Trump Forced Ohio GOP Senate Candidates Into ‘Apprentice’-Like Meeting | Talking Points Memo

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Former President Trump summoned four Republican Senate candidates running to replace retiring Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) for a secret-sit down ahead of a fundraiser at Trump’s golf club in Florida on Wednesday night, according to Politico.

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According to Politico, a 15-minute backroom meeting reminiscent of boardroom scenes on the former president’s reality TV show “The Apprentice” ensued as the Ohio Senate candidates jockeyed for Trump’s support.

Ok, but which of the “contestants” did Trump fire?

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Electoral politics is not a stupid television show. They should all be fired.

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Trump Forced Ohio GOP Senate Candidates Into ‘Apprentice’-Like Meeting

“So what’s the big deal? It’s not like I grabbed any of them by the pussy or anything.”

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Sources report that the highlight of the event was the pants-pressing competition. “Do it like Hopey,” Trump kept saying.

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“Okay, dance, monkeys!” - Formerly Relevant Guy

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I guess mimicking “The Masked Singer” would contradict T****'s COVID-45 protocol.

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Anyone else curious as to if Jane Timken had a connection to either Timken bearing company or Timken Steel?
It’s the Timken Steel family she married into. Now you don’t have to look it up.

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The only thing worse than that fat old fucking traitor are the spineless, conscienceless, amoral scum who toady to him.

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I’m looking forward to this in every state election.

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Most former presidents have found better things to do.

But, of course, they had actually been presidents.

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Basically kissing the ring of a crime boss. Wretched supplication in the name of $$ and ambition. Don Jr could teach a graduate course.

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“Fire”?

Au contraire:

“One person familiar with the exchanges in the meeting described the scene as ‘Hunger Games’…”

Which of the contestants did he reap?

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Forced Ohio GOP Senate Candidates Into…

Uh, they coulda said no

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The one’s from Ohio, AKA District 45.

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Most of the tension during the meeting was mostly between Timken and Mandel, both of whom seemed to attempted to outdo one another.

It’s hard for two people to simultaneously insert their noses into a single anus, even one as large as his.

@discobot: does anyone read these things before you publish? I mean, “most of the tension … was mostly” and “both of whom seemed to attempted”?? Seriously, you don’t have to be a grammar nazi to grind your teeth over this much trash in one sentence.

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