While the Tea Party was fighting and running candidates against the establishment back in 2010 and 2012, and trying to take out Mitch McConnell in 2014. Trump was donating to the very people the Tea Party was trying to get rid of.
Trump donated to Cruz.
Trump sells a line of guano to Les Gullibles out there who are seduced by his words and do not follow the money trail of his past support of the most reprehensible scoundrels on the American political scene.