A lot of goodies in this one....
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/04/inside-the-donald-trump-presidential-campaign.html
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Six months later, Lewandowski and Hicks worked into the early hours of the morning prepping for Trump's campaign announcement in the lobby of Trump Tower. "It had to be perfect," Lewandowski said. "We had to build the stage, make sure the flags hung perfectly; the eagles faced out; the carpet was red, and he would wear a red tie." And hire plants. The campaign paid actors $50 each to wear Trump T-shirts and wave placards.
Later that morning, they watched from the wings as Ivanka introduced her father in front of reporters and photographers and the manufactured crowd. "It looked like the Academy Awards!" Trump recalled. "You saw the cameras, forget it. You couldn't get another person in."
Replace Trump with Obama and you'd never have known the difference.
I wonder how much will come out after Trump's death?
QuoteBut if speed is the advantage of the small campaign, insularity is its inherent disadvantage. By all accounts, Trump doesn't seek much counsel beyond his staff and children. There is, of course, his circle of declared foreign-policy advisers whom no one had heard of, but it's unclear how much he talks to those he cites publicly. Carl Icahn told me that Trump didn't call him before he invoked his name as a potential Cabinet member. "I saw one day he was on TV talking about making Carl Icahn secretary of the Treasury," Icahn said. "I'm certainly not going to be Treasury secretary."
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QuoteWhen he launched his campaign, Trump suspected it would eventually fizzle and he would return to The Apprentice. "You know, when I first got into this, it was for other reasons," he told a friend. As weeks and then months passed with him remaining out front, he began to think winning the nomination was a real possibility, even as he resisted calls to professionalize his campaign. Why bother, when what he was doing was working so well? But now the cracks are starting to show.
Quote from: Solar on April 06, 2016, 06:48:27 AM
Replace Trump with Obama and you'd never have known the difference.
I wonder how much will come out after Trump's death?
My guess, he retreats from public life within 2 yrs.... I honestly think he has early onset alzheimers, as his father had alzheimers I heard reported. I Really don't wish that on anyone, but it would explain a lot.
Quote from: Sauce on April 06, 2016, 07:10:56 AM
My guess, he retreats from public life within 2 yrs.... I honestly think he has early onset alzheimers, as his father had alzheimers I heard reported. I Really don't wish that on anyone, but it would explain a lot.
I think that regardless of his money and his education, he isn't all that bright. When he speaks it's as if "the lights are on... but no one is home".
Quote from: Sauce on April 06, 2016, 07:10:56 AM
My guess, he retreats from public life within 2 yrs.... I honestly think he has early onset alzheimers, as his father had alzheimers I heard reported. I Really don't wish that on anyone, but it would explain a lot.
Odd. We had a discussion about possible senility not so long ago on this board. It could explain why his kids are letting him run. It helps to keep him out of the way while they run the businesses.
You know you're a f*ckup when you do and say such stupid crap that people assume you have a form of dementia.
Quote from: mdgiles on April 06, 2016, 07:59:09 AM
Odd. We had a discussion about possible senility not so long ago on this board. It could explain why his kids are letting him run. It helps to keep him out of the way while they run the businesses.
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