Who are the ‘Powerful People’ Behind the Kari Lake Bribe Offer?
We were promised that 2024 would be an election year like no other, and just a month in, ’24 is living up to its billing.
If the media wasn’t focused on the razor wire standoff in Texas, and the pipe bomb at DNC headquarters where Kamala Harris was holed up on January 6th, the utterly bizarre Kari Lake/Jeff Dewit bribery story would be dominating the headlines.
Powerful People Want Kari Lake to Stay out of Politics
Sometime in March 2023, Lake began to make troubling claims that someone had offered her a bribe in exchange for abandoning her political ambitions.
At the time, many on the left questioned the veracity of the allegations and suggested Lake was grandstanding, the idea being she was looking for a sensational story that would restore her relevance after a stunning loss in the highly irregular 2022 Arizona race for governor.
However, Lake never wavered from her assertion that she was the subject of a bribe attempt, and in a leaked audio recording obtained by the Daily Mail on January 23rd, Jeff DeWit, the head of the Chair of the Arizona Republican Party, can be heard offering Lake a bribe.
It became immediately clear Kari Lake had been telling the truth all along.
“There are very powerful people who want to keep you out,” said DeWit on the recording. “So, the ask I got today from back east was: ‘Is there any companies out there or something that could just put her on the payroll to keep her out?’”
Lake reacts with obvious outrage. “This is about defeating Trump, and I think that’s a bad, bad thing for our country.”
However, DeWit persists, and later says, “Just say, is there a number at which….”
Unfortunately, Lake cuts him off. “I can be bought? That’s what it’s about?”
“You can take a pause for a couple of years,” DeWit replies. “You can go right back to what you’re doing.”
“This is not about money; it’s about our country,” she says.
Once the recordings were authenticated, it was only a matter of time before DeWit resigned, which happened on Wednesday. Incredibly, in a statement released on the Arizona Republican Party X account, DeWit took a defiant stance, calling the recording a “private conversation (that was) taken out of context but also undermines the integrity of private discussions critical for party leadership.”
… What? So, does this guy really believe dissuading a potential Senate candidate from running for office by offering a bribe falls under the banner of “a private discussion critical for party leadership”? What else falls under that banner? It makes one wonder how far would these people go to achieve their objectives?
That’s enough to digest on its own, but then DeWit goes all in, using tortured logic to justify the bribe offer as a part of his effort to “strengthen our party, which often involves challenging dialogues and strategic decisions.” The hubris is almost unbelievable. Sure, it’s totally acceptable to eliminate a popular candidate with a bribe so she can be replaced with some establishment crony because that’s what’s best for the party, right? It’s all just part of the process. No big deal…
At that point, DeWit shifts gears. In fact, he asserts, he was only looking out for Lake’s financial well-being, and the recordings were made while she was employed in his private company and meant to be private.
Inevitably, he arrives at the subtle threat part of the statement
“This act of recording was not just a betrayal of trust but also a violation of the fiduciary responsibilities of an employee… I genuinely believe I was offering a helpful perspective to someone I considered a friend.”
So, in other words, if we’re buddies, and I offer you a bribe that could change control of the U.S. Senate, you damn well better keep your mouth shut about it if the conversation happened on company time.
Yeah, okay…
Finally, DeWit plays the martyr card. “I am just a business and financial guy that got recruited into this unpaid role that demands the amount of time roughly two full-time jobs—nights, weekends, holidays, and more are all workdays.”
C’mon people, I’m busting my ass here to make sure you have the kind of representation the Republican donor class wants, and this is the thanks I get?
The last part of the statement is where he blames it all on Lake and paints her as an unscrupulous ladder climber who set him up and will stop at nothing to get to the top.
Who are the ‘Powerful People’ That Put up the Money?
The Kari Lake bribe story is a stunning example of the extreme measures our nation’s power brokers will take in order to control government policy and circumvent the will of the people. It seems there are no laws prohibiting bribery of people in the private sector, but if what DeWit did wasn’t illegal, it certainly was unethical.
At this point, the obvious question is who are the “powerful people” that were willing to pay Kari Lake to go away for a couple of years? Certainly, there must be someone in the America First camp with enough power and influence to compel Jeff DeWitt to cough up the names.
In many ways, this is just another form of election interference, no better than stuffing drop boxes, erasing EMS databases, counting votes past deadlines, suppressing opposing views on social media and the myriad of other ways woke leftists rig elections. I predict Jeff DeWit fades quickly into Deep State murkiness, and we won’t hear anything more about this incident.
It’s a shame because that kind of coverup is as bad as the bribe offer itself.
Bringing all of these dark characters into the cleansing light of the sun is the only way we’re ever going to restore the faith of the American people in our government. It amazes me we are tolerant of this kind of crap, and no one is held accountable.
