Dark-money GOP fund funneled millions of dollars to groups that pushed voter fraud claims
CNBC 1/13/2021 Brian Schwartz
A dark-money group used by Republican donors funneled millions of dollars to high-profile conservative organizations that pushed or investigated claims of election fraud before and after Joe Biden defeated President Trump.
That group, the Donors Trust, is officially labeled as a nonprofit. The designation allows financiers to give to the organization anonymously. That money is then channeled to other dark-money groups.
Among the pro-Trump groups that have received money from the Donors Fund are pro-Trump students organization Turning Point USA and an anti-immigration organization that has been called a hate group.
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If you want to get a sense of the perilous state of American democracy right now, look no further than the images circulating online showing National Guard members sleeping in the hallways of the US Capitol underneath busts of Presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, no less.
The troops aren’t staying overnight on the Hill because it’s comfortable. They’re there for an uncomfortable reason: to keep lawmakers safe as they debate whether to impeach President Donald Trump for a second time.
Here’s a similar image showing National Guard members on Wednesday getting some shuteye near Lincoln’s bust and a neighboring plaque. The plaque is worth dwelling on for a moment: It commemorates the volunteers who stayed over at the Capitol at Lincoln’s request on April 15, 1861. That was three days after the attack on Fort Sumter the opening battle of the Civil War.