Kellyanne Conway May Head New Pro-Trump Group Designed to Rally and Organize Internet Trolls

Plan Is for Group to Target Vulnerable Democratic Lawmakers on Twitter, Facebook and Other Social-Media Platforms

Of all the top Trump campaign loyalists Kellyanne Conway’s future has, publicly, been the most vague. Breitbart’s Steve Bannon went from campaign CEO to Chief White House Strategist and senior advisor. Rudy Giuliani is under consideration for secretary of state. Jeff Sessions for attorney general. Even Ben Carson for Secretary of HUD. But Conway, whom many thought would become at least Trump’s Press Secretary, has seemed to have been forgotten.

Until now. 

A new pro-Trump organization is being created, and Conway may be the one to run it.

The group itself sounds right on key with the Donald Trump clan. Its goal would be, as Conway told The Washington Post, “a surround-sound super structure,” which the Post says would “bolster the new administration’s political and policy goals.”

In other words, Trump, or his surrogates, will always be in campaign mode.

But the part of the plan that rings truest to the Trump mentality is how Conway describes their proposed actions.

“The new group is expected to focus especially on 10 vulnerable Democratic senators who represent states that Trump won,” the Post reports, listing all ten.

Then comes the troll part.

“The Trump group could potentially target each senator by mobilizing followers to call their offices or target the lawmakers on Twitter, Facebook and other social-media platforms. Hand-picked leaders in each of the counties Trump won across the country could also apply more direct pressure by calling state or district offices.”

Constituents calling elected officials to make their voices heard is a time-honored practiced, one that tends to work very well with lawmakers. 

Trolling them on Twitter sounds entirely disgusting.

Imagine thousands or tens of thousands of Trump Twitter trolls attacking Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), or Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), or Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), or Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND), just our of the ten the pro-Trump group has in mind. 

It should be noted too that of the ten Conway says they will target, those whom she sees as vulnerable, five are women. Even though the majority of Americans are women, today there are only 20 women in the U.S. Senate. 

And of course, the new pro-Trump group will have the benefit of not worrying about funding. Unlike liberal, progressive, and Democratic organizations, there seems to be an endless supply of multi-millionaire and billionaire Republicans aching to fund Super PACS and advocacy groups to advance their agenda.

The new pro-Trump group could have major patrons in hedge fund manager Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah, who have emerged as influential figures in Trump’s orbit. The Mercers ran and financed a pro-Trump super PAC during the campaign, and Rebekah Mercer is close to Conway, deputy campaign manager David Bossie and campaign chairman Stephen K. Bannon, who will serve as the chief White House strategist.

Access to supporters also will be easy.

The pro-Trump group will likely have access to the 10 million email addresses of potential supporters that the Republican National Committee and the Trump campaign acquired over the course of the campaign, a list that includes more than 2.5 million individual donors.

 

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