Donor money and you serve donors. You guys are all crooks. So you notice what Dan said. He said, oh, we're going to do a pro. I think Trump is smart enough to do pro growth. You know what that means? It means tax cuts for the rich that are all Dan's donors. [00:00:15] And they were Kamala Harris. When you say you're not a left right issue. That's Jake right there calling out Dan Dan Crenshaw over taking donor money to serve his donors a few months ago. And it seems like MAGA is finally opening their eyes to what Jake has been saying. [00:00:31] Even cat turd Jake just weigh in initially. Yeah. So as you as we talked about before, in that same interview on piers, the right wing populist Vinny from Patrick David's show joined me in [00:00:47] criticizing Dan Crenshaw, the Republican. So that's what realignment looks like. It's just the beginning of it. It's a tiny amount of it. But now, you know, for those who are questioning, yeah, but at the end of the day, they're just going to go suck up to the same politicians like Dan Crenshaw, who's a neocon war hawk, etc. [00:01:04] Now, I mean, it's funny that we have political conversations about a guy who's handled his cat dirt, right? But Cat turd is one of the right wingers online. I don't I'm sure we have massive, massive disagreements. Right. But now he's going after Dan Crenshaw because some of this establishment versus [00:01:20] populist stuff on the right is real. So let's tell you the rest of that story. So for example, on Christmas Day, quote, Mayor of Macedonia Josh Dunlap tweeted out the Federal Election Commission fined Rep Dan Crenshaw campaign committee $42, [00:01:36] 000 on Friday after finding it had accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal contributions. This is the latest in a series of ethical scandals for the second term Congressman. The commission found that Crenshaw's 2020 reelection campaign knowingly accepted $223,460 in apparent excessive and prohibited contributions for the for [00:01:56] the 2020 primary and general elections. Now, Crenshaw was not happy with this claim, tweeting back lol, this is news to me because it's a total lie. Amazing what you bottom feeders make up even on Christmas. What's wrong Josh no family to keep you company. Also, I'm in my third term, not my second. [00:02:13] And then added if you sad little trolls are going to come after me, Christmas or not, at least have the balls to disagree with me on real things. But you've got nothing, so you make up lies. Turns out my entire record is being a hard right Trump supporting Republican. You just don't like that I call you out for your dishonesty [00:02:28] and I'm going to keep doing it. Voters shouldn't trust these random click chasing accounts. They literally sell their influence to the highest bidder. It's well known in politics to clear things up. The report is real, but it's from December of 2022. According to the general counsel's report, the agency found reason to believe [00:02:45] that the Crenshaw campaign and its treasurer, Paul Kilgore, violated federal law by knowingly accepting excessive and prohibited corporate contributions totaling $23,160 during the 2020 election. The money came from 125 individuals, two packs for corporations and three [00:03:01] limited liability companies, the FEC said. According to FEC notices, the contributions included gifts from law firms, real estate entities and a wealth management company, and the campaign didn't do a good job of returning or didn't want to return the contributions in a timely manner. [00:03:17] The FEC sent the first of four notices in October 2020, and in December of that year the campaign promised it would either return or redesignate the unlawful contributions. But the vast majority of the refunds and redesignations, more than $207,000 worth, were returned between 100 and $15 to 612 days late, well outside the 60 day [00:03:37] grace period, according to the report. As of this May. The campaign still hadn't returned $3,200 as the report began to circulate once again over the course of Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, instead of spending time with his family, Dan went online in a warpath against his critics. [00:03:53] He even went after Catturd and tweeted, never doubt me when I call these scumbags out. Yeah, well, your audience might want to start doubting you because this is completely made up. Knowingly spreading slander isn't a good look, not to mention libelous. You might want to delete. Well, again, it is not completely made up claim. [00:04:10] And that tweet did force Crenshaw to backtrack after getting a community note confirming the report and afraid of the all powerful community notes. Then Crenshaw finally says, well, to be clear, this story was from years ago. You're lying. By implying we solicited illegal contributions, [00:04:25] people sent in donations over the limit, which just means we have to go through the painstaking effort of writing every single one of them a refund check. It takes forever and is extremely tedious. Happens all the time in campaigns. When are you bottom feeders going to find something real on me? I'm enjoying living full time in your empty little brain cat turd. [00:04:41] So that's a cat turd. Slam down cat turd smack. That's that. Okay, so who's right? Who's wrong? Well, you just saw the facts right there. So as I look at that look, I'm biased against Dan Crenshaw to begin with. [00:04:57] But yeah, brother, you did do it. It was from, wow, a couple of years back. That's not a lie. To say that you did it because you did do it. And and he says, oh, well, you know, we were busy working around the clock, [00:05:12] sending these checks back, but it took years and years or 215 days or however long it took to return some of the checks. Right? Yeah, but, brother, there's another reason to hold on to the checks until you have more checks that come in and you feel perfectly safe with all [00:05:29] the campaign contributions you have, then you return the ones that were over the limit. So once you feel more comfortable and that's a more plausible explanation. Now, I'm not in that office, so I don't know exactly why they were so late in returning it, but I do know that they were late in returning it and and that they, [00:05:45] you know, and those checks initially helped them win in the first place, so returning them a lot later after you've already won. Right. And you've already established yourself and you've got new campaign contributions in. Is not exactly following the letter of the law, right? [00:06:02] Let alone the spirit of the law. So, but. To me, that's the smaller issue. The much larger issue is look at this. Some right wing MAGA. Guys attacking a Republican politician. So so people sometimes ask me, well, so what's the difference? [00:06:17] Why are you now targeting the right wing before when you just yelled at the right wing. Right. Because when I went to talk to the right wing, I would see things like this where they were like calling out their own politicians and people love to. Now there are some on the left who are saying, no, it's all fake. [00:06:32] They're not actually calling out those politicians, it's just a Trump thing, etc. And they're only calling out Dick Cheney because Dick Cheney supported Kamala Harris. No, guys, they hate Dick Cheney. They've they've hated Dick Cheney for at least a couple of years here for sure. For and so and look at them fighting Dan Crenshaw who's a neocon. [00:06:50] Right. So that to me is a much more interesting trend. And now they're calling out his campaign donors, like so in the old days, right wing folks would love to say, oh, George Soros, George Soros. You say, okay, yeah, but what about Mitch McConnell's donors or Dan Crenshaw's donors? No way, no way. [00:07:05] Those are just good Americans, patriotic blah, blah, blah. Same thing on the left. They call out Mitch McConnell when you get to say Nancy Pelosi's donors are like, no, no, no, Nancy's a angel and etc. Those lines are beginning to break down. So I know it's hilarious, but the fact that Catturd and Dan Crenshaw are [00:07:21] having a fight, I think is a great sign that there's a little bit of independent thought breaking out over there. Yeah, yeah, I have to agree with that. And it's not like it's totally new. Like you're saying about Dick Cheney, they've been at odds for some time [00:07:37] and they've been, you know, shooting each other in the face before Cheney made that call. So I don't know that that's what they dislike Cheney about. But I mean, just think about that, guys. Right now, the overwhelming percentage [00:07:52] of majority of the right wing base, the MAGA base hates Dick Cheney because he's started too many wars. They also didn't like the warrantless wiretapping. Maybe they're mixed on torture, I don't know, I don't want to speak for them. Right. But but some of them certainly objected to the torture as well. [00:08:10] Take the win. Take the win. That was our that's been our position for ever since Dick Cheney was around. Right. The fact that they've come in that direction is amazing. The fact that they're willing to call out Dan Crenshaw and like, we're willing to call out Dan Crenshaw and our own side, that's a that's amazing. [00:08:28] And so, I don't know, I just think that's a really positive development. Yeah. I mean, there is no purpose to fighting for any political aim, any political platform, if not to eventually win the issue, convince the populace and get that change there. Otherwise it's literally just gamesmanship and trying to to forever [00:08:47] have something to talk about. That's certainly not the purpose of what we do here. It's certainly not the purpose of what anybody that actually cares about these things should be caring about when they fight and advocate for these issues. So we should hope that every issue we care about also becomes a right wing issue that they care about. [00:09:02] It ticks something off the list. We can start fighting for the next thing. 100%, 100%. Let's take the win. Okay, let's unite where it makes sense. Fight where it makes sense. Relatively easy concept. Thanks for watching The Young Turks. Really appreciate it. [00:09:18] Another way to show support is through YouTube memberships. You'll get to interact with us more. 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