GOP Candidate Accuses Trump Of Selling Endorsement

June 12, 2024 Politics, Republicans

The New York Times reports:

Jeff Gunter, who is competing in Tuesday’s Nevada Republican primary for the Senate and described himself as “110 percent pro-Trump,” saw Donald J. Trump endorse one of his primary opponents, Sam Brown, over the weekend. He did not take it well.

Mr. Trump announced his endorsement of Mr. Brown on Truth Social, his social media platform, late Sunday night, after the former president’s rally in Las Vegas.

In a social media post on Monday, Mr. Gunter claimed without evidence, and without details, that a big political check had been sent from “the swamp,” amounting to a bribe for Mr. Trump.

The Daily Beast reports:

When pressed by The New York Times for evidence, said it could prove. “Yes he can, stay tuned,” a representative for Jeff Gunter’s campaign told the newspaper. No evidence, however, has yet been presented.

The original claim came in a flurry of posts on X Sunday night following a Trump rally in Las Vegas. “Would you like the hear the inside baseball of what went down yesterday?” he wrote. Chris LaCivita, a senior adviser to Trump, denied the claims in his own post on X.

Gunter last appeared here in April when he was mocked for buying “cowboy drag” for a campaign ad. During his time as Trump’s ambassador to Iceland, which he had never before visited, Gunter earned regular headlines for abusing staff, demanding “door-to-door armored car service,” and requesting special permission to carry a firearm due his paranoia about the deep state out to get him. In Iceland. Oh, and he summarily fired an Icelandic-speaking underling upon their first meeting because he “didn’t like his look.” Per Wikipedia, in 2021, the State Department’s Office of the Inspector General released a report indicating that Gunter had created a “‘threatening and intimidating environment’” at the embassy.



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