Publix Disavows Grocery Store Heiress Who Reportedly Paid for More Than Half of Trump Rally...

[DonViejo]

Publix Disavows Grocery Store Heiress Who Reportedly Paid for More Than Half of Trump Rally Preceding Jan. 6 Siege on U.S. Capitol

COLIN KALMBACHERJan 30th, 2021, 9:32 pm

A grocery store heiress provided some three-fifths of the funding for then-President Donald Trump‘s so-called “Stop the Steal” rally immediately preceding the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol Complex, according to multiple media reports.

According to an exposé by the Wall Street Journal‘s Shalini Ramachandran, Alexandra Berzon and Rebecca Ballhaus released on Saturday, the conspiracy theory-fueled event came together, in large financial part, under the tutelage of Austin, Texas-based fake news purveyor Alex Jones. The nation’s preeminent conspiracy theorist reportedly then connected with Publix grocery store heiress Julie Jenkins Fancelli, who spent $300,000 on organizing the speeches intended to somehow overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. The total cost of the fateful rally was some $500,000.

From that report:

Mr. Jones personally pledged more than $50,000 in seed money for a planned Jan. 6 event in exchange for a guaranteed “top speaking slot of his choice,” according to a funding document outlining a deal between his company and an early organizer for the event.

Mr. Jones also helped arrange for Julie Jenkins Fancelli, a prominent donor to the Trump campaign and heiress to the Publix Super Markets Inc. chain, to commit about $300,000 through a top fundraising official for former President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign, according to organizers. Her money paid for the lion’s share of the roughly $500,000 rally at the Ellipse where Mr. Trump spoke.

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[soothsayer]

1. Employee owned. I feel for them now

[mr_lebowski]

2. Good. That was the right thing of them to do. (nt)

[niyad]

3. What was that half mil spent on??

[Aviation Pro]

4. Lumber

...

[Generic Brad]

6. That noose

[RKP5637]

5. I wonder, can she somehow be held accountable for funding an insurrection? n/t

[exboyfil]

7. She paid for the podium where Trump and others called for a March on the Capitol

and Trial by Combat etc. There apparently was no permit for the march. This makes me think she is on the hook for significant civil liability.

[RKP5637]

9. I hope so, and I hope she is gone after and not ignored because she has lots of money. Damn,

I am so fed up with the legal/police system in the US that tends to go after less rich people and people of color, but often gives those with lots of money and political ties a free pass. And I still don't think there is enough outrage against Trump by the masses. He tried to bring down the US democracy and yet millions love him. WTF!!!

[exboyfil]

11. I hope they use his outrage as a springboard to go after corrupt plutocrats

of both parties if necessary. Unfortunately money=election wins so it won't happen.

[RKP5637]

12. Yep ... and it's very sad in a country wherein the amount of money a candidate has is more important

often than the quality of the individual. People vote, apparently, by these inane media/TV ads often not knowing what the candidate is really about. The financing of elections in the US really needs to be cleaned up ... somehow. And Citizens United gone.

[niyad]

13. I thought mulvaney's daughter applied for the permit??

[Ritabert]

8. I've been boycotting them for over a year because they donated to Trump

....and DeSantis.

[RKP5637]

10. I never thought I would say this, but we've been using Walmart for all of our food. The food is

better quality than Publix and the costs are lower. Plus, their ordering and pickup service is incredible. We just go there at our scheduled time and they put all the items in the car, and are extremely pleasant people.