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
How dare anyone oppose Lord Trump!
Differing opinions are not allowed under Lord Trump!
Silence the dissenters!
Censor the posters!
Banish the free thinkers!
Just makin’ sure that America is never great again.
Why would “Kristi Noem” play any roll in second Trump administration...she already backs Desantis...I mean look at Mike Pence, turned out to be another status quo establishment guy...visiting Ukraine? that guy does not get it...he should take a hint with his terrible poll numbers.
Crazy,Left-Wing, Commie * checks notes * Koch Foundation?
Paul Ryan’s personal backers. This has Ryan’s finger prints all this.
Buried in this article is this little Gem.
“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.”
$200 Million Given To DeGlobalist.
The Kock Brother is one of the biggest globalist on the planet.
I remember when the left hated the Koch’s.
As if the Kochs can do anything to Trump folks arent already doing.
They could just give me $7 million, and they’ll get the same results, but they won’t have to wait, because I’ll tell them the truth they don’t want to hear right from the start.
> conservative industrialists
LOL! That’s a good one.
He’s a democrat.
His job is to get a Democrat elected on the GOP ticket, just in case.
The American system is rigged by the wealthy and special interest groups.
It’s been an elaborate scam for some time now.
As if the Bushes and Clinton’s are on opposite sides. This whole charade is one sad joke.
Assuming that they still support ‘Republicans’ (at least their type), are they now admitting that they prefer a Democrat, any Democrat, to Trump?
I have to assume such because if ANYONE is stupid enough to believe that Trump’s base of 15 Million or so Working Class people, who are willing to walk on glass for him, will simply migrate to a Mitt Romney clone, they’re psychotic...and without those 15 Million, whichever Romney clone the Republicans nominates is TOAST.
So, whether the Kochs or Paul Ryan, or ANYONE else likes it - this election is CLEARLY either Trump or the Democrat.
“How dare anyone oppose Lord Trump!
Differing opinions are not allowed under Lord Trump!
Silence the dissenters! Censor the posters! Banish the free thinkers!”
Sounds like a plan to me.
Quote: “How dare anyone oppose Lord Trump! Differing opinions are not allowed under Lord Trump! Silence the dissenters! Censor the posters! Banish the free thinkers!”
Heck no. Bring on dissent and bring on the debates here on FR.
But I do have a question for the Koch Bros. Is it that you are opposing Trump the man? Or do the hate his agenda?
I believe that many in the GOP use opposition to Trump the man to cover their true motives. The decry his immaturity and lack of judgment and this and that. But I believe that what they truly HATE is the agenda. If they didn’t, they would espouse it more. Instead, their agenda is the Bush agenda which is the Ruling Class agenda.
The Koch’s, Bushes, Romney’s, McConnell’s, etc. only oppose the democrats because they want to be in charge of where the payola goes. They want to be the “Big Guy” who things are kicked up to.
They play Conservative to the base but HATE their own base. America First!?! Hell no, not if it gets in the way of cheap labor and crappy free trade deals and endless war and on.
I vote my wallet and pro 2A. That rules out most all politicians. Trump is a businessman.
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I have no problem with Ron speaking because each time he does his poll numbers decline. Keep talking Ron.
The guy just is unable to connect.
“I remember when the left hated the Koch’s.’
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So do I......and Conservatives backed the Kochs. This was during the Bush years. Boy were we fooled.
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