<p>The establishment big wigs gave it their best shot, but they lost. Donald Trump will be the nominee. As Republican Chairman Reince Priebus explained to a gathering of Mitt Romney&rsquo;s top strategists and donors on Saturday, &#8220;He&rsquo;s going to win with or without you.&rdquo;</p>
<p>A few months ago, it was Chairman Priebus who convinced Trump to play nice with House Speaker Paul Ryan. And how he&rsquo;s doing his best to shut down the Mitt Romney movement. ;</p>
<p>Priebus attended Romney&rsquo;s annual business and politics conference in Park City Utah this weekend, where his pro-Trump message was juxtaposed with Romney&rsquo;s claims that Trump represents a dangerous form of &ldquo;trickle-down racism.&rdquo; This only made matters worse for ;attendees who were already struggling with the question of what to do with the party&rsquo;s controversial nominee. ;</p>
<p>Mitt Romney has been under considerable ;pressure to endorse ;Donald Trump in the effort to unite the Republican Party, and it seems the failed nominee of years past is started to crack: &#8220;Either choice is destructive. I love this country. I love the founder. I love what this country is built upon, and its values. And seeing this is breaking my heart,&rdquo; he said with tears in his eyes. ;</p>
<p>Romney confirmed that he would not be campaigning for or against Donald Trump and predicted that 90% of the nation&rsquo;s Republicans would vote for the billionaire. ;</p>
<p>&ldquo;I would love to see the Republican Party come together,&rdquo; said Spencer Zwick, finance chairman for Paul Ryan. &ldquo;At the same time, with comments like the one Donald Trump has made recently, I don&rsquo;t subscribe to that type of rhetoric. And I&rsquo;m not an elected official. I don&rsquo;t have to make an endorsement. There&rsquo;s no pressure.&rdquo;</p>
<p>In this case, Zwick was referring to the comment Trump made about District Court Judge Gonzalo Curiel&rsquo;s Mexican heritage. You can read more about that issue here. ;</p>
<p>Other attendees, including Hewlett Packard President Meg Whitman, admitted they might vote for Clinton just to keep Trump out of the White House. ;Still others are waiting for a sign. &ldquo;For me to jump in, this pivot has to come. We&rsquo;re still in primary mode,&rdquo; explained Romney&rsquo;s friend and former fundraiser John Rakolta Jr. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m an optimist by nature, and I keep hoping and hoping and hoping that there will be a reason to support him.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Overall, &ldquo;this is not a rabidly anti-Trump crowd,&rdquo; confirmed New York investor Anthony Scaramucci. &ldquo;If anything, people are trying to find ways to diplomatically support the candidate.&rdquo; ;</p>
<p>Donald Trump, who obviously was not invited to Romney&rsquo;s three-day conference, had a thing or two to say about Romney come Monday morning.</p>
<p>Speaking on the air with Breitbart&#8217;s Stephen K. Bannon, ;Trump referred to ;Romney as a &ldquo;choker,&rdquo; adding that he should have won the election in 2012. &ldquo;That election was easier than this election,&rdquo; said Trump. &ldquo;And now he&rsquo;s going around having meetings&hellip;he ought to go into retirement and relax, because he&rsquo;s wasting a lot of people&rsquo;s time.&rdquo; ;</p>
<p>Romney is still feeling guilty about 2012, theorized Trump. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s a very jealous guy. He&rsquo;s got a lot of problems. I watched his statement over the weekend. Actually, it was sort of sad and pathetic.&rdquo; ;</p>
<p>Despite Romney and his pack of confused Republicans, Trump is hopeful for the future of his party. &ldquo;Look, you know the Republican Party has largely come together,&rdquo; he said when asked if he thought the Republican Establishment was giving him more grief than his rival Hillary Clinton. &ldquo;They agree with me, and they believe in me, and I got more votes than anybody in the history of primary elections.&rdquo; ;</p>