Current Events > RNC fundraiser resigns after report of $1.6 million Playmate payoff

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GOP fundraiser Elliott Broidy has stepped down as Republican National Committee deputy finance chair, according to three people familiar with the matter.

The departure followed reports on Friday afternoon that in 2017, President Donald Trumps attorney Michael Cohen had negotiated a $1.6 million payment on Broidys behalf to a Playboy Playmate who said that Broidy had impregnated her.

The resignation was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.

He is the second RNC Finance Committee member to step aside in recent months.

Earlier this year, Las Vegas casino mogul Steve Wynn resigned amid allegations that hed sexually harassed women whod worked for him.

Broidy, a 62-year-old Los Angeles-based investor, is an influential figure in Republican politics who has provided hundreds of thousands of dollars to GOP candidates and committees over the years.

He played a key role in helping Trump raise money ahead of the 2016 election.

He also sits on the board of the influential Republican Jewish Coalition, a group funded in part by billionaire megadonor Sheldon Adelson.

Broidy has come under increasing scrutiny in recent months amid allegations that he tried to negotiate a multimillion-dollar fee to get the U.S. government to cease its investigation into a Malaysian investment fund.

Cohen, whose Manhattan home and office were raided earlier this week by FBI investigators, remains on the RNC finance committee.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/13/rnc-deputy-finance-chair-broidy-resigns-522867

I'm going to steal this from the comment section:

"Family values = Paying off women to keep silent about sex."
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They have so much family values they cant restrain themselves to having just one family.
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The Republican Party needs to be torn down and rebuilt from the ground up
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remember guys

b o t h s i d e s

are the same
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UnholyMudcrab posted...

The Republican Party needs to be torn down and rebuilt from the ground up

Can we just do this with our whole government at this point?
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this is fucking disgusting, the GOP is corrupt as hell.
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Remember, this is the government that wants to paint North Korea and China as corrupt and immoral.
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This is just the beginning of what we're gonna discover from all the seized information of the Cohen raid.

Trump may just be the best thing to happen to republicans in decades. Time will tell.
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