MASS Exodus From RNC After TRUMPS' COUP+ Bill Barr Derailed HUGE DOJ Investigation

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RNC Faces IMMINENT Implosion With TRUMPS' Latest Move - TRUMP Wants Daughter-in Lies Lara to be Co-Chair of Republican National Committee.

TRUMP Ousted One of His Biggest Supporters From RNC Her Co-Chair Drew McKissick Also Announced His Resignation on Monday.....Reason Why?...

TRUMP and his allies want McDaniel out is to replace her with a loyalist who will use RNC funds to pay his MASSIVE legal bills.

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'BURN It ALL Down FOR $$': Rule-of-Law Stands as Bulwark Against Trumpian Lies, So He Attacks It






McDaniel was elected RNC chair in 2017, at first with TRUMPS' support—though the former president first insisted she drop her maiden name (Romney) to win his support and show loyalty.

She was reelected four times—helping to transform the party into the mirror of TRUMP that it is now—but the GOBS has soured on her over the past year.



McDaniel was failing at the two main parts of her job: fundraising and winning elections—thanks in large part to her embrace of Donald Trump.

By the end of October, the RNC had a little more than $9.1 million in its coffers, the smallest amount in nearly a decade. But McDaniel insisted there was “nothing unusual” about the low funds.

Republicans also suffered wave after wave of bruising losses, from the 2022 midterm elections to, most recently, the special election for former representative and serial fabulist George Santos’s seat in New York. The party has largely blamed McDaniel for the defeats, despite the fact that the failed candidates mostly embraced Trump’s policies and talking points.

Trump announced Monday that he wants North Carolina Republican Party Chair Michael Whatley to take over from McDaniel, and he tapped his daughter-in-law Lara Trump for co-chair. Trump’s choices make it clear that he wants to stack the RNC with stooges. Whatley, who has helped state Republicans chip away at voting access and gerrymander district maps, is a major proponent of 2020 election fraud conspiracies.


TRUMPS’ Takeover Of The RNC Would Mean Party Donors Will Pay His Legal Bills AGAIN





Three years after agreeing to pay Donald Trumps’ legal bills on the rationale that cases against him were “politically motivated”


The Republican National Committee could face pressure from its coup-attempting presumed nominee to pay not just tens of millions of dollars more in legal fees but more than $450 million in likely judgments against him.


“That’s why he wants ‘his people’ on the inside.





It’s not about building up MAGA but rather getting MAGA to pay his bills,” said former RNC chair Michael Steele, referring to the “Make America great again” motto that’s become shorthand for Trump’s followers.

“The RNC and its donors have all been hoodwinked by the flimflam man,” said Jennifer Horn, a former chair of the New Hampshire Republican Party and, because of that, a former RNC member. “There’s no rationale for any of it that makes sense in a rational world.”

Although Trump has won only a few dozen delegates of the 1,215 he needs to secure the GOP presidential nomination, he announced this week that one of his top aides, Chris LaCivita, would take over the party’s day-to-day operations while daughter-in-law Lara Trump would become the RNC’s co-chair.





And that has some RNC members worried that the same logic party officials used to justify spending donor money on Trump’s legal fees in 2021 could now be offered as a reason to cover some or all of the $88 million he must pay the woman he RAPED and then defamed, and the $455 million or more he will likely have to pay the state of New York for business fraud

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RNC: TRUMPS' Coup Complete With Pal as Chair and Daughter-in-Law as Co-Chair

Why Democrats Are Cheering For Lara Trump as Biden Kicks Campaign Into Gear

Michael Whatley of North Carolina voted the Republican National Committee chair, with Lara Trump as co-chair

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With Donald Trumps' daughter-in-law installed as co-chair of the RNC, the expectation is that she will use her position to direct donor funds to Donald Trumps' EXPLODING legal bills as well as the new stated mission of the RNC, "Election Integrity."




Jaime Harrison, chair of the Democratic National Committee talks with Alex Wagner about the DNC's strategies for supporting the Biden campaign and why he'd be happy to see the RNC waste its money on Donald Trumps' personal legal crises.

The Republican National Committee voted on Friday to install Donald Trump’s handpicked leadership team, completing his takeover of the national party as the former president closes in on a third straight presidential nomination.

Michael Whatley, a North Carolina Republican who has echoed Trump’s false claims of voter fraud, was elected as the party’s national chair in a vote Friday morning in Houston.

Lara Trump, the former president’s daughter-in-law, was voted in as co-chair.

Trump’s team is promising not to use the RNC to pay his mounting personal legal bills. But Trump and his lieutenants will have firm control of the party’s political and fundraising machinery with limited, if any, internal pushback.

“The RNC is going to be the vanguard of a movement that will work tirelessly every single day to elect our nominee, Donald J Trump, as the 47th president of the United States,” Whatley told RNC members in a speech after being elected.

Whatley will carry the top title, replacing the longtime chair Ronna McDaniel after she fell out of favor with key figures in the former president’s Make America Great Again movement. But he will be surrounded by people closer to Trump.

Lara Trump is expected to focus largely on fundraising and media appearances, which she emphasized shortly after being voted in, taking time in her inaugural speech to hold up a check for $100,000 that she said had been contributed that day to the party. When asked by a reporter later, she declined to say who wrote the check.

The functional head of the RNC will be Chris LaCivita, who will assume the committee’s chief of staff role while maintaining his job as one of the Trump campaign’s top two advisers.

McDaniel had been handpicked by Trump to lead the committee seven years ago but was forced out after Trump’s Maga movement increasingly blamed her for losses over the last few years.

While she got a standing ovation after her goodbye, the new leadership appeared to eagerly embrace the change. Lara Trump, accompanied by her husband, Eric Trump, was greeted like a celebrity, with members lining up to take photos with her.

With Trump’s blessing, LaCivita is promising to enact sweeping changes and staffing moves at every level of the RNC to ensure it runs seamlessly as an extension of the Trump campaign.

In an interview on Thursday, LaCivita sought to tamp down concerns from some RNC members that the already cash-strapped committee would help pay Trump’s legal bills. Trump faces four criminal indictments and a total of 91 counts as well as a $355m civil fraud judgment, which he is appealing. His affiliated Save America political action committee has spent $76m over the last two years on lawyers.

People speculating about the RNC paying for legal bills, LaCivita said, do so “purely on the basis of trying to hurt donors”. Trump’s legal bills are being covered largely by Save America, which is a separate political entity.

The new leadership team is expected to more fully embrace Trump’s focus on voter fraud and his debunked claims about the election he lost to Joe Biden. Multiple court cases and Trump’s own justice department failed to reveal any evidence of significant voting irregularities.





COMMENTS;

1..PLEASE bankrupt the RNC for Trump legal fees, Lara. Just don't get indicted for fraud until after the election.
2..Now the RNC will be as bankrupt as all of Donald Trump's businesses.
3..This is Priceless. No Republican running for House or Senate will get a cent. It's all about money for Trump. Show the Billionaire the money RNC.




This Foreign Dictator is Training Trump To Be the Perfect Fascist





--What will rapist/disgraced former President Donald Trump learn from his personal visit from a REAL Dictator?



Notorious Hungarian leader Victor Orbán is in Mar-a-lago…a man who has brutalized his own people with draconian laws that Trump & the GOP could previously only dream of…until now.

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'We Are Done': Republicans Exodus From RNC After Lara Trump Takeover

For many Republicans, the partys' recent decision to make TRUMPS' family member a leader was a step too far.

Bill Barr Accused of 'Derailing' HUGE DOJ TAX Investigation After TRUMP Appointment

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TRUMP is DOOMED - Is there ANY part of the Republican Party that is NOT corrupt?


Trump has encouraged the addition of his daughter-in-law, Lara, to the leadership team at the Republican National Committee.

For her part, Lara Trump has stood beside her claims that Republicans want to fund her father-in-law's vast legal bills.



But for certain rank and file GOPers just trying to hold on to the party they've always associated with, the decision smacks of nepotism. Some of them are choosing to leave the party, just as many longtime members did when TRUMP won the primary this week.

U.S. Army Iraq War Veteran Peter Henlein vowed to withhold future donations in light of the installation of Lara Trump.

"Lara Trump is now Co-Chair of the RNC. After a lifetime of donating to every GOP nominee and multiple down ballot candidates every cycle….I’m out," he said Friday. "I donated to help win elections, not to maintain the lifestyle of a billionaire. No point donating now."

Conservative Navy veteran Dan Stilwell concurred: "I will not donate another penny to the GOP as long as she is involved in its leadership."

@Noaharkmoney had a similar thought: "MAGA [GOP] not getting a dime from me ever again. Good luck trying to raise money for Trump's legal issues."

"I will focus on down ballot races this year," Gen Z conservative Republican Ayden David Marietta said in response to the news.

"But if these idiots aren’t ousted or they don’t wake up nationally in 2024, I will see to it they will. We must RECLAIM THE PARTY OF LINCOLN, COOLIDGE, AND REAGAN!!"


"For the last 40 years, I've supported the GOP," @Cheley5588 wrote on Friday. "Sadly, I will not send another dime to the RNC, but will contribute to conservative candidates directly."

etc.etc.

BUT MANY in America do not care about TRUMPS' crimes...










Bill Barr Accused of 'Derailing' HUGE DOJ TAX Investigation





Department of Justice employees are raising questions about a MASSIVE investigation into tax avoidance by heavy equipment manufacturer Caterpillar that fell apart after Donald Trump appointed Bill Barr to be his Attorney General.


According to a report from the New York Times, the DOJ was working hand in hand with the IRS on an extensive criminal investigation of the company only to be blocked from interviewing a key witness that helped cause the case to fizzle.

As a result, the Times is reporting, "The interview was never rescheduled, and the investigation would limp along for another few years before culminating, in late 2022, with a victory for Caterpillar. The Internal Revenue Service told the giant industrial company to pay less than a quarter of the back taxes the government once claimed that Caterpillar owed and did not impose any penalties."

Now questions are being raised about the timing of the interference that reared its head after Barr was selected by the former president.

According to the report, lawyers for Caterpillar "met with senior federal officials, including the Justice Department’s top tax official, Richard Zuckerman," to complain about the inquiries being made by investigators. Following the appointment of Barr, Zuckerman ordered agents to back off.

The Times is reporting that set off alarms within the DOJ.


Last year agent Jason LeBeau wrote to the department's inspector general, “It appears that Caterpillar was given special political treatment that the average U.S. citizen cannot obtain."

The report notes that Barr was affiliated with the company before his DOJ appointment and had argued that the DOJ and IRS should end the investigation.

Barr's earlier involvement raised eyebrows in the DOJ with the Times reporting, "In May 2018, Mr. Barr escalated the matter" in a letter that, "... argued that the investigation violated a requirement that federal criminal tax investigations be approved by the Justice Department’s tax division. And it took particular aim at Mr. LeBeau, saying he had a 'basic misunderstanding of the relevant tax rules' and was pursuing a 'conspiracy theory.' The attacks were an unusual effort to undermine the credibility of an individual investigator."


The report adds, "Kevin Sweeney, who spent six years in Justice Department’s tax division, said in a recent interview that the situation sounded 'very unusual' based on The Times’ description. '

I would not expect the tax division to stop an investigation based on representations made by defense counsel without first having a discussion with the lead prosecutor,' he said."



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