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BumRushDaShow

(142,385 posts) Tue Oct 29, 2024, 12:27 PM Oct 29

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Betsy DeVos, who resigned Trump's administration on January 6, pumps money into Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC

Source: The Independent

2 hours ago

Betsy DeVos, former president Donald Trump’s secretary of education, and her family have pumped money into Elon Musk’s super PAC despite the fact she resigned from his administration in protest of his actions on January 6.

DeVos was the second cabinet member to resign in response to Trump’s actions and the riot at the US Capitol.

“There is no mistaking the impact your rhetoric had on the situation, and it is the inflection point for me,” she wrote at the time in her resignation letter. “Impressionable children are watching all of this, and they are learning from us.”

But according to Federal Election Commission reports from America PAC, the pro-Trump super PAC run by the Tesla and SpaceX executive, DeVos contributed $250,000 to the committee. The most recent FEC summary spanned the period between October 1 and 16.

Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/betsy-devos-musk-america-pac-trump-b2637072.html

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Betsy DeVos, who resigned Trump's administration on January 6, pumps money into Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Oct 29 OP

So she's gotten over it. How nice for her. tanyev Oct 29 #1

Very evil woman travelingthrulife Oct 29 #2

Her entire family is evil. Clouds Passing Oct 29 #5

She only resigned to cover her ass. Prof. Toru Tanaka Oct 29 #3

Her resignation was meaningless. 3catwoman3 Oct 29 #4

Of what use is pumping any money into a trump pac on the eve of the election? PSPS Oct 29 #6

Legal fees BumRushDaShow Oct 29 #7

Evil Woman! How many of those missing immigrant children did she sell and to whom? n/t slightlv Oct 29 #8

k riversedge Oct 30 #9

For Betsy, money is more important than the Constitution. Kid Berwyn Oct 30 #10

tanyev

(44,517 posts)

1. So she's gotten over it. How nice for her.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Tue Oct 29, 2024, 12:29 PM

Oct 29

travelingthrulife

(710 posts)

2. Very evil woman

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Tue Oct 29, 2024, 12:32 PM

Oct 29

n/t

Clouds Passing

(2,268 posts)

5. Her entire family is evil.

Reply to travelingthrulife (Reply #2)

Tue Oct 29, 2024, 03:00 PM

Oct 29

Prof. Toru Tanaka

(2,294 posts)

3. She only resigned to cover her ass.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Tue Oct 29, 2024, 12:34 PM

Oct 29

She’s just another rich, self-serving POS who is a fascist at heart.

3catwoman3

(25,447 posts)

4. Her resignation was meaningless.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Tue Oct 29, 2024, 12:48 PM

Oct 29

PSPS

(14,138 posts)

6. Of what use is pumping any money into a trump pac on the eve of the election?

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Tue Oct 29, 2024, 05:02 PM

Oct 29

BumRushDaShow

(142,385 posts)

7. Legal fees

Reply to PSPS (Reply #6)

Tue Oct 29, 2024, 05:48 PM

Oct 29

(for all the lawsuits they have been filing)

slightlv

(4,332 posts)

8. Evil Woman! How many of those missing immigrant children did she sell and to whom? n/t

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Tue Oct 29, 2024, 06:00 PM

Oct 29

riversedge

(73,132 posts)

9. k

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Wed Oct 30, 2024, 03:14 PM

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Kid Berwyn

(18,014 posts)

10. For Betsy, money is more important than the Constitution.

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Wed Oct 30, 2024, 03:23 PM

Oct 30

She also doesn't want to enrage her super-duper killer private-army brother, Erik Prince.

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