Yes, Fox News has a strict policy against having paid contributors who are directly related to candidates. Laura will be appearing as an unpaid guest during the campaign and after if Trump is elected. Contrast this with CNN and Chrissy being the lead commentator/anchor and cheerleader for the governor/his brother. Try again. Maybe do a few Debbie Downer rounds on Elon Musk while you are looking for some new Trump material.
Now Lara can stay home and cook from Eric, like a good little conservative wife as defined by the Christian Nationalists who love Trump so much. Or at least stop Eric from drooling and saying more stupid stuff.
You got both your religious intolerance and misogyny in all in one shot. That's how you lefties roll. Of course you get instructions and scripts from your handlers to keep your training up. Most likely Lara will not be spending her time helping people to figure out which bathroom to use as your ilk do. And most likely Lara will be following a better lifestyle than Joe Biden's son and daughter will.
I caught the right-wing religious intolerance and misogyny all in one shot --- well that's a two-fer. But they are so intertwined it is hard to miss.
You are a full time hater of anyone who is not on your approved list from the DNC. When your Chinese buddies take over the world that will be a good fit for you.
I find your assertions amusing --- because it is hard to frame me as a supporter of left-wing progressives or of right-wing extremists. I particularly have a problem with people who want to undermine democracy and cause violence in our streets -- whether it is ANTIFA or the MAGA crowd. I appropriately criticize both.
"Corruption": Democrats sound the alarm on alleged Trump pardon bribery scheme https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...A14VGSs?cvid=dad55c2e08074c0d9ebb2db10a48b307 U.S. House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Raúl Grijalva and committee member Rep. Katie Porter are investigating an alleged bribery scheme in which they believe a real estate developer donated to a super PAC aligned in support of former President Donald Trump in exchange for pardons for two other men. The two Democrats wrote to Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on Friday, calling on her department to release all documents related to the pardons of Dwight and Steven Hammond, who had been convicted in 2012 of setting fires on public lands they had leased after illegally killing deer on the land. The two men were sentenced to five years in prison with time served in 2015, sparking right-wing protests including a 40-day armed occupation of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon. Grijalva, Ariz., and Porter, Calif., believe real estate developer Mike Ingram—who was the subject of the Natural Resources Committee's first-ever criminal referral regarding another potential bribery case involving a clean water permit for one of his developments—secured the Hammonds' pardons in 2018 with a $10,000 donation to the America First Action, Inc. Super PAC. According to the letter, Ingram's assistant emailed a Trump Interior Department official on May 25, 2018, attaching two articles arguing for the Hammonds to be pardoned. On July 1, a Republican lawmaker who supported the Hammonds tweeted that Trump was "seriously considering" pardoning them. One day later, Ingram made his donation, and just over a week after that Trump announced he was pardoning the Hammonds. "Mr. Ingram made only one other $10,000 donation during the 2017-2018 nonpresidential election cycle," wrote Grijalva and Porter. "That donation was the subject of the committee's criminal referral regarding the Villages at Vigneto development [in Arizona]. In that case, Ingram and 12 other individuals, many of whom maintained personal or professional relationships with Ingram, donated nearly a quarter of a million dollars to the Trump Victory Fund and the Republican National Committee on the same day or within just a few days that a major federal action regarding Vigneto was made in Ingram's favor." "The parallels between the Vigneto case and the Hammonds' pardons raise significant concerns about another potential case of bribery under the Trump administration and warrant further investigation," they added. On social media, Porter noted that she and Grijalva uncovered the evidence of Ingram's alleged bribe "while investigating a possible $240,000 quid pro quo scheme between the Trump administration and a developer." "We're requesting documents to help us get to the bottom of [the Ingram case]," Porter said. "I have zero tolerance for corruption."
Congress under the gun to ban 'scammy' method Trump put to use to fleece his followers https://www.rawstory.com/donald-ytrump-scam-2658987920/ According to a report from the Daily Beast, the Federal Election Commission is putting pressure on Congress -- practically "begging," according to the Beast's Roger Sollenberger -- to shut down methods employed by Donald Trump and other lawmakers to milk their followers for campaign cash. Specifically the "recurring donation" scam the former president has deployed and still uses, after losing his re-election bid in 2020 to President Joe Biden. According to a New York Times investigation in 2021, the former president was facing a cash crunch in 2020 before the election and made changes to his campaign's donation page that opted online donors into making automatic weekly recurring contributions by "prechecking a box on its digital donation forms," unless the supporter unchecked the box to avoid halt the recurring payment. That, in turn, led to the former president refunding over $13 million after the report came out. Now the FEC wants Congress to step in and ban the practice. As Sollenberger wrote, "It’s not the first time the FEC has floated many of those same proposals, which include requests to shut legal loopholes related to the personal use of political funds, so-called 'scam PACs,' and straw donor schemes. The agency asked Congress to put more muscle behind those laws last year, too, but lawmakers seem even more averse to the idea than the notoriously sluggish FEC, whose routine partisan deadlocks over enforcement have led critics to declare the agency 'broken.'" According to Saurav Ghosh of the Campaign Legal Center, "It’d be great if they took action before the 2024 election, because it’s fair to think these problems will rear their head again.” The report goes on to note that Trump is not the only perpetrator, and the scam flourished through the recent midterm election. "Throughout the midterms, political committees continued barraging potential donors with controversial fundraising requests with pre-checked boxes to make contributions recur automatically," Sollenberger wrote. "That’s despite widespread previous reports that 2020 donors—many of them elderly—had complained that the language of those solicitations misled them, claiming they weren’t aware at the time that they were authorizing repeat withdrawals. Many donors have said it’s difficult to cancel the action or get their money back." According to a draft from the FEC, "Commission staff are regularly contacted by individuals who have discovered recurring contributions to political committees have been charged to their credit card accounts or deducted from their checking accounts. In many cases, the contributors do not recall authorizing recurring contributions. Often, these contributors have attempted unsuccessfully to cancel the recurring transactions with the political committee prior to contacting FEC staff.” The report adds, "While members of Congress have demonstrated bipartisan appetite to snuff out scam PACs, federal legislative efforts haven’t made headway. That leaves enforcement to the Justice Department and state and local authorities, who dedicate their limited resources only to the most obscene violators. The FEC, meanwhile, can only abide by its mandate, which isn’t currently explicit enough to close the loophole." You can read more here.