Donald Trump Just Revealed His Next Debate Strategy

Donald Trump signaled very clearly in his apology video where he’s going now. Yeah, I may have said some awful things, but the Clintons did them: “I’ve said some foolish things, but there’s a big difference between the words and actions of other people. Bill Clinton has actually abused women, and Hillary has bullied, attacked, shamed, and intimidated his victims. We will discuss this more in the coming days. See you at the debate on Sunday.”
A normal politician—well, first of all, a normal politician would never have said these things on tape to a reporter. So there’s that. But what I was going to say was, a normal politician, confronted with a revelation like this, would try to pivot away. He’s spend three days apologizing, and not just publicly but privately—making phone calls to key supporters, eating the requisite humble pie, pleading for them to stick with him. We know Trump’s not going to do any of that. Then he’d let the media decide they’d kicked him around enough on this one and try to roll with a change of topic.
But that ain’t Trump. He’s leaning in. Imagine the transcript of last night’s conference call—Trump, Roger Ailes, Steve Bannon, maybe Roger Stone, and Kellyanne Conway (not “poor” Kellyanne Conway—she has free will, and she decided to do this). I can imagine Conway, who was brought in to stop him from doing stuff like this, begging him to just apologize and leave it at that. But it’s not hard to see how she would have been outvoted. snip..................

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