Donald Trump and the Return of the Bad Billionaires

The right-wing plutocrats who jettisoned the former President after the insurrection are quietly returning to finance his 2024 campaign, reports Heidi Siegmund Cuda

“If you’re a billionaire, he’s on your side. Otherwise, good luck” tweeted Hillary Clinton on X/Twitter recently, sharing leaked footage of Donald Trump addressing a gathering of wealthy donors, announcing “You’re all people that have a lot of money. You’re rich as hell. We’re gonna give you tax cuts”.

There is no bottom, because the depravity is well financed.

When the highest court in the US on Friday revealed its extremist members to be coup friendly in their comments about presidential immunity — it felt like that should qualify as some sort of bottom.

Like a deranged episode of Twilight Zone, Republican justices appeared to support Trump’s coup, a coup that one of the justices’ wives actively participated in. 

“If you want to create a fascist society, you get the judges,” retired newsman Tom Carter told Byline Supplement. 

As Carter explained to me recently, a lobbyist he worked for named Leonard Leo, who received a $1.6 billion dollar injection of cash from a billionaire named Barre Seid, is responsible for six of the religious extremists on the Supreme Court.

“He helped get Clarence Thomas onto the Supreme Court, Justices John Roberts and Samuel Alito. He picked, vetted, campaigned for and got them confirmed. Then Neil Gorsuch, Brett Cavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett — six of nine,” Carter explained. “I don't oppose extreme devout Catholics being involved in the political public square… but six of anything dominating the Supreme Court is not exactly democracy.”