Tom Fitton Quotes
One reason George Soros has been able to be so active in the political arena is that he has received a considerable amount of our tax dollars to fund his activities.
Fitton, Tom. A Republic Under Assault: The Left's Ongoing Attack on American Freedom. Threshold Editions, 2020.
In Lincoln’s age there was a serious ethical debate as to whether it was right for a candidate to use any money at all in a campaign regardless of source.
The “old man” was their father, Joseph P. Kennedy who was a very wealthy businessman, but an unsavory figure. He had made much of his money in bootlegging and smuggling, and although married, carried on notorious affairs with movie stars. When he had the opportunity to serve the country in a critical post, he supported Hitler and the Fascists and fought to keep America from assisting England in WWII. President Roosevelt fired him, and President Harry Truman literally came to blows with Kennedy. JFK wanted his father’s money, but didn’t want him anywhere near the campaign. Most people who voted for Kennedy, had no idea that his father was on the Fascist side in WWII. Ironically, JFK was a hero who fought against the fascists and his older brother was killed in Europe on a secret mission against Germany. The elder Kennedy accused President Roosevelt of ‘murdering” his son in a useless war.
Colbert actually formed his own Super PAC and funded it with his own money.
See {640687}. He was then very worried about the influence of money in politics and was willing to risk his own reelection by limiting his contributions. And he was the Republican presidential candidate so his policy was particularly unusual. A century later money in politics had ballooned to a much larger problem as Taft’s action had little or no effect on the overall relationship between money and politics outside of his campaign.
Politicians and large political donors supporting the private campaign donation process tend to argue that businesses make contributions for patriotic and good government reasons and not as investments, but when business executives are asked by shareholders why they spend so much company money for campaign contributions, the inevitably respond that investing in campaign contributions provide a better return than most other investments. If they were so interested in good government they might spend more money on voter education.
Thomas J. Fitton is an American conservative activist and the president of Judicial Watch. Fitton is known for pro-Trump commentary. Fitton is prominent for criticizing Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States presidential election; he has said that the investigation was a "coup" against U.S. President Donald Trump and called for it to be shut down.
