“The first wave of soldiers on D-Day had better odds of survival than a Trump senior staffer”, quipped John Noonan, a national security expert who previously worked for Jeb Bush.
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“He’s even created a new tax loophole that we call the Trump Loophole, because it’s really good for Trump”.
Mr Trump announced he had hired Steve Bannon, the head of the conservative news website Breitbart News, as campaign CEO, a new position, while promoting senior adviser Kellyanne Conway to the position of campaign manager. “It’s clear that his divisive, erratic, and unsafe rhetoric simply represents who he really is”, Mook said.
Mr Trump has shaken up his struggling presidential campaign with moves bringing in two new managers and demoting another on Wednesday.
Trump did not speak to reporters upon entering or exiting the building and a campaign spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the briefing.
She said Mr Trump has a history of beating expectations and can not be counted out.
David Brock, who founded the Clinton-defending super-political action committee Correct the Record, said his group was ready for such a turn. Kellyanne Conway, a veteran Republican pollster who has been close to Trump for years, will assume the role of campaign manager.
Bannon is a former Goldman Sachs banker who eventually launched his investment bank, focusing his efforts on working with conservative politicians.
Manafort has been effectively managing the campaign since June, when Trump’s previous campaign manager Corey Lewandowski was dismissed amid a pivot toward the general election. He was charged with assault, but prosecutors declined to proceed with the case, which was dropped.
On the heels, of his leadership shake-up, Trump hit a milestone for presidential candidates today. A campaign release highlighted that Bloomberg Politics has called Bannon the “most unsafe political operative in America”.
George H.W. Bush had Lee Atwater, who went after Dukakis, and Bill Clinton had James Carville and Paul Begala to attack George H.W. Bush.
Republican presidential nominee Donald TrumpDonald TrumpTrump goes to war against media Romney doing donor outreach for Rubio Green Party’s Stein makes pitch to Sanders supporters MORE is steeling himself for a protracted battle against an increasingly hostile press, adding the media to the list of establishment institutions he intends to crush on his way to the White House.
Bannon coming onto the Trump campaign is just a doubling down on insane.
Bringing Bannon into the Trump tent will nearly certainly lead to a new chapter in the fight between Trump and the media, which is already engaged in a fierce debate over how to cover the GOP nominee. At the time, Trump described the change to Fox News: “I think it’s time now for a different kind of a campaign”.
Taibbi, the liberal political editor at Rolling Stone, wrote that many in the press have made the conscious decision to pass on negative stories about Clinton and the Democrats for fear that it could lead to Trump getting elected president.
Trump’s divisive tone and weak poll numbers have triggered a rash of Republican defections in recent weeks.
“But he is still the same man who insults Gold Star families, demeans women, mocks people with disabilities, and thinks he knows more about ISIS than our generals”, she said amidst laughter from the audience. “You don’t boo the crowd”. If Donald Trump continues along the same path, the GOP will stop supporting him altogether, as he will eventually cause more damages to the party, going down in flames with all of those that have supported him without hesitation.
Trump did not appear to have been briefed, for example, when he received a veteran’s Purple Heart and awkwardly showed it off during a rally without seeming to understand why it was given, Bennett said.
“With each passing Trump attack, it becomes clearer that his strategy is just to say about Hillary Clinton what’s true of himself”.
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Breitbart is the only place that is more Trumpian than Trump. He lags behind Clinton in fundraising and organizing, with few operators in key battleground states to help organize volunteers and churn out the vote. “They can make him read new words from a teleprompter”, Clinton said at an election rally in Cleveland on Wednesday (Aug 17).
