The rationale for Trump’s presidential candidacy is crumbling

By Paul Waldman June 21 at 9:09 AM

I didn’t wake up Monday .. intending for this to be “The Trump Campaign Is a Rolling Dumpster Fire Week” .. but we follow .. the news ... And the news for .. Trump has transitioned from .. stories about appalling things he has said to .. stories about what a disaster his campaign is ...

For the presumptive nominee of a major party to have only $1.3 million in the bank isn’t just unusual, it’s .. stunning. That figure is what you expect from someone running for a House seat, not someone faced with .. a .. campaign whose costs could approach a billion dollars ...

Let’s remember what the entire basis of the Trump candidacy is. Trump argues that he can fix America’s problems and make us great again ... Because he’s rich ... That spectacular, tremendous, mind-boggling wealth is supposed to be proof of Trump’s innate brilliance, his superhuman negotiating skills, his unearthly management expertise. He might not be able to tell you the difference between Medicare and Medicaid or between the deficit and the debt, but he gets things done ...

But now that he has come under more scrutiny than he ever faced before, the picture of Trump as a high-class magnate is being replaced with a different picture, one of a grifter always dancing one step ahead of bankruptcy court and concocting one failed scheme after another to separate people from their money ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/06/21/the-entire-rationale-for-donald-trumps-presidential-candidacy-is-crumbling/