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spanone

(135,857 posts)
Fri Oct 14, 2016, 02:11 PM Oct 2016

Cut Ties to Donald Trump, Big Donors Urge R.N.C.

WASHINGTON — Several of the Republican Party’s most generous donors called on the Republican National Committee on Thursday to disavow Donald J. Trump, saying that allegations by multiple women that Mr. Trump had groped or made inappropriate sexual advances toward them threatened to inflict lasting damage on the party’s image.

To an elite group of Republican contributors who have donated millions of dollars to the party’s candidates and committees in recent years, the cascade of revelations related to Mr. Trump’s sexual conduct is grounds for the committee to cut ties with the party’s beleaguered standard-bearer, finally and fully.

“At some point, you have to look in the mirror and recognize that you cannot possibly justify support for Trump to your children — especially your daughters,” said David Humphreys, a Missouri business executive who contributed more than $2.5 million to Republicans from the 2012 campaign cycle through this spring and opposed Mr. Trump’s bid from the outset.

Bruce Kovner, a New York investor and philanthropist who with his wife has given $2.7 million to Republicans over the same period, was just as blunt. “He is a dangerous demagogue completely unsuited to the responsibilities of a United States president,” Mr. Kovner wrote in an email, referring to Mr. Trump.


http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/14/us/politics/republican-donors-trump.html
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Cut Ties to Donald Trump, Big Donors Urge R.N.C. (Original Post) spanone Oct 2016 OP
I believe they should continue to donate-- let them put more money on the line. TonyPDX Oct 2016 #1
Yeah he just got bad underpants Oct 2016 #2
no kidding! spanone Oct 2016 #3
The Republican moneybuck masters are worried about "image" Achilleaze Oct 2016 #4
Even if they have no inherent sense of decency, they have mothers, wives and daughters. anamandujano Oct 2016 #5
that's an assumption...right? spanone Oct 2016 #6
You got me again. anamandujano Oct 2016 #8
8~) spanone Oct 2016 #9
At some point, you have to look in the mirror and recognize that you cannot possibly justify support Liberal_in_LA Oct 2016 #7

TonyPDX

(962 posts)
1. I believe they should continue to donate-- let them put more money on the line.
Fri Oct 14, 2016, 02:15 PM
Oct 2016

Or they could just flush it down the nearest toilet. Whatever works.

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
4. The Republican moneybuck masters are worried about "image"
Fri Oct 14, 2016, 02:26 PM
Oct 2016

Figures. They don't give a shit about the reality of the degenerate Republican cesspool, only about their freaking lameass "image."

anamandujano

(7,004 posts)
5. Even if they have no inherent sense of decency, they have mothers, wives and daughters.
Fri Oct 14, 2016, 02:44 PM
Oct 2016

Yes, it's just about time to think of image.

 

Liberal_in_LA

(44,397 posts)
7. At some point, you have to look in the mirror and recognize that you cannot possibly justify support
Fri Oct 14, 2016, 03:08 PM
Oct 2016

At some point, you have to look in the mirror and recognize that you cannot possibly justify support for Trump to your children — especially your daughters,” said one donor.

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