Posted on 09/15/2023 3:12:37 PM PDT by Kazan
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis had absolutely nothing on his schedule for his official duties as Governor of Florida on September 14, 2023, which also happened to be his 45th birthday. Instead of spending his birthday in Florida on Thursday, a weekday, in which he is supposed to be working as Governor of Florida, a job he is paid to do with Florida tax payer money, DeSantis spent his birthday fundraising for his failed Presidential campaign in New York City with elitist Wall Street donors.
DeSantis kicked his birthday morning off with a breakfast fundraiser in New York City that was hosted by several wealthy executives, including attorney William Burck, David Blumberg, the founder of Blumberg Capital, Steve Hornstein, an executive at the investment advisory firm Global Credit Advisers, and Mark Gerson, the co-founder of financial information services company Gerson Lehrman Group. Attendees of the fundraiser had to pay an astounding $11,600 per plate entry price.
This week, US Senator and former Presidential candidate Mitt Romney announced he isn’t running for re-election to the US Senate in a cryptic video message. His announcement came two days after I posted exclusive photos of him while he was traveling solo at the Palm Beach International airport in Florida, where Ron DeSantis is Governor. Was Mitt Romney fundraising for Ron DeSantis in Palm Beach, home to President Trump and mega donor central? Perhaps, and Ron DeSantis’s recent fundraising trip to New York City with some of Mitt Romney’s closest advisors adds fuel to the fire.
There is no such thing as a coincidence. And it appears that just days after Romney was spotted in Florida, and announced he won’t be seeking re-election, all of his biggest financial backers from 2012 are hosting high dollar fundraisers for Ron DeSantis in the same week in the tristate area. The attendees and host committees of the fundraisers all included prominent donors to Senator Mitt Romney.
William A. Burck is a prolific Mitt Romney donor who contributed over $27,000 to Romney’s failed 2012 Presidential campaign through various avenues. Burck also donated to the comically inept 2016 Republican Presidential campaign of Jeb Bush when Bush was challenging Donald Trump for the 2016 GOP Presidential nomination.
David Blumberg, another high-dollar DeSantis donor who was raising money for the failed candidate in New York at the breakfast fundraiser, has a history of donating to DeSantis allies, including Nevada Senator Adam Laxalt, who was once roommates with DeSantis during naval officer training.
In October of 2022, I reported how Ron DeSantis had a secret meeting in Utah with Mitt Romney. At the time, DeSantis was planning to bring on Mitt Romney’s Presidential campaign apparatus for his own 2024 anti-Trump Presidential campaign which DeSantis has been plotting since 2020. Of course, DeSantis and Romney have a very public shared hatred of former President Donald Trump and a mutual interest in making sure President Trump is not elected in 2024.
Through a recent investigation into Romney’s campaign finances, I was able to uncover the fact that Romney’s campaign account was given a whopping $714,004.14 on June 21st, 2023 by an outfit called ‘Targeted Victory LLC.’ ‘Targeted Victory LLC’ is a company run by a man named Zac Moffat, who previously worked for Romney as his ‘digital director.’ Moffat now works with Senator Tim Scott, another Republican opponent of President Donald Trump in the 2024 Republican primary. See evidence of that transaction courtesy of the Federal Election Commission’s campaign election finance database below (at link).
Whether it be through Ron DeSantis, or Senator Tim Scott, Mitt Romney seems to be heavily involved in attempts to stop Donald Trump from becoming the Republican nominee for President in 2024.
Following his birthday fundraiser breakfast, Ron DeSantis bolted over to a fundraiser luncheon for his Presidential campaign that was hosted by Emil Henry, the CEO of the private equity firm Tiger Infrastructure Partners. Emil Henry is a longtime GOP fundraiser and was an advisor to Sen. Mitt Romney’s 2012 Presidential campaign. Emil Henry also worked as the assistant secretary of the Treasury during President George W. Bush’s administration. In 2015, when former Florida Governor Jeb Bush was running for President in a crowded GOP primary against then candidate Donald Trump, Emil Henry hosted a fundraiser for Jeb Bush in the Hamptons.
A screenshot of the Governor’s schedule shows he didn’t do any work on September 14th (his birthday), and on September 13th, he canceled work for the rest of the day following a 10 am EST roundtable.
It is worth noting that Greenwich, CT is the wealthiest zip code in America aside from 33480 in Palm Beach, Florida. DeSantis’s purpose of being there was to attend a fundraiser for his Presidential campaign at the home of Connecticut GOP fundraiser Scott Frantz. Emil Henry’s name also appears on the invite to the fundraiser, which is worth nothing since he hosted a fundraiser for Ron DeSantis in New York City the next day.
Frantz hosted high dollar fundraisers for Mitt Romney, John McCain, and George W. Bush when they ran for President. Franz also donated $100,000 to @MittRomney’s Super PAC and once raised $1.5 MILLION for Mitt Romney in one single day.
To attend the VIP reception at this Greenwich fundraiser and to get a photo with Ron DeSantis, couples had to pay $23,200. The event also offered VIP admission to bundlers who have raised $50,000 or more for DeSantis’s Presidential campaign.
As I reported in 2022, Ron DeSantis has made a deal with Mitt Romney and the Bush’s for the sake of raising millions of dollars to sabotage President Trump.
Unfortunately for little Ron DeSantis, all of Romney’s horses and all of Bush’s men won’t be enough to ever make him President. DeSantis continues to struggle in polls nationwide, leading many to believe that he will soon drop out of the Presidential race. His campaign is bleeding cash, and despite seven figure spends on anti-Trump TV ad buys in Iowa and New Hampshire, DeSantis is trailing Donald Trump by more than 35 points. It honestly would not surprise me if Romney, DeSantis, and Scott all turn to a ‘no labels’ party in 2024 in an effort to continue their sabotage tour of President Trump. The swamp creatures in the Uniparty who are hell-bent on stopping Donald Trump from ever becoming President again, will literally do anything to avoid facing consequences for their corruption, and their crimes.
While Ron DeSantis spent his birthday attending $11,600 plate breakfasts with Romney and Bush donors, President Trump continues to fend off attacks from the Washington D.C. political establishment that happily supports people like Mitt Romney and the Bush family. If you want to know who is really a threat to our nation alongside the marxists and communists, look no further than those in the Republican Party establishment who have partnered with the Democrats for a joint political persecution of Donald Trump. The candidacy of Ron DeSantis, who owes his entire political career to Donald Trump, and DeSantis’s willingness to cut deals with Mitt Romney, John McCain, and the Bush family’s financial and political apparatus is proof that Ron DeSantis is not only bought and paid for, but it also proves that the Republican establishment is willing to fund and elevate literally any other candidate whose name isn’t Donald Trump.
More false claims.
More false claims.
That headline = a deeper hole.
I think that this thing of the center trying to give the left whatever they want so no one has to listen to the right is backfiring big time and people know that Mittens and the Bushies are all over this destruction of our country. Once they got rid of Trump what did they think they were going to do- repudiate the left and retake control???? Really, what was the plan here? What were they thinking. Or was this as well thought out as the plan to fix the middle east by invading Iraq. That was shear genius.
Yesterday was my birthday. Ugh.
DeSantis is being asked to join in the “get Trump” gang of Beltway miscreants and oligarchs, in exchange for a future in national politics. Same with Crusty, King of Doughnuts.
Know him by what fruit are buying him. Meatball is a disgusting GOPe phony. I hope those slime continue wasting their money on this dolt.
Bushite Donors for Ronnie. LOL.
He was asked as far back as 2018.
The Bush Cartel may be unhappy if their move against Ken Paxton fails....
Hès going from bad to worse...
Teaming up with Willard won’t save him...
So some of us were correct. Desantis is indeed riding the failed coat tails of mitt romney and Jeb bush.
his campaign should take off now just like a rocketship full of fuel, but no where to go.
That is completely false, however.
Happy belated birthday!
When I was young...it was worse...it was exam time in our schools.
Obviously the only possible reason for Romney to be in Palm Beach was to fund raise for DeSantis. The idea that Romney would do face to face meetings with people to raise funds is idiotic.
She idiotically points out that Palm Beach is "in Florida, where Ron DeSantis is Governor". The significance of that is not explained. She may has well have said Romney was in Palm Beach where Trump lives.
Ron DeSantis’s recent fundraising trip to New York City with some of Mitt Romney’s closest advisors adds fuel to the fire.
Who are they?
There is no such thing as a coincidence. And it appears that just days after Romney was spotted in Florida, and announced he won’t be seeking re-election, all of his biggest financial backers from 2012 are hosting high dollar fundraisers for Ron DeSantis in the same week in the tristate area.
Were all of Romney's biggest financial backers from 2012 there? I say she's making that up.
Why would the announcement that he's not seeking reelection be timed to coincide with a DeSantis fundraiser? They couldn't hold a fundraiser if Romney hadn't made that announcement?
This idiotic "analysis" makes no sense to anyone with an IQ above room temp.
Yes it is. All made up.
Vivek seems to get it.
There’s a reason Tucker wouldn’t allow her on his show...
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