Month: January 2020

Secret Silicon Valley Group Has Funneled $20 Million to Democrats

Buck Banks

$20 million

Recode: “A secretive group led by Stanford University academics has unleashed millions of dollars in political spending from Silicon Valley and is now convincing some of its biggest donors to spend millions more to back Democrats in 2020. … Mind the Gap, a network formed less than two years ago, has been quietly routing millions of dollars to Democratic candidates and groups across the country in the 2018 and 2020 election cycles, emerging as a new power center in the Silicon Valley political scene.”

Paul Says It’s Naive to Expect Iran to negotiate Now

Buck Banks

“The administration tore up the Iran agreement, placed a significant, severe embargo on Iran, and then killed one of their major generals — nobody in their right mind would actually think that that would lead to negotiations. So when Secretary of State Pompeo’s out there saying, ‘Well, maximum pressure, our goal is to get them back to the negotiating table,’ no naive child would believe that, you would have to be brain-dead to believe that.”

— Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), on CNN.

Trump Averages Almost Two Obama Mentions Per Day

Buck Banks

1.8

CNN: “Trump has been lambasting Obama for years, even before he ran for the top job. Recently, though he’s been doing it more often. A November analysis from CNN’s Daniel Dale shows Trump has mentioned Obama and the Obama administration by name more frequently in the past 18 months than he had in the first 18 months of his presidency. … Through October, Trump had mentioned Obama by name 537 times during 2019 as a whole — an average of 1.8 times per day.”

Pelosi Warns Senate Not to Be ‘Complicit’ in Trump’s Coverup

Buck Banks

“The President and Sen. McConnell have run out of excuses. They must allow key witnesses to testify, and produce the documents Trump has blocked, so Americans can see the facts for themselves. The Senate cannot be complicit in the President’s cover-up.”

— Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s statement about John Bolton’s offer to testify in a Senate impeachment trial.