Posted on 03/18/2016 3:09:45 AM PDT by cotton1706
PALM BEACH, Fla. ― House Speaker Paul Ryan met Thursday night at a pricey French restaurant here with some of the partys biggest donors to assess a political landscape dominated by one vexing question: what to do about Donald Trump.
The dinner was a highlight of a secretive two-day conclave, convened under heavy security by a donor group headed by New York hedge-fund manager Paul Singer, that is being viewed as a pivotal moment for the big-money effort to block Trump from the Republican presidential nomination.
Sources familiar with the gathering said it was not intended to rally a last-ditch, anti-Trump cabal and that, in fact, there was a diverse array of opinion represented among the donors in attendance. Some seemed open to supporting Trump if he wins the nomination, while others are backing his remaining rivals Ted Cruz and John Kasich.
But many of the two dozen or so donors in attendance ― including Singer and Chicago Cubs co-owner Todd Ricketts ― have given millions to super PACs devoted to attacking Trump or supporting his now-vanquished rivals, including Marco Rubio, Scott Walker and Jeb Bush. Now, however, its becoming increasingly likely that efforts to derail Trump by defeating him in primaries and caucuses are futile.
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Of course he is , bought and payed for.
Agree with your theory. I wouldn’t say Trump is a true conservative but he sure has revealed what reviling pieces of $hit the GOPe are and what they are trying to do in this election.
Too bad the GOP never put this effort into working to protect our country in the last 25 years and doing their jobs.
As if we needed more proof that the Republican party has held the needs of its own constituency secondary to their quest for power and riches, for decades. We now see them JOINING WITH OUR POLITICAL ENEMIES to oppose someone they see as a threat to their ability to continue the graft, to perpetuate what amounts to systemic looting, sustain the ruse, maintain the established structure, fully aware that the people are sick and tired of it all.
Unabashed and undeterred, they now openly attempt to disenfranchise us, knowing full-well that we are now aware of their perfidy.
We were in a drunken stupor for decades, apparently. Donald Trump is going to be our AA sponsor. He's going to get us "clean". We're ditching all our old drinking buddies, and we're going to have a few sodas with the Donald.
Trumo has called one of these out by name—Rucketts—and that family is in Chi-raq...the distinction makes me wonder if Ricketts might be behind the riots—
The GOPe is self-destroying.
I believe they will manipulate the system to deny trump, then face two years of insurrection by their voters.
I’m still trying to understand how the House conservatives went along so easily having Ryan as Speaker.
In the words of Ann Coulter:
DIE, DONOR SCUM!!!
Thanks. I’m glad we think the same way. I’m hoping a lot more already do or will soon think that way.
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