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Even as former Republican National Committee (RNC) chair Ronna McDaniel fights to receive a full payout from the six-figure NBC contract she signed before she was let go, she still enjoys a comfortable severance package from her time at the RNC.

McDaniel was paid $118,769.99 two days before Donald Trump's takeover of the RNC, where he placed his daughter-in-law Lara Trump in the position of co-chair. The sum was the largest single payout to McDaniel ever reported by the Committee, The Daily Beast reported.

McDaniel received regular biweekly payments ranging from about $5,000 to about $12,000 during her time at the RNC along with year-end fundraising bonuses, according to The Beast's report -- payments that dropped to just under $8,000 in recent months. Her salary came under criticism from insiders after the GOP suffered disappointing election performances in 2020 and the 2022 midterms. ...

A conservative's defense of Ronna McDaniel — the former Republican National Committee chair ousted from NBC when her hiring spurred an uproar — came back to bite the GOP when it hit social media Wednesday.

Washington Post commentator Hugh Hewitt appeared on Fox News Wednesday to share his views on the news network's decision to drop McDaniel over the support the RNC that, under her leadership, threw behind Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

"I don't know who is going to keep MSNBC informed of what normal people think because Ronna McDaniel is about as normal as they come," Hewitt said. "She represents the Republican Party." ...

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow took a sharp broadside at her parent company on Monday, following news that NBC would hire Ronna McDaniel, the outgoing head of the Republican National Committee and a longtime loyalist of former President Donald Trump.

It was a visibly angry Maddow that detailed how McDaniel pushed conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election and attacked the network's own journalists. Some have speculated that the hire was payback for helping the network secure a presidential debate, with no regard for how the network's staff would feel about it.

In one sense, Maddow said, the uproar has had an effect, because "Ronna McDaniel will not be on MSNBC" as an on-air contributor, after their journalists "unanimously and instantly expressed outrage." ...

WASHINGTON — Some of former President Donald Trump’s fiercest allies in Congress may be multi-millionaires, but that doesn’t mean they’re opening up their wallets for the reality TV star turned contestant for America's most indicted.

“There’s only so much money,” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) told Raw Story.

With creditors demanding a $454 million bond as his appeals slowly wind through the courts, Trump’s personal deficits have been the talk of the Capitol in recent days. ...

MSNBC reportedly has no plans to use Donald Trump's close ally, Ronna McDaniel, on its airwaves.

Raw Story reported Friday that NBC News was hit with widespread criticism for hiring former Republican National Committee chair McDaniel as a political commentator.

But according to a new exclusive article from The Wall Street Journal, the president of MSNBC isn't interested in ever using her....

Ronna McDaniel, the chairwoman of the Republican Party since 2017, plans to step down, The New York Times reported on Tuesday.

"Ms. McDaniel has faced months of pressure, a campaign from Trump-allied forces to unseat her, and growing dissatisfaction and anxiety in the Trump camp about the strained finances of the R.N.C. as the general election cycle begins early," reported Maggie Haberman, Shane Goldmacher, Jonathan Swan, and Annie Karni.

Indeed, previous reports indicated former President Donald Trump himself was working to push her out, as his allies fretted over the RNC's money troubles and their long string of election losses....