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At Fundraisers, Joe Manchin Has Been Hanging Out With Billionaire Trump Donors.
The West Virginia Senator is absolutely shameless.
What irritates me — and I’m sure countless others who consider themselves even remotely on the left — the most about West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, is the fact that he seems to absolutely relish in throwing his brazen corruption and obstruction in our faces. He always seems to up the ante, and take it to infuriating new levels. Of course, nothing will top when he decided to plunge millions of children back into poverty by refusing to extend the child tax credit and had the nerve to cite the fact that he had been named by the White House as someone they were negotiating with. It will never cease to amaze me that this level of narcissism, sociopathy, and evil was just accepted, though the fact that he was never going to vote for it anyway and just needed an excuse not to do so doesn’t make it any better.
Just recently Manchin has made headlines with his antics again, this time because he’s been palling around with GOP Trump donors at fundraising events.
William Valliancourt with The Rolling Stone writes:
“Billionaire Trump donor Nelson Peltz held a fundraiser for Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) in Florida last month, CNBC reported on Monday. The…