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Showing Original Post only (View all)The Trump Campaign Is In Full Nuclear Meltdown Mode [View all]
Sources describe the campaign as an incompetent, backstabbing skeleton crew without any coherent message. And Donald Trump is making it worse.http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/06/donald-trump-campaign
For all the noise that Donald Trump makes, and all the amplification that noise gets from the media, its hard to see the campaign infrastructure that presumably exists behind it. Perhaps thats because, as Trump aides and other sources close to the campaign revealed to NBC News, there isnt any infrastructure. Instead, the Trump campaign is reportedly composed of a skeleton crew of a few backstabbing staffers unable to coordinate a coherent message about the presumptive Republican nominees vision for America.
The article, simply titled Donald Trump does not have a campaign, details the disarray within the campaign, which is described as a bare-bones effort debilitated by infighting, a lack of staff to carry out basic functions, minimal coordination with allies and a message thats prisoner to Trumps momentary whims. While the feuding between professional political operative Paul Manafort and neophyte campaign manager Corey Lewandowski is well-known, even more dysfunction exists below them. Hope Hicks, the campaigns 27-year-old press secretary, reportedly works alone and without any support; a daunting task for a staffer responsible for managing Trumps juggernaut media presence. A rapid-response team, crucial in traditional campaigns to rebut their opponents attacks before they damage the candidate further, does not exist. The Trump campaign struggles to publicize positive news, too: while Manafort corralled a host of local endorsements ahead of the candidates California tour last week, no press release ever went out, a source told NBC, because Lewandowski and Hicks vetoed every draft. And when Hillary Clinton delivered a devastating foreign-policy speech criticizing Trumps temperament and credentials, Republican allies waited in vain to receive instructions on how to coordinate a counterattack. Trump tweeted about Clintons use of a teleprompter, but neither Trump nor the R.N.C. ever released an official rebuttal after the speech.
A lack of coordination isnt the only reason Trump surrogates are in the dark. Trump himself is so mercurial, and his positions so inconsistent (and often at odds with the Republican Partys own platform), that allies rarely know how to act or what to say. When Trump attacked Gonzalo Curiel, the judge presiding over a Trump University lawsuit, for his Mexican heritage, he refused to listen to the majority of horrified supporters and surrogates who urged him to apologize his comments. High-profile supporters like Newt Gingrich, who is widely considered to be a top pick for Trumps V.P., and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell either repudiated his remarks or remained silent.
But Trump hasnt backed down. On a conference call Monday, reported by Bloomberg, Trump demanded that his supporters and surrogates ramp up their attacks on Curiel. When former Arizona governor Jan Brewer noted that Trumps own staffers had previously sent a memo asking his allies to stop referring to the lawsuit, the New Yorker exploded. Take that order and throw it the hell out, he said, according to two people who were on the call. Are there any other stupid letters that were sent to you folks? he asked. That's one of the reasons I want to have this call, because you guys are getting sometimes stupid information from people that aren't so smart.
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if I had any sway over him I would put him on a vacation for awhile at some nice trump hotel nt
msongs
Jun 2016
#1
Its like bragging about how nice your lawn is while your house is burning to the ground
Doctor Jack
Jun 2016
#15
I'm almost thinking the GOP is realizing they screwed up with the Tea Party BS...
C Moon
Jun 2016
#10
What's the opposite of peaking too early? I don't want him to crash and burn too early (nt)
Recursion
Jun 2016
#8
Its like watching a car where the driver is passed out with their foot on the gas
Doctor Jack
Jun 2016
#11
But it's a damn fabulous meltdown. Greatest meltdown ever from a really good brain.
Kablooie
Jun 2016
#20
I don't know. There's quite a few Trump yard signs around here. Almost as many as there ...
Scuba
Jun 2016
#26
It is all Trump's if he wants it. Does he want it is the only real question.
yourpaljoey
Jun 2016
#38
trump glaring problems...he will not listen or take advice from others and can't keep his mouth shut
beachbum bob
Jun 2016
#32
I cannot imagine anybody feeling any scrap of personal loyalty to this man...
Wounded Bear
Jun 2016
#35
Trump has served his purpose: a Clinton trojan horse to destroy the GOP & deceive the rubes
99th_Monkey
Jun 2016
#42
"you guys are getting sometimes stupid information from people that aren't so smart.”
yellowcanine
Jun 2016
#47
No shit. That old hag needs to disappear from politics. Just. Go. Away. Already.
AgadorSparticus
Jun 2016
#91
Is it true that he has no ground game organized at the state level either nt?
maryellen99
Jun 2016
#59
Powers that Be Used Trump Boogyman to Scare More Votes for Hillary in the Primaries
McKim
Jun 2016
#60
Trump says he hires the best & smartest, who sent out "stupid information from stupid people". . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Jun 2016
#65
T-Rumps millions of rabid followers will not take very kindly to him being ousted
NoMoreRepugs
Jun 2016
#83
In order for Trumpf to be booted, he will have had to fuck up so badly most of his "support"
AntiBank
Jun 2016
#84
He didn't respond to HRC's attacks and has skeletal crews because he has no money.
AgadorSparticus
Jun 2016
#92