finance records. Patel has also received significant fundraising assistance from groups like the Hindu American PAC, which works to elect candidates supportive of IN PM Modi.
FirstEnergy gave $1B to boost OH Lt Gov Husted’s campaign before scandal. He worked behind the scenes to bail out the company’s nuclear power plants. The donation was secret until now -emails describe efforts by Husted to persuade DeWine to support the utility-backed legislation at the heart of the OH's ongoing public bribery scandal.
#GOPCorruption is deep, & the rot starts at the head of the R Party, #TFG & his family, donors, enablers...
J Kushner's $3B fund is financed almost entirely from overseas investors with whom he worked when he served as a snr adviser in the Trump WH. He has taken$ from govt wealth funds in KSA, QA & UAE & Gou, founder of TW's Foxconn -whose role in Kushner’s firm -not been previously disclosed.
Many Republicans are corrupt, self-serving & anti- #climate (#TFG sets the standard), & some of the worst, are MOC:
A CA lawmaker wants to dismantle the Clean Water Act protections that he was fined for violating. Rep J Duarte (R-CA) was fined $1.1M by fed regulators for disturbing wetlands & streams on a 500-acre plot of land owned by his bus, Duarte Nursery & public legal battle between Duarte & ENVIR authorities over violations of the Clean Water Act.
Congress: sabotaged by MBS, Putin... via #TFG. GOP Reps converse with him regularly, so no aid to #Ukraine...
Rep Raskin: "I see Republicans in committee or on the floor taking phone calls from TFG. Saudis & other "RW govts" -are "doing everything they can" to help TFG win. TFG's business dealings with the Saudis are creating all kinds of opportunities for corruption."