Politico's New Owner Invited Colleagues to 'Pray' for Trump's Re-Election

[babylonsister]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/politcos-new-owner-mathias-dopfner-invited-colleagues-to-pray-for-trumps-re-election?ref=home

Politico’s New Owner Invited Colleagues to ‘Pray’ for Trump’s Re-Election
GOD ALMIGHTY
Dan Ladden-Hall
News Correspondent
Updated Sep. 06, 2022 7:33AM ET /
Published Sep. 06, 2022 6:53AM ET

The new German owner of Politico sent an email to his closest executives asking if they should meet up to pray for Donald Trump’s re-election, according to a report. Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner sent the message in the weeks leading up to the 2020 presidential election, according to The Washington Post, a year before his company’s acquisition of Politico in October 2021. “Do we all want to get together for an hour in the morning on November 3 and pray that Donald Trump will again become President of the United States of America?” Döpfner wrote, inspired by an article about the Trump administration taking legal action against Google for abuse of market dominance. Döpfner went on to argue that Trump had made the right call on five of the six biggest issues of the last century—including pursuing peace in the Middle East and “defending the free democracies” from Russia and China—only falling short on climate change. “No American administration in the last 50 years has done more,” he added. When asked about the message, Döpfner initially denied it existed, going so far as to say: “It has never been sent and has never been even imagined.” When confronted with a printout of the email, he explained that he may have sent it “as an ironic, provocative statement in the circle of people that hate Donald Trump.” “That is me,” he added. “That could be.”

[Kid Berwyn]

1. Rich got richer.

Pray: That’s ALL that counts.

[Walleye]

2. Didn't quite pray hard enough did you, Axel

[Celerity]

9. Axel Springer Sr died 37 years ago, on September 22, 1985. His son, Axel Springer Jr, died in 1980

Mathias Döpfner is the CEO (of Axel Springer SE, the firm's name) in the article.

[flamingdem]

3. WTF is happening?

Did they plot to take over CNN and Politico?

Crap!

[underpants]

5. Poilitico started out as a conduit for Drudge to MSM

Politico reported on what was on his website which allowed MSM to report on it. It’s had good contributors but I’ve always look at it keeping its origin in mind.

[Ferrets are Cool]

4. Pray in one hand and shit in the other and see which fills up first.

[JI7]

6. So they are just more open about it now

[uponit7771]

7. +1

[2 Meow Momma]

8. Where are all the rich liberals buying media? Conservatives seem to be the

only ones buying media to change the political landscape.

If anti democratic people keep running media, democracy will go away.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

11. So both CNN and Politico have gone to the dark side

[LetMyPeopleVote]

12. Dear Politico CEO: If you are going to be a Trump supporter, at least have the courage to admit it.

Link to tweet

[Initech]

13. Hell no. Keep these religious assholes as far away from the White House as possible!