The Koch groups are planning to spend $70 million in their effort to eliminate the support of Donald Trump in 2024.Posted on 06/29/2023 1:53:51 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
As if on cue, here comes another billionaire group by well-established political control agents in yet another multimillion effort to block President Trump. This time it’s Koch and his Americans for Prosperity network.
The Koch groups are planning to spend $70 million in their effort to eliminate the support of Donald Trump in 2024.
However, what will be interesting will be to watch how the downstream media networks attack Trump in order to get a piece of the spending allotment. That’s where knowing where the Koch money flows comes in handy.
First the article:
(New York Times) – The political network established by the conservative industrialists Charles and David Koch has raised more than $70 million for political races as it looks to help Republicans move past Donald J. Trump, according to an official with the group.
With some of this large sum to start, the network, Americans for Prosperity Action, plans to throw its weight into the G.O.P. presidential nominating contest for the first time in its nearly 20-year history. The network spent nearly $500 million supporting Republican candidates and conservative policies in the 2020 election cycle alone.
Two groups closely affiliated with Charles Koch contributed $50 million of the more than $70 million that has been raised. Mr. Koch is a major shareholder in Koch Industries, which contributed $25 million to Americans for Prosperity Action, according to a preliminary draft of Federal Election Commission filings. Another $25 million was donated by Stand Together, a nonprofit he founded.
The Koch network’s goal in the 2024 presidential primaries, which has been described only indirectly in written internal communications, is to stop Mr. Trump from winning the Republican nomination. In February, a top political official in the network, Emily Seidel, wrote a memo to donors and activists saying it was time to “have a president in 2025 who represents a new chapter.” (read more)
Truthfully, this is all so brutally transparent it is becoming farcical. Who is inside the Koch network [SOURCE]
So, we are going to see all the Never Trump media orgs like Fox News, The Daily Wire, etc. etc. lining up to take the Koch money in order to make some cash with their ideological alignment.
This Koch Industries $70 million expenditure, exclusively to target Donald Trump, is on top of the $200+ million being spent by Ron DeSantis’s Never Back Down SuperPAC group. Now people are starting to get the scale of the “trillions at stake” aspect.
Recapping all of the aligned enterprises against President Trump we find: the entire Wall Street network of hedge funds and billionaires like Ken Griffin, the entire multinational corporate alignment represented by the Sea Island confab, the billionaires and industrialists who need globalism for profit, the lobbyist groups like the Chamber of Commerce and Club for Growth and the Republican Governors Association who receive funding from those groups. Then we can add the social media influencer community, Elon Musk, the network of allied conservative Never Trump punditry and top it off with the RNC as the cherry on the cake.
Yes, this opposition group represents almost the entirety of the Big Club and every control mechanism- all of it aligned against one guy, one man, who is an existential threat to their influence and affluence…. AND this is only from the Republican side of the UniParty equation. Add the entire Intelligence Apparatus into this equation, and a majority of Republicans in both chambers of Congress, and the scale of opposition takes even more context.
But wait, there’s more…
This doesn’t even include the weaponized use of the judicial branch, the NYC Alvin Bragg effort, the Fulton County GA effort and the Special Counsel Jack Smith effort. All of this… ALL OF THIS is against ONE GUY.
Think about what that reality represents when you consider the scale of corruption that infects the body politic.
And yet, stunningly, remarkably and perhaps even divinely protected, President Donald John Trump is still winning against all of this opposition.
Why and how can this be possible? Because Trump has something none of this can defeat – he has the support of a massive number of Americans who are taking a stand with President Trump as our gloriously imperfect vessel to destroy it all.
It is the most remarkable moment in history as one man stands the gap and fearlessly faces down the combined effort of decades of political corruption. It truly is inspiring.
Last point, knowing that South Dakota governor Kristi Noem is a fully networked Koch person, and knowing that Americans for Prosperity was going to spend $70 million to target Trump, I find it remarkable that Noem is making statements like this:
“President Trump is in the race and right now I don’t see a path for victory with anybody else with him in the race and the situation as it sits today,” she told South Dakota radio station KWAT.” (source)
It looks to me like Koch is holding back Kristi Noem as an insurance policy, just in case they cannot destroy Trump and he ends up victorious against him. In this scenario, perhaps they are even positioning Noem to play the role of Pence in a second Trump administration. We need to watch this angle carefully…
Fox board member Paul Ryan: “I’m for anyone not named Trump.” pic.twitter.com/QKBMtF2WYS
— Chadwick Moore (@Chadwick_Moore) June 29, 2023
yep
I did a lot of work for (David, I think) on Palm Beach back in the day. Via El Sarmiento is one of the best properties on that island.
I didn’t realize at the time that they were rino backstabbers at their core.
You’re a vile person.
Here are a list of companies and industries in which the Koch brothers own a stake:
Paper Products: Angelsoft, Brawny, Dixie, Mardi Gras, Quilted Northern, Soft n Gentle, Sparkle, Vanity Fair
Wood: Georgia-Pacific (largest plywood manufacturer in US – also owns most of the paper companies above).
Textiles & Plastics: Polarguard, Stainmaster, Dacron, Lycra, CoolMax/SolarMax, Thermolite, and more.
Chemicals, Coal, & Oil: Crude oil processing, Flint Hills Resources, lots of other commodities handled.
Nitrogen: One more reason to make your own fertilizer – Koch Industries produces many synthetic fertilizers.
Just read my tag line. Lords never work for people and lose wealth.
All that bloviation, wow, I will still vote for Trump to be President in 2024.
(conservative industrialists)
Yes, it’s a sad joke
It’s all a bunch of nonsense
Designed to deceive
25 mil that won’t be spent on on other crap
(and Conservatives backed the Kochs. This was during the Bush years. Boy were we fooled.)
Yep
Yep
Yep
I’m for Trump. I like how he sacrifices a cushy life in order to go to bat for me and those who think like I do.
You’re free to dissent, as far as I’m concerned. You’re free to hate, impugn, villify and excoriate using rancid hyperbole to your heart’s content. I wish you well.
That’s one reason it’s called Free Republic.
Meatball has zero chance of winning the GOP nomination.
Meatball has zero chance of winning the GOP nomination.
I just hope the Kochs use the millions of bucks for toilet paper before flushing it. At least that way it will go to some purpose.
Lenin was right. They will make as much as they can until it is confiscated from them and us.
Only Trump and RFK Jr. oppose the Satanic Deep State.
They are the only choices at this time.
Koch sure does make a lot of fertilizer. Koch and the suckers that take their contributions are globalist fools.
Nothing free thinking about GOPe. The censorship around here comes from two groups. RDS and Ukraine Zeeps.
Come on, I have to have my toilet paper.
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