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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sun Oct 30, 2016, 04:56 PM Oct 2016

Paul Manafort tricked Trump into switching from Christie to Pence by faking airplane malfunction

Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, reportedly bamboozled his boss into switching his vice presidential pick from embattled New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) to Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R) by staging an airplane malfunction.

In July, The New York Times reported that Trump and Pence “impromptu dinner” after the GOP candidate’s plane was grounded by “mechanical problems.”

“And at some point during the evening, Mr. Trump asked Mr. Pence if he would say yes, were Mr. Trump to offer him the No. 2 slot,” according to the Times. But a Sunday report in the New York Post revealed that Manafort took the dramatic step of lying to Trump about mechanical problems with the plane after his boss tentatively selected Christie for the V.P. slot.

“Trump had wanted Christie but Bridgegate would have been the biggest national story,” Trump source told the Post. “He’d lose the advantage of not being corrupt.”

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http://www.rawstory.com/2016/10/paul-manafort-tricked-trump-into-switching-from-christie-to-pence-by-faking-airplane-malfunction/

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Paul Manafort tricked Trump into switching from Christie to Pence by faking airplane malfunction (Original Post) DonViejo Oct 2016 OP
Trump is pathetically consistently outmaneuvered. Hortensis Oct 2016 #1
Actually, he was lucky. Wilms Oct 2016 #2
HE didn't, though. He tried to superglue himself to it. Hortensis Oct 2016 #7
OK. I'm not his shrink. n/t Wilms Oct 2016 #8
No one's his shrink apparently. Trump's been involved Hortensis Oct 2016 #11
Good one! Wilms Oct 2016 #12
I've never heard anyone, not even his biographers Hortensis Oct 2016 #13
Well. not everyone would let on. Wilms Oct 2016 #15
Oh, GOOD one! Hortensis Oct 2016 #16
I don't think the country could have taken the extra drama BainsBane Oct 2016 #3
By all means then let's make the guy fooled by "got your nose" style baby tricks President of the US TeamPooka Oct 2016 #4
Message auto-removed Name removed Oct 2016 #5
Manafort ? left-of-center2012 Oct 2016 #6
He's one of two campaign managers with Russian connections. Wilms Oct 2016 #9
You hit the nail on the head! DonViejo Oct 2016 #10
Alternative title-Putin surrogate bamboozles moron GOP candidate. nt MADem Oct 2016 #14

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
1. Trump is pathetically consistently outmaneuvered.
Sun Oct 30, 2016, 05:03 PM
Oct 2016

There are so many of these stories. Only narcissism could explain his picture of himself as the one always doing the manipulating.

Newsweek is publishing another Trump investigation by Kurt Eichenwald tomorrow. Guaranteed to punch new holes in the Trump balloon. Followed by the usual narcissistic rage storm, no doubt, if Trump's handlers don't sedate him.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
7. HE didn't, though. He tried to superglue himself to it.
Sun Oct 30, 2016, 05:21 PM
Oct 2016

And why? Trump LIKED Christie because he believe Christie admired and looked up to him and he was reeled in by Christie's extended posturing of humble stroking and ass-kissing. Played all the way.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
11. No one's his shrink apparently. Trump's been involved
Sun Oct 30, 2016, 05:32 PM
Oct 2016

in something like 4000 court cases, but seemingly there are no records to obtain by subpoena or court order.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
13. I've never heard anyone, not even his biographers
Sun Oct 30, 2016, 05:40 PM
Oct 2016

gathered together to discuss him, say he's ever been diagnosed by a shrink. Have you?

Professionals say narcissists, actually most cluster B types, know they're different but they like themselves that way. Those without consciences, for instance--they typically feel contempt for people constrained by guilt and other human weaknesses.

BainsBane

(53,056 posts)
3. I don't think the country could have taken the extra drama
Sun Oct 30, 2016, 05:10 PM
Oct 2016

that would have been brought by Christie on the ticket. We're overloaded as it is.

And I don't mean Bridgegate but rather Christie's winning personality.

TeamPooka

(24,252 posts)
4. By all means then let's make the guy fooled by "got your nose" style baby tricks President of the US
Sun Oct 30, 2016, 05:12 PM
Oct 2016

WTF GOP?
Fools.

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