Former Republican operative Rick Wilson argued that President Donald Trump doesn't plan to use his 'MAGA money pile' to save Republicans in the midterms.
In his Substack on Tuesday, Wilson revealed that Trump's deepest affection is for one thing and one thing only: cash.
"Donald Trump likes money," Wilson wrote. "He likes it more than he likes anything else in this world, including his children. That love of cash has manifested itself this year in an epic tidal wave of political corruption."
And with MAGA Inc. holding onto $400 million just as midterms draw nearer and the Republican Party has about $160 million, it's unlikely Trump will use any of the MAGA donations to help secure a Republican majority in the House or Senate, Wilson explained.
"Yes, he’s raked in billions from crypto scams, from selling pardons to criminals, from side deals to enrich himself, his family, and a host of other scummy and entirely predictable actors," Wilson wrote. "Why not collect more from the suckers funding MAGA Inc?"
"We’re missing something about the MAGA Inc. money," Wilson wrote. "Trump believes it’s his. In his mind, it wasn’t raised for the party. It wasn’t raised for candidates. It wasn’t raised to ensure an electoral victory this fall. He thinks it was raised for him, literally and personally for him. Sure, that’s an ugly and stupid category error, but why would you expect anything different at this point?"
Wilson also dropped a blunt note.
"Trump also has one thing going for him that no other Republican candidate has ever had. He isn’t really a Republican," Wilson wrote. "Donald Trump is a member of the Trump party, a party dedicated to one man, and a singularly self-obsessed man at that. So put yourself inside that rattled, sloppy brain for a moment. You see a political tidal wave coming for the GOP. You’re sitting on nearly three-quarters of a billion dollars that might not even save them. What do you do?"
"If you’re Donald Trump, I’ll tell you exactly what you do. You spend it on yourself. You transfer it into your own pockets," Wilson added. "Trump doesn’t care whether Republicans win or lose, except insofar as losing might be a slight inconvenience in terms of investigations."