Donald Trump isn’t happy the Republican Party won’t purge members who haven’t been totally loyal to him. And of late, he’s doing more about it than he did when he’d channel his anger by posting mean tweets.
Days ago, lawyers representing Trump took the extraordinary step of demanding the Republican National Committee (RNC) and other prominent GOP groups cease and desist using Trump’s name and likeness. The RNC denied the request, citing Trump’s status as a public figure, and Trump responded Monday night with a tweet-like statement asking supporters to give to him instead of to the party.
The Trump PAC is a type of political committee formed by current or former elected officials that has relatively few restrictions on what it can do with donations. And, as a result, Trump may have more than just political revenge on his mind in asking supporters to give to him instead of to the Republican Party.
“If you’re going to direct a lot of money from a political committee to yourself, this is the way to do it,” Jordan Libowitz, communications director for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), told me in an interview. “This is essentially the story of the scorpion and the frog, except it’s the grifter and the political party.” “So I think it was a little naive to ever believe he’d become a team player when there were tens, if not hundreds, of millions of dollars on the table.” https://www.vox.com/22321215/trump-rnc-cease-and-desist-fundraising-feud-purge