Trump Campaign Makes #NeverTrump Blacklist, Considers Withholding RNC Funds


Donald Trump’s campaign isn’t messing around. While Donald’s aggressive deal making has been stuff of legend for decades, we’ve yet to see him employ the ‘art of the deal’ he’s so famous for thus far in the election. Apparently, this may change very soon.

Donald Trump’s campaign is considering hitting his Republican enemies where it hurts: Their wallets.

As Trump moves to work in closer concert with the Republican National Committee apparatus, some campaign aides and allies are pushing him to block lucrative party contracts from consultants who worked to keep him from winning the nomination, according to four sources familiar with the discussions.

“The Never Trump vendors and supporters shouldn’t be in striking distance of the RNC, any of its committees or anyone working on behalf of Donald Trump,” said a Trump campaign official.

The blacklist talk — which sources say mostly targets operatives who worked for Never Trump groups, but also some who worked for Trump’s GOP presidential rivals or their supportive super PACs — strikes against a Republican consulting class that Trump has assailed as a pillar of a corrupt political establishment. It’s a sweet bit of turnabout for Trump aides and consultants who in recent months were warned that their work for the anti-establishment billionaire real estate showman could diminish their own career prospects.

While these tactics are harsh, the men and women who claim to be Republican but refuse to support Trump will no doubt find their legislative agendas impossible to enact should a Democrat take up residency at the White House. As such, this plan may help serve both Trump and the #NeverTrump politicians, if successful — or it could at least force out any enemy of Trump’s in the process.

Source: Politico



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