Trump Advisor and Foreign Despot Lobbyist Paul Manafort is making sure everyone notices that the Republican party isn’t unified, and that the RNC’s appearance of unity comes only because so many republicans are avoiding the convention all like Ground Zero of an ebola outbreak.
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CLEVELAND — Donald J. Trump’s chief adviser used the first day of the Republican National Convention on Monday to excoriate Gov. John R. Kasich for not endorsing Mr. Trump, touching off a remarkably bitter exchange between the campaign of the presumptive Republican nominee and advisers to Ohio’s popular Republican governor.
Addressing reporters at a breakfast on Monday, Paul Manafort, Mr. Trump’s de facto campaign manager, accused Mr. Kasich of acting “petulant” for refusing to support Mr. Trump following the governor’s defeat in the Republicans’ presidential nominating process.
“He’s embarrassing his party in Ohio,” Mr. Manafort said of Mr. Kasich,
Yep, petulant, embarrassing, refusing to support…...can’t have that. Way to highlight disunion and denounce all of Trump’s failings in one throw.
Let’s see what good Manafort has to say for the down ticket! It’s a stink bomb at a media event:
Recognizing this, Mr. Manafort used his remarks at the Bloomberg Politics-sponsored breakfast to assail Mr. Kasich, while also driving a wedge between the governor and Senator Rob Portman of Ohio.
Mr. Portman
is locked in a competitive re-election fight that could help decide which party controls the Senate next year. Mr. Portman endorsed Mr. Kasich in the presidential primary, and the governor has been aggressively campaigning for the senator in his re-election campaign this year. But the two have historically not been close and have been seen as representing two distinct Republican political families in Ohio.
“He’s very upset with John Kasich,” Mr. Manafort said of Mr. Portman. “Because John Kasich is hurting him.”
Asked about this remark, Mr. Portman’s campaign manager emphatically denied the senator is angry with Mr. Kasich for not backing Mr. Trump.
“That’s totally false,” said Corry Bliss, Mr. Portman’s top aide. “Rob Portman and John Kasich are working hand in hand to defeat Ted Strickland and any suggestion otherwise is inaccurate.”
Great job in making sure that the disunion goes as far as possible. Couldn’t happen to a nicer party.