Red Flags All Over for Senate Republicans

[Hortensis]

13. Question about the Koch alliance. Trump's not their guy.

Not to say these people aren't what they are, and not to trust them, but it's seeming they suspect the destablization and severe problems for half the nation that their tactics have lead to also threaten their own continued prosperity. Note the Koch alliance has re- brand-named itself as STAND TOGETHER.

The Koch network is shaking up how it tries to influence Washington heading into 2020, starting with plans to spend money to reelect lawmakers from either party who back its issues and are facing primary challenges.

Once a pro-Republican electoral powerhouse, the network that was long led by Charles and David Koch has made major changes to the way it operates in recent years, focusing more on policy and philanthropy and even renaming itself Stand Together to reflect its less political tone.

But especially since Donald Trump’s nomination as the Republican candidate during the 2016 elections — which the network did not support — the Kochs have been shifting their focus. Charles Koch’s son, Chase, who is expected to lead the network when his 83-year-old father eventually departs, is uninterested in partisan politics. And the network has, at least for now, turned away from presidential politics: The network is not spending money to help reelect Trump, who Charles Koch has publicly criticized in the past, in 2020.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/07/koch-network-gives-bipartisanship-a-chance-1356571

Robert Mercer seems to be lying low. Investigations are coming very close. Apparently Steve Bannon was evading a subpoena a couple weeks ago. A search did pull this up about Mercer involvement in manufacturing lies about Biden in Ukraine.

WaPo: The notion that Hunter Biden and his father could be complicit in Ukrainian corruption was first aired in a 2018 book, “Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends.” Its author, Peter Schweizer, is an editor at Breitbart News and president of the Government Accountability Institute, a nonprofit group founded by former Trump political adviser Steve Bannon. The group’s board chairwoman is Rebekah Mercer, a prominent Trump supporter. Trump has cited Schweizer by name in some of his Twitter attacks on the Bidens. But even Schweizer’s book doesn’t allege that any laws were broken.

And Billionaire Peter Thiel, who believes America has declined since women got the vote, is backing RW extremist Kris Kobach for the senate. And god knows what else.