Bill Stepien Cashes In Spreading Trump's Election Lie

[babylonsister]

https://politicalwire.com/2022/06/14/bill-stepien-cashes-in-spreading-trumps-election-lie/

Bill Stepien Cashes In Spreading Trump’s Election Lie
June 14, 2022 at 6:21 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard

“Bill Stepien, who told the Jan. 6 committee that he quit Donald Trump’s campaign after the 2020 election because he could not go along with his election lies, nevertheless continues to coordinate Trump’s political operation, which is built almost entirely on spreading those exact election lies,” the HuffPost reports.

He has already made at least $1.4 million by fueling it.

[BSdetect]

1. Liars be lying

[tavernier]

2. And yet I was taken to task yesterday

For doubting his integrity.

[malaise]

7. His what? Down memory lane across the Bridge

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/16/bill-stepien-trump-campaign-manager-who-is-he

In 2014 Stepien, 42, rose to national attention when he was publicly named and shamed by the New Jersey governor, Chris Christie, for his role in “Bridgegate”, one of the pettiest political scandals to cause real-life suffering in recent memory.

Responding in 2014 to the release of emails which revealed the traffic jam was a deliberate act of revenge, Christie said he was “embarrassed and humiliated by the conduct of some of the people on my team”.

“I was disturbed by the tone and behavior and attitude of callous indifference that was displayed in the emails by my former campaign manager, Bill Stepien,” Christie said at the time.

“And reading that, it made me lose my confidence in Bill’s judgment. And you cannot have someone at the top of your political operation who you do not have confidence in.”
😀😀😀😀😀

[gab13by13]

8. Stepien was never charged in Bridgegate

he is pretty slippery. He was well aware of what was going on in Bridgegate. If I remember right his claim to fame from Bridgegate was twanging Bridget Kelly. Stepien fits right in with the Magats.

[malaise]

11. Neither was Christie n/t

[onetexan]

9. Ironic how there's no honor among thieves, isn't it? Not just Stephien, Christie should have been

locked up for the Bridgegate mess. Guy's as big an opportunist as those other slimy GOP snakes.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/07/supreme-court-reverses-fraud-convictions-of-christie-aides-in-nj-bridgegate-scandal.html

“It is stunning, but perhaps not surprising, that Chris Christie’s response is to concoct accusations of political ambition, partisanship, and personal vindictiveness,” he said. “Chris Christie may try to rewrite his legacy -- and he may want to rewrite history -- but the fact remains that the ‘deception, corruption, and abuse of power’ was committed for precisely those reasons by his team on his watch.”

[malaise]

12. THIS

They should all have been charged

[Faux pas]

18. Lol

That's all I could think about the whole time the lying liar attempted to blow smoke up our collective asses.

[Polly Hennessey]

16. By the "you can't say anything negative about anyone " gang.

They are an amusing group, for sure.

[NCLefty]

3. His Republican street name is Dollar Bill.

bah-dum.

[sop]

4. More details from the original story at HuffPo:

"Stepien’s National Public Affairs firm is currently paid $10,000 a month from Trump’s Save America committee, receiving a total of $130,000 since last May, and taking in another $90,562 from Trump’s reconfigured presidential campaign, according to a HuffPost analysis of Federal Election Commission filings."

"He has also collected an additional $1.2 million from an all-star cast of pro-Trump election liars, including $190,488 from Harriet Hageman, who is trying to unseat Wyoming congresswoman and Jan. 6 committee vice chair Liz Cheney in the August Republican primary."

"Yet Stepien never really left Trump, with his firm receiving $20,000 in both February and March of 2021, and as much as $30,000 and no less than $10,000 in every month since. His work for Trump to this day, according to an adviser to the former president, is to coordinate Trump’s political strategy, including Trump’s efforts to defeat candidates who challenge his false claim that the election was stolen from him or, worse, voted to impeach him for inciting the Jan. 6 attack."

"Each week, Stepien is on an hourlong call with other top Trump aides, including Dan Scavino, Jason Miller, and Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr. The last such call was June 6; Monday’s call was canceled because it conflicted with the Jan. 6 committee hearing. 'He’s trying to tell the world he quit,' the Trump adviser, who is familiar with Trump’s political operation, said on condition of anonymity. 'He has been on every call since Jan. 6. He gets paid every month to do that. … I mean, come on, man.'"

(Has anyone verified the birth of baby Stepien?)

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-stepien-jan-6_n_62a8d616e4b04a61735512e3

[Arazi]

5. Was just going to ask about the baby. Doesn't appear to have been born yet

Almost 48 hours since Stepien was supposed to have testified

[SergeStorms]

6. 48 hours of being in labor!

His poor wife! 😢

[2naSalit]

10. Oooh!

If he's lying about that...

[Arazi]

17. Of course he was lying. He's a scumbag

[malaise]

13. Great post

[Pepsidog]

14. The scum was involved in Bridgegate in NJ with Christie. Purposefully,

jammed up traffic for days in what of the busiest bridges in country. He is scum for hire.

[Wounded Bear]

15. trump surrounded himself with a bunch of lying, cheating assholes...

Imagine that.