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Big fundraisers are the in thing these days. Joe Biden raised $26 million at an event in New York last month, then Donald Trump raised $50 million at an event at Mar-a-Lago. Now Biden has raised another $30 million at a star-studded event in Los Angeles. The beat goes on.
Lots of well-known Hollywood favorites were there, with Julia Roberts for the straight guys and gay women and George Clooney for the straight gals and gay men, plus many more. Jimmy Kimmel moderated a discussion between Biden and Barack Obama. They, and numerous others, took off the gloves and went after Donald Trump in a much stronger way than they had before. Biden said of Trump: "What he did on January 6th, and now he's literally saying if he doesn't win there'll be a bloodbath. It's outrageous—what he's talking about is outrageous." Obama said: "We have the spectacle of the nominee of one of the two major parties sitting in court and being convicted by a jury of his peers on 34 counts. His foundation is not allowed to operate because it was engaging in monkey business... You have his organization being prosecuted for not paying taxes." Kimmel described the Trump administration as being like a colonoscopy that people want to forget.
Other than the money, the event showed that the Democrats are now going to go after Trump in a way they hadn't before, really attacking him. He will attack back, of course. It's going to get nasty. The debate in 10 days could have some real fireworks. (V)