Steps from the Capitol, Trump allies buy up properties to build MAGA campus

[applegrove]

Steps from the Capitol, Trump allies buy up properties to build MAGA campus

By Paul Schwartzman
March 15, 2023 at 7:00 a.m. EDT

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/03/15/dc-maga-campus-patriots-row-meadows/

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At first glance, the flurry of real estate sales two blocks east of the U.S. Capitol appeared unremarkable in a city where such sales are common. In the span of a year, a seemingly unrelated gaggle of recently formed companies bought nine properties, all within steps of one another.

But the sales were not coincidental. Unbeknown to most of the sellers, the limited liability companies making the purchases — a shopping spree that added up to $41 million — are connected to a conservative nonprofit led by Mark Meadows, who was chief of staff to President Donald Trump. The organization has promoted MAGA stars like Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.).

The Conservative Partnership Institute, as the nonprofit is known, now controls four commercial properties along a single Pennsylvania Avenue block, three adjoining rowhouses around the corner, and a garage and carriage house in the rear alley. CPI’s aim, as expressed in its annual report, is to transform the swath of prime real estate into a campus it calls “Patriots’ Row.”

The acquisitions strike some Capitol Hill regulars as puzzling, considering that Republicans have long made a sport of denigrating Washington as a dysfunctional “swamp,” the latest evidence being a successful GOP-led effort to block local D.C. legislation to revise the city’s criminal code.

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[Scrivener7]

1. What fresh hell is this?

[applegrove]

2. I know. Vibes from Canada.

[Scrivener7]

4. Thank you.

[Thomas Hurt]

18. A place to store the guns, explosives and body armor.

A barracks for the terrorists. A place to set up communications and command.

I seriously doubt the fascists have thrown up the hands and did take any lessons from the failure.

[Volaris]

21. Staging ground for the next coup attempt, is my thinking..

[Scrivener7]

23. No doubt.

[B.See]

25. EXACTLY!

[Samrob]

27. This is just another way to own more GOP by giving them cheap lodging in high rent DC.

Mark my words, the "campus" will be full of "dormitories" that will provide free or cheap housing for GOP members of Congress without being seen as giving gifts or money illegally to GOP Congress members.

[Hassler]

3. "Trump University" is available.

[bottomofthehill]

5. Ruining all of the bars of my youth.

[Funtatlaguy]

6. Looks like they're forming a staging area for the next insurrection.

[CrispyQ]

8. Great minds.

Is anyone on our side paying attention?

[Funtatlaguy]

9. Our side is so overwhelmed by the horrible things the other is doing.

Plus, buying this property is legal.
I weep for America more and more.

[NJCher]

12. from the article

states that the reason they're buying is that DC is a democratic city.

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“Even if we can’t change Washington, we can create a permanent bulwark against its worst tendencies.”

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[slightlv]

13. You and I think alike! First thing that crossed my mind n/t

[Funtatlaguy]

22. That should scare you that you think like me. 😝

[slightlv]

26. Hmm... perhaps that vice versa! LOL! n/t

[Kennah]

15. If they store ammo and troops there, then I suggest reading about Russia's doctrine

[CrispyQ]

7. Would this be the same Mark Meadows who Garland defenders are so sure is working with the DOJ?

Places to hide guns & ammo & to hunker down until the next insurrection is complete.

[Scrivener7]

24. Yeah. That's the one. Is this what "flipping and spilling his guts from fear"

looks like?

I didn't think it was going to look like that.

[Hekate]

10. What fresh hell, indeed. And the coup goes on.

[NJCher]

11. sniff, sniff

there's a scam here somewhere.

--------------I wrote the above and then decided to go back and read some of the 1, 927 comments--ooops, now up to 2,000.

A lot of other people are thinking the same thing.

on edit:

I'm thinking the scam is when trump implodes after his various trials, this property will be worth zip. Who will be coming in to buy at fire sale prices?

Whew this article is getting a lot of comments. This is going to be a very big story on the tv shows tomorrow. I'll bet Rachel is already researching the various companies listed:

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CPI has assembled through its related companies, a roster with names like Clear Plains Holdings, Brunswick Partners, Houston Group, Newpoint and Pennsylvania Avenue Holdings. The companies list Seward as an officer on corporate filings, as well as CPI’s Independence Avenue headquarters as their principal address.

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[NJCher]

14. remember how trump

rented outrageously priced space for his campaign? From himself?

That's another game they're playing, all with the rubes' tax donation dollars.

So now nutcases like MTG, Gaetz and the rest can hustle for tax donation $$ and pay huge amounts for campaign office space.

[appalachiablue]

16. Continued assault on America, & DC. 'US' in front of capital in the title would be good.

[PlutosHeart]

17. Since the biggest way to launder money

is in real estate...

[tishaLA]

19. Maybe they can build a mock-up of Mount Rushmore

and put whatshisname's face on it so people have something to point at and laugh

[brooklynite]

20. Meh...

I looked for real estate there a few years ago. A handful of townhouses does not a think tank make.