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Trump campaign architects are involved in Albania’s upcoming election
Chris LaCivita (co-ran Trump 2024), pollster Tony Fabrizio, Paul Manafort are working for Sali Berisha who is challenging PM Edi Rama
Meanwhile Edi Rama's cabinet recently approved a deal with Jared Kushner for development of a $1.6 billion resort
#Albania #Trump #Manafort #LaCivita #Fabrizio #Berisha #Rama #Kushner
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Trump campaign architects are involved in Albania’s upcoming election
Chris LaCivita (co-ran Trump 2024), pollster Tony Fabrizio, Paul Manafort are working for Sali Berisha who is challenging PM Edi Rama
Meanwhile Edi Rama's cabinet recently approved a deal with Jared Kushner for development of a $1.6 billion resort
#Albania #Trump #Manafort #LaCivita #Fabrizio #Berisha #Rama #Kushner
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Trump campaign architects are involved in Albania’s upcoming election
Chris LaCivita (co-ran Trump 2024), pollster Tony Fabrizio, Paul Manafort are working for Sali Berisha who is challenging PM Edi Rama
Meanwhile Edi Rama's cabinet recently approved a deal with Jared Kushner for development of a $1.6 billion resort
#Albania #Trump #Manafort #LaCivita #Fabrizio #Berisha #Rama #Kushner
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Trump campaign architects are involved in Albania’s upcoming election
Chris LaCivita (co-ran Trump 2024), pollster Tony Fabrizio, Paul Manafort are working for Sali Berisha who is challenging PM Edi Rama
Meanwhile Edi Rama's cabinet recently approved a deal with Jared Kushner for development of a $1.6 billion resort
#Albania #Trump #Manafort #LaCivita #Fabrizio #Berisha #Rama #Kushner
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Trump campaign architects are involved in Albania’s upcoming election
Chris LaCivita (co-ran Trump 2024), pollster Tony Fabrizio, Paul Manafort are working for Sali Berisha who is challenging PM Edi Rama
Meanwhile Edi Rama's cabinet recently approved a deal with Jared Kushner for development of a $1.6 billion resort
#Albania #Trump #Manafort #LaCivita #Fabrizio #Berisha #Rama #Kushner
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At this point, it looks to me like #Wiles and #LaCivita are the latest to think “It won’t happen when I’m in charge,” and now that it has, they’re sitting back, collecting their paychecks, and letting Corey and #Loomer run the show. #uspolitics #USPol #uspolitics #DonaldTrump #trump
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Trump adds five new handlers as he tries to find attack lines against Harris
Trump brought Taylor #Budowich, Alex #Pfeiffer and Alex #Bruesewitz from the Trump-aligned "Maga Inc" political action committee,
as well as previous Trump campaign veterans Corey #Lewandowski and Tim #Murtaugh.The new additions are coming onto the Trump campaign as "senior advisers", meaning they are lateral hires to a campaign still being run by co-campaign chiefs Susie #Wiles and Chris #LaCivita, the people said.
Lewandowski previously ran the 2016 campaign but does not have the same role now.
He has remained an "informal adviser" to Trump since the first presidential campaign, and will continue that function but in a more formal capacity through the final stretch to November, one of the people said.Murtaugh, who was the communications director for the 2020 campaign, is returning in a broader role, as will Budowich, Pfeiffer and Bruesewitz, one of the people said.
Bruesewitz has a large online following and is expected to help direct social outreach.
The additions came after senior aides on the Trump campaign found themselves open to criticism and challenges to their positions after perhaps the rockiest stretch for the campaign since it launched in 2022, the Guardian has previously reported.The summer months have historically been the time that Trump makes changes to his campaign chiefs, as he did in 2016 when he installed Kellyanne #Conway, Steve #Bannon, and David #Bossie to take the reins,
as well as in 2020, when he replaced Brad Parscale with Bill #Stepien.The past month has been bad enough for the Trump campaign that advisers have taken those challenges
– whether from enemies real or perceived
– as serious threats or slights that necessitate devoting time and effort to #slap #down -
Top Trump advisers in turmoil after campaign’s worst month of 2024
Trump has often committed one unforced error after another
as he tries to frame arguments against Harris, struggled to break through the news cycle hyping Democrats’ enthusiasm, and suddenly found himself on the defensive with a narrow window left until November.The sudden difficulty for the Trump campaign to lay a glove on Harris has led to Trump’s allies seeing an opening for the first time to openly challenge decision-making by senior aides and privately challenge whether some advisers should remain in their positions or be sidelined.
And the past month has been bad enough for the Trump campaign that advisers have taken those challenges
– whether from enemies real or perceived
– as serious threats or slights that necessitate devoting time and effort to slap down.In a statement referring to the campaign chiefs Susie #Wiles and Chris #LaCivita, a Trump spokesperson said:
“As President Trump said, he thinks Ms Wiles and Mr LaCivita are doing a phenomenal job and any rumors to the contrary are false and not rooted in reality. -
White supremacist, Hitler fan, and far-right political pundit
#Nick #Fuentes shockingly revoked his support from Donald Trump’s campaign early Friday,
announcing on social media that he and his allies believed that the presidential bid is headed for a “catastrophic loss.”💥“Tonight I declared a new Groyper War against the Trump campaign,” 💥Fuentes wrote on X (formerly Twitter) shortly after midnight, referring to a group of far-right activists known as groypers.
Fuentes explained that he and his far-right squad of online trolls
“support Trump” but that they view his 2024 campaign as being “hijacked”
by lobbyists, consultants, and donors that had aided Trump’s 2016 Republican opponents.
All in all, Fuentes believed they were “blowing it.”
“Without serious changes we are headed for a catastrophic loss,” Fuentes wrote.“This is NOT a purity spiral, this is about living up to the AMERICA FIRST credo put forth by Trump in 2016 which will ensure VICTORY in 2024,” Fuentes continued.
“On Monday I will present a detailed statement of the facts, a mission statement, and a plan of action on my Rumble channel. STAY TUNED.”In another post two hours later, Fuentes shared a screenshot of trending hashtags on Truth Social, including “#GroyperWar2”, “#FireLaCivita,” and “#FireWiles,”
the latter two of which refer to senior Trump advisers Chris #LaCivita and Susie #Wiles, who helped engineer Trump’s political resurrection following his loss in 2020.“We haven’t even started,” Fuentes captioned the screengrab.
https://newrepublic.com/post/184729/donald-trump-nick-fuentes-white-supremacists-support
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Elon Musk’s new super PAC is ⭐️collecting scores of voters’ personal information
⭐️under the guise of inviting them to register to vote,
⭐️as part of his effort to boost Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.Earlier this month, #Musk denied reports that he would be donating $45 million a month to Trump’s campaign during an interview with right-wing commentator Jordan Peterson.
Instead, the technocrat clarified that he had created a new super PAC, called the #AmericaPAC.Musk’s America PAC is a door-to-door canvassing operation,
which allows it to work in direct coordination with the Trump campaign, according to an FEC advisory from earlier this year.
This allows Musk, and his fellow Silicon Valley donors, to stick their hands
—and their cash
—right into the presidential race on Trump’s behalf.How exactly they plan to do this is even more disturbing.
The America PAC has launched a series of 🔸digital ads using the image of Trump’s assassination,
to invite people browsing Google to 🔹“register to vote,” CNBC reported Friday.
🔹In states where the outcome is certain, such as California, the ads actually do direct them to a voter registration site.♦️But in key battleground states, users are directed to a very different page,
which prompts them to enter their phone number, address, and age.
Once complete, users are then greeted by a “Thank You” page,
🔥with no actual link to voter registration in sight.👉Musk’s America PAC has poured $800,000 into digital advertisements
to target voters in the key battleground states of
Arizona, Michigan, Georgia, North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin,
according to AdImpact.👉The information collected from user responses to this ad campaign will inform the PAC’s canvassing efforts in those states.
Musk’s America PAC has already attracted the financial support of a few Silicon Valley billionaires.
Douglas #Leone and Shaun #Maguire, general partners at Sequoia Capital, donated a whopping🔸 $1 million and $500,000 respectively, according to The American Prospect.
(Their V.C. firm is also an investor in Musk’s SpaceX.)
Joe #Lonsdale, one of the co-founders of the military contractor Palantir, donated $1 million in June.
Palantir was founded by Peter #Thiel, who helped to fund J.D. Vance’s start in politics.Apparently, Musk’s plan for the America PAC is already off to a rough start.
After spending at least $15 million with In Field Strategies, a field vendor that organizes canvassers,
the PAC ended its relationship with the company, two people familiar told The New York Times.It’s unclear what happened to that money, and now, more than 100 canvassers who had been hired by In Field on America PAC’s behalf in mid-June have been left scattered across the country, looking for work.
The PAC will now have to scramble to mount its canvassing campaign before early voting can begin, according to the Times.
Trump campaign manager Chris #LaCivita called the Times report “more fake news …
the New Program 100% better than the old gang. Solidly support this effort,” in a post on X.https://newrepublic.com/post/184517/terrifying-way-elon-musk-stealing-peoples-data-help-trump
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Secretive conservative donor group Rockbridge Network met in April to draw up 2024 plans — with a call-in from Trump
The #Rockbridge #Network, a collection of pro-Trump donors with a heavy tech influence, heard from the former president during a conference in Palm Beach last April.
Former President Donald Trump spent his week stuck in New York City for the beginning of his hush money trial.
But on Wednesday, between days in court, Trump made time to call into a secretive donor meeting back at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, according to two people involved with the group who were in the room.
The Rockbridge Network is an under-the-radar, new-age conservative group that sees itself as the leading edge of a changing Republican Party
— and is putting tens of millions of dollars into building a fresh infrastructure to support it.Trump spoke to a room of about 250 attendees who lean more tech-populist than traditional, 20th-century political, having gravitated to the former president and the way he has shaken up the Republican Party.
Trump was originally slated to be a guest speaker but was unable to attend in person due to his New York trial.
Donald Trump #Jr. ended up pinch-hitting for his father as one of the star in-person speakers, according to the two people in attendance.
Trump’s co-campaign managers, Susie #Wiles and Chris #LaCivita, attended as well.
Rockbridge isn’t yet a brand name in Republican politics, in part because the group has been secretive since its founding in 2019.
The exact number of dollars behind the group is also difficult to verify, but one of the sources in attendance last week who is familiar with the group’s operations told NBC News it is in the “high tens of millions.”
And while some older GOP donor groups eschew Trump
— the Koch network stayed out of the presidential race after endorsing Nikki Haley in the Republican primary, preferring to focus down the ballot
— Rockbridge is firmly aligned with Trump.Rockbridge sees itself as a sort of anti-Koch network that can fill in the gaps the party hasn’t traditionally invested in.
As the GOP went from middle- and upper-middle-class to more middle- and working-class,
Rockbridge founders felt the GOP infrastructure didn’t shift to support and capitalize on that.While Democrats had labor unions organizing their blue-collar base, for example, Republicans didn’t have a mechanism to do the same.
The organization is the brainchild of Ohio Sen. JD #Vance (before he was a senator) and Chris #Buskirk, who is a co-founder of the conservative fund "1789 Capital" and the publisher of the website “American Greatness,” a pro-Trump outlet that describes itself as “the leading voice of the next generation of American Conservatism.”
Billionaire Peter #Thiel has been among those involved.
“All these other historical think tanks and more traditional conservative organizations didn’t capture the Trump movement at all and didn’t recognize the shift.
Many are still operating like they’re in the 1990s,” said Omeed #Malik, an entrepreneur and donor who has been involved with Rockbridge since 2022.
Last April's three-day gathering, which took place at the Palm Beach Four Seasons apart from the Wednesday night Mar-a-Lago event, featured both new- and old-school GOP donor stalwarts.
Among the crowd was major GOP donor Rebekah #Mercer, billionaire and former Trump ambassador to the United Kingdom Woody #Johnson, and prominent conservative lawyer Leonard #Leo, according to the two people present at the gathering.
Also there were cryptocurrency luminary Erik #Voorhees and former Uber exec Emil #Michael.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/secretive-conservative-donor-group-meets-draw-2024-plans-call-trump-rcna148899 -
Well that didn't last long.
Throughout Sunday and overnight into Monday morning one of the most radical political transformations in US history was being written.
Old Trump
–the nasty, malevolent, political operative who is bent on vengeance and stealing elections
–was no more.Political insiders, commentators and writers were being briefed that, after the shooting and his miraculous escape on Saturday, a new man had risen.
It was also complete bullshit.
Early on Monday morning when news came through that a Florida judge
(and, totally coincidentally, a Trump judicial appointee)
had dismissed the classified documents case,
the real Trump once again emerged, and took to Truth Social;“As we move forward in Uniting our Nation after the horrific events on Saturday, this dismissal of the Lawless Indictment in Florida should be just the first step,
followed quickly by the dismissal of ALL the Witch Hunts
— The January 6th Hoax in Washington, D.C.,
the Manhattan D.A.’s Zombie Case,
the New York A.G. Scam,
Fake Claims about a woman I never met
(a decades old photo in a line with her then husband does not count)....”In the seconds after the shooting and after Trump had got back to his feet surrounded by Secret Service agents he raised his right fist and, face contorted into a mix of hate and rage, shouted
💥 'Get my shoe!'.💥Yet, within hours it was as though Trump had been replaced with a stunt double, drafted in to play the Nice Guy
As Politico reported, “The pivot was the brainchild of an early Sunday morning call with Susie #Wiles, Chris #LaCivita, Jason #Miller and pollster Tony #Fabrizio.. After hours of relentless and incendiary Republican attacks blaming Democrats for inciting the violence, the team agreed the party would need a reset.”
No more Mr. Nasty Guy.
Apparently.
Campaign co-directors LaCivita and Wiles have, to date, managed to craft a more moderate Trump.
His debate performance was oddly benign (apart from the lies), and he chose not to hammer Biden while the President was under assault for his debate performance over the last two weeks.
For this pivot (or re-write/scam) to work, they have to continue to rein him in at every turn.
The portents, based on his Truth Social outburst this morning, are not good.
But it's going to be one hell of an act to watch.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-new-unity-platform-doesnt-even-last-a-day
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Paul Manafort has been back channeling campaign tips through top Trump aides since last year, Republicans tell 24sight News
Sources say Manafort worked through senior campaign advisor Chris #LaCivita and veteran pollster Tony #Fabrizio behind the scenes,
but Trump camp denies direct involvementLeaders of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence were taken aback by Manafort’s ♦️promotion of Russian interests, ♦️
fingering him as part of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s coordinated effort to influence the Trump campaign and sway the 2016 election.They spent years investigating how Manafort, working with Russian intelligence officer #Konstantin #Kilimnik and pro-Russian #oligarchs in Ukraine, did #Putin’s bidding.
“The Committee found that Manafort's presence on the Campaign and proximity to Trump created 💥opportunities for Russian intelligence services to exert influence over, and acquire confidential information on the Trump Campaign,” 💥Senate lawmakers wrotein their five-volume report on Russia’s election interference.
“Taken as a whole, Manafort's high-level access and willingness to share information with individuals closely affiliated with the Russian intelligence services,
particularly #Kilimnik and associates of Oleg #Deripaska,
represented a grave counterintelligence threat.”The FBI is offering a $250,000 reward for Kilimnik’s capture and has placed him on the Most Wanted list.
But Trump’s allies have broadly disputed Kilimnik’s ties to Russian intelligence.
A few months after negotiating an early release from prison in May 2020, by pleading that he was in danger of contracting Covid-19,
Manafort set up the shell company which would become his ticket to rejoining Trumpworld.24sight News broke the news about Manafort’s stealth comeback bid, via Winter Solstice Holdings LLC, in March
https://www.24sight.news/p/24sight-exclusive-manafort-trump-back-channel
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RNC fires dozens of employees after Trump-backed leadership takes over
The new leadership team at the Republican National Committee
— handpicked by Donald Trump
— started firing dozens of employees days after taking overAbout 60 people were told they were no longer employed, according to a person with direct knowledge of the changes.
One of the people familiar with the firings said data, political and communications staffers were affected, and notifications were made on Monday by #Chris #LaCivita, a senior Trump adviser who was at the RNC’s Capitol Hill headquarters.LaCivita had complained about the staff of the RNC for several months, and long planned to make changes.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/11/rnc-trump-firings/