Trump's RNC takeover triggers strife and staff exits as purge partly backfires

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Guardian

Mon 8 Apr 2024 06.00 EDT


Donald Trump’s allies installed to run the Republican National Committee have faced a tumultuous first month in charge, buffeted by staffing problems and operational headaches as they attempt to bring the party apparatus under the control of the Trump campaign before the 2024 election.

The internal strife at the RNC has prompted the Trump campaign to privately admonish its new leaders in recent weeks. And the move to orchestrate a purge may have partly backfired with far-reaching consequences for the RNC, multiple sources familiar with the matter said.

The Trump takeover of the RNC arrived with a show of force just days after the new chair, Michael Whatley, and the new co-chair Lara Trump were elected, when emails went out to entire teams at the organization informing them they could resign and reapply for their jobs, or be terminated. The idea was to ensure there would be no overlap between the RNC and the Trump campaign, which already had robust political and communications teams, and to weed out any staffers who were not fully committed to Trump and the wider Maga movement.

But the threats of termination and the rumored loyalty tests – which turned out to be accurate when staffers were asked in job interviews if they thought the 2020 election was stolen from Trump, though there has been no evidence of election fraud – may have been too aggressive. In the weeks that followed, although the new RNC leadership quietly extended offers to a majority of former staffers, with the exception of those who worked in the RNC political department, some staffers on crucial teams declined to return, the sources said.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/08/rnc-trump-takeover-republican-strife

[Lovie777]

1. GQP if possible are getting crazier.............................

[AllaN01Bear]

9. 2 late . they are already 2 far gone.

[underpants]

2. Morning Joe just had a segment about how "terrifyingly competent" the Trump campaign is

🤔

[Joe Cool]

3. Competent or incompetent?

[underpants]

7. Supposedly got all the backstabbers and leakers out

According to campaign head Jason Miller 👀
Project 2025 personnel being vetted by McAtee
and leaving the prospect open for Jared to be Secretary of State

[Hekate]

30. Adolf Eichmann was very competent indeed. Look him up if you don't remember his capture & trial.

Some of the MAGAs are deeply stupid — but others of his enablers are most assuredly not stupid.

[tanyev]

6. Threats and intimidation are not the same thing as competence.

Although they may be initially mistaken for competence.

[KPN]

23. Yeah. I think putting stock into this story is a mistake. Trump's mobsters are "sanitizing"

their organization, and doing it well.

[tanyev]

4. Awwwww.

[Passages]

5. A glimmer of good health.

although the new RNC leadership quietly extended offers to a majority of former staffers, with the exception of those who worked in the RNC political department, some staffers on crucial teams declined to return, the sources said.

[Botany]

8. One little drop @ the falls and after that no more problems. Who needs institutional memory?

[CaptainTruth]

10. ETTD - Everything Trump Touches Dies

I'm happy to watch him destroy the RNC, he's doing us a favor.

[jaxexpat]

12. Appreciate the sentiment, Captain.

After all, what has the Republican party ever brought o the table except repression of progress and pointedly dishonest premise of purpose? Did I mention how they've always lied to get their way since 1878?

[calimary]

15. Well, it's still taking too damn long to realize FULLY.

Dammit.

[ShazzieB]

11. Trump isn't just taking OVER the RNC

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He's going to take it DOWN!!!

[jaxexpat]

13. His only useful purpose.

[louis-t]

14. How many times do we have to say

"Everything he touches...."

[keopeli]

16. Where's Gomer Pyle? "Surprise, surprise, surprise!"

[Kennah]

24. I was thinking Sgt. Doakes

[keopeli]

26. Bwah-ha-ha! Exactly.

[keopeli]

17. BTW, if elected, this is EXACTLY what TSF wants to do with ALL civil servant jobs nationwide. A beautiful catastrophe!

[Ms. Toad]

18. This is just stunningly arrogant.

But the threats of termination and the rumored loyalty tests – which turned out to be accurate when staffers were asked in job interviews if they thought the 2020 election was stolen from Trump, though there has been no evidence of election fraud – may have been too aggressive.

Just hope it leads to their downfall, and that the consequences of that action:

In the weeks that followed, although the new RNC leadership quietly extended offers to a majority of former staffers, with the exception of those who worked in the RNC political department, some staffers on crucial teams declined to return, the sources said.

The situation means the RNC has been left without people with deep knowledge of election operations at the Republican party’s central committee, and who were willing to work for salaries far lower than what they could earn in the private sector.

contributes to their downfall.

[LiberalFighter]

19. I'm okay with that. Good timing too.

[LiberalFighter]

20. How much of an impact will it have on state parties with financial problems?

Maybe those financial problems will spread to other state parties.

[BumRushDaShow]

21. The national party

usually distributes some of the money to their state parties. But we know in this case where the money will be going instead!

We just need to be ready to GOTV to take advantage of them knee-capping themselves!

[Eugene]

31. The purge is top to bottom, and the state parties are already hurting.

MAGA is turning the Colorado GOP into a full-on fascist dumpster fire.
They want Bobo, even if the voters can't stand her.

The Massachusetts GOP just saw some high profile heads rolling.

Michigan and Arizona are already broke.

[mwb970]

22. Run! RUN!!

[Kennah]

25. The Purge: RNC Edition

Gonna get my tickets for the IMAX 3D theater as soon as available.

[IronLionZion]

27. I just hope this idiocy is limited to destroying the RNC

and they don't get Trump elected because they will absolutely destroy American institutions.

A badly broken RNC is great for us. The Trump Show can screw downticket GOP elections.

Republicans in disarray

[pecosbob]

28. Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.

[pfitz59]

29. Hopefully departing staffers are

deleting files and donor lists as well planting a few trojans in the servers. One can dream...