Donald J. Trump 2024

[zekeb]

Trump thinks that making America a laughingstock, like he did when he was make-believe president, is the same as making America great.

[Suranis]

Its probably more that he things that if he is elected that will make people think he is great. MAGA is just a slogan he ripped off of Reagan

[RTH10260]

Trump’s RNC takeover triggers strife and staff exits as purge partly backfires
Presumptive Republican nominee installed allies to run party but loyalty tests have led to weakening of certain areas, including data

Hugo Lowell in Washington
Mon 8 Apr 2024 12.00 CEST

Donald Trump’s allies installed to run the Republican National Committee have faced a tumultuous first month in charge, buffeted by staffing problems and operational headaches as they attempt to bring the party apparatus under the control of the Trump campaign before the 2024 election.

The internal strife at the RNC has prompted the Trump campaign to privately admonish its new leaders in recent weeks. And the move to orchestrate a purge may have partly backfired with far-reaching consequences for the RNC, multiple sources familiar with the matter said.

The Trump takeover of the RNC arrived with a show of force just days after the new chair, Michael Whatley, and the new co-chair Lara Trump were elected, when emails went out to entire teams at the organization informing them they could resign and reapply for their jobs, or be terminated.

The idea was to ensure there would be no overlap between the RNC and the Trump campaign, which already had robust political and communications teams, and to weed out any staffers who were not fully committed to Trump and the wider Maga movement.

But the threats of termination and the rumored loyalty tests – which turned out to be accurate when staffers were asked in job interviews if they thought the 2020 election was stolen from Trump, though there has been no evidence of election fraud – may have been too aggressive.

In the weeks that followed, although the new RNC leadership quietly extended offers to a majority of former staffers, with the exception of those who worked in the RNC political department, some staffers on crucial teams declined to return, the sources said.

The situation means the RNC has been left without people with deep knowledge of election operations at the Republican party’s central committee, and who were willing to work for salaries far lower than what they could earn in the private sector.

Bringing the RNC under the wing of the Trump campaign was supposed to generate synergies. While some of those efficiencies have been realized, the sources said, the potentially overly aggressive approach may have done damage elsewhere.

A spokesperson for the RNC did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The loss of talent may be particularly notable on the RNC’s data team – increasingly important in presidential elections – which is being relocated out of RNC headquarters in Washington and to the Trump campaign’s headquarters in Palm Beach, Florida.



https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... can-strife

[RTH10260]

now which other company has shed its brain trust in the recent past

[Dr. Ken]

He's becoming a bad parody of Max Headroom

[Ben-Prime]

We've hit a new layer of Dunning-Kruger, basically.

An imbicile too inept to be President placing imbiciles too inept to run a co-primary candidacy organization at the head of such an organization, and then letting them hire more imbiciles too inept to run the organization's most technical and intricate components to run those components.

I figure we're about >< to a Dunning-Kruger Inception, which will happen when one of the department heads at TRNC (TFG RNC, which I pronounce 'Trunk' in my head) then goes to hire a *new* outside contractor (i.e., not one already directly used by TFG's other business interests) for something really important like, oh, external polling, or security.

[Suranis]

And its probably going to be as leaky as a sieve, as all the incompetents bitch about how everyone else is incompetent to everyone who will listen.

[pipistrelle]

Gift article. Haven’t read yet.

https://wapo.st/43PwAtS

Fictions, misleading claims, wild exaggerations, lies — former president Donald Trump dispenses untruths of one variant or another relentlessly. The falsehoods range from the inconsequential, like the crowd size at his inauguration, to the democracy-shaking, like the “stolen” 2020 election.
With Trump barreling toward November, when Americans will have a chance to choose him to lead the nation again, The Washington Post Fact Checker sought to get a sense of the staying power of his lies — whether people are more or less likely to believe them over time and which lies prove the stickiest — as well as measure the value Americans place in a president’s honesty, however they define it.

[raison de arizona]

Paul rips Trump for endorsing ‘worst Deep State candidate this cycle’

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4 ... press.coop

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) ripped former President Trump on Monday for endorsing former House Intelligence Committee Chair Mike Rogers’s (R-Mich.) bid for Senate, slamming the former congressman as the “worst Deep State candidate this cycle.”

“Donald Trump just endorsed the worst Deep State candidate this cycle. @MikeRogersForMI is a never Trumper, and a card carrying member of the spy state that seeks to destroy Trump,” Paul posted on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.

“You have to ask yourself who gives Trump this awful advice? Who’s next, John Bolton?” he asked, referring to Trump’s former national security adviser, who has become one of the former president’s harshest critics.

Trump announced Monday he is backing Rogers, who is favored to win the Republican nomination to run for the seat being vacated by retiring Sen Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.).

Rogers is also backed by the National Republican Senatorial Committee. NRSC Chair Steve Daines (Mont.) has worked closely with Trump to advance candidates favored by Senate GOP leadership to the general election.

@MikeRogersForMI lives in Floriduh?! Say it ain't so Mike!

On the left is @MikeRogersForMI’s 4,751 sq ft, $1.5M waterfront mansion in Cape Coral.

On the right is the 728 sq ft “home” he bought last July so he could claim residency in Michigan.

Where do we think he actually lives? #MISen

fwiw, Livingston Co Michigan clerk's office confirms ⁦@MikeRogersForMI⁩ registered there. Campaign says if he's still on rolls in FL it's bc officials there haven't purged him yet-not bc he's living there anymore https://newsweek.com/michigan-republica ... rs-1888388

[AndyinPA]

Another carpetbagger.

[pipistrelle]

That’s smaller than my ancient 1-bed apt.

[neonzx]

What is with all these creeps relocating to Cale Coral? Are they coming to party w/ Madison Cawthorn?

[raison de arizona]

A rising star in the RNC, only the best!
https://x.com/MaddowBlog/status/1778187556263186792

"One of Donald Trump’s county campaign chairs in New Hampshire lost his job as a police officer after threatening to kill his colleagues in a shooting spree, murder the department chief and rape the chief’s wife in retaliation for his suspension over his relationship with a high school girl, according to a newly released report from an internal affairs investigation."
https://huffpost.com/entry/trump-fired- ... 9df35397ba

[Luke]

Opening these topics gives me the heebie-jeebies and hate giving him a view count point.

But this is a great article about his PA rally tonight:

‘Trumpstock’ brings peace, unity and a ton of disinformation to Schnecksville
Fierce mountain winds in Lehigh County couldn't move the bubble of misinformation surrounding the throng at a Trump rally.
by Will Bunch | Columnist Published Apr. 13, 2024, 10:36 p.m. ET

SCHNECKSVILLE — Even 30-mile-an-hour wind gusts whipping down from the nearby Poconos couldn’t move the bubble of Donald Trump-scented awe and alternative reality that descended on this hilltop village for about eight hours on Saturday.

And the thousands who waited hours on a single-file line that snaked around the fire department and a nearby technical college, like the endless headlights in the climax of Field of Dreams, did not want that bubble pierced by any stray jabs to remind them that Trump, who finally addressed the frigid crowd after sunset, is a criminal defendant or that Joe Biden isn’t actually America’s worst-ever president driving the nation into crime and deprivation.

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commen ... 40413.html

Will Bunch @Will_Bunch 55m
I went to the Schnecksville rally today to talk with Trump voters, because our biggest story isn't a wannabe dictator but the 74 million who want to live under one

I met people trapped inside a hopeless doom loop of disinformation.

My instant column https://inquirer.com/opinion/commentary ... 40413.html

[RTH10260]

MTN Ben Meiselas picks on the FL senior who held a rally in Philadelphia

► Show Spoiler

[jemcanada2]

There’s a new, young guy that is associated with MT now who does a really good job of getting the Trumpers to change their minds about Trump and Biden. His name is Adam Mockler and he has WAY more patience than I would have with the MAGAts. I don’t know how he does it but he gets them to realize how bonkers their beliefs are in a respectful way. Hopefully, they don’t get reprogrammed before the end of the rally.

[Kendra]

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrum ... 9565663232

“TRUMP’S VISIT TO ATLANTA”

Note who the guest is praising tfg's antics.

[RTH10260]

... and grown men had tears in their eyes ...

[pipistrelle]

This was suggested to me while I was looking for train videos. Republican voters who talk about why they're now against our favorite president.

https://www.youtube.com/@RepublicanVotersAgainstTrump

[RTH10260]

Powerful conservative funds hand out millions to pro-Trump far-right groups
Groups led by Stephen Miller and Charlie Kirk among recipients of large sums from Bradley Foundation and Bradley Impact Fund

Peter Stone in Washington
Tue 16 Apr 2024 12.00 CEST

Two powerful conservative non-profits have donated millions of dollars to a number of pro-Trump groups led by key far-right allies Stephen Miller, Charlie Kirk and others that have promoted election denialism, extremist anti-immigrant policies and legal challenges to bolster the Maga movement.

Based in Wisconsin, the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation and the Bradley Impact Fund in 2022 separately doled out six- and seven-figure checks to groups such as Miller’s America First Legal and Kirk’s Turning Point USA, and other Trump-friendly bastions such as the Heritage Foundation and Michael Flynn’s America’s Future.

Watchdog groups that track money in politics say the Bradley Foundation and the closely-tied Bradley Impact Fund have become increasingly influential in funding the Maga ecosystem in recent years as Trump is all but certain to be the Republican 2024 presidential nominee.

“The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation and Bradley Impact Fund have emerged as major forces in Maga circles,” said Michael Beckel, the research director for Issue One, a bipartisan political reform group.

The biggest checks in 2022 were written to Trump-allied groups by the dark-money Bradley Impact Fund: America First Legal received about $27.1m, Turning Point USA roped in close to $8m, and the Conservative Partnership Institute pulled in $712,310. America’s Future also received $500,000.

Meanwhile, the Bradley Foundation ponied up $425,000 to the Heritage Foundation, which has worked with many other pro-Trump groups to assemble a 1,000-page plan for a new Trump presidency with an authoritarian agenda to expand executive-branch powers and curb key agencies such as the US justice department.

The Bradley Foundation in 2022 also doled out $750,000 to the pro-Maga FreedomWorks Foundation and $2.9m to the Bradley Impact Fund.

While the larger and older Bradley Foundation launched in 1942 and has almost $1bn in assets, the newer and smaller Bradley Impact Fund has grown fast and handed out especially large sums to far-right groups close to Trump.

The Impact Fund, which was started in 2012 and shares at least two board members with the foundation, has witnessed explosive growth in recent years, with revenues from undisclosed donors hitting $108m in 2022 versus just $7m in 2017, according to tax records.

By contrast, the Bradley Foundation doled out $56.6m in 2022.

The Bradley foundation’s board includes the well-known rightwinger Art Pope, a North Carolina multi-millionaire who used to chair its board and is also a director of the Bradley Impact Fund. Pope has deep ties to other conservative bastions such as the Koch-backed Americans for Prosperity, where he has been a board member too.

The board of the Bradley Foundation also boasts the rightwing lawyer and Trump ally Cleta Mitchell, a senior legal fellow at the Conservative Partnership Institute.



more comapnies mentioned at https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... oups-funds

[p0rtia]

I feel strongly that "Conservatism" had nothing to do with it.

[Dr. Ken]

[sugar magnolia]

That Forrest statue never fails to amuse me. I'm almost sorry it's gone.

[raison de arizona]

To. Be. Clear. Biden beat tfg by 23 points in NY in '20.

Trump says he's going to try to win New York in November

"We should be able to do it"

[Dr. Ken]

That Forrest statue never fails to amuse me. I'm almost sorry it's gone.

They should have transferred it to MAL