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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">sparked by ...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style="font-size: small;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 31px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Meet the Press</b><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">hosted </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">NBC News contributor and right-wing radio host <b>Hugh Hewitt</b> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">this morning. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Host <b>Chuck Todd</b> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=5d417cba4112af5609c8bf854adedad4fd4189bd2327b36e9e7b84d90068364c12fffb105cc64cf8611492f92134ac4b0116374beee8f98d" title="did not disclose" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">did not disclose</a> that Hewitt has a financial tie to President <b>Donald Trump</b>: Last month, the </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Trump Make America Great Again Committee rented Hewitt's newsletter to raise money twice last month.</span></font></span></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hewitt is <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=5d417cba4112af56994cdcadc86f082cceafec75dcd54012d81765ca08710f1985670010f1637c3f31af38b6d9d3419adda6262ee010d560" title="a pro-Trump hack" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">a pro-Trump hack</a> who recently tweeted that “every Catholic, indeed every person of any faith, has to realize the left despises them and that the Democrats shelter this virulent bigotry and pretend it’s something else” (Democratic presidential nominee <b>Joe Biden</b> is Catholic). <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Hewitt also <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=5d417cba4112af56fb5e22e93a51d88145be808241f0b6349472c123784014197a3e6b9db596b7ba0194dff500d6cd2e235f60aaf5bf237d" title="regularly turns over his radio program" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">regularly turns over his radio program</a> to guest host and unhinged bigot <b>Kurt Schlichter</b>.</span></font></p></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>numerous Republican candidates, including Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), Madison Cawthorn, and John James, have been advertising in the email list of conspiracy theory website WorldNetDaily.</b> The right-wing website gained notoriety and readers by leading a smear campaign regarding President Barack Obama’s birth certificate and has also pushed virulently anti-LGBTQ and anti-Muslim content. </font></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">WorldNetDaily is led by right-wing publisher and conspiracy theorist Joseph Farah. Alyssa Farah, the current White House communications director, is Farah’s daughter and a <a href="http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/blog/index.blog/2374088/wnd-mysteriously-deletes-alyssa-farahs-article-archive/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">former writer</a> for the site. </font></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Southern Poverty Law Center <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/worldnetdaily" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">states</a> that WND is “devoted to manipulative fear-mongering and outright fabrications designed to further the paranoid, gay-hating, conspiratorial and apocalyptic visions of Farah and his hand-picked contributors from the fringes of the far-right and fundamentalist worlds.” </font></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">WND was one of the <a href="https://www.politifact.com/article/2009/jul/01/obamas-birth-certificate-final-chapter-time-we-mea/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">main</a> <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/jerome-corsi/wnd-founder-joseph-farah-right-wnd-publishes-misinformation" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">promoters</a> of the false claim that Obama was not born in the U.S. The site ran numerous articles casting doubt on Obama’s birth certificate and organized a billboard and petition campaign asking “Where's the Birth Certificate?" The country’s most-famous birther, President Donald Trump, is a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/27/magazine/the-problem-with-self-investigation-in-a-post-truth-era.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">fan</a> of the site’s <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/225597351505559552" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">birther</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/227504536317734912" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">stories</a>.  </font></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The site has peddled <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/03/03/how-kevin-deanna-orchestrated-alt-rights-approach-conservative-institutions" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">white nationalist</a> <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2012/10/23/worldnetdaily-now-peddling-white-nationalism" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">propaganda</a>. It has also frequently posted hate content against <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/worldnetdaily" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">LGBTQ</a> people <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/joseph-francis-farah" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">and</a> <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fake-news/conspiracy-outlet-wnd-still-pushing-its-anti-muslim-fake-news-story-even-after-it-was" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Muslims</a>. </font></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/inside-the-spectacular-fall-of-the-granddaddy-of-right-wing-conspiracy-sites/2019/04/02/6ac53122-3ba6-11e9-a06c-3ec8ed509d15_story.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">reported</a> in April 2019 that the WorldNetDaily empire has collapsed since its birther heyday because of financial problems. </font></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The site is still trying to make money by renting out its email list to various politicians. In 2020, Media Matters has received fundraising emails from the following congressional candidates through WND’s email list: </font></p><ul dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; clear: both; list-style: none; padding: 0px;"><li role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3897831" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Sen. Thom Tillis</a> (incumbent running for reelection from North Carolina) </font></li><li role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3897816" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Madison Cawthorn</a> (running for the House from North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District) </font></li><li role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3897791" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">John James</a> (running for the Senate from Michigan)  </font></li><li role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3900181" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Rep. Elise Stefanik</a> (incumbent running for the House from New York’s 21st Congressional District)</font></li><li role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3897821" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Rep. Jim Jordan</a> (incumbent running for reelection from Ohio’s 4th Congressional District) </font></li><li role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3900196" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Laura Loomer</a> (running for the House from Florida’s 21st Congressional District) </font></li><li role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3900201" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Kathy Barnette</a> (running for the House from Pennsylvania’s 4th Congressional District) </font></li><li role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3900191" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Lacy Johnson</a> (running for the House from Minnesota's 5th Congressional District)</font></li><li role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3897836" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Kyle Van De Water</a> (running for the House from New York’s 19th Congressional District) </font></li><li role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3897826" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Tre Pennie</a> (running for the House from Texas’ 30th Congressional District) </font></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3897796" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Trump Make America Great Again Committee</a>, which is “a joint fundraising committee authorized by and composed of Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. and the Republican National Committee,” has also advertised on WND’s list. </font></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Like writers for WND, <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/laura-loomer/republican-party-florida-backing-laura-loomer-proud-islamophobe-who-said-shes-favor" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Loomer</a> has frequently pushed anti-Muslim bigotry. The right-wing commentator has described herself as a “proud Islamophobe,” has stated that she didn’t “care” about the anti-Muslim mass shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand, and has said that she would like to see “more” migrant deaths. </font></p></div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/08/the-daily-caller-has-been-paid-by-gop-campaigns-while-providing-fact-checking-services-for-facebook" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2020/08/the-daily-caller-has-been-paid-by-gop-campaigns-while-providing-fact-checking-services-for-facebook</font></a></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/06/17/exclusive-tucker-carlson-founded-daily-caller-violated-tax-law-irs-complaint-alleges/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Daily Caller</a> has taken tens of thousands of dollars to help Republican campaigns raise money while performing political <a href="https://www.salon.com/2019/01/10/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-blasts-the-daily-caller-for-fake-nude-selfie/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">fact-check services for Facebook</a>.</b></font></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Federal election filings from the<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> <a href="https://www.fec.gov/data/disbursements/?data_type=processed&committee_id=C00027466&recipient_name=daily+caller&two_year_transaction_period=2020&min_date=01%2F01%2F2019&max_date=12%2F31%2F2020" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">National Republican Senatorial Committee</a> and the <a href="https://www.fec.gov/data/disbursements/?data_type=processed&committee_id=C00075820&recipient_name=daily+caller&two_year_transaction_period=2020&min_date=01%2F01%2F2019&max_date=12%2F31%2F2020" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">National Republican Congressional Committee</a> show that the two organizations rented email lists from the publication this year, paying $40,213.75 and $18,171.40, respectively.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Caller, a right-wing publication co-founded by Fox News personality Tucker Carlson, has also since 2016 sent dozens of emails “paid for by Trump Make America Great Again Committee,” a joint fundraising vehicle shared by the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee, according to <a href="https://mediamatters.org/daily-caller/daily-caller-receiving-money-trump-and-gop-groups-while-its-subsidiary-participates" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Media Matters</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Media Matters also revealed that The Daily Caller has sent sponsored emails on behalf of a number of Republican candidates this year. Media Matters posted screenshots of the emails, from <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3887291" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C</a>; <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3887286" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio</a>; the <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3887301" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Senate Conservatives Fund</a>; and the <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3887296" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Bikers for the President PAC</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Daily Caller’s fact-checking subsidiary <b>Check Your Fact </b>says on <a href="https://checkyourfact.com/about-us/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">its own “about” page</a>:</font></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 10px 20px 10px 24px; position: relative; line-height: 1.7; overflow: hidden; background: rgb(245, 245, 245); border: none !important;"><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Our mission is a non-partisan one. We’re loyal to neither people nor parties — only the truth. And while the fact-checking industry continues to grow, there are still countless assertions that go unchecked. We exist to fill in the gaps.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></p><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We commit to being fully transparent with how we conduct our fact checks. Whenever possible, any reader should be able to retrace the steps we took in establishing the truth.</font></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Check Your Fact partnered with Facebook’s fact-checking program last year. However, the Daily Caller itself has published <a href="https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/33759251/2017-08_electionReport_0.pdf?sequence=9&isAllowed=y" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">right-wing disinformation</a>, <a href="https://www.politifact.com/personalities/daily-caller/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">false stories</a> and <a href="https://www.snopes.com/news/2018/09/06/many-daily-caller-writers-expressed-white-supremacist-views/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">content written by white supremacists</a>.</span> For instance, it teased a fake nude photo of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and it <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/things-got-left-out-of-the-daily-callers-report-confederate-monument-rally" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">failed to disclose</a> that a 2017 report from Charlottesville’s “Unite the Right” rally was written by the rally’s chief organizer.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Check Your Fact website itself is in need of a fact-check. As of Monday, the site’s “about” page claimed that Tucker Carlson still holds a majority stake in its parent company, The Daily Caller. However, Carlson told The New York Times in June that he had <a href="https://nytimes.com/2020/06/10/business/media/daily-caller-tucker-carlson.html" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">sold his stake in the publication last year</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Republican National Committee disclosed spending about $4,500 to rent an email list from The Daily Caller in March 2016 just before Trump secured the nomination, according to <a href="https://www.fec.gov/data/disbursements/?data_type=processed&committee_id=C00003418&committee_id=C00580100&committee_id=C00618389&two_year_transaction_period=2016&two_year_transaction_period=2018&two_year_transaction_period=2020&disbursement_description=list&disbursement_description=email+list&disbursement_description=emails&disbursement_description=email&disbursement_description=address" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">FEC records</a>. The Trump campaign also previously paid $150,000 the Daily Caller to rent its list, though it <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/06/02/charity-doubles-as-a-profit-stream-at-the-daily-caller-news-foundation/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">did not disclose the payment</a>, which was shelled through a third-party vendor.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Aside from three Trump campaign payments to right-wing outlet Newsmax in 2015</b>, no other media organizations have disclosed mailing list rentals to the Trump campaign, RNC or joint fundraising committee Trump Victory over the last two election cycles.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>However, FEC records show that the Trump campaign and RNC have each paid a handful of third-party vendors several millions of dollars for email lists. Those companies do not have to disclose what lists they share — or where or how they got the email data.</b></font></p><article style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The biggest single list acquisition payments have gone to Facebook, which the RNC paid about $5.4 million in three installments from Sept. 9 to Nov. 21, 2019, <a href="https://www.fec.gov/data/disbursements/?data_type=processed&committee_id=C00003418&committee_id=C00580100&recipient_name=facebook&two_year_transaction_period=2018&two_year_transaction_period=2020&disbursement_description=list" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">per FEC data</a>. Facebook <a href="https://www.salon.com/2019/10/16/facebooks-rationale-for-allowing-lies-in-political-ads-makes-no-sense/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">announced</a> it would not be fact-checking political ads in September 2019.Check Your Fact did not reply to Salon’s inquiry about the error on its site.</font></article><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/daily-caller/daily-caller-receiving-money-trump-and-gop-groups-while-its-subsidiary-participates"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.mediamatters.org/daily-caller/daily-caller-receiving-money-trump-and-gop-groups-while-its-subsidiary-participates</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b> Daily Caller has been receiving money from President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign and other Republican candidates and organizations for email list rentals while its Check Your Fact division participates in Facebook’s fact-checking program. </b></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/daily-caller" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">The Daily Caller</a> is a right-wing publication with a history of promoting false information and <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/maga-trolls/daily-caller-has-published-white-supremacists-anti-semites-and-bigots-here-are-ones-we" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">hiring or publishing</a> white nationalists and other bigots. In 2019, Facebook <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/facebooks-fact-checking-operation-partnering-division-tucker-carlsons-toxic-daily" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">began partnering</a> with Check Your Fact for the social media giant’s fact-checking program. Popular Information's Jugg Legum <a href="https://popular.info/p/the-daily-caller-uses-status-as-facebook" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">documented</a> in March how the Daily Caller used “its role as a Facebook fact-checker to boost Trump and discredit a mainstream media outlet, Politico.”  </font></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Check Your Fact <a href="https://checkyourfact.com/about-us/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">states</a> on its “about us” page that it is “a <b>for-profit subsidiary wholly owned by The Daily Caller</b>,</span> Inc. Majority owners of The Daily Caller, Inc. are co-founder and publisher Neil Patel and co-founder Tucker Carlson. The Daily Caller’s fact-checking team is funded by The Daily Caller’s general news budget, as well as revenue generated through advertising.” (Carlson <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/10/business/media/daily-caller-tucker-carlson.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">sold</a> his stake in the Daily Caller last month.) </font></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Will Ragland, the research director for Center for American Progress Action, tweeted today:</font></p></div></div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--twitter-tweet paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="field field--name-field-twitter-tweet field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">After that tweet, Media Matters found that <b>The Daily Caller has sent <a href="https://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/styles/scale_w1024/s3/static/D8Image/2020/07/31/dailycalleremails-trumpdailycaller1.png?itok=y-ThyOjP" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">dozens</a> of <a href="https://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/styles/scale_w1024/s3/static/D8Image/2020/07/31/dailycalleremails-trumpdailycaller2.png?itok=WNcBE8JD" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">sponsored</a> <a href="https://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/styles/scale_w1024/s3/static/D8Image/2020/07/31/dailycalleremails-trumppublishernews.png?itok=Aa0C6d04" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">emails</a> </b>since 2016 that were “paid for by <b>Trump Make America Great Again Committee, a joint fundraising committee authorized by and composed of Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. and the Republican National Committee.” </b></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Daily Caller has also received $40,213.75 so far this year from the <a href="https://www.fec.gov/data/disbursements/?data_type=processed&committee_id=C00027466&recipient_name=daily+caller&two_year_transaction_period=2020&min_date=01%2F01%2F2019&max_date=12%2F31%2F2020" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">National Republican Senatorial Committee</a> for list rentals, according to Federal Election Commission records. It has also received $18,171.40 so far this year from the <a href="https://www.fec.gov/data/disbursements/?data_type=processed&committee_id=C00075820&recipient_name=daily+caller&two_year_transaction_period=2020&min_date=01%2F01%2F2019&max_date=12%2F31%2F2020" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">National Republican Congressional Committee</a> for list rentals, according to FEC record</span>s. </font></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The Daily Caller has sent numerous other sponsored emails for various Republicans this year. Those emails include <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3887286" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Rep. Jim Jordan’s (R-OH) reelection campaign</a>; <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3887291" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-SC) reelection campaign</a>; <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3887296" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Bikers for the President political action committee</a>; and the <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3887301" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Senate Conservatives Fund</a>. </b></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/06/02/charity-doubles-as-a-profit-stream-at-the-daily-caller-news-foundation/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">The Washington Post</a> and the <a href="https://www.exposedbycmd.org/tucker-carlson" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Center for Media and Democracy</a> wrote in 2017 about how The Daily Caller has received money from the Trump campaign for list rentals. </font></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Here are four recent examples of The Daily Caller’s sponsored emails for the Trump Make America Great Again Committee: [screenshots]</font></p></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><p class="endmarkEnabled" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" baskerville="Baskerville" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">the conservative group called We Build the Wall presented donors with a relatively straightforward idea: it would collect private donations and use the money to build barriers along the U.S./Mexico border. On the surface, the pitch was effective: the outfit raised $25 million for the venture, and donors were assured that every penny would go toward wall construction.</font></p><p class="endmarkEnabled" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" baskerville="Baskerville" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Below the surface, according to federal prosecutors, the operation was a scam. As part of a broad criminal indictment, which <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/stephen-bannon-indicated-part-alleged-border-wall-scheme-n1237445" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none;">included charges</a> against former White House strategist Steve Bannon, prosecutors alleged money was used to pay for "home renovations, payments towards a boat, a luxury S.U.V., a golf cart, jewelry, cosmetic surgery, personal tax payments and credit card debt."</font></p><div id="taboolaReadMoreBelow" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" baskerville="Baskerville" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="endmarkEnabled" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" baskerville="Baskerville" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As jarring as these accusations are, there's also a degree of familiarity to the circumstances. As the <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">New York Times</em>' Michelle Goldberg noted in <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/20/opinion/trump-steve-bannon-fraud.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none;">her new column</a>:</font></p><section class="blockquoteContainer_326mG relative w-auto mv8 gray-60 blockQuoteContainer" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" baskerville="Baskerville" serif="serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: var(--spacing-8); margin-bottom: var(--spacing-8); position: relative; width: auto; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0.0625rem; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(48, 97, 255); margin-left: 0.5625rem; line-height: 27px;"><blockquote class="bq___RvTtE fs-italic ma0" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: var(--spacing-0); padding-left: 30px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bannon's arrest comes just two weeks after New York's attorney general sought to dissolve the National Rifle Association, claiming that its leadership "looted" it. On Thursday, Politico reported that <b>Jerry Falwell Jr., recently suspended as president of Liberty University, has "repeatedly used a 164-foot yacht owned by NASCAR mogul Rick Hendrick for family vacations after the university committed to a lucrative sponsorship deal with Hendrick Motorsports."</b></font></p><small class="founders-mono f2 fs-normal ttu db mt5 gray-80" courier="Courier" new="New" monospace="monospace" margin-top="margin-top" var="var" spacing-5="spacing-5" text-transform="text-transform" uppercase="uppercase" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="black" data-test="blockquote-attribution" style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></font></small></blockquote></section><p class="endmarkEnabled" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" baskerville="Baskerville" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The trifecta is neatly tied together with a common thread: the NRA, Jerry Falwell, and We Build The Wall each stand accused of, among other things, swindling unsuspecting conservatives who put their trust in powerful political voices on the right.</font></p><p class="endmarkEnabled" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" baskerville="Baskerville" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But if the allegations prove true, the perpetrators are hardly the first to try to fleece their own base. It was seven years ago when MSNBC's Chris Hayes <a href="https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/357912083783876609" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none;">wrote</a>, "Much of movement conservatism is a con and the base are the marks."</font></span></p><p class="endmarkEnabled" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" baskerville="Baskerville" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The observation was true at the time, but it's even more important now.</font></p><p class="endmarkEnabled" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" baskerville="Baskerville" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">As regular readers know, many prominent Republican voices --</span><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Newt Gingrich, Mike Huckabee, et al. -- have created lucrative mailing lists </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">used for </span><a href="http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/conservative-circles-scams-abound" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 102); box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none;">highly dubious purposes</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">. Similarly, the rise of the Tea Party in the Obama era led to the creation of "</span></b><a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2015/01/super-pac-scams-114581.html#ixzz3Px2tBzPV" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 102); box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none;"><b>scam PAC</b>s</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">" that </span><a href="http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/house-republican-backs-investigation-tea-party-pacs" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 102); box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none;">targeted conservative donors</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">, but existed "mostly to pad the pockets" of the consultants who ran them.</span></font></p><p class="endmarkEnabled" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" baskerville="Baskerville" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Donald Trump, not surprisingly, was similarly eager to separate those he perceived as fools from their money, running <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-pays-2-million-resolve-case-over-his-fraudulent-foundation" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none;">a fraudulent charitable foundation</a> and creating <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/judge-finalizes-25-million-settlement-trumps-fraud-case" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none;">a fraudulent "university,"</a> which was designed to do little more than rip off its "students."</font></p><p class="endmarkEnabled" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" baskerville="Baskerville" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If the latest criminal indictments are accurate, groups like the NRA and We Build The Wall also saw conservatives as suckers.</font></p><p class="endmarkEnabled" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" baskerville="Baskerville" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Washington Post</em>'s Paul Waldman <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/20/bannons-indictment-confirms-that-american-right-is-made-up-con-artists/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none;">added</a> yesterday, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">"Conservative operatives such as Bannon have always viewed the right's rank-and-file with utter contempt, as little more than a collection of fools to be taken advantage of."</span></font></p><p class="endmarkEnabled" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" baskerville="Baskerville" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Similarly, Amanda Carpenter, a conservative who's worked with GOP leaders such as Jim DeMint and Ted Cruz, delivered <a href="https://twitter.com/amandacarpenter/status/1296442296968380418" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none;">an important message</a> to the right yesterday: "Conservatives should be very angry. You got used.</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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