Trump Told RNC He Was Starting New Party, Book Says

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Ex-President Donald Trump, still seething over his electoral defeat, was reportedly ready for some mutually assured destruction on Jan. 20.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1393739
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Have at it, folks. And keep in mind the deviousness of both Trump and the RNC.

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Ronna Romney McDaniel is just as cowardly as uncle Mitt when he caved in to Trump in 2012.

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Trump said it was BS that he was starting a new party so it was obviously true, until he changed his mind because of the money. He is becoming more of an albatross around the neck of the GOP all the time, which is a great thing. He will sabotage anyone else who tries to become the leader of the GOP, whether he runs for POTUS again or not.

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Meet the new party
Same as the old party

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Let’s get that party started. Lol!

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Those fumes emanating from TFFFG are one of the reasons he worked so hard to dismantle the EPA…

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She even changed her name to make the dotard happy.

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Teddy Roosevelt split off with the Bull Moosers.

Trump can defecate off with the Bull Shitters.

It will pile up about as well.

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Donnie, you know you are way more popular than the GQP. You gotta go for it. Most of their so called stars, Hawley, Cruz, Cotton, etc. None of them have your moxie.

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I think it’s a great idea! Trump should get to work on that new party before the next election. It’s just what we need.

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That is true and they all know it. If Trump can figure out a way to make more money from forming a new party than from sticking with the GQP, he will do it

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For starters, the RNC would stop paying the mountain of legal fees Trump had racked up with his lawsuits in his crusade to overturn the election via the courts, RNC officials reportedly warned.

Nonsense. All the real law firms with actual billables were gone after, like, two weeks. I have no doubt they billed the hell out of the cases in the meantime, but they couldn’t possibly have racked up more than a few million dollars in that time, which would have been billed and paid in December. The bulk of the litigation was carried out, without compensation, by a bunch of sad-sack, dead-ender Trump fluffers, including Ken Paxton and various other state attorneys general.

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Trump had reportedly generated what RNC officials had estimated to be about $100 million by renting out the list to other GOP candidates.

How is this detail not a major scandal?

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Where can I donate? Seriously, anything to help destroy the modern GOP. I’ll even volunteer!

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Name suggestions:
“Art of the Squeal”
“Sleepy”
“Grumpy”
“Angry”
“No Ideas”
“Millionaires and Billionaires”

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The GOP really is a crime syndicate.

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“Exactly. You lose forever without me,” he responded, according to Karl. “I don’t care.”

The inevitable damage of him potentially leaving the party was what Republicans “deserve” for “not sticking up for me,” Trump reportedly told the RNC chair.

IIRC Lindsay Graham basically said the same thing, that they will lose forever without Trump. That would explain the sudden 180-degree reversal after the initial 1/6 backlash against Trump. They didn’t just believe he would take his base and start a new party, he actually told them he would.

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I am most definitely for Trump starting a new party. It’s definitely what this country needs.

NO ONE has a better chance at starting a successful third party than Trump.

Please encourage him to do so.

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Don’t threaten us with a good time. LOLZ. If only he were that organized. See Trump and the USL https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a41135/donald-trump-usfl/

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