Disgraced Donald Trump has been successful in hoodwinking a large segment of the American public with his ability to mirror their sense of resentment toward a political party that has let them down. He has presented them with the easy solution of magic-bullet fascism, offering only rallies and fist-waving to feed their anger while providing them with nothing material in the way of policy—except promises to punish others.
Most importantly, Donald Trump has sucked money and time from his MAGA followers and given them nothing but lies in return. His conman act has also attracted swarms of other swampy creatures who are willing to put in time and work with the promise of making more money for themselves later on, before the shine from the fool’s gold wears off. But while the Trump campaign hoovers up campaign donations from big donors and MAGA followers alike, there is one group that isn’t willing to make a symbolic donation to the Trump campaign: the people closest to Donald Trump.
The New York Times has a new report detailing how little Trump’s closest campaign aides have donated to his campaigns (plural) over the years. In fact, while the previous presidential campaigns of Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and George W. Bush saw contributions from their loyal campaign advisers, Trump’s pack of skunk apes has opted not to add any money to the till.
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The Times reports that after looking through eight years of campaign finance records, they were only able to find a “handful of contributions” from the more than 40 high-ranking staff members of the Donald’s previous three campaigns. This means they didn’t offer up any dough to Trump’s political committees, or the campaign itself.
According to them, they “gave at the office,” so to speak. At least that is what former Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway told the Times when asked why she didn’t contribute anything to the Trump campaign. Of course, Kellyanne also gave “nearly $30,000” of her money to other campaigns over the past eight years.
Another former campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski (a sort of late-era Michael Cohen character), told the Times that while he has donated close to $17,000 to people’s campaigns, he made sure not to open his wallet any more than he had to when working for Trump. “I have donated thousands upon thousands of hours of my time to help President Trump without compensation,” he says. He also says he’s paid for his own travel since 2017 when working with Trump.
Remember Reince Priebus? He’s reportedly spent $130,000 of his own money over the past eight years, spreading it around to action committees and conservative candidates. He was even Trump’s White House chief of staff for like 15 minutes or something. But when it came time to contribute to Donald Trump’s campaign, Reince wrote a big zero in his check book.
All the new people working for Donald Trump, including the super-dubious Jason Miller? Zero dollars and zero cents. What about Trump’s former chiefs of staff, Mick Mulvaney and Mark Meadows? They gave $0.00 multiplied by two! How about everyone’s favorite head of hair, Steve Bannon? Nope. But listen, it’s a policy with Bannon.
“I have never given to any politician except a buddy, Kris Kobach,” Mr. Bannon said.
So, no money to politicians … except that one politician. But he’s a “buddy.” You know who did give the maximum allowed to Donald Trump? Brad Parscale. For his part, Parscale was fired, torn apart by Trump’s operatives in the media, and has clearly felt remorse for being involved in helping Trump’s campaign. You see, there’s something that the rest of the vultures around Trump understood that Parscale clearly did not: Giving money to Donald Trump puts you in the same category as the rest of the MAGA-crowd of donors. Scientists and business folks have a name for that category: suckers.
What else can be said about Donald Trump that hasn’t already been written in oil on a sarcophagus and thrown into the river Styx? He’s a miserable man whose narcissism is so acute that he must devour everything around him in the hopes of masking his insecurities from not only the world, but himself.
Markos and Kerry luxuriate in the battle going on between Donald Trump’s ascending fascism and Mitch McConnell’s disappearing neocon establishment. The fighting has become much sharper recently as the MAGA-media outlet Fox News has traveled further and further away from reality.
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