The GOP has been running a con job and grift on the American people for 40 years, and now Trump has added his own new and very profitable twist to it. He's not going to let go of it any day soon.

The Washington Post headline reads: "Trump raises $495 million since mid-October, including a massive haul fueled by misleading appeals about election." He's raised over $140 million just since he lost the election!

The headline over at Raw Story today reads: "A mysterious company created 9 months ago is the RNC's highest paid vendor of the 2020 election." Nobody knows who the company is, what they do, or who owns it, but it took $49 million from donors to the RNC.

Read more here.

-Thom

Friday's Daily Stack

Article: "Covid patients in US hospitals top 100,000 - as daily death toll hits 3,000" by Siobhan Kennedy.

Article: "COVID-19 may be most contagious one to two days before symptoms appear" by Tina Hesman Saey.

Article: "September 11 attacks" by Wikipedia.

Site: Muslims For Progressive Values

Article: "Trump Adviser Scott Atlas Pushing For 'Herd Immunity' Strategy For COVID-19" by uPolitics.com.

Article: "Herd immunity" by Wikipedia.

Article: "How Jared Kushner's Secret Testing Plan "Went Poof Into Thin Air"" by Katherine Eban.

Article: "White House abandoned plan to send 650 million face masks across the U.S. in April, report says" by Hannah Miao.

Quote: "It will go away" - Donald J. Trump (April 7).

Quote: "You see states are starting to open up now, and it's very exciting to see" - Donald J. Trump (April 23).

Article: "Covid-19 causes DELIRIUM in one in three elderly patients - increasing their risk of death by 24%, study finds" by Joe Pinkstone.

Article: "What's Medicare Supplement Insurance (Medigap)" by Medicare.gov.

Article: "Medicare Advantage" (Medicare Part C) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Mutual insurance" by Wikipedia.

Quote: "There's no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families." - Maggie Thatcher.

Article: "Trump baselessly claims doctors are inflating coronavirus death counts for money as cases again hit record levels" by Jason Hoffman.

Article: "Nashville nurse killed by gunfire after shots fired into her SUV: Police" by Bob Brigham.

Article: "Taliban Trashes Ancient Statues" by CBS News.

Article: "A group of men chanting 'Christ is king' tore down the monolith in California and put a wooden cross there instead" by Sinéad Baker.

Article: "Third monolith found on California mountain following Utah and Romania discoveries" by Tim Baker.

Article: "Judicial Watch" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Larry Klayman" by Wikipedia.

Case: "Bush v. Gore", 2000. "The individual citizen has no federal constitutional right to vote for electors for the President of the United States"

Saving & Growing Community Farms
- Severine von Tscharner Fleming, Farmer/activist/organizer-Director of The Greenhorns... whose mission is to recruit and support incoming generations of new farmers

Article: "Donald Trump Has At Least $1 Billion In Debt, More Than Twice The Amount He Suggested" by Dan Alexander.

Article: "Trump raises $495 million since mid-October, including a massive haul fueled by misleading appeals about election fraud" by Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Anu Narayanswamy.

Article: "A mysterious company created 9 months ago is the RNC's highest paid vendor of the 2020 election" by Roger Sollenberger.

Article: "New Court Documents Reveal That Corruption at the Trump Inaugural Fund Went to the Very Top" by Russ Choma.

Article: "Trump pardons: US justice department unveils bribery inquiry" by BBC.

Article: "Trump Associates Said to Have Been Scrutinized in Suspected Pardon Scheme" by Michael S. Schmidt, Kenneth P. Vogel, Katie Benner and Adam Goldman.

Article: "Donald Trump's 13 Biggest Business Failures" by Tessa Stuart.

Article: "Chris Christie: Jared Kushner's father committed 'one of the most loathsome, disgusting crimes' I prosecuted" by Devan Cole.

Article: "Factbox: Here are eight Trump associates arrested or convicted of crimes" by Reuters.

Article: "How the Republican Party Has Conned America for Over 30 Years" (two Santa Claus theory) by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Progressives criticise Biden for considering Rahm Emanuel for cabinet" by Graig Graziosi.

Article: "President Gerald R. Ford's Proclamation 4311, Granting a Pardon to Richard Nixon".

Video: Tribe: Any Argument That Trump Can Pardon Himself Would Be 'Incompatible' With The Constitution.

Article: "Sovereign immunity" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Presidential Records Act" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Elaine Chao" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Here are the GOP lawmakers who have called on Trump to acknowledge Biden's victory" by Matthew Brown, Savannah Behrmann.

Article: "Georgia Sec. of State Brad Raffensperger and Wife Are Getting Death Threats - And His Republican Colleagues Won't Say Peep to Defend Him" by Sarah Rumpf.

Article: "Trump Doubles Down On Attacks That Have Inspired Death Threats Against GOP Officials In GA" by Zoë Richards.

Book: Inside the Flying Saucers by George Adamski.

Article: "US Navy finally confirms three UFO videos where pilots reveal encounters with 'flying saucers' are REAL after they were leaked online" by Tariq Tahir.

Site: The Missing Money by Catherine Austin Fitts.

Article: "Reagan and Gorbachev Agreed to Pause the Cold War in Case of an Alien Invasion" by Danny Lewis.

Article: "Mitch McConnell, an Emperor Without Clothes?" (role of vice president in Senate) by Nicolas Carteron.

Article: "How the Vice President Limits the Power of Senate Majorities" by James Wallner.

Movie: "Smoke Signals".

Quote: "You know, there are some children who aren't really children at all. They're just pillars of flame that burn everything they touch. And there are some children who are just pillars of ash, that fall apart if you touch them. Me and Victor, we were children of flame and ash." - Smoke Signals.

Book: My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and Its Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh.

Article: "Biden could cancel $10,000 of your student loan debt: Here's what we know so far" by Hanneh Gundersen.

Article: "Student Loan Debt Statistics In 2020: A Record $1.6 Trillion" by Zack Friedman.

Article: "After $1.5 Trillion Tax Cut for Rich, Trump Backs GOP Pay Freeze for Federal Workers as Pandemic Rages" by Jake Johnson.

Article: "Dwight D. Eisenhower and the birth of the Interstate Highway System" by Lee Lacy.

Site: Local Berniecrats.

Tweet: "Fox News Exit Poll
Change to a government-run health care plan
Favor 72% Oppose 29%" by Political Polls.

Tweet: "Elections Canada does not use Dominion Voting Systems. We use paper ballots counted by hand in front of scrutineers and have never used voting machines or electronic tabulators to count votes in our 100-year history. #CdnPoli" by Elections Canada.

Article: "€54m voting machines scrapped for €9 each" by Paul Melia and Luke Byrne.

Article: "Rahm Emanuel's Failures Should Disqualify Him From Any Position in Biden's Administration" by Johanna Kichton.

Article: "Because She Was Wrong About Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Libya, Daniel Ellsberg Joins Campaign Against Flournoy" by Jake Johnson.

Article: "What a Joe Biden Cabinet Pick Might Mean for Native Americans-and Democrats" by Julian Brave Noisecat.

Article: "Sunflower Student Movement" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Taiwan's Digital Minister Knows How to Crush Covid-19: Trust" by Megan Molteni.

Article: "Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick offers $1 million reward for evidence of voter fraud" by Bradford Betz.

Article: "ACLU, GA Releases Palast Fund 'Georgia Voter Purge Errors' Report" by ACLU of Georgia.

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