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Donald Trump has reassured donors he will cooperate with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) if he is elected president, according to a new report.
Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, told two coal industry executives who are raising funds for the billionaire's campaign that he wants the two Republicans in their congressional leadership roles, Bloomberg reported.
“That is a big priority for Joe and I — and from talking directly to Donald Trump I know for a fact it is a big deal for him,” Kelly Knight Craft said of her and her husband, Joe Craft. "He made that very clear.
“When someone gives us a check, we’re looking at that as they’re investing not only in that candidate — investing in Paul Ryan or investing in Mitch McConnell or investing in Donald Trump — they’re investing in us, and I take that as a responsibility. I don’t take that lightly. We feel responsible to them.”
Joe Craft is the chairman and CEO of Alliance Resource Partners LP, a coal producer that has major operations in Kentucky and Illinois. Bloomberg on Wednesday reported that Joe Craft has donated at least $4.6 million to various political groups since 2007. According to fundraising records, the majority of the coal executive’s contributions have benefited Republicans.
Trump earned the number of delegates necessary to secure the GOP’s presidential nomination last week, edging past the 1,237 threshold.
Ryan has repeatedly insisted he is not ready to formally endorse the businessman. McConnell, meanwhile, has voiced support for Trump’s bid.
Poster Comment:
A virtual clone of Obama, Hillary, McCain, and William Kristol. He's fallen in line with the satanic hate-America globalist neocons, for campaign donations.
Just one more NWO stooge.
McConnell/Ryan, establishment globalist lackey
#1: Gatlin To: hondo68 (#0)
Makes sense ... but then Trump always does.
Why fire them when the next ones may be just as bad.
If he gets rid of them then he will need to train their replacements.
It's more logical to just whip them into line while they are already there.
But then, since when have you known how to use logic.
Gatlin posted on 2016-06-02 12:52:11 Reply Private Reply
#2: Fred Mertz To: hondo68 (#0)
Trump admits, again, that politicians can be bought. Donations are an investment - joke of the day!
Same old, same old.
Fred Mertz posted on 2016-06-02 12:57:40 Reply Private Reply
#3: nativist nationalist To: Gatlin (#1)
Evidently the Libertarians are upset that President Trump has no plans to remove congressional leaders. I wonder what version of the US Constitution do they think grants the executive branch this sort of power over the legislative branch? Perhaps they reach this sort of epiphany once they get enough THC in their blood. Reading some of the libertarian crap reminds me of the old PAS about drugs, and you see from their own posts how drugs do fry human brains.
nativist nationalist posted on 2016-06-02 13:09:46 Reply Private Reply
#4: Hondo68 To: nativist nationalist, clintonista drug burnouts (#3)
Trump being a drug burnout is no excuse for backing D&R party treason.
They claim that they didn't inhale.
Hondo68 posted on 2016-06-02 14:21:04 Reply Private Reply
#5: ConservingFreedom To: hondo68 (#0)
Conservatives want McConnell and Ryan shoveling shit.
ConservingFreedom posted on 2016-06-02 16:09:41 Reply Private Reply
#6: Gatlin To: nativist nationalist (#3)
Gatlin posted on 2016-06-02 17:19:03 Reply Private Reply
#7: Hondo68 To: Gatlin, Wah Wah (#6)
It's your party, cry if you want to.
Hondo68 posted on 2016-06-02 18:41:49 Reply Private Reply
#8: ConservingFreedom To: Gatlin (#6)
So it's only libertarians who think McConnell and Ryan have failed them?
ConservingFreedom posted on 2016-06-02 19:08:42 Reply Private Reply
#9: buckeroo To: ConservingFreedom (#8)
buckeroo posted on 2016-06-02 19:27:08 Reply Private Reply
#10: tomder55 To: hondo68 (#0)
tomder55 posted on 2016-06-02 22:05:26 Reply Private Reply
#11: A K A Stone To: tomder55 (#10)
On the other hand if he said he would oust them. You would say that isn't the job of the President.
A K A Stone posted on 2016-06-02 22:07:55 Reply Private Reply
#12: tomder55 To: A K A Stone (#11)
as the titular head of the Party I expect Trump to weigh in on the party leadership . I would not shed any tears if Yertle the Turtle was ousted from Senate leadership . Ryan ? He did not get off to a good start . But I consider his resume as Speaker incomplete.
tomder55 posted on 2016-06-03 06:16:19 Reply Private Reply
#13: TrappedInMd To: Stoner, Vicomte13, hondo68, (#0)
No surprise.
Recall here#C4 I said :"I picture a POTUS Trump and Speaker Ryan getting along fine, as Trump says he is just making suggestions, everything is negotiable....he plans on working with both parties ...he said"
Its been a total fantasy that Trump will humiliate them.
TrappedInMd posted on 2016-06-03 09:15:37 Reply Private Reply