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$50M And You Are STILL LOSING BIGLY
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17:12Now PlayingA Tale of Two Meltdowns Trump on Cornyn, Stevens on Abdul El Sayed
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Two overnight social media posts give Hawk plenty to work with. First, Donald Trump's lengthy Truth Social message defending the roughly 1.78 billion dollar settlement fund at the center of Todd Blanche's stalled confirmation, and attacking Senator John Cornyn for holding it up. Hawk's key point: by insisting in his own words that the fund is still very much alive and that he intends to compensate the January 6th defendants he pardoned, Trump effectively confirms that Blanche's sworn testimony calling it dead was false.
Hawk walks through the post line by line, noting that Trump could have pardoned those defendants during his final two weeks in office in 2021 but did not, and disputing Trump's characterization of the Mar-a-Lago search, which recovered classified documents under a lawful warrant. He argues this is why Cornyn and Thom Tillis want the fund and the related IRS provision killed in writing.
The second half turns to the Michigan Senate primary. With Dr. Abdul El-Sayed leading Representative Haley Stevens by double digits days before Tuesday's vote, and a Detroit debate poll putting El-Sayed at 95 percent, Stevens posted a heated late-night message attacking her opponent. Hawk reads it as a candidate coming undone, argues the roughly 50 million dollars in AIPAC-affiliated spending behind her has not moved the race, and questions how that message wins over El-Sayed's voters in a general election.
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