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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: FarCenter

Who the hell ever said the KOCH Brothers were TRUMP allies?

They are establishment GOP Money men.. to be sure...

If the Koch’s had had their way Amnesty would haver happened a long time ago...

Where do these people get this stuff?


61 posted on 08/25/2022 5:50:56 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: Safrguns

You are welcome to your interpretation. Be well.


62 posted on 08/25/2022 11:44:52 AM PDT by JayGalt (For evil men to accomplish their purpose it is only necessary that good men should do nothing.”)
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