What are our two candidates doing on Facebook this evening? Well, Hillary’s still featuring her big moment on Thursday night — kind of a long time ago by social media standards, but we can begrudge her a couple days to enjoy the moment.
It’s Trump that really catches the attention late Saturday night, though: a one-line, tweet-length pout claiming he turned down a meeting with the Koch Brothers.
Except oops, yeah, it’s what you’d imagine…
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Billionaire industrialist and conservative benefactor Charles Koch's expansive political network will not help Donald Trump win the presidency.
That's the message from one of the Koch network's chief lieutenants as hundreds of the nation's most powerful Republican donors gathered for a weekend retreat on Saturday. With Election Day just three months away, Koch lamented the state of the 2016 contest during a welcome reception inside a luxury hotel at the foot of the Rocky Mountains.
"We don't really, in some cases, don't really have good options," Koch said of the "current political situation."
So, yeah. As the first polls come out showing post-convention Hillary bouncing back into the lead (expect the trickle to become a flood by Monday), Trump is spending his time feuding with the Gold Star Khans, panicking out loud about the debates, and getting kicked to the curb by the financially indispensable Kochs. And then, pathetically, using his social media space to pretend that it was he who (yeah right) turned down a chance to schmooze the most important Republican donors since, one imagines, ever. Sad!