Posted on 04/22/2011 3:47:05 PM PDT by Red Steel
Donald Trump is fuming at the man George Bush called “the Brain” and says he may target him just as he did Rosie O’Donnell. Trump is telling business associates that Karl Rove will lead Republicans right down the drain just like he did with Bush’s final moments in office.
Trump is particularly angry because he says he donated mega-bucks to Rove’s political committees last year but now finds the strategist on Fox News attacking him and the idea of a possible presidential bid.
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Trump already had voiced his displeasure with Rove, who appeared on Fox recently and slammed the billionaire as a “joke candidate” for his talk about Obama’s birth certificate. He said Trump has put himself on “the nutty right”
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On Monday, Trump struck back at Rove during an appearance via phone on “Fox & Friends.” Trump told the audience that Rove doesn’t “love me” because he, Trump, had been critical of Bush.
“I am very upset with Bush. He gave us Obama and Karl Rove was Bush.
“You could have backed Abraham Lincoln and he couldn’t have beaten Obama at that time because of what Karl and Bush had done.”
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Rove said Trump is leading the pack of potential GOP presidential candidates in several polls because he “says outrageous things.”
The source said: “Trump is angry because he donated to the guy.”
According to the participant at the meeting, Trump told the high-level donors that Rove saw him shortly before last year’s congressional election. Rove asked for a meeting and Trump agreed.
The two met at Trump’s Fifth Avenue offices in New York. Trump told the group that Rove asked for, and received, a hefty donation from Trump of $100,000,
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Ping. Now posted here.
The plot thickens. This is really getting fun!
I posted several times before: Rove is a political operative who works to tear down potential candidates he opposes and to build up potential candidates he favors.
He should not have a position on Fox News as any sort of commentator or analyst. He’s an operative who tried to influence 2010 elections and he’s doing the same for 2012 elections.
If that's true, then Rove is one of the slimiest bastards that I have ever heard of.
Oooooh, big mistake. Rove bit the hand that fed the face. Now he’s going to be in deep doo doo. Fine by me. Rove’s a schmuck. He did the same bad rapping on Palin, and now Trump. Rove takes on more badmouthing than he is going to be able to handle. He was lucky with Palin, she was too much a gentlewoman to attack Rove back, which is why he picked on her. But now Rove has picked on the big boy in town, and his bullying ways are going to be met in kind. I’m getting out the popcorn. Go Trump!
Ah...You did it.
Thank you, Red Steel.
Trumps is pissed, at the Rovarian cyst!
Thank you. I seem to be a little behind my reading.
Why just a few weeks ago, Rove on Fox news was saying he was a tea party, conservative member, and not part of the establishment.
He appears to have a weak moral base. A pure political operative.
I will never give money to anyone Rove is pushing/supporting.
If Trump thinks Bush gave us Obama, and Rove is Bush, why would he give him a hundred grand?
Sounds like Trump was a Rove fan until he started bad-mouthing him.
Thanks for the correct terminology for Rove! I have been calling an elite beltway pundit.
Now I will call him a Shady Political Operative:
“I posted several times before: Rove is a political operative who works to tear down potential candidates he opposes and to build up potential candidates he favors.
He should not have a position on Fox News as any sort of commentator or analyst. He’s an operative who tried to influence 2010 elections and he’s doing the same for 2012 elections.”
Trump gave to just about everyone who asked by looking at his political contributions. Someone asks and he gave. But Rove turns around and bites him after he gave him 100 Grand makes Rove a snake.
Which party is Trump going to run under for president????
Wowzer. I know *I* have never given money to a candidate or PAC and subsequently had a disagreement with them or their approach.
Politics is not linear.
Sarah, are you taking note and preparing?
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