Toyota Backs Off Supporting Overthrowing the U.S. Government

Here’s GOP Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri on Jan. 6 gesturing to a crowd of pro-Trump supporters shortly before they stormed the U.S. Capitol and tried to disrupt congressional certification of the 2020 election results.

From this:

Now here’s something that’s worth a fist pump: Toyota Motor Corp. announced Thursday it was halting direct political donations to the 147 Republican members of Congress who voted to overturn the 2020 election.

The move came after the company suffered weeks of blowback for supercharging its donations to GOP lawmakers who had voted against certifying the election results—a clear act of sedition that helped reinforce Donald Trump’s baseless lies about the election being stolen. While dozens of corporate political action committees (PACs) have made roughly a half dozen $5,000 donations to GOP seditionists, Toyota had gone above and beyond, showering campaign donations on more than three dozen Republicans who voted against certification. Toyota’s giving scheme had first been revealed in a report issued by the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW).

Did our post “Toyota: What a Bitter Disappointment” contribute to their decision?  I’d like to think so.