2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumDo you think Trump's surrogates are sincere or are they just in it for the money?
The mental gymnastics they go through every day while defending the indefensible suggests the latter. Of all his surrogates, the only ones who will probably vote for him are the ones hoping for a cabinet position.
cry baby
(6,682 posts)JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)avebury
(10,952 posts)they were paid in cash up front. Wouldn't put it past Trump to stiff them.
Siwsan
(26,268 posts)Fear of looking dumb and foolish.
avebury
(10,952 posts)Siwsan
(26,268 posts)Panic does tend to scramble one's ability to reason.
Brother Buzz
(36,444 posts)I'm just saying.
rurallib
(62,423 posts)my guess is she is just about the Benjamins.
As are all the others.
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)It was scathing...
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Paula Sims
(877 posts)They'll do anything. Even Rudi was abandoned by Christie. And Jeff Sessions is safe so he doesn't care.
Most of his supporters are white men yelling "get off my lawn" and at clouds.
Akamai
(1,779 posts)created.
They have told and repeated so many lies about Hillary, Obama, and Democrats in general that they remain committed to Trump, the hell with the country.
And the missing-in-action press has allowed the right-wing lies to continue, especially with false-equivalency arguments.
I blame the press for this debacle almost as much as I blame the Republicans. If the press has been doing its job, Trump would have been shown to be the fraud he was even before the first Republican debate.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)any pretense of seriousness the last few days, and seems to be enjoying the role of jester. his responses
are NOT delivered with any conviction....he's usually smiling when he does it.
he didn't used to be like that.
he's changed, and that seems the most reasonable explanation
the other ones, especially Kayleigh, Scottie, Kate Pierson (what happened to her....she get arrested again?), and Boris are all irredeemably obnoxious aholes, and it's hard to tell where their motivations are. if they, too, are all in it for the $$$$, I don't know how they look in the mirror