Last updated on July 17th, 2023 at 06:57 pm
Just when Republicans thought having Donald Trump as the leader of their party couldn’t get worse, Trump has completely freaked out conservatives by picking a finance chair for his campaign who worked for George Soros and had contributed heavily to Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Democrats.
Buzzfeed has the details on the Trump campaign’s new finance chair, Steve Mnuchin:
Although Mnuchin has given to Republicans, his financial ties to the Democratic Party and liberal causes appear to be significantly deeper. Overall, Mnuchin has given more than $125,000 since 1998 to candidates and committees that disclose their donors — more than half of which went to Democrats, according to FEC records.
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He contributed to Democrats Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards, and Chris Dodd in the 2008 presidential election cycle. He also gave to Obama and Clinton’s Senate campaigns and supported Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
Republicans like Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska is already calling for another Republican to run a third party contest against Donald Trump. One can imagine that Trump’s selection of a person who has supported Democrats more than Republicans is going over like a lead balloon among those who don’t want to see the presumptive Republican nominee leading their party.
Trump himself has donated to Democrats in the past. His conservative credibility has been under fire from the moment that he joined the race from the right, so it makes sense that he would select a finance chair for his campaign that has a bit in common with his history.
However, it conservatives disliked and distrusted Trump before today, heads will be exploding over his choice of finance chair.
The conservative chatter over a third party alternative to Trump could grow from a whisper to a roar.
Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.
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