Walmart joins companies suspending donations to lawmakers who voted against certifying the election.
Doug McMillon, the chief executive of Walmart, at a White House event in April. Walmart said it would pause political contributions to the Republicans who voted against certifying the results of the presidential election.Credit.Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times
Jan. 12, 2021
Walmart on Tuesday said it would “indefinitely” suspend contributions to members of Congress who voted against certifying the results of the presidential election, as businesses come under pressure to respond after a mob stormed the Capitol last week.
On Sunday, when asked about the Walmart’s corporate donations, including those to the Republican Attorneys General Association, a spokesman told the Times that Walmart examines and adjusts its political giving strategy at the end of every election cycle.
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Jon Herskovitz, Bloomberg News Demonstrators swarm the U.S. Capitol building during a protest in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021. The U.S. Capitol was placed under lockdown and Vice President Mike Pence left the floor of Congress as hundreds of Demonstrators swarmed past barricades surrounding the building where lawmakers were debating Joe Biden s victory in the Electoral College. Photographer: Eric Lee/Bloomberg , Bloomberg
Three major companies are suspending donations and another is seeking a refund from a Republican attorneys general group after an offshoot participated in last weekâs march on the U.S. Capitol that turned into a violent raid, a newsletter reported.
Louisiana AG Jeff Landry Tied to Group that Helped Organize March That Ended in Insurrection
As reported in multiple media outlets, including
Louisiana Illuminator, the Rule of Law Defense Fund (RLDF) – a 501(c)(4) affiliate arm of the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA) – was listed as a featured participant on the “March to Save America” website. Although the site has now been taken down, an archive of the site available on the Internet Wayback Machine clearly shows RLDF listed alongside groups such as Turning Point Action, which gained previous notoriety for organizing teenage troll farms in order to spread misinformation about the 2020 election.
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Even prior to losing his bid for re-election in early November, President Donald Trump and his minions began floating conspiracies at his rallies and on social media about widespread voter fraud. And despite the Electoral College affirming Joe Biden s win over Trump with a vote of 306-232, Trump continued to complain of voter fraud, even after more than 80 judges found his claims without merit. As the world witnessed, his lies eventually drew a massive crowd to Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, followed by a destructive insurrection on Capitol Hill that led to five deaths, including a Capitol Police officer. And tragically, after that day of infamy, another longtime Capitol Police officer, off duty, committed suicide.
The Post and Courier on state Attorney General Alan Wilson and the Republican Attorneys General Association:
We’re glad to see S.C. Attorney General Alan Wilson repudiate his former deputy’s efforts to drum up attendance at the rally that spawned last week’s deadly insurrectionist assault on the U.S. Capitol, and to state in unequivocal terms that Joe Biden is the legitimate president-elect.
It certainly doesn’t undo his reckless decision to join in a lawsuit that went far beyond the effort to have the courts retroactively reinterpret the U.S. Constitution and carelessly - or perhaps carefully - tossed about words such as “fraud” as it trafficked in innuendo about alleged voting irregularities. Even though that lawsuit was legally permissible, it clearly was an effort to throw out the votes of millions of Americans and overturn the results of the presidential election.