WASHINGTON — Several of the Republican Party’s most generous donors called on the Republican National Committee on Thursday to disavow Donald J. Trump, saying that allegations by multiple women
that Mr. Trump had groped or made inappropriate sexual advances toward
them threatened to inflict lasting damage on the party’s image.
To
an elite group of Republican contributors who have donated millions of
dollars to the party’s candidates and committees in recent years, the
cascade of revelations related to Mr. Trump’s sexual conduct is grounds
for the committee to cut ties with the party’s beleaguered
standard-bearer, finally and fully.
“At
some point, you have to look in the mirror and recognize that you
cannot possibly justify support for Trump to your children — especially
your daughters,” said David Humphreys, a Missouri business executive who
contributed more than $2.5 million to Republicans from the 2012
campaign cycle through this spring and opposed Mr. Trump’s bid from the
outset.
Bruce
Kovner, a New York investor and philanthropist who with his wife has
given $2.7 million to Republicans over the same period, was just as
blunt. “He is a dangerous demagogue completely unsuited to the
responsibilities of a United States president,” Mr. Kovner wrote in an
email, referring to Mr. Trump.
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Source: The New York Times (via The Empire Report)
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