Just over a week the former Trump administration ambassador to
the United Nations is expected to announce that she'll battle her former boss for
the Republican nomination.
She'll be the first, but definitely not the last to mount a challenge.
>> And Trump of course is not a fan of anyone who dares to run against him in
the Republican primary.
Get a load of what he had to say about Nikki Haley in a recent interview.
You can of course expect him to be the misogynist that he is.
Let's watch.
>> To trump, let's just say he isn't too happy about it.
>> She said numerous times,
I put it up actually that I would never run about president runs.
He was a great president etc, etc.
She said that numerous times, but she's a very ambitious person,
she just couldn't stay in her seat.
I said, you know what?
Nikki, if you wanna run, you go ahead and run,
Nikki suffers from something that's a very tough thing to suffer from.
She's overly ambitious.
>> Those women, they should just stay in their seats, they're so overly ambitious.
Now of course Donald Trump doesn't like that anyone would challenge him in
the Republican primaries, which is why he lashes out at everyone, including
Nikki Haley, including Rhonda Santis who hasn't announced that he's gonna run.
There are rumors that he's thinking about running.
But Trump is also probably concerned about the fact that the billionaire donors
who had supported him previously are no longer interested in supporting him and
are planning on putting their funding behind a Republican challenger.
And we know that for sure,
thanks to a memo that was leaked by the Coke donor network.
And what did that memo say?
Well, Emily Sydell, who serves as the chief executive for Americans for
Prosperity authored the memo and here's what it said.
The Republican party is nominating bad candidates who are advocating for
things that go against core American principles and
the american people are rejecting them.
The Democrats are responding with policies that also go against our core American
principles.
One of the lessons learned from primary campaigns in the 2022 midterm
election cycle.
The memo says in boldface, is that the loudest voice in each political party sets
the tone for the entire election, which of course implies that they're referring
to Trump here in a presidential year, that's the presidential candidate.
And to write a new chapter for our country we need to turn the page on the past.
So the best thing for
the country would be to have a president in 2025 who represents a new chapter.
The American people have shown that they're ready to move on.
And so Americans for prosperity will help them do that.
Now, I just wanna note that the Coke donor network lost interest in
Trump earlier because of the fact that he engaged in a trade war.
Right wingers love free trade because they want to allow businesses to exploit cheap
labor in other countries without any type of consequence.
So there has been a b going on with these donors and Donald Trump for some time now.
But it does show you that the money is definitely leaving Trump and it's headed
toward the direction of whichever Republican candidate they prefer.
>> So I don't know if it's gonna work, but at least it is a significant sign of
the massive civil war about to unfold in the Republican Party, we think.
But remember they need a candidate and they need a credible candidate.
But I wanna give you guys a sense of scale here that I wanna go to graphics four and
five.
Before we do that though, I like that last sentence they had they say,
the American people have shown that they're ready to move on, so
they're going to help them do that.
[LAUGH] Okay in other words, no, no, it's not us.
>> We are doing it for America people.
>> No, yeah,
that's why we're gonna give these hundreds of millions of dollars to help
the American people come to the conclusion that we should get everything okay.
Now there are no good guys in this story.
Brothers are a disaster and Trump's a disaster, will sort it out at the end, but
let me give you the numbers first.
Americans for
Prosperity super PACs spent nearly $80 million during the 2022 midterm elections,
but that is likely just a fraction of the network's overall spending.
Much of which was undertaken by non-profit groups that will not be required to
reveal their finances until this fall.
And remember a lot of that is dark money.
So they don't have to reveal where they got it from.
Now, obviously, some of it is from Charles Coke, obviously, right?
But they actually have a giant collection of the richest people in the country.
And well, the second number will indicate the size of it for you guys,
of 80 million during the midterms, that we can see with our own eyes,
let alone the rest of the iceberg isn't enough.
And then I'll get to who's in the group,
the network spent nearly $500 million supporting Republicans candidates and
conservative policies 2020 election cycle alone.
So guys, that's just the money we know about, and
that's a half a billion dollars.
And the way they get that is they go to again, some of the richest people that
are all right wingers, they get them together in Palm Springs, which they just
did and that's why you're hearing about this story and in some other fancy places.
And they get together and they decide, in a council of some sort, okay,
I'm gonna get to that too in a second.
And they go, okay, who should be the next president, and
then they decide, and then they put in 500 million or whatever they need, and
they overwhelm everyone else now with Trump it's a little different.
Now, I say council, cuz I'm I'm taking a jab at the idiots who
believe in things like the council of Zion.
And they think, it's the Jews, the Koch brothers are not at all,
Jewish, neither is the great majority of the incredibly wealthy donors here.
Guys it isn't about religion or race, it's about money.
>> The kingmakers are the ones with the billions and look,
I'm just gonna make one quick point about this cuz I can't help myself.
It is amazing to me, this is a report from the New York Times.
It is amazing to me that reporters like Maggie Haberman can note the impact
that hundreds of millions of dollars make on elections in this context.
While simultaneously pretending to not understand the corrupting
factor of money in politics in our political system in general, right?
In this context, he gets it in any other context,
it seems like they're totally blind to it.
>> But there is one thing that unites them.
Even this story seem to almost like they don't say, with the New York Times, they
don't ever say like, yeah, it's a good thing, somebody's fighting Trump, right?
They're not gonna be unsophisticated like that, but
you can see the message in between the lines, they seem to be kind of celebrating
that the Koch brothers are gonna spend this money against Trump.
It's like a big news event, just giant money going against Trump, right?
But that does tie them to the rest of their coverage,
which is celebrating anyone who has more money,
they always call the person with more money the leader in the race.
Well what does that do?
That says the person who took the most bribes,
the one that is likely the most corrupt is declared to be the leading
candidate that you should all consider first.
And the new york times and every other outlet,
right wing and mainstream media do the same exact thing.
So that is an implicit endorsement of the one taking the most bribes.
Now, so which leads us to this great irony here, you've got the guys who actually
are people always trying to find the cabal, who's secretly running things.
Dude, it's not a secret, they meet twice a year at a really fancy hotel,
they go into a conference room and decide who our leaders are gonna be.
And by the way they brag about being in 200 different races,
this isn't just about president, they're picking their your senators,
your congress people, your state legislators.
Republicans in Kansas started warning other Republican state legislators saying
when the Koch brothers come for you,
they wipe out everyone who doesn't agree with them.
Okay, so they're gonna wipe out Republican that that are not corrupt as well.
So the bottom line is whoever the Republican nominee is gonna
be is definitely gonna be corrupt, that's what they've always been.
The question is are they going to be personally corrupt like Donald Trump or
systemically corrupt like the people,
whoever the Koch industries network picks right?
And one is going to be corrupt on behalf of the donors another one is going
to be corrupt on behalf of himself and
that doesn't have to be the case, but with Trump, he's shown 1000 times over.
That's exactly what he does, right?
So I'm I hate Trump mainly because he tried to overthrow democracy,
that's kind of a big deal.
Okay, let alone all the other horrible things that he's done.
So I would love for him to get eliminated.
Okay, and then I'll deal with the next monster and I don't believe that's stupid
saying about, you gotta stick with the devil, you know.
>> No. >> No, I know that guy is the devil
[LAUGH] got to try someone else and there's not gonna be any good Republicans.
But as long as they don't try to end democracy, well, we'll fight them,
we'll fight them in a general election, we'll fight him next time etc.
So it is strange bedfellows in this case.
But what I'm worried about is the mainstream media like they did with
Liz Cheney.
And then eventually Dick Cheney and George W Bush now saying like, the Cokes and
the richest people in the world that buy off all our politicians
are fighting Trump.
That means they're good guys and they'll get it show on MSNBC next.
No, no, no, no, no, no, they're not good guys.
This is organized bribery and every reporter should be telling you that and
almost none of them do.