The week that shook the Trump campaign

[JoeOtterbein]

Politico

Jared Kushner asserted more control over the reelection, but some Republicans said only the president can reverse his slide.

By ALEX ISENSTADT

07/02/2020 08:29 PM EDT

When Donald Trump had dinner with Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus at the White House on Saturday, word of the get-together quickly reverberated across the president’s political sphere.

The 91-year-old billionaire is a longtime backer of former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, and Trump operatives were suspicious that a move was afoot to bring the smashmouth populist back into the fold.

Few seriously believe Bannon will return — while Trump has praised his recent TV appearances, there is still deep anger within the president’s inner circle over Bannon's post-White House mocking of first daughter Ivanka Trump. But the post-meeting jitters illustrate how Trump’s political team is suddenly gripped by uncertainty: With the election just four months away and Trump conceding privately that he’s behind, his advisers have spent the past week racing to get on track.

Most notably, Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner asserted further control over the campaign, a move that led to the abrupt demotion of one of Trump’s longest-serving political aides. The internal moves, however, did little to assuage skeptics who say Trump’s problems can be fixed only by the candidate himself.

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[Nevilledog]

1. The only thing that will fix his troubles is euthanasia.

[secondwind]

3. 😂😂😂😂😂😂

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2. Isn't Kellyanne Conway still on staff? She directed and "won" 2016...

and they put the doofus/Dunning-Kruger Effect Kushner in charge of yet another operation—like he's had success at all the other things he's been put in charge of.

My point being is why the fuck is Conway still hanging in there? I'm no fan of hers or want trump to win but she has to know she's going to be a pariah in just about every circle of society when trump loses because she stayed for the entire fucking duration of his disastrous administration.

[JoeOtterbein]

4. I'm certain Kellyanne would still be in charge if she was not...

...married to George!

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5. And the question still remains, why is she still there?

She's horrid but no dummy. Wonder what arrangement she's made with her husband. Is she a mole for him and the Lincoln Project?

[JoeOtterbein]

7. That answer is easy to say in just one word...

...Money.

[tinrobot]

11. I bet she'll have a very juicy book on sale next year.

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14. That must be it.

[NRaleighLiberal]

6. keep rearranging those deck chairs!

[Cha]

8. Exactly.

[NoMoreRepugs]

9. Trump's problems fixed by himself??? Are you fucking kidding me?

Covid, immigration internment camps, massive unemployment, turning a blind eye to Putin paying bounties on US soldiers, trillions to Businesses with no oversight, rampant racism and on and on ..... he’s going to fix all that?

Puh-leeze.

[Disaffected]

12. All the king's horses and all the king's men

couldn't put Trumpty-Dumpty together again.

IOWs, Trump's entropy has increased so much he ain't never going back.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

10. They'd need to invent time travel to fix the past.

Not going to happen.

[dawg day]

13. I'm running out of popcorn.

I love the idea of Jared, Parscale, and Bannon in hand-to-hand combat. Or tweet-to-tweet.

[qazplm135]

15. Bannon won't fix anything

It's one thing to get him barely over the hump as a cypher against a highly disliked candidate, it's another against a reasonably well liked opponent who's a white man and as a President with a record to attack.