Turning It Over To The Grift

Created
Sat, 22/06/2024 - 06:30
Updated
Sat, 22/06/2024 - 06:30
Trump keeps telling his fans that he doesn’t need any votes. He says he has more than enough. He says everything depends on stopping Democrats from “cheating” (by which he means voting.) So it makes sense that they wouldn’t be putting much effort into get out the vote. They figure they don’t really need it. Bill Sher at the Washington Monthly discusses the Trump “ground game” here and it turns out that they’re outsourcing it to a grifter. Yep: CNN reported that “Donald Trump’s campaign is taking a vastly different approach to 2024 compared with 2020, with plans for fewer staff and expenses [and instead] relying on wealthy conservative groups for data, infrastructure, and significant bank accounts.” It further noted that one of the most important of these groups is Turning Point Action, part of the Turning Point network that began with Turning Point USA.  Turning Point USA is a right-wing student group founded in 2012 by Charlie Kirk, an 18-year-old soon-to-be college dropout, and Bill Montgomery, an elderly Tea Party activist.  You know about Kirk by now. He’s a full fledged, far right wingnut welfare celebrity with a huge following who says things like, “if I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, ‘Boy, I hope he’s qualified.” and there is no separation of church and state.” He’s also a Trump insider going back to 2018 when he interned with Don Jr. He’s grifted almost a quarter of a billion since 2016 and while he’s good at putting…