We're getting some data on churches that took taxpayer money, a violation of the Constitution, under the PPP program.
The numbers are staggering. @ryanburge put them up: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
First Baptist Dallas, Robert Jefferess's church took between $2-5 MILLION. (📊Line 5769)
Jeffress is on Trump's Evangelical Advisory Board. He took the money on April 15--six months and 19 days before the #2020election.
@VP, @JohnCornyn, @GovAbbott, were there last weekend.
(I would have tagged Jeffress here, but he blocked me for tweeting about his Fox News appearance.
Remember the horrific grand jury report on rape and abuse of children in the Catholic dioceses of Pennsylvania? The Diocese of Pittsburgh had 90+ priests credibly accused.
It took $2-5 MILLION of your taxdollars on April 14. Twenty months to the day after the final report.
And if you're wondering why I'm focusing on the Diocese of Pittsburgh, well, I read that entire report. And some things stick with you.
Pittsburgh priests gave the most pliable, reticent victims gold crosses, marking the children for torment by their fellow pedeophile priests.
For those asking, this is a subset of the full days the SBA released. @ryanburge, who does really amazing work, scraped the full set for churches and dioceses. As I understand it, he'll be adding other houses of worship and eliminating false positives soon.
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