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The Koch network and other Trump allies are quietly backing his biggest GOP critic: Rep. Liz Cheney
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Posted on 08/23/2022 11:15:25 AM PDT by FarCenter

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Immediately after her loss, she launched a leadership political action committee titled The Great Task which will allow her to keep her political aspirations alive while taking on the former president. Trump, whose home and private club Mar-a-Lago in Florida was raided by the FBI just days before the primary, has not ruled out running for president again in two years.

Cheney is using some of Trump’s own consultants and allies, including those from the powerful Koch network, to try to keep the former president from winning a second term in the White House. Some of them appear to have used limited liability companies that shroud their identity from the public.

“These people are going to be persona non grata after the Cheney loss,” a senior GOP strategist close to Trump said when asked if the president and his associates will work with the former Cheney advisors again. Jeff Miller, a longtime lobbyist and ally of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., has told vendors not to work with Cheney’s team, according to The New York Times.

Miller and a spokesman for Trump did not return a request for comment. A spokesman for Cheney did not return a request for comment.

Billionaire and conservative political backer Charles Koch is helping Cheney through i360, a data and technology company owned by his conglomerate, Koch Industries, according to financial database PitchBook and Federal Election Commission filings.

The filing shows two PACs, Conservatives for a Strong America and Wyomingites Defending Freedom and Democracy, paid i360 to help deploy pro-Cheney ads through text messages. Axios reported that the leader of Wyomingites Defending Freedom and Democracy is former Trump White House aide Julia Griswold Dailer, who didn’t return a request for comment.

A nonprofit partially funded by Charles Koch, Americans for Prosperity, paid $11 million to i360 for data services, according to the nonprofit’s 2020 tax disclosure.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts; US: New York; US: Wyoming
KEYWORDS: charleskoch; davidkoch; liberaltarians; libertarians; lizcheney; rfkjr; robertfkennedyjr; smokybackroomforum; wyoming
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To: dfwgator

Koch Brothers and Halliburton benefit from neocon policies. There are the subcontractors for the Federal government. In other words, corporate welfare leaches.


21 posted on 08/23/2022 11:29:19 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci: You had one job and you failed!)
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To: wattsgnu

I voted for Trump because he was the best choice by far.

I am well aware that he has faults as well as gifts. All humans have a mixture.


22 posted on 08/23/2022 11:30:00 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: FarCenter

Doesn’t pass the shift test at my nose. Smells a bit bovine pooey.


23 posted on 08/23/2022 11:30:21 AM PDT by blackdog (Cooler King Joe, killing a winning nation every day. )
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To: FarCenter
$11 Million huh?
What is $11 million as compared to the massive $1.6 Billion donated to the conservative PAC here?

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4087723/posts

24 posted on 08/23/2022 11:31:19 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: FarCenter

What bullcrap, The Koch brothers have never supported trump They’re like the Uniparty fake wrestling version of the hot girl in a bikini, who holds up a sign saying what round it is.


25 posted on 08/23/2022 11:32:18 AM PDT by The Fop (God Bless Donald Trump, Frank Sinatra, Joan Rivers, and the Fightin' Rat Pack Wing of the GOP)
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To: silent majority rising

I agree; the boob who wrote this doesn’t know what he is talking about. The Koch brothers fund the viciously anti-Trump National Review and I think they gave money to the Lincoln Project.


26 posted on 08/23/2022 11:33:35 AM PDT by laconic (n)
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To: dfwgator

Yep, and we’ve let them call the tune with their GOP donations for decades now.


27 posted on 08/23/2022 11:34:13 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: FarCenter

stop giving loser Liz band width, she is a nobody.


28 posted on 08/23/2022 11:34:51 AM PDT by jpsb
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To: FarCenter

You know the old saying “Hell hath no fury like a *itch with Trump derangement syndrome”.


29 posted on 08/23/2022 11:37:36 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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To: laconic
The Koch brothers fund the viciously anti-Trump National Review

"Viciously"? Really?

30 posted on 08/23/2022 11:38:05 AM PDT by x
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To: FarCenter

GOING DOWN IN BALL OF FLAMES helping DT get elected.
Crying to the cheaters for help. Laughable!

Following the ‘NWO’ orders like Bush and other RINOS.
So now you have exposed yourself as a Bush type assistant pos democrat.

Now go set on RINO daddy’s lap and pout.

OUT WITH THE RINOS!!!!!

Yes, I’m pizzed!


31 posted on 08/23/2022 11:41:28 AM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (D.I.S.T.R.A.C.T.I.O.N.S.)
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To: FarCenter

I apologize for interrupting, but this is interesting:

On Greg Kelly’s Newsmax show last night, he interviewed a young woman who heads or is a member of an organization which helps people who have problems with government.

She was in court yesterday where...get this...one of the four cops who testified in J6 committee was testifying about being attacked by one of the demonstrators and had his shield ripped off and it caused him to be so handicapped that he no longer could work.

Well, the Public Defender had film of the incident which clearly showed that NOTHING OF WHAT THE COP CLAIMED.

PD ran the film several times once in slow motion so it was clear.

She embarrassed the “cop” and is now accusing him of PERJURY.

IT WAS NICE TO SEE SOMETHING HAPPEN THAT WAS POSITIVE IN THE UNLAWFUL J6 FIASCO.
I apologize again. Please forgive me.


32 posted on 08/23/2022 11:45:23 AM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: dfwgator

THIS WILL NOT END WELL


33 posted on 08/23/2022 11:49:47 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: silent majority rising

Reporter wants to make it as if there is a new wave of discontent in Trump.

Meanwhile McCain is crying in hell to tell them not to do it but they do not hear that scrooge.


34 posted on 08/23/2022 11:50:26 AM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hates:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: x

Have you read National Review? They did an entire issue of Trump hate before the 2016 election and they haven’t changed their outlook one iota since then. Its not Bill Buckley’s magazine.


35 posted on 08/23/2022 11:50:30 AM PDT by laconic (n)
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To: FarCenter

Hey Liz. Run as a Democrat from your REAL home in VA!


36 posted on 08/23/2022 11:56:04 AM PDT by LeonardFMason
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To: FarCenter

Polls show that a Cheney independent run for President would hurt Biden more than Trump. 4D chess?


37 posted on 08/23/2022 12:06:16 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: FarCenter

Kocks? Trump allies?

That. Right. There.

made up bullcrap being spouted by pathological liars and idiots.

Any reading beyond that is just wallowing in stupid.


38 posted on 08/23/2022 12:08:22 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: FarCenter

They’re “backing her”. For what purpose? She’s toast.


39 posted on 08/23/2022 12:08:59 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: FarCenter

If true, they’re wasting their money.


40 posted on 08/23/2022 12:13:27 PM PDT by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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