Previously billionaire Rupert Murdoch paid Megyn Kelly, through advances on her book deal, $10 million for her political efforts in 2015 and 2016. Rupert Murdoch owns Harper Collins book publishing.
Book publishing, as done by politicians in both parties, is the way money is laundered to candidates and various campaign finance rules are subverted. Nikki Haley, Kristi Noem, Mike Pence, Mike Pompeo and Tim Scott have all released books in the past two months in advance of their 2024 presidential bids.
As noted recently by The Guardian, “Lachlan Murdoch, the heir apparent and eldest son, who co-chairs News Corp and runs the parent company of Fox News, has reportedly told DeSantis that the group would back him if he ran in the next election. “Lachlan has been keen on Ron for some time. He’s viewed within the organization as a sanitized version of Donald.”
Candidates are personally financed by the book publication laundry system through advances, typically several million, and then again indirectly by supporting organizations through mass purchasing. It is not uncommon to find hundreds-of-thousands of books in various warehouses purchased by groups as indirect contributions to boost the candidate of their choice. The purchases determine the “best seller” rankings.
It is unknown how much billionaire Rupert Murdoch has paid Ron DeSantis for the 2024 campaign but considering the stakes for this election cycle it’s likely in the $20 million range.
(Via Fox News) – Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida will chronicle his life in public service in a new book that will publish in late February in what will be seen by political pundits as another step by the conservative champion toward a possible 2024 presidential run.
The autobiography by DeSantis, who was overwhelmingly re-elected three weeks ago to a second four-year term steering the increasingly red Sunshine State, is titled “The Courage to Be Free: Florida’s Blueprint for America’s Revival.”
Word of the book, scheduled to be published Feb. 28 by Broadside, the conservative arm of HarperCollins Publishing, was shared first with Fox News Wednesday. (more)
As we have chronicled since July, the decision for Ron DeSantis to enter the 2024 contest was made before the spring of 2022, everything thereafter has been a grand game of position and pretense. The seeds for the effort were laid even earlier in February when the DeSantis team reached out to “conservative influencers” to form the alignment for the August ’22 shift and branding campaign.
According to the most visible and predictable roadmap, DeSantis will likely be held back from an official announcement until later in 2023.
The problem for DeSantis handlers is that when the announcement is made all pretenses will be dropped and many people will review the landscape in hindsight and see the roadmap.
A combination of pretending, deflection and obfuscation is the management team’s #1 priority right now to avoid the Florida voter anger about being duped on DeSantis intention. However, they do have to follow the timeline of the script if they want to try and maintain the campaign momentum.
By design, Governor Ron DeSantis will almost certainly be the last candidate to enter the 2024 race, sometime late summer. The entry will depend on their success in keeping him in the spotlight and headlines without ‘officially’ looking like they are trying to keep him in the spotlight and headlines. Fox News will play a key role in keeping DeSantis spotlighted.
Everything is being carefully managed; however, when you know the script, and know where the tripwires are located, it’s very easy to see it playing out.
Ever since I read American Intelligence Media’s deep dive on DeSantis as being groomed by our British overlords, The Pilgrim Society—I have been deeply concerned about DeSantis playing such a major role in aspirations for President. Trump made major moves to break our British shackles—shown by walking AHEAD of the Queen.
I have a copy of the presidential-era book written by Donald Trump. Titled “Our Journey Together”, it was published using the Trump Organization’s funds. Sales revenues are directed back to cover costs. Not likely one cent went either to Trump or his 2024 campaign.
“Conservative influencers”… Aka religious progressives masquerading as conservatives.
This is why you don’t let political parties attempt to redefine words.
HORROR: Ron DeSantis’ richest fan announces that his company will be ready to implant chips into human brains within six months.
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2022/12/01/elon-musk-claims-neuralink-will-be-ready-to-implant-computer-chips-in-human-brains-within-6-months/
and Twitter will be used to reprogram the MAGA Twitter addicts of the world
If you accept the Plandemic/Scamdemic Covid construct, than its interesting that Ron DeSanctimonous became famous around the world, for bravely, NOT being Covid Insane.
Really, all he did, was NOT implement Covid dictatorship. Not even an action really, just didn’t become a self destructive Covid dictator.
Now, we learn, he had the Courage to Be Free.
Scamdemic, Plandemic Courage to Be Free
Desantis also set up 24 monoclonal antibody centers in Florida to administer this effective treatment. But the federal government took control of the supply of monoclonal antibodies and they were discontinued. But in the meantime they treated over 100,000 people.
My guess is they will run him with Tulsi-Who-Served-In/The-Military. I’ve been forced to watch Fox and they are constantly hyping her as The Wise One Who Saw The Light.
Oh… and do you know she served in the Military?
Her manner of speaking is super forced and annoying to me.
Ron DeSantis’ handlers would NEVER allow Gabbard to be on a ticket with him. She’s way too anti-war for them.
She’ll change her mind when they tell her to.
She’ll change her mind for money.
She is left wing in other ways that I strongly disagree with.
She is a card carrying Marxist.
She’s always said she was a socialist and was head first into the Green destruction of the world.
Female version of John McCain, the MAVERICK!!! 🤔
I believe you. We must not fall for her.
She’s likely being built up as a media personality for younger generations. Think more as a centrist version of AOC with a few maverick views and an ability to connect with younger audiences.
She’s also likely a media plant by one of the intel agencies, probably military. Her heavy push on Fox all but confirms it. It’s how “conservative” media types bypass doing drudge work on the lower rung of outlets.
There is a reason why Tulsi Gabbard is back in the public eye. She’s running for something, either someone’s VP or she’ll run as an indie for President. She’s a Dem through and through, she has a worse conservative rating than Ilhan Omar!
She has a lot of ideas that are left wing too. Not really a conservative; just a tolerant liberal.
Title of that Book “deal” : The Courage to be Free. If Mister Fox has
any courage in that category, he should have handed all that money as a
anonymous donation, with obviously no strings attached at all for The
Santis. But thats not how stings work i guess. Its business only.
Obviously Trump received the Foxy details shortly before election day.
Gov. D kept me off my Beach for almost 2 years! I won’t ever forget THAT!
What you have to realize is the same masters will be pulling the strings on all non-Trump candidates. Everyone entering the race will be working towards one goal – blocking Trump from the 2024 Republican nomination.
There is no other choice than Ron DeSantis by the non-Trump RINO forces. The other candidates are running merely as potential VP choices and cabinet appointments. Every single one.
The Republican establishment doesn’t particularly care if DeSantis loses, they believe they’ll do better in future Congressional elections with a despised Democrat president. It’s also much easier imposing the Great Reset while a Democrat sits in the White House, which is what their financial backers all want.
Heaven and earth will be moved to get Newsom running against DeSantis, including some of the crazier shenanigans we’ll likely ever see in politics.
I’ve voted Republican in every single election; I’m never voting for DeSantis in 2024. This is about spiting the RINO establishment and their duplicitous actions against Trump.
I will not let Fox News dictate who wins the Republican nomination.
The Dems want the Republicans to do the DIRTY WORK beginning in January of eventually impeaching Biden, probably in the Fall of 2023 which then gives the Dems the ammo they need to force him to resign aka Richard Nixon in 1974! That will create the chaos they need to allow Newsom to leapfrog Kamal Toes and be the Dem nominee in 2024! 😑
Newsom says he is not running for President i am a Californian an i wish he would run so we can get rid of him
Fox is promoting a poll that shows DeSantis ahead of Trump
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/poll-desantis-remains-gops-top-2024-pick-trump-dem-voters-dont-think-biden-run-again
I’m going to need a bigger wastebasket to hurl into. Good gosh this guy is obnoxious!! A trained GOP monkey could have done as well as he did, he has a friendly legislature and he’s in a red state!
I wonder if there’s going to be a chapter about how God created Ron on the 8th day to save the world. And he did so in black & white, apparently it was before God invented all of the colors.
Hey Sundance, if I take a pic of myself throwing up into a wastebasket, can you add it to the bottom of your article image? 🙂
Will. Not. Buy.
Until the money laundromat of political book publishing is subject to 100% sunlight, I’m a firm ‘NO’ on purchasing anything including a leaflet, a pamphlet, or any word of drivel from Andrew Cuomo.
Hey DeSantis team, you can’t win without Trump supporters’ votes. 🙂 Just a friendly reminder.
I will never vote for DeSantis when we have what we need in President Trump. Remember Trump helped DeSantis get where he is. When big corporations get behind someone they expect favors. Trump knows where all the skeletons are hiding and he has a huge following. DeSantis needs to take care of Florida and wait his turn. Trump and Kari Lake would be awesome. Both strong willed people who can’t be pushed around. They are for the people and Trump’s business knowledge is what gave us our independence and inflation at 1.2%. Also Putin, North Korea, China, and Iran are scared of Trump because when he says he will do something he does unlike this wimp we have now. We must build up MAGA and quit being wimps. We must go against the media and slam them. Be fighters, Democrats are the terrorists not us – destroy them!
It seems there are a lot of bots on this feed. I’m real, and if you’re reading this, you’re real too. If a candidate makes sense to you, vote for that candidate. Stop watching the news, or better yet, watch the news from a foreign country. They report on everything happening in our great country.
I supported Trump’s policies strongly. I do not support the man. The dems are the dems and we can’t change them. They have never let up attacking Trump. In DeSantis, I see the same pro-America policies, but far less personality issues to rail against. Of course, the dems can make him a pariah for picking his nose with the wrong finger. America isn’t the country it used to be. I think I’ll be retiring elsewhere.