he didn't want to hear anything bad about himself.

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One of Trump's wives said he was the greatest lover she ever had.

Wonder if he ever reciprocated that honor?

Or is Trump the greatest lover Trump ever had?

must have been hard on the RNC campaign staffers, who are probably used to working with the sane sith lords. well all hail darth trump, now how do you like them apples? oh man, some of the campaign staff are pros near the top of their "craft" and they're never gonna work in DC again.

That there is really no viable response
Trump knew that when asked about that in the 1980s but his self awareness seems to have taken a hike since then

ever speak against HIM! Even IF somebody did, he'll just deny everything and of course everyone will believe him. What a jackass.

is what the other repug candidates were doing with all the money raised?

Bush, Cruz, Rubio — all of them were well funded and they didn't think to do opposition research on Trump?

Shows their campaigns' utter incompetence in not doing their due diligence in Campaign Politics 101.

Stupid.

All of them should have found out about Trump's horrible misogyny. If they had done just this basic campaign function we wouldn't be dealing with this clown now. He would not have survived the primaires.

Trump got as far as he did in the primary initially because nobody took him seriously. Cruz, Rubio, Bush and the others were busy fighting with each other. Trump whizzed by them on the outside while they were blocking each other. By the time they realized he was a threat, the race was near the finish line and there wasn't enough time to do enough research.

In fact, he led the polls almost the whole campaign. By at least half the campaign, probably even a third of it, the others, if they had any brains, should have turned their attention to the guy beating them all.

From there they should've done some oppo on him. The apparent incompetence is alarming as it shows there's not much campaign-running talent on the the repug side of things.

They all blew it and we now have Trump running a vile, hate-filled, dangerous, fascist-leaning, racist, anti-immigrant pursuit of the presidency from which the country, as it stands and has stood for all of our lives, will not survive as is, if a mysogynist, Hilter-worshiping, bullying, racist strongman is in the White House.

The extreme supporters he has dog-whistled to and consistently fed raw meat rhetoric to will demand that he jail Clinton as promised and he will comply.

But it wouldn't stop there. There would be more arrests. Hell, some on this board, or this very board itself would be considered suspicious enemy/leftists and subject to arrest.

never speak ill of a fellow Republican. It may have helped back in the 80s, but it creates a problem for the eventual primary winner. I think the RNC should have been vetting their primary candidates as well. Surprised that no one in the RNC didn't find a way to leak the truly awful stuff on Trump's character and business dealings. Oh well, thanks Ron!

each of his opponents for oppo research?

He might still not have won the GrOPer nomination, but could have gotten to the final 3.

that all the Repub candidates thought someone else would do the research. Jeb figured, Oh, Rubio and Cruz will research Trump; Rubio figured Cruz and Bush would research Trump and so on...

the repug side. It's like the president signaled yesterday in his speech towards the repug establishment — (and I'm paraphrasing) ". . . of all the people, you family-values, conservative, upright people of faith party, you pick THIS guy?"

The other major party in the country picks Trump. He's the best/worse they could come up with.

It's stunning.

IMHO, everyone knew about Trump's misogyny, bigotry, racism, etc. But that was not a negative in the primary election, it was a plus and it would not have hurt him then. Look at how his base is still supporting him.

The reason that the Republican leadership is panicking now is that we are no longer in primary mode and what is red meat for the base during the primary season is dog droppings for the rest of the voters in the general election. What got him the nomination is what will lose him the general election. His attitudes are not new and were not unknown, it was just that the Republican base likes them. Too bad for them, and great for the rest of us, that sane people don't.

he didn't want even his team looking under rocks because he doesn't want anyone to know. They could always turn on him later for one thing.

Thank you, Tom

he has many followers who believe it, and I don't think they will peacefully concede the election.

from the outset. That was the entire plan, if things spiraled out of control. He's going to end up issuing instructions from a cell like Warren Jeffs.

pretty amazing to block researching the past of your candidate to be prepared the campaign for what the opposition will find...either reason is a testament into what trump is.....he is a LIAR who knows what he has done and doesn't want to admit it to his people....or he is such a narcissist at the extreme range who believes he can do now wrong so why bother....both proves he is so unfit for leadership....If I was a trump donor I'd be demanding my money back too...

to believe he has never done wrong so why waste time and money....this is the tell-tale sign

Instead, Trumps ready made answer is to just deny and call everyone a liar.

use "the Google" and all sorts of NY-based media articles (magazine & newspaper) would have ushered forth, that have been written over the past 40 years.