William Lindsey 

"Show me any faith based or political lobby, business or international effort anywhere in DC politics remotely comparable in size, reach, wealth or impact to Leonard Leo’s Catholic web. DC MAGA Catholics are punching way above their weight.

Fact: trump could not have been elected in either 2016 or 2024 without Leonard Leo and his DC Catholic political web. …

And all with zero media scrutiny."

~ Thomas Carter

#Catholic #MAGA #LeonardLeo #Trump #SupremeCourt

https://medium.com/@thcarter123/vatican-vs-dc-maga-catholic-web-fb429bd3a3be

Vatican vs DC MAGA Catholic Web

Pope Leo has dialed it up to seven or eight in official statements, homilies and missives excoriating the trump regime on immigration, the…

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Show threadNazani13h ago
@wdlindsy I don't think some Catholics realise they are on the "then they came for" list. Always have been. During WWI tracts about the evil Pope & the Kaiser were circulating.
Show threadWilliam Lindsey 25m ago
@Nazani For sure. The second coming of the KKK was deeply anti-Catholic in its intent.
Show threadNicole Parsons13h ago

@wdlindsy

Leonard Leo took $1.6 billion dollars from Barre Seid's Irish tax evasion and used it to buy the overturn of women's civil rights to reproductive health care in Roe vs Wade.

https://www.propublica.org/article/dark-money-leonard-leo-barre-seid

Other billionaires are using their wealth to try buy a Pope. Tim Busch & Napa Institute
https://www.ncronline.org/vatican/us-conservative-catholics-wine-and-dine-cardinals-ahead-conclave-elect-pope

https://wherepeteris.com/god-and-mammon-dilexi-te-vs-napa-institute-catholicism/

https://wherepeteris.com/concerns-over-archbishop-coakleys-election-as-usccb-president/

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-12-18/this-o-c-lawyer-is-the-most-important-catholic-youve-never-heard-of

Bill Barr hid the depravity of the Epstein Class
https://time.com/5650974/william-barr-jeffrey-epstein/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko/2019/07/09/bill-barr-wont-recuse-himself-from-epstein-sex-trafficking-case/

How a Secretive Billionaire Handed His Fortune to the Architect of the Right-Wing Takeover of the Courts

In the largest known political advocacy donation in U.S. history, industrialist Barre Seid funded a new group run by Federalist Society co-chair Leonard Leo, who guided Trump’s Supreme Court picks and helped end federal abortion rights.

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Show threadWilliam Lindsey 26m ago
@Npars01 Thank you — excellent information.
Show threadNicole Parsons34s ago

@wdlindsy

It's an aspect of billionaire power that needs more examination.

Billionaires that believe they can buy the military.
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5575276-timothy-mellon-troop-pay-report/

Billionaires that can buy US foreign policy & oil wars
https://popular.info/p/update-after-sending-billions-to

Billionaires that can cause mass refugee crises at will
https://tvpworld.com/92232395/putin-the-biggest-driver-of-europes-migration-crises-eu-commissioner-brunner

Billionaires that can trigger global financial collapses on a whim
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/3/17/headlines/jared_kushner_seeks_5_billion_for_private_equity_firm_while_serving_as_mideast_negotiator

Billionaires that can buy voter disenfranchisement schemes
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/05/heritage-foundation-dark-money-voter-suppression-laws/

Show threadbouriquet13h ago
@wdlindsy And to think that so many conservatives were against JFK being President in 1960 because he was Catholic and feared control by the Vatican.
Show threadWilliam Lindsey 26m ago
@bouriquet Indeed. I well remember that period and the anti-Catholic rhetoric, which my family, though it was evangelical, deplored and did not share.