‘Is Trump Trying To Lose?’ Top GOP Donor Rips Trump’s ‘Self-Destructive’ Embrace Of RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard

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Top GOP donor Eric Levine slammed former President Donald Trump for what he called the “self-destructive” decision to invite ex-Democrats Robert F Kennedy Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard onto his presidential transition team and warned embracing “fringe” would “offend” moderate Republicans.

Levine is a Seattle-based entrepreneur who was a major donor to Trump’s primary rivals, Tim Scott and Nikki Haley, and had previously said he would not vote for Trump citing the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. However, in March, the wealthy donor switched allegiance to Trump, albeit, he wrote in a memo at the time, “reluctantly and with reservations.”

In new email excerpts shared by Jewish Insider reporter Matthew Kassel on Wednesday, Levine lambasted Trump’s new association with “anti-vaxx kook” Kennedy Jr. and Gabbard, who he blasted for having supported “self-avowed socialist” Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in his 2016 Democratic primary bid.

Yesterday, the Trump campaign proudly announced that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard endorsed the former President and are being added to his transition team. It is hard to imagine a more self-destructive announcement.

RFK is an anti-vax kook who sees conspiracies behind every tree and under every bed, and Gabbard is the former vice- chair of the DNC and co-chair of the 2016 Bernie Sanders for President campaign She endorsed Sanders because of his “sound judgment” on foreign policy which she believed would “usher in a new era of peace and prosperity.” Sanders is a self-avowed socialist. He is an isolationist. He hates the America we love and everything it stands for. Yet, Gabbard endorsed him and this is who Trump is embracing. There is something terribly wrong with this picture.

In a warning to Trump, Levine continued:

As a former Haley voter and Reagan Republican, I say to you Mr. Trump, speak to me and my fellow Republicans. Reject the fringes. Fight for the middle. If you do not, you will forever be known from this day forward, as the “Former President.”

Levine suggested Trump “would be better served” by adding Nikki Haley to his transition team instead.

“It is her voters he should be focusing on,” he said.