Thursday, May 20, 2021

The 'Big Lie' Is a Cash Cow For Extreme Republicans

Lying has never been so profitable in politics before.

(Photo of Christina Bobb - OAN reporter and co-founder of Voices and Votes)

By adopting the Big Lie, radical Republicans find themselves on a roll, filling their coffers with small money donations from Trumpies far and wide.

Perhaps the most blatant of these fundraisers is the so-called Arizona Audit conducted by the state senate.

To set the table here's what's happening:

**One American News, a far-right TV station has exclusive access to the shambolic audit because two of it's reporters are fundraising for the audit.

**One of those reporters Christina Bobb is the network's most visible correspondent covering the "audit." 

**The other reporter, Chanel Rion, OAN's White House correspondent, teamed up with Bobb and started a group called Voices and Votes.

**The group's website says that Voices and Votes is registered as a 501(C)(4) organization, meaning the donors will never be made public.

**The group is raising money for the company Cyber Ninjas, the firm running the audit and owned by a Trump supporter who believes the election was stolen.

**Reminder: This so-called audit is not an audit at all.

To put this all in perspective the Maricopa Country Board of Supervisors, which is majority Republicans, wrote a scathing letter to Arizona Senate President Karen Fann, calling the audit a threat to democracy and telling her to end it.

"The Arizona Senate is not acting in good faith, has no intention of learning anything about the November 2020 General Election, but is only interested in feeding the various festering conspiracy theories that fuel fundraising schemes of those pulling the strings. The result is the Arizona Senate is held up to ridicule in every corner of the globe and our democracy is imperiled," the board wrote.

There are many more examples of fundraising off the Big Lie. 

For example, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is bringing in bushels of cash promoting conspiracies' from Jewish Space Lasers causing California fires to the Big Lie.

Don't expect Republicans to change this corrupt fundraising tactic, because it's working.

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