'You mean I was going to form another party or something?' Trump asked Karl incredulously. 20, saying, 'a lot of people suggested a third party, many people' - but that he himself had never even thought about leaving the GOP.

Trump has long denounced news reports that he had considered starting his own party as 'fake news.' In Karl's final interview with the former president for his book, Trump claimed to not recall his conversation with McDaniel on Jan. It was a made up and totally fabricated scam and the lamestream media knew it.

Just look at what has now been revealed about the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax. Trump, responding to the story, said, 'ABC Non News and 3rd rate reporter Jonathan Karl have been writing fake news about me from the beginning of my political career. We have worked tirelessly together to elect Republicans up and down the ballot, and will continue to do so.' 'This is false, I have never threatened President Trump with anything,' McDaniel told ABC News. 'The list generated so much money that party officials estimated that it was worth about $100 million.'įive days after revealing plans that could have destroyed his own political party on that last flight aboard Air Force One, Karl writes, Trump backed down, saying he would remain a Republican after all.Īsked this week to respond to Karl's book, both Trump and McDaniel denied the story. 'It's a list Trump had used to generate money by renting it to candidates at a steep cost,' says the book. 'But, more significant, the RNC threatened to render Trump's most valuable political asset worthless,' Karl writes, referring to 'the campaign's list of the email addresses of forty million Trump supporters.' 'We told them there were a lot of things they still depended on the RNC for, and that if this were to move forward, all of it would go away,' an RNC official told Karl.Īccording to the book, 'McDaniel and her leadership team made it clear that if Trump left, the party would immediately stop paying legal bills incurred during post-election challenges.' the RNC played hardball,' according to the book. While Trump, 'morose in defeat and eager for revenge, plotted the destruction of the Republican Party. According to a source who witnessed the conversation, Trump was talking as if he viewed the destruction of the Republican Party as a punishment to those party leaders who had betrayed him - including those few who voted to impeach him and the much larger group he believed didn't fight hard enough to overturn the election in his favor. Trump's attitude was that if he had lost, he wanted everybody around him to lose as well, Karl writes. You lose forever without me,' Trump responded.

'You cannot do that,' McDaniel told Trump. The description of this conversation and the discussions that followed come from two sources with direct knowledge of these events. With just hours left in his presidency, Trump was telling the Republican Party chairwoman that he was leaving the party entirely. In fact, at the January 6 rally before the Capitol Riot, the younger Trump all but declared that the old Republican Party didn't exist anymore.' The younger Trump had been relentlessly denigrating the RNC for being insufficiently loyal to Trump. The president's son, Donald Trump Jr., was also on the phone. He told her he was leaving the Republican Party and would be creating his own political party. 'Donald Trump was in no mood for small talk or nostalgic goodbyes,' Karl writes. It was a very un-pleasant conversation,' Karl writes in 'Betrayal,' set to be released on Nov.

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