Ex-Ted Cruz aide built dark money "slime machine" to smear Biden nominees

[pecksniff]

RawStory.

Investigative journalist Jane Mayer has a bombshell new report on a dark money group that built a "slime machine" attacking President Joe Biden's nominees.
Mayer broke down how Republicans attacked Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as "pro-pedophile" with QAnon adjacent attacks.

She wrote "the fierce campaign against her was concerning, in part because it was spearheaded by a new conservative dark-money group that was created in 2020: the American Accountability Foundation. An explicit purpose of the A.A.F.—a politically active, tax-exempt nonprofit charity that doesn’t disclose its backers—is to prevent the approval of all Biden Administration nominees."

Mayer is the author of the acclaimed 2016 book Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right."Rather than attack a single candidate or nominee, the A.A.F. aims to thwart the entire Biden slate. The obstructionism, like the Republican blockade of Biden’s legislative agenda in Congress, is the end in itself. The group hosts a Web site, bidennoms.com, that displays the photographs of Administration nominees it has targeted, as though they were hunting trophies," Mayer explained. "And the A.A.F. hasn’t just undermined nominees for Cabinet and Court seats—the kinds of prominent people whose records are usually well known and well defended. It’s also gone after relatively obscure, sub-Cabinet-level political appointees, whose public profiles can be easily distorted and who have little entrenched support. The A.A.F., which is run by conservative white men, has particularly focused on blocking women and people of color. As of last month, more than a third of the twenty-nine candidates it had publicly attacked were people of color, and nearly sixty percent were women."

 

[KeithD]

Yes, well, that's the current Republicans for you. No surprise there.

 

[pecksniff]

But, this is something new, having a special organization in place just to find something with which to slime Biden nominees no matter who they are or what posts they are nominated for; it's like they're thinking like an army thinks, being ready to attack the enemy on all flanks at any time, with damaging the enemy the only goal.

 

[Biggs_Darklighter]

But, this is something new, having a special organization in place just to find something with which to slime Biden nominees no matter who they are or what posts they are nominated for; it's like they're thinking like an army thinks, being ready to attack the enemy on all flanks at any time, with damaging the enemy the only goal.

How is that new? Its a standard campaign.

 

[DirtKnapp]

RawStory.

Fake site

no credibility

 

[pecksniff]

How is that new? Its a standard campaign.

I don't recall anything similar from previous administrations.

 

[Champakian]

How convenient, the lack of Total Recall...

 

[Champakian]

Does the name Clarence Thomas mean anything to you, or maybe you're not old enough to be on Lit...?

 

[Chobham]

I love how the article goes out of it's way to imply racism and misogyny. When you have an administration that has adopted a goal of appointing blacks and females it stands to reason that they too are going to be put under the microscope.

 

[YDB95]

Does the name Clarence Thomas mean anything to you, or maybe you're not old enough to be on Lit...?

Yes, it means the Republicans don't give a shit about sexual harassment.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Yes, it means the Republicans don't give a shit about sexual harassment.

See also "Kavanaugh, Brett"