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JD Vance hosts $250k-a-plate fundraiser in Palm Beach
Politico ^ | 1-15-25 | Dasha Burns

Posted on 01/16/2025 10:20:12 AM PST by Strict9

Vice president-elect JD Vance hosted a who’s who of Trump-world types Wednesday at a ritzy, $250,000-a-plate fundraiser in Palm Beach, Florida, according to a person who attended the event and was granted anonymity to disclose details about it.

The event, hosted at French restaurant Le Bilboquet, is an early example of Vance’s desire to position himself as heir-apparent to Trump and his “America First” political movement. Donald Trump Jr., who was key in his father’s

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Could you imagine anyone paying $100 a plate to see Biden or Kamala? The place would be empty. Vance will run out of tickets.
1 posted on 01/16/2025 10:20:12 AM PST by Strict9
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“paying $100 a plate to see Biden or Kamala”

If they allowed everybody one free throw of the plate at Biden or Kamala that might be worth it.

Lol.


2 posted on 01/16/2025 10:21:49 AM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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Big money needs to be removed from politics and government.


3 posted on 01/16/2025 10:24:58 AM PST by TheDon (Resist the usurpers! Remember the J6 political prisoners! Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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Suddenly Politico cares about expensive donor dinners. Hypocrites.

Hey Politico, why don't you put your nascent interest in fiduciary responsibility to good use and find out where Kamalalala Ding Dong laundered her billion dollars?

4 posted on 01/16/2025 10:28:39 AM PST by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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Biden and Kamala always had tons of donors and stupid RAT hollywood type people paying $100 plus a plate.

What they fail at is getting working class and everyday American support.


5 posted on 01/16/2025 10:33:39 AM PST by dforest
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What’s he raising money for? He’s starting a four year term as VP in a few days.


6 posted on 01/16/2025 10:35:01 AM PST by Pollard (Zone 6b)
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“As somebody who doesn’t like Trump, myself, I sort of — I understand where Trump’s voters come from,” Vance later said in the Rose interview.

As Christian I can forgive human transgression.

Forgiving political stupidity is another matter.

Vance was clearly telling the disgraced pervert Charlie Rose what he thought Charlie wanted to hear.

Same deal last week with Never Trumper Shannon Bream.

Specifying terms of the pardons that were NEVER so specified by Trump.

If you guessed I'm an unapologetic Never Vancer, you'd be right.

7 posted on 01/16/2025 10:35:33 AM PST by Biblebelter
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what I took from the Vance J6 pardons talk, was that the antifa trannies with the baseball bats wouldn’t be pardoned and I agree.


8 posted on 01/16/2025 10:41:40 AM PST by Strict9
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Why? So the corrupt liberal press would be all we’d hear?
Gimme a break. If our side didn’t get donations demcorats would live off the liberal press, NPR, PBS, ABC, CBS and what would we have?

That’s as bad as ‘term limit’ elected officials ...

What w need to do is term limit bureaucrats and ‘civil servants’ m DC.. Six years working in DC is PLENTY for civil servants 0 they can move out into the rest of the country after 6 years in DC. Same with ‘department heads’ and Congressional aids... 6 years is plenty.


9 posted on 01/16/2025 10:46:51 AM PST by GOPJ (AMERICA FOR AMERICANS if anyone wants to live in an overpopulated hellhole they can MOVE there..)
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And they still spent $1 on the recently concluded presidential campaign for every $2.49 that Kamala’s team spent. And that didn’t even count the in kind contributions from the enemedia, just what was legally required to be reported.


10 posted on 01/16/2025 10:47:07 AM PST by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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What I took is that it is Trump’s call to make and Trump’s job to announce the specifics and whatever Trump decides will be fine with me.

Maybe he was acting on Trump’s instructions and floating a trial balloon, but I doubt it, Trump rarely lets other folk do the talking for him.


11 posted on 01/16/2025 10:47:54 AM PST by Biblebelter
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Must edit before pressing post... Sorry about all the errors.


12 posted on 01/16/2025 10:48:14 AM PST by GOPJ (AMERICA FOR AMERICANS if anyone wants to live in an overpopulated hellhole they can MOVE there..)
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If we can’t get rid of the big money I have a Plan B.

The politicians should be like race car drivers—wear the decals of their big sponsors on all their clothes!


13 posted on 01/16/2025 10:49:47 AM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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What errors???? PRICE? VANCE?


14 posted on 01/16/2025 10:51:04 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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iphone is horrible at the auto-editing. Add that to my big Irish fingers


15 posted on 01/16/2025 10:52:06 AM PST by Strict9
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I can see Trump standing down in less than two years. That would mean that Vance could serve out Trump's 4 year term and also serve two full terms.

I think that's how that works.

16 posted on 01/16/2025 11:09:51 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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I love JD Vance, but if I am paying $250K, I expect *food* on my plate.


17 posted on 01/16/2025 11:16:51 AM PST by alstewartfan (Child slavery, rape and drug OD's mean nothing to Roberts and Barrett. )
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While I am not opposed to MAGA/GOP doing fundraisers of this type -- is right now the time for this?

Trump/Vance have exactly two years until the makeup of Congress gets shuffled again. They already know that, in order to accomplish anything, they have to hit the ground running -- and they've been preparing for it for the last month. Seems that the fundraising can wait a bit -- and, in fact, might even net more funds raised after people get to start seeing the results in a month or two.

18 posted on 01/16/2025 11:38:27 AM PST by NewJerseyJoe (Rat mantra: "Facts are meaningless! You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!")
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I actually think Trump is a smart business man and has learned to let the underlings and apprentices float the trial balloons and then he gets a pulse and stays above the fray. Every great ceo has a hatchet man


19 posted on 01/16/2025 11:51:33 AM PST by gas_dr (Conditions of Socratic debate: Intelligence, Candor, and Good Will)
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Think of the fundraiser as getting the money tied up so he can have the congress he wants in two years instead of the usual shellacking the president party gets. This is pregame


20 posted on 01/16/2025 11:52:36 AM PST by gas_dr (Conditions of Socratic debate: Intelligence, Candor, and Good Will)
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