The Republican presidential nominee says the intelligence services have made “such bad decisions”. Trump has attempted to moderate his tone and stick to the script, rather than speak off the cuff he prefers.
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These announcements come at a time of significant growth for Mr. Trump’s campaign, with the first major TV ad buy of the general election slated to start later this week and with additional top-flight operatives joining the movement on a near-daily basis.
The site was in the middle of a controversy in April, when Corey Lewandowski, Trump’s campaign manager at the time, grabbed Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields at a rally.
Manafort deputy Rick Gates, who has been travelling often with Trump, is expected to maintain a senior role with the campaign. But it indicates that the candidate, who has chafed at making the types of changes his current aides have asked for even though he had acknowledged they would need to occur, has chose to embrace his aggressive style for the duration of the race.
Democrats have expressed concerns about Trump receiving sensitive information, but Trump says Hillary Clinton is the one who “can’t keep anything private”. In June, he fired longtime aide Lewandowski as campaign manager and handed more power to senior campaign aide Paul Manafort.
Former investment banker Stephen Bannon will head the real-estate mogul’s new team while pollster Kellyanne Conway comes in as the campaign’s new manager. The Kochs, however, have refused to support Trump.
Founded in 2007 by Andrew Breitbart, the conservative commentator who had worked on the Drudge Report and Huffington Post, among others.
Trump has listened intently to Bannon and agreed with him, believing that voters will ultimately want a presidential candidate who represents disruption more than a candidate with polished appeal, the aides said.
Donald Trump’s hiring of Breitbart News executive chairman Steve Bannon is a signal that nothing is off-limits between now and November 8. Lewandowski was charged with battery but the charge was later dropped. And they insisted that staff departures resulting from the changes would be few.
Trump has been lagging in the polls since he was crowned the GOP standard-bearer in Cleveland last month.
The latest NBC News / SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking Poll showed Clinton leading Trump by 9 points, 50 percent to 41 percent.
Manafort was forced to deny any impropriety this week after the New York Times reported his name was on secret ledgers showing cash payments designated to him of more than US$12 million from a Ukrainian political party with close ties to Russian Federation. Yet it remains to be seen whether a new chain of command can ultimately fix the problem: the candidate’s lack of discipline and desire to punch back at almost any critic.
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The latest move follows a series of recent controversies involving the United States presidential hopeful, which appear to have hit his support among voters. -Donald Trump in a “Law and Order” address in Wisconsin Tuesday.
