Posted on 02/09/2023 2:10:16 AM PST by nikos1121
Former President Trump lashed out on Tuesday at the Club for Growth, a leading conservative group, after he was left off the guest list of its annual donor retreat.
In a post on his social media site, Truth Social, Trump ripped the group as the “Club For NO Growth” and recounted how his ties to the group fell apart after disagreements over his endorsements in high-profile races in Alabama and Ohio last year.
He also blasted the club for initially opposing his candidacy in 2016 before repeating his false claim that the 2020 presidential election was “rigged” against him.
“The Club For NO Growth, an assemblage of political misfits, globalists, and losers, fought me incessantly and rather viciously during my presidential run in 2016,” Trump wrote. “They said I couldn’t win, I did, and won even bigger in 2020, with millions of more votes than ‘16, but the Election was Rigged & Stollen.
“They asked to get together on Endorsements of candidates, we did, and had MANY WINS & NO losses. Relationship broke up over my Endorsement of certain great people in Alabama & Ohio. I won them all!”
Trump’s comments came after the Club’s president, David McIntosh, told reporters on Monday that the group had invited several prospective Republican presidential contenders to its annual donor retreat in Florida, but had left Trump off its list.
Trump is so far the only declared candidate in the race. Among those invited to the gathering are former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, former Vice President Mike Pence, Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R).
“We’ve invited all of the folks listed here,” McIntosh said. “Not Trump. But we’ve invited the others.”
So, they lock him out cause they're afraid of his ideas? Do they realize he's the only one who has declared his candidacy for president?
It's like "deja vu all over again" with a long list of losers, party hacks, and Trump coat-tailers running against him. Are we going to see Bsh and Romney in there too? Is Nikki Haley even eligible to run?
It's not going to be easy this time around for Trump. My prediction is that his followers, (many still here BTW), will rally around him as he disposes of each candidate, but I personally hate this infighting.
Unless he and De Santis have cooked something up between them, to run eventually as a team, this is not good.
IMO, Trump is the only one who can turn things around here and abroad. Let's cut through his abrasiveness, he still speaks for a lot of us in this country. I don't want a "nice guy" as president, (although it wouldn't hurt now and then for him to be nice now and then.)
Isn’t Club for Growth a typical globalist Americans-Last group?
At least that’s what I thought they are.
Seems like they’d like Jeb! and W.
It’s 2015 all over again: Conservative group to unveil ‘major’ ad campaign after courting donors to take down Trump
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3336636/posts
I hope there is a massive decrease in donations after this, and every other organization finally gets a clue.
I agree with you except let’s all stop with the ‘qualifiers’ when speaking about Trump.
The only people that hated his ‘mean tweets’ were the Democrats and their media propagandists.
I loved it. I found it refreshing and was grateful for a candidate who finally spoke up to them. There was not one single ‘mean tweet’ that was not deserved.
And they were all rather polite, comparatively speaking, to the vile filth you hear coming from Democrats.
All that does is empower those who say “maybe we should pick someone who does not post mean things”.
I agree with you 100%. I’m just not liking the infighting and his comments about De Santis, OTOHm TRump may know something we don’t. De SAntis strikes me as a weasel. Trump did help him, as he did all the others who showed up for this love fest.
No loyalty is right.
He’s the only person who articulates what’s on everyone’s mind.
1. He would publicly decline the invitation in humiliating fashion.
2. He would show up and openly criticize them … again, in humiliating fashion.
You’re right they are, and they fought Trump tooth and nail.
I think it’s great that he called them out AGAIN!
Yes.
“Club for no growth”
BWAAAahahahahahhaaaa!
Have you noticed that pro-Trumpers seem to be the ones who wake up early in the AM and start posting on FR. The anti-Trumpers saunder out of bed after 8 pm to noon.
desantis ran for reelection for florida governor last year (2022)...
his opponent was “globalist” charlie crist...
desantis needed big money donors to combat and win against the big money backed “globalist” charlie crist...
trump’s “operation warped speech” against desantis is insinuating we made the wrong choice and should’ve voted for the “globalist” charlie crist...
LOL.
You call 2016 'easy?' With the entire MSM against him saying "he has no path to victory," and the Irish Bookie Paddy Power paying off bets on Hillary Clinton early because she was "such a shoo-in?"
No 2016 wasn't easy, 2020 the Democrats learned how much they had to cheat to overcome Trump's votes, and 2024 will be even harder.
So, these a**holes think that it’s a “false claim” about the rigged election?
The Washington political establishment is self-funding through massive deficit spending, 5-8 trillion under covid alone. Some of that money comes back to them. They don’t need us anymore.
So Trump is pissed he wasn’t invited to a Globalist party?
https://www.clubforgrowth.org/issues/
pretty sound, but their pop-up positions on education and free trade are unrealistic
Education is not something stuffed into brains but gathered and built up by the hard work of both teachers and their students.
It is expensive living in the USA, far more expensive than say Vietnam. There is no level economic playing field, so trade has to be placed under a system of economic balance.
Government funny money is used to support an unbalanced economic arrangement with huge trade deficits and American cities unnaturally deprived of manufacturing jobs.
China would rather let Chinese die than spend $20/older adult on a western COVID vaccine.
Max Greenwood lies.
“false claim?”
Ever watch ‘2000 mules”, Max?
President Trump has my vote because he has all the right enemies like the globalist, rapacious Club for “Growth” and their fellow useless grifters.
“Students should be free to attend a safe and effective school rather than being assigned to a chronically underperforming school.”
https://www.clubforgrowth.org/issue/education/
Are those schools underperforming, or are their students underperforming?
Point out the underperforming teachers please!
All of our teachers are good.
What’s wrong with the building? Many high-earning Jewish doctors and lawyers learned in it.
It doesn’t look like a prison like the white kiddies have.
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