Probably because it’s legal. The money (nominally) doesn’t go to Trump personally, but instead to his campaign or PAC or whatever.
Ever given money to one candidate and ended up on some other candidate’s email list too? Same thing.
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He’s the kid who wasn’t invited to a classmate’s birthday party because everyone hates him who shows up anyway, and proceeds to ruin it for everyone by smashing the cake and spitting in the juice and licking all the candy and cookies. He has ALWAYS been a self-centered zero and asshole posing as someone who matters.
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P.S. I love Pink 
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More specifically, they will lose going forward without Trump’s superfan voters – the ones who only showed up to vote because of Trump. Without Trump’s extra 11 million 2020 voters, the GOP is fucked, and they know it. Preliminarily, the gamble looks like it’s paying off, as way more of Trump’s 2020 voters turned out for the Republican candidates in Virginia and New Jersey last week. Dem voters were also up over 2017, but not by nearly as much. Small sample size in just two off-year elections, but still serviceable proof of concept.
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The Republicans should’ve just let him do it! That former (LOSER!!) guy has failed, crashed & burned, at everything else he’s done. Then the RNC might have been rid of him.
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Trump: I’m going to start a new party!
Republicans: No need, you can just have ours.
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Yes. I was coming here to make the point that, according to the story, he backed off his threat because he’d lose money.
Trump’s north star: wherever the money is.
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So the guy whose sheer density is gonna sink the wobbly lifeboat threatens to leave, and they convince him to stay. So much geniusing!
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This is standard practice, names for money. Or are you saying the scandal is in that TFFG was profiting over the sales instead of the RNC?
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And so now begins the dance, the delicate maneuver of never saying a bad word directly about Trump, but doing everything possible to keep him at arm’s length and out of the media.
Youngkin led the way, and there was a prime example of the “Trump who?” dance in this morning’s CNN interview with Senator Bat Boy from Florida. He predicted that Democrats will continue to lose elections if they focus on Trump, while R’s will be all about “the issues.” When asked about why he supported candidates running for Senate in 2022 who supported Trump’s Big Lie, he ducked and weaved, refusing to answer.
I do think there is a danger in too much focus on Trump. Dems and Independents are probably getting tired of hearing that name. But the wild card is Trump himself, and how much he’ll manage to insert himself into the midterms. He doesn’t like being ignored.
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Which he’ll mismanage like everything else he’s touched.
I wonder how the state party heads are holding up? Is there turnover because the smart ones see the orange iceberg coming?
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The RNC laughed. He’s too lazy to actually do any work.
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Betcha the shitbag screams at whoever he has “advising” him that today is the day to start the new party about 3 times a week. But he’s incapable of starting or creating anything. If he can’t steal it or lie it into being, he can’t do it. Too bad for all lovers of comedy.
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Yes they know he’s a slacker, but he does have the power over the people, people that the RNC needs.
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Far worse, actually.
And Ronna is a professional liar, which Mitt is not.
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He backed down when the RNC threatened to go to court to keep his mailing list.
He couldn’t bear the thought of losing contact with the rubes who support his grift.
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Trump reportedly told Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel during his last Air Force One flight as president that he was leaving the GOP to start a new party…
“You cannot do that,” McDaniel reportedly told Trump…
Trump reversed course five days after informing McDaniel of his plot, and he said he’d stay in the GOP…
No one ever went broke underestimating Donald Trump’s courage in standing up to a woman.
(h/t HL Mencken)
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It’s easy to salivate over this prospect (which is now off the table, anyway). However, a third party spoiler is what brought Maine two terms of mini-trump, Gov. Paul LePage. Now he is running again after sitting out a term.
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Trump was going to call it The Pity Party…
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… the Aristocrats!
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