The University of Phoenix is demanding the Republican Attorneys General Association return $50,400 it donated to the organization, because of the group’s reported involvement instigating the storming of the U.S. Capitol last week by supporters of President Trump, according to Popular Information, a political newsletter. The university, however, did not return inquiries by
Facebook, Doordash halt donations to Republican AGs: Report
Jon Herskovitz, Bloomberg News Demonstrators swarm the U.S. Capitol building during a protest in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021. The U.S. Capitol was placed under lockdown and Vice President Mike Pence left the floor of Congress as hundreds of Demonstrators swarmed past barricades surrounding the building where lawmakers were debating Joe Biden s victory in the Electoral College. Photographer: Eric Lee/Bloomberg , Bloomberg
Three major companies are suspending donations and another is seeking a refund from a Republican attorneys general group after an offshoot participated in last weekâs march on the U.S. Capitol that turned into a violent raid, a newsletter reported.
Louisiana AG Jeff Landry Tied to Group that Helped Organize March That Ended in Insurrection
As reported in multiple media outlets, including
Louisiana Illuminator, the Rule of Law Defense Fund (RLDF) – a 501(c)(4) affiliate arm of the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA) – was listed as a featured participant on the “March to Save America” website. Although the site has now been taken down, an archive of the site available on the Internet Wayback Machine clearly shows RLDF listed alongside groups such as Turning Point Action, which gained previous notoriety for organizing teenage troll farms in order to spread misinformation about the 2020 election.
The Post and Courier on state Attorney General Alan Wilson and the Republican Attorneys General Association:
We’re glad to see S.C. Attorney General Alan Wilson repudiate his former deputy’s efforts to drum up attendance at the rally that spawned last week’s deadly insurrectionist assault on the U.S. Capitol, and to state in unequivocal terms that Joe Biden is the legitimate president-elect.
It certainly doesn’t undo his reckless decision to join in a lawsuit that went far beyond the effort to have the courts retroactively reinterpret the U.S. Constitution and carelessly - or perhaps carefully - tossed about words such as “fraud” as it trafficked in innuendo about alleged voting irregularities. Even though that lawsuit was legally permissible, it clearly was an effort to throw out the votes of millions of Americans and overturn the results of the presidential election.