Donald Trump Team, RNC to Have a ‘Come to Jesus’ Meeting

Donald Trump’s campaign and top GOP officials are about to have a “come to Jesus” meeting in Orlando, Florida, on Friday to discuss the Trump’s flailing campaign, people with knowledge of the planned sit-down told Politico.

Jason Miller, Trump’s senior communications adviser, downplayed the meeting, telling TheWrap in a statement Thursday, “typical operations meeting for Florida. No big deal. Failing blog Politico gets it wrong again. No wonder everyone has left there.”

But a person familiar with the powwow described it as an “emergency meeting,” adding that Trump is not slated to take part as he’s scheduled to travel to Pennsylvania on Friday. Karen Giorno, a Trump senior advisor will attend instead.

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The gathering comes as tensions between the campaign and the Republican National Committee seem to have reached a boiling point. Trump has threatened to stop fundraising for the Republican Party after TIME reported that party brass is looking to ditch the GOP nominee, focusing on down-ballot candidates instead.

“I mean, if it is true, that’s OK too because all I have to do is stop funding the Republican Party,” Trump told Fox News’s “The O’Reilly Factor.”

“I’m the one raising the money for them,” he continued. “If they want to do that they can save me a lot of time and a lot of energy.”

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Trump acknowledged that he spoke with RNC Chairman Reince Priebus about the TIME article.

“Yes, I have,” Trump said. “He just put out a press release. He just put out a tweet saying it’s untrue,”

But Sean Spicer, RNC chief strategist, dismissed reports that Priebus threatened to reallocate resources, saying on Twitter Thursday the story is “not true.”

According to the TIME article, Priebus warned Trump last week that “his campaign seemed to be headed toward failure and that changes were needed to get back on track,” adding that Priebus urged Trump for months to professionalize his operations and campaign — or else.

But the magazine later corrected its report saying it “mischaracterized” the phone conversation between Priebus, noting that he had only expressed concerns with the direction of Trump’s campaign.

“The Republican National Committee has acknowledged the possibility of redirecting its resources, but a spokesperson says Priebus did not explicitly convey that possibility to Trump in that phone conversation,” the TIME update said.

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Trump has been struggling to bounce back from a string of controversies that have engulfed his campaign in recent weeks as Hillary Clinton enjoys a double-digit lead in many national polls and key swing states.

On Thursday, more than 70 top GOP officials signed an open letter urging the RNC to stop funding Trump’s bid for the White House.

“We believe that Donald Trump’s divisiveness, recklessness, incompetence, and record-breaking unpopularity risk turning this election into a Democratic landslide, and only the immediate shift of all available RNC resources to vulnerable Senate and House races will prevent the GOP from drowning with a Trump-emblazoned anchor around its neck,” the letter, which was first published by Politico, read.

Vulgar, Mean and Sexist: 6 Ways 'Suicide Squad' Is the Donald Trump of Superhero Movies

• Much like Donald Trump's inexplicable rise to the top of the Republican presidential ticket, "Suicide Squad" is doing bang-up business in spite of plenty of criticism. At this stage, both Trump and "Squad" have been called every name in the book. Indeed, the two share a litany of dubious traits that we've collected here. Beware, spoilers ensue:

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• Flip-Flopping
  Early in the film, Deadshot says he plans to kill the government agents who have temporarily released him from prison. Mere seconds later he reverses his position, urging the Squad of supervillians to keep operatives Amanda Waller and Rick Flag alive. Did Trump write this script? The Republican nominee has flipped-flopped positions on an array of topics -- from abortion to the Iraq War to nuclear proliferation. At least Deadshot is acting for a logical reason -- he knows he'll be killed if he lets Flag die.

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• Insulting Women
  "You one of them deaf hoes?" Deadshot asks a female operative who fails to immediately respond to him. Trump also has a habit of insulting women by comparing them to animals. And as for the deaf part, Trump also mocked a disabled reporter.

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• Objectifying Women
  As strategically-directed camera angles remind audiences throughout the film, Harley Quinn wears little more than a pair of skimpy bottoms. Trump thinks plenty of other women exploit their looks to succeed. "It's certainly not groundbreaking news that the early victories by the women on 'The Apprentice' were, to a very large extent, dependent on their sex appeal," he wrote in his 2004 book "How to Get Rich."

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• Paranoia
  Enchantress may have suspected someone rigged her earth-destroying spell -- just like Trump has already started arguing that the November election will be rigged. After she employs her dark magic to take over the planet, she sticks around to fight the Squad. But why fight at all? Couldn't she just go to Fiji or somewhere and relax while she waits for her nefarious voodoo to finish its job?

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• Needless Cruelty
  Trump heckled the mother of a crying baby last week. Meanwhile, Suicide Squad mastermind Waller callously kills a roomful of fellow FBI agents because they weren't cleared for her top secret project. OK -- one of those is definitely worse than the other.

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• A Money Man
  As TheWrap pointed out, Donald Trump's chief fundraiser, Steven Mnuchin, is a producer on "Suicide Squad."

  Mnuchin raised eyebrows when Trump named him as his lead fundraiser in May: He pocketed money stolen by Bernie Madoff; and Relativity Media, the studio behind "The Fighter," once accused his bank of "violating bankruptcy procedures."

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Presidential candidate and comic book film share dubious traits

Much like Donald Trump's inexplicable rise to the top of the Republican presidential ticket, "Suicide Squad" is doing bang-up business in spite of plenty of criticism. At this stage, both Trump and "Squad" have been called every name in the book. Indeed, the two share a litany of dubious traits that we've collected here. Beware, spoilers ensue:

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