This is a landmark moment. Mark it well. Certain members of the Republican party are treating Donald Trump like a family treats an insane relative, meaning that 1) They’re not communicating with the relative; 2) They’re taking action to contain and remove the relative from the family sphere before more damage is done; 3) If they didn’t fear the relative and his destructive power this secrecy wouldn’t be necessary.
All we can say to this is hallelujah and what took you so long? Reuters:
Feb 1 (Reuters) – Republican U.S. lawmakers donated more than $380,000 last year to the campaigns of eight colleagues who Donald Trump is trying to drive from office, prioritizing the goal of regaining control of Congress over the former president’s desire for vengeance.
At least 71 Republican members of the House of Representatives and Senate transferred money to the campaigns of seven House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump on a charge of incitement of insurrection arising from last year’s Capitol riot and Senator Lisa Murkowski, who voted to convict him.
Steve Scalise, the No. 2 House Republican, and a group aligned with Mitch McConnell, the Senate Republican leader, were among those making the donations. […]
Nonetheless, congressional Republicans are donating to colleagues who Trump has disparaged as “disloyal” and “losers,” according to financial disclosures filed with the Federal Election Commission ahead of a Monday deadline.
The incumbents targeted by Trump ended 2021 with more money in their campaign war chests than any of their challengers, including those backed by Trump.
A week after the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol by a mob of Trump’s supporters, the House voted to impeach him, with the Senate then falling short of the super-majority needed to convict him and bar him from future public office.
Scalise gave money in September to at least three House members who voted to impeach Trump: Peter Meijer of Michigan and Jaime Herrera Beutler of Washington state – who are both facing Trump-endorsed challengers – as well as David Valadao of California. Scalise also transferred money in December to the re-election campaign of Dan Newhouse of Washington, a House Republican who also voted for impeachment.
Trump is going to start smashing things when he hears “beautiful” “wonderful” Steve Scalise is knifing him. And do you love Scalise’s PAC name?
EYE OF THE TIGER
The contributions ranged from $2,000 to $5,000 and came from Scalise’s re-election campaign committee or from his “Eye of the Tiger” fundraising group, a so-called leadership committee that lawmakers use to support other candidates.
Representative Elise Stefanik, who replaced Representative Liz Cheney as the No. 3 House Republican after Cheney was ousted from her post following her vote to impeach Trump, made a $5,000 contribution to Herrera Beutler from her “E-PAC” leadership committee, which Stefanik uses to support Republican women candidates.
The term “must-read” article is over used and I recognize that, but this seriously is the one article you need to read if you read absolutely nothing else all day today. Read the article and look at the graphs and see where the money is going. Follow the money.
Follow, for example, Mitch McConnell’s $35,000 contribution to Liz Cheney, who is probably the most reviled Trump enemy of them all right now. But McTurtle is standing behind her, which is perfectly logical that it should. If there are any surprises in this article, I quite assure you, McConnell supporting Cheney is not one of them.
The GOP is a dysfunctional family right now. And that’s putting it mildly.
And it gets funnier still. Check this out. These two Republicans got the coveted Trump endorsement, then they turn right around and funnel their campaign contributions into the coffers of his enemies.
Representatives August Pfluger of Texas, Virginia Foxx of North Carolina, Byron Donalds of Florida and Carlos Gimenez of Florida – who each have been endorsed by Trump in their re-election bids for this year – also transferred money to impeachment voters from their campaigns or leadership committees. Their offices did not respond to requests for comment.
Is that delicious? Could you die?
The Republican party, leadership you can depend on — for soap opera fused with palace intrigue. The irony of this moment is this: the old guard GOP and many of the newcomers want Trump gone more than we do. Wrap your head around that. I believe it’s true.
Why all the cloak and dagger? It can’t be fear of a mean tweet anymore. I feel for the aide who tells Trumplethinskin his endorsed candidates are funding his “enemies”. I think McCONnell is living in a different alternate reality than the MAGAts. If he honestly thinks the “real” rethugs will win the primaries and give him his majority again, he is going to sorely disappointed. Yertle has miscalculated every time he’s dealt w/tRump – first that they could control him, then that they could contain him, that letting him vent after the election was harmless and finally after the coup the failure to convict him that tRump would just fade away.
All of this money wasting could have been avoided, easily, had the ‘pubes done what they knew they should have done-impeach and indict the orange shit-gibbon. Of course I say “all this money” but really, 380k is a pittance. chump change really.
Especially if the RNC let’s him use them like a personal bank account.