[Fanfare: Flugelhorns & Euphoniums]
This is the most stunningly hypocritical thing Maggie Haberman has ever said.
Her own paper published the donors to the Clinton Foundation. Apparently that's ok but Joaquin Castro going to the FEC website and printing out already publicly disclosed Trump campaign donors is bad. https://t.co/zx4nWNkklg
— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) August 7, 2019
Trump campaign donors smeared by accusation they donated to Trump https://t.co/pfJyeAVN08
— Scott Lemieux (@LemieuxLGM) August 7, 2019
Rep. Joaquin Castro — he’s the twin brother of Julian Castro — tweeted out a campaign add that featured a list including the names and occupations of people in his San Antonio congressional district who had given the legal maximum to the Trump re-election campaign in 2019 (This is of course public information, which anybody can look up, and I encourage you to do so).
Naturally this elicited shrieks of outrage from the Republican party establishment that simply publicizing the fact that people are in 2019 donating money to a white supremacist who inspires his followers to murder Hispanics like Castro himself was also a form of “inciting violence against private citizens” because [step in argument missing]….
If you are giving Trump money at this point you are a garbage person, who should be named, shamed, and shunned. I think it’s an excellent idea to publicize the names of people who are donating to Trump, in order to boycott their businesses, while exercising the core First Amendment right to let everyone know that Trump supporters are, individually and collectively, garbage people who should be ostracized by any and every decent human being…
Republicans: God I hope no one at work finds out I donated to Trump
Democrats: Wearing “I just donated to Elizabeth Warren” T-shirts to work https://t.co/OV82miBQlv
— Danny Ocean (@The_UnSilent_) August 7, 2019
The Right freaking out about being outed for supporting Trump is the biggest tell in political history.
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) August 7, 2019
No one was targeted or harassed in my post. You know that. All that info is routinely published.
You’re trying to distract from the racism that has overtaken the GOP and the fact that President Trump spends donor money on thousands of ads about Hispanics “invading” America. 1/2 https://t.co/TwUDC4m5tO
— Joaquin Castro (@JoaquinCastrotx) August 7, 2019
Donald Trump has put a target on the back of millions. And you’re too cowardly or agreeable to say anything about it.
How about I stop mentioning Trump’s public campaign donors and he stops using their money for ads that fuel hate?
— Joaquin Castro (@JoaquinCastrotx) August 7, 2019
But SERIOUSLY:
5/ Someone who gives all that money to the Trump campaign generally wants it known, so that Republicans will take their calls and be responsive to their concerns.
— Josh Chafetz (@joshchafetz) August 7, 2019