Posted on 10/02/2023 9:31:44 AM PDT by Kazan
Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short joined “60 Minutes” last night to discuss his upcoming book Going Infinite about disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried.
Michael Lewis told the far left news program that the former finance CEO met with Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell ahead of the 2022 election. McConnell persuaded SBF to donate millions to his list of anti-Trump candidates.
Lewis told 60 Minutes that Sam Bankman-Fried donated millions to support Mitch McConnell’s anti-Trump GOP senate candidates.
Via Real Clear Politics:
60 MINUTES: To that end, Lewis writes that in 2022, Bankman-Fried met with the most unlikely of allies, Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. According to Lewis, Bankman-Fried wanted to help McConnell fund Republican candidates at odds with Donald Trump.
JON WERTHEIM, 60 MINUTES: You’re flying with Sam and he tells you about a meeting he’s gonna have with Mitch McConnell.
MICHAEL LEWIS: Well, the interesting thing starts before we even get on the plane. I meet him at the airport, and he comes tumbling out of a car. And he’s in his cargo shorts and his T-shirt. And he’s got, balled up in his hand– it takes me a while to see what it is, but it’s a blue suit. It’s got more wrinkles than any blue suit ever had. It’s been just jammed into this little ball. (laughs) And a shoe, like, falls out of the pile that he’s got in his arms. And I said, like, “What– why you have the suit?” And he says– (laughs) he says, “Mi– Mitch McConnell really cares what you wear when you– (laughs) when you meet with him.” And he’s having dinner in six hours with Mitch McConnell. And I– I said, “Well, you got the suit. Is there– you got a belt?” He goes, “No. I don’t have a belt.” I said, “You got– you have a shirt?” He goes, “No. No shirt,” “and the suit, you really can’t really wear that suit.” And he goes, “Yeah. But they told me to bring a suit.”
60 MINUTES: According to Lewis, Bankman-Fried wanted to help McConnell fund Republican candidates at odds with Donald Trump…
MICHAEL LEWIS: What is the subtext of this dinner, is Sam is gonna write tens of millions of dollars of checks to a super PAC that Mitch McConnell is then gonna use to get elected people who are not “hostile to democracy.”
JON WERTHEIM, 60 MINUTES: Wait. So, Mitch McConnell has a list of Republican candidates who are, sort of, on the playing field for democracy versus what he deemed outside?
MICHAEL LEWIS: He and his team had done the work to distinguish between actual deep Trumpers and people who were just seeming to approve of Donald Trump but we actually willing to govern.
It should be noted that McConnell refused to fund popular conservative candidate Blake Masters in Arizona.
Blake Masters lost on election day after the Maricopa County officials made sure the voting machines were not working that day in over 60 percent of the voting centers.
Trump endorsed McConnell.
It just keeps getting worse and worse. Does that make us co-conspirators when we voted for these individuals who promised us the complete opposite from what they actually did?
Birds of a feather flock together.
Translation from nickie-speak: "I don't know how politics works"
The Turtle strikes again.
When Benedict Arnold moved to England, he was treated like shite. Nobody likes a traitor, even those they help.
https://youtube.com/shorts/5tddpTBES2k?si=pujQ0ljIiFZLkTNB
Isn’t that receiving stolen money?
And to all those who said that the Red Wave never materialized because Trump lost us seats in the House and Senate.........................
Non-sequitur
Yeah. As much as I like him, Trump is sometimes as clueless as anyone. I'd like to think that if he gets another chance (incredibly unlikely, given the vast array of forces willing to do anything to stop that from happening), he will do things differently, and he will be more aware of just how many backstabbing scum there are in D.C.
That doesn’t make Trump wrong, it is McConnell that has been dishonest. You sometimes have to take a risk that someone might try to stab you in the back. I don’t like McConnell but he has a lot of power. A couple more strokes and that can change. I will probably have a big drink of Schadenfreude.
“America has the best politicians money can buy.”
Will Rogers
Did you prefer the lesbian liberal? Was she more to your taste?
When is a turtle a snake?
“McConnell persuaded Sam Bankman-Fried to donate millions to his list of anti-Trump candidates.”
This is one of the many reasons why RINOs are worse than Democrats. They prevent conservatives from being elected or serving in any government position.
My last real try at voting aside from Trump was the TEA party liars.
Michael Lewis has a remarkable ability to get things out of people he follows.
Show us the FEC records of these donations. They don’t show up in Open Secets. What he did seem to do is fund a lot of Democrat run Anti GOP super pacs
Sam Bankman-Fried was just the middleman. He should never see the outside of a prison cell until he coughs up who made each illegal campaign donation.
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