advisor, JD Gordon, heard the RNC was about to insert TOUGH
anti-Russian language in the GOP platform, he ''jumped'' from his seat
and ran to the front demanding that the item be ''tabled'' until he
could contact NY.
After Gordon checked with the Trump campaign, the language was softened. Both Trump and Gordon have denied having anything to do with it. No one believes it.
Bertrand reported on the incident on March 3, 2017.
Diana Denman, the GOP delegate who proposed amending the
Ukraine platform to include the "lethal weapons" language, contradicted
Gordon's version of events in an interview with Business Insider in
January. She said Gordon and another Trump campaign representative asked
the cochairmen of the subcommittee to table the amendment after she
read it aloud.
"Two men sitting over to the side of the room — I had no idea who they
were but later found out they were Trump representatives — jumped up and
tore over to get behind the three cochairmen," she said.
Gordon then left the room to make a phone call, Denman said. Equal
parts confused and angry over her proposal being scuttled, Denman said
she confronted Gordon about whom he was calling.
"I'm calling New York," Gordon replied, according to Denman.
"I work for Mr. Trump, and I have to clear it," she recalled him saying, apparently in reference to the amendment.
It went largely unnoticed by the rest of the media.
https://www.businessinsider.com/jd-gordon-trump-adviser-ukraine-rnc-2017-3
