Saturday, June 11, 2016

Donald Trump missing from RNC official website?

I was first alerted to this by a blurb on TPM's blog. which asserts that Donald Trump is completely missing from the official web site of the Republican National Committee.   So I checked it out for myself at  www.gop.com, the official Republican Party web site.

There is a wealth of information, with a newsy front page and many links to articles, news releases, lists of officials, and background information.   It's true that the name Donald Trump does not appear anywhere on the Home page -- or anywhere else in the web site, unless you work hard to find it.  But Hillary Clinton's name appears often -- on the home page and everywhere -- all negative, of course.  Apparently they are trying to hide their own nominee by just running an anti-Hillary campaign.

But this is the most astonishing of all:   There's a page advertising the stuff they have for sale -- coffee mugs, t-shirts, lapel pins, baby gear -- the usual variety of stuff that puts your brand out there and raises a little extra money from the faithful.    You can buy a Dick Cheney cowboy Stetson hat, or a Ronald Reagan tie, or colorful sox like the elder George H.W. Bush enjoys wearing.    But there is not one item for sale with "Trump" on it.

I kept looking and checking out the links to articles.   Finally found one fairly recent press release that announced that Trump and the RNC had formed a joint committee to raise funds.   But even that did not refer to him as the presumptive nominee.  Then I found the press release archives which had maybe 10 articles from the past year that mentioned Trump.   Yet nowhere on this official GOP site do they call him their presumptive nominee.

So, it is correct to say that he is completely missing from their main pages.   The space devoted to him throughout the archives, news releases, and articles was less than 1/10th of the space they give Hillary Clinton -- and it's far less prominent.    Not a single headline or banner, or even a coffee mug for The Donald.

Ya think they're not so proud of what they've done?   Ya think??? 

Ralph

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