GET THE APP
Monday, February 23, 2026

Tag: Asa Hutchinson

asa hutchinson
August 24, 2023
Jack Montgomery
News

Asa Hutchinson Made The Debate Stage by PAYING FOR DONATIONS And Promising MSNBC He Would ‘Prosecute’ Trump.

Asa Hutchinson hit the 40,000 donors required to make the GOP debate stage by paying people $20 for every $1 donation they could solicit, and appealing to MSNBC viewers that he would use the platform to “prosecute” former president Donald J. Trump.

The so-called texting-for-pay scheme was the brainchild of Austin Barbour, who heads Hutchinson’s America Strong & Free Action super PAC: “My thought was, if you get somebody to call their friends, family, somebody they know – all they’re asking for is $1 – certainly they’re going to say ‘yes’,” he explained.

Barbour’s own 18-year-old son somehow “found” 100 donors, which should have netted him a a cool $2,000.

Hutchinson, a former Governor of Arkansas, has attempted to run as the anti-Trump candidate. However, despite receiving the tacit endorsement of The Washington Post, he has had less successful cutting through to Never Trump diehards in the GOP than the similarly positioned Chris Christie, whose alarming physical appearance and outlandish statements on fighting Trump in a cage have garnered more public attention.

 

 

show less
Asa Hutchinson hit the 40,000 donors required to make the GOP debate stage by paying people $20 for every $1 donation they could solicit, and appealing to MSNBC viewers that he would use the platform to "prosecute" former president Donald J. Trump. show more
wapo
July 27, 2023
Jack Montgomery
News

WaPo: Republicans Should Pick the Candidate Democrats Can Agree Most With.

The Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post is hyping Asa Hutchinson, an also-ran in the Republican primary race currently polling around one percent, insisting his Democrat-friendly ideas “deserve to be taken seriously”.

Hutchinson, who ran the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) under President George W. Bush, has been particularly fierce in his defense of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), declaring that defunding it “is off the charts a bad idea” and that “[Donald] Trump has done great harm to our rule of law”.

“None of [Hutchinson’s policies are] radical, and Democrats could support most of what he’s advocating,” the WaPo notes, as if this is a selling point.

Hutchinson has repeatedly called on Trump, whom he blames for Jan 6, to abandon the race in response to the indictments being levelled against him by state and federal prosecutors – despite the fact he is yet to be convicted of anything – and tacitly endorsed Special Counsel Jack Smith targeting the former president.

show less
The Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post is hyping Asa Hutchinson, an also-ran in the Republican primary race currently polling around one percent, insisting his Democrat-friendly ideas "deserve to be taken seriously". show more