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GOP donors rushing to support DeSantis because he's 'less likely to embarrass' them than Trump
June 30, 2022
A new report from Reuters claims that many big Republican Party donors are getting ready to move on from former President Donald Trump and toward Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Prominent GOP donor Dan Ebenhart bluntly tells Reuters that "the donor class is ready for something new" before going on to explain why DeSantis is so appealing to them.
"DeSantis feels more fresh and more calibrated than Trump," he said. "He's easier to defend, he's less likely to embarrass, and he's got the momentum."
GOP strategist Doug Heye, meanwhile, pointed to Trump's angry attacks on January 6th Committee witness Cassidy Hutchinson this week as an example of why Republicans are ready to move on from the twice-impeached former president.
"It's beneficial for anybody who's looking at running for 2024," he said. "This is making it easier for Republicans – candidate and voter – to inch away from Trump."
This comes as a recent poll of New Hampshire Republican voters showed for the first time a preference for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis over Trump should the two go head-to-head in the 2024 race.
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'He's a Trump acolyte': Reporter shreds Secret Service agent's credibility in face of denials about SUV incident
June 30, 2022
A reporter who has written a book on the Secret Service shredded the credibility of a former agent who has pushed back against Cassidy Hutchinson's bombshell testimony.
The former White House aide testified that Tony Ornato, who moved from the Secret Service to deputy chief of staff, told her that Donald Trump became irate when his security detail would not take him to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and lunged for the steering wheel of his armored SUV and physically attacked his lead agent, and Washington Post reporter Carol Leonnig poured cold water on his denials.
"This is a person who worked as President Trump's security detail leader, and the boss liked him so much he installed him in a political White House job," Leonnig told MSNBC's "Morning Joe." "That broke every Secret Service tradition in the book because he stayed as a Secret Service employee, but Trump essentially had him directing the Secret Service to make sure that all of its campaigns events, all of his photo ops, everything that he wanted to do to get re-elected went off without a hitch."
"That included paid rallies that caused COVID surges and included the forcible clearing of peaceful protesters from Lafayette Square," Leonnig continued. "Tony was the secret hand behind all of that, and that is what Trump wanted. Trump White House staffers and Secret Service agents have told me repeatedly, he's a Trump acolyte. He will defend the president to the end, and he remains in contact with Trumpworld, so I want to stress that also Tony Ornoto has indicated that this story Cassidy Hutchinson told didn't happen. Well, Tony Ornato said a lot of things didn't happen. He tried to say to the press and to me indirectly that the clearing of Lafayette Square was not done for President Trump's photo on, that's not true. He was at the center of that, so I take the points because they're saying in their experience, things that we reported, Tony tried to deny."
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"The Secret Service often tries to deny things that are unflattering, and then when the rubber hits the road, we learn there is a little bit more to it," Leonnig added. "I want to give everyone the benefit of the doubt, and if Tony Ornato testified under oath that he exaggerated this story and it didn't happen in the limo, forgive me, in the Suburban on Jan. 6, as she relayed, then that is important and we should take that seriously."
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Former Trump White House counsel Pat Cipollone is now in the spotlight after receiving a subpoena from the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th Capitol riots.
Even though Cipollone might agree to cooperate some with the committee's request, many legal analysts have predicted he won't give the committee details about legal advice he gave to Trump, as that could potentially violate executive privilege.
That said, former Trump official Alyssa Farah Griffin told CNN on Thursday that Cipollone could give the committee invaluable testimony even if he never describes conversations he had with Trump.
"Pat Cipollone, I think he's a goldmine even if he can't talk about what he advised the president on," she said. "Even just confirming that he told the White House chief of staff [that] 'You will have committed every crime under the books.' There is a lot that could come out of that written testimony."
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Griffin also revealed that J6 Committee witness Cassidy Hutchinson, whose testimony this week prompted the subpoena of Cipollone, had come to her and told her she wanted to give the committee additional information.
Griffin said that she then "put her in touch with Congresswoman Cheney, she got a new lawyer, and that's how this testimony came about."
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