Politico continues to own the story of the Marianne Williamson campaign. Last week we learned that Williamson’s third campaign manager had fired several staffers and a couple more had quit.

This came after months of turmoil which included allegations that Williamson had created a toxic work environment where it was routine for her to scream at employees in a rage:

“It would be foaming, spitting, uncontrollable rage,” said a former staffer, who, like most people that spoke with POLITICO, was granted anonymity because of their concern about being sued for breaking non-disclosure agreements. “It was traumatic. And the experience, in the end, was terrifying.”

Today, the next shoe drops. Politico has been given leaked audio of a staff-wide conference call in which Williamson suggests she is running out of money to fund the campaign.

“I have put my own money in, and I don’t have the money to continue putting it in at the level I have,” Williamson said in a Zoom call for campaign volunteers obtained by POLITICO. “Cause remember I’m not making a living while I’m doing this.”…

Time and again during the two-hour call, Williamson returned to the dire financial state of her campaign, to which she already loaned $100,000 in 2023, according to a financial disclosure from the first quarter of this year. She was questioned several times about turning to her old celebrity connections, but said she wouldn’t reach out to Oprah Winfrey. “Oprah will let me know if ever she’s interested,” she explained.

Williamson did say she had emailed actress Laura Dern, her former roommate, and had not gotten a reply. At another point in the call, she said that even former presidential candidate Andrew Yang has reneged on an offer to stump for her South Carolina. Yang told POLITICO that he did not extend such an offer.

The negative press “has made me radioactive to some people,” Williamson said.

Politico is obviously hooked in with someone inside the campaign who has been giving them all of this dirt, month after month. Most of those sources are anonymous but recently her former national field director accused the entire campaign of being a book tour in disguise:

🚨BREAKING🚨 As I have said for months, Marianne Williamson's campaign is a book tour grift. Just confirmed by her former National Field Director. pic.twitter.com/IOq5q5oZvk

— THOMAS (@TommyInPA) July 11, 2023

Here’s Elwood’s statement:

Here’s part 2 which includes the line “Marianne is a grifter.”

In my view, Marianne has been a very successful grifter for a very long time. In any case, a staffer named Wendy defended her on the leaked call. “I’ve actually run a number of Marianne’s book tours. This is nothing like a book tour,” she said. Who knows. Maybe it isn’t like a book tour but clearly it also isn’t like a normal campaign where things like ballot access would matter to the candidate.

Williamson also complained that Robert Kennedy Jr. seemed to be the new shiny object who was picking up all of the money (he raised $6 million according to his first financial disclosure). The NY Post has a story about a recent Kennedy fundraiser today.

Camelot it ain’t.

Page Six regrets to report that a press dinner to boost Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign descended into a foul bout of screaming and polemic farting Tuesday night.

Someone asked Kennedy about climate change and the host of the event, Doug Dechert, shouted “The climate hoax!” At that point 80-year-old Anthony Hayden-Guest, an art critic who Page Six reports appeared to be sleeping, woke up and called Dechert a “miserable blob.”

Dechert continued to scream wildly about the climate change “scam” while Haden-Guest peppered him with verbal volleys from across the table, calling him variously “f–king insane” and “insignificant.”…

Here, it seems, Dechert sensed the need for a new rhetorical tack, and let rip a loud, prolonged fart while yelling, as if to underscore his point, “I’m farting!”

Other guests were apparently stunned and Kennedy was said to have watched the entire thing calmly. Dechert apologized the next day for “flatulence as a medium of public commentary.”

I don’t know if Marianne Williamson’s fundraisers can possibly replicate that level of excitement and human interest but if she’s willing to give it a try I’d like to see it.