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douglas9

(4,358 posts)
Tue Jan 4, 2022, 02:36 PM Jan 2022

Top corporate donors to the Sedition Caucus (CREW)

On January 6, an armed and violent mob stormed the Capitol. It was the first time the building had been breached since the War of 1812. At the end of the day, the death toll stood at five. The attackers assaulted nearly 140 police officers. Four more officers would die by suicide in the following months. Lawmakers came within seconds of tragedy at the hands of the rioters. The crowd constructed a gallows on the Capitol steps to chants of “Hang Mike Pence!”

The insurrection put a capstone on months of work by President Trump and his allies to overturn the results of a free and fair election. These efforts included dozens of frivolous lawsuits, baseless conspiracies about polling machines and uncounted ballots and the attempted weaponization of the Department of Justice. Riled by Trump’s rhetoric, his supporters flocked to “Stop the Steal” rallies around the country. At the White House Ellipse on January 6, Trump and his allies urged the crowd to march on the Capitol and “fight like hell.”

The campaign to subvert democracy also included congressional votes. Republicans in Congress pledged to object during the certification process, fanning the flames that drove Trump supporters to attack the Capitol. Even after the violent attack forced lawmakers to evacuate for fear of their lives, 147 Republican members of Congress still voted against certifying the election results.


https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/the-corporate-insurrection-how-companies-have-broken-promises-and-funded-seditionists/

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Top corporate donors to the Sedition Caucus (CREW) (Original Post) douglas9 Jan 2022 OP
Many of the usual suspects (Boeing, Koch, General Dynamics, Walmart...) Eugene Jan 2022 #1

Eugene

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1. Many of the usual suspects (Boeing, Koch, General Dynamics, Walmart...)
Tue Jan 4, 2022, 02:48 PM
Jan 2022

giving not just to the Sedition Caucus, but also the Paxton cabal.

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