Exclusive: #JaredKushner pitching donors on father-in-law #Trump, sources say
Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, has been making calls to encourage donors to attend a Trump fundraiser in NY, 2 sources told @Reuters, in one of the first indications of #Kushner working to help re-elect his father-in-law.
A fmr WH adviser to #Trump 🤣, Kushner stepped away from politics after Trump's term ended in 2021 & founded Miami-based private equity firm Affinity Partners.
"IN THE FIRST WEEK OF HIS CRIMINAL TRIAL, Donald Trump raised about $5.6 million online by warning his small dollar-donors that the 'Deep State' was out to lock him up."
Trump sent out an email when jury selection began, saying Biden's attacking him, and his disciples responded by sending $1.6 million in response to the email. He took in another $1 million the rest of the week, mostly from small donors.
"When RNC co-chair and Trump daughter-in-law Lara Trump blasted out a robocall last week claiming 'massive fraud' in the 2020 election, it was a continuation of one of the great long cons in history. Four years and counting …
The Big Lie is a criminal conspiracy, a long con, a grift, and essentially a Trump family business opportunity."
"A habitual election denier is now running the Republican Party, or as it should be more correctly known, the party of Trump.
The corruption of the Republican Party is virtually complete and it is more assumed than reported on as 'a thing.' The transformation has happened before our eyes in the past eight years or so."
"The transformation has happened before our eyes in the past eight years or so. This isn’t a matter of substantive policy, although, of course, it’s impossible to ignore the policy shifts: anti-law enforcement, pro-Russia, and so on. This is about the un-democratization of the Republican Party and its conversion into a political tool whose job is to fuel the cult of personality."
Jay Kuo's commentary on how Trump's evisceration of the RNC and its subjugation to him is all about – you'll be shocked to learn – the grift. Trump and his family are and always have been all about the grift, the swag, the exploitation, the glitter, the contempt for the marks they're sucking dry in the proces.
"An important detail was lost in the outrage and disgust over Donald Trump’s decision to get into the business of selling bibles. It was overlooked, because few people in mainstream American culture recognize its significance, and they didn’t recognize it, because they were not raised and educated by white conservative Protestants."
"If they were, they might understand that Donald Trump was doing more than just commodifying a sacred text in the week running up to Easter. He was sending a message to specific followers: I will establish a state religion. Not just any religion, however – the one true religion."
"Trump Bibles make a mockery of Christianity — and that's exactly why MAGA will eat them up. Faith without morality or theology, much less that 'soyboy' Jesus? Sign MAGA Republicans up! …
It's time to consider the strong possibility that Trump's disdain towards the practice and theological beliefs of Christianity is not a surprise to his followers."
"It's likely a selling point that Trump's version of 'Christianity' is void of faith and morality. His pitch to his followers has a certain appeal: They can have the identity 'Christian,' and all the power that goes with it, minus the parts they don't like. No boring church services or Bible study. No tedious talk about 'compassion' and 'grace,' which only gets in the way of the gay-bashing and racism."
"Happy Friday! If Easter is a holy day for you, I hope it’s meaningful. Especially at a time when Christianity is being treated like a cheap date and few of the faithful are speaking out, lest they be branded as Never Trumpers."
"In the Trump/Greenwood Bible’s website FAQ, the question is asked: 'Is this Bible officially endorsed by President Trump?' The answer? (Even God himself must be waiting with baited [sic] breath.): 'Yes, this is the only Bible endorsed by President Trump!' Sweet Jesus, what a bargain!"
"Trump goes on in his infomercial to say that the Bible is 'my favorite book.' It’s right up there, apparently, with The Art Of The Deal and Hitler’s collected speeches. Though some sources close to Trump doubt he’s ever read a book, even the ones he’s 'written.'
"Trump is spending a good chunk of his donations on his legal bills. The Times ran an amazing report about this on Wednesday. Of nearly $85 million in donations, almost a third, $27 million, has gone to legal bills. Hey, at least this time around, he’s apparently actually paying them.
Trump will have money. There’s no use pretending he won’t."
"But $400 sneakers and $60 Bibles are not signs of strength. They’re signs of weakness. Panic. Desperation. A guy who’ll sell anything that isn’t nailed to the floor. ...
So let’s avert our gaze from the people who’d walk across hot coals for Donald Trump (while he stood off to the side, pleading bone spurs) and think instead about the ones who are slowly peeling off."
"They’re out there too. And they’re starting to see what you and I have so obviously seen for years: a twisted, desperate huckster who’s never cracked a Bible in his life and whose only religion is hustling the suckers who are born every minute."
"It’s important to make sure people face the truth about him. Who doesn’t want a president who threatens people’s kids and hawks $69 bibles ahead of Easter Sunday?
Jemar Tisby provides valuable backstory to Trump's blasphemous peddling of a Christian nationalist bible combining American political texts and the biblical text. The idea for this blasphemous project started several years ago with a man named Hugh Kirkpatrick of Elite Source Pro.
He proposed to Zondervan a "God Bless USA" bible to meet needs of parents home-schooling children who were disturbed by the Black Lives Matter movement.
As J. Tisby states, "A custom Bible inspired by reactionary sentiment opposing Black Lives Matter protests is concerning on its own."
Tisby and other Zondervan authors then protested and the project was stopped, only now to re-emerge as a project explicitly linked to Trump.
“Today, Trump began to hawk Bibles for $59.99, plus shipping and handling, with a video message saying ‘Religion and Christianity are the biggest things missing from this country, and I truly believe we need to bring them back…. That’s why our country’s going haywire—we’ve lost religion in our country.’”
"There’s the totally phoned-in Trump video sales pitch. There’s the fact that a non-negligible number of Americans find a sales pitch like that (and seriously, go watch it) spiritually meaningful. But we don’t have the time or the space, so we’ll just say: If you want one, you can buy it here!"