Trump’s New Campaign Manager Pushed the GOP to Support Amnesty

This week, Donald Trump rolled out his campaign team v3.0. While being very careful to say Putin ally Paul Manafort was keeping his position as campaign chairman, Trump rolled out two new senior hires. Breitbart Chairman Steve Bannon, and pollster Kellyanne Conway. Both bring some baggage to the campaign that may make Trump supporters’ heads turn. Of the two, Conway’s stance on immigration is the larger concern.

For Trump and his supporters, Goldman Sachs has been a favorite target throughout the campaign. The attacks reached a fevered pitch when focused against Sen. Ted Cruz’s wife, Heidi, who used to work at the company. With his hire of Bannon, Trump has turned over the running of his campaign to a former Goldman Sachs banker.

Conway’s past work strikes further to the heart of Trump’s campaign, though. After the Gang of Eight amnesty bill was passed in the US Senate and sent to the House of Representatives, there was a strong push by lobbyists to get the House to act on the legislation. A strong part of that push was lobbying by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s pro-amnesty group FWD.us. Conway was part of that effort, as CNN reports.

Kellyanne Conway, who was named Trump’s campaign manager Wednesday morning, co-authored a 2014 polling memo for the pro-immigration group FWD.us touting the benefits of a sweeping overhaul bill that would have created a 13-year pathway to citizenship for roughly 11 million undocumented immigrants.

The memo, which was signed by Conway and 15 other GOP pollsters, argued that “most Americans don’t believe deportation is a viable policy” and that there is an “overwhelming consensus” for “some kind of legalization” for people in the United States illegally. The pollsters made the case that there is “broad support” for the bill that Trump now strongly opposes but Hillary Clinton supports.

“Supporting this new immigration reform proposal should be good electoral politics for Republicans,” the memo said.

While conservatives, like Sen. Cruz, R-Texas (A, 97%) and Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala. (C, 78%), were fighting against amnesty for illegals and the Gang of Eight bill, Trump’s new campaign manager was siding with the “masters of the universe” and pushing amnesty. The “key takeaways” of Conway and her colleagues were meant to make it easier for House members to squish on the issue of amnesty.

Conway’s position in 2014 is evocative of Trump’s in 2013. During the debate over the Gang of Eight legislation, Trump told a gathering of DREAMers, per NBC Latino, that they had convinced him to support amnesty for the children of illegal immigrants. This is a position he purportedly no longer holds.

In 2013, Trump also offered support for amnesty after the border was secured, which was the position of those pushing the Gang of Eight legislation.

Congress must protect our borders first. Amnesty should be done only if the border is secure and illegal immigration has stopped.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 29, 2013

Trump’s new campaign manager ran cover for the big corporations and establishment pushing on amnesty for illegal immigration. It makes one wonder what Trump supporters think of that. (For more from the author of “Trump’s New Campaign Manager Pushed the GOP to Support Amnesty” please click HERE)

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