2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumREPORT: TRUMP PREPARES FOR CRUCIAL DEBATE BY STAYING AT HOME, WATCHING CABLE NEWS, AND BEING MAD
In the crucial hours preceding tonight's all-important town hall debate in St. Louisas many of his allies revoked their endorsements, pulled money from his campaign, un-invited him from their events, and demanded that he step downDonald Trump remained largely holed up in his residence and office within the Trump Tower in Midtown Manhattan, obsessively watching CNN and occasionally subtweeting insults at his enemies. According to a report by Maggie Haberman in The New York Times, Trump was joined by a small team of supporters, including Rudy Giuliani, Chris Christie, Reince Priebus, Kellyanne Conway, Donald Trump Jr., and Jared Kushner. Trump occasionally reassured his diminishing supporters, and growing haters, that he wasn't going anywhere. The media and establishment want me out of the race so badly, he tweeted. I WILL NEVER DROP OUT OF THE RACE, WILL NEVER LET MY SUPPORTERS DOWN! #MAGA
According to the Times, some within the group had initially floated the idea of Trump and his wife, Melania, doing a joint television interview in order to quell voters fury. That idea was quickly jettisoned, however, after the resurfacing of an old interview that Trump did with Howard Stern, in which he gave the shock jock permission to call his daughter Ivanka Trump a piece of ass. (Ivanka Trump, often viewed as Trumps primary advisor, was missing from Trump Tower that day.)
Whatever else happened in the Tower that day is unclear, but in a sign that Trump may soon have no one left to defend him, Giuliani was the only surrogate on all of Sundays political talk shows, as Priebus and Conway abruptly canceled their appearances with little explanation. Giuliani repeatedly and awkwardly struggled to come up with a coherent defense of the man.
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/10/donald-trump-debate-lewd-comments?mbid=social_twitter
ailsagirl
(22,897 posts)Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)grossproffit
(5,591 posts)ucrdem
(15,512 posts)When do we learn that he's billions in debt and hasn't owned the shirt on his back for the last ten years?
Botany
(70,516 posts)grossproffit
(5,591 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)That means he will probably come unhinged later on tonight or maybe a huge amount of powder will drop out of his nose. Mic malfunction?
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)OldRedneck
(1,397 posts). . . I could retire on the fee from this one:
http://origin-nyi.thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/300106-report-melania-trump-refused-to-do-a-joint-tv-appearance-with
Melania Trump refused to do a joint video statement with her husband as the scandal about his past obscene comments about women broke, The New York Times reported Sunday.
Immediately after the Washington Post published the 2005 tape on Friday, the Trump campaign suggested that the couple should appear together on camera and address the controversy.
However, anonymous sources within the campaign told the Times that Melania Trump had no interest in doing a joint video statement with her husband.
grossproffit
(5,591 posts)There's also more than likely a very stringent confidentiality clause.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Bring it on!
salin
(48,955 posts)he orders a minion to create a playing card with that person's name/face/and some points - ala the cards W had for top Alqueada figures. So he can keep track and deal retribution via insult/zingers to each and every one of them! Bwahahahahaha
or he's acting in some other equally insane fashion.
bucolic_frolic
(43,182 posts)or is he saying his supporters are pussy-gropers too?
Expect the manic side of usual tonight
lillypaddle
(9,580 posts)however, the prospect of having to deal with this mad dog sociopath filled with hatred and on attack mode, cannot be something she is looking forward to. Stay strong, Hillary! We're with you all the way.
Cheviteau
(383 posts)Giuliani couldn't come up with a coherent fart let alone a defense of trump's crazy shit.