Trump bails on CPAC speech

An already bizarre primary season just became screwier. Donald Trump’s scheduled Saturday night prime time speech to CPAC was drawing envious criticism from other candidates, but no more: it has been cancelled. Needless to say, everyone is blaming someone else. Kenneth Vogel reports at Politico: Donald Trump spent five years building a mutually beneficial relationship with the organization that hosts the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, filling its coffers with at least $150,000 in cash and scoring coveted speaking slots that started him on a course towards winning the Republican presidential nomination. But he ended up canceling what would have been his biggest CPAC speech at the last minute amid plans for protest and disruptions, apparently deciding that his surging presidential campaign no longer needed any boost from the once-storied group. The Trump camp claims that it was simply a matter of putting campaigning in Kansas, where the primary...(Read Full Post)