Trump withdrew from threat of leaving Republican Party: book
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(Bakken) – Former President Trump told officials at the Republican National Committee (RNC) that he would leave the GOP before eventually withdrawing from the threat, a new book claims.
RNC Chairman Ronna McDaniel at one point during Trump’s last days as president, he called him to “wish him goodbye.” according to for reporting from ABC correspondent John Karl contained in his new book, to be published later this month.
Karl describes the call between Trump and McDaniel as “very uncomfortable” and noted that the former president’s eldest son was also on the call.
“Donald Trump was not in the mood for small talk or nostalgic farewell,” Karl writes. “He just got to the point. He told her he was leaving the Republican Party and wanted to create his own political party. The president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., was also on the phone. The younger Trump had relentlessly denounced the RNC for being insufficiently loyal. “In fact, at the January 6 demonstration before the Capitol uprising, the younger Trump almost declared that the old Republican Party no longer existed.”
After Trump told McDaniel that he was “done” with the RNC, she begged him to stay and said “if you do, we will lose forever,” Karl writes.
“Namely. You lose forever without me,” Trump replied, adding Karl. “I don’t care.”
Trump had already made the decision to start his own political party, according to Karl, in which the author describes the situation as “a closed agreement.”
An RNC official told Karl that the organization made it clear to Trump that if he actually left the party to start his own, it would “stop paying legal bills accrued during post-election challenges” and withhold his list. with more than 40 million Trump supporters used for fundraising.
“It’s a list Trump had used to generate money by renting it out to candidates at a high price,” Karl notes. “The list generated so much money that party officials estimated it was worth about $ 100 million.”
“It’s a completely fabricated and fabricated story, it’s fake news,” Trump said in a statement to The Hill. “Jonathan Karl is a third-rate reporter working for ABC Non-News,” the former president added.
McDaniel also denied Karl’s reporting when contacted by ABC News.
“This is false, I have never threatened President Trump with anything,” McDaniel told the newspaper. “He and I have a good relationship. We have worked tirelessly together to pick Republicans up and down the ballot, and will continue to do so.”
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