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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue Dec 5, 2017, 08:46 AM Dec 2017

GOP Donors Considered '$800M Plot' to Oust Trump for Pence Post P*ssy Tape

According to a new report in The Atlantic, in the wake of the explosive Access Hollywood tape, then-vice-presidential candidate Mike Pence contemplated a ballot coup against then-candidate Donald Trump, and a small group of billionaire donors were weighing the possibility of paying the firebrand $800 million to drop out of the race. “Within hours” of The Washington Post story about the tape, Pence “made it clear to the Republican National Committee that he was ready to take Trump’s place as the party’s nominee,” McKay Coppins reports. At the same time, multiple donors entertained the possibility of offering Trump enough money to walk away from the election. According to Coppins, “Republican donors and party leaders began buzzing about making Pence the nominee and drafting Condoleezza Rice as his running mate.”

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-donors-considered-dollar800m-plot-to-oust-trump-for-pence-post-pssy-tape

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marble falls

(57,106 posts)
1. Its all about money with these guys. Pence may well have been a bigger disaster than Trump...
Tue Dec 5, 2017, 08:53 AM
Dec 2017

Thank goodness Pence has gotten Russia splashed all over him.

Now how do we get rid of the basket of deplorables that make up the succession or do we settle for President Ryan until 2020?

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
9. Donnie held out for his BILLION $$$$ BONUS (tax break)
Tue Dec 5, 2017, 09:10 AM
Dec 2017

His children insisted that the inheritance tax be abolished .... plus, he'd have been taxed on the $800 million ....

LonePirate

(13,424 posts)
10. Pence would have been crushed without the deplorables turning out for their grand wizard.
Tue Dec 5, 2017, 09:48 AM
Dec 2017

He would have lost 7-9 (or more) states won by 45. Things would be remarkably different today if Pence had been atop the ticket.

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