{"id":37683,"date":"2018-04-22T14:51:52","date_gmt":"2018-04-22T21:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=37683"},"modified":"2018-04-22T14:54:18","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T21:54:18","slug":"lol-gop-fundraiser-lost-money-due-to-big-payouts-to-trump-golf-club-and-fox-news-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=37683","title":{"rendered":"LOL: GOP Fundraiser Lost Money Due to Big Payouts to Trump Golf Club and Fox News Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican Party is struggling to stay afloat in this Era of Trump. The President has been an anchor around the necks of many GOP office holders and candidates. An unprecedented number of Republican members of Congress (over 40) have already resigned or announced that they will not be running for reelection. And this is a year during which they control all three branches of the federal government.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Campaign-2016\/trump-money-pile2.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump\" width=\"550\" height=\"295\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31903\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/2118951514786299\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Advs\/fb-share-tn.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"20\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Republicans still in the game have been hurt in the pocketbook this year. they are <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2018\/02\/05\/2018-fundraising-democrats-republicans-389868\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">raising significantly less<\/a><\/strong> money than Democrats and everyone, regardless of party affiliation, is expecting a <em>&#8220;blue wave&#8221;<\/em> to sweep Washington come November.<\/p>\n<p>So it doesn&#8217;t help when when Republicans stage fundraisers where they actually spend more money then they take in. But that&#8217;s what happened in Morris Country, New Jersey in February. And the reasons for the shortfall were emblematic of the con game mentality that dominates the tenor of Donald Trump&#8217;s Washington. The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/newjerseyglobe.com\/fr\/morris-gop-nearly-broke\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Jersey Globe reports<\/a><\/strong> that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;Morris County Republicans lost money on their winter fundraiser at Trump National Golf Club and have a paltry $13,956 in their warchest [&#8230;] The county GOP organization raised $58,335 at an event that cost them more than $64,000.  They spent $24,487 at Trump National and paid Fox News personality Greg Gutfeld $30,000 to speak.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s right. The reason that the party fundraiser is in the red is because Trump&#8217;s facility and a Fox News hack took all their profits. Both Trump and Fox News ought to be conscious of the impact they are having on the electoral prospects of their political allies. They surely don&#8217;t want Democrats to win in these races that are considered competitive. But in both cases Trump and Gutfeld seem to be more devoted to their own greed than to their political values. Which is actually consistent with their political values.<\/p>\n<p>The article in the Globe closed with an additional bit of information that makes this embarrassing event look even worse:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;At the February fundraiser, Republicans teased potential donors with the idea that President Trump would attend as a surprise guest \u2013 even asking for social security numbers in advance, something that would suggest a presidential appearance. Trump was at Mar-a-Lago and there was little possibility that he would be in New Jersey for President\u2019s Day weekend.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So this money losing affair flopped even after they tried to fool people into thinking that they might get to rub elbows with their Dear Leader. Apparently Trump wasn&#8217;t a sufficient draw to turn around the prospects of this debacle. But at least he made a few thousand bucks off of it. And so did Fox&#8217;s Gutfeld. So it wasn&#8217;t a total loss. Unless you&#8217;re a Republican candidate in Morris County. Here&#8217;s hoping the GOP will put on more of these events. Trump and Fox News shills can always use the extra cash.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican Party is struggling to stay afloat in this Era of Trump. The President has been an anchor around the necks of many GOP office holders and candidates. An unprecedented number of Republican members of Congress (over 40) have already resigned or announced that they will not be running for reelection. And this is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[152,1,1200],"tags":[554,1140,33,935,301],"class_list":["post-37683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election","category-general","category-politics","tag-donald-trump","tag-election","tag-fox-news","tag-greg-gutfeld","tag-republicans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-money-pile2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-9NN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30426,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=30426","url_meta":{"origin":37683,"position":0},"title":"If Donald Trump Is Nominated, Should The Rest Of The GOP Form A Third Party?","author":"Mark NC","date":"12\/18\/2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Six months ago Donald Trump announced that he was entering the race for the Republican Party's nomination for President of the United States. 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