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@schwartzbCNBC @Agenthades1 Today is #OpenTheSpigotsOnOMGNewsTues
From CNBC⤴️ article:
1/ "Beal is the founder & chairman of Texas-based Beal Bank. Forbes ranks him as having a net worth of $9billion...and is also a household name among poker fans" having "taken on some of the world’s top players. (con't)
From CNBC⤴️ article:
1/ "Beal is the founder & chairman of Texas-based Beal Bank. Forbes ranks him as having a net worth of $9billion...and is also a household name among poker fans" having "taken on some of the world’s top players. (con't)
@schwartzbCNBC @Agenthades1 2/ ...He created his own pro-Trump super PAC, called Save America From Its Government, during the last presidential election. He spent over $3 million funding it. Beal also acted as an economic policy advisor to Trump’s campaign." (more...)
@schwartzbCNBC @Agenthades1 3/ "Beal is listed as Daniel Beal on FEC filings. He is known as Andrew, which is his middle name."
"Beal used more than $300K in donations to finance a conspiracy-theory-driven FB meme campaign to support Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign. (con't)
"Beal used more than $300K in donations to finance a conspiracy-theory-driven FB meme campaign to support Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign. (con't)
@schwartzbCNBC @Agenthades1 4/ ...That year [2016], Beal contributed $350,000 to RallyPAC, which was founded and managed by Jake Hoffman, according to Federal Election Commission Records... (con't)
@schwartzbCNBC @Agenthades1 5/ ...Most of those donations were funneled toward an obscure media advisory firm called Rally Forge LLC for the purpose... described at the time [2016] as 'social media.' The owner of the firm is the same Jake Hoffman who ran RallyPAC. (con't)
@schwartzbCNBC @Agenthades1 6/ CNBC verified that he owned both organizations by matching the address on the PAC’s initial FEC registration form to Hoffman’s business address in Queen Creek, AZ. His name appears on both the PAC’s forms as its treasurer & as the statutory agent for vendor Rally Forge.(con't)
@schwartzbCNBC @Agenthades1 7/ ...Hoffman’s LinkedIn account shows he is the president and CEO of the media consulting business."
"Hoffman said that his social media campaign reached millions of voters in the climactic months of the 2016 presidential election." (more...)
"Hoffman said that his social media campaign reached millions of voters in the climactic months of the 2016 presidential election." (more...)
@schwartzbCNBC @Agenthades1 8/ "The PAC made four payments totaling $316,000 to Hoffman’s company. He confirmed to CNBC that he then put some of his firm’s content on a Facebook channel titled 'I Love My Country.' (con't)
@schwartzbCNBC @Agenthades1 9/ The material posted on the site — during the period from the 2st payment to Rally Forge in Sep 2016 into the first week of Nov — includes right-wing memes that touched on a wide range of conspiratorial talking points against...Hillary Clinton. (con't)
@schwartzbCNBC @Agenthades1 10/ ... The memes quoted Trump’s accusations that Clinton had been controlled by Wall Street executives and also compared her email scandal to the secret recordings made by disgraced President Richard Nixon in the 1970s." (more...)
@schwartzbCNBC @Agenthades1 11/ "According to a video recording posted on his [Hoffman's] Twitter account, he attended Trump’s inaugural & is pictured with Rep. Andy Biggs, R-AZ."
"The revelations about Hoffman come a year after Facebook deleted hundreds of US accounts that peddled fake news... (con't)
"The revelations about Hoffman come a year after Facebook deleted hundreds of US accounts that peddled fake news... (con't)
@schwartzbCNBC @Agenthades1 12/ ...to voters during the 2016 election."
"A Facebook representative did not return a request for comment."
"Hoffman’s company also has done work for the nonprofit right-wing organization Turning Point USA... from June 2016 through June 2017. (more)
"A Facebook representative did not return a request for comment."
"Hoffman’s company also has done work for the nonprofit right-wing organization Turning Point USA... from June 2016 through June 2017. (more)
@schwartzbCNBC @Agenthades1 13/ TurningPoinUSA was "founded by staunch Trump supporter Charlie Kirk" & "contracted Rally Forge for media & advertising services, the [most recent tax] filing shows."
"@RWPUSA said Hoffman likely created the super PAC to line his own pockets as well as to help Trump."more...
"@RWPUSA said Hoffman likely created the super PAC to line his own pockets as well as to help Trump."more...
@schwartzbCNBC @Agenthades1 @RWPUSA 14/ "While it is not illegal for super PACs to dedicate their finances to such trolling campaigns, ethics experts warn that similar campaigns are ongoing in the buildup to the 2020 election — particularly as right-wing groups look to undermine Democrats..." (one more tweet...)
@schwartzbCNBC @Agenthades1 @RWPUSA 15/ Speaking Tommy Hicks Jr (see tweet #7 of this thread) and 2020:
"The RNC has since also installed Tommy Hicks, Jr., a Texas businessman and close friend of the President's eldest son, as co-chairman." /end
Mar 19, 2019
cnn.com/2019/03/19/pol…
"The RNC has since also installed Tommy Hicks, Jr., a Texas businessman and close friend of the President's eldest son, as co-chairman." /end
Mar 19, 2019
cnn.com/2019/03/19/pol…
