Betsy DeVos, election deniers and campaign contributions: How she doesn’t give a damn about setting an example for children, not when it comes to power

Last week, Betsy DeVos was at the Gerald R. Ford Museum, talking about her new book with the Executive Director of the museum, Gleaves Whitney. DeVos loves this kinds of forum, since she knows that she will not be challenged by the likes of Whitney, who was the former speech writer for Gov. John Engler.

During the Q & A, DeVos was asked about the January 6th riot. According to MLive, this was response from DeVos:

“It was a very tough day,” she said. “I was in my office in the morning, and I could see the Capitol right in my office. I ultimately resigned because I didn’t feel the president … I didn’t feel he did what he needed to do to stop what was happening.”

She added, “I thought about kids watching what was happening on TV and their confusion around that, and just the kind of example that adults were setting in that case or not setting.”

Betsy DeVos sent the Trump Administration a letter of resignation two days after the January 6th riot, on January 8th. Here is what she wrote in that letter:

What is instructive about her comments from her resignation letter was the sentence, “There is no mistaking the impact your rhetoric had on the situation.” 

Now, considering what DeVos said in her recent talk at the Ford Museum and what she wrote in her letter of resignation – where both statements make former President Trump complicit in what happened on January 6th – why would she and her family members provide significant campaign funding to candidates in the current election cycle, candidates who have publicly stated that they believe the 2020 Election was stolen from Donald Trump? 

We know that the GOP Candidate for Governor stated in May that she believed the 2020 Election was stolen from Donald Trump. However, in recent months, Dixon has been more hesitant or even evasive in her response to questions about the 2020 Election. As we reported just after the Primary Election in early August, the DeVos/Prince family had collectively contributed $164,450 to Dixon, even though that number will likely go up after the October 25th campaign finance filing deadline before the November 8 Election.

You can check who Betsy DeVos has directly contributed to in the current election cycle, by going to this link on OpenSecrets.org, then compare that to an article from Michigan Advance that appeared on October 9th, with the headline, Here are the election deniers running for the Michigan House and Senate on Nov. 8.

It’s unfortunate that journalists who were at the Betsy DeVos Ford Museum talk, didn’t press her on the matter of her and her family’s financial backing of candidates who believe that Trump won the 2020 Election. When Betsy DeVos stated at that speaking engagement at the Ford Museum, “I thought about kids watching what was happening on TV and their confusion around that, and just the kind of example that adults were setting in that case or not setting.” Do you think Betsy has thought about the kind of example that her and her family’s campaign contributions to election deniers will have on children? In the end it doesn’t really matter to DeVos or anyone else with that kind of political or economic power, they could care less about setting an example for adults or children.