Breeding the next generation of Trump loyalists?
+ paying Mark Meadow's legal bills, bankrolling Swing-state voter suppression, Cleta Mitchell-style, & promoting Stephen Miller's racist rants? What in God’s creation is CPI?
“The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is moved with the concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, strategems, and spoils,
The motions of his spirit are dull as night,
And his affections dark as Erebus,
Let no such man be trusted.
Mark the Music.”
- Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
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Mark the Music: An American concord of sweet sounds:
O beautiful for pilgrim feet,
Whose stern, impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America!
God mend thine every flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law!
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Mark Meadows cannot Mark the Music.
Muse-less, tone-deaf Meadows, Harmony’s truant, ever-serving Boss Trump’s chaotic treasons and strategems.
This former Trump chief of staff rejects harmony, embraces a cacophony of rude, heart-piercing sounds and voices, conspiratorially composed to bring our noble republican experiment to a screeching end:
The crackling of White House documents burning, dodging accountability for defrauding God and Country,
Grating assertions of rights against self-incrimination, and
Rasping legal motion after motion, to delay just punishment.
This Freedom Caucus co-founder turns a deaf ear to the music of our Republic: Citizens united, not in dark money, but in song, America the Beautiful, the noble republican paean to liberty rooted in the rule of law.
Yet somehow Meadows’ Republic-destabilizing actions make him the declared darling of the Conservative Partnership Institute, the most recent incarnation of dark money gone completely mad. To servile Meadows go the spoils of senseless treason.
Mark the Money:
CPI is a Trump surrogate, masquerading for tax purposes as a partisan-free, tax-qualified not-for-profit organization, while aggressively and indefensibly pursuing Trump’s deeply partisan and autocratic ends.
This so-called “conservative” partnership shamefully:
celebrates “Trump Heroes,”
provides pay-offs (“sinecures”) to Trump co-conspirators,
bankrolls Cleta Mitchell’s “Election Integrity” Network, a nationwide voter suppression force, intent on disenfranchising swing-state voters rightly opposed to Boss Trump’s autocratic Project 25 agenda,
promotes Stephen Miller’s racist rants as thoughtful commentary, and
indoctrinates “the next generation of Trump loyalists” in ideas and actions repugnant to the ideals of the founders of our Republic.
And, one may fairly ask: Why has Dark Money CPI been paying tone-deaf, talentless Meadows something to the tune of:
$1 million annually,
a cool $1 million-plus in reimbrusement of his ever-spiraling legal fees, and
travel & entertainment fit for Trump GOP royalty?
Getting a sense of the risk Meadows presents to Trump’s re-election chances if he breaks his conspiratorial silence and simply tells the truth?
Trump, who rewarded Devin Nunes with the top job at IPO-bound Truth Social (for shamelessly shielding Trump from investigations that ultimately demonstrated Russia did indeed interfere with the 2016 election).
Now Trump surrogate CPI follows suit, delivering comparable largess to document-burning Meadows.
One cannot help but imagine the reaction of grifter Roger Stone, on hearing of all that payola coming Meadows’ way.
Dirty trickster Stone, who reportedly offered, in return for a cool quarter of a million dollars, to procure a presidential pardon for Matt Gaetz’ partner-in-under-age-sex-crimes, perhaps now muttering, wistfully and murderously:
“I would give a pound of Rep. Nadler’s flesh for a job at CPI.”
Tone-deaf Mark Meadows, murderous Roger Stone, each on Trump’s very short leash to nowhere.
Merchants of Mar-A-Lago, doomed to infamy and ship wreck.
If only they had listened to the Music.
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A Nerve Center for the Right Wing Rises in Washington
The Conservative Partnership Institute has become a breeding ground for the next generation of Trump loyalists and an incubator for policies he might pursue. Its fast growth is raising questions.
Feb. 20, 2024
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/20/us/politics/trump-conservative-partnership-institute.html
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Matt Gaetz’s Chaos Agenda
The Florida Republican is among the most brazen and controversial figures in Donald Trump’s G.O.P. He’s also among the most influential.
February 19, 2024
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Chief Witness Against Gaetz Is Cooperating With House Ethics Investigation
Feb. 9, 2024
By Robert Draper and Michael S. Schmidt
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/09/us/politics/gaetz-sex-trafficking.html
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Here’s your morning shot of Blackjack:
https://www.defendyourvotingrights.org/play-card-game/
played with a Card Deck of 54+ Trump Enablers (including CPI, Election Integrity Network, Meadows, House Freedom Caucus, Mitchell, Miller, Nunes, Stone and Gaetz):
https://www.defendyourvotingrights.org/54-enablers-of-voter-suppression/
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