In the past several hours, I have read reports suggesting "top GOP leaders" are readying both an "intervention" with Trump as well as a backup plan should Trump either end his campaign or be forced out of the Republican party.  What do y'all think about that?  Is there any weight to these rumors?

 

Personally, I think it would serve the GOP right if they couldn't get Trump off the ticket.  They had their chance -- heck, they had several chances -- to neutralize this guy, right up to the RNC; and if they cannot be rid of the man now, it's their own damn fault.  But on the other hand, the possibilities here are just too delicious for this soaps-deprived boy to resist, lol.

Edited August 4, 20169 yr by Khan

There was indeed an intervention today, or will be. I think I posted the link upthread. It's their last ditch effort to 'reset' Trump's campaign.

 

AMC vet J.R. Martinez (Brot) reads Trump to filth.

 

Even Newt is fed up:

 

 

“The current race is which of these two is the more unacceptable, because right now, neither of them is acceptable,” he said. “Trump is helping her to win by proving he is more unacceptable than she is.”

 

Incidentally, Newt was supposedly in on said intervention. Since that announcement of the plan, we've since heard Trump may intend to dump Manafort and bring back Crazy Corey Lewandowski - his favorite advisor who the kids forced him to dump, and one who still consults him unofficially while presently on the payroll of CNN.

Edited August 4, 20169 yr by Vee

Well Clinton sort of lucked out this week to an extent. She was called on her interview on Fox Sunday for her comments about Comey's findings on her which has sort of fallen under the radar with all the Trump drama this week. Plus more heads rolled at the DNC.

Edited August 4, 20169 yr by JaneAusten

There was indeed an intervention today, or will be. I think I posted the link upthread. It's their last ditch effort to 'reset' Trump's campaign.

 

AMC vet J.R. Martinez (Brot) reads Trump to filth.

 

Even Newt is fed up:

 

 

“The current race is which of these two is the more unacceptable, because right now, neither of them is acceptable,” he said. “Trump is helping her to win by proving he is more unacceptable than she is.”

 

Incidentally, Newt was supposedly in on said intervention. Since that announcement of the plan, we've since heard Trump may intend to dump Manafort and bring back Crazy Corey Lewandowski - his favorite advisor who the kids forced him to dump, and one who still consults him unofficially while presently on the payroll of CNN.

Sorry, Vee.  I must've overlooked it.

 

Frankly, I doubt if anything, including bringing back Lewandowski, would make any difference at this point.  "You can't un-ring the bell," etc.

Bringing back Lewandowski is a horrifically insane idea, so of course he will do it.

The article does claim the intervention didn't happen, but I wouldn't be shocked if Trump refused it.

 

Holy shît:

 

 

Trump is a party of one – a candidate embarking on his quixotic and increasingly improbable quest for the presidency without a compass or a map, without a front-line defense shield or significant reinforcements, and always and forever without any regrets.

 

Even the Lone Ranger rode a horse named Silver; Trump seems quite content to traipse ahead on his own two feet.

 

This week alone, Trump has escalated a feud with the Muslim parents of a U.S. soldier who died serving in Iraq, declined to endorse House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and Sen. John McCain of Arizona in their respective primary bids, and even half-jokingly rebuked a mother and her crying baby at a rally. His actions, according to a Republican operative familiar with the campaign, have left some Trump aides privately "apoplectic" that a seemingly winnable contest against Hillary Clinton appears to be slipping irrevocably out of reach.

 

"The campaign's imploding; it's disintegrating," one Trump campaign staffer says. "Every time we do something positive, we cough up the ball."

 

But the candidate is similarly frustrated with senior levels of his operation, which some believe is causing him to rely heavily on his own gut instincts, raising the prospects of a high-wire controversy.

 

Trump was alarmed by a call he received last week from a senior adviser who is not campaign chairman Paul Manafort or Manafort assistant Rick Gates, according to an account provided to U.S. News. The caller lamented the campaign's lack of state-by-state organization and warned the nominee, "You're not going to win."The candidate, not surprisingly, hit the roof. But the person who followed up with the adviser on the disturbing message wasn't Manafort or Gates, according to the source. It was Jared Kushner, the influential son-in-law who is married to Ivanka Trump and who is held in high regard by her father.

 

Are the kids running the campaign? Anecdotally, from everything I've heard and seen, yes – at least in tandem with Paul and Rick," the staffer says.

 

When Trump landed in Ashburn, Virginia, on Tuesday – a state in which he has yet to open a campaign office – he huddled backstage with Will Estrada, chairman of the Loudoun County Republican Committee, for advice on how to carry the crucial area.

 

"George, these people here in Virginia know what we need to do to win Virginia," Trump told his advance aide, George Gigicos, according to Estrada's recollection posted on his personal Facebook page.

 

But Trump also unleashed another line that reverberated with those in the setting, U.S. News has learned: "Don't listen to New York."

 

The message conveyed was that going forward, Trump wanted local leadership to make the decisions on where to hold events and how to stage them – not the suits at high command in Trump Tower.

 

The Republican operative familiar with the Trump operation tells U.S. News that Trump has increasingly been back in regular contact with his former campaign manager turned CNN commentator, Corey Lewandowski.

 

Lewandowski was ousted in June at the behest of Trump's children, who viewed him as lacking the sophisticated judgment needed to assist their wayward father. A major difference between the reigns of Lewandowski and Manafort is that Lewandowski traveled constantly with Trump, earning his trust and bending his ear. Manafort rarely hits the road and has followed a more typical template by holing up in an office with a phone to his ear and his fingers on a keyboard.

 

The Manafort model has its advantages, but it also has created a distance from Trump that has stalled decisions and left the candidate without a reliable rudder when things go awry.

 

"He's not satisfied with what he's getting," the Trump staffer says. "So he's basically gone rogue."

 

Much more at the link.

Edited August 4, 20169 yr by Vee

Excellent. I was afraid he might actually quit but he's going to take this all the way and drag the party down with him. I hope they keep pushing him to further and further extremes so that he has a complete nervous breakdown the week before the election.

Edited August 4, 20169 yr by marceline

I think he'll quit if they pay him. Like all his failed investments.

Trump is too arrogant to quit. He is going to declare himself a winner no matter what the election outcome is, because he is already setting a narrative about phony polling and rigged election. On election night he'll come out on stage and rant about how Hillary Clinton stole then election.

I wouldn't put it past Trump to hire mercenaries and take the WH by force.

Edited August 4, 20169 yr by Khan

This is sickening... 

http://www.rawstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Riverside-Republican-anti-Hillary-executioner-post.jpg 

Republican Party officials in Riverside County, California are investigating...

Trump is pretty much capable of anything, so who knows what insane stunt he'll pull if he loses.

As for that tweet, there are some real crazies in Riverside County, particularly the southeast part. It's not surprising that someone would tweet that sick picture.

I wouldn't put it past Trump to hire mercenaries and take the WH by force.

 

He doesn't have the attention span to look up mercenaries, let alone the finances to hire or pay them.

Edited August 4, 20169 yr by Vee

Another day begins, with fresh feces thrown, and Fooliani borrowing lines from Tiffany Pollard.

 

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/newt-gingrich-trump-intervention-226661

Another sitting GOP member coming out against Trump. It's beautiful seeing the GOP implode.

 

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/latest-campaign-chair-plays-trump-ryan-rift-41114454

 

"Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois said the Republican nominee is "beginning to cross a lot of red lines of the unforgivable in politics."

Kinzinger said on CNN Wednesday that he won't support Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, but suggested he may write somebody in at the polls or skip voting in the presidential race.

Republican House members Richard Hanna of New York, Pennsylvania's Charlie Dent and Florida's Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Carlos Curbelo have said they won't support Trump. Hanna has said he will vote for Clinton." "

 

Clinton 49% to Trump 38% in Pennsylvania

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/presidential/20160804_Poll__Convention_boosts_Clinton_to_11-point_lead_over_Trump_in_Pa_.html

 

Edited August 4, 20169 yr by JaneAusten

I wouldn't put it past Trump to hire mercenaries and take the WH by force.

This cracks me up.

 

I have this terrible fear that he isn't going to fade away after the election. I feel like he media has been covering him so heavily for nearly a year and it's just never, ever going to end.

Well Clinton sort of lucked out this week to an extent. She was called on her interview on Fox Sunday for her comments about Comey's findings on her which has sort of fallen under the radar with all the Trump drama this week. Plus more heads rolled at the DNC.

She's lucked out this entire election cycle.  Trump just keeps saying these crazy things like he'd want Ivanka to find another career if she were sexual harassed.  It just proves how completely out of touch he is. He can't even fathom a situation were someone would be living on the edge and not be able to switch jobs, let alone careers.  It's hard to get worked up about all the lying HRC has done (and let's not pretend she hasn't) in the face of all of Trump's narcissism and elitism.