{"id":1034232,"date":"2024-05-31T20:51:46","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T20:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1034232"},"modified":"2024-05-31T20:51:58","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T20:51:58","slug":"maga-malarkey-the-extremism-you-missed-from-republicans-this-week-46","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/maga-malarkey-the-extremism-you-missed-from-republicans-this-week-46\/","title":{"rendered":"MAGA Malarkey: The Extremism You Missed From Republicans This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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MAGA Republicans stooped to new lows this week with their extremism, hypocrisy, chaos, and \u2014 as President Biden would call it \u2014 malarkey. In case you missed it: Donald Trump is begging ultra-wealthy donors for money in exchange for handouts; Trump and Project 2025 are plotting to gut contraception access; MAGA extremists continue to push cruel a cruel anti-abortion agenda across the country; Tim Scott, Tom Cotton, and Michael Whatley still won\u2019t commit to accepting this November\u2019s election results; Trump got loud, resounding boos from Libertarians at their party convention; and the RNC closed yet another Hispanic community center in a battleground state.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Donald Trump continues to beg his ultra-wealthy donors for campaign cash, promising handouts and political favors if they bankroll his flailing campaign.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cTrump makes sweeping promises to donors on audacious fundraising tour\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs he closed his pitch at the Pierre Hotel, Trump explained to the group why it was in their interest to cut large checks. If he was not put back in office, taxes would go up for them under President Biden, who vows to let Trump-era tax cuts on the wealthy and corporations expire at the end of 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSeconds after promising the tax cuts, Trump made his pitch explicit. \u2018So whatever you guys can do, I appreciate it,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn one recent meeting staged by his super PAC, Trump asked oil industry executives to raise $1 billion for his campaign and said raising such a sum would be a \u2018deal\u2019 given how much money they would save if he were reelected as president.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cFormer president Donald Trump suggested to oil executive donors this month that he could ease the Federal Trade Commission\u2019s scrutiny of their industry\u2019s mergers and acquisitions if he returns to the White House, according to five people familiar with the matter.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Examiner<\/a>: \u201cTrump woos donors with promises supporting him will be a good business move\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MSNBC<\/a>: \u201cTrump, desperate for donations, is telling his wealthy supporters that if they put money in his campaign coffers, he\u2019ll put money in their pockets.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump and his extreme Project 2025 allies are plotting to gut contraception access. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politico<\/a>: \u201cAs president, Trump enacted several policies that made it more difficult for people, particularly the working class and the poor, to obtain contraception \u2014 from allowing more employers to opt out of birth control coverage in their workers\u2019 health insurance to imposing restrictions on the Title X family planning program that triggered a mass exodus of clinics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cConservative allies want to reimpose those policies and go further if he wins in November. Their \u2018Project 2025\u2019 blueprint includes proposals to require coverage of natural family planning methods and remove requirements that insurance cover certain emergency contraception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTaken together, the policies highlight the many ways a second Trump administration could hamper access to contraception, short of a blanket ban. The impact would also be much greater now that roughly one-third of states prohibit nearly all abortions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to Trump overturning <\/strong>Roe v. Wade<\/em><\/strong>, MAGA extremists are continuing to push a cruel anti-abortion agenda and attacks on reproductive freedoms across the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Louisiana Illuminator<\/a>: \u201cLouisiana lawmaker shelves IVF protection bill, leaving questions about legal challenges\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HuffPost<\/a>: \u201cTexas GOP Appears To Put Death Penalty For Abortion Patients On 2024 Wish List\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Republican Party of Texas is considering a platform that appears to endorse the death penalty for abortion providers and patients.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Common Dreams<\/a>: \u201cSoutheast Abortion Clinic Wait Times Soared After Florida Ban\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Trump\u2019s MAGA veepstakes, election denialism is a litmus test. Tim Scott and Tom Cotton refused to commit to accepting November\u2019s election results while furthering Trump\u2019s dangerous election denialism.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dana Bash, CNN<\/a>: \u201cA lot of Republicans have been refusing to commit to accepting the election results in 2024. You haven\u2019t done so yet. \u2026 Will you vote to certify the election, no matter who wins?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scott: \u201cWell, certainly we expect a fair and honest election. And as a result of that expectation, we will certify the election and certify President Donald Trump as our 47th president.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mediaite<\/a>: \u201cTim Scott Yet Again Gives Dodgy Answer When Asked if He\u2019ll Certify the 2024 Election\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSen. Tim Scott (R-SC), who has repeatedly dodged making a commitment to certifying the 2024 election, gave another nebulous answer. \u2026 Bash\u2019s interview follows a recent, viral exchange between Scott and Kristen Welker on Meet The Press \u2014 in which Scott refused six times to commit to accepting the election results.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daily Beast<\/a>: \u201cTrump VP Hopeful Tim Scott Repeatedly Refuses to Say He\u2019d Accept a 2024 Loss\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

NBC News<\/a>: \u201cSen. Tim Scott dodges on whether he would accept 2024 election results\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette<\/a>: \u201cAre you going to promise to not attempt to overturn the results of the \u201824 election when it comes?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cotton: \u201cWell, obviously, we should accept the results of the election as long as all of the elections are free and fair, and that\u2019s based on at least 50 different states if not more. What I won\u2019t do\u2026 is renounce in advance the ability to challenge any kind of fraud or unfairness in the elections.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump\u2019s \u201c<\/strong>Stop the Steal Guy<\/strong><\/a>\u201d and handpicked RNC chair Michael Whatley also failed to say he would unequivocally accept the results of November\u2019s election.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael Whatley<\/a>: \u201cThey want to try and put Republicans in a box and say that they won\u2019t accept the election results. <\/strong>The fact of the matter is when we have fair elections, when we get the results that are going to be fair, accurate, secure, and transparent, then we\u2019re going to accept those. Look, I look forward to having President Trump back in the White House.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump got mercilessly heckled and booed throughout his bizarre speech at the Libertarian National Convention.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Guardian<\/a>: \u201c\u2018No wannabe dictators!\u2019: Donald Trump booed at Libertarian convention\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associated Press<\/a>: \u201cTrump, accustomed to friendly crowds, confronts repeated booing during Libertarian convention speech\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDonald Trump was booed repeatedly while addressing the Libertarian Party National Convention <\/strong>on Saturday night, with many in the crowd shouting insults and decrying him for things like his COVID-19 policies, running up towering federal deficits and lying about his political record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOne of the candidates vying for the Libertarian presidential nomination, Michael Rectenwald, declared from the stage before the former president arrived that \u2018none of us are great fans of Donald Trump.\u2019 After his speech, Rectenwald and other Libertarian White House hopefuls took the stage to scoff at Trump and his speech.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reuters<\/a>: \u201cTrump booed and heckled by raucous crowd at Libertarian convention\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen Trump took to the stage in Washington, there were loud boos and jeers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTrump said he was a \u2018<\/strong>libertarian without even trying to be one,\u2019 and that the Libertarian Party should endorse him, another line greeted by boos and jeers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe pledged to put a libertarian in his cabinet if he wins the election, which was met by cries of \u2018bullsh*t!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RNC\u2019s lack of ground game was exposed yet again as a Hispanic outreach center in Arizona closed its doors.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arizona Public Radio<\/a>: \u201cRNC Hispanic Community Center in Tucson no longer operational\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Republican National Committee\u2019s Hispanic Community Center in Tucson is closed and appears to be undergoing a remodeling after opening in August 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe center was a part of the RNC\u2019s move to increase voter outreach to marginalized communities ahead of the 2022 General Election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTucson\u2019s center was opened in August of 2022, nearly seven months after the official Congressional district map was approved and certified. There has not been another redistricting since. The redistricting process takes place every ten years after the census.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAccording to reporting from the Copper Courier, Phoenix’s RNC Hispanic Community Center is now a Cricket Wireless store.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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