NEW -- Donald Trump tried to overthrow American democracy.
But 112 businesses and nearly three dozen people have taken $21 million from him anyway -- AFTER Jan. 6 -- to help him spread his lies about the election.
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Here are the individuals:
And here are the businesses (True, some, like Uber drivers or online hotel sites, would have no way of knowing their customer was actively undermining our democracy. But most of them knew exactly who they were helping and did it anyway.):
Here are the links to the lists in the story (from FEC data for the time period Jan. 7 - June 30):
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HuffPost reached out to dozens of those on these lists to ask why they were taking Trump's money despite what he did and what he continues to do to undermine democracy.
Not one responded on the record -- with a single exception: Trump's new spokesperson, Liz Harrington.
AEI's Norm Ornstein, who has been warning of the authoritarian drift in the GOP for years, says this about those taking Trump's money now:
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