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A trove of new records released in the federal election-interference case against former President Donald Trump described how money was spent on Trump's "Stop the Steal" rally near the White House on Jan. 6, 2021.

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The newly released documents also show that an unnamed organization budgeted as much as $3 million on the Jan. 6 rally and related events, including for bringing VIP guests and protesters to Washington and ad buys for a show of force.

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[–] FiniteLooper@lemm.ee 85 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I’m so tired of this guy

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 72 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Native New Yorker here.

Trump was a fixture in the local media since the 1980s. Back in the day, first wife Ivana was the star of the show and Donnie was the clown who carried her bags.

A local satire magazine, Spy, used to prank him mercilessly. They called him the cheapest millionaire in NY after he cashed a check for 13 cents [less than the cost of a pay phone call]

In 2015 I told a freind of mine that Donnie was actually running for the nomination. She told me that she couldn't be bothered to think about Donald Trump.

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 76 points 2 weeks ago

She told me that she couldn't be bothered to think about Donald Trump.

Funny thing about that...

The former Berlin businessman I referred to earlier told me that he blamed his own group, people with the time and the money and the opportunity to know better, for what happened to Germany. "We ignored Hitler," he said. "We considered him an unimportant fellow, not quite a gentleman, not of our own class. We considered it just a little bit vulgar to bother with him, to bother with politics at all."

—Robert A. Heinlein, Take Back Your Government

Not blaming you or your friend for Trump, but reading the book that quote came from made me a lot more engaged in politics on a day-to-day basis.

[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

You remember the parodies Z-100 played? “Trump’s in a jam” when he got divorced, a parody of “pump up the jam”? Guy’s been a clown for 40 goddamn years.