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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Sat Aug 20, 2016, 01:48 PM Aug 2016

Trump’s New Campaign Manager Wrecks His Central Message

http://bluenationreview.com/trumps-new-campaign-manager-wrecks-trumps-central-message/

Kellyanne Conway, Trump’s new campaign manager, spilled the beans in a CNN interview, saying Trump “actually built a lot of his businesses on the backs of the little guy.” OK then....

So his own new campaign manager thinks he “built a lot of his businesses on the backs of the little guy” and that people “suffered” because of his actions. That pretty much undercuts everything he claims to stand for.

Imagine Hillary confronting Trump with this in a debate. No way to spin out of it.

Onward…
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enough

(13,255 posts)
1. ??? What is she thinking?
Sat Aug 20, 2016, 01:57 PM
Aug 2016

I get the feeling people just line up to go to work for him, get paid up front, and are willing to just go out and self-destruct in public. What do they care? They've already been paid.

asiliveandbreathe

(8,203 posts)
2. Conway?? Thinking??? she is just a twisted pretzel selling a bag of crumbs -
Sat Aug 20, 2016, 02:01 PM
Aug 2016

Conway is like a fish out of water if she isn't spewing anti-LGBT hate...not surprised by the comment...

DURHAM D

(32,607 posts)
7. So did Tweety. He thinks she is a genius.
Sat Aug 20, 2016, 05:21 PM
Aug 2016

Tweety lied and said she has been very successful at getting the women's vote. He failed to provide an example of that expertise and I can not think of one.

Tweety also thinks she speaks for all women. The only women she can speak for are herself, Phyllis Schafly, Lynne Cheney, Liz Cheney, Wendy Gramm and the late Barbara Olson. They started the fake women's group Independent Idiot Women's Forum.

karynnj

(59,498 posts)
5. This was before she worked for him -- possibly when she worked for Cruz
Sat Aug 20, 2016, 03:34 PM
Aug 2016

Unfortunately for her, this is a true provable fact about Trump. Is this something we have audio or video on? If so, it could be used REALLY well against Trump and to show how shallow Conway really is.

I think this - even without Conway -- is something that HRC will use - just as Obama and Kennedy before him used far less blatant actions against Romney. The stories of small family businesses, that worked hard and provided a good living for generations that failed because Trump commissioned work and then paid far less than the contract or nothing because Trump's company declared bankruptcy. This is beyond despicable. These honest, hard working people are a contrast to Trump, who was given a fortune.

Seriously - this may be the election where people suddenly see that the "heroes" of reality tv are not necessarily good people just because they are rich.

KewlKat

(5,624 posts)
6. I think she said all this stuff on CNN when she was with Cruz?
Sat Aug 20, 2016, 04:47 PM
Aug 2016

Donald Trump’s new campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, spent the primary season as a cable news pundit attacking Trump for his “unpresidential” and “vulgar” language, for having “built a lot of his business on the backs of the little guy,” and for not releasing his tax returns. Conway’s previous lines of criticism are similar to charges the Clinton campaign has levied to admonish the Republican candidate.


VIDEO of transcript below here:

http://mediamatters.org/research/2016/08/19/here-s-how-trump-s-new-campaign-manager-attacked-him-cable-news-pundit/212524


KELLYANNE CONWAY: Before the victims of his elevated kind of talk, they were unions and they were Democrats, and they were people who were living off the system. But then it looked like it was commuters and everyday people. And I think that's actually something that could hurt Trump in South Carolina and beyond if people start to see that he's not -- he says he's for the little guy, but he's actually built a lot of his businesses on the backs of the little guy and he's a lot of little guys through eminent domain, or through not paying contractors after you’ve built something. The little guys have suffered. [CNN, CNN Newsroom with Carol Costello, 2/10/16]

Jeffersons Ghost

(15,235 posts)
10. K&R LOL! for sure "No way to spin out of it" nor can Trump spin out of this:
Sun Aug 21, 2016, 03:14 AM
Aug 2016

Later, his sexist woman-beaters can lie about stalking this artist and punching her for creating a nude Trump portrait to emphasize that people should not be defined by their genitals.

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