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applegrove

(118,682 posts) Fri Apr 22, 2016, 06:59 PM Apr 2016

Donald Trump Has Been Playing a ‘Part,’ Top Aide Tells Republican Leaders

Donald Trump Has Been Playing a ‘Part,’ Top Aide Tells Republican Leaders

By Sarah Mimms at Vice

https://news.vice.com/article/donald-trump-has-been-playing-a-part-top-aide-tells-republican-leaders

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A top staffer to Donald Trump suggested in a closed-door meeting with members of the Republican National Committee on Thursday that the GOP frontrunner has adopted a "persona" to attract voters.

Paul Manafort, Trump's recently hired chief strategist, told RNC members on Thursday that the Trump who conducts business deals and outlines political strategy behind closed doors is very different from the one who has dominated the 2016 campaign using incendiary, divisive, and occasionally racist and chauvinistic rhetoric. Manafort's comments were made in a private meeting, a recording of which was leaked to the New York Times and the Washington Post.

"Trump is an outsider, that's why maybe you don't know, but he's sitting in a room talking business and when he's talking politics in a private room, it's a different persona," Manafort said. "When he's out on the stage and he's talking about the kinds of things he's talking about on the stump, he's projecting an image that's for that purpose."

Manafort suggested that those two Trumps will merge "in the course of the next several months," as he works to lock up the Republican nomination before the party's convention in July and begins to focus on the November election.

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Donald Trump Has Been Playing a ‘Part,’ Top Aide Tells Republican Leaders (Original Post) applegrove Apr 2016 OP

Yeah, we all knew that I think. Jackie Wilson Said Apr 2016 #1

It is like WWE. Everyone knows its fake, Drahthaardogs Apr 2016 #4

I think people are ready to vote for the 99% this election. Trump picked up on that. Why the GOP applegrove Apr 2016 #5

I'm Glad Our Dem Candidates.... global1 Apr 2016 #2

So the question on every journalist pen should be ... 1StrongBlackMan Apr 2016 #3

You'd think but they are sheeple. The 3 questions to Trump are: underpants Apr 2016 #6

It used to work, but now it doesn't. sofa king Apr 2016 #7

Jackie Wilson Said

(4,176 posts)

1. Yeah, we all knew that I think.

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Fri Apr 22, 2016, 07:00 PM

Apr 2016

This country cant, wont elect him.

I wont accept that.

Drahthaardogs

(6,843 posts)

4. It is like WWE. Everyone knows its fake,

Reply to Jackie Wilson Said (Reply #1)

Fri Apr 22, 2016, 07:09 PM

Apr 2016

except the Republican voters.

applegrove

(118,682 posts)

5. I think people are ready to vote for the 99% this election. Trump picked up on that. Why the GOP

Reply to Jackie Wilson Said (Reply #1)

Fri Apr 22, 2016, 07:12 PM

Apr 2016

would support him rather than Cruz is because Cruz is creepy. Cruz means the stuff he says: "America is at its best when it is on its back...." and, the way he doesn't get along with people, makes me think he is a bit more sadistic than any President the USA has seen in the modern era. I guess the GOP has a choice between being laughed at by the country by supporting Trump or horrifying the world with Cruz.

global1

(25,253 posts)

2. I'm Glad Our Dem Candidates....

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Fri Apr 22, 2016, 07:07 PM

Apr 2016

aren't playing a part.

1StrongBlackMan

(31,849 posts)

3. So the question on every journalist pen should be ...

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Fri Apr 22, 2016, 07:08 PM

Apr 2016

which trump will govern (if American loses its collective mind and elects him) ... the "Part" persona, the "New Part" persona, or the persona to be presented.

I can't believe anyone thinks this is a smart strategy ... "Hey guys! I was just pretending to be a loud-mouthed, know-nothing bigot to get your votes in the primaries. This is the real me!"

That should really piss off his current supporters that loved his loud-mouthed, know-nothing bigot persona ... and give major pause to anyone liking what they hear next.

underpants

(182,826 posts)

6. You'd think but they are sheeple. The 3 questions to Trump are:

Reply to 1StrongBlackMan (Reply #3)

Fri Apr 22, 2016, 07:22 PM

Apr 2016

How?
Who are your people?
Who are you?

sofa king

(10,857 posts)

7. It used to work, but now it doesn't.

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Fri Apr 22, 2016, 08:47 PM

Apr 2016

I remember reading somewhere that one candidate-- Harry Truman, maybe?-- used to change the dialect he used when delivering the very same stump speech, depending on where his train was stopped. When he knew he was being recorded he would default to flat midwest.

But that doesn't work anymore. Mitt Romney tried every conceivable combination of lie and deception and all that did was create a critical mass against himself, so that eventually he was running against himself and we all gleefully pointed it out every day for months. I think it was the ridicule that swamped him, and he probably did a lot worse than our crooked election system's results showed.

Trump is going to be the same way. He's been a vile presence in media every disgusting day for a year, now, and every attempt to move away from his vile statements will be haunted by the Digital Recording of Donald Trump Past.

Republican leadership knows it, too. They've long been planning a three-candidate race designed to steal it in Congress and they'll try that either with Trump as the nominee or Trump as the spoiler. But either way, he's still just the chump that pushes them close enough to steal it and hand it to Paul Ryan.

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