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#Trump’s small-dollar #donor #fundraising is #beset by #confusion and #fatigue.
Fewer than a 1/3rd of the #Republican’s #campaign #contributions have come from #smalldonors who gave less than $200
— #ConvictedFelon #DonaldTrump is all about #grifting and #pickingthepockets of his #supporters.
#Democratic #donors prop up #farright #candidates including #Wisconsin #gunnut in #Senate #race.
#DavidSteinglass, a #wealthy #donor, has supported scores of #Democrats #runningforoffice and calls himself an #activist for #transgender #rights, yet he supports a #Fascist #AmericaFirst #candidate
"It means that the same kinds of voices get heard by prime ministers & people in #government over and again. Their views and their priorities come to occupy an outsized place in the discussion. It is, as political scientist Holly Ann Garnett wrote: “the most exclusionary form of political participation, since it is overwhelmingly a function of a #donor’s income”.
Do the Starmers’ expensive donated clothes matter? Yes and no
https://theconversation.com/do-the-starmers-expensive-donated-clothes-matter-yes-and-no-239334
#ethicalpolitics
#labourparty
#ukgovernment
Labour Sleaze Row Deepens With No 10 Pass To Top Donor | HuffPost UK Politics
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour-sleaze-row-deepens-as-tories-demand-to-know-who-gave-no10-pass-to-top-donor_uk_66cc2e28e4b0f0ded8063884
“Labour’s £4m offshore hedge fund donor invested $40m in… climate engineering…”
by Steve Topple in The Canary @thecanary @UKLabour
“Quadrature had investments in fossil fuel, arms, and private healthcare companies.”
https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2024/09/19/labour-4m-offshore-donor/?__s=pw3ygmyxve9etudpqdrh
“The Real [US] Election Meddling Will Happen Right Out In The Open”
by Caitlin Johnstone in Caitlin’s Newsletter on Substack
“This election rigging will not be done by #Russia, or by #China, or by #Iran, or by far right coup plotters, or by some shadowy cabal tampering with voting machines. It will happen right out in the open, and will be perfectly legal.
In fact, it’s already happening.”
The company has little revenue & TruthSocial has yet to catch on as a threat to other #socialmedia platforms. #Trump’s stake is currently worth ~$2B. In 1 week, he will be able to sell his shares for the first time.
Joining #DevinNunes on the trip were 2 other figures in Trump’s orbit: #Pavlovski, the #Rumble CEO, & #HowardLutnick, a Trump #donor & #WallStreet exec who helped Rumble go public & was recently named the co-chair of Trump’s #transition team.
Crypto super PAC Fairshake just lost a billionaire Dem donor: Report - Top Democratic Party donor Ron Conway has split from pro-crypto Fairshak... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-super-pac-fairshake-loses-top-democrat-donor #democraticparty #sherrodbrown #fairshake #democrats #ronconway #superpac #crypto #donor #pac
#DonaldTrump #flippant #remarks About the #MedalofHonor #Inspires #Vets to #Anger.
The former president #denigrated #CongressionalMedalofHonor #recipients in an effort to #butterup a #wealthy #donor. Trump stated the Presidential #MedalofFreedom was “much better” than the military’s top award, because those awarded the latter are, in his words, “ … either in #verybadshape because they’ve been hit so many times by #bullets or they’re #dead.”
https://whowhatwhy.org/cartoon/donald-trump-inspires-vets-with-comments-about-the-medal-of-honor/
#Trump says #presidential #civilian #award is '#better' than top #military #honor whose #recipients are '#dead' or '#hit' by #bullets.
Trump praised #Republican #donor #MiriamAdelson for having received the #PresidentialMedalofFreedom, a top #civilian #award calling it better than the #Congressional #MedalOfHonor.
[Video] #DonaldTrump #insults #veterans yet again.
The #FormerPresident lauded a #wealthy #donor on whom he bestowed the #PresidentialMedalofFreedom as having gotten the "#better" #award compared to the top #military #honor, the #MedalofHonor, because those #recipients are often #deceased or #injured. The #MorningJoe #panel discusses Trump's #insults against #veterans.
https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/donald-trump-insults-veterans-yet-again-217302085945