Trump Ally: Kelly Loeffler Offered Trump $50 Million to Help Get Her Opponent Out of the Race

[Nevilledog]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-ally-matt-gaetz-kelly-loeffler-offered-trump-dollar50-million-to-help-get-her-opponent-out-of-the-race

A leading congressional ally of President Donald Trump alleged last week that Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) threatened to withhold financial support for the president’s re-election effort unless he helped get her top Republican opponent out of the race.

According to Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Loeffler or her representatives approached the Trump campaign and offered to spend tens of millions of dollars on Trump’s behalf. But that financial support would only come, Loeffler’s team supposedly said, if Trump helped convince Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA) to drop his Senate bid. Gaetz supports Collins and was speaking at a campaign event.

“This is what the Loeffler team went to the Trump team with,” said Gaetz. “They went and said, ‘Look, you guys gotta get Doug Collins out of this race’… She said, ‘I have $50 million for this project, and I can either spend my $50 million getting new voters and helping the Trump campaign, or I can spend that $50 million taking out Doug Collins.’”

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[spanone]

1. git the fucking money out of politics and LOCK HER UP

[gratuitous]

2. Trump understands that kind of transactional politics

Look for Trump to campaign enthusiastically for Loeffler. You've probably seen the motif before:

https://www.starwars.com/video/my-kind-of-scum

[Zambero]

3. Atilla the Hun would have done the job for half as much

However, as far as materializing any "new voters" for Trump goes, even Atilla would have come up empty handed!