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fleur-de-lisa

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Thu Mar 3, 2016, 05:27 PM Mar 2016

Koch Brothers Will Not Use Their $400 Million Political Arsenal To Block Trump

"We have no plans to get involved in the primary," said James Davis, spokesman for Freedom Partners, the Koch brothers’ political umbrella group.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/koch-brothers-say-no-trump-intervention_us_56d84be1e4b0000de4037763

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Koch brothers, the most powerful conservative mega donors in the United States, will not use their $400 million political arsenal to try to block Republican front-runner Donald Trump's path to the presidential nomination, a spokesman told Reuters on Wednesday.

The decision by the billionaire industrialists is another setback to Republican establishment efforts to derail the New York real estate mogul's bid for the White House, and follows speculation the Kochs would soon launch a "Trump Intervention."

"We have no plans to get involved in the primary," said James Davis, spokesman for Freedom Partners, the Koch brothers’ political umbrella group. He would not elaborate on what thebrothers' strategy would be for the Nov. 8 election to succeed Democratic President Barack Obama.

Three sources close to the Kochs said the brothers made the decision because they were concerned that spending millions of dollars attacking Trump would be money wasted, since they had not yet seen any attack on Trump stick. The Koch brothers are also smarting from the millions of dollars they pumped into the failed 2012 Republican presidential bids of Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney, the sources said.
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Koch Brothers Will Not Use Their $400 Million Political Arsenal To Block Trump (Original Post) fleur-de-lisa Mar 2016 OP
Trump is a win win for them. He wont raise their taxes as they should be raised and he randys1 Mar 2016 #1

randys1

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1. Trump is a win win for them. He wont raise their taxes as they should be raised and he
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 05:29 PM
Mar 2016

wont interfere with them poisoning and killing billions of human beings all over the planet, which they are doing.

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