Paul Ryan Meets With “Stop Trump” Donors

This happened on Trump’s home turf in Palm Beach. Via Politico:

House Speaker Paul Ryan met Thursday night at a pricey French restaurant here with some of the party’s biggest donors to assess a political landscape dominated by one vexing question: what to do about Donald Trump.

The dinner was a highlight of a secretive two-day conclave, convened under heavy security by a donor group headed by New York hedge-fund manager Paul Singer, that is being viewed as a pivotal moment for the big-money effort to block Trump from the Republican presidential nomination.

The meeting comes as other conservative leaders are debating whether to continue their anti-Trump assault, to wave the white flag or to begin plotting a third-party “true conservative” challenge in the fall. The latter possibility was the focus of another meeting convened Thursday in Washington by three influential conservative movement leaders.

And several participants in Palm Beach have been looked to as leaders in the anti-Trump effort. Both Ryan and South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who is to speak Friday morning, have been vocal in their criticism of Trump.

Politico notes that not everybody in attendance is totally opposed to Trump.