Subject: COMMS REVIEW: Adelson/Trump
From: "Paustenbach, Mark" <[email-masked]>
To: "Walker, Eric" <[email-masked]>, "Walsh, Tom" <[email-masked]>, "Miranda, Luis" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 6 May 2016 08:29:21 -0700

Trump Now the "Puppet" of GOP SuperPACs and
Right-Wing Billionaires

"Despite numerous promises that he would fund his own
campaign, Trump is now clearly the 'puppet' of
Republican SuperPACs and right-wing billionaires."
 - DNC National Press Secretary Mark Paustenbach

Despite arguing that he is "really rich" [link] and wouldn't
take campaign funds from donors because he XXX [comment
and link] Trump has since changed his tune.

This week he said would accept contributions for
his general election campaign. And, today, GOP
mega-donor Sheldon Adelson -- who spent XXX [amount
and link] on SuperPACs during the 2012 election -- said he
would support Trump's campaign. Of, course Trump
said just six months ago that Adelson was "looking to
give big dollars to Rubio because he feels he can mold
him into his perfect little puppet." [link]

Mark Paustenbach
National Press Secretary &
Deputy Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
202.863.8148
[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>

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From: "Roberts, Kelly" <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>
Date: May 5, 2016 at 10:32:23 PM EDT
To: "Berns, Jeremy" <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>, Comm_D <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>
Subject: RE: FLAG: NYT: Sheldon Adelson Says He Will Support Donald Trump

This is the tweet they’re referencing:

Trump: “Sheldon Adelson Is Looking To Give Big Dollars To Rubio Because He Feels He Can Mold Him Into His Perfect Little Puppet. I Agree!” [@realDonaldTrump, Twitter, 10/13/15<https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/653884577300267008>]

From: Berns, Jeremy
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2016 10:26 PM
To: Comm_D
Subject: FLAG: NYT: Sheldon Adelson Says He Will Support Donald Trump

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/05/05/sheldon-adelson-says-he-will-support-donald-trump/
Sheldon Adelson Says He Will Support Donald Trump
10:07 pm ET
Thomas Kaplan
and
Maggie Haberman

The casino magnate Sheldon G. Adelson said on Thursday night that he would support Donald J. Trump now that he has become the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee.

“Yes, I’m a Republican, he’s a Republican,” Mr. Adelson said in a brief interview. “He’s our nominee. Whoever the nominee would turn out to be, any one of the 17 — he was one of the 17. He won fair and square.”

Mr. Adelson made the comments while at a gala dinner in Manhattan for the World Values Network, a Jewish organization.

Mr. Trump went after Mr. Adelson on Twitter in October, writing that the donor wanted to make Senator Marco Rubio of Florida “his perfect little puppet.” But Mr. Trump also courted him; the two men met in December. Mr. Adelson later said they discussed Israel, and that he found Mr. Trump to be “very charming.” Mr. Adelson ultimately stayed neutral through the past few months of nominating contests.
Mr. Adelson said on Thursday that he had spoken to Mr. Trump recently, but did not elaborate about the timing or nature of their communication. He told another journalist that he thinks that Mr. Trump “will be good for Israel.”

Also on Thursday Gov. Pete Ricketts of Nebraska, whose family helped finance a “super PAC” devoted solely to stopping Donald J. Trump, will endorse the Republican Party’s standard-bearer at an Omaha rally on Friday, an aide confirmed.

Taylor Gage, a spokesman for the governor, said Mr. Ricketts would appear and give remarks at the event with Mr. Trump.

The governor “has said for months that he would support the Republican nominee,” Mr. Gage said.

Members of the Ricketts family donated millions of dollars to the Our Principles PAC and seeded its earliest efforts at denying Mr. Trump the nomination. The PAC is still active, but it spent lightly in the Indiana primary, which Mr. Trump won soundly on Tuesday night.

Mr. Trump also won support from a former rival and the former Texas governor, Rick Perry, who told CNN on Thursday that he would try to help Mr. Trump and was open to being his vice-presidential nominee.

Mr. Perry had carved out early territory in the presidential race last summer by describing Mr. Trump as a “cancer on conservatism.” But Mr. Trump essentially rolled over him, claiming him as an early victim of his own candidacy.

Mr. Perry told CNN he would do everything he could to help Mr. Trump.

Those endorsements came on the same day that the House speaker, Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, said he was not prepared to support the nominee yet. Mary Matalin, a former adviser to Dick Cheney, told Bloomberg Politics that she had switched her registration to Libertarian.

In West Virginia, Ebullient Donald Trump Takes On Everything From Hillary Clinton to Hair Spray<https://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/05/05/in-west-virginia-ebullient-donald-trump-takes-on-everything-from-hillary-clinton-to-hair-spray/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Politics&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs&region=Body>
10:14 pm ET

By

Nick Corasaniti
[Donald J. Drumpf wore a miners hard hat during a speech in Charleston, W.V., on Thursday.]
Donald J. Drumpf wore a miners hard hat during a speech in Charleston, W.V., on Thursday. Ty Wright for The New York Times

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – For his first act as the presumptive Republican nominee, Donald J. Trump strode on stage, extended his arms and conducted the crowd through a chorus of “Take Me Home, Country Roads.”

“We need to put our miners back to work!” he shouted Thursday to the crowd of more than 12,000 in the sunken, cavernous concrete Civic Center here. Hundreds of miners invited by the campaign to sit behind his podium rose in an extended standing ovation.

What followed, in his first campaign event as the last candidate standing in the Republican nomination process, was a Trump rally evolving for the general election, still retaining the energetic, fervent and free-flowing style that endeared him to voters and vaulted him to victory.

Gone was “lyin’ Ted,” but replaced in equal vitriol with “crooked Hillary.” Mr. Trump spent extended riffs going after Hillary Clinton, repeatedly referencing her comments about wanting to put the coal industry out of business (her campaign says she misspoke). He called the Clinton Foundation “disgusting,” referred to the investigation into her emails as secretary of state and Bill Clinton’s role in creating the North American Free Trade Agreement, and made a thinly veiled joke about Mr. Clinton’s infidelities.

“The Clinton administration, of which Hillary was definitely a part,” Mr. Trump said, continuing, “she was a part of almost everything. Almost, I say, not everything. Almost.”

.@realDonaldTrump<https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump>, conducting the rest of "Take Me Home, Country Roads" -- the song he walked out to in WV tonight
— Jeremy Diamond (‎@JDiamond1) 10:00 PM - 5 May 2016<https://twitter.com/JDiamond1/status/728404073305800704> · Charleston, WV, United States<https://twitter.com/search?q=place%3A71f2805dd75bc147>

He paused for a beat, as the crowd grew into a mix of laughter and cheers.

“Terrible,” Mr. Trump said, a wry joking tone in his voice. “I didn’t think the people of West Virginia thought about that. You should be ashamed of yourselves. Terrible, terrible people.”

Also gone were his complaints about the system being rigged against his candidacy, although for that he gave an honest answer. “I used to say it’s a rigged system, but now I don’t say it anymore because I won,” he said. “I don’t care.”

And gone were the repeated boasts of being self-funding.

“By the way, for the general election, I’m going to help raise money for the party,” he said.

Notably, he made no reference of the speaker of the House, Paul D. Ryan, who hours before the event said he was “not ready” to endorse Mr. Trump.

But over all, the candidate was in good spirits, relishing his victory and buoyed by the feverish crowd, which shrieked its support at every applause break in his speech.

Mr. Trump even donned a hard hat after receiving the endorsement of the West Virginia Coal Association, miming using a pick and shovel, before taking it off and risking his carefully crafted hair.

“You know you’re not allowed to hair spray anymore because it affects the ozone,” he said.

He added, in an allusion perhaps to his campaign’s overall slogan: “Hair spray’s not like it used to be. It used to be real good.”

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