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Taylor Budowich was director of communications for Trump’s first post-2020 election money maker, the Save America PAC, and since September 2022, has been in charge of the newer pro-Trump super PAC, MAGA Inc. He has been subpoenaed by both the House Select Committee and the DOJ in their investigations of the insurrection and the government documents case.
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The Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI) was founded in 2017 by former congressman and retired Senator Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), who is quoted on the organization’s homepage as saying he “started CPI to be a bulwark against the Swamp and a support system for conservatives looking to do the right thing.”
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Mark Meadows is a right-wing Republican and Trump ally who served North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District in the House of Representatives from 2013–20 before becoming the former president’s chief of staff in 2020. He was closely involved with Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election and a key witness who ultimately refused to cooperate with the House Select Committee investigating the attack on the Capitol.
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A right-wing lawyer and activist, Cleta Mitchell is the secretary of the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation and a senior legal fellow at the Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI), where she chairs its Election Integrity Network (EIN).
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Shortly after he lost the 2020 presidential election, Trump seized the opportunity to make money off his Big Lie by establishing a leadership political action committee called Save America.
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Virginia (Ginni) Thomas is a conservative lobbyist and activist who has been married to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas since 1987. Numerous conflict of interest charges have arisen as a result of their long crusade together fighting for “a more conservative America.”
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Richard Uihlein and his wife, Liz, own the Uline shipping corporation and are longtime mega-donors to ultra-conservatie politicians and causes. As billionaires, they were “among the biggest donors to the 2022 midterms,” according to Politico.