A tenuous
peace in the upper echelons of the Republican Party showed signs of unraveling
this weekend as a major donor compared Donald J. Trump to Hitler and Mussolini,
Mr. Trump and Mitt Romney reignited their feud, and one of Mr. Trump’s aides
took a shot at an important campaign ally.
Meg Whitman,
the chief executive of Hewlett Packard Enterprise and a major contributor to
Republican candidates, railed against Mr. Trump on Friday at a closed-door
meeting of Republicans in Park City, Utah, comparing him to the Axis leaders,
according to several people in attendance who declined to be identified because
the discussion was private.
The comments,
first reported by The Washington Post, came at Mr. Romney’s annual retreat of
Republican donors, leaders and business executives. Mr. Trump’s candidacy, and
the divisions it is causing among leading Republicans, was an undercurrent of
the gathering. Mr. Romney has been outspoken in his refusal to support Mr.
Trump, the party’s presumptive presidential nominee, even as other party
figures have grudgingly fallen into line.
No one has
personified the party’s divisions like Paul D. Ryan, the House speaker, and the
pressure on him intensified this weekend. At the Utah retreat on Friday,
Campbell Brown, a former CNN anchor, pressed Mr. Ryan on his decision to
support Mr. Trump, according to an attendee, saying she did not know how to
explain it to her children.
From The New York Times, read it HERE
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