“We sat on it all so as not to help the candidates who might have been stronger general election candidates,” Brock said, according to his prepared remarks, which American Bridge released to POLITICO…

While Brock told the donors that American Bridge also had been building oppo files on other prospective Republican presidential nominees — including Ted Cruz and Paul Ryan — he paid special attention to the Manhattan real estate showman who is leading the GOP delegate race, warning: “Trump won’t be a cakewalk defeat” in a general election.

“American Bridge is building a database of all the regular people — from unpaid vendors to harassed tenants to defrauded students at Trump University — who got screwed over for one reason only,” said Brock. “They took Trump at his word.”