A Mystery $325,000 To A Pro-Trump Super PAC Confounds Experts | Talking Points Memo

America First Action senior adviser and White House press secretary Sean Spicer

I just knew only the best people were involved!

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God damn Justice Roberts. He has been working on messing with our voting since his time in the Reagan admn. His name should be attached to ctiizens united and any other decisions curtailing voting rights and suppression.

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The information will have to be disclosed eventually, but unless and until there is actually law enforcement action, the lawyer in this case remains obligated to protect his client’s confidentiality.

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Found it, $325,000 minus Cohen’s 25,000 cut.

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‘I don’t know anything about that
About who ?
That who
Who’s on first.

Nothing to see here
And that’s precisely the problem.

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“At this point attorneys examining the records and campaign finance experts have been unable to determine the ultimate origin of the $325,000.”

How can that be a thing. Facebook can tell you what time to use the bathroom and they can’t follow the money?

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What the fu@K! I got dinged by the IRS because I forgot to report a $325 stipend, yet these assholes get away with THIS?

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Let’s see here; a Koch Bro has gone bye-bye and corporate raider T. Boone Pickens just bit the dust…might Rudy Ghoulini’s number be next?

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America First Action denied any impropriety to TPM, saying in a statement that “America First Action takes our legal obligations seriously and scrupulously complies with the law.”

And we’ve taken a close look at all applicable laws, and we didn’t break any of them.

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Meeeelyons! (About 21.2 meeelyons off rubles, for round numbahs.)

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Thank you John Roberts, Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy. You managed to make DC an even more fetid, miasmic swamp.
May you rot in hell. I’m practicing my First Amendment rights.

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Meanwhile, Biden surrogate Ed Rendell just penned a WaPo op-ed accusing Warren of being a hypocrite for carrying over some unspent big money money donation from prior campaigns, even while eschewing new big money donations. And we don’t even know which oligarch just gave a pro-Trump superPAC $325,000.

Circular firing squad, commence!

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I’m posting a link so that people don’t waste their time looking for it.

Its stupid, nasty, and ugly and an insult to our intelligence.

https://beta.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-like-elizabeth-warren-too-bad-shes-a-hypocrite/2019/09/11/409d5ed0-d4d3-11e9-86ac-0f250cc91758_story.html

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That’s not true. This stuff is about buying access or policy. And you can’t buy those things if the seller doesn’t know who is paying them.

Someone on the receiving end knows exactly where the money came from. Now, whether that’s someone at the PAC, or the someone for whom it’s earmarked, that we don’t know. All we have to do is wait for the PAC to spend it. Then we’ll know who to ask. And if they deny knowledge, we know they’re lying.

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The Trump washing machines are working overtime.

Ask Parscale.

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Do you mind if I play thru?

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Who says he hasn’t? If there is one person who looks like he rises from a vat of formaldehyde daily, it is Rudy.

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Now this is completely off topic but I must ask it… I am no financial wizard. I do have one personal loan with a bank and ai pay some interest on it. OK, I get that. But trump today suggested the Fed lower interest rates to zero and as a “sweetener” he added “less than zero”. Here’s his actual for real tweet with a bolding by me:
Donald J. Trump ‏Verified account @ realDonaldTrump 16h16 hours ago

“The Federal Reserve should get our interest rates down to ZERO, or less, and we should then start to refinance our debt. INTEREST COST COULD BE BROUGHT WAY DOWN, while at the same time substantially lengthening the term. We have the great currency, power, and balance sheet…”

My question is this: what sort of interest rate is less than zero? If I look at it that would mean that the lender is paying the borrower interest and not the other way around. Do I have that right?

trump is nuts. He thinks he’s a genius at money and economics. I sure as hell don’t see it.

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I’m with quo. He was never my “mayor.” He wasn’t even my precinct captain.