GOP Primary Sparks Billionaires’ Feud Between Donald Trump, Koch Brothers

[BarryDonegan]

http://truthinmedia.com/gop-primary-sparks-billionaires-feud-between-donald-trump-koch-brothers/

After the Koch brothers snubbed Donald Trump by refusing to invite him to a presidential candidates' retreat with 450 wealthy donors, Trump took to Twitter to accuse his Republican opponents of being puppets of the Koch family.

[Brian4Liberty]

The libertarian-leaning Koch brothers have made issues like reforming the U.S. criminal justice system, stamping out corporate welfare, and relaxing immigration laws their 2016 political spending priorities and have recently teamed up with President Obama to push for reforms to federal sentencing guidelines for non-violent criminal convictions. George and David Koch found themselves with a more relaxed view on immigration policy than Democratic presidential candidate and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, as, according to Reason, the pro-union Sanders slammed the Koch brothers’ “open borders” immigration position, calling it “a right-wing proposal.”

On the other hand, Donald Trump has taken a hard-line stance on immigration,...

It all boils down to the immigration issue. The Kochs are libertarian globalists, which conveniently aligns them with all of the other special interest groups who are globalist in nature, or wish to see the US have open borders, or wish to "fundamentally change" the US.

Trump has been riding a populist backlash to that, and is using it to his advantage. All of the above will be angry with Trump (and Sanders) over this issue, although it's somewhat doubtful that either of these politicians are sincere about their pro-America pandering.