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Showing Original Post only (View all)After Pouring Gasoline On U.S. Divide, Charles Koch Now Claims He Wants To Heal Nation [View all]
After Pouring Gasoline On U.S. Divide, Charles Koch Now Claims He Wants To Heal Nation
Boy did we screw up, says the billionaire who backed Donald Trump. What a mess.
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By Mary Papenfuss
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/charles-koch-wall-street-journal-change-of-heart_n_5faf0af0c5b6d05e86e6e743
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In an email to the Journal, Koch also congratulated President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on their victory. He said he looked forward to finding ways to work with them to break down the barriers holding people back, whether in the economy, criminal justice, immigration, the COVID-19 pandemic, or anywhere else.
He added: I hope we all use this post-election period to find a better way forward. Because of partisanship, weve come to expect too much of politics and too little of ourselves and one another.
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The family money also bankrolls the American Legislative Exchange Council which pens template bills for conservative politicians to introduce in state legislatures across the nation. And Koch plotted back in February to overturn a Trump loss at the polls.
Despite his stated intention to make peace, he railed to the Journal about the constant push to rob individuals of freedom with top-down control that stifles innovation. Koch complained about powerful interests lobbying the government, even though Koch Industries spent some $100 million on lobbying, the Journal pointed out.
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Twitter was not impressed.
Charles Koch and his brother tried to destroy the planet for profit and broke our country in the process. He can take his mea culpa and shove it. https://t.co/cxJo2NdWMe
Adam Best (@adamcbest) November 13, 2020
Man who destroyed America says oops https://t.co/xVOwVSgMYH
Evan DeSimone (@Smorgasboredom) November 13, 2020
Boy did we screw up! ???
This is the understatement of the century. Charles Koch - you and your brother BROKE America, and paved the way for Trumpism. https://t.co/S76docV3tk
Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 (@DemWrite) November 13, 2020
Please.
Charles Kochs Super PAC, Americans for Prosperity, spent the past 6+ months campaigning to get Amy Coney Barrett onto the Supreme Court and GOP Senators reelected.
The group announced TWO DAYS AGO it was throwing its support behind Loeffler and Purdue in Georgia. https://t.co/N7Wn6ABuNp
Pé (@4everNeverTrump) November 13, 2020
Charles Koch wants to sound like Rodney King: Cant we all just get along? Meanwhile, hes trying to buy GOP control of the Senate in GA https://t.co/eRDLylyZXg
Jane Mayer (@JaneMayerNYer) November 13, 2020
Boy did we screw up! is quite the playful way for Charles Koch to admit he helped break US democracy. https://t.co/alIGV7jNhP
Ahmed Baba (@AhmedBaba_) November 13, 2020
Charles Koch has done as much environmental damage to 🌎 as any oligarch living or dead.
Koch Industries has its hands in everything, especially political propaganda.
Sorry, but theres no salvation here IMHO.#GreenNewDeal #agriculture https://t.co/9StwRCHxJE
Jen Perelman (@JENFL23) November 13, 2020
Such total BS. Just like fossil fuel, feigning one thing while dark-money machine chugs on as ever. Really unbelievable. https://t.co/0iEeBAVZUd
Sheldon Whitehouse (@SenWhitehouse) November 13, 2020
Sure I might have planted the seeds that nearly destroyed this country, but I just wanna come here to say: oops, my bad
Dont think this will cut it, Charlie. Millions have had their lives made more insecure and precarious by your dangerous agenda. 👎🏾👎🏾 https://t.co/IpG88vlYeE
Nina Turner (@ninaturner) November 13, 2020
Sounds like he's singing a rich man's version of "Nearer my G*d to Thee". His late brother must have knocked on his door wrapped in chains and oil cans last night after midnight.
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After Pouring Gasoline On U.S. Divide, Charles Koch Now Claims He Wants To Heal Nation [View all]
marble falls
Nov 2020
OP
I think he just wanted to be in the funny papers, he's been lying low these last four years.
marble falls
Nov 2020
#5
He's mush mouthing. Nothing substansive is coming out of it except he's all about Big Oil.
marble falls
Nov 2020
#8
Yet other news items say he is currently pouring money in the GA run-offs, for the Repukes of course
UTUSN
Nov 2020
#10
"In his recent book 'Kochland,' the business journalist Christopher Leonard observes that
betsuni
Nov 2020
#19
+1, even 90% of never Trumpers like Trumps policies just don't like the way he's stating them
uponit7771
Nov 2020
#25
I don't say this much but, I hope Koch dies roaring, long and slow. The damage he has done is plain
OnDoutside
Nov 2020
#22