Washington President Trump lashed out at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute and Fox News on Sunday after the presidential foundation requested his campaign and the Republican National Committee stopped using the image of former President Ronald Reagan to raise funds.
“So the Washington Post runs the Reagan Foundation, and RINO Paul Ryan is on the Fox Board, which has been terrible,” Trump tweeted. “We’ll win anyway, even with @FoxNews’s fake suppression polls (which have been very wrong for 5 years)!”
President of the Reagan Foundation board of trustees, Frederick Ryan, also serves as editor and CEO of the Washington Post, and Paul Ryan, the former Speaker of the House, is a board member of Fox Corporation, the parent company of Fox News. On Friday, Fox News released a poll showing Trump following Biden in Michigan, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania.
Trump also appeared to be responding to news that the Reagan Foundation called the Republican National Committee last week after a fundraising email from the Trump Campaign Joint Fundraising Committee and RNC offered commemorative coin sets to donors, which featured a coin embossed with the image of Reagan and a second with the image of Trump, according to the Washington Post. The Reagan Foundation asked the RNC to stop sales of the coins.
RNC Communications Director Michael Ahrens said in a statement that “the Reagan image is used by thousands of Republicans every year.”
“Since the Reagan Foundation recently hosted the Trump family to raise money for their organization and has not objected to our using the image of President Reagan before, their objection was a surprise,” he said. “Although we believe our use of the image was appropriate, we will stop e-mailing this fundraising request as a courtesy.”
RNC President Ronna McDaniel said on Twitter that the Republican Party “has used the image of President Reagan for decades.”
“But since the Reagan Foundation suddenly opposes that, are they going to return the money that @DonaldTrumpJr and @kimguilfoyle raised just 8 months ago?” she said. By the way, I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that the director of the Reagan Foundation, Fred Ryan, is also the editor and CEO of The Washington Post, who wrote the article about us for daring to use an image of one of the most prominent presidents of our party. “
McDaniel called the Reagan Foundation’s “shame” in attacking Trump and the Republican Party “shameful.”
The Reagan Foundation has previously hosted members of the Trump family and other Trump administration officials. In November Donald Trump Jr. appeared at the California-based Reagan Presidential Library to lecture on his new book, and in 2017 Ivanka Trump, White House chief adviser, and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin , discussed the tax reform in the presidency. library.
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