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19 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
SCOOP: GOP Megadonor & Trumper Dick Uihlein’s foundation distributed $17.6 million in grants in 2020, its latest IRS filing obtained by CMD details. The largest grant of $3 mil went to the SPN affiliate in Florida: Foundation for Government Accountability.
documentcloud.org/documents/2111…
The next largest grants from Uihlein were to Illinois’s SPN affiliate Illinois Policy ($2.2 mil) and to the Conservative Partnership Institute ($1.25 mil). CPI was founded by Jim DeMint and has Trump loyalists Mark Meadows and Cleta Mitchell on staff.
Uihlein also contributed large grants to right-wing media Including to $750,000 to the publisher of The Federalist, $300,000 to the Media Research Center, and $1 mil to the Real Clear Foundation. All these grants are up on @sourcewatch
sourcewatch.org/index.php?titl…
@sourcewatch CMD was first to identify funders to The Federalist.
exposedbycmd.org/2020/12/09/who…

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