Don’t be upset that the Ronald Reagan Foundation dissed President Trump
By Andrea Widburg
It was big news over the weekend: The Reagan Foundation was asking both President Trump and the Republican National Committee to stop using Ronald Reagan’s name in their fundraising. The Democrats and NeverTrumpers were very excited
They shouldn’t have been. The people presiding over the Reagan Foundation are a mix of NeverTrumpers and people who are part of the Bush family cabal. The Bush family and its supporters hate Trump. Their opinions about Trump’s campaign are as meaningful as the Democrat party’s views are.
Mark R. Levin
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Jul 26, 2020
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And it also explains why the Washington Post ran a story about the Reagan Library objecting to President Trump's use of the Reagan name for fundraising – that means Fred Ryan objected.
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And then I read, toward the end of the Post article, that Ryan would not comment for the article his paper wrote about the library he runs Well, I have spent many, many years promoting the Reagan Library and Foundation, I have had many very successful book signings there
It’s not just Fred Ryan who’s a problem. In terms of support for Trump in his battle against Biden and the communists in Biden's train, here are some other problematic board members:
••Paul D. Ryan, who was of no use to Trump – or conservativism – between 2017 and 2019 because Ryan is basically a conservative Democrat who just wants to spend less money than other Democrats. The two men do not like each other.
••Peggy Noonan, who can never get over her sense of revulsion to Trump and is a hardcore NeverTrumper.
••George Shultz, who is a McCain partisan and is so hostile to Trump that he declined to endorse him in 2016.
••Robert Tuttle, who is another remnant of the George W. Bush administration, and who endorsed Hillary in 2016.
••Lachlan Murdoch, who runs Fox News, donated to Pete Buttigieg’s presidential campaign. He's also a George W. Bush supporter. (Which makes him better than his brother, who no longer works at Fox News, and who donated $1.23 million to Biden’s campaign.)
••Gerald Parsky, who is part of the Bush cabal. He was also a McCain supporter and, before that, a Richard Riordan supporter.
Those are just a few of the board members whose bios I checked out. I’m sure there are many others on the board who are core conservatives, who have no problem with Trump, or who even support Trump. However, with so many NeverTrumpers on the board, it’s scarcely surprising that they would try to deprive Trump of the opportunity to campaign using the name and likeness of the only other president who came even close to Trump’s conservativism.
Here’s a final thought: Reagan was the president of the United States of America, not of a foundation or a library. The Foundation may hold his documents and be the guardian of his image, but that does not give it the right to withhold any part of his public life or image from the American people – or from an America president who wants to remind the people that, just as Reagan stood against worldwide communism, President Trump is making a last, desperate stand against domestic communism.
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