Posted on 12/07/2021 2:12:23 AM PST by fluorescence
A group led by longtime GOP strategist Bill Kristol and a group of fellow so-called Never Trump Republicans raised more than $35 million during the 2020 election, funding projects that targeted then-President Donald Trump.
It was a record haul for the relatively young nonprofit organization, which was established in 2018, the second year of Trump’s term in office. In 2019, it raised $9 million, according to a filing.
The group, called Defending Democracy Together, used its haul to spend more than $13 million on grants during 2020. Its biggest single contribution, $6 million, went toward one of the group’s projects, Republican Voters Against Trump, according to a 990 tax disclosure first reviewed by CNBC.
That project was intended to give what the group says were Republican voters a chance to speak out through video testimony on their dislike of the former commander in chief.
Defending Democracy Together also donated over $4 million to WorkMoney, a separate 501(c)(4) nonprofit that recently launched a campaign to press moderate lawmakers to fall in line with President Joe Biden’s agenda.
A spokeswoman for Defending Democracy Together did not return a request for comment before publication.
Kristol was not always sympathetic to Democratic causes. He was an advisor in President Ronald Reagan’s administration, and he became one of the leading voices of the neoconservative movement in the Republican Party. He was the founder and editor of the conservative magazine The Weekly Standard, and was a vocal supporter of President George W. Bush’s Iraq invasion. Kristol is also known for his early support of then-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who would go on to be Sen. John McCain’s running mate on the GOP ticket in the 2008 election, when Barack Obama and Biden won control of the White House.
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Full leftward jerk
A fool and his money...
but it’s a free world...kinda....full of idiots...mostly
non-useful idiots
Kristol is whom the P word was meant.
The money was raised to pay his own salary and accomplished nothing.
I’m incredibly satisfied that the neocon warmongers are now neoliberal warmongers who will drag Byeden-Harriness further into the cesspool of history . . . along with the entire corporate Rat establishment, where it belongs.
America haters.
Humm.. doesn't disclose their donors.
Wonder why???? lol
Think we all know why.
Didn’t he make a big deal about leaving the party? In fact, he may have made the announcement two different times. I remember him announcing it a couple years ago and a web search shows he said it again this year.
When Liz Chaney farts Kristol’s ears wiggle.
I would wager they raised millions, spent some, and pocketed many millions more.
And? The rodents cheated to steal the White House and almost lost the House because they forgot to cheat in those races. So, what exactly did lil billiie mouth breather and his quislings get for the million they spent?
Broken Kristol, Frenchfry, Goldburger, Bootless and the other NRO/Weakly Standard ilk are the most vile, disgusting slithering spoogemonkeys in the world, topped only by Little Yoda Wilson, the creepazoid reptilian in chief.
Kristol is meant when Judas is discussed.
More like Defending Democrats Together.
Republicans my ass. An extension of the Pedophile Project is more like it.
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