Posted on 04/19/2016 8:01:29 AM PDT by Trumpinator
Trump staffers face threat of blacklist
Some political operatives shy away from the billionaire for fear of being shunned by other Republicans.
By Kenneth P. Vogel and Shane Goldmacher
04/19/16 05:16 AM EDT
When Matt Braynard signed on to run Donald Trump’s data team last fall, he got an email from a veteran GOP operative to whom he was close warning, “You realize once you go Trumptard, your career in GOP politics is over?”
Braynard took the job anyway, explaining that he believed in Trump, and that he wasn’t worried about being blacklisted. “This isn't a career, it's a vocation, and only God can take that away,” he said he responded.
But according to interviews with more than a dozen operatives — including several who oppose Trump, some who support him and the leaders of some prominent D.C. political shops — some of those who go to work for Trump face an implicit, and occasionally overt, threat: Help Trump, and you’ll never work in this town again.
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Trump has had a concentrated campaign focused on him that was declared weeks ago by the leftists for a reason. Thieves, liars, deceivers don't like truth and they are afraid he is going to shine a spotlight on them and expose them for what they are. Basically he is scaring the sheet out of them so they are using every tactic to smear him that they can...calling him a bully, saying he hates women, Hispanics, blacks and is a bigot, etc...We've all heard this before. I'm surprised some people are still falling for it all over again. Say what you will about the man but if he keeps standing tall through the firing zone I'd say he is presidential material. I was a Cruz guy but I keep getting this nagging feeling that he won't do anything about illegal immigration and that's one of my primary concerns because it has caused the most damage other than the Muslim infiltrator the last 7 years.
Who would care about being shunned by low-lifes?
“”More than ever these establishment types need to be
defeated””
NO! - they need to be NAMED!!!!! Each and every one of them!
Did you read your article?
“If Trump were to win the White House, he would control that consulting cash flow for at least four years and operatives who signed on early would have the inside track to become the new elite in a reordered GOP consulting class. Those who actively opposed him — Trump has said he has a long memory — could face dire career implications. Of course, a Trump general election loss in which Republicans are swept from power on Capitol Hill could cause serious recriminations for those seen as facilitating his rise.”
Difference - Trump did not issue a blackball campaign. The GOPe openly did. The paragraph you cited was speculation and projection on what might happen in reverse but it is not based on Trump saying so.
There won't be a #NeverCruz movement. It will be a #NeverGOP movement because we know who's actually pulling the strings.
And then wait until the blacklisters are the ones on the outs and screw’em to the wall.
Because The Trump Organization is not a political MACHINE! Don’t you get it?
“His alternating skills of charming some individuals and riding roughshod over others has earned Donald Trump a reputation in some quarters as someone not to be trusted. He reneged, for example, on a promise to donate to a museum the Art Deco bas- reliefs on the facade of Bonwit Teller’s - bulldozed to make way for Trump Tower. It was a sin deemed unforgivable by landmark preservationists. But the only negative comments about Donald Trump these days are given off the record.”
http://www.nytimes.com/1983/08/07/business/the-empire-and-ego-of-donald-trump.html?pagewanted=all
One of his closest henchmen
At Trump’s right hand before the presidential campaign took over his life was Michael Cohen, a hard-charging attorney and executive vice-president of the Trump Organization, the Death Star of the candidate’s business empire. Cohen, who this week confirmed he was still a registered Democrat, has been minding the shop at Trump Tower in Manhattan as Donald jets around primary states.
The 49-year-old may still be nursing burns from his first steps into the campaign’s harsh spotlight last summer, when he warned a Daily Beast reporter asking about allegations made during Trump’s first divorce to “tread very f[xxx]ing lightly” and threatened to “mess your life up”.
“If you do something wrong, I’m going to come at you, grab you by the neck and I’m not going to let you go until I’m finished,” Cohen once told ABC News. But like his fellow courtiers, Cohen takes his cues from the throne. Trump is known to take direct responsibility for the content of his train-of-thought press releases, his political strategy and, to use one of his favorite words, the “tone” of his quixotic pursuit of the presidency.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/15/donald-trump-friends-family-staff-inner-circle-whos-who
Let's elect this guy and give him the FBI, IRS, NSA, and the DOinJ. Oohrah! Don't forget the new powers given the EPA and eminent domain.
The Guardian should not be trusted - it is a British socialist (Labour) newspaper. Funny how Cruzers are getting their talking points from leftist spin meisters.
Political correctness is not just a tool of the left. The entire political establishment employs it, including Republicans. (and the courts) PC is evil and needs to be destroyed.
I have stated on the forums before that I think we are living under a PC Totalitarian regime. Trump as president would destroy the PC dictatorship once and for all time. Look at how the PC bots react to Trump chalkings. The college safe zone and triggering and microaggressions are being phased in to the wider nation - from college to your street.
My number one reason for supporting Trump for president is his ability to defeat political correctness. My second reason is building the border wall which would be impossible to do if political correctness was allowed to insert itself. Everything falls into place after that, imo.
The humor is in watching Trump supporters, who are “reportedly” winning BIG TIME, moan and cry about how unfairly Trump is being treated. It is so counter-intuitive its funny.
MMMM—Don’t YOU get it? He had plenty to say here:
MMMM—Don’t YOU get it? He had plenty to say here:
Wow! You can say THAT again!
So, when Trump wins the nomination, and slaughters Hillary in November, I hope he remembers all those who were funding the anti-Trump Super PAC’s and all the anti-Trump talking heads, and the #nevertrumpers. It will be payback time. Bye Bye RNC, good bye National Review, Weakly Standard, Mark Levin, Megyn Kelly, Krauthammer, Goldberg, etc.
>So, when Trump wins the nomination, and slaughters Hillary in November, I hope he remembers all those who were funding the anti-Trump Super PAC’s and all the anti-Trump talking heads, and the #nevertrumpers. It will be payback time. Bye Bye RNC, good bye National Review, Weakly Standard, Mark Levin, Megyn Kelly, Krauthammer, Goldberg, etc.
Magnanimity towards the defeated is a good policy that Trump usually follows in life. Better to convert an enemy into an ally then let them remain an enemy.
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