When former President Donald Trump, in one of his last acts in office, granted an executive pardon to confessed felon Elliott Broidy, the White House cited letters in Broidy’s support from some unusual sources: five Los Angeles rabbis.
Broidy, a multimillionaire businessman and prominent Jewish philanthropist, pleaded guilty to illegal foreign lobbying on Oct. 20. Broidy was covertly paid millions to push federal officials to drop one of the largest embezzlement investigations in the history of the Justice Department. He also lobbied officials to deport a critic of the Chinese government who resides in Brooklyn.
Why, with the ink barely dry on his guilty plea, did these rabbis come to Elliott Broidy’s defense?
Republican AGs Cannot Shake Ties to Violent Trump Coup Attempt
Trump loyalists fueled by President Trump s continued claims of election fraud clash with police on January 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C.
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The Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA) is trying desperately to distance itself from the attempted coup by white supremacists and Trump supporters on Jan. 6, but it cannot hide from the fact that its actions helped fuel the violence that left at least five dead, many more injured, and the Capitol badly damaged.
RAGA was a member of the “March to Save America” coalition that organized the Jan. 6 rally in D.C. to overturn the presidential election results. Its former chair, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, spoke at the rally alongside President Trump. And its dark money partner, the Rule of Law Defense Fund (RLDF), ran robocalls ahead of time explicitly urging protesters to march on the U.S. Capitol.
America isn’t even run by big business anymore. It’s individual billionaires calling all the shots.
As per a Reuters article, America is officially an oligarchy, or a plutocracy, whatever you may want to call this system. How come, you asked? Well, according to the “common” wisdom, politicians on both sides are supposed to represent the people who voted for them.
That’s how a pseudo-democracy is supposed to work; see, the United States of America is not a democracy per se, because people don’t vote directly for the president. There’s the elector system and all that. And, like the recent election on November 3rd showed us, it doesn’t matter anymore whom you vote for, the system has its own agenda, hence elections don’t matter anymore.
In November, Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr (left) became the chair of the Republican Attorneys General Association, while Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall (right) became RAGA s policy chair and chair of the group s Rule of Law Defense Fund, which was among the sponsors of the Trump rally preceding the U.S. Capitol Riot and sent out robocalls urging people to march to the Capitol to stop the steal. (Official portraits.)
After its nonprofit subsidiary promoted lies about election fraud and made a robocall ahead of the Capitol riot urging Trump supporters to march there to stop the steal, the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA) a political spending group that promotes the election of GOP state AGs is under fire for its role in the campaign to block certification of the presidential election.
Democrat Ossoff’s Fundraising Tops $106 Million In Georgia Senate Race Bloomberg 12/25/2020 Bill Allison
(Bloomberg) Georgia Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock each took in more than $100 million in campaign contributions over the last two months, almost doubling the Senate fundraising record and far outpacing their Republican rivals, according to their latest filings with the Federal Election Commission.
Ossoff and Warnock both face high-stakes races against incumbent Republican Senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler. If Democrats manage to unseat their opponents in the Jan. 5 runoffs, the Senate will be divided 50-50 and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris can break any tie votes in favor of Democrats.