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lovemydogs

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Sun Jun 4, 2017, 10:20 PM Jun 2017

Shadow Universe of 'Charities' Joined Political Warriors and Helped Elect Trump

This story is on Raw Story from an article in Washington Post.

I am taking my post mostly from the one in Raw Story but, links to both stories will be available.

It is about the skyrocketing rise of Shadowy non-profits but, to the point, David Horowitz's non profit center that was the most involved with the election of Trump.

His group spawned such internet falsehoods as Soros paid Activists on the left, among others:

'The Post report goes to great length to describe the historical rise of the Freedom Center, from its’ beginnings as a tax-exempt non-profit to a self-described “battle tank” and “school for political warfare.” Among the Freedom Center’s core tenets are the ideas that immigrants are destroying America, that Islam in particular needs to be stamped out and that climate change is a leftist “ruse.” According to Horowitz himself, the Freedom Center operates as a “shadow political universe.” '

Horowitz was responsible for the rise of, hooking up with Sessions and then Trump of the odious Steven Miller. Miller was a Horowitz protogee.

Horowitz is also responsible for helping Steve Bannon go from right wing film maker to political power player and was with Bannon at the Citizen United film festival and book signing. The one where Bannon famously told a reporter he was a Leninist who wanted to bring the Establishment crashing down.

Horowitz's 'charity' also was part of the planting of fake stories about Hillary in the 2016 campaign.

Horowitz was instrumental in getting many of his 'people' into the Trump White House:

'After Trump won the election, Horowitz was quoted congratulating himself for getting so many of his people involved in the soon-to-be-president’s administration, including Miller, Bannon, Sessions, Vice President Mike Pence, adviser Reince Priebus and former campaign manager Kellyanne Conway.

“It’s quite an impressive list,” Horowitz said. “The center has a big stake in this administration.” '

For the full story:

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/06/revealed-shadowy-right-wing-school-for-political-warfare-helped-trump-take-over-the-white-house/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/how-a-shadow-universe-of-charities-joined-with-political-warriors-to-fuel-trumps-rise/2017/06/03/ff5626ac-3a77-11e7-a058-ddbb23c75d82_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_charitynetwork-840pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.c117e7488d21

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Shadow Universe of 'Charities' Joined Political Warriors and Helped Elect Trump (Original Post) lovemydogs Jun 2017 OP
Kicking this. I just sent there and it looks shit scary and important Maraya1969 Jun 2017 #1
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