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DeSantis Transfers $83 Million Raised for Governor Race to National Campaign PAC
The Last Refuge ^ | June 14, 2023 | https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/06/14/desantis-transfers-83-million-raised-for-govern

Posted on 06/14/2023 4:08:48 PM PDT by SoConPubbie

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To: backpacker_c

As you constantly hojack Pro-DeSantis threads.


21 posted on 06/14/2023 4:58:03 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF ADCMERICA! AMERICA FIRST! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GLOBALISM!)
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To: backpacker_c

Here’s a topic, can Trump change his terrible hiring instincts? He fired his best friend in favor of the little Princess and her judas husband.


22 posted on 06/14/2023 5:00:22 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF ADCMERICA! AMERICA FIRST! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GLOBALISM!)
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To: backpacker_c

Blah, blah, blah. Priceless whining from someone that wants to Trash DeSantis at every opportunity and repeatedly. Maybe we might post about Trump paying off porn stars under the fiction of legal fees?


23 posted on 06/14/2023 5:04:30 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Donald Tantrum? No Thank You. We Can Do Better! I am a Veteran Supporting Veteran DeSantis.)
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To: SoConPubbie

sleazy


24 posted on 06/14/2023 5:05:13 PM PDT by Third Person
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“It appears that some people on Free Republic, like to put provocative stories out there, to stir the pot and promote infighting over this Trump vs. DeSantis situation.”

Yeah, “some people” that are actually most likely on the left and attempting that divide and conquer routine. Too bad some here are allowing it to work.


25 posted on 06/14/2023 5:06:15 PM PDT by Danie_2023
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To: SoConPubbie

Read my tag line to understand DeSantis.
And if he is the nominee I will vote for him in November.
But I prefer Trump or Vivek.


26 posted on 06/14/2023 5:07:40 PM PDT by entropy12 (Career politicians like DeSantis are there to build wealth, Trump is there to serve & lose wealth)
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To: Reno89519

You are free to bash Trump but you have no proof when you make that accusation.

So far, this accusation has fallen flat in the eyes of the voters. Well, maybe not Democrat voters or GOPe.


27 posted on 06/14/2023 5:11:23 PM PDT by dforest
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To: Danie_2023

I can see you have never been around here during a primary season. What you are calling for does not happen. Primaries are a contest. People are competing, not backslapping and high fiving each other.


28 posted on 06/14/2023 5:15:43 PM PDT by dforest
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To: Reno89519
So what. Perfectly legal. Give it a break. Why not focus on Biden crime family bribery? Or Smith bias against Trump, or something meaningful?

Tokyo Rove! Where have you been?

Back to shoveling excrement for Bush Crime Family, Inc. I see.

29 posted on 06/14/2023 5:32:36 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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To: SoConPubbie

Damn. That’s dirty. Might be legal, but still dirty.


30 posted on 06/14/2023 5:34:17 PM PDT by Mathews (I have faith Malachi is right!!! Any day now...)
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To: SoConPubbie

Trump laundered tens of millions of dollars from leadership
PAC, meant to support other candidates, to a PAC for himself. All his fund-raising solicitations, whether “Stop the Steal” or come-ons for other candidates, were really just a gigantic slush fund for his own re-election campaign.


https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-donald-trump-is-ramming-millions-through-a-campaign-loophole-save-america-pac
[Why Trump Is Ramming Piles of Cash Through a Campaign Loophole

For all of his golden toilets, former President Donald Trump is notoriously stingy—with his personal funds as well as the hundreds of millions of dollars he’s extracted from his supporters over the years. And that’s all the more reason why government watchdogs are raising the alarm about a new campaign finance filing that shows, one month ahead of the midterm elections, an eye-popping $20 million political donation from Trump.

The contribution—Trump’s largest ever by far—went from his Save America leadership PAC on Oct. 3 to a new Trump-aligned super PAC, called Make America Great Again Inc. That same day, an old pro-Trump super PAC threw another $8.9 million behind the new group.

Super PACs can spend unlimited amounts of money to support candidates, so on its face, the donation could be said to be a generous contribution from Trump to the MAGA cause during a critical election. But as a number of campaign finance experts explained, the specifics here suggest Trump is really trying to get around laws that would otherwise prevent him from spending his personal stash on a 2024 presidential run.

Paul S. Ryan, a veteran campaign finance lawyer now serving as deputy executive director at the Funders’ Committee for Civic Participation, said that was “the only plausible explanation.”

“The only thing Trump cannot do with the millions and millions of dollars he’s raised into his leadership PAC is support himself. The only plausible explanation for this move is to convert that money to be spent on his own campaign,” Ryan told The Daily Beast.]


Trump’s conduct has become egregious enough to attract the attention of Special Prosecutor Jack Smith. While his classified documents charges are dubious, in light of Hillary’s deliberate destruction of e-mail records, which should have resulted in an open-and-shut felony obstruction of justice case, Trump’s deceitful fund-raising could end up with him indicted on fraud charges.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/12/trump-fundraising-fraud-special-counsel/
[Adav Noti, legal director of the nonprofit Campaign Legal Center, said the key evidentiary question for such a case is whether “whoever was approving or making the solicitations knew they were false,” adding that the solicitations for election defense or election integrity work “had already raised 100 times more money than it could have spent on that. … I think the donors relied on the statements about where the money would go.”

The House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack included a 36-page appendix to its final report, which was released in December, that concluded that Trump, allies and advisers aggressively used claims of a stolen election to raise money following the vote, despite internal discomfort with some of the messaging. The committee found that ultimately, virtually none of the money was spent on recounts or legal efforts to challenge the results. Nearly all of the money went to Trump-connected consultants or was poured into the Save America PAC to support Trump’s future political ambitions.

“Not only did President Trump lie to his supporters about the election, but he also ripped them off,” the committee’s seven Democrats and two Republicans concluded.]


It’s one thing to handle classified documents in the same way as other former federal officials, and quite another to swindle your own supporters, as Trump has done. Even if the indictment on the second issue fails, the revelations that he swindled them are more likely to tank his approval numbers than Democrat lies about January 6 and classified document handling.


31 posted on 06/14/2023 5:45:26 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room)
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To: dforest

Which do you need proof for? The transfer of funds? I am sure the attorneys signed off, no charges, just whining from some folks. Bet these same people previously complained about campaign limits. And paying off porn stars as legal fees, that has already been established. The only question left is the local prosecutor Bragg trying to made a felony out of it after statute of limitations expired. Which is wrong.


32 posted on 06/14/2023 5:53:40 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Donald Tantrum? No Thank You. We Can Do Better! I am a Veteran Supporting Veteran DeSantis.)
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To: dforest

“I can see you have never been around here during a primary season. What you are calling for does not happen. Primaries are a contest. People are competing, not backslapping and high fiving each other.”

There’s a vast difference between not backslapping and high fiving each other....and what some here are doing against one of our own...ie DeSantis. If you can’t or won’t see and acknowledge that difference, I don’t know what to tell ya.


33 posted on 06/14/2023 5:57:46 PM PDT by Danie_2023
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To: Reno89519

Is that you Alvin Bragg?


34 posted on 06/14/2023 6:17:47 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: mass55th

No, but if idiots want to keep trashing, DeSantis, they should expect being inconveniently redirected to Trump. Constantly criticizing DeSantis needs to stop, he’s a Republican, focus on defending Trump, focus on Biden, but leave fellow Republicans alone!


35 posted on 06/14/2023 6:19:34 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Donald Tantrum? No Thank You. We Can Do Better! I am a Veteran Supporting Veteran DeSantis.)
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To: cowboyusa
"Yeah, but not all of us are boomers."

I wish I'd known what I know now when I was your age. Unfortunately, when it comes to politics, we allow ourselves to be kicked in the teeth too many times before we decide we aren't willing to take it anymore. I got rid of a philandering husband far earlier than I ever got rid of a philandering political party. January 6th did it for me.

36 posted on 06/14/2023 6:21:00 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: Reno89519
"Constantly criticizing DeSantis needs to stop..."

Is that a direct order Commander??

37 posted on 06/14/2023 6:21:44 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: Dilbert San Diego

So i’m not the only one thinking that?


38 posted on 06/14/2023 6:22:11 PM PDT by Dandy (Drain the swamp baby!!!)
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To: Reno89519

JEEZE, do you feel the same way about JEB, Christy, Pence, OR is it just DeSantis that is off limits???


39 posted on 06/14/2023 6:23:37 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

All those others have sucked up to the Left, DeSantis has fought them every step of the way so far, and won.


40 posted on 06/14/2023 6:27:38 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF ADCMERICA! AMERICA FIRST! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GLOBALISM!)
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