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Walmart Billionaire Christy Walton Among Biggest Donors To Anti-Trump Republican Group Facing Trump’s Ire
forbes.com ^ | 7/16/2020 | kristin stoller

Posted on 07/16/2020 8:55:40 AM PDT by bitt

A video released by a recently formed anti-Trump group on Monday sparked an overnight Twitter rampage from President Donald Trump. One of the group’s richest backers? Walmart billionaire Christy Walton.

The Lincoln Project, a super-PAC founded by prominent Republicans including George Conway (husband of White House advisor Kellyanne Conway), released the video, titled “Mourning in America,” attacking Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. The one-minute video postulated, “Under the leadership of Donald Trump, our country is weaker and sicker and poorer. And now Americans are asking, ‘If we have another four years like this, will there even be an America?’” The group is currently asking for donations to help run the video as an advertisement on national television.

The video was a play on Ronald Reagan’s 1984 “Morning in America” campaign ad, which highlighted the positive impact of Reagan’s first term. In response to the ad, Trump called The Lincoln Project leaders “loser types” and tweeted, “A group of RINO Republicans who failed badly 12 years ago, then again 8 years ago, and then got BADLY beaten by me, a political first timer, 4 years ago, have copied (no imagination) the concept of an ad from Ronald Reagan, ‘Morning in America’, doing everything possible to get even for all of their many failures.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: china; christywalton; forbes; georgeconway; kristinstoller; lincolnproject; may2020; oldnews; redchina; tds; twitter; walmart; walmarx; walton
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To: shelterguy

The article I posted has a different CEO of walmart than what you posted.


41 posted on 07/16/2020 9:53:51 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Slo-Joe Biden... puts the DEM in Dementia.)
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To: bitt

It was not that long ago if you bashed Wal marts China connection on conservative pages you were ridiculed and bashed for being against free market capitalism.

How dare you tell me where to my goods the cheapest!!!

How times have changed.


42 posted on 07/16/2020 9:53:55 AM PDT by setter
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To: setter

I remember when Walmart was all about made in the USA!!


43 posted on 07/16/2020 9:55:12 AM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Beagle8U

There are myriad articles saying masks will be mandatory at all WalMarts and Sams Clubs beginning Monday.

I don’t go there. Maybe you could go on Monday and give us a first hand report.


44 posted on 07/16/2020 9:56:31 AM PDT by shelterguy
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To: b4its2late
Walton.

"Rachel" Richard Levine, the trans secretary of health in PA, God help us.


45 posted on 07/16/2020 9:57:05 AM PDT by USS Alaska (NUKE THE MOOSELIMB, TERRORISTS, NOW!)
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To: mn-bush-man

Thank you for your comment...Walmart has destroyed middle-class, small-town America by putting local merchants out of business, closing down family-owned manufacturers who can’t compete with slave labor factories in China, and depopulated downtown squares where mom and pop property owners now have empty, deteriorating storefronts. Talk about a company that needs to be boycotted!!! I do and have for many years...


46 posted on 07/16/2020 9:58:35 AM PDT by dunblak
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To: bitt

Is it any wonder that Walmart has a leftist CEO who hates a large share of his customers?


47 posted on 07/16/2020 10:12:01 AM PDT by Aetius
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To: b4its2late

Definitely a man. Probably was Chris before the wig.


48 posted on 07/16/2020 10:19:00 AM PDT by TeddyRay
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To: USS Alaska

Can anyone find a picture of Dr. Okun from Independence day to compare/contrast


49 posted on 07/16/2020 10:23:01 AM PDT by slapshot ( Speaker Ryan was a sober and less tan version of John Boehner)
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To: Aetius

Get woke, go broke


50 posted on 07/16/2020 10:23:24 AM PDT by slapshot ( Speaker Ryan was a sober and less tan version of John Boehner)
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To: bitt

Lincoln Project - bump for later...


51 posted on 07/16/2020 10:36:39 AM PDT by indthkr
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To: bitt

What’s WalMart? I’ve had it with them......hopefully many more will eventually drop them. Order on line and get free shipping from the comfort of your cool, quiet, Covid-free home.......;)


52 posted on 07/16/2020 10:38:07 AM PDT by Dawgreg
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To: bitt

I worked for Wally for 5 years at their corporate HQ back in the early 2000s.

They buy a LOT of stuff from China. I’m sure its quite inconvenient for them to look for alternative sources of low cost supply. I’m sure they don’t like the tariffs President Trump has put on China with the promise of more.


53 posted on 07/16/2020 11:12:06 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: bitt

Weren’t the Waltons cozy with the Clintons?


54 posted on 07/16/2020 11:56:53 AM PDT by Savage Beast (President Trump, loving God, America, and the American People, is on the Side of love the Angels!)
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To: bitt
***attacking Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic***

All the Trump people have to do is document how the 0bama Admin responded to the H1N1 virus - almost not at all. Why do Repubs never figure out how to fight back?

55 posted on 07/16/2020 12:01:49 PM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)
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To: Bob Ireland
Kayleigh McEnany ended her press conference today with a statement about Obama's just stopping testing for H1N1 during his administration. You can watch the press conference now uploaded on GoldenStateTimes youtube.

I wish I could have seen the "reporters" facial expressions. We already knew this about Obama, but the so-called press must spend their time with their hands over their eyes lest they inadvertantly see anything negative about Obama or any other Dem.

56 posted on 07/16/2020 12:09:33 PM PDT by Freee-dame
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To: nikos1121

It tells me the former masters and leaders of the Republican party are all facing unemployment because Donald Trump is America first not Republican 1st And certainly not in bed with the chamber of Commerce.


57 posted on 07/16/2020 12:11:30 PM PDT by MIA_eccl1212 (When the bad guys have leverage they often use it)
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To: Freee-dame
***the so-called press must spend their time with their hands over their eyes lest they inadvertantly see anything negative about Obama or any other Dem***

The three monkeys: see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. :^)

***Kayleigh McEnany ended her press conference today with a statement about Obama's just stopping testing for H1N1 during his administration***

Excellent! I have heard that she is a cut above the usual pedestrian crowd.

58 posted on 07/16/2020 12:22:53 PM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)
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To: Bob Ireland
I have heard that she is a cut above the usual pedestrian crowd.

Kayleigh McEnany is far above any press secretary I have ever seen. She is knowledgable, brilliant, pleasant and well-spoken.

She answers most questions from her head, but she has a notebook which she thumbs through while a "reporter" is asking a snarky gotcha question. When she finds the relevant information, she says something like "I'm glad you asked that" and then hits them with detailed specifics to refute their attack.

She refers them to the CDC, DOJ, etc. where appropriate. She ends each press conference with a smack-down of information that is of her choosing. Well worth a watch.

She calls on each person once. They may ask more than one question, but do not get a second term. There is order in the press room.

59 posted on 07/16/2020 12:35:58 PM PDT by Freee-dame
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To: Freee-dame
***Kayleigh McEnany is far above any press secretary I have ever seen. She is knowledgable, brilliant, pleasant and well-spoken***

I admit I never watch; too many med issues of late. Is there a single daily source?

60 posted on 07/16/2020 12:40:31 PM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)
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