It's typical. Republicans are making a good ol' fashioned cash grab.

Looks like they're afraid Trump's gonna lose and they're trying to pull a smash-and-grab on everything they can before the ship goes down.

This shouldn't surprise anyone who's paid any attention at all...

https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/politics/2020/07/07/mississippi-governor-tate-rrevess-loans/5392217002/

Tate Reeves "business" and his wife's "business" both got hundreds of thousands of dollars from a Trump "rescue package." 'Bout half a million bucks, actually. Doesn't surprise me a bit. I remember when Boss Hog Haley Barbour funneled millions of Katrina money to his brother Jeppie, who suddenly owned a "construction business." Most of that money went to develop rich-folks areas that hadn't been affected by the Hurricane at all, while the poor folks' damaged areas were left to rot.

It's not just the locals, though. It's Trump's own family.

[url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/07/devin-nunes-winery-jared-kushner-family-business-raked-in-coronavirus-relief-money ]https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/07/devin-nunes-winery-jared-kushner-family-business-raked-in-coronavirus-relief-money [/url]

Jared Kushner, Devin Nunes, and Trump-supporter Kanye West (who definitely does NOT need it) also cashed in big.

From the article:

"According to the Associated Press, up to $273 million in PPP funding went to the companies of major Trump donors—including Newsmax, the right-wing website whose CEO, Christopher Ruddy, is a longtime friend of the president and a big contributor to PACs that support him. Allies of the president on Capitol Hill and the media also cashed in. The Daily Caller, the conservative news organization co-founded by Tucker Carlson, one of Trump’s favorite Fox News personalities, secured up to a million dollars in taxpayer funds; its sketchy nonprofit arm, the Daily Caller News Foundation, accepted between $150,000 and $300,000. A winery partly owned by Representative Devin Nunes, the Trump ally who recently lost a legal case to a fictional cow, received at least $1 million in PPP funding. So did the companies of several other members of Congress on both sides of the aisle, including that of Republican Representative Kevin Hern—the owner of a company that operates fast food franchises who, in March, pressed Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer to boost the loan sizes available to franchisees, as the Washington Post reported.

Companies associated with top Trump officials also reaped benefits of the program. Multiple businesses, including two hotels, owned by the family of Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, benefitted from PPP money. (The Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy in New Jersey, named after the powerful Trump adviser’s grandfather and supported by his parents’ family foundation, received up to $2 million.) The family business of Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao—who is married to McConnell, the Senate Majority Leader—received as much as $1 million in taxpayer dollars, as well. The trucking company founded by Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue and bearing his name got between $150,000 and $300,000. Trump’s own companies did not apparently receive any funding, but several organizations that operate out of properties owned by his real estate company did, as did the law firm headed by his longtime lawyer Marc Kasowitz, who helped defend the president during Robert Mueller’s Russia probe.

The distribution of PPP money was often as absurd as it was maddening. Americans for Tax Reform, the conservative nonprofit founded and operated by insufferable anti-tax zealot Grover Norquist, raked in relief funding —even as Norquist himself publicly lambasted the size and financial cost of the government’s coronavirus rescue efforts. The conservative Ayn Rand Institute and Citizens Against Government Waste similarly accepted PPP dollars, despite their public opposition to federal spending."

Note that the Ayn Rand Institute -- who preaches against handouts and is a total "pull yourself up by your own bootstraps" place... got a handout between $350K and a million. Hypocrisy doesn't come much funnier than THAT.

Lest anybody say "Well, they're real businesses and they suffer like any other even if Trump supporters do own them," which could be true enough in some cases, let me point out that Newsmax and the Daily Caller are online things. They wouldn't have suffered any loss due to the pandemic at all. Giving money to them is a flat-out theft. They're websites, you can access them the same, lockdown or not, and thus wouldn't have been affected in any way. Giving them money is just fucking shameless.

Right while America's hurting, you can always count on Republicans to keep fattening themselves off of the same taxpayers they leave to die. The Trump Crime Family is just flat-out robbing the country and handing it out to their partners in crime.

Trump's pulling a bust-out on America.

So are Dems. Face it, ALL politicians are SCUM. Here's a few more:

Media Matters
Paul Pelosi ( Nancy spouse) California Hotel
Democrats Susie Lee and Debbie Mucarsel-Powell have ties to companies that are either run by their families or employ their spouses as a senior executives.

While not PPP funds, Ilhan Omar husbands firm has made $878,930.65 off of her campaign (so far) all while she decries capitalism and wants to defund police among other nitwit socialists schemes.