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mahatmakanejeeves

(56,897 posts)
Fri Apr 9, 2021, 05:35 PM Apr 2021

The GOP is Trump's party, so 'all Republican roads lead to Mar-a-Lago'

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NEW: Trump’s strategy for making money off the GOP in 2021.
1. Lose election
2. Refuse to leave your own property
3. Profit!



Politics

The GOP is Trump’s party, so ‘all Republican roads lead to Mar-a-Lago’

By Josh Dawsey, Lori Rozsa and David A. Fahrenthold
April 9, 2021 at 12:14 p.m. EDT

On Thursday night, the Mar-a-Lago Club hosted a dinner for more than 100 people, put on by a conservative activist group, at which its owner, former president Donald Trump, spoke for more than an hour. On Friday, the club was booked again, for a lunch fundraiser to benefit Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.).

Arkansas gubernatorial candidate Sarah Sanders and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) also have fundraisers scheduled at the club this weekend. And Saturday night, the Republican National Committee has reserved Mar-a-Lago for a 400-person banquet. The price tag for that dinner: more than $100,000, according to a person involved in the planning.

The GOP is still Donald Trump’s party. The clearest proof of that: It is still finding ways to pay Donald Trump money. ... Since Trump left office, at least six Republican candidates have held fundraisers at the former president’s Florida properties. This weekend, there will be at least six more events put on by GOP-aligned groups.

The events show that Trump has maintained his status as the party’s central figure, even after the violent effort by supporters to overthrow the election results on his behalf, and a post-presidency exile in which he has rarely left his own property. ... That control has allowed Trump to continue his unprecedented and lucrative business relationship with his own party. Republicans will pay Trump just to be where he is — or even, in some cases, where they hope he might be.

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Josh Dawsey
Josh Dawsey is a political enterprise and investigations reporter for The Washington Post. He joined the paper in 2017 and previously covered the White House. Before that, he covered the White House for Politico, and New York City Hall and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie for the Wall Street Journal. Follow https://twitter.com/jdawsey1

Lori Rozsa
Lori Rozsa is a freelance reporter and frequent contributor to The Washington Post. She is a former correspondent for People magazine and a former reporter and bureau chief for The Miami Herald. Follow https://twitter.com/lori_rozsa

David Fahrenthold
David A. Fahrenthold is a reporter covering the Trump family and its business interests. He has been at The Washington Post since 2000, and previously covered Congress, the federal bureaucracy, the environment and the D.C. police. Follow https://twitter.com/Fahrenthold
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The GOP is Trump's party, so 'all Republican roads lead to Mar-a-Lago' (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2021 OP
Boy they're suckers soothsayer Apr 2021 #1
Weak-ass Republicans TheRealNorth Apr 2021 #2
If proof was ever needed . . . . Arkansas Granny Apr 2021 #3

TheRealNorth

(9,435 posts)
2. Weak-ass Republicans
Fri Apr 9, 2021, 05:51 PM
Apr 2021

They now have to go kneel and prostrate themselves before the traitor to get his blessing. If I really cared, it would be sad.

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