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Title: The Trump Campaign Is in Full Nuclear Meltdown Mode
Source:
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: 3957
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.
By Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images.
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#1. To: hondo68 (#0)
right the love If you ... don't use exclamation points --- you should't be typeing ! Commas - semicolons - question marks are for girlie boys !
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? потому что Бог хочет это тот путь
ha ha ha will martial hillary love If you ... don't use exclamation points --- you should't be typeing ! Commas - semicolons - question marks are for girlie boys !
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.
My point as early as March. I did think by now they would have some infrastructure to speak of. I mentioned back in March and April that the campaign must shift from your party opponent to the presumptive national opponent. Obama ran ads against Romney starting in early April in all battle ground states and never let up on the gas through election day. That infrastructure is STILL there and in a few days a few phone calls will be made by Obomination types to free up the infrastructure to Hitlery. Trump had time to piece together a coherent team. He did not.
How many times has this already happened? Trump says something, his "supporters and surrogates" are horrified, then weeks or months later admit, "You know what? Trump was right!"
The GREAT WHITE HOPE, now where have we heard that before?
The GREAT WHITE HOPE, now where have we heard that before? No not white anything. America first! Freedom first! If hillary gets elected its over. She is so corrupt that she will be allowed by the elites to keep stealing freedoms importing 3rd world shits who have zero desire to assimilate but to conquer. That way we are not a melting pot but 167 different countries with no laws but public manipulated opinion run by a few corrupt groups untouchable by law.
It's already over - a system that elects Obama (twice) is broken beyond pair. All that's left are the riots. "Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD . . . " ~Psalm 33:12a
Neither. The article is a lie.
So Trump is going to lose?
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? потому что Бог хочет это тот путь
Trump now says that he is relying on the RNC and REP Party's network, machinery, campaign facilities, and, more significantly money to wage his national campaign. The man is nothing but a hustling con artist. No more Trump money will go into the campaign and he will start paying himself back for the loans he made the campaign during the primary season. About 40% of what he might not recoup will be paid for by the tax payers as Trump writes the debt off on his tax returns. The man is a bigger fraud than Obama. потому что Бог хочет это тот путь
ping #14. потому что Бог хочет это тот путь
I forgot to add that when Trump loses he will blame the RNC and REP Party for not supporting him enough. потому что Бог хочет это тот путь
Really? So Trump has a large, well organized campaign infrastructure? A government strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them. Yes, really the article is a lie. It says "Trump Campaign in Full Nuclear Meltdown". That's a lie, and that's the headline, the big bold clickbait lie.
If he does not get a competent team mustered now, yes he will.
No you summed it up quite nicely, unfortunately.
Yes, the headline is wildly exaggerated to say the least. A government strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them. Wishes don't make fact.
Psalm 37
A wooden stake through the heart of the GOP would be good for America.
Psalm 37
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.
Chin up, Bucky. The Soviet Union fell from within, in time. Nothing lasts forever.
Nothing lasts forever. No Soviet fell because President Reagan out did them till they broke. Im sure USSR thought the progressives ran the show until President Reagan out witted them both. Without good Americans there will be no one left to undo the damage the progressives have and will do. We will all be slaves to the devil and no one will survive it. Its funny I can see the bible in the world but everyone is ignoring devils "snakee" moves and by the time everyone figures it out it will be too late to undo the damage.
Im sure USSR thought the progressives ran the show until President Reagan out witted them both. No, the USSR fell because they chose to stupidly follow Reagan down the rabbit hole of an arms race. They didn't need to do that. The US posed no real threat, but the Soviet mentality of building arms to threaten was sincere - they really believed that would work. Which meant that when the Americans went nuts on an arms race also, the Soviets, instead of laughing as the Americans wasted huge amounts of money, decided to go nuts and match, on a much smaller economy. They didn't HAVE to do it. They CHOSE the path of folly. Reagan read them well. He read the character of the Soviet leaders, and provoked them into taking the actions that led to their downfall. But they certainly didn't have to take the bait. Putin is an example of a Russian leader who is capable of being severely provoked and not losing his cool or taking his eye off the ball. The Soviets were less discerning. Had the Soviets not played ball with Reagan's arms race, the US would have harmed itself, and the USSR would still be there. But they were foolish.
Well there you go again with that socialist skooling. No with out a doubt ussr collapsed because of president Reagan. Without president Reagan ussr would still be around and you know it. I'm not sure why people have an issue giving president Reagan his due?
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#2. To: Stoner (#0)
#3. To: SOSO (#2)
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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.
#6. To: hondo68 (#0)
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.
#7. To: hondo68 (#0)
"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."
#8. To: Justified (#5)
ether people like it or not Trump is the only hope for America.
#9. To: paraclete (#8)
ether people like it or not Trump is the only hope for America.
#10. To: Justified (#9)
If hillary gets elected its over.
#11. To: SOSO (#2)
Either Trump is an incredible foolish incompetent egomaniac or is taking a dive. Which is it?
#12. To: redleghunter (#6)
#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.
#14. To: redleghunter, hondo68, A K A Stone, vicomte13, sneakypete, All (#6)
Trump had time to piece together a coherent team. He did not.
#15. To: Vicomte13 (#11)
Neither. The article is a lie.
#16. To: redleghunter, hondo68, A K A Stone, vicomte13, sneakypete, All (#14)
Trump now says that he is relying on the RNC and REP Party's network, machinery, campaign facilities, and, more significantly money to wage his national campaign. The man is nothing but a hustling con artist. No more Trump money will go into the campaign and he will start paying himself back for the loans he made the campaign during the primary season. About 40% of what he might not recoup will be paid for by the tax payers as Trump writes the debt off on his tax returns. The man is a bigger fraud than Obama.
#17. To: Vicomte13 (#11)
The article is a lie.
#18. To: ConservingFreedom (#17)
Really? So Trump has a large, well organized campaign infrastructure?
#19. To: A K A Stone (#12)
So Trump is going to lose?
#20. To: SOSO (#13)
Do I need to go on to make my case?
#21. To: Vicomte13 (#18)
the headline, the big bold clickbait lie.
#22. To: hondo68 (#0)
#23. To: hondo68 (#0)
#24. To: SOSO (#13)
Always thought Dump was a ploy to get his friend Dilliary elected,
#25. To: Justified (#24)
They will enslave our children and there will nothing we can do about it once it happens.
#26. To: Vicomte13 (#25)
Chin up, Bucky. The Soviet Union fell from within, in time.
#27. To: Justified (#26)
No Soviet fell because President Reagan out did them till they broke.
#28. To: Vicomte13 (#27)
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