Trump halts big-money fundraising, cutting off cash to the party

[HAB911]

Source: Washington Post

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has effectively shut down his high-dollar fundraising operation for the rest of the campaign, a highly unusual move that deals another serious blow to the GOP's effort to finance its get-out-the-vote operation before Election Day.

Steven Mnuchin, Trump's national finance chairman, said in an interview with The Washington Post on Tuesday that Trump Victory, a joint fundraising committee between the party and the campaign, held its last formal fundraiser on Oct. 19. The luncheon was in Las Vegas on the day of the final presidential debate.

"We’ve kind of wound down," Mnuchin said. "But the online fundraising continues to be strong."

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/10/25/trump-halts-big-money-fundraising-cutting-off-cash-to-the-party/?wpisrc=al_alert-COMBO-politics%252Bnation

[forest444]

1. By trying to sabotage Trump, the RNC has managed to turn their OWN NOMINEE into their worst enemy.

You just cannot make this stuff up.

[unblock]

2. he's really phoning it in, isn't he?

[DemInND]

16. Yep, he's a real phony!

[Fritz Walter]

35. Nope. That would be John Miller phoning in on Drumpf's behalf

[ffr]

3. Why don't they just all go off into a field and duke it out like real men

and leave us out of it.

LOSERS!

[barbtries]

4. hilarious

it's like he's conceding at the same time he's yelling rigged. it's such a bizarre turn of events. rest of world, please know that not all americans are okay with this insanity.

[greymattermom]

5. If he can't win

then they shouldn't either, right?

[saltpoint]

6. Pretty soon the GOP's get-out-the-vote

ground game will consist of two burros and a shitwagon.

With Rudy Giuliani driving the wagon, going, "Hey! We've still got some really great moves left!"

[CrispyQ]

51. If only they had a taco truck, huh?

[saltpoint]

52. : ) eom

[beachbumbob]

7. Nice...Can't write this stuff....

Democrats can throw 10s of millions more at races for the house and the senate

[DFW]

8. As Nancy Pelosi might say......

"Why, thank you, Donald. I didn't know you cared....."

[FailureToCommunicate]

10. If the election goes as we hope...we may be adding an asterisk to Trump's good riddence...

"Well, at least he brought the GOP down with him!"

[Bernardo de La Paz]

15. Good. All the little suckers can waste their money. They'll be really happy with that. . . . nt

[Grey Lemercier]

18. QUITTER!!!!!! LOLOLOL

[IronLionZion]

19. Somebody knows he's lost!

Big donors would still want to support the party and get their voters to vote, so he's really just screwing the party at this point.

And isn't it sweet! Oh yeah, punish the GOP! Democrats should no longer be the only self-punishing party.

[Dawson Leery]

20. These actions are the things that may lead to a genuine

Blue Wave. We have people on the ground and Obama's GOTV data machinery in place.
We also have the positive message, which is what wins Presidential elections in America.

[canetoad]

22. Nothing says LOSER

Like conceding defeat.

[George II]

29. Actually, that's "loosah".

[Botany]

23. Go for it Donny!

[George II]

27. At least everyone on board the Oceanos were able to get off the ship before it sunk. Not so...

....with the R.N.C. Trump. There will be many casualties!

[Botany]

36. Jan 21st or 22nd the GOP powers that be met and planned to block everything President Obama ....

..... would try to do in order to hurt the American people so they would take out their
anger on the President. Fuck 'em i want to see as many as possible go down because
the bottom line is that they are un-American.

BTW as boy in a middle class neighborhood in N.W. PA our next door neighbor's brother
was Governor of PA. Nice guy, played with the us kids, supported education, infrastructure,
civil rights, unions, and the Environment and his name was Ray Shafer and he would have no
home in the Republican party today.

We need the senate bad so we can get SCOTUS justices and get rid of that God damn Citizen's
United ruling ..... dark money has been pouring into OH snd it has really hurt Ted Strickland
and his run for US Senate.

[George II]

43. The word I had was that they were meeting even as the Inauguration Balls were underway on Jan. 20

[George II]

25. Did he ever send much cash to the party?

[Thinkingabout]

26. Trump has not changed since his childhood, if the others on the play ground did not play by

Trump's rules, then he took his toys and went home. He still throws temper tantrums.

[TonyPDX]

30. So soon? Won't it cost them a bundle to remove all of that Trump signage from his buildings?

[Jarqui]

31. That article overlooks (maybe outside of it's specific mandate)

that Trump has spent millions of his campaign's money on operating his jet ($10,000 per hour), selling his books to his campaign (that he gets royalties on) and charging heavily (millions) for events at his golf and hotel properties.

So a bunch the $56 million he supposedly contributed and probably got a tax deduction for, came back to him via book sales, usage of his properties and paying the operating costs of his jet.

And he'll spin that media circus into a cable tv network and trying to get Clinton-like speaking fees ...

[wordpix]

32. LMAO! As they say, "This is rich," hehe

now let these asshats fund their assholes without Trump's a$$$

[SleeplessinSoCal]

37. Brings to mind Branson's mtg where Trump trashed those unwilling to bail him out of bankruptcy.

These were clearly people he knew and had worked with. But because he perceived them as traitors he wanted vengeance. Same deal here.

The trick with Trump is to never go anywhere near the guy.

[Eugene]

40. The Donald is in this for himself. Screw the party.

He doesn't want to waste time on efforts that mostly fund other Republicans,
even when the party is doing the heavy lifting for his campaign.

This couldn't happen to nicer bunch of a**holes.

[niyad]

41. didn't the rnc cut off some resources to him after the last debate???

[elmac]

42. Its all but over for him, but

we need to get out the vote to send a strong landslide message to the fascists.

[brooklynite]

44. RNC: "we have no organized calendar of events for the next 14 days"

Good plan...take the next few weeks off.

[lindysalsagal]

45. I'm surprised he waited this long. He's done. Stick a fork in him.

He doesn't even sound like he's enjoying the screaming throngs, anymore.

[BadGimp]

47. This is what Planning To Fail looks like..