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He's done great things, but ever since Bush left the building Michael Moore often prefers to be a provocative idiot while calling it a GOTV effort. And he is wrong. He said similar nonsense about the last two elections. "Get ready for McCain! Get ready for President Romney!" And no, there is no comeback coming. From Ali Vitali re: the Manafort anon quote from John Harwood - Trump spokesperson Jason Miller responds to these allegations with Trumpian big league word salad: Meg Whitman, of all people, calls Trump a demagogue and says she will be supporting Clinton. Dana Bash on CNN is also backing up the Harwood/Vitali scoop, says everyone in the Trump campaign is 'frustrated' with the inability to run a normal campaign and 'feel like they're wasting their time.' Implies it goes all the way up to Manafort. Manafort, for his part, denies all of course. Publicly, at least.

I can't even say 'today in Trump' because every few minutes there is a new disaster or implosion. So, this hour in Trump: Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson blames Obama and Hillary for Humayun Khan's death in the Iraq war. Humayun Khan died in 2004. Meanwhile, on FOX News right now:

On the next episode of Rashida Jones' apparently-pretty-funny TBS sitcom Angie Tribeca (I need to check it out):

Joe Scarborough declared the White House lost this morning and said he is desperate to save the Senate, because Trump is "insane". Meanwhile, there's this:

Leaked Trump memo is desperate for 'urgent pivot' away from the Khans. Meanwhile: Irate that they have praised the Khans while somehow managing to avoid disavowing him, Trump is officially supporting primary challengers for both Paul Ryan and McCain.

Hillary is leading Trump by 3 in Arizona. Romney won it in '12. Newsweek runs a cover story on Trump's business failures.

Trump exiles baby

Putin is a despot.

It's likely just another artful smear from Assange, who is deep in-pocket with Russia. And blames Hillary for trying to get him extradited on his rape charge.

Uh, no, that's a right-wing website.

Because, as Josh Marshall says, the only thing Trump understands is his own narcissism and 'dominance rituals.'

Unbelievable. This is bigger than the Dean Scream or Romney's 47%. Meanwhile, in an unsurprising move for Trumpy's Bunker, the aide who organized the disastrous RNC has been fired. Warren Buffett dares Trump to release his taxes and invokes the McCarthy hearings and Joseph Welch. Trump's campaign begged the GOP for help with Khan, to no avail.

Gallup - yes, Gallup - says voters are now less likely to vote for Trump post-RNC and DNC. Poor foolish Mike Pence apparently just attempted to defend an Air Force mother who decried Trump's insults at a rally after she was booed by the crowd. I'm beginning to wonder if he'll drop from the ticket.

CNN has Hillary up by 9. Trump's RNC bounce is gone and his convention coupled with the Dems' seems to have badly hurt him.

Not gonna work with anyone but his existing 35% hardcore.

The VFW condemns Trump. Clinton now leads him by at least 7 points, according to right-leaning polls. Politico asks if the Khan debacle is Trump's 'have you no decency?' moment (it's actually at least his 49th). McCain defends the Khans while struggling, like most GOP heads, with not finding the spine to fully condemn Trump. Trump's latest excuse for his Crimea/Ukraine comments, which are being lashed from every corner almost as hard as his comments on the Khans:

Probably not and no, IMO. But possibly on the former.

Gemma Whelan (Yara) with Millie Bobby Brown from Netflix's great Stranger Things:

Millie Bobby Brown (Eleven) with Gemma Whelan (Yara Greyjoy) from GOT:

He is physically incapable of stopping:

In which Trump keeps fücking that chicken: And no, the public is not ignoring this. They're not ignoring a lot of things Trump's done. The man is an endless rolling disaster, which is why every single conservative pundit from Erick Erickson to Bill Kristol to Jennifer Rubin is desperate to cut him loose and why Hillary apparently got a 10-point bounce from the DNC, and why, as detailed in the NYT article upthread, Trump is now desperate to sweep many swing states, some of which a Republican hasn't won in almost 30 years.

Now Trump is flailing about trying to attack Khizr Khan and his wife for speaking about their fallen Muslim son at the DNC. This is not going well for him on either side of the aisle, as virtually everyone left and right admired Khan's impassioned speech as the father of a soldier. Trump's response to what he has sacrificed: "I've created tens of thousands of jobs!"

Every time he fails or is humiliated, he lies: Meanwhile, his amateur campaign's ground game is still in shambles.