Donald Trump cemented his grip on the Republican National Committee on Friday after his daughter-in-law and another ally assumed top leadership posts amid a debate among members over whether the organization should help pay his legal bills.

RNC members meeting in Houston voted to appoint North Carolina Republican Party head Michael Whatley and Lara Trump as chair and co-chair of the organization, which will play a key role in marshaling voters and funds for the Nov. 5 general election.

The move comes after Trump swept the Super Tuesday primary contests, prompting Nikki Haley to drop out of the Republican race and all but assuring the former U.S. president will be the nominee and face off against President Joe Biden, a Democrat.

“The goal on November 5th is to win, and as my father-in-law says ‘bigly’,” Lara Trump said, promising that “every single penny of every dollar raised” would go toward the goal of winning the White House, the House of Representatives and the Senate for Republicans.

    • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz
      6·
      9 months ago

      Possibly even right of Reagan there.

      Yet conservatives may be shocked to learn that their idol Reagan was once a union boss himself. Reagan was the only president in American history to have belonged to a union, the AFL-CIO affiliated Screen Actors Guild. And he even served six terms as president of the organized labor group. Additionally, Reagan was a staunch advocate for the collective bargaining rights of one of the world’s most famous and most influential trade unions, Poland’s Solidarity movement.

      -Ronald Reagan Called Union Membership ‘One Of The Most Elemental Human Rights

      • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
        61·
        9 months ago

        I don’t think that outweighs him firing the air traffic controllers for going on strike.

        • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz
          61·
          9 months ago

          Reagan was the fucking worst asshead politician of my lifetime. Just god awful. And him firing the air traffic controllers was shitty. But that was on that shitty union. I’m saying that as a very pro-union person, who worked for a couple of decades for a union. That doesn’t mean there aren’t shitty unions out there.

          • girlfreddy@lemmy.caOP
            2·
            9 months ago

            I remember seeing something a few years back that said all of the American rich dudes wanted Reagan as POTUS because he was a great public figure head that could be manipulated with “bribes” and the simple act of rubbing elbows with them on occasion.

            Essentially he was easily placated and a good soldier to do their bidding.

      • stoly@lemmy.world
        2·
        9 months ago

        I know about this. He is the worst kind of person: he got his and then made it to away for the rest.