Ron DeSantis is heading to the Big Apple to reunite with his Yale alumni and accept a boost in capital for his ailing campaign.
The $6,600/plate appearance is the latest effort by Team DeSantis to connect to the ordinary working class voter he needs to try and regain footing after his effort has fallen short of the Sea Island billionaires’ expectations.
The Yale Club appearance tomorrow is more friendly terrain for the Florida governor, a return to those who are at the root of his political career.
(Via NBC) – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is coming to New York for a private presidential campaign fundraiser that’s set to be hosted by at least four Wall Street executives, including one with past ties to a firm backed by liberal billionaire George Soros, a frequent target of DeSantis and other Republicans.
The event is scheduled to take place June 29 at the swanky Yale Club, according to a copy of an invitation seen by CNBC. It will be one of DeSantis’ first fundraisers in the Big Apple since he officially launched his campaign for president last month.
The hosts listed on the DeSantis invitation include Paul Ardire, a partner at GoldenTree Asset Management, along with Christian Michalik, Rob Michalik and Corwynne Carruthers, who are all leaders at Kinderhook Industries, a private equity firm with at least $5 billion in assets under management, according to data from PitchBook. GoldenTree has at least $50 billion in assets under management, PitchBook says. (read more)
Despite the combined efforts of Rupert Murdoch, Ken Griffin, Elon Musk, the Sea Island billionaires, hedge fund managers, Wall Street groups and a host of multinational corporations, recent polling shows the richest fundraiser in the GOP field has failed to gain traction with the lesser controllable voters.
Additionally, the purchased right-side media, Daily Wire, Salem Inc. and a strong coalition of “conservative influencers” are producing diminishing returns. The former Team Cruz crowd is pushing hard, but it becomes a complicated dynamic of influence when they must pretend they are not aligned with Jeb and the Bush clan.
Alas, a brief reprieve from the pretending with a Yale Club booster confab is sure to recharge the spirit of DeSantis, as he enters a full-throated albeit transparently desperate, phase of his six-minute-abs campaign.
DeSantis is now promising to use tariffs against Mexico, break up the federal government and attack the FBI and DOJ in a last-ditch effort to convince the suspicious crowd that his association with the spooks from Skull and Bones is only an optical illusion. The tiaras of Casey are contingent upon selling a carefully branded narrative, that thus far has not captured enough of the sheeple masses for success.
Meeting with the Yale Club is sure to boost morale.
[…] DeSantis and the event’s co-hosts have ties to the fundraiser’s venue due to them all being Yale graduates. Yale Club members can only be those who received a degree from the Ivy League school or “full-time graduate students who are completing a degree-granting program at Yale, and full-time professors,” according to their website.
DeSantis graduated from Yale in 2001. DeSantis said in a book released just before he ran for president that he viewed earning a degree from Yale was the equivalent of being a political “scarlet letter” in a Republican primary. (more)
Upper Crust Cretins
A degree from an Ivy League school doesn’t indicate “smarts”.
I always remember Dr Sowell’s incisive comment,
“In every disaster throughout American history, there always seems to be a man from Harvard in the middle of it.”
…or Yale.
Truth
It sure doesn’t. A degree from Harvard or Yale means a degree in indoctrination and liberalism. I would not contribute a dime to send a relative to either school.
Harvard, the school that has an employee selling dead body parts for profit. Home of the CIA.
A degree from an Ivy League school doesn’t indicate “smarts”.
Some people are educated beyond their intelligence.
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“I probaly shoulfn’t say this,…but someof the DUMBEST people I have known, were College graduates.”
Kari Lake
“Over credentialed, under educated”
Hat tip: the under credentialed but educated to the nth degree Mark Steyn.
AWESOME!
Dr. Charles Lieber…
Yes, I don’t know any “hard-working American” who can afford to pay over $6K for dinner.
About the cost of my property taxes and homeowners insurance for a year.
No thanks!
We can’t afford $6.00 for a shrink-flated snack at the vending machine.
They probably don’t like him: he’s a working class boy who got a baseball scholarship to their beloved Ivy.
That made it easier for TPTB to “purchase” young Ron at Harvard. He wanted into their exclusive club and was willing to do whatever it takes to become a wealthy and powerful member. That is why Casey, the wife, acts like this Jackie O moment has been a long time in the making. She is so close to getting her long, thought out, dreams come true also.
Her dreams will be dashed here shortly.
No matter what happens, MAGA will make sure to send the DeCeitful DeFrauds packing…all the way back to Florida.
MAGA has done their homework & now know WHO this couple is. We will make sure St Ron is never elected outside the state of Florida!
Not a full scholarship.
DeFraud still has outstanding student loans…check his financials.
Sort of.
If you do a deep dive on Rod’s parents you’ll learn they were immersed in Mahoning County (Ohio) GOPe politics and they worked for former Ohio Gov Rhodes back in the 60s and 70s.
He’s establishment all the way with a family heritage backing it up.
If he was truly was America First economically, he’d play up his family connections to Ohio and West PA and he doesn’t.
Even worse his wife Jillary is from Ohio, too, and barely mentions it.
Are they ashamed?
I’d say disconnected in the hopes of continuing to land Wall Street hedge fund cash which has been dependent on sending states like Ohio to a Rust Belt wasteland.
His parent may have been.
Ron was born in Jacksonville and grew up in Dundelin, FL.
Was member of Little League World Series team as a youngster.
I don’t care if Rod played for the 1927 Yankees.
He avoids America First economic issues despite having a family background from Ohio.
I live in Ohio. Unforgivable in my book.
Donald Trump understands Ohioans far better.
First paragraph- alright then!
Rest of paragraphs- total agreement.
RDS’s fumbling and bumbling campaign is testing the patience of the GOPe donor class.
When The Meatball eventually fails I expect either Youngkin or Tim Scott to be the next one in line to be propped up!
It doesn’t matter. You have to figure, with the $ pumped into this campaign, this campaign staff was “the A team” the highest paid “best of the best”.
And they are what matters, NOT the cookie cutter candidate.
Ford or Chevy, a crappy driver is a crappy driver.
What happens to donations to a campaign which is destined to fail?
Another laundering scheme?
Skull and crossbones?
They go to the Democrats. Like they always do.
They will roll them into Casey’s run for Governor or President.
At least he will make enough to pay off those school loans.
Is Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) in that picture?
I was looking at his twatter today and he appears to be another DeMeatball stooge. Just another commentator I used to think was on our side.
Interesting, Trump’s great just for exposing people.
He referenced the wrong Stephen Miller @StephenM twitter account for Senior Advisor to President Trump | Founder, America First Legal
I don’t see him
There’s a few Stephen Miller’s around. The one with the “L” middle initial has always been a neverTrumper. There is another Stephen Miller who is on Team Trump.
Exactly- twitter account for Stephen Miller @StephenM Senior Advisor to President Trump | Founder, America First Legal
The Trump supporting Stephen Miller is head of an advocacy lawyer group that he founded… Americans For Liberty IIRC.
Yeah there are similar names. I know Stephen M. was on the team but Stephen L. I only noticed during 2017-2020 thought he seemed ok. Looks like another sellout if there is room for him on the team meatballs picture or maybe he is too irrelevant. 🤣
Edit: I’m talking about Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze)
Senior Advisor to President Trump | Founder, America First Legal twitter is Stephen Miller
@StephenM – not sure who you referenced, but this is the correct Stephen Miller from the Trump team.
I was referring to the team desantis picture with rove, Ryan, mcturtle, Shapiro, zelinsky, etc. Thinking there might be room for stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze)
But maybe he was known as a nevertrumper before PDJT election or is not popular enough to matter. I just found out about him shilling for team meatball today.
Do you think he will save us some crustless cucumber sandwiches ?
I like cucumber sandwiches, but sure don’t want one of DeSlime’s.
Now you have me craving a fresh tomato sandwich on whole wheat with Miracle Whip… and I can’t get decent tomatoes locally.
I wish I could send you some of our tomatoes from the garden. They runneth over–and that’s with me making frozen salsa and spaghetti sauce, as well as drying truckloads of them!
I can’t do the Whip, gotta be Hellmann’s for me. I had my first mater sammich the other day, and it was really, really good. Not eat over the sink good, but those days are coming. Then I had one w/bacon on it. Paradise.
I would sacrifice MW for a fresh-from-the-vine ripe tomato! Those who have them, eat an extra for me!
Reminds me of a story circa 1972. When I was married, my FiL was a VP at FMC. They are the world’s largest mfr of commercial food processing equipment, as well as maker of the Bradly Fighting vehicle. You can see the vehicles being tested from San Jose Airport. Anyway, he asked me to accompany him down to the Imperial Valley to view a new piece of equipment he had invented. This equipment takes the skin off of tomatoes for all the canned uses. On the way down he asked me (being a computer guy) how the new tomato-picking machines decided which fruit were to be picked and which were to let ripen further. After several hours, I said I couldn’t figure how any computer could do that job. This was well before machines were small enough to fit on the picking machinery. He said they had spent several millions trying to decide which tomatoes to pick and then went over to the AG side of the business, where the management said it’s easy: Just make all the tomatoes ripen at the same time. This why all the tomatoes in the supermarket packages are exactly the same size and the same color. Been modifying the tomatoes since the early 70s.
DeSantis is a lousy campaigner and a political opportunist. Republican voters have seen this BS time and time again.
I say if he is at or under 20% support by September his big money donors will force him out of the race.
Jeb 2.0! RDS is toast as a future presidential candidate.
Yep, the only bigger idiot would be Mike Pence, who in exactly one year would be preparing to be the 46th President of the United States. He could have just walked right into the office without doing a thing, everything he always wanted; but nooooooo, he couldn’t resist back-stabbing his boss (And Country!)
Pence follows the orders of his owners. He is not his own man.
Linked by Kane’s Citizen’s Free Press:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/why-does-mike-pence-bother/ar-AA1d9ila
Mike Pence bothers so he doesn’t get the Larry Craig treatment:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/statesman-details-more-gay-encounters-for-larry-craig/
Next on the rino stage will be Younkin
Youngkin just donated his second quarter salary to the human trafficking cause. I find that interesting since Sound of Freedom is to be release this weekend.
https://www.governor.virginia.gov/newsroom/news-releases/2023/june/name-1007308-en.html
Because HIS handlers thought it would be a great idea.
Won’t ACTUALLY cost him anything, because once he runs he will get in on the gravy train RDS is currently getting.
Its a political stunt.
Yep. They are prepping him for his Grand Entrance into the RINO lineup. So, what a better way to get some publicity than to hitch his ride to the work of Jim Caviezel.
It seems lots of people are riding Jim’s train, which is not a bad thing, but it is incredibly annoying to watch the game.
Just.Stick.With.Trump! 💥🇺🇸TRUMP 2024🇺🇸💥
Ronnie is so embarrassing , I actually bust out laughing when I see him on the campaign trail . He’s a doofus .
Mummy’s boy with a PB&J
It is appearing the Ron! for President campaign is getting a bit desperate.
It would be nice if he would return to Florida and play governor for awhile. His travels are simply burning jet fuel and increasing his carbon footprint.
Epic Fail that he should have known better. Could have been a great governor, even his accomplishments in FL seemed staged now for his potus attempt.
Seems the Hessian, er Headless Horseman, needs to revisit Kinderhook Industries and show them what real head hunting looks like.
Even Ichabod Crane approves this message.
Conduct a seance and contact the spirit of Martin Van Buren.
So who is ” governing ” Florida these days ?
Did people living in Florida wake up to the lies they were told ?
No one is. DeS is just having a great time at the expense of his state. He will be back, though..
The ads pretty much write themselves.
“Inauthentic” is the word that most frequently comes to mind with DeSantis. In 2016 these same clowns tried wagging their fingers at us preaching “That’s not who WE are,” Republicanism. The problem is the WE. WE doesn’t pay the price for open borders globalism. WE doesn’t send its kids to failed war after failed war after failed war. WE doesn’t care if the FBI and DOJ fabricates, utterly and complexly FABRICATES, crimes against WE’s enemies. WE loves China and WE would sell us to the Chinese directly if they could make a buck. Oh. Right.
So, the finger wagging pissed everyone off. WE was revealed to be a fraud. WE threw the 2018 House race so that WE could impeach Trump.
So, WE tried the cloak and dagger approach with DeSantis. WE hid the finger wagging scolds, did some culture war stuff, and hoped nobody noticed that DeSantis’ policies are indistinguishable from Bush/Romney. But with even less personality.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. BY DEFINITION, if you are running against Trump in 2024, you are not in favor of Making America Great Again. Period. Full stop.
If you are not MAGA, you are are a globalist shill and controlled opposition.
Get out. Get out. Get OUT!
De Inauthentic has quite a ring to it, no?
Cheers!
You can’t buy authenticity, not even for $6000 a plate.
Yes!!! On the Tucker Thread from today so many posters are trying to claim that Vivek and RFK Jr are “viable” candidates. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.
After 4 years of all of the wonderful accomplishments of PDJT, there are still people who think that somehow Trump should have his second term (OUR second term) permanently stolen and his replacement should be someone who has nowhere near the spine, knowledge, $$$$, and love country as PDJT.
Influencers
Yes. Do you notice how they never explain how “their guy” will out MAGA our MAGA President?
The truth of the matter is that “their guy” has no intention of being even small letter “maga”.
Was a rough day!
Yes Hokkada, on this we stand as one.
Notice there is ONE “Politician”
,…very popular with the MAGADOSIANS, who has NOT announced, and in fact has called for all to drop out, as you say saying any that don’t, support the persecution of PDJT.
Trump/Lake 2024
RETRIBUTION!
I like Lake! Especially at the VP position! Then maybe 8 more of Lake as POTUS!
Right on with that!
Killing it, brother!
Right on!!!!
Grey Poupon on hotdogs.
I will pass.
Right, because nothing says “grass roots” like caviar and Dom Perignon, paid for by someone else.
I wish I had 6 grand to throw away on a dinner plate.
It certainly wouldn’t be for his dinner plate!!
I keep seeing Hogan’s big plate of crabs. I wonder what the menu will be for Top Gun Ron!
Well, we know for one thing, if Ronnie was ever shipboard…he’d have been eating in the ‘ward room’…never did understand the idea of tablecloths on a USN vessel…
Rubber chicken or dry fish, lil asparagus for peeing later, cold bland tomato soup, 1 1/2 strawberries on a leaf of romaine lettuce, and your choice of chocolate cake or cheesecake (which the debutantes at the ball will not be caught dead eating)…if I had to guess. 🤣
Make that 13 grand. Got to bring the wife along to meet Mrs. White Gloves De Santis
Six grand to splurge? I’d donate that to the Salvation Army! The majority goes to the Army and a wee bit to the head honcho. Something like the Red Cross and the head cheese gets millions! No thank you, I like vanilla!!!
Even if I had it, my stingy Scottish attitude wouldn’t let me!
Nothing like a Stingy Scot. 😁
For those unfamiliar with attorney Robert Barnes, he’s a Tennessee working class boy who went to Yale, upset their fine sensibilities while he was there by writing an essay criticizing them for their elitism, transferred to Univ. of Tennessee.
The can’t stand him and he, them.
Children as props.
Won’t work
Ron and Jeb are wimps.
They are on the same team.
I have nothing nice to say….
Does anyone else see Captain Kangaroo in that pic of Meatball, or is it just me? 🤣
When you are a Bush with a ‘tard son
You adopt…
Possible error in Mr. Barnes’ posting: My understanding is that Ronda applied for membership in S & B but they passed on him and he joined St. Elmo’s Club instead.
Skull and Bones Club.
Honestly, It would not be surprising. They have to come up w/something because the ballot thing has been used and too many people are on to it now. Joey will nuke UKE and blame it on Putin.
John Solomon on Wednesday said he called Joe Biden’s secret global phone…and guess who picked up?
“One of those documents got leaked to me and it had a cell phone number that Hunter Biden was paying for, so I figured this was my chance.
I’ve been trying to get fair comment from Hunter Biden, so I’m gonna call the cell phone!” John Solomon said on Real America’s voice.
He continued, “So I called the cell phone, and guess who picked up the phone? Joe Biden!”
“Joe Biden! Boy was he shocked when he got — when he picked up the phone and found out it was me,” John Solomon said. “He hung up pretty quickly!”
recordings or it definitely gets denied
Damnit, man!
That is shocking! Not!!!
Canceling elections would actually be an improvement over stealing them.
An evening w/PooBah’s, DeSlime being the Grand One. Sounds like so much fun.
Scumbags
tis my new favorite word for these people, lately. cheers
Money shouldn’t be his problem. He has plenty of it.
“The $6,600/plate appearance is the latest effort by Team DeSantis to connect to the ordinary working class voter” – I wouldn’t waste $0.06 on that loser….
Ordinary working class voter with $6600 for a dinner?
The ordinary working class voter doesn’t even have $66 for a month of groceries.
All this shows is how out of touch they are with the masses.
By contrast, President Trump goes out and buys restaurants full of people dinner so they don’t have to buy their own.
We know who the peoples President is.
All others are grifters of the highest degree.
Go President Trump!
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Bolton into the fray,
Rove in around for the pay,
Luntzing toward the polls,
Massievely raking the rolls,
Shaking the Bush for some Goldburg,
Meaghan just can’t find the word,
But we know it is Sasse,
With A Mitt to catch the pass,
That will bring the Soros,
To the likes of Scarborough to borrow,
Young interns like Shapiro,
To use to the Max,
All done with Spies,
To which Lyin’Ryan yells, LIES . . .
And runs home like a chicken in a Fox booth.
Very nice. How creatively poetic you are!
When your ideology consists of ‘making money’, and then you need advisors and strategists to trick the voters into supporting you so you can ‘make more money’, then everything you do appears to be fake, because it is.
Nothing the GOP can do to change that perception.
This is very interesting about DeSantis.
https://americanaccountabilityfoundation.substack.com/p/bombshell-desantiss-fight-with-disney
“Bob Iger opposed Florida’s Parental Rights bill, participating in the Left’s misinformation campaign labeling it “The Don’t Say Gay Bill,” even before Bob Chapek did, who was Disney’s CEO when the issue was first raised.
“This bill will put vulnerable, young LGBTQ people in jeopardy,” wrote Iger on Twitter on Feb 24, 2022, quote-tweeting President Joe Biden. Yet Florida’s state pension fund, the Florida State Board of Administration (SBA), voted to endorse Bob Iger’s return as Disney CEO by electing him to the company’s board in April 2023.”
Guess who appoints the Florida State Board of Administration? Ron DeSantis. So he’s supporting the same people he’s staging a very public fight with.
It matters not, whom Ronnie meets with or what fundraisers he attends. He’s going to lose, to the real President Trump.
Ron just can’t disguise his wimp factor.
He is what he is.
They just couldn’t make people want to drink “new coke” no matter how much branding or packaging they did.
Cause the PRODUCT SUCKED.
💀 🦴 gonna show up and will we see pictures of how many will not be there ?
Ron DeSantis does not lack funds, he has gobs of it. What he lacks is the know-hows to approach and speak to regular folks without some fakeness.
You know, the authenticity or even integrity part. He doesn’t even have to be a real orator (no, not Obama), or some super genius. But show us that what he talks about is what he believes and truly from his heart, and that he’s not being controlled by his $$$$$ mega-donors and ‘advisors’.
The Great Unwashed can spot a phony pretty soon.
Obama was labeled an orator. He read scripts off of a teleprompter. When he ad-libbed he stuttered and could not complete a sentence. Smoke and mirrors.
Too much smoke (and inhaling) and too many mirrors (ain’t I beautiful?)
Feelin a bit disenfranchised.
Didn’t get an invite.
/s if needed
$6666 PER PLATE ?
Everybody who can donate, donate to Trump tomorrow! Even though it is hard for me right now I will! I also volunteered! Paid minions nor the same as true volunteers with a cause they believe in!
SKULL AND BONES ANYONE?
Paul Ryan: ‘It Is a Disaster if We Nominate Trump,’ ‘He Could Win’
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/06/28/paul-ryan-it-is-a-disaster-if-we-nominate-trump-he-could-win/
“Ryan added, “I’m a never again Trumper so obviously the 33 % base doesn’t like a person like me. I’m very clear, I don’t think he’s fit and I don’t think he could win. Liz cheney is right, he could and that is dangerous.”
Why is that dangerous pauly and lizzy? What are you two afraid of?
Makes me want to vote for him that much more!
I am a never globalists squeaky mouse Ryan-er.
What a wimpy POS. 🐭
Said he who lives behind a wall in Wisconsin.
“33% base that doesn’t like Ryan?
Yeah, right!
More cynical political posturing by DeSantis. He vetoed a criminal reform bill which passed the Florida legislature unanimously. The legislature will not overturn his veto and embarrass him. The story indicates that the bill will be passed next year … at a time more expedient for Ron’s primary campaign.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/desantis-vetoes-republican-backed-criminal-justice-reform-bill
“The $6,600/plate appearance is the latest effort by Team DeSantis to connect to the ordinary working class voter …”
Don’t know about you, but I find it hard to believe an ordinary working class voter can afford a $6,600/plate dinner!
If the Uniparty is successful, everyone in America will be paying $6000 a plate to eat.
https://pbs.twimg.com/amplify_video_thumb/1669365041739575298/img/v-BeAPzdf6kwICfB?format=jpg&name=900×900
one more try
That was great. 🤣🤣🤣
Ronny is going to need a global burner phone soon if he doesn’t already have one.
Donor recipient DeSantis will be required to remain in close contact with his wealthy donor benefactors who will expect instant obedience and gratitude. Mega Political donations in the millions are intended to help the donors of course and are not a charity donation without puppet strings. The waste of money on corrupt U.S. elections is mind boggling.
The State legislatures in some states like Minnesota that were under pressure for conducting illegal voting methods in 2020 simply passed laws to make them legal for 2024. (Steyn/Bachman)
This tweet was on GP:
Sorry, I reserve the term “American treasure” for someone a lot more worthy than tick-tocking, untrustworthy Hannity regular John Solomon.
Just no.
Maybe very early on, but not these days.
I have a much better idea for DeSantis than his “6 Minute Abs” campaign.
How about a “5 Minute Abs” campaign?!!
It’s 17% better than a 6 minute Abs campaign!
Who wouldn’t want better abs in 5 minutes than in 6 minutes?
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Sundance…that headline is pretty funny.
So much said in a few words.
The sarc is strong in this one!!!
Give it up, Ron. The people do not want you.
Ha, ha! Grassroots???? Are the “elites” now taking grass along on their private jets?
Heck, at this point, Meatball might as well promise All Things MAGA with his fingers crossed behind his back and knowing full well that the Congressional Uniparty will do the Two-Step-on-the-Potomac and make sure that none of his MAGA “promises” get passed via legislation. The bureaucracies will thwart his “MAGA promises” as well.
Isn’t how every RINO president before him duped the republican voters??
Yup.
Dude is all over the place. Last week Luntz and today Ryan — these Unis are past nervous, they are panicked.
Maybe Pedro Gonzalez will get an invite too???
Well, well, well! What do we have here?
Skull and Bones – RED FLAG! 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩
Most well funded candidate by far, but “needs more money?”
Meatball needs more grease to feed the pigs that ‘they’ think will lubricate all the wheels of the ‘Machine.’
Sound like desperation?
So, the globalists are getting their asses kicked no matter how much they spend on their Meatball dinner.
So, what do ‘they’ do?
Send Meatball to the origin of the ‘intersection, recruiting, incubator and merging (in the USA) of the globalists and “spooks” (Sundance’s words) of the Deep State!”
And there it is again!!!
Globalists and Deep State that “OWN AND CONTROL WASHINGTON DC.” (Again, Sundance’s words and descriptions) in collision, AGAIN!
PANIC IN DC!!!!!!!
“Need for control (or the attempt to aggrandize) is a reaction to fear.”
‘Peeling back the layers of the onion to its core.’
‘And the walls come tumbling down, like Jericho.’
Awake yet?
Nothing says MAGA more than a $6,600 a plate dinner for GOPe donor fat cats. NOT!
This is why The Meatball’s presidential campaign is floundering. We’re working class. Ron and his ilk have no class!
RDS’s behavior is just beyond the Yale!
Missing Hewitt and Prager.
>>“Another co-host is longtime DeSantis ally Robert Giuffra, a co-chair at legal giant Sullivan & Cromwell, according to the invite.”
Look up this Giuffa guy on Open Secrets. He’s a RINO’s RINO. No donations to Trump, but plenty to Mitch McConnell, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Arlen Specter, Lincoln Chafee. Ron’s allies seem to lean to the left.