In April, Max Kennedy, Jr. [...] sent an anonymous complaint to Congress detailing dangerous incompetence in the Administration’s response to the pandemic.
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“I just couldn’t sleep,” he said. “I was so distressed and disturbed by what I’d seen.”
he showed up at [FEMA HQ] and joined around a dozen other volunteers
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He was surprised to learn that they weren’t to be auxiliaries supporting the government’s procurement team. “We were the team,” he said. “We were the entire frontline team for the federal government.”
Kennedy believes that the Administration relied on volunteers in order to sidestep government experts and thereby “control the narrative.”
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one of the political appointees who directed the task force, pressured him to create a model fudging the projected number of fatalities
According to Kennedy, the group paid special attention to Jeanine Pirro, the Fox News personality [, who was] “particularly aggressive,” and demanded that masks be shipped to a hospital she favored.
The volunteers were also told to direct millions of dollars’ worth of supplies to only five preselected distributors. Kennedy was asked to draft a justification for this decision, but refused.
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“We were super frustrated we couldn’t get the government to do more.”
It’s very interesting to revisit this press conference, where Rear Admiral John Polowczyk - head of FEMA's supply chain task force - is essentially saying that FEMA is abdicating their normal responsibilities, and sending “product” to 5 or 6 companies.
Because prior to all of this, in March, Kushner had come up with “Project Airbridge.”
This was another instance of the Trump family playing “deal maker” with our tax dollars.
They guaranteed a portion of the supplies to 6 companies. What did we get in return?
“In the end, the task force failed to procure enough equipment, leaving medical workers [...] wearing garbage bags and makeshift or pre-worn masks. States were left to fend for themselves, bidding against one another for scarce supplies.”
[Kennedy says that] political appointees who supervised him were hailing Trump as “a marketing genius,” because, Kennedy said they’d told him, “he personally came up with the strategy of blaming the states.”
This further confirms what many of us long suspected was the strategy.
.@greggnunziata apparently doesn’t want anyone to notice the corrupting influence that Citizens United and dark money-funded astroturfing have had - from the Tea Party to Clarence Thomas.
And those who recognize it are “liberals” trying to “recklessly delegitimize” the Court.
@greggnunziata Originalism and textualism were an attempt to create a “denomination” in the legal field that transformed the constitution into a religious text - one that “liberals” (i.e. everyone else) simply aren’t qualified to interpret.
NEW: Ten women who escaped the Kingston Clan have filed a lawsuit detailing a sex trafficking cult, forced incestuous marriages, child labor, schemes to defraud governments.
Left: Today’s article:
Right: July, 2020 - Don Jr with a prominent member:
Lev Dermen and multiple members of the Kingston family were sentenced to years in federal prison for conducting a nearly decade-long tax fraud scheme described as “one of the largest ever.”
A former FBI agent was also sentenced to prison for helping them evade the law.
Big story - maybe moreso in the context of Ronna’s ouster from RNC.
Superfeed, originally a news/media platform created by 7 Mountains follower Floyd Brown, passed to Jeff Dewit, connected to TPUSA, is now being used by swing state GOP orgs - almost zero records of payments.
Superfeed is used by Lindell for people to snitch about “voter fraud;” used by Scott Presler for GOTV; now being used by multiple state GOP Party orgs…
But it’s also the company Dewit paid Kari Lake through, until she recorded him.
Provided for free???
Remember, NBC recently reported that Charlie Kirk influenced Trump’s decision to oust Ronna.
And one of the biggest complaints from insiders was that Kirk was redirecting RNC money for his own ends.
And when GOP orgs move to Superfeed, 👉the RNC no longer owns the data.👈
Not only openly undermining US policy, but also openly allying with right wingers who corruptly tried to stay in power after losing the election in Guatemala.
In 2010, Mike Johnson was appointed dean of a new “Christian law school” named after Paul Pressler - a ‘training ground’ for religious right lawyers. It never opened.
Prior to that, he was a senior legal counsel and spokesman for ADF (Dobbs, 303, etc.).