Trump lashes out at Ryan

[geek tragedy]

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Source: Politico

Donald Trump shed any pretense of trying to hold his party together Monday, pouring gasoline on an already scorching confrontation with Republican leaders in Washington as they reckon with their nominee's spiraling campaign.

Trump swung hard at House Speaker Paul Ryan, who announced he was abandoning efforts to help elect Trump earlier in the day. His team highlighted the number of voters who pledged to vote only for Trump and no other Republicans. And Trump's Virginia state director convened a protest outside the headquarters of the Republican National Committee, accusing the party of bailing too quickly on their only chance to stop Hillary Clinton.

“These are all establishment guys who have never supported him, and they’re using this latest thing as a pretext for withdrawing their support,” said Corey Stewart, the Trump Virginia director.


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/will-republicans-stay-with-trump-229536

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29 days before the election, the nominee is attacking the highest ranking member of his own party, who is refusing to support him in the general election.

Meanwhile, the nominee's Virginia campaign operatives CANCEL THEIR GOTV EFFORTS to go protest their own party's HQ in the District of Columbia.

#winning

[bench scientist]

1. K & R

[anamandujano]

28. Go easy on that popcorn. It seems to get more interesting every day.

Save some for later.

[bench scientist]

29. I want to see a full on disaster for Trump and the GOP

[anamandujano]

30. You are not alone.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Trump is Political Goulash

He doesn't know what he stands for, so many conflicting positions

Is he fighting Hillary? Yes. Is he fighting Republicans? Some, to the extent
they are the establishment.

Is he fighting the Tea Party? No, but does he know there are mainstream
Republicans who don't agree with Tea Partiers? Looks like a no to me.

At various points in his campaign, even the primaries, he opposed long-standing
GOP positions. Now the entire party is suspect.

The Clown Car got played. We're lucky that process woke up America.

[forest444]

6. Let the games begin.

Trump should retaliate by calling out the 30+ members of the GOP velvet mafia in Congress.

[louis-t]

7. "Paid staffers"? Are they sure they're getting paid?

Hey morons, don't fall for the "I'll pay you after the election" routine!

[geek tragedy]

9. I changed the language, it appears Corey Stewart is expecting to be paid in

Trumper votes next year during VA's primary.

[SansACause]

10. Pay them with Confederate dollars

Most of his support is from the old Confederacy anyway.

[louis-t]

17. I remember getting 'confederate' and 'counterfeit'

mixed up when I was little.

[BumRushDaShow]

22. Or better this

It's all he had left after building, bankrupting, and ditching 3 casinos in Atlantic City!

[Stonepounder]

8. Like a spoiled brat who starts destroying things when he can't get his way.

The GOP is not going to recover from this debacle. First the let a rather small cadre of tea-party wingnuts hijack their majority in congress. Then they let a pathological liar and narcissist win the nomination. Then they let him get away with his horrible lies and his Hitlerian rhetoric go unopposed. Now, just 30 days until the election they are disavowing their own creation.

I am truly afraid of what will happen when he loses in a landslide and his base of KKK, Muslim-hating, 'lock her up' chanting, gun freaks realize that the 'rigged election' has cost them their fuhrer. I am afraid of rioting and violence on a scale that will make the 'days of rage' in Chicago in 1969 look like a picnic.

And what will the GOP have left? A splintered party, with the alt-right crowd at war with the GOP establishment and no place for the moderate conservatives to go.

[BumRushDaShow]

23. "And what will the GOP have left?"

Well... Hidden during the drama of election season over the summer, Limpballs apparently had a contract extension (but with a big pay cut) - http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/08/02/why-reports-about-rush-limbaughs-contract-renewal-dont-mention-price/212114

So he will still be there to give them (faked) cover as well as to harass and stalk women like the rest of them!

[bulloney]

11. Has Trump ever shown any humility when experiencing a setback? (Rhetorical question)

Every time something or someone goes against him, Trump doles out threats and insults to the party, even though he was in the wrong.

[semby2]

12. thing

"...this latest thing..."

LOL. I love that attempt to brush aside the seriously damaging video.

[Angry Dragon]

13. watch the republican party implode

[onehandle]

14. ORANGE HULK SMASH! nt

[Beartracks]

26. :rofl:

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[Amonester]

15. Get down on your knees, Lyan, or DonCaligula-wannabe will put you in... n/t

[wysi]

16. So then later in the day...

Corey Stewart gets fired?

[geek tragedy]

19. without being told that he's been fired.

great management

[wysi]

20. I'm enjoying this meltdown

May it continue for 28 more days!

[ffr]

18. Ruh-roh!

[George II]

21. That's the same Corey Stewart who was just fired by the Trump campaign this afternoon!

[Gary 50]

24. Thank you Lord for giving us Donald Trump.

He will be seen in the future as a true blessing for humanity. Not only has he killed any possibility of the Republicans taking the White House but he and "his team" are gleeful about many of his voters who have "pledged to vote only for Trump and no other Republicans". He is happy because he is screwing people (Republicans are people too) who haven't kissed his ass enthusiastically enough and also of course because it's his nature. He's like a suicide bomber at the top of the Republican party who is going to take as many of them with him as possible when he flames out. Thank God for this mentally disturbed creepy narcissistic asshole.

[Dawson Leery]

25. Rethugs should lost badly. I do not see how they can even be

close with such horrific infighting.

[vadermike]

27. GOTV

Expect it to not be close as we GOTV !! I expect us to GOTV like crazy We could get the house too if we do that

[In_The_Wind]

31. Locking

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