Trump courts donors with eye on 2020

[BeckyDem]

After criticizing big-money influence in 2016, the president is rushing to consolidate donor support.

By Shane Goldmacher, Kenneth P. Vogel and Darren Samuelsohn

03/03/17 05:08 AM EST

Candidate Donald Trump waged a bitter fight with some of the Republican Party’s biggest donors, but President Trump is assiduously courting some of those same donors as he tries to consolidate control of his party and begins preparing for an expensive reelection campaign in 2020.

This Friday evening, Trump is set to speak in Palm Beach to a retreat for the Republican National Committee’s most generous donors. On Thursday evening, Trump's Education Secretary Betsy DeVos made a personal appearance at a Washington gathering of megadonors organized by a political operation fronted by hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer and his allies.

Perhaps no single contributor embodies Trump’s turnabout as much as Singer, whose announcement of support for Marco Rubio in the 2016 GOP presidential primary prompted Trump to suggest he didn’t want Singer’s support, and to ominously warn of a “lotta controversy with Mr. Singer.”

Singer, in turn, donated $5 million to a pro-Rubio super PAC and then another $2.5 million to an anti-Trump PAC after Rubio dropped out of the race, and warned that if Trump pursued anti-trade policies as president it would be “close to a guarantee of a global depression.”

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/trump-donors-2020-235632

[MFM008]

1. he wont be there in 2020

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[BeckyDem]

3. He is planning on staying, but I agree we will get rid of him. Hopefully long before 2020.

[jehop61]

2. Money down a rabbit hole

[Wellstone ruled]

4. All of these so called Campaign

monies can be and will be used for personal use once he is tossed. There are zero Campaign laws that say the Candidate has to return any unspent funds. And the Grift continues.