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octoberlib

(14,971 posts)
Mon Jun 13, 2016, 04:34 PM Jun 2016

Trump fundraiser to GOP donors: Influence Trump with your cash or he’ll appoint Gary Busey to SCOTUS

Donald Trump is proving to be a very hard sell for a lot of longtime Republican donors, including at least one who believes he’s the second coming of Mussolini. Buzzfeed’s Ben Smith reports that top Trump fundraiser Anthony Scaramucci tried cajoling Republican bigwigs into supporting Trump by saying that Trump will make some positively insane decisions as president unless they donate to him now and influence him to be better.

“We need your wisdom,” the fundraiser told a skeptical Republican while suggesting that Trump would be amenable to his guidance if he cut a big check. “Do you want Sean ‘Puffy’ Combs to be the secretary of state and Gary Busey to be on the Supreme Court?”

Combs and Busey are two former Celebrity Apprentice contestants who now back Trump’s bid for the nomination. They’re also about as unqualified to serve on the Supreme Court or at the State Department as Trump is to serve as president.

Per Buzzfeed’s reporting, it seems that the GOP donors weren’t all that persuaded by Scaramucci’s argument and expressed skepticism that they could do anything to reel him in.


http://www.rawstory.com/2016/06/trump-fundraiser-to-gop-donors-influence-trump-with-your-cash-or-hell-appoint-gary-busey-to-scotus/

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Trump fundraiser to GOP donors: Influence Trump with your cash or he’ll appoint Gary Busey to SCOTUS (Original Post) octoberlib Jun 2016 OP
Oh, so it was Puffy that Trump was pointing at the other day! KamaAina Jun 2016 #1
You have to give him some credit for... scscholar Jun 2016 #2
Extortion for campaign donations. tanyev Jun 2016 #3
A bridge too far? roamer65 Jun 2016 #4

roamer65

(36,745 posts)
4. A bridge too far?
Mon Jun 13, 2016, 06:13 PM
Jun 2016

Awww...c'mon, Repig donors.

Most of you are closet fascists, anyway. Come out of the closet and support him.

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