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An RNC member is trying to stop the party from paying Donald Trump's legal bills (apnews.com)

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At least one member of the Republican National Committee is working to slow Donald Trump’s attempted takeover of the organization by pushing to keep the committee neutral until Trump is officially the presidential nominee and avoid picking up his legal bills.

Two draft resolutions are being circulated by Henry Barbour, a national committeeman from Mississippi, for consideration at the RNC’s upcoming March meeting in Houston. Barbour said support for the resolutions among RNC members is growing but he does not yet have the needed cosponsors, and any resolutions would ultimately be nonbinding.

The effort comes after Trump last week publicly called to replace the RNC’s current leaders and install one of his senior campaign advisors and his daughter-in-law Lara Trump in top roles. Lara Trump suggested earlier in the week that GOP voters would support the committee paying her father-in-law’s legal bills as he faces a raft of criminal and civil indictments.

Trump senior campaign adviser Chris LaCivita, whom the former president wants to install as the party’s chief operating officer, told reporters Friday night that the RNC would not pay Trump’s legal bills.

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[-] SoylentBlake@lemm.ee 21 points 6 months ago

I'm with you. If the RNC blows it's load on the main attraction then there's nothing left to help anyone down ticket.

[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

They won't have to care about down ticket if Trump wins. Republicans have already shown they will bypass democracy.

[-] SoylentBlake@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

Your point is valid.

Mussolini described fascism as the merger of the corporation and the state, his entire cabinet was staffed with the heads of industry no less.

Now, a technocracy, where the smartest people, the experts, have the seats of power sounds...logical. Assuming the CEOs, whose only skill is having access to capital (kowtowing with the rich, its about who you know, etc) are the experts is exactly what the media sells us everyday and as the only thing Elon Musk has genuinely done on his own is show us that, boy oh boy, we do NOT live in a meritocracy. And he bought his way into that one as well, staying true to character.

Corporations are an accountability shield that enable atrocity. It used to be that it took religion to convince man to compromise his moral self and commit evil (...look at Israel right now). In the modern world we have streamlined the process, no faith required. Giving the morally jettisoned power is such a horrible horrible idea.

If Trump wins, not only will we all face down his fascist regime (Immigration and Border Patrol brown shirted) but I worry the solidifying of corporate statemanship into the permanently entrenched (our own taxes fund our oppression) would mean reform, thru voting or any other peaceful means, rendered impossible.

I consider that likelihood at 100%. The same as declaring war on the cartels, under public safety over fent, to climatize people to the military operating in our borders, before they're ordered to illegally act against us. That probability, mark my words, 100%

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