GOP establishment to back
Hillary if Trump nominee, 'They want a
puppet that they can control, Donald will never be that person', by Joe Kovacs,
11/29/15
Although Donald Trump has signed a
pledge to support the Republican Party’s nominee, that doesn’t mean the party’s
establishment will support him, should he win the GOP presidential nod.
A report by the Hill
suggests the big money Republican donors are actually looking to support
Hillary Clinton for commander in chief if Trump is at the top of the GOP
ticket. Yes, the Democrat Hillary Clinton could be getting millions of dollars
from Republicans.
The website says: “In conversations
over the past month, GOP establishment donors have confided to the Hill that
for the first time in recent memory, they find themselves contemplating not
supporting a Republican nominee for president.”
When asked for whom he would cast
his vote if the choices are only Mrs. Clinton and Trump, the former mayor of
Los Angeles and a longtime Republican establishment figure, Dick Riordan, said:
“I would probably go find a deserted island.” “I think Hillary is disgusting,”
Riordan told the Hill. “And I think Trump is crazy.”
The paper says Trump was the topic
at a recent Beverly Hills lunch hosted by former U.S. Ambassador to the
European Union Rockwell Schnabel.
In attendance in a private dining
room of the Hotel Bel-Air were powerful donors said to include Ronald Spogli,
the venture capitalist and former ambassador to Italy under President George W.
Bush; his business partner Bradford Freeman; and Riordan.
The donors reportedly faced the
hypothetical question: “If it was Donald Trump running against Hillary Clinton,
who would you vote for?” The Hill reports: One version has it that most of the
Republicans at the table put their hands up for Clinton. Schnabel disputes that
account and said in a telephone interview Tuesday that it was just banter among
friends and that he is confident that all the Republicans at the table would
support the final GOP nominee for president, whomever that turns out to be.
Schnabel called back later on
Tuesday afternoon to clarify what he meant. “My only caveat would be that … I
assume that the Republican we’ll nominate will be somebody that would make a
great president,” he said. “That’s not a conversation we’ve had to have in the
past, but obviously there are some we would be concerned about.”
The hesitation among establishment
GOP donors comes as no surprise to Corey Lewandowski, Trump’s campaign manager.
“The GOP establishment will do
anything they can to stop Mr. Trump from being the GOP nominee,” Lewandowski
told the Hill.
“Mr. Trump is the only one who is
not controlled by the special interests. … They want a puppet that they can
control, and Donald Trump will never be that person.”
Not all big GOP donors, though, are
sour on the New York businessman. Billionaire investor Carl Icahn and Doug
Manchester, a California developer and chairman of Manchester Financial Group,
are among those in Trump’s corner.
“I met with Donald himself and was
again very impressed with a Man [sic] who does not have to be doing what he is
but believes as I do that we need to Make America great again and believe he
can do it!!” Manchester wrote to friends in an email seen by the Hill. “As all
of you know I was all in for Mitt but unfortunately he did not make it!!” “I think
Trump can win,” Manchester added.
http://www.wnd.com/2015/11/gop-establishment-to-back-hillary-if-trump-nominee/
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