Chapter 1: The connections begin to emerge
As Trumps cabinet and agency appointments began to be announced, I kept hearing “ (Person ‘X’ [fill in the Trump appointee]) is deeply tied to the Heritage Foundation” over and over.
- These ultra-conservative cabinet and agency head appointments are all deeply associated with either the Heritage Foundation, or ALEC.
Trump’s Cabinet choices reflect deep Koch influence
A rundown of the people with ties to ALEC, the Koch brothers and federal land transfer legislation.
Chapter 2: Russia? Trump was clearly aware of a Russian connection during the campaign…
The fog begins to clear as Rex Tillerson is nominated as Secretary of State. Tillerson is a huge Russian sympathizer and friend of Putin. politico.com/story/2016/12/…
Chapter 3: And the money trail leads to…All of the above!
(An old saying goes: if there are two plausible scenarios / parties / causal agents / motivations, it might just be both of them)
Chapter 4: The plan in action – Exxon helps defeat US sanctions against Russia.
Implementation of the plan; get Rex, with support from Cheney, to pressure Congress to lift sanctions against Russia. Objective number one will be done.
Koch is top-tier donor to RAGA, which gives Koch access to Republican AGs & their staff, as well as the ability to post on "a secret online bulletin board called the 'Briefing Room' that's allowing big donors to help shape legal policy," #KochNetwork
Morning Digest: Oklahoma schools chief ditches GOP to challenge governor as a Democrat.
Hofmeister told the Tulsa World Wednesday that she was leaving the Republican Party and seeking the Democratic nomination to take on GOP Gov. Kevin Stitt.
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The top donors listed in Project Veritas’s annual filings are Donors Trust and Donors Capital Fund, both part of the network of political and charitable organizations tied to the billionaire libertarians Charles and David Koch.
coal brokerage Manchin (#KochNetwork)co-founded in 1988, Enersystems, that has provided the vast majority of Joe Manchin’s outside income since becoming a U.S. senator: over $4.5 million in total, including nearly half a million dollars last year.