Looks like Scott's 'exclusive' is about Trump donors funding Mueller/FBI critic, Rep. DeSantis (R)

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Link to tweet

A new report details how one Republican Congressman benefited from a surge in national donations from a group of 15 of the President’s largest donors over the last eighteen months, before turning into Trump’s very public attack dog, seeking delegitimize the FBI and become a Fox News darling.

Representative Ron DeSantis is a member of the Republican Tea Party’s Freedom Caucus, but his donor list is missing the kinds of Koch Brothers cash one might expect, instead filled with cash from major Trump donors which Politico calls his “billionaire kingmakers.”

However, concluding that Trump’s tweet caused top GOP donors to fill DeSantis’ coffers inverts the relationship between the two events and omits what’s being shown to the President on Fox News.

I assisted Democratic Coalition co-founder Scott Dworkin in preparing his first of his “Follow the Money” series of reports entitled, “Congressman DeSantis Funded By Trump’s Largest Donors,” upon which this story is based.

read more: https://thesternfacts.com/trump-donors-funding-gop-rep-whos-leading-attacks-on-mueller-and-fbi-report-22f4aa595719

related:

Congressman DeSantis Funded by Trump's Largest Donors
Follow The Money Part 1, a Report by Scott Dworkin & Grant Stern
https://www.scribd.com/document/368093256/Congressman-DeSantis-Funded-by-Trump-s-Largest-Donors

DeSantis: Congress Will Get Answers on How FBI Used Trump-Russia Dossier
http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/12/27/desantis-congress-will-get-answers-how-fbi-used-trump-russia-dossier

[LonePirate]

1. And water is wet. This is not the big news item he thinks it is.

[bigtree]

2. I don't get folks knocking this

...most news is repetitive, most stories built off of previous reports.

The dollars discussed are nearly a million. Not a small matter.

I bet republicans wouldn't be so dismissive if the shoe was on the other foot.

[LonePirate]

3. I and many others fully expect Republicans to be incohoots with each other.

Their moneyed interests will make sure to protect their man in the White House so of course they will fun Republicans willing to go after Mueller and the FBI.

[bigtree]

6. it's not normal

...not when it involves the president of the United States.

I'm surprised at all of the complaints about repetitiveness or highlighting obvious truths here. Amplifying information is a primary function of resistance movements. I'm wary of attempts to dismiss these efforts.

[gratuitous]

4. I agree

Hell, the Republicans ran wild on the Clinton Foundation for months with considerably less than this. The fact that a TeaBagger is getting financing from the same corrupt assholes who gave us Trump isn't a tough pair of dots to connect.

[OnDoutside]

5. I agree, there's good research here and it explains why DiSantis is so

Slavishly falling over trump.....I wonder if there is a similar trail of Trump donors for the likes of Gaetz ?

[malaise]

12. +1,000

Sometimes our desire for perfection is self destructive

[bullimiami]

7. No. We all knew the attacks were orchestrated. This does expose the actors though.

[triron]

8. Isn't this just a start?

Dworkin seemed to indicate that.

[bigtree]

9. yep, it's the 1st of a series planned

[Vinnie From Indy]

10. Thank you for this post.

The attacks on Dworkin over the last few days are childish and silly.

[bigtree]

13. it's interesting

...most of the critics' reasoning runs counter to most of what we do on this discussion board.

I'd agree that Scott's reporting may not be ready for prime-time in many cases, but he's doing some heavy lifting which I'd like to think would be appreciated here. His efforts are more of a collaboration than a trim and efficient network production.

I hope folks don't fall into their own pit of judgment and undermine the dynamism and collective wisdom of our discussions.

[liberalla]

11. This is important and I look forward to future reports...

But they need to tone down the pregame hype and just announce when they are ready to publish...

Thank you for your post, bigtree.

[bigtree]

14. they should learn from this

...I can just imagine the hair-pulling angst and dread on the other side as their deadline passed without a presentable product to report.

[liberalla]

15. I'm sure they will learn from this!

[triron]

16. kick for visibility