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Lobbyists selling their connections to former President Donald Trump capped off a lucrative four-year run with their best year in 2020. After raking in millions from high-profile clients, these Washington influencers are already losing clients under President Joe Biden but could still benefit from Trump’s continued influence over the GOP.
Brian Ballard, chairman of Trump’s 2016 big-dollar fundraising apparatus and vice chairman of the Trump inaugural committee, made the most of his deep-rooted relationship with the president. A power player in Florida politics, Ballard didn’t lobby at the federal level until 2017, Trump’s first year in office. Since then, his firm raked in $71.4 million in lobbying revenue.
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Stewart suggests that proposed Liz Cheney demotion may be appropriate.
(Tom Williams | CQ Roll Call via AP Images) Reps. Tom O Halleran, D-Ariz., left, and Chris Stewart, R-Utah, view rioters who broke into the Capitol during a joint session of Congress to certify the Electoral College votes of 2020 presidential election on January 6, 2021.
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At the same time that Rep. Chris Stewart says liberals are damaging freedom of speech by seeking to block books by aides to former President Donald Trump, he suggests that House Republicans still could justifiably punish a leader for the way she spoke up about impeachment.
House Judiciary Committee member and Dan Bongino discuss the censorship of conservatives on Hannity
One of former President Trump’s top supporters in the House of Representatives is targeting one of Trump’s biggest House GOP critics.
GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida is heading to House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney’s home state of Wyoming on Thursday, where he’ll hold an event outside the state capitol in Cheyenne.
Cheney, the number three House Republican in leadership, has been pilloried by some of her GOP colleagues in the chamber for voting to impeach Trump earlier this month. Cheney, a vocal Republican critic of Trump’s foreign policy during his tenure in the White House and the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, was the most high profile of the 10 Republicans who joined all 222 House Democrats in voting to impeach the president. The vast majority of House Republicans – 197 of the 211 in the chamber, voted against impeachment.
Prominent Republicans continued to criticize the idea of trying an out-of-office president, while some Democrats worried about hampering President Biden's agenda.