Chicago GOP Chair Steve Boulton Endorsed a Never Trumper in 2016 and Compared Trump to Hitler, Now Trying to Facilitate a Trump Visit, Secure Campaign Money

Illinois Review ^ | April 11, 2024 | IR Staff

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Disgraced Chicago Republican Party Chairman Steve Boulton, who embarassingly secured just 24 votes as a write-in candidate during March’s Primary after failing to submit the required signatures to earn a spot on the ballot, was in Springfield on Wednesday meeting with Republican leaders and a local representative of the Illinois Trump campaign.

In an email to Chicago GOP committeemen from the state capitol, Boulton wrote:

I had a great lunch with the head of the 2024 Trump Campaign in Illinois. Like the folks in Mar-a-Lago, he is very intrigued with the growth in the GOP in Chicago. I advised him of our direct communications with Mar-a-Logo, and the possible President Trump visit here, while pitching for campaign resources to be put in Chicago, arguing that if the migrant crisis continues to explode Illinois could actually be in play, under the radar.

During the 2016 presidential primary, Boulton endorsed Never Trumper John Kasich.

Boulton went so far as to suggest that presidential candidate Donald Trump sounded a lot like Adolf Hitler, writing,

“This Trump oath thing has even me freaked out a bit in its echoes of Hitler, who made the entire German Army officer corps swear an oath to be personally loyal to him. Way too far, Your Narcissism, way too far. This is America. Vote Kasich.”

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This Chris Christie wannabe needs to move to Siberia.

[thesligoduffyflynns]

idiot trying to jump on the Trump Train 2024.

these are the very worst of politicians.

kick’em to the curb

[DIRTYSECRET]

I endorsed Hogan. What’s the difference?

[lowbridge]

[Lurker]

This sleazeball is the perfect face for the Illinois Republican Party. They’re worse than useless

They’re complicit.

L

[PBRCat]

The Chicago Republican Chairman looks familiar.

I think he was told off by Dean Wormer in “Animal House.”