Trump Aides Know His Polls Are Terrible--And Tell Him Otherwise

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

This past week, Donald Trump’s campaign did what one senior aide on the president’s 2020 team described to The Daily Beast as the “dumbest thing I’ve read in a long time.”

In a cease-and-desist letter dated June 9, 2020, the president’s re-election staff demanded that CNN retract and apologize for a recently released poll that had presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden leading Trump by 14 points. The letter, which the cable news network immediately laughed off, heavily cited the work of Trump pollster John McLaughlin, whose company alleged that CNN had somehow engaged in a “defamatory” act of “misinformation” and deliberately “skewed” data in an attempt to depress the president’s supporters.

The legal threat quickly became a punchline in political media and even in some sectors of Trump’s own political operation.

In one respect, it was just the latest effort by the president’s aides to attempt to satisfy the boss’ appetite for retribution. But it also revealed an element of the Trump political operation that has increasingly demanded time, money, and attention—mainly, the task of convincing Trump that the electoral landscape and polling deficits he faces aren’t as dire as he’s been hearing.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-advisers-tell-him-poll-084107336.html

Don't give the dotard bad news of he'll be vewy angwey.

[spooky3]

1. Oh, I say "go ahead and lie to him." That way, he will

never know what hits him in Nov., and may not raise as much $ before then.

With a normal President, getting the true results would make him/her take policy actions that more of us would approve. This one does just the opposite. So there’s not much risk in letting him delude himself.

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. What does that cease and desist letter tell you folks? That if he could, he would

shut down ALL speech that did not support him.

The bible photo op day then tells you he would enforce that with TANKS AND MISSILES if necessary.

[MoonchildCA]

3. He truly is the emperor with no clothes.