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Title: The Trump Campaign Is in Full Nuclear Meltdown Mode
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Vanity Fair
URL Source: http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/06/donald-trump-campaign
Published: Jun 7, 2016
Author: Tina Nguyen
Post Date: 2016-06-08 00:20:46 by Hondo68
Keywords: backstabbing staffers, arent so smart, VP Newt losing grip
Views: 4359
Comments: 28
For all the noise that Donald Trump makes, and all the amplification that noise gets from the media, it’s hard to see the campaign infrastructure that presumably exists behind it. Perhaps that’s because, as Trump aides and other sources close to the campaign revealed to NBC News, there isn’t 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 nominee’s 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 that’s prisoner to Trump’s 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 campaign’s 27-year-old press secretary, reportedly works alone and without any support; a daunting task for a staffer responsible for managing Trump’s 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 candidate’s 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 Trump’s temperament and credentials, Republican allies waited in vain to receive instructions on how to coordinate a counterattack. Trump tweeted about Clinton’s use of a teleprompter, but neither Trump nor the R.N.C. ever released an official rebuttal after the speech. A lack of coordination isn’t 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 Party’s 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 Trump’s V.P., and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell either repudiated his remarks or remained silent. But Trump hasn’t 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 Trump’s 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.” For months, Trump’s hot mess of a campaign has taken a backseat to his own cult of personality. He’s his own rapid-response team, refusing to rely on fact-checking and instead using well-crafted tweets and phoned-in interviews on cable news. Trump has also benefited from his ability to distract the media from his gaffes by generating new scandals at such a pace that the old controversies are quickly forgotten. Last week, for instance, allegations of fraud at Trump University were soon drowned out by his criticism of Curiel. Yet it is unclear how much longer the billionaire real estate mogul can continue to count on new troubles to effectively bail him out of older ones. Trump can dismiss some of the criticism of his campaign as media bias, but there’s a growing sense that his improprieties are catching up to him. And without a coherent campaign infrastructure or network of allies to beat back the constant attacks, Trump is in danger of losing his grip on the news cycle, though he certainly continues to hold it: Even more worrying is what Trump’s inability to run a competent campaign portends for his ability to manage the White House, let alone the country. As Nobel-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz recently wrote for Vanity Fair, there is no larger organization in the United States than the federal government, and Trump has demonstrated little talent for delegation. If elected president, not only would Trump have to staff the 3,000 or so positions that are typically vacated at the end of an administration, but he would have to coordinate and manage a network of more than 2 million federal employees. Forget the belief that Trump can find 3,000 of “the best people” to manage the alphabet soup of federal agencies (many of which he surely hasn’t heard of); if the Trump campaign can’t get its own act together, there will be no amount of televised antics or bluster that could mask a federal government in similar disarray. Sources describe the campaign as an incompetent, backstabbing skeleton crew without any coherent message. And Donald Trump is making it worse.
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#2. To: Stoner (#0)
ping "A lack of coordination isn’t 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 Party’s 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 Trump’s V.P., and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell either repudiated his remarks or remained silent." Either Trump is an incredible foolish incompetent egomaniac or is taking a dive. Which is it?
Always thought Dump was a ploy to get his friend Dilliary elected, Noone could be this stupid, or that far up himself, that he could think he could win on the strength of his primary performance. I wonder what his consulting fee to the Dilliary campaign is, success fee, of course.
Always thought Dump was a ploy to get his friend Dilliary elected, Noone could be this stupid, or that far up himself, that he could think he could win on the strength of his primary performance. I wonder what his consulting fee to the Dilliary campaign is, success fee, of course. If this was true than you can kiss the GOPee goodbye. It would be the epic meltdown of the GOPee and America. Whether people like it or not Trump is the only hope for America.
If this was true than you can kiss the GOPee goodbye. It would be the epic meltdown of the GOPee and America. Whether people like it or not Trump is the only hope for America. The evidence strongly suggests that it is true. Is there any doubt that the GOP is in a state of turmoil, that the DRats smell blood in the water as the REP rats desert the mortally wounded Party? Is there any doubt that the country is even more openly and in some case more militantly polarized than even during Obama's administration? Is there any doubt that many so-called Conservatives are openly applauding the demise of the GOP as we know it? Trump is the only hope for Trump. America as my generation and my parents and grandparents generations knew it is over and done. It started to visibly die in the 60s. Half or more of people under 21 think that Socialism is a preferred economic system over Capitalism. Useful idiots are running around bemoaning their White Privilege. The racist Chief of Police and Mayor of San Jose blatantly allow their Latino bros, La Raza, to beat up on Trump supporters in plain sight of the police. Sanctuary cities stick up their finger to the rest of the country as the Federal government continues to channel billions and billions of dollars of tax payer money to support those cities - while the Fed government threatens to fine the Little Sisters of the Poor out of existence for holding true to their Christian religious beliefs, hound and fine small business people out of business for defending their Christian religious beliefs, and, threatens to cut off funding to Texas and other states if it they don't allow transgender people to publically shower were they choose - just to cite a few examples. We live in country were the official government position is that only white people are racists. We live in a country that has abandoned its borders. We live in a country were about half of the people filing tax returns pay no Federal income tax and were about half of those actually get money from the IRS. Do I need to go on to make my case?
Probably should have been more clear. I do not think he is trying to get Hillary elected. But if he did it would end the GOP and turn the demoncrat party into a powerhouse that would run over the right of center people. I believe the people on the GOP side would just stop voting. This country would end up as a corrupt socialist country and rip all the good out of her. America the working zombie country. Then what country would take the US dollar in trade? Hillary would be the absolute worst thing ever happen to US. All the small business owners holding on with a wing and pray that someone right of center will be elected would just give up. Why fight for a dream that will never happen? If a Hillary presidency does not scare the ever loving shit out of you then you are already dead. If you or anyone thinks there is going to be a civil war, backlash or some kinda of day of reckoning if we keep electing these crippling leftist you are fooling yourselves. All that will happen is socialist will take over and keep pushing their agenda while propagandizing our children that its our fault that it doesn't work. They will enslave our children and there will nothing we can do about it once it happens. On a side note after $19 trillion of borrowing that will never be paid back its crazy that the right has not been able to show it to be a failed war on poverty. Progressive claim its war period that cause the debt. Neither war on terror, communist or others ever gets won and the war on poverty never gets better. We are raising a group of idiots! Baby boomers are the most worthless group including the x's, y's or whomever because we the baby boomers screwed everything up that was great about America.
#25. To: Justified (#24)
Chin up, Bucky. The Soviet Union fell from within, in time. Nothing lasts forever.
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#4. To: SOSO (#2)
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Trump is an incredible foolish incompetent egomaniac or is taking a dive.
#5. To: paraclete, SOSO (#4)
Trump is an incredible foolish incompetent egomaniac or is taking a dive.
#13. To: Justified, paraclete, sneakypete, vicomte13, All (#5)
Trump is an incredible foolish incompetent egomaniac or is taking a dive. Always thought Dump was a ploy to get his friend Dilliary elected, Noone could be this stupid, or that far up himself, that he could think he could win on the strength of his primary performance. I wonder what his consulting fee to the Dilliary campaign is, success fee, of course.
#24. To: SOSO (#13)
Always thought Dump was a ploy to get his friend Dilliary elected,
Replies to Comment # 24. They will enslave our children and there will nothing we can do about it once it happens.
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