The Koch brothers, the most powerful conservative mega donors in the United States, will not use their $400 million political arsenal to try to block Republican front-runner Donald Trump’s path to the presidential nomination, a spokesman told Reuters on Wednesday.
The decision by the billionaire industrialists is another setback to Republican establishment efforts to derail the New York real estate mogul’s bid for the White House, and follows speculation the Kochs would soon launch a “Trump Intervention.”
“We have no plans to get involved in the primary,” said James Davis, spokesman for Freedom Partners, the Koch brothers’ political umbrella group. He would not elaborate on what the brothers’ strategy would be for the Nov. 8 election to succeed Democratic President Barack Obama.
Three sources close to the Kochs said the brothers made the decision because they were concerned that spending millions of dollars attacking Trump would be money wasted, since they had not yet seen any attack on Trump stick.
The Koch brothers are also smarting from the millions of dollars they pumped into the failed 2012 Republican presidential bids of Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney, the sources said.
Donors and media reports have speculated since January, when the Kochs gathered 500 of America’s wealthiest political donors at a California resort, that they would deploy their vast political network to target Trump.
The Kochs oppose his protectionist trade rhetoric and hardline views on immigration – which include building a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico and deporting millions of illegal immigrants.
Many Republican figures and business backers are eager to see Trump, a political outsider who has tapped into rising anti-establishment sentiment, fail in his bid for the nomination. They prefer instead a more traditional candidate like U.S. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida.
But with Trump racking up a series of wins in the early nominating contests against opponents including Rubio and U.S. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, there is a growing sense of inevitability that he will win the party’s mantle.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-koch-exclusive-idUSMTZSAPEC32FPEGCF
They’re afraid that if they tried, they might succeed, and they’ll have to deal with a revolution instead of Trump card, who might slow their thievery, but who’ll also save their lives.
Trump was rolled out because they’ve realized that this country is ready to pop. He’ll change nothing…. or at least nothing important to the NWO plans.
Geez us kay riced, there ain’t no difference who’s aginst Killary, she’s bin “elected” a long time ago. The Powers That Ought Not Be make them there decisions, without any of us goyim interference.
We are nothing but livestock to those parasites.
OK then, if so, i refuse to be a sheep, destined to be shaved or consumed as mutton. No siree, i’m a bovine species, not a milker, not a steer bound for the slaughterhouse, i am one intact bull, and some asshole is waving a big red flag!
If i moo, then i caint vote neither. My hoovesies gets tangled up in them votin’ lines.
That’s hysterical, Stew Bum.