After Bashing Republican Insiders Trumps Kisses And Makes Up With The RNC

In a three-and-a-half-hour meeting on Monday, Mr. Trump’s advisers Paul J. Manafort, Rick Wiley, Corey Lewandowski and Michael Glassner met with the Republican National Committee finance chairman Lewis M. Eisenberg and the committee chairman, Reince Priebus.

Mr. Priebus has made clear that there is “no mechanism” for Mr. Trump to insert his own hand-picked chairman over the current structure. While that is technically true, Mr. Trump could certainly place a trusted ally on the committee to enforce his agenda.

But even that is difficult for Mr. Trump, whose lean campaign is light on spare staff members, and who has to avail himself of the existing team at the party committee to be even remotely functional in a general-election fight.

So while Mr. Trump has railed against the party as being unfair to him at various points, it is the Republican brand that got him a nomination. And he is forced to stick with it.