Posted on 10/26/2024 9:28:59 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
On a Friday in late September, Donald J. Trump took time off the campaign trail for a closed-door meeting at Mar-a-Lago with officials representing the vaping industry.
The vaping emissaries talked about loosening regulations and told the former president he had “saved” the industry in the past. The group — including Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, and another 2016 campaign aide, Michael Rubino — showed him mock-ups of mailers they were sending out through Election Day. Mr. Trump asked for input on what he could say on social media about a complicated regulatory issue.
Within hours, Mr. Trump had posted about his allegiances to the embattled e-cigarette sector. “I saved Flavored Vaping in 2019,” Mr. Trump wrote on social media. “I’ll save Vaping again!”
The head of the Vapor Technology Association, Tony Abboud, who was also in the meeting, quickly declared he was “pleased” that Mr. Trump was “continuing to fight for vapers.” The vaping industry has not been a significant contributor in the presidential race, but the Vapor Technology Association has been quietly sending versions of those mailers to voters in battleground states warning that Democrats want “to steal vapes from freedom-loving Americans.”
As Mr. Trump seeks a return to the White House, he has come a long way from his 2016 campaign pitch that he was so rich he was incorruptible. Back then, he mocked the G.O.P.’s donor-lobbyist class and boasted in his announcement speech, “I don’t need anybody’s money.” Today, Mr. Trump is looking everywhere for cash: asking small donors online, pressing fellow billionaires over private meals in Trump Tower and lobbying for donations from industries regulated by the government.
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Three New Yawk Slimes Stooges to write one liberal rant.
It seems to be working.
That sounds like an Amusement park!
Trump should stick to low budget vote buying like Student Loan Forgiveness and free healthcare. /s
EC
I believe The Times knows that their era is ending. Perhaps this last hoorah of lies and propaganda is a result of Sunk Cost Fallacy or could be scorched earth policy of a bitter defeated enemy. Either way, it spells the end of their reign.
Deregulation? Fascist! /s
I think the Times is getting ready to liken Trump to Benito Mussolini.
And…?
“I think the Times is getting ready to liken Trump to Benito Mussolini.”
Oh we are way past that. I think the Times is at the stage of likening Benito Mussolini to
Trump.
And why is it? He’s being transparent so everyone can see what is usually going on behind closed doors. That’s how you get Buy In.
Gotta Love DJT.
I read the headline and thought “So?”
Lame stuff, even for the NYT.
Yup. And most Democrats think Mussolini is a brand of keto pasta made from garbanzo beans.
To me, it just shows how delusional, desperate, unhinged and irrational the lefties are.
Which shows how dumb they are.
How the failed opponent is making(lying) about their plans to everybody.
Haberman and Swan are old hands at this.
When pro-Palestinian protestors were asked what "From the River to the Sea" actually refers to (i.e., which river, which sea) they responded with slack jaws and blank stares.
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