US corporations are back to funding the far right and those who have tried to deny or overthrow major American elections

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Broken promises are far-and-wide with some of America’s biggest corporations. According to Politico, an analysis has unearthed that some of the very companies who pledged to withhold monies to political candidates who directly encouraged the terrorist attack on the Capitol — have now gone back on their promises.

In the analysis, the site found that more than half of the initial 70 companies that vowed to stop funding such candidates have now gone entirely back on their own promises Politico reported Friday. Those companies are:Walmart, Comcast, Lockheed Martin, Pfizer, Eli Lilly, PricewaterhouseCoopers and AT&T.

On the same note, 34 fortune 500 companies initially pledged to suspend funding and then turned right around and donated upwards of $5.4m to election deniers and their campaigns. Among the top donors of the 34 were Abbot Laboratories, Cigna, Ford Motor, General Motors, Home Depot, Intel, UPS, Verizon and Johnson & Johnson.

“So many corporations sought recognition for halting political spending after Jan. 6, then quietly reopened the money spigot to election deniers when they thought no one was paying attention,” Jeremy Funk, a spokesperson for Accountable, told Politico.