Two elderly white rich psychopaths working to make one of them POTUS. It's like some kind of weird horror movie.

So true.

 

Oh my sweet lord:

 

Donald Trump, following weeks of gnawing agitation over his advisers’ attempts to temper his style, moved late Tuesday to overhaul his struggling campaign by rebuffing those efforts and elevating two longtime associates who have encouraged his combative populism.

 

Stephen Bannon, a former banker who runs the influential conservative outlet Breitbart News and is known for his fiercely anti-establishment politics, has been named the Trump campaign’s chief executive. Kellyanne Conway, a veteran Republican pollster who has been close to Trump for years, will assume the role of campaign manager.

 

Two Trump campaign aides confirmed the staff's reshuffle early Wednesday, requesting anonymity to discuss personnel changes without permission.

 

The Wall Street Journal first reported the moves.

 

Trump’s stunning decision effectively ended the months-long push by campaign chairman Paul Manafort to moderate Trump’s presentation and pitch for the general election. And it sent a signal, perhaps more clear than ever, that the real-estate mogul intends to finish this race on his own terms, with friends who share his instincts at his side.

 

While Manafort, a seasoned operative who joined the campaign in March, will remain in his role, the advisers described his status internally as diminished due to Trump’s unhappiness and restlessness in recent weeks.

 

While Trump respects Manafort, the aides said, he has grown to feel “boxed in” and "controlled" by people who barely know him. Moving forward, he plans to focus intensely on rousing his voters at rallies and through media appearances.

The weird thing is the speech he gave yesterday sounded like Manafort speak (the canned crap about how African-Americans are being used by Democrats, Hillary is a bigot, all his "detailed" "plans"). Maybe it's Roger Ailes speak?

I think that canned speech he clearly hated to give was all Manafort. And I think it's his last, or one of his last.

That makes sense.

 

I saw some article about his "A-team" on agriculture, including Sam Brownback. Other than bankrupting a state I'm not sure what Brownback's skills are, but it got the media gushing as always.

 

The Kushner article you posted gave a lot of details about his family I didn't know. That whole thing with setting up the brother with a hooker is like something off Sopranos.

Interesting article about how Christie administration allowed Trump casinos to minimize their tax burden.  

 

Trump Casinos’ Tax Debt Was $30 Million. Then Christie Took Office.

 

 

Interesting article about how Christie administration allowed Trump casinos to minimize their tax burden.  

 

Trump Casinos’ Tax Debt Was $30 Million. Then Christie Took Office.

 

 

It's my fervent wish that Trump's campaign is the end of Chris Christie's political career.

It's my fervent wish that Trump's campaign is the end of Chris Christie's political career.

His political career was over even before he ran for President. He has no future in office.

I'd agree with @ReddFoxx, Christie has been doing absolutely nothing for the state of New Jersey so it's highly unlikely that he'd get enough votes to stay in the governor's mansion. He's highly unpopular, which means no Senate. With a failed Presidential bid and hitching himself to the pariah that is currently the GOP's defacto leader, I don't see any elected office which is attainable for him now.

Edited August 17, 20169 yr by DramatistDreamer

The Unhappy Campaign of Paul Manafort

 

The taco bowl incident, trivial though it was, is one example. On Cinco de Mayo, Trump happened to be eating a taco bowl for lunch at his desk in Trump Tower. Manafort was in the office with other aides when a member of the family suggested they tweet a picture of Trump enjoying his “Mexican” lunch.

 

Manafort politely suggested that this might be seen as condescending and cautioned against it. The tweet went out. Trump himself was delighted by the resulting controversy. “The people who were offended were people we wanted to offend,” he later said.

The Washington GOP is horrified by Trump's latest hires. And at least one of them is onto the same hunch I am:

 

“I think Trump wants to lose but have media control over 25 percent of the party so he can make money off of them.”

 

I caught that interview live.  It was bizarre.  And very awkward.

 

Dude came out of the gate with his panties in a bunch over the story banner and it went downhill from there.

I'd agree with @ReddFoxx, Christie has been doing absolutely nothing for the state of New Jersey so it's highly unlikely that he'd get enough votes to stay in the governor's mansion. He's highly unpopular, which means no Senate. With a failed Presidential bid and hitching himself to the pariah that is currently the GOP's defacto leader, I don't see any elected office which is attainable for him now.

He couldn't get run for reelection anyway. He likely knows enough people, and enough bodies that have been buried, to always hang around, but his higher aspirations are likely dead. I never understood the hype about him anyway - he is grotesque in every way. 

 

Speaking of grotesque:

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/08/17/rudy-giuliani-declares-trumps-speech-the-best-speech-that-any-republican-at-the-least-has-ever-given/?tid=pm_politics_pop_b

Sad day when Newt Gingrich sounds reasonable

(I had no idea Dr. Drew was such a dirty quack)

 

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/clinton-health-newt-gingrich-227153