Ex-Ted Cruz aide built dark money 'slime machine' to smear Biden nominees: report

[turbinetree]

By Bob Brigham
Published April 16, 2022

Investigate journalist Jane Mayer has a bombshell new report on a dark money group that build a "slime machine" attacking President Joe Biden's nominees.

Mayer broke down how Republicans attacked Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as "pro-pedophile" with QAnon adjacent attacks.

She wrote "the fierce campaign against her was concerning, in part because it was spearheaded by a new conservative dark-money group that was created in 2020: the American Accountability Foundation. An explicit purpose of the A.A.F.—a politically active, tax-exempt nonprofit charity that doesn’t disclose its backers—is to prevent the approval of all Biden Administration nominees."

https://www.rawstory.com/american-accountability-foundation-tom-jones/

This **&^$#) should be behind bars......

[lordsummerisle]

1. Thanks for posting this n/t

[turbinetree]

2. Your welcome....................

[Evolve Dammit]

4. more "dark money". Thanks Citizens United. Who are those "donor/sponsors"??

[housecat]

3. tax-exempt? non-profit? wtf

[Blue Owl]

5. The slime machine was Ted himself

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. How Putin's Pedophile Smears Made Their Way Into U.S. Mainstream

Rachel was amazing last night

Link to tweet

https://crooksandliars.com/2022/04/maddow-how-putin-used-pedophile-smear

Rachel Maddow looks at how false accusations of pedophilia have become a common tactic by Vladimir Putin to eliminate politically problematic opponents, with such eliminationist rhetoric being a hallmark of fascists.

And now, under the Qanon banner, it's become a significant strand of U.S. politics in the Trump era.

[Zeitghost]

7. Behind bars?

On what charges? I don't see a crime described in the linked article.

[turbinetree]

8. The group's failure to disclose its funding was not the only major red flag.

[Zeitghost]

9. Are they legally required to?

n/t

[turbinetree]

10. I think so....

https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/keeping-records/recording-receipts/#:~:text=With%20respect%20to%20receipts%2C%20the,the%20Act%20and%20FEC%20regulations.

https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/filing-pac-reports/

[Zeitghost]

11. Those do not look like they apply to these types of groups

Hence why they are called dark money groups. If they are not directly supporting a candidate they follow different rules.