POLITICO Playbook: GOP donors privately pan Trump's 'horrible' RNC speech

[brooklynite]

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Source: Politico

A slew of well-heeled Republican National Committee donors descended on Palm Beach this weekend, excited to be schmoozed, eager for access to DONALD TRUMP and other potential 2024 nominees, but mostly interested in hearing how far their dollars would go toward winning back the Congress and White House.

Trump’s speech didn’t do any of that.

“It was horrible, it was long and negative,” one attendee with a donor in the room tells Playbook. “It was dour. He didn’t talk about the positive things that his administration has done.”

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Many major donors have been fed up with Trump’s antics since Jan. 6. While Trump was speaking, we spotted at least two — both of whom received prominent appointments during his administration — out dining with friends at a local restaurant in Palm Beach rather than sitting through the former president’s dinner at Mar-a-Lago.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2021/04/11/gop-donors-privately-pan-trumps-horrible-rnc-speech-492435

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Just another POLITICO "screed"?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. They are more than delusional...

if they think he can talk about anything positive that his so-called Administration did.

[LakeArenal]

4. They think gerrymandering the S.C. is great.

They think tax cuts are great.

They think his immigration policies were great

They try to believe the election was stolen oh wait that’s a negative to them....

They think WWJD then do the opposite.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

2. GOP donors are not normally trump's target audience

trump's weak BS and lies work best the low IQ believers who attend trump rallies. I am not surprised that the GOP donor base was not happy with trump's speech

[NQAS]

3. What a surprise

Too cowardly and vile to go on the record or to stand up to him.

[smb]

5. "He didn't talk about the positive things that his administration has done" WHAT Positive Things? nt

[eppur_se_muova]

13. Yeah, that little flaw in the logic sort of leaps at you and takes you by the throat, doesn't it? nt

[Aristus]

14. Yeah. If even TRUMP can't think of any positive achievements from his administration,

you know damned well he didn't have any!

[LakeArenal]

6. Trump plans on "paying" to primary candidates?

And the GOP believes that shit?

Trump pays NO ONE. HE RIPS EVERYONE OFF.

[NYC Liberal]

7. We've been hearing this for years.

There are always articles about how Republicans secretly hate Trump. They criticize him but it’s always “behind closed doors” or anonymously, and we hear about it second hand.

If all these Republicans really hated Trump, they wouldn’t have voted for him. But they clearly did. What they do or say privately means nothing if they support him publicly. Their public positions are the only ones that matter.

[onetexan]

8. You'd think those donors would not give their $ to him or GOP

[bucolic_frolic]

9. He's like the CEO who got kicked upstairs where he could do no further harm

These guys cannot be reached.

[msongs]

10. how is this anlysis/opinion piece LBN? nt

[brooklynite]

11. How people in the room supporting the RNC reacted to the Party leader...

[Fullduplexxx]

12. Privately.... cowards

[SoFlaJet]

15. And let him run again

so we can all watch Biden kick his loser ass again and be the 1st scumbag to lose the popular vote for 3 presidential elections in a row. Fuck Trump

[JudyM]

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