'This is not how a president comports himself': GOP big donors are reportedly abandoning Trump

[DonViejo]

BOB BRIGHAM
22 AUG 2018 AT 15:51 ET

Major Republican donors are discontinuing their support of President Donald Trump, New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters revealed Wednesday.

“Just talked to one of Trump’s earliest supporters & true believers – very rattled – who’s been talking to big GOP donors,” Peters reported.

Link to tweet

“They want to support Trump. They tried hard to ignore all the noise. They can’t anymore,” he noted. “They’re over it,” the former Trump supporter told Peters.

“This is not how a president comports himself,” he added.

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https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/not-president-comports-gop-big-donors-reportedly-abandoning-trump/

[meadowlander]

1. Glad it's happening but I have to say "really, big Republican donors?"

What happened yesterday that hasn't been obviously coming down the pipeline for more than a year?

The truth is that they've gorged themselves on deregulation like leaches on a drowning dog and are now they're detaching and looking for a new host.

[marylandblue]

4. He was always on thin ice with them, but

campaign finance violations make donations a special problem. If they give him money, how do they know he won't spend it on hush money? Now that his financial practices are being investigated, how do they that they themselves won't be caught up in a scandal?

[marylandblue]

2. Doesn't matter, he still has his rich uncle Vlad

[Cirque du So-What]

15. Maybe...maybe not

Either way, pootie-poot wins for having installed Cheeto Benito in office, even if he doesn't complete a single term. The seeds are sown, and if Russian money and support were to dry up completely and tRump were left to twist in the wind, the political and economic fallout still accomplish the goal of destabilizing the 'beacon of western democracy.'

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. RepubliCon-Trump criminality okay, but "comportment" is not? Shows what their values are. . . . nt

[onecaliberal]

5. They need to abandon the GOP collectively. He's doing this because they're letting him.

[stopbush]

6. Adelson just dumped $25-million into R Congressional races.

[gratuitous]

7. And yet, these wealthy masters of the universe will do nothing

They won't even allow their names to be used, fearless captains of capitalism that they are. "They want to support Trump." And they still do, even while they bleat about how they just can't anymore.

[PatSeg]

8. Seriously?

Since he started his campaign, he has never comported himself like a president. What on earth did they expect? This is who he is and who he has always been. Are they really that dense?

[The Genealogist]

9. Uh oh...sounds like the gravy train is getting stuck in the mud

[trueblue2007]

10. I SAY :: Hallelujah, praise the Lord. Get rid of the Anti-Christ & impeach trump

[sunonmars]

11. They are only worried he may take them all down and they fucking should be.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

12. They need to be calling their pals in Congress or in the Cabinet and urging them to

give some thought to impeachment or the 25th Amendment.

[sunonmars]

13. only once Trump threatens to sink the entire ship, will they act.......

[Nay]

22. Yeah, if they are actually serious. I think they've just started their own CYA plan. nt

[The Blue Flower]

14. He's the same as he always was

The blinders are finally slipping.

[ProfessorGAC]

17. We Know What The Concern Is

Money that can be tied to them gets used illegally and their name gets associated with the crime!
And, if too much heat comes, and the dems control the House, the agenda is derailed
For them, it's time to pick up the chips & go home.

[Buns_of_Fire]

16. They couldn't care less about how he comports himself.

They're just afraid Santa Trump might not be able to deliver the goodies much longer.

Give them another tax cut, cut more regulations, put more business-friendly judges on the bench, and he can wiggle his willie during the State of the Union address, for all they care.

[eleny]

18. And now the Dem Party has decided it will take fossil fuel corporate bribes ... er... donations

..... .....

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/dnc-fossil-fuel-donations_us_5b6dddd4e4b0530743c9ca67

[hibbing]

19. They got their massive tax cuts, everything is okay

[dalton99a]

20. So they were hoping the whole time the criminal would pivot.

Such bullshit

[Nay]

21. So the idiot they saw 'comporting' himself before the election was OK?? What fucking

planet were they on? Could they not see he was a personal, mental, emotional and medical disaster?

[Va Lefty]

23. President? hell this is not how a decent human being comports himself!

[lame54]

24. You idiots...

Cut off the repug house and senate

Then they might do something about it