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An RNC member is trying to stop the party from paying Donald Trump's legal bills

At least one member of the Republican National Committee is working to slow Donald Trump’s attempted takeover of the organization by pushing to keep the committee neutral until Trump is officially the presidential nominee and avoid picking up his legal bills.

Two draft resolutions are being circulated by Henry Barbour, a national committeeman from Mississippi, for consideration at the RNC’s upcoming March meeting in Houston. Barbour said support for the resolutions among RNC members is growing but he does not yet have the needed cosponsors, and any resolutions would ultimately be nonbinding.

The effort comes after Trump last week publicly called to replace the RNC’s current leaders and install one of his senior campaign advisors and his daughter-in-law Lara Trump in top roles. Lara Trump suggested earlier in the week that GOP voters would support the committee paying her father-in-law’s legal bills as he faces a raft of criminal and civil indictments.

Trump senior campaign adviser Chris LaCivita, whom the former president wants to install as the party’s chief operating officer, told reporters Friday night that the RNC would not pay Trump’s legal bills.

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I actually want them to pay his legal bills. I want the RNC to get grifted as hard as all the civilians who donated to him, and subsequently spend money they’re never going to see again. Best case scenario it leaves the RNC in a financially precarious position, ready for a quick and easy death.
- I’m torn because on one hand I want the RNC to spend itself into oblivion trying to keep him propped up, because that means less funding they have for literally anything else. On the other hand, the infighting could be equally debilitating to them, and it could be damaging to Tritler if he’s very publicly unable to pay his bills.
- I'm with you. If the RNC blows it's load on the main attraction then there's nothing left to help anyone down ticket.
  
  They won't have to care about down ticket if Trump wins. Republicans have already shown they will bypass democracy.
- But then musk is just gonna buy them, rebrand as X, and have himself nominated as biggest shit.
  
  Good. He also seems to have the Mierdas Touch.
I still have a hard time believing this scummy silver spoon fed construction mobster has grifted and taken half of the country for a ride and an entire goddamn political party. Everyone knew for decades he was a joke before any of this happened. And he's still doing it!
Sorry, I'm ranting.
- Anyone with any experience running a business has known what a fraud he is for decades. Anyone who didn't know after watching the horror show that was the apprentice has no right to be running their own life.
  He is a grifter and conman who isn't even good at that. He is a puppet and it's putin and or Xi pulling his strings and that of the entire party.
  
  You forgot “rapist” and “demented”.
  
  Everyone laughed at him during the apprentice too. It was fun stupid nonsense with a catchy phrase. It hurts my soul that this is our reality.
- Not half but a very large percentage. Nothing has made me lose more faith in humanity than this. It's wild.
  
  Im afraid it's behavioral sink in action.
- My explanation would be that the GOP was moving towards fascism for decades (dogwhistles etc.). Worsening of material conditions (effective QOL), propaganda or "talking points" on news and social media that became more and more detached from reality, fearmongering (wars, terrorism, islam, socialists, corruption, climate change) paved the way for him. He's just the symptom. Without the greed of the mainstream media to give his BS free airtime he couldn't have done it. But the time was right for someone like him because the old bullshit didn't cut it anymore. You see very similar all around the world (south america, india, europe, russia)
  Normally the political system also heavily filters who gets to rise to power. He managed as an outsider because he was known.
- And if they don't, Russia should attack them!
The RNC is so pathetic they need to make an effort to stop slobbering his cock while he steps on theirs. How embarrassing...
- Hey now no kink shaming /s
I don’t think the RNC could get him out of this hole even if they wanted to.
- I agree with you, but Trump will take the RNC down with him.
  
  Stop! I can only get so erect!
  
  It's already happening. Local chapters are going broke because the idiots are sending their money to trump instead of them. I really hope the dems roll out the big guns after the election and follow every single lead until the entirety of the right is locked up or barred from politics. And if they come across some dirty lefties in the process, take them down too.
In another thread someone mentioned the pipedream of the rnc going bankrupt to pay his legal bills. I haven't stopped thinking about it. That would be so glorious.
- That would be so glorious.
  And then we could accuse them of losing money because they're not being responsible or trying hard enough.
Once Trump starts ranting about him being a RINO he'll be purged from his position in an instant.
- My first thought too. He knows he's out the door, I wonder what he's running from?
Trump is now an anchor around the neck of the GOP. Let them pay all his bills. Give him every penny he wants and more!
- It's only fair they be force to carry the baby to term.
- Maybe they should cut back on avocado trump.
  
  Should just pull themselves up by their own Trumpstraps (tm).
Thought: Might be hard stopping this ball rolling after inviting the Russian maffia. Good luck to them.
Trying to put the Cheeto dragon back in the bottle, but the constituency thinks he's Jesus come again. Love this shit.
Trump is like a wasp laying his eggs in the Republican party. He is 100% the predator they voted for and will ruin them.
Wouldnt it be cheaper to buy a new candidate?
- That's why the Koch's bought Haley.
  
  HA! https://lemmy.world/post/12411002
Barbour said support for the resolutions among RNC members is growing but he does not yet have the needed cosponsors
Lmao
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Two draft resolutions are being circulated by Henry Barbour, a national committeeman from Mississippi, for consideration at the RNC’s upcoming March meeting in Houston.
Lara Trump suggested earlier in the week that GOP voters would support the committee paying her father-in-law’s legal bills as he faces a raft of criminal and civil indictments.
In a statement on Saturday, LaCavita said “the primary is over and it is the RNC’s sole responsibility to defeat Joe Biden and win back the White House.”
One of Barbour’s proposed resolutions says that the RNC and its leadership will stay neutral throughout the presidential primary and not take on additional staff from any of the active campaigns until a candidate has the needed delegates to be the nominee.
The second resolution says the organization will not pay the legal bills of any candidate for federal or state office but will instead focus its spending on efforts directly related to the 2024 election.
Ambassador Nikki Haley, who is Trump’s last major challenger in the GOP primary and facing him in her home state’s contest Saturday, said a family member or campaign manager should not be leading the RNC.
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Elon Musk Matthew enough in a month to pay those bills, and he's fascist enough to do so. But he's also capitalist enough that he'd never do so. Honestly, I expect trump to release another set of fake ~~money laundering cards~~ NFTs any day now.

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