{"id":1000897382,"date":"2024-10-09T16:46:16","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T20:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goingconcern.com\/?p=1000897382"},"modified":"2024-10-11T14:18:56","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T18:18:56","slug":"heres-why-trump-fans-are-mad-at-deloitte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goingconcern.com\/heres-why-trump-fans-are-mad-at-deloitte\/","title":{"rendered":"Here’s Why Trump Fans Are Mad at Deloitte"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On September 27, the Washington Post<\/em> published an article by Peter Jamison titled “JD Vance, in 2020 messages, said Trump \u2018thoroughly failed to deliver\u2019<\/a>.” The short version of this long WaPo article is that DMs from Donald Trump’s running mate JD Vance to an unnamed acquaintance showed Vance shitting on Trump back in 2020. A few highlights as reported by WaPo:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cTrump has just so thoroughly failed to deliver on his economic populism (excepting a disjointed China policy),\u201d Vance wrote in February 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think Trump will probably lose,\u201d he wrote in a message in June 2020, a few months before ballots were cast in an election that Vance would later claim, falsely and repeatedly, was stolen by the Democrats.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

It’s no secret JD Vance used to be a Trump critic. In 2022, Vance’s former roommate Josh McLaurin (now a Georgia state senator) shared Facebook DMs from Vance he received in 2016<\/a> that said, among other things, “I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn’t be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he’s America’s Hitler.”<\/p>\n\n\n

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Facebook DM sent from vice presidential candidate JD Vance to former roommate Josh McLaurin in 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Although WaPo chose not to name the recipient of the 2020 DMs leaked to them due to the potential for retaliation, Breitbart<\/em> was more than happy to do so in the spirit of such. In “Exclusive \u2014 Deloitte Consultant Behind Ethically Questionable Leak of JD Vance Communications to Washington Post<\/a>,” Breitbart<\/em> reveals the leaker to be Deloitte principal Kevin Gallagher:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But what the Post did not do is tell its audience who Vance was communicating with in these messages, or provide the full context of the conversation, since it only reported part of one side of it. The Post argued it granted the source who provided these messages anonymity \u201cbecause of concerns about retaliation,\u201d but Breitbart News can reveal the person\u2019s identity here for the first time as a well-connected Deloitte consultant.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Oh no, here it comes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Deloitte consultant, whose identity the Washington Post\u2019s Peter Jamison hid from the newspaper\u2019s readers, is named Kevin Gallagher. Deloitte\u2019s website lists Gallagher as a \u201cprincipal\u201d with the firm, based in Connecticut. Breitbart News has seen a screenshot of messages that Vance sent to Gallagher\u2014the other side of the conversation is not available, because Gallagher had deleted his account, thereby deleting the messages\u2014confirming that Gallagher is in fact the recipient of these.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

That same day, Donald Trump Jr. accused Gallagher — who has since gone into internet hiding — of interfering in the election and asked if it’s time for the GOP to “end Deloitte’s taxpayer funded gravy train.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An executive at @Deloitte<\/a> named Kevin Gallagher decided to interfere in the election & leak private convos with JD Vance to help Kamala Harris. Deloitte also gets $2B in govt contracts. Maybe it's time for the GOP to end Deloitte's taxpayer funded gravy train?

CC @speakerjohnson<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/gAOs1TBt86<\/a><\/p>— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) September 27, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote>