Major GOP Super-PAC Donor Won't Bankroll Trump

[Miles Archer]

Source: Mother Jones

In June 2012, hedge fund manager Paul Singer cut a $1 million check to the organizers of the Republican National Convention in Tampa. At the convention itself, he was a star. He hosted invitation-only briefings with Karl Rove and Condoleezza Rice and organized special events, including a dinner with Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and a breakfast at which he laid out his vision for "pro-growth" policies in a Mitt Romney administration.

This time around, it appears that Singer, who is alleged to be worth $2.2 billion, will not be on hand to lecture well-heeled GOP insiders on his vision for a Donald Trump administration. And, Bloomberg reports, he won't be cutting a check to fund someone else's good time at the party's convention in Cleveland next month.

That's a big deal, and not just for the organizers of the convention. So far this election, Singer has donated at least $10.4 million to conservative causes, making him the third-largest donor in the cycle, and the second-biggest conservative donor. In 2014, he donated $10.6 million, mainly to super-PACs, again making him the No. 3 donor of the election cycle. And he apparently wants nothing to do with Trump.

Singer donated more than $5 million to the effort to elect Marco Rubio, then switched to backing anti-Trump super-PACs, pouring $2.5 million into a super-PAC set up explicitly for the purpose of undermining Trump. Given those donations, his decision to avoid helping Trump might have been made long ago. But the timing of the news isn't great for Trump, who has, since the Orlando shooting, sought to portray himself as a friend of the LGBT community. To the degree there is an organized movement within the Republican Party to support gay marriage and equal rights, Singer is at its helm. He was the organizer and major funding source for American Unity PAC, a conservative pro-equality super-PAC that spent $4.7 million during the 2014 election cycle.

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[KamaAina]

1. The short-fingered vulgarian is too evil for Paul Singer?!

[Tarheel_Dem]

2. I get the feeling that Trump won't come out of the convention as the nominee. I think they'll...

draft someone else, which will cause a whole host of other problems for the GOP.

[Miles Archer]

3. Which chaos is worse, "Chaos A" or "Chaos B"

I don't agree with the theory that they won't dump Trump because "chaos" will ensue.

CHAOS "A"...contested convention, they put in Paul Ryan, Trump's supporters riot, it's Chicago 1968 all over again

CHAOS "B"...They keep Trump, his supporters riot anyway just because they feel like it and he has already signaled that he wants this to be a real "event," it's Chicago 1968 all over again, "Republican" brand is destroyed forever because they handed the keys to the car to a guy who sold steaks on the Internet that some described as "really greasy" and "mealy."

The reason I keep hammering the Ryan last-minute "spoiler" is that we have to look at this man's playbook...he lives for the opportunity to play "hard to get," to be begged into taking the job, and when Ryan says he doesn't want it, it's almost a guarantee that he wants it, because he's a shift little weasel.

I don't see a bright future for the GOP...or any future at all, if they go the distance with Trump.