It boasted Clint Eastwood, Jon Voight and Kelsey Grammer as members, and hosted top Republicans, including Donald Trump, at events in Los Angeles.
“We bitched about how, in California, if you say you voted for Trump people look at you like the antichrist.”
Hollywood conservatives used to cherish the Friends of Abe as a secretive club where they could meet and vent rightwing views safe from liberal backlash.
The dispute appears linked in part to internal conservative divisions over Trump – one of the challenges facing the so-called “resistance to the resistance” in deep-blue California.