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Now It's Personal: Koch Brothers "Freeze Out" Donald Trump
"He's not going away," warns one Republican committee member, adding "there are people who think his candidacy is a flash in the pan or a flash in the moment, but I think that underestimates his appeal." As Reuters reports, Trump has surged since suffering a slight downtick in the wake of the McCain furor, rocketing to 24.9% on Tuesday (compared to his closest rival, former Florida governor Jeb Bush, who trails at 12%). With everyone asking 'what can derail this?', perhaps, there is something. As Politico reports, the massively influential Koch brothers are freezing out Donald Trump from their influential political operation - denying him access to their state-of-the-art data and refusing to let him speak to their gatherings of grass-roots activists or major donors.
Predictions of his demise were apparently premature. Instead, Trump is gaining momentum ahead of next week's first Republican debate, a new Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll shows.
The poll shows Trump with his greatest support yet nationally, as nearly a quarter of Republicans surveyed said he would be their choice as the party's presidential nominee in 2016. He has opened up a double-digit lead over his closest rival, former Florida governor Jeb Bush, who trails at 12 percent.
"I’m proud to be in first place by such a wide margin in another national poll," Trump said in a statement to Reuters.
Trump has surged since suffering a slight downtick in the wake of the McCain furor. The five-day rolling online poll had the real-estate mogul and reality TV star at 15 percent among Republicans on Friday before rocketing to 24.9 percent on Tuesday.
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But perhaps of greater concern to establishment Republicans, Reuters/Ipsos polling also shows that in a three-way race with Trump running as an independent in the general election, Trump would drain support from the Republican nominee and allow the Democrat, likely Hillary Clinton, to skate to victory.
Trump has refused to rule out a possible independent run. In a matchup with Clinton and Bush, he would essentially tie Bush at about 23 percent among likely voters, with Clinton winning the White House with 37 percent of the vote. (About 15 percent of those polled said they were undecided or would not vote.)
It is that scenario that should keep party strategists up at night.
Which prehaps explains, as Politico reports, The Koch brothers decision to freeze-out The Donald from their operations...
Despite a long and cordial relationship between the real estate showman and David Koch, as well as a raft of former Koch operatives who are now running Trump’s presidential campaign, the Koch political operation appears to have concluded that Trump is the wrong standard-bearer for the GOP. And the network of Koch-backed policy and political outfits is using behind-the-scenes influence to challenge Trump more forcefully than the Republican Party establishment — by limiting his access to the support and data that would help him translate his lead in the polls into a sustainable White House campaign.
The Koch operation has spurned entreaties from the Trump campaign to purchase state-of-the-art data and analytics services from a Koch-backed political tech firm called i360, and also turned down a request to allow Trump to speak at an annual grass-roots summit next month in Columbus, Ohio, sponsored by the Koch-backed group Americans for Prosperity, POLITICO has learned.
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Continued stiff-arming by the powerful Koch network could limit Trump’s ability to build a professional campaign operation to mobilize supporters ahead of primaries and caucuses.
“The good news is that Donald Trump doesn’t need the Koch brothers, and he can do this perfectly without their assistance,” said Josh Youssef, who’s chairing Trump’s campaign in Belknap County, New Hampshire. Of the Kochs, Youssef said: “Their motivations are clearly not to break the mold of political insider-ship. Their goal is to keep the wheel spinning. Trump’s bad for business for them.”
Still, the Koch network’s rejections of Trump are telling because of the relationships between Trump and his aides, and the Kochs and their operation.
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We conclude with the two opposing views from within the Republican party...
"The activists are doubly angry," Geer said. "He's capturing that anger. They're looking for a voice, and he happens to be here at the right time.”
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"The curtain has not been pulled back yet," Feehery said. "In time, people will see Trump is not who they want to have as a nominee. But that’s going to take awhile."
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What in the hell are all these fuckers affraid of? The more they hate him the more I like him...
If the Koch Bros. hate Trump, I may very well have to vote for Trump. We had the clown Schwarznegger for governor of California and he was okay. Let's have Trump for president, maybe he will at least get rid of the anchor baby law.
The Don only gets more popular the more these extremists bash him from the far left and the far right.
This is what it looks like when assholes eat their offspring
Financial perverts play with themselves.
So the Koch bros don't like Trump. That would make many vote for Trump. I wonder if they realize that?
They don't seem to understand that Trump is a protest vote against mainstream Republicanism and the Koch bros "freezing him out" will only benefit him in the long run. Ultimately, the Koch bros are freezing themselves out.
Beware fake conservatives.
They will fuck you over and fuck country over quicker than any demon-cat socialist could ever dream of fucking you over and fucking the country over.
"The curtain has not been pulled back yet," Feehery said. "In time, people will see Trump is not who they want to have as a nominee. But that’s going to take awhile."
People. Goldman Sachs already decided on Bush or Clinton.
If I was a crotchety old brother, I wouldn't add insult to injury, by burn my bridges before the old lady sings, because paybacks a bitch.
Look at that 4 Idioms in one sentence
That settles it---Bernie vs Donald 2016!
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Trump is what I Do NOT want in politics but Trump is a LOT LESS of what I Do NOT want in politics than the other choices - on both tickets!
I'm loving watching the media propagandists fail at every turn.
It ain't about the Donald anymore.
It's about the truth.
Neptune home in Pisces and the unmasking can't be stopped.
Pluto mid Capricorn and the establishment exposed for all to see.
The Citadel is Capricorn and as long as those outside the Citadel think that
if they work hard enough one day they or their children will be able to enter
they will be invested in maintaining its existence.
Once they realize they will never be able to get it they become Uranus in Aries
The Barbarians At the Gate.
that time is now...
Oh happy day~
Do you also astro trade?
Tyler, this article would be a lot more interesting if more text was spent defining WHY the Koch brothers do not think that Trump should be the standard bearer for conservatives in this country, I could care less about RINO's.
Frankly, the Koch brothers supported a lot of RINO candidates that while they may not be liberal, nevertheless have not been good for the country.
The fact that the Koch brother's do not support Trump doesn't surprise me, given their support for other kosher candidates in the past. It also does not, per se, alleviate my fears that Trump may have a cabalist agenda as well. I am prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt, especially if I do not have any better alternatives.
Who are the cabal?
1. Liberal jews (with communist and cultural Marxist tendencies, e.g. ADL and SPLC types) who look out for ONLY jews
2. Conservative jews (with fascist tendencies, e.g. Neo-con and Zionist types) who look out for ONLY jews
3. Traitorous non-jews who collude with them to sell out their own peoples for money and power
That’s the complete membership list. It’s not very complicated. Obama is a puppet of Group 1. and Bush was a puppet of Group 2.
I am pretty sure, based on the candidates that they have supported in the past that the Koch Brothers are Group 3, but I could be wrong on that. The jury is still out on the Donald.
Don't throw me into that briar patch Mr. Koch!
Trumps job is to be a distraction so people will forget about what useless self-serving turds and advocates for status quo the other republicans are. Same as Hillary for dems. They are shills or rodeo clowns.
If Trump is actually working for the status-quo as you imply, he is doing a great job in hiding that fact, and pretending otherwise.
Playing that role is also utterly inconsistent with his ego/personality.
He's not working for the status quo. He's working for WORSE than the status quo.
What does that mean?
And how do you know?
Simple. They know they can't buy him.
Dear Koch Brothers, if you don't mind I'd like to offer you a piece of advice. The last person in the world you need hating your guts is President Donald Trump. If it happens, you are fucked. The Donald's ego will not allow him to forget how you have slighted him. I would urge you to either back off your your childish stance that was a juvenile panic-reaction and start licking his ass right now, or you will be licking it for 8 years straight. In either case, I strongly suggest you start practicing on each other immediately. Because you are about to become ass lickers whether you like it or not.
Koch blocked?
Seems like a positive thing to me.
Koch is actually helping the Trunp story.
People are sick of the current group of king-makers and power players, they're voting for Trump because he's anti-establishment...
He's the ultimate finger in the face of the Koch's.
Go Trump.
Koch is actually helping the Trunp story.
People are sick of the current group of king-makers and power players, they're voting for Trump because he's anti-establishment...
He's the ultimate finger in the face of the Koch's.
Go Trump.
Apparently, the republicans are taking Mr. Trump more seriously by the day.
Seems like everyone is falling into Donald's trap. Now Donald can rant and rave about how the status-quo... even his friends in the status-quo... are doing everything they can, both ethical and unethical, to prevent him from becoming president.
Donald should immediately say something like this.
First, explain what just happened with Koch.
Then say...
"As a result, I am hereby forced to make the following announcement.
I will try everything I can to become the Republican nominee.
However, because the party is attempting to block me, if I do not prevail, I promise to run as a third party candidate [with Ron Paul as my VP]."
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This approach by Donald would have one of two results.
#1: They would allow him to run [mostly] "fairly".
#2: They would assassinate him.
They will get him in the primaries..or will try and do what they did tomRon Paul. Except unlike Paul he will raise hell and fight back, releasing the innervKraken if they try and marginalize him or deny his delegates. After what they did to Ron Paul, I put nothing up to and including murder past them. Not sure the Donald is the man, I wish he were more Nigel Farage...but it is what it is. If they appear to steal the nomonation, repubs will stay home..guarantee it. oIn the meantime, it gives us a real look into the belly of the corrupt stupd beast calling itself republican. Who ever wins the next election, may very well wish they had not. It is all going to implode, at this point it feels like the last event at the coloseum, just before the barbarians sacked Rome.
Wow, what a load a crap, the federal government hangs over Koch's operations like the sword of Democoles, the Koch Bros are Congress' bitch, the EPA could bend them over in a nanosecond.
So it comes out that the dreaded Koch brothers are just like Boehner and McConnell. I hope they get a nice autographed picture from Il Douche.
Coch Bro's = Bush, Clan you P off one, you P off both of them.
Don't you love watching billionaires fight?
LET THEM FIGHT!