• verdare@piefed.blahaj.zone
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      4 hours ago

      Is there any evidence of this? I mean, he is an unprecedented crook in the office, but he’s also a cult leader.

      • Concetta@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        On January 5, 2021, the day before the Washington, D.C., protest that led to the January 6 U.S. Capitol attack, Kirk wrote on Twitter that Turning Point Action and Students for Trump were sending more than 80 “buses of patriots to D.C. to fight for this president”.[36][37] A spokesman for Turning Point said that the groups ended up sending seven buses with 350 students.[36][38] In the lead-up to the storming, Kirk said he was “getting 500 emails a minute calling for a civil war”.[39] Publix heiress Julie Fancelli gave Kirk’s organizations $1.25 million to fund the buses to the January 6 event. Kirk also paid $60,000 for Kimberly Guilfoyle to speak at the rally.[40]

        At least one of the promoters can’t lol