Weber on troubled Trump campaign: "I don't believe Paul Manafort will go down with this ship":

[riversedge]

I do not think Trump will go down, no matter what he says.



John Harwood ‏@JohnJHarwood Aug 3

Manafort friend Vin Weber on troubled Trump campaign: "I don't believe Paul Manafort will go down with this ship":







Weber: Trump campaign 'mistake of historic proportions'
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/03/former-top-gingrich-ally-calls-trump-nom-mistake-of-historic-proportions.html

Wednesday, 3 Aug 2016 | 1:04 PM ET|04:36

Vin Weber, a key early lieutenant in the Newt Gingrich revolution that transformed the U.S. House of Representatives and the GOP, rejected the candidacy of Donald Trump on Wednesday as "a mistake of historic proportions" for his party.

"I won't vote for Trump," said Weber, who represented Minnesota in the House for 12 years beginning in the Reagan era. "I can't imagine I'd remain a Republican if he becomes president."

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"I don't know how the Republican Party survives if Trump becomes president," he said.

Weber is a friend and ally of House Speaker Paul Ryan, Republican Party chair Reince Priebus and Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. He said he sympathizes with Republicans holding public or party offices who feel they cannot distance themselves from Mr. Trump as he and some others, such as former California Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman, have done. But "I would applaud if other Republican leaders reject him."


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Weber cautioned, however, that even the patience of Trump loyalists has its limits as the candidate refuses to apologize for criticizing the family of a fallen Muslim soldier or declines to endorse Ryan in his primary election next week........................

[niyad]

1. you assholes created this monster, now you are trying to disavow that ownership. sorry,

no can do.

[Salviati]

4. Yup - Trump IS the republican party these days.

He's what you get when you wipe the lipstick off that pig. If republican "party elders" don't like it, that's too bad, he's the culmination of everything they've been doing for the last 40 years.

[misterhighwasted]

5. + a million.

[misterhighwasted]

2. So the Gingrich wing sees Manafort as "useful" to their cause.

Figures.

Manafort should be hauled before the FEDs.

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Vinnie Baby,and Norm Coleman the new faces of the Rethug Party.

What could go wrong?

[BeyondGeography]

6. Someone let Vin know he would have received fewer votes than Santorum

in this GOP primary. The media certainly won't. They fancy him as a spokesman for the enlightened, tolerant, constructive "wing" of the party, which died a long time ago.