The College Fix, joined the “Todd Huff Show” today to discuss “payback politics.”
Huff and Lamb discussed the recent retirement of Chapman University Professor John Eastman. Faculty and student activists forced Eastman out after he conducted legal work on behalf of the Trump campaign and spoke at Trump rallies.
Lamb also discussed Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse’s letter to the IRS calling for an investigation into Turning Point USA. Whitehouse targeted TPUSA for hosting a student activist conference in Florida.
TPUSA is a far-right student organization that, according to the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism, has numerous connections to alt-right activists and white supremacists. Candace Owens, when serving as the group’s communication’s director, once said “if Hitler just wanted to make Germany great and have things run well, OK, fine.”
Given this history, I was shocked to learn that the leader of one of the largest Jewish fraternities in the country, Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi), sits on TPUSA’s advisory council.
Andrew S. Borans, CEO of the AEPi Foundation, has been a member of Turning Point’s advisory group for years, and on their website touts his years of “leadership” in the Jewish community. As a Jew and as an AEPi member, I was disappointed and dejected to learn that Borans was associated with such a vile group.
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boom market, according to a new report from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII); researchers found “evidence of 81 countries using social media to spread computational propaganda and disinformation about politics,” up from 70 in 2019. Among them: Both sides of the civil war in Libya, a pro-Trump group that tries to convince ageing boomers he’s popular with college students, and failed billionaire candidate for the presidency Michael Bloomberg.
Joe Biden speaks to Iowa voters on the Soapbox stage at the Iowa State Fair in August 2019 (Getty/Salwan Georges for The Washington Post)
A clip has resurfaced of incoming president Joe Biden seeing right through a right-wing agitator attempting to rile him on transgender issues.
A member of Trump fanaticist group Turning Point USA had accosted Biden at the Iowa State Fair in August 2019, demanding he explain how many genders there are.
Biden calmly responded: “There are at least three.”
When the activist attempted to press him into elaborating further, Biden shut down the bad-faith discussion immediately, telling her: “Don’t play games with me, kid.”
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.