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Chuck Darwin

Trump was fund-raising off his conviction with small-dollar donors as well;

His campaign, which portrayed him as the victim of a politicized justice system, brought in nearly $53 million in the twenty-four hours after the verdict.

Several megadonors who had held back from endorsing Trump announced that they were now supporting him,
including
🔸#Miriam #Adelson, the widow of the late casino mogul #Sheldon Adelson;
🔸the Silicon Valley investor #David #Sacks, who said that the case against Trump was a sign of America turning into a “Banana Republic”;
🔸and the venture capitalist #Shaun #Maguire, who, less than an hour after the verdict, posted on X that he was donating $300,000 to Trump, 👉calling the prosecution a “radicalizing experience.” 👈

A day later, #Timothy #Mellon, the banking-family scion, wrote a $50-million check to the Make America Great Again super pac.

#Ed #Rogers, a longtime G.O.P. lobbyist, had never publicly endorsed Trump or raised money for his campaigns.

On May 31st, the day after Trump’s conviction, he sent his first contribution to the ex-President. “There was no case to make that that was not targeted prosecution,” he told me.

He predicted that other Republicans who, like him, had been “allergic” to Trump would now get on board as well.

“I tell people I am a Bill Barr, Chris Sununu, Nikki Haley Republican,” he said, listing the names of Republican officials who had criticized Trump in blistering terms only to support him again in 2024;

Haley, despite having called Trump “unhinged” and a threat to the Republic, had announced the week before his conviction that she would vote for him.

“The choices are 🔹Biden or Trump🔹, and I’m at peace with that,” Rogers said in June.
“I wish it was a different equation, but it’s not.”

❗️Many donors I spoke with at the time described
🧨Trump’s trial as an impetus,
but they tended to cite a litany of other reasons, too, including questions about
🔸Biden’s age and fitness to serve another term, concerns about his
🔸economic policies, and gripes about some of his
🔸appointees, such as the head of the Federal Trade Commission, Lina Khan, who has launched high-profile antitrust investigations.

Trump, despite his populist rhetoric, deficit spending, and support for market-distorting tariffs,
has sold himself as a pro-business candidate.

He has promised extensive deregulation,
nearly unfettered drilling for oil and gas,
and tax cuts for corporations and wealthy individuals.

“A lot of the donors have just come to the conclusion that, when you add it all up,
the risks with Trump are behavioral
—personal behavior and what he says
—versus the policies,” the attendee at the Fifth Avenue fund-raiser told me.

It was a “rationalization” adopted by “even those who were initially very put off, very alienated, by his behavior at the end of his Presidency.”

🆘 By late May, Trump’s campaign had more money in the bank than Biden’s.

The incumbent President’s disastrous performance in a June 27th debate against Trump only accelerated the trend.

“After the debate, Biden looks like a loser,
so these people who were never going to give to Biden,
they’re now even more attracted to the idea of giving to former President Trump,”
the attendee at Fanjul’s dinner said.

“Because he looks like a winner.”

The following month, as Democratic donors and elected officials frantically pressured Biden to drop out of the race,
Trump and the Republicans again outraised the Democrats.

“The Zeitgeist in the business world is that Trump is going to be President again,”
a billionaire C.E.O. who is not a Trump supporter told me at the time.

“Therefore, why fall on your sword on principle?”

He added, “Businesspeople
—their main focus in life is to make money,
and you make money by backing winners. . . .

They’ve concluded, O.K., he’s going to be President,
let’s hold our nose and do what we have to do.”

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Chuck Darwin

Adelson Spends $95 Million to Boost Trump in Michigan and Wisconsin

Billionaire #Miriam #Adelson,
one of the most prolific donors #backing Donald #Trump since his 2016 run for the White House,
🔥poured $95 million into her super PAC supporting him,
according to to the latest disclosures with the Federal Election Commission.

The donation exceeds the $75 million she and her late husband, former Las Vegas Sands Chairman #Sheldon #Adelson, combined to give to Preserve America PAC in the same period in the 2020 race

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Sound on🔊💃🕺
Here is our new Data Song!
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Even though countries like Belgium recorded an electoral turnout of 90 per cent, more than half the member states recorded a majority of abstentions in the last European elections.

Abstention has become the majority choice since 1999. A growing phenomenon, which is not good for the health of the European Union.
#data #datasong #sheldon #shelsonstudio #datastorytelling #ai #music #aisong #socialdesign #europe #election #result #turnout #abstentionism

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Open Source Church

À quel personnage de fiction t’identifies-tu ?

Cette question, je l’ai remarquée, pose des problèmes à beaucoup de monde, mais pour moi, c’est probablement la plus belle question du monde. Elle nous apprend de nombreuses choses sur les gens que nous fréquentons et sur leur manière de voir et d’aborder le monde, ses défis, ses joies et ses peines…

› open-source.church/2023/11/%C3

À quel personnage de fiction t’identifies-tu?
#imaginaire#Sheldon#Personnage
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Chuck Darwin

Senate examines role of ‘dark money’ in delaying climate action

The #Senate #budget #committee held a hearing on Wednesday morning to scrutinize the role of oil- and gas-linked “#dark #money” in delaying climate action – and tearing through local and federal budgets.

The hearing was led by #Senator #Sheldon #Whitehouse of Rhode Island, who has held 10 #climate #crisis-focused hearings since he took the helm of the budget committee this past February

Committee Democrats invited three witnesses. First to the stand was the Harvard history of science professor #Naomi #Oreskes. “Climate change is a market failure, and market failures require government action to address,” she testified.

Fossil fuel interests’ efforts to disrupt climate policy had come at great expense to the US, including not only financial costs, but also human suffering and lives lost, said Oreskes, who has written several books on oil industry misinformation.

#Christine #Arena, former public relations executive at the firm Edelman who now works in social impact film-making, and who was also invited by Senate Democrats, drew comparisons between the fossil fuel industry’s decades-long misinformation campaign and how the tobacco industry tried to cover up the harms of smoking.

“Just like the tobacco executives before them, [fossil fuel executives] characterize peer-reviewed science and investigative journalism that illustrates the extent of their deceptions as biased or inconclusive,” said Arena, who is now the founder of Generous Films.

#Richard #Painter, professor of corporate law at the University of Minnesota Law School who was chief White House ethics lawyer under George W Bush, was third to testify. A political independent, Painter said Americans should get on board with the push to end climate misinformation no matter where they fall on the political spectrum.

“This is not a partisan issue,” said Painter, who was also invited by Whitehouse. “This is about caring, and doing something about a grave threat to the human race.”

theguardian.com/us-news/2023/j

The GuardianSenate examines role of ‘dark money’ in delaying climate actionBy Dharna Noor
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