'Republican source' leaks Trump speech to Dems (UPDATE)

[heresAthingdotcom]

Source: Politico

A super PAC backing Hillary Clinton on Thursday night mysteriously obtained and leaked drafts of Donald Trump’s nomination speech — and those of several other convention speakers — hours before the night’s proceedings were set to kick off, sending the Trump campaign scrambling on the final night of what has been a chaotic convention.
The super PAC, Correct the Record, obtained a document containing the drafts from “a Republican source who had access to it and they sent it to us,” said Correct the Record founder David Brock, a close Clinton ally.

But a senior Republican operative working behind the scenes at the convention called the leak " a disaster” that proved that Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his team “just aren't ready for prime time.”
The drafts obtained by Correct the Record were in a single document formatted for a TelePrompTer, and were time-stamped from the early afternoon.
The document began circulating in political and journalism circles and POLITICO obtained a draft of it soon after 5 p.m., but refrained from publishing it until verifying its authenticity.





Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/rnc-2016-donald-trump-speech-leak-hillary-clinton-pac-225981

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Also on Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-speech-full-text_us_5791547ae4b0bdddc4d3ea99?uvkz0homss9d4pldi

Story from Media Matters

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/07/21/trump-s-convention-speech-will-include-dog-whistle-conspiracy-theorist-alex-jones-fans/211804

[TygrBright]

1. Yeah, but what makes anyone think he'll stick to a prepared speech at all? n/t

[riversedge]

4. It does not matter now.

[still_one]

2. Assuming it is even true, so what. No one needed a preview of their speechs the previous

days to see they are a bunch of hateful, irrational jerks

[riversedge]

3. a senior Republican operative working behind the scenes at the convention called the leak " a disast

too bad.




...............The Trump campaign did not respond to a question about how the draft might have leaked.

But a senior Republican operative working behind the scenes at the convention called the leak " a disaster” that proved that Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his team “just aren't ready for prime time.”

The drafts obtained by Correct the Record were in a single document formatted for a TelePrompTer, and were time-stamped from the early afternoon.

The document began circulating in political and journalism circles and POLITICO obtained a draft of it soon after 5 p.m., but refrained from publishing it until verifying its authenticity.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/rnc-2016-donald-trump-speech-leak-hillary-clinton-pac-225981#ixzz4F5wodL49
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[JoFerret]

5. Look folks - this stuff is serious

This is not a time to parse the niceties of Clinton v. Sanders. This is a time to come together and defeat a threat to America, to democracy and to hope for the world.

[Cryptoad]

7. Ted up to his old tricks?

[bucolic_frolic]

16. I disagree with everything Ted stands for

but he emerges from this week as the only Republican with any guts

[JoFerret]

8. Lies, Lies and More Lies n/t

[Equinox Moon]

9. Why would someone in his camp want to leak his speech?

[Wednesdays]

12. I'm sure the place is riddled

with party insiders who detest him, and are looking for any means to defeat him. Even at the cost of making Hillary president.

[Equinox Moon]

13. You mean like political spys?

[Qutzupalotl]

15. Knowing Brock, the official calling it a disaster could also be the leaker.

That would save time.

[PSPS]

17. What is a "Spys?"

[Equinox Moon]

19. Oh wow, that is my spelling error

"spies" is what I meant.

[MADem]

10. Did he post them to his google account in the cloud, or something?

user name: Donald Trump

Password MakeAmericaGreat2016

???

LOL!

[maxrandb]

14. but...but...but Hillary's emails...

We're about to give this guy Top Secret briefings and he can't even protect a firckin' speech?

[tinrobot]

11. The blowback of Trump's antagonism towards other Republicans.

Over the past year, he's ticked off most of the establishment GOP. This gives insiders a big incentive to take him down.

I guarantee there will be more incidents like this as we move into the general.

[moonscape]

18. Wonder how much classified material will be 'leaked' because DT can't resist tweeting it ... n/t