As reported by The Daily Beast, the infamous far-right member of Congress Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has reported a significant financial loss in the first quarter of this year: apparently, her campaign committee spent some $1.38 million but only raised $1.06 million, leaving recent campaign expenses some $314,000 above last quarter’s fundraising. Apparently, a lot of the Greene campaign’s expenses for the first quarter of this year covered fundraising, meaning that the Georgia Congresswoman was evidently unable to recoup ambitious investments. Greene’s campaign doled out over $400,000 for printing, postage, and other expenses associated with direct mail. Overall, the Greene campaign spent over $735,000 on its fundraising last quarter.
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— Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) April 14, 2022
In the first quarter, Greene’s campaign also spent about $140,000 on personal security, which included three payments to a security firm called the KaJor Group that also protected accused murderer-turned-right-wing celebrity Kyle Rittenhouse during his trial in Wisconsin last year. The Greene campaign has also hired none other than John Eastman, the former Trump attorney who — when still working with Trump — helped formulate harebrained proposals for ways to overturn the presidential election outcome and has since become a target of the House committee investigating the Capitol riot. It’s amid a court stand-off between Eastman and the committee that a federal judge recently concluded Trump (and Eastman) likely committed crimes while trying to block Biden’s presidency. On January 14, the Greene campaign paid $10,000 to Eastman’s firm known as the Constitutional Counsel Group. On a more expansive scale than this calendar year, the Greene campaign’s financial reserves have grown at a faster rate than the Congresswoman has spent money — the campaign most recently reported about $3 million in cash on-hand, which is evidently about $900,000 above its total from 12 months prior.
The Bidens released their tax returns today, something the Trumps never did.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) April 15, 2022
Asked about the money to Eastman, a Greene campaign statement insisted that “Dr. Eastman is one of the leading constitutional attorneys in the country. When we need advice on significant constitutional issues, we have occasionally sought his counsel… The particular issues for which we sought his advice are protected by attorney-client privilege, however.” Actually, Eastman is a buffoon. Greene, meanwhile, is facing a challenge to her eligibility for re-election on the basis of the provisions of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that restrict those who participated in insurrection from running for office. (The effort is tied to Greene’s role in fostering last year’s attack on the Capitol.) Greene… isn’t taking kindly to the challenge. “Now these LOSERS are so upset they couldn’t destroy me with their constant lies in the headlines that they have launched funded frivolous lawsuits of lies against me and other Republicans to take our names off the ballots so our voters are not allowed to vote for us!” she recently angrily ranted on Twitter.
“It’s a reminder that Trump had no such thing. That he has no such thing. That his insistences before the election that fraud would happen were simply replaced with insistences that fraud would be proved, an unending con job that continues to this day.” https://t.co/otT2zFT0tW
— Daniel Goldman (@danielsgoldman) April 16, 2022
