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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    4 months ago

    Everyone laughed at him during the apprentice too. It was fun stupid nonsense with a catchy phrase. It hurts my soul that this is our reality.

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      4 months ago

      we should be solving the climate crisis, today.

      instead we’re arguing about basic human rights, 1860s-1920s shit.

      the right will never stop dragging this country down. the business plot, US nazis trying to keep the US out of ww2, nixon intentionally dragging vietnam out, reagan negotiating with the Ayatolla and sending them f14 parts and missiles to help him beat Carter, bush & reagan’s crimes swept under the rug by BILL FUCKING BARR, then, Bush 2 getting elected by Ginni Thomas / trust fund putsch, dragging us into war with iraq… 10 years of that… a ruined economy, and a dem comes in and fixes it - and they say he’s not american.

      fucking treasonous chode monkey cocksuckers, why does the right hate this country so much?

      my opinion? they’re still angry that they can’t own slaves.

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      I tried watching it because I expected something educational (to a business geek) what I got was a reality show that focused on the drama instead of the actual nitty gritty of building a business. I knew he was a scam artist and a conman, grifter, etc but even without any legit input from him, I had hoped I could see businesses succeed or fail and how and why they did, I was wrong.