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The Guardian - UK
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My donations are principled – unlike the Democrats who support Maga candidates

Kenneth C Griffin, chief executive officer of Citadel.
Kenneth C Griffin, chief executive officer of Citadel. Photograph: Mike Blake/Reuters

Robert Reich (History will judge Republicans who stay silent about the big lie, 11 September) criticises me and others who have supported Republican candidates.

Conspicuously, Mr Reich fails to make the same criticism of Democratic donors. Across the country, the Democratic party and its affiliates have given generously to support Maga candidates again and again. In Illinois, for example, the billionaire Democratic governor JB Pritzker and the Democratic Governors Association just spent $35 million to promote the Maga credentials of one Republican candidate. The transparent strategy was engineered to defeat a moderate Republican candidate. This is politics at its most hypocritical and cynical.

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