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Billionaire's aide says no plans to help Trump (Charles Koch)
Associated Press ^ | Jul. 30, 2016 8:58 PM EDT | Steve Peoples

Posted on 07/30/2016 7:22:15 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Billionaire industrialist and conservative benefactor Charles Koch’s expansive political network will not help Donald Trump win the presidency.

That’s the message from one of the Koch network’s chief lieutenants as hundreds of the nation’s most powerful Republican donors gathered for a weekend retreat on Saturday. With Election Day just three months away, Koch lamented the state of the 2016 contest during a welcome reception inside a luxury hotel at the foot of the Rocky Mountains.

“We don’t really, in some cases, don’t really have good options,” Koch said of the “current political situation.” …

(Excerpt) Read more at bigstory.ap.org ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: New York; US: Texas; US: Virginia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: billionaires; charleskoch; koch; kochbrothers; kochsuckers; snub; trump; trump2016
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Didn’t need Koch before, and will not need him now.
1 posted on 07/30/2016 7:22:15 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

[“We don’t really, in some cases, don’t really have good options,” Koch said of the “current political situation.” …]

So, we’re content to try and let things ride for Hillary. And so is our boy Teddy Cruz who disrupts wherever he can.


2 posted on 07/30/2016 7:23:55 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: Olog-hai

So they’re NOT really Americans for Prosperity?


3 posted on 07/30/2016 7:24:41 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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The Cheap Labor Express is choosing to sit it out?

Big surprise.


4 posted on 07/30/2016 7:25:50 PM PDT by datura
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To: Olog-hai

5 posted on 07/30/2016 7:25:51 PM PDT by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: Olog-hai

Globalist sell-outs.


6 posted on 07/30/2016 7:25:57 PM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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To: Olog-hai

They are for lining their own pokets.
Crooked crony capitalist.


7 posted on 07/30/2016 7:26:44 PM PDT by cssGA30005
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To: SoFloFreeper

For their own prosperity, or so they think.


8 posted on 07/30/2016 7:26:55 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump 6h6 hours ago
I turned down a meeting with Charles and David Koch. Much better for them to meet with the puppets of politics, they will do much better!
9 posted on 07/30/2016 7:27:40 PM PDT by jennychase
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https://twitter.com/ImWithTrump/status/759530472741408768


10 posted on 07/30/2016 7:28:16 PM PDT by jennychase
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The tweet’s mentioned in the article, too. Perhaps I should have quoted that in the text body.


11 posted on 07/30/2016 7:29:01 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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12 posted on 07/30/2016 7:29:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Olog-hai

so all the attacks on them by Harry Reid were just bull


13 posted on 07/30/2016 7:30:18 PM PDT by butlerweave
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>>Didn’t need Koch before, and will not need him now.

But it will be interesting to watch Progressive Democrats suddenly decide that he is a principled man and a patriot.


14 posted on 07/30/2016 7:30:57 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (If we had some ham, we could have ham and eggs, if we had some eggs.)
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LOL...no syyyyt....remember when they used to be the evil Koch Bros?


15 posted on 07/30/2016 7:31:49 PM PDT by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: butlerweave

Just political smoke-blowing. Dingy Harry’s a recipient of Koch money himself.


16 posted on 07/30/2016 7:31:54 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: butlerweave

They were probably laughing while he bashed them.


17 posted on 07/30/2016 7:31:56 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Olog-hai

The Koch brothers are really LOSERTARIANS and are probably fine with Hillary winning.....as long as they can just continue doing what they have always been doing. The Dems making them into CONSERVATIVE BOGGYMEN has always been STUPID!


18 posted on 07/30/2016 7:33:37 PM PDT by nopardons
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Charles Koch identifies as a libertarian.

His money, his choice.


19 posted on 07/30/2016 7:34:54 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: butlerweave

Yes, they really were!


20 posted on 07/30/2016 7:34:56 PM PDT by nopardons
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