Thread by @AdamKinzinger

As promised, I want to further explore a PPP loan by a public figure @alexbruesewitz who led Stop the Steal rallies, and continues to drive false narratives today; and his political consultancy firm. Cont..

2) Its worth looking at these examples to learn from in future similar programs. In April 2020, x-strategies received 25k in PPP loans to secure payroll, which were eventually forgiven. In the website from sept 2020, it only showed two employees… Alex, and a Derek Utely….

3) according to Derek Utelys @realDerekUtley recent tweet, he is not an employee of the firm but it’s cofounder and partner. There may have been employees, but they were not listed under the employees section of the website.

4) regardless, the month before securing the PPP loan, x-strat reported 18k in income according to the FEC. In subsequent months that income increased drastically. Interestingly, Xstrat also lists clients like Freedom project,

5) the Independence fund, Power the future, among others. It’s unknown how much they paid as it’s not listed under the FEC site. The income is further broken down by company, such as the Great America pac paying Xstrat about 2500/month, and many other clients.

6). Xstrat basically created online content and trolls to swamp the RINO types. Other clients include MTG and Tom Massie. Nothing wrong with that, maybe not the healthiest for democracy however. Anyway. To attain PPP loan applicant must testify that it’s necessary….

7) for continued operation. To attain forgiveness they must attest to not lay off any employees and the loan was necessary to that end. By sept at least only two employees were listed, both the founders of x-strat. The loan was eventually forgiven, and publically listed..

8) the issue isn’t whether it was legal or illegal. I really don’t know and more than likely this isn’t an exceptional situation. The question is, with profits increasing after the loan and with the company being focused on POLITICAL consulting, is that the best use…

9) of taxpayer money? Alex had repeatedly hammered the forgiveness of student loans which i agree wasn’t wise policy, and has gone so far as to call for SEIZING endowments, a quite communist proposal…

10) but in the future, maybe political consultants with increasing profits based on division and anger should not benefit from taxpayer money. Particularly when the only two employees listed are the founders. You enter the public sphere and become a public person like Alex..

11) you shouldn’t get free government money to further divide us. And you shouldn’t be surprised when you rail against government spending to have your public affairs discussed. It was taxpayer money.

Over, and out.