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Kicking Money Out of Politics: Trump Boots Koch Brother from Golf Course
Breitbart ^ | 2 Jan 2017 | Katie McHugh

Posted on 01/02/2017 2:03:54 PM PST by KeyLargo

Kicking Money Out of Politics: Trump Boots Koch Brother from Golf Course

Katie McHugh 2 Jan 20172

President-elect Donald Trump told a critical biographer and guest of billionaire David Koch to leave his West Palm Beach golf course on New Year’s Eve, forcing Koch to leave with him.

Trump’s gesture was another slight against the pro-amnesty, pro-“free trade” billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, who opposed Trump during the Republican primary season and refused to help him during the general election. It also signals Trump will not necessarily play nice with the GOP political establishment and Beltway right.

The Kochs swooped in during the Tea Party revolt in 2010, training amateur political activists and trying to channel populist energy against the Obama administration into supporting the progressive-business alliance that wanted more cheap labor and lesser sentences for drug traffickers, under the umbrella term of “smaller government.”

But the “grassroots army… was not controllable,” as one former Koch staffer lamented, and the Kochs appeared curiously unwilling to make any concessions to Americans who wanted populist, nationalist policies, and relief from the relentlessly eroding forces of mass immigration and globalization. A majority of voters— some of whom saw more demographic change take place in their communities than many countries saw in a millennia—want immigration slashed in half or reduced to zero. Trump captured that energy and it propelled him to the White House, much to the Kochs’ and their network’s chagrin.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics; Reference
KEYWORDS: billionaires; election; golf; gope; keepowt; koch; kochbrothers; kochsuckers; trump
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1 posted on 01/02/2017 2:03:54 PM PST by KeyLargo
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To: KeyLargo

There is more to the story. The Koch brothers brought along the “author” who wrote that Trump had raped Melania. I believe that is the reason they were asked to leave. Now why would the Koch brothers bring that clown along unless they were up to no good?


2 posted on 01/02/2017 2:08:29 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: KeyLargo

Interesting dynamics.


3 posted on 01/02/2017 2:09:06 PM PST by Mercat (Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when they do it out of conscience.” (Blaise Pascal))
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To: KeyLargo
Way.To.Go.President.Trump!!!

I don't blame him, after this refer bait who wrote that book of slander, I would have kicked him in the Ocean from the Golf Course!!!

4 posted on 01/02/2017 2:12:55 PM PST by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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To: Parley Baer

Thank you.
I hate to click to Breitbart articles.


5 posted on 01/02/2017 2:14:09 PM PST by onyx (`)
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To: Parley Baer

I think you meant Ivanka.


6 posted on 01/02/2017 2:16:08 PM PST by bertdog1
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To: KeyLargo

Crap headline. Crap article....


7 posted on 01/02/2017 2:16:22 PM PST by stylin19a (Hey obamas-it's Ray Charles time - "Hit the Road Jack"...you know the rest)
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To: Parley Baer

That’s some good info.

“But the “grassroots army… was not controllable,” as one former Koch staffer lamented,”

Hilarious. This was the same army that propelled Trump to the win. And the same army they were too dumb to harness.


8 posted on 01/02/2017 2:17:10 PM PST by max americana (For the 9th time FIRED LIBERALS from our company at this election, and every election since 2008)
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To: Parley Baer

....wrote he raped the EX-wife Ivana.


9 posted on 01/02/2017 2:21:14 PM PST by DefeatCorruption
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To: bertdog1

I think you mean Ivana


10 posted on 01/02/2017 2:21:27 PM PST by DeSoto (Lock Her Up!)
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To: bertdog1

the ex Ivana.


11 posted on 01/02/2017 2:22:05 PM PST by DefeatCorruption
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To: bertdog1

the ex Ivana.


12 posted on 01/02/2017 2:22:08 PM PST by DefeatCorruption
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To: bertdog1

I think you mean Ivana.


13 posted on 01/02/2017 2:22:13 PM PST by June2
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To: bertdog1; Parley Baer
No, it was Ivana. From the article:

Accusing Trump of “raping” his ex wife, Ivana Trump, was a false media accusation arising early in the Republican primaries—and a weapon the Democratic Party planned to use in the general election after Fox News’ Megyn Kelly and the Daily Beast “rushed it on air” and into print, using Hurt’s book, before bothering to check with Ivana about its truth.

14 posted on 01/02/2017 2:23:37 PM PST by Yo-Yo ( Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: KeyLargo
The Kochs have been the bogey men for the left for close to a decade.

The media tried to paint them as right wing activist but in reality, the Kochs are very much pragmatic Libertarians, not cultural Conservatives.

15 posted on 01/02/2017 2:28:21 PM PST by rdcbn (.... when Poets buy guns, tourist season is over ......d)
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To: KeyLargo

It may be hard to accomplish but we need to find a way to come up with a viable Third party. The Republican Elite will still cut Trumps throat if given the chance.


16 posted on 01/02/2017 2:30:26 PM PST by Herman Ball
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To: KeyLargo

It may be hard to accomplish but we need to find a way to come up with a viable Third party. The Republican Elite will still cut Trumps throat if given the chance.


17 posted on 01/02/2017 2:30:26 PM PST by Herman Ball
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To: KeyLargo

Hit the road Jack!

Ray Charles sings, “Hit the road Jack!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rEsVp5tiDQ


18 posted on 01/02/2017 2:30:40 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Obama shut your lying mouth and leave America! You are past your use by date! You stink!)
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To: Yo-Yo

Yes, It was Ivana. That is who I meant but sometimes I get them mixed up name-wise. Thanks for the correction.


19 posted on 01/02/2017 2:35:03 PM PST by bertdog1
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To: stylin19a

>> Crap headline <<

If you like click bait, Breitbart will never let you down!


20 posted on 01/02/2017 2:36:39 PM PST by Hawthorn
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