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erronis

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14. The cons stole money from the people and paid each other in a grifting circle.
Fri Jun 17, 2022, 06:09 PM
Jun 2022

We see $ amounts spent on advertising or events or lobbying or "favors". If these $s could be traced we'd see that they went around and around in a big circle, losing accountability. Much of the injection of $$s came from very RW donors who already don't have accountability (Koch, Thiel, Mercer, DeVos, Murdoch, etc.)

What we will also see is that $$$s came in from small donations and was injected into this circle of spending. Almost all of it was siphoned off in spurious fees into the pockets of the original RW donors and, of course the trumpies.

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Follow the money. Nt Fiendish Thingy Jun 2022 #1
Watergate phrase empedocles Jun 2022 #2
What potus wants a 771million dollar trail left behind to reveal their wrong-doing??? lindysalsagal Jun 2022 #3
Luckily for IQ45, IOKIYAR always applies ... but it's still friggin' sickening Hugh_Lebowski Jun 2022 #4
WHAT? Now it comes out he actually paid for J6... brush Jun 2022 #5
I doubt HE wrote any checks to anybody leftieNanner Jun 2022 #13
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He actually paid a bill? Turbineguy Jun 2022 #6
Only to launder money. Mr.Bill Jun 2022 #9
Bingo! ewagner Jun 2022 #11
I bet that particular vendor required payment up front. BannonsLiver Jun 2022 #19
manafort mopinko Jun 2022 #7
How much did the taxpayers have to pay? Tesha Jun 2022 #8
One for you, two for me. One to you three to me, and so on and so forth. Clearinghouse for payments Pepsidog Jun 2022 #10
So Trump was paying himself, his family or his associates out of campaign money or money he .... Botany Jun 2022 #12
The cons stole money from the people and paid each other in a grifting circle. erronis Jun 2022 #14
And he's given his personal WH lawyer how much for his legal fees? nt allegorical oracle Jun 2022 #16
Kick dalton99a Jun 2022 #17
more than $237 million of what he raised unaccounted for MissMillie Jun 2022 #18
Republican Party committees?? Poiuyt Jun 2022 #20
Insurrections are not cheap LetMyPeopleVote Jun 2022 #21
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