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U.S. Senate Candidate Backed by Hedge Fund Billionaires Was Sitting in Front Row at Trump Rally as the Sniper Fired into the Bleachers
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: July 15, 2024 ~
Dave McCormick, the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate from Pennsylvania, was sitting in the front row at Donald Trump's rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday and narrowly missed being in the line of fire according to an interview he gave to CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday morning.
U.S. Senate Candidate Backed by Hedge Fund Billionaires Was Sitting in Front Row at Trump Rally as the Sniper Fired into the Bleachers
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: July 15, 2024 ~
Dave McCormick, the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate from Pennsylvania, was sitting in the front row at Donald Trump's rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday and narrowly missed being in the line of fire according to an interview he gave to CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday morning.
McCormick told Tapper that Trump had called out from the podium, asking McCormick to join him on the stage and he "started to walk up onto the stage" when Trump said: "No, no, I will have you up in a little bit. And then the shooting started a minute or two later. And so, had he not changed his mind, I think I would have been up on that stage."
According to the PBS video of Trump's opening remarks at the rally, which also capture the gunfire, Trump called McCormick a "great, great gentleman" and said these exact words about him coming up to the stage: "So we're gonna bring him up. Can we bring him up for a couple of minutes later?"
Trump did not change his mind about the timing. He simply added the word "later" at the very end of his sentence, a word that McCormick apparently initially missed hearing.
McCormick is correct about this: just 2.8 minutes after Trump indicated McCormick would be called up later, the gunshots rang out and Trump ducked for cover under the podium with Secret Service agents piling on top of his body.
Democrats currently have majority control of the U.S. Senate while Republicans control the House. Flipping the Senate red while holding onto the House's Republican majority is a major goal of hedge fund and private equity billionaires who are funneling tens of millions of dollars into key Congressional races. These billionaires benefit from a tax loophole known as "Carried Interest," where they are able to pay lower taxes than teachers and plumbers. The carried interest loophole has been under attack by progressive Democrats for years, thus there is a big push by billionaires to elect more right-wing Republicans to Congress.
A Super PAC created solely for the purpose of boosting McCormick's chances and attacking his opponent for the Senate seat, incumbent Democrat Bob Casey, is called Keystone Renewal PAC. (Pennsylvania is known as the "Keystone State.") The wealthiest billionaires in the hedge fund and private equity arena are major donors to Keystone Renewal.
An attack ad from Keystone Renewal uses the same demonization of immigrants language that Trump was actually in the process of talking about in the very seconds that the shots rang out at his rally on Saturday. (See the video of the ad here.) The ad promotes McCormick as a combat veteran. He is, more recently, the former CEO of Bridgewater Associates, one of the largest hedge funds in the world.
The largest donor to Keystone Renewal, by a wide margin, is hedge fund titan Ken Griffin of Citadel. According to records from the Federal Election Commission (FEC), Griffin wrote out a check for a cool $10 million to the Super PAC on September 25, 2023. In April of last year, Hank Tucker at Forbes wrote this about Griffin:
"Ken Griffin is riding high, after posting the most profitable year of any hedge fund in history. He's worth an estimated $35 billion, $7.8 billion more than a year ago and nearly triple what he was worth in 2020."For how Griffin is making his billions, scroll down at this link for our extensive reporting on the matter.
Paul Singer, founder and President of Elliott Management, an investment firm and hedge fund, also chipped in $2 million on November 2 of last year. Jeff Yass, the richest man in Pennsylvania, has also donated $1 million to Keystone Renewal. Yass is the co-founder and Managing Director of Susquehanna International Group, a hedge fund and trading firm. Forbes puts Yass' net worth at $28.5 billion.
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What else has Paul Singer's Elliot Management been involved with?
This is how these psychos think:
No shit. And this wasn't part of the op?
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