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president at Ginny Thomas group meeting calls Biden’s victory illegitimate long after January 6, video show
June 20, 2022
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Two months after rioters stormed the US Capitol in an attempt to help President Donald Trump stay in office, Virginia “Ginny” Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, attended a gathering of right-wing activists where A speaker declared to applause. Video recordings of the incident showed Trump was still the “legitimate president”.
According to a video posted on Facebook by an attendee, clergyman and conservative radio personality CL Bryant told the crowd, “There’s a robbery going on in this country right now.” “Indeed, I say it to you and I will say it loud and clear, and I am not ashamed to say it. I will not bite my tongue. I believe that Donald John Trump is the only legitimate president.”
The March 6, 2021 event was a meeting of Frontliners for Liberty. The group gained national attention from obscurity last week, with the revelation that Thomas had invited pro-Trump lawyer John Eastman to speak to its members in December 2020.
The revelation stemming from the email, that a judge ordered Eastman to be handed over to the House committee investigating the January 6 uprising, showed that Thomas was in contact with Eastman, a key legal architect of the effort to reverse the election. Judge David O’Carter of the Central District of California wrote in a June 7 opinion that the emails, in which the group’s “high-profile leader” had invited Eastman to speak — were relevant to the committee’s work.
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While it has been revealed in recent weeks that Thomas was involved in those efforts before January 6, his appearance at the Orlando gathering indicates that his alliance with election deniers continued even after Joe Biden’s inauguration. According to social media posts, court filings and interviews with several people involved in the group, the frontliners have hosted hard-right lawmakers, insisted on strict secrecy and declared that the country’s top enemy is the “radical fascist leftist”.
[A photo from the Orlando event shows Bryant posing with Thomas. Others showed Thomas wearing a name tag decorated with a yellow ribbon and others called the “Trouble Maker”.
Thomas did not respond to messages seeking comment. Bryant also did not respond to a request for comment.
Thomas’ role in Frontliners was confirmed on Thursday, when Eastman published an email inviting him to speak to the group on December 8, 2020. The email was one of several Eastman sought shields belonging to the group, which was not identified. in court filings. Eastman argued that releasing them to committee would violate the participants’ First Amendment rights.
The group said it was understood as a “cone of silence”, which Eastman wrote in a May filing. He quoted an email received from the group as saying, “[W]We are careful about who is on the phone and who is in the room and we don’t leak what happens, what is said or who is in the meeting – always!”
Eastman on Thursday downplay Significance of the invitation, writing that Thomas asked her to “give updates about the election trial to the group she met from time to time.” She wrote that she did not discuss “any matter pending or likely to come to court” with Thomas or her husband.
The committee has not issued any frontliner emails. It has requested an interview with Thomas and asked him to turn over communications with a number of people, including pro-Trump lawyers, members of Congress and Justice Department staff. Thomas told the Orthodox daily caller Last week that she looked forward to meeting with the committee and “can’t wait to clear up the misunderstanding.”
Disclosures about Thomas’ activities have exposed the potential conflicts of interest that her husband faces in deciding the affairs of the 2020 election and seeks to destroy it. Clarence Thomas has not recused himself from any of those cases—including one in January in which he was the sole justice to back Trump’s request to release White House documents related to Jan. was requested to stop.
A spokesman for the Supreme Court did not respond to questions from Clarence Thomas.
Ginny Thomas has said that she keeps her work separate from her husband.
Members described Frontliners for Libertyas a loose coalition of conservative activists. According to former New Mexico lawmaker Janice Arnold-Jones and a second person familiar with the Frontliners’ operations, the conservative advocacy group FreedomWorks provides group members with significant institutional support, including hosting briefings and “fly-ins” when members are in person. call from. spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on behalf of the group.
FreedomWorks “partners with Frontliners” but the two are separate entities, FreedomWorks spokesman Peter Vicenzi wrote in an email to The Washington Post.
“Ginny Thomas, over the years, has been an invaluable ally to our activist community when it comes to engaging on shared issues,” wrote Vicenzi. “Thomas himself has been a staunch conservative activist and FreedomWorks is proud to work with him.”
In his email invitation to Eastman, Thomas imitated another recipient, saying that the person – whose name was modified – was assisting with the meeting because “until this election material is resolved, I will I’m on rest.” It is not clear how his role on the sabbatical was different from his earlier role.
Arnold-Jones told The Post that Thomas was not the group’s sole leader. “It extends much more than that,” she said in an interview. “She’s part of it. Sometimes, we see Ginny.”
Arnold-Jones said the group maintains strict secrecy, “so that people can say what they have to say.” She said the group serves an important networking function, connecting state activists with parliamentarians and other decision-makers. But such details are shared with care, she said. “When information is shared, they don’t send a big old letter that says, ‘Here’s their phone number.’ ,
Frontliners for Liberty does not have a web presence except for a private Facebook group of about 50 people, which was founded in August 2020 and administered by Ginny Thomas and Stephanie Miller Coleman, the head of one of Clarence Thomas’ former clerks. was a widow. Coleman did not respond to a request for comment.
The post sparked public-facing details of the Facebook group last week. It has since been removed from public view. The group was designated as “a new collaborative, independence-focused, action-oriented group of state leaders representing ground forces to engage, inform and activate each other weekly to preserve constitutional rule”. was described in.
The banner at the top of the page read: “America’s Enemy … is the Radical Fascist Left.”
Coleman’s personal Facebook page features Trump’s former White House strategist, Stephen K., along with Ginny and Clarence Thomas and other high-profile Washington celebrities. There were pictures of him including Bannon. In a 2015 photo, Coleman poses with Ginny Thomas, who is wearing a pin that reads “I .” [heart] My Husband” and a name tag that identifies the event they were attending as the “Thomas Clerk World Retreat”.
Clarence Thomas’ former clerk communicates on an email list known as Thomas Clerk World, The Post previously did. informed of, In the weeks following the January 6 attack on the Capitol, Ginny Thomas apologized to those in the email list for a rift that developed between her pro-Trump advocacy and her support for her January 6 rally. Eastman is Thomas’s former clerk.
Since The Post saw photos of Coleman last week, it has made most of his Facebook page private.
During his speech at the March gathering in Orlando, Bryant said the nation is embroiled in a “spiritual war” and urged attendees to “stand up and defend this republic.” He denounced changing definitions of marriage, family, and gender, and he repeatedly returned to the belief that the presidency had been stolen.
“It was a theft, I’ll tell you. It was the biggest theft America has ever seen. But still we sit here in the White House with a guy who’s there by deceit,” Bryant said. “My friends, you shouldn’t be afraid to say it. You shouldn’t be afraid to say it.”
Bryant urged the crowd to act, asking: “What are you ready to do?” He continued: “I believe Ginni asked this question. Are we just going to get out of here on the road, go about our business? …when you leave here tonight, what are you ready to do?”
It is not clear whether he was referring to Ginny Thomas. In pictures from the event, she is speaking with a microphone at an outdoor gathering.
The video was posted to the Facebook account of John de Lemme, a podcast host and founder of the Conservative Business Journal.
Di Lemme told The Post that he is not associated with the Frontliners, but heard Bryant’s speech when he and his wife went to lunch and dinner with a friend who was attending the meeting.
Attendees at the Orlando gathering included a wide range of employees from the grass-roots organizer to FreedomWorks employees who later blamed senior economist Stephen Moore for illegally demonstrating at the Capitol during the January 6 riots, which Trump called a Tapped for seat. Federal Reserve Board but withdrawn from thought After bipartisan criticism of his comments about women.[huh?]
Other attendees included former state lawmakers, political candidates and conservative activists such as Ron Armstrong, a Michigan businessman who rose to national prominence for leading protests against Covid-19 restrictions, and Brian Kamenker, president of Massresistance, which designated as an antagonist. LGBT hate group by Southern Poverty Law Center.
Moore said that he comments at many such events and does not remember details about the group.
Armstrong told The Post that he remembered Thomas giving the welcome remarks in Orlando because he was “obviously someone who cares and would like to say hello or welcome.” He said that frontliners bring workers together on many issues and they do not have any central organizational structure. The Post did not find any corporate records for the group.
“The frontliner is nothing,” he said. “It’s all a bunch of people that gather around messages and causes and make sure we’re working together.”
Camanker did not respond to a request for comment.
Susan Voyles, a longtime conservative activist in Georgia, said she attended the March conference as president of the Georgia chapter of the Conservative Eagle Forumand saw Thomas there. Voyles said the meeting focused primarily on education issues highlighted by the pandemic.
In August, several months after the Orlando gathering, Armstrong posted a letter to state legislators from the Michigan Frontliners for Freedom group on Facebook demanding a “forensic audit” of the 2020 election. Armstrongsaid that the state group is different from the national collective.
According to a photo posted on Twitter, at aFrontliners event in October, Rep. Paul A.
[Shown the presence of] Gosar (R-Ariz.). Marissa Hamilton, recognized on LinkedIn as the grass-roots director of FreedomWorks, tweeted another photo the same day, apparently from the same incident. It included an image of three other Republican members of Congress who were instrumental in advancing lies about the 2020 election: Louis Gohart [gosar?] (Tex.), Marjorie Taylor Green (Ga.) and Lauren Boebert (Colo.).
“Congressman” @replouiegohmert Congress women @mtgreenee and Congress women @laurenboebert Feather @freedomworks Frontliners for Liberty,” according to one version, the tweet read reserve Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.
Hamilton did not respond to a request for comment, and neither did spokespersons for Goser, Gohmert, Greene and Boebert.
Alice Crits and Amy Gardner contributed to this report.
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Two months after rioters stormed the US Capitol in an attempt to help President Donald Trump stay in office, Virginia “Ginny” Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, attended a gathering of right-wing activists where A speaker declared to applause. Video recordings of the incident showed Trump was still the “legitimate president”.
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According to a video posted on Facebook by an attendee, clergyman and conservative radio personality CL Bryant told the crowd, “There’s a robbery going on in this country right now.” “Indeed, I say it to you and I will say it loud and clear, and I am not ashamed to say it. I will not bite my tongue. I believe that Donald John Trump is the only legitimate president.”
The March 6, 2021 event was a meeting of Frontliners for Liberty. The group gained national attention from obscurity last week, with the revelation that Thomas had invited pro-Trump lawyer John Eastman to speak to its members in December 2020.
The revelation stemming from the email, that a judge ordered Eastman to be handed over to the House committee investigating the January 6 uprising, showed that Thomas was in contact with Eastman, a key legal architect of the effort to reverse the election. Judge David O’Carter of the Central District of California wrote in a June 7 opinion that the emails, in which the group’s “high-profile leader” had invited Eastman to speak — were relevant to the committee’s work...
whereas original message And E-mailWhile it has been revealed in recent weeks that Thomas was involved in those efforts before January 6, his appearance at the Orlando gathering indicates that his alliance with election deniers continued even after Joe Biden’s inauguration. According to social media posts, court filings and interviews with several people involved in the group, the frontliners have hosted hard-right lawmakers, insisted on strict secrecy and declared that the country’s top enemy is the “radical fascist leftist”.
A photo from the Orlando event shows Bryant posing with Thomas. Others showed Thomas wearing a name tag decorated with a yellow ribbon and others called the “Trouble Maker”.
Thomas did not respond to messages seeking comment. Bryant also did not respond to a request for comment.
Thomas’ role in Frontliners was confirmed on Thursday, when Eastman published an email inviting him to speak to the group on December 8, 2020. The email was one of several Eastman sought shields belonging to the group, which was not identified. in court filings. Eastman argued that releasing them to committee would violate the participants’ First Amendment rights.
The group said it was understood as a “cone of silence”, which Eastman wrote in a May filing. He quoted an email received from the group as saying, “[W]We are careful about who is on the phone and who is in the room and we don’t leak what happens, what is said or who is in the meeting – always!”
Eastman on Thursday downplaySignificance of the invitation, writing that Thomas asked her to “give updates about the election trial to the group she met from time to time.” She wrote that she did not discuss “any matter pending or likely to come to court” with Thomas or her husband.
The committee has not issued any frontliner emails. It has requested an interview with Thomas and asked him to turn over communications with a number of people, including pro-Trump lawyers, members of Congress and Justice Department staff. Thomas told the Orthodox daily caller Last week that she looked forward to meeting with the committee and “can’t wait to clear up the misunderstanding.”
Disclosures about Thomas’ activities have exposed the potential conflicts of interest that her husband faces in deciding the affairs of the 2020 election and seeks to destroy it. Clarence Thomas has not recused himself from any of those cases—including one in January in which he was the sole justice to back Trump’s request to release White House documents related to Jan. was requested to stop.
A spokesman for the Supreme Court did not respond to questions from Clarence Thomas.
Ginny Thomas has said that she keeps her work separate from her husband.
Members described Frontliners for Liberty as a loose coalition of conservative activists. According to former New Mexico lawmaker Janice Arnold-Jones and a second person familiar with the Frontliners’ operations, the conservative advocacy group FreedomWorks provides group members with significant institutional support, including hosting briefings and “fly-ins” when members are in person. call from. spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on behalf of the group.
FreedomWorks “partners with Frontliners” but the two are separate entities, FreedomWorks spokesman Peter Vicenzi wrote in an email to The Washington Post.
“Ginny Thomas, over the years, has been an invaluable ally to our activist community when it comes to engaging on shared issues,” wrote Vicenzi. “Thomas himself has been a staunch conservative activist and FreedomWorks is proud to work with him.”
In his email invitation to Eastman, Thomas imitated another recipient, saying that the person – whose name was modified – was assisting with the meeting because “until this election material is resolved, I will I’m on rest.” It is not clear how his role on the sabbatical was different from his earlier role.
Arnold-Jones told The Post that Thomas was not the group’s sole leader. “It extends much more than that,” she said in an interview. “She’s part of it. Sometimes, we see Ginny.”
Arnold-Jones said the group maintains strict secrecy, “so that people can say what they have to say.” She said the group serves an important networking function, connecting state activists with parliamentarians and other decision-makers. But such details are shared with care, she said. “When information is shared, they don’t send a big old letter that says, ‘Here’s their phone number.’ ,
Frontliners for Liberty does not have a web presence except for a private Facebook group of about 50 people, which was founded in August 2020 and administered by Ginny Thomas and Stephanie Miller Coleman, the head of one of Clarence Thomas’ former clerks. was a widow. Coleman did not respond to a request for comment.
The post sparked public-facing details of the Facebook group last week. It has since been removed from public view. The group was designated as “a new collaborative, independence-focused, action-oriented group of state leaders representing ground forces to engage, inform and activate each other weekly to preserve constitutional rule”. was described in.
The banner at the top of the page read: “America’s Enemy … is the Radical Fascist Left.”
Coleman’s personal Facebook page features Trump’s former White House strategist, Stephen K., along with Ginny and Clarence Thomas and other high-profile Washington celebrities. There were pictures of him including Bannon. In a 2015 photo, Coleman poses with Ginny Thomas, who is wearing a pin that reads “I .” [heart] My Husband” and a name tag that identifies the event they were attending as the “Thomas Clerk World Retreat”.
Clarence Thomas’ former clerk communicates on an email list known as Thomas Clerk World, The Post previously did. informed of, In the weeks following the January 6 attack on the Capitol, Ginny Thomas apologized to those in the email list for a rift that developed between her pro-Trump advocacy and her support for her January 6 rally. Eastman is Thomas’s former clerk.
Since The Post saw photos of Coleman last week, it has made most of his Facebook page private.
During his speech at the March gathering in Orlando, Bryant said the nation is embroiled in a “spiritual war” and urged attendees to “stand up and defend this republic.” He denounced changing definitions of marriage, family, and gender, and he repeatedly returned to the belief that the presidency had been stolen.
“It was a theft, I’ll tell you. It was the biggest theft America has ever seen. But still we sit here in the White House with a guy who’s there by deceit,” Bryant said. “My friends, you shouldn’t be afraid to say it. You shouldn’t be afraid to say it.”
Bryant urged the crowd to act, asking: “What are you ready to do?” He continued: “I believe Ginni asked this question. Are we just going to get out of here on the road, go about our business? …when you leave here tonight, what are you ready to do?”
It is not clear whether he was referring to Ginny Thomas. In pictures from the event, she is speaking with a microphone at an outdoor gathering.
The video was posted to the Facebook account of John de Lemme, a podcast host and founder of the Conservative Business Journal.
Di Lemme told The Post that he is not associated with the Frontliners, but heard Bryant’s speech when he and his wife went to lunch and dinner with a friend who was attending the meeting.
Attendees at the Orlando gathering included a wide range of employees from the grass-roots organizer to FreedomWorks employees who later blamed senior economist Stephen Moore for illegally demonstrating at the Capitol during the January 6 riots, which Trump called a Tapped for seat. Federal Reserve Board but withdrawn from thought After bipartisan criticism of his comments about women.
Other attendees included former state lawmakers, political candidates and conservative activists such as Ron Armstrong, a Michigan businessman who rose to national prominence for leading protests against Covid-19 restrictions, and Brian Kamenker, president of Massresistance, which designated as an antagonist. LGBT hate group by Southern Poverty Law Center.
Moore said that he comments at many such events and does not remember details about the group.
Armstrong told The Post that he remembered Thomas giving the welcome remarks in Orlando because he was “obviously someone who cares and would like to say hello or welcome.” He said that frontliners bring workers together on many issues and they do not have any central organizational structure. The Post did not find any corporate records for the group.
“The frontliner is nothing,” he said. “It’s all a bunch of people that gather around messages and causes and make sure we’re working together.”
Camanker did not respond to a request for comment.
Susan Voyles, a longtime conservative activist in Georgia, said she attended the March conference as president of the Georgia chapter of the Conservative Eagle Forum and saw Thomas there. Voyles said the meeting focused primarily on education issues highlighted by the pandemic.
In August, several months after the Orlando gathering, Armstrong posted a letter to state legislators from the Michigan Frontliners for Freedom group on Facebook demanding a “forensic audit” of the 2020 election. Armstrong said that the state group is different from the national collective.
According to a photo posted on Twitter, at a Frontliners event in October, Rep. Paul A. Shown the presence of Gosar (R-Ariz.). Marissa Hamilton, recognized on LinkedIn as the grass-roots director of FreedomWorks, tweeted another photo the same day, apparently from the same incident. It included an image of three other Republican members of Congress who were instrumental in advancing lies about the 2020 election: Louis Gohart (Tex.), Marjorie Taylor Green (Ga.) and Lauren Boebert (Colo.).
“Congressman” @replouiegohmertCongress women @mtgreeneeand Congress women @laurenboebert Feather @freedomworks Frontliners for Liberty,” according to one version, the tweet read reserveInternet Archive’s Wayback Machine.
Hamilton did not respond to a request for comment, and neither did spokespersons for Goser, Gohmert, Greene and Boebert.
Alice Crits and Amy Gardner contributed to this report.
#President #Ginny #Thomas #group #meeting #calls #Bidens #victory #illegitimate #long #January #video #show#Source#President at Ginny Thomas group meeting calls Biden’s victory illegitimate long after January 6, video show
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Anti-Vax Leader Turned Lockdown Rage Into Money Maker
SIGNS OF THE TIMES
Ron Armstrong’s business raked in tens of thousands of dollars from his battle with Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. He’s not done yet.
William Bredderman
Researcher
Updated Nov. 23, 2021 1:00AM ET / Published Nov. 22, 2021
Ron Armstrong’s battle against COVID-19 restrictions has made him one of the best-known anti-mask, anti-vaccine, anti-quarantine figures in Michigan. It’s also turned into a financial bonanza for his company, which makes tabletop displays and has taken in tens of thousands of dollars from the activist groups he created.
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In addition, two political candidates who were endorsed by his organizations have paid Armstrong’s company thousands more. Armstrong’s spokesman noted he’s broken no laws, but a good-government watchdog says the whole thing stinks.
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“This speaks to the gaping holes in Michigan's campaign finance law,” said Simon Schuster, executive director of the nonpartisan Michigan Campaign Finance Network. “As a result we see people can use their positions of power or place in political movements to benefit themselves.”
Through his groups Unlock Michigan and Stand Up Michigan,Armstrong is spearheading another effort to curtail the state’s capacity to react to epidemics just as it faces the worst COVID-19 outbreak in the country and a glut of patients threatens to overwhelm hospitals from the Upper Peninsula to Detroit. And a spokesman for Unlock Michigan signaled the flow of cash to Armstrong has just begun.
“It’ll show up in campaign finance reports whenever that’s publicly available,” said GOP operative Fred Wszolek. "It’ll be disclosed when it needs to be disclosed.”
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As the fight over Michigan’s COVID-19 lockdown measures turned increasingly bitter last summer and fall, distinctive maroon and white signs sprouted on lawns and grassy strips across the Midwestern state.
“End Whitmer’s Endless Shutdown!” they cried. They bore the insignia of Unlock Michigan, a petition campaign aimed at curtailing Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s emergency powers that collected more than half a million signatures.
State campaign finance filings reveal the provenance of the signs, along with Unlock Michigan flags and tabletop displays that clustered last year at public events and near government buildings: the initiative paid just shy of $38,000 to Armstrong Display Concepts in the tiny town of Newaygo.
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The firm—which obtained a Paycheck Protection Program loan in January to cover 12 employees—raked in an additional $7,578.58 from the campaigns of Judge Brock Swartzle and Mary Kelly, candidates for state Supreme Court who received endorsements from Unlock Michigan and from Stand Up Michigan.
These expenditures came despite records showing no history of Armstrong Display Concepts ever providing services to any other state or federal campaign. The company website shows it manufactures a product called the “Ultralight X,” a presentation board that folds up to look like a briefcase.
Stand Up Michigan also blanketed the state in yard signs for the past year and a half, but its financial disclosures to the Internal Revenue Service are not yet available to view, and so it is impossible to see whether it too has done business with Armstrong. However, the trademark application for the group’s Paul Revere-style logo is in Armstrong’s name, and he is the only publicly listed contact.
[This Fave Mainstream Media Source Is Funded by Anti-Vaxxers
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Neither Armstrong nor his company responded to requests for comment. Neither did retired prosecutor Mary Kelly, one of the two failed contenders for Michigan’s highest bench whose campaigns pumped cash into Armstrong’s business.
But Wszolek, who also worked on the election of Appeals Court Judge Brock Swartzle, the other unsuccessful state Supreme Court aspirant, said Armstrong’s company was a “competitive low-bidder”—though he refused to say how many bids the campaigns received.
“I don’t have to tell you anything,” Wszolek said. “He delivered fantastic product at a fantastic price.”
Schuster called the payments from the judicial candidates to a firm with no experience in politics prior to last year “damning.”
“This reads like something that is too much of a coincidence,” he told The Daily Beast. “It risks besmirching the intent and reputation of these organizations when central figures in these movements are benefiting from these activities.”
Unlock Michigan has now embarked on its “2.0” effort: a new petition drive to change state laws so as to prevent any epidemic order from lasting more than 28 days, a proposal that has public health authorities panicked.
Earlier this year, Armstrong headlined a mask-burning event in Grand Rapids, as well as a “Freedom Festival” in Livingston County in June and an anti-vaccine mandate rally in Lansing in August. Each locality—and Grand Rapids in particular—has seen its COVID-19 caseload spike in recent weeks.
Meanwhile, his Unlock Michigan co-chair, Meshawn Maddock, ascended into the leadership of the state Republican Party in January, weeks after she personally spearheaded a bus trip from the state to violent pro-Trump protests in Washington, D.C.
Also in April, Armstrong’s Stand Up Michigan co-founder Garrett Soldano launched a campaign for governor.
Schuster complained that the COVID-19 policy wars have turned the state into a warzone where such right-wing dark money groups like Armstrong’s battle similarly opaque organizations aligned with Whitmer.
“These are matters that have consequence in people’s everyday lives,” he said. “And because we don’t know who is fueling these fights, we don’t have transparency.”
William Bredderman
Researcher
@WillBredderman
william.bredderman@thedailybeast.com
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