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Member the Sea Island big wig meeting against Trump?
Posted on 8/16/17 at 3:30 pm
Posted on 8/16/17 at 3:30 pm
I do.
Day still scared.
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Billionaires, tech CEOs and top members of the Republican establishment flew to a private island resort off the coast of Georgia this weekend for the American Enterprise Institute’s annual World Forum, according to sources familiar with the secretive gathering.
The main topic at the closed-to-the-press confab? How to stop Republican front-runner Donald Trump. (The meeting was not planned to be a strategy session on how to stop the GOP front-runner, but rather evolved into one, as a subsequently obtained agenda makes clear.)
Apple CEO Tim Cook, Google co-founder Larry Page, Napster creator and Facebook investor Sean Parker, and Tesla Motors and SpaceX honcho Elon Musk all attended. So did Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), political guru Karl Rove, House Speaker Paul Ryan, GOP Sens. Tom Cotton (Ark.), Cory Gardner (Colo.), Tim Scott (S.C.), Rob Portman (Ohio) and Ben Sasse (Neb.), who recently made news by saying he “cannot support Donald Trump.”
Along with Ryan, the House was represented by Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Fred Upton (Mich.), Rep. Kevin Brady (Texas) and almost-Speaker Kevin McCarthy (Calif.), sources said, along with leadership figure Cathy McMorris Rodgers (Wash.), Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price (R-Ga.), Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (Texas) and Diane Black (Tenn.).
Philip Anschutz, the billionaire GOP donor whose company owns a stake in Sea Island, was also there, along with Democratic Rep. John Delaney, who represents Maryland. Arthur Sulzberger, the publisher of The New York Times, was there, too, a Times spokeswoman confirmed.
“A specter was haunting the World Forum—the specter of Donald Trump,” Kristol wrote in an emailed report from the conference, borrowing the opening lines of the Communist Manifesto. “There was much unhappiness about his emergence, a good deal of talk, some of it insightful and thoughtful, about why he’s done so well, and many expressions of hope that he would be defeated.”
Day still scared.
Posted on 8/16/17 at 4:00 pm to GumboPot
POLITICS 03/07/2016 07:22 pm ET Updated Mar 20, 2016
17 month old article????
17 month old article????
Posted on 8/16/17 at 4:04 pm to GumboPot
Surprised Trump didn't try to disband that group.
Posted on 8/16/17 at 4:36 pm to Boudreaux in SF
they are still scared is the point.
Posted on 8/16/17 at 5:04 pm to Boudreaux in SF
quote:
17 month old article????
People need a reminder of what Trump is up against every min of every day.
Posted on 8/16/17 at 5:07 pm to Boudreaux in SF
quote:
POLITICS 03/07/2016 07:22 pm ET Updated Mar 20, 2016
17 month old article????
Right.
It's a reminder.
Posted on 8/16/17 at 5:08 pm to boosiebadazz
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Surprised Trump didn't try to disband that group.
That took place during he primary. Even if it took place now, how would a president go about that?
Posted on 8/16/17 at 5:13 pm to GumboPot
This needs posting every day. In fact I request a sticky.
It can't be understated what this represents.
It would be difficult to align a group like this on any other issue other than inventing new ways to fleece us tax payers. These folks haven't changed their attitude and opinion of Trump.
They're just smiling in his face and stabbing him in the back every chance they get.
It can't be understated what this represents.
It would be difficult to align a group like this on any other issue other than inventing new ways to fleece us tax payers. These folks haven't changed their attitude and opinion of Trump.
They're just smiling in his face and stabbing him in the back every chance they get.
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