Is Trump a McConnell-Rove Establishment Tool? Follow the Money

By Published on January 21, 2016

On January 19, Donald Trump, the loudest Republican claimant to the anti-establishment label, filled out his recent attacks on Ted Cruz in a very telling way, as revealed on Mark Levin’s radio program (click here, select the 1/19/16 podcast, go to the 23 minute mark):

We’ve been contacted by the establishment types.  They all want to know, how do they get involved with the campaign? They’re giving up on their candidates … and I mean these are real establishment people, that I’ve known when I was a member of the establishment — meaning a giver, a big donor.  But they are contacting us — Corey [Trump’s campaign manager], I think we can say that very honestly, they’re contacting us left and right about joining the campaign, and these are serious establishment types.

Who might these “real” “serious” establishment types be? Perhaps there is a hint in this subsequent comment, a follow-up to his recent pro-establishment assault against Ted Cruz: “So when you talk about temperament, Ted has got a rough temperament, I don’t know.  You know, you can’t call people liars on the Senate floor, when they’re your leader.”

This, of course, is a direct reference to Cruz’s criticism of Mitch McConnell regarding the GOP establishment leader’s secret deal with Barack Obama prior to a trade vote.

Donald Trump defending Mitch McConnell, you ask? The answer is yes, and the explanation may be found by examining Trump’s recent history as a political donor.

Back in early 2013, Tea Party conservatives, fed up with McConnell’s feckless (to be generous) Senate leadership, his semi-tough talk that never seems to match his legislative decisions and results, and his relentless suppression of the conservative minority in the Senate, sought to supplant this establishmentarian’s establishmentarian by supporting a conservative rival in the 2014 Kentucky primary.

In response to this challenge, a super PAC called “Kentuckians for Strong Leadership” was formed to raise funds for McConnell’s scorched earth campaign against not only his own Tea Party rival, but the whole Tea Party movement. …

The big donors to Mitch McConnell’s anti-Tea Party defense fund gave amounts ranging from $1000 to $250,000.  In the upper half of this donor list appears one Donald J. Trump, who gave $50,000 to the group.

Read the article “Is Trump a McConnell-Rove Establishment Tool? Follow the Money” on americanthinker.com.

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