{"id":23538,"date":"2022-09-13T12:29:33","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T19:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=23538"},"modified":"2022-09-13T12:29:34","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T19:29:34","slug":"why-did-democrats-give-this-pro-trump-gop-primary-candidate-425000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2022\/09\/13\/why-did-democrats-give-this-pro-trump-gop-primary-candidate-425000\/","title":{"rendered":"WHY DID DEMOCRATS GIVE THIS PRO-TRUMP GOP PRIMARY CANDIDATE $425,000?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Chris Hedges Report: Why did Democrats give this pro-Trump GOP primary candidate $425,000?\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C66ok151B38?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>John Gibbs, a former Trump administration official, has received over $425,000 from the Democratic Party.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BY\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/author\/chris-hedges\">CHRIS HEDGES<\/a><\/strong>  SEPTEMBER 9, 2022  (therealnews.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John Gibbs, a candidate for congress in Michigan&#8217;s 3rd congressional district, speaks at a rally hosted by former President Donald Trump on April 02, 2022, near Washington, Michigan. Scott Olson\/Getty Images<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Democratic Party is engaged in a dangerous and failed electoral strategy. Rather than appealing to the majority working-class, non-Republican electorate, the party is courting right-wing politicians like Liz Cheney while funding far-right Republican candidates in this year\u2019s primary elections. This approach resembles the disastrous<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2016\/11\/hillary-clinton-2016-donald-trump-214428\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;Hillary Clinton campaign\u2019s \u201cPied Piper\u201d ploy<\/a>&nbsp;of promoting the supposedly \u201cmore beatable\u201d Trump in the 2016 Republican presidential primaries. Why is the Democratic Party lavishly funding Trump stooges such as John Gibbs, a former Trump administration official who claimed that Joe Biden\u2019s 2020 election victory was \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlive.com\/news\/grand-rapids\/2022\/06\/peter-meijer-john-gibbs-at-odds-over-trump-baseless-election-fraud-claims.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mathematically impossible<\/a>?\u201d Why do they see the stoking of fascist fire as an effective campaign strategy? Even&nbsp;<em>The New York Times<\/em>&nbsp;has called the tactic of funding far-right pro-Trump candidates a \u201cCynical Low for the Democratic Party.\u201d Historian Paul Street joins&nbsp;<em>The Chris Hedges Report<\/em>&nbsp;to discuss what is taking place on our bizarre political landscape as we head towards the midterm elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Streetwriter17\">Paul Street<\/a>&nbsp;has taught at numerous Chicago-area universities and is the author of&nbsp;<em>This Happened Here: Neoliberals, Amerikaners, and the Trumping of America<\/em>&nbsp;(New York: Routledge, 2021). He also writes regularly for&nbsp;<em>Counterpunch<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Studio: Cameron Granadino, Adam Coley, Dwayne Gladden<br>Post-Production: Dwayne Gladden<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Watch&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/therealnews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>The Chris Hedges Report<\/em><\/a><em>&nbsp;live YouTube premiere on The Real News Network every Friday at 12PM ET.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Listen to episode podcasts and find bonus content at&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chrishedges.substack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>The Chris Hedges Report Substack<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Gibbs, a former Trump administration official, has received over $425,000 from the Democratic Party. BY\u00a0CHRIS HEDGES SEPTEMBER 9, 2022 (therealnews.com) John Gibbs, a candidate for congress in Michigan&#8217;s 3rd congressional district, speaks at a rally hosted by former President Donald Trump on April 02, 2022, near Washington, Michigan. Scott&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2022\/09\/13\/why-did-democrats-give-this-pro-trump-gop-primary-candidate-425000\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23538"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23539,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23538\/revisions\/23539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}