NYT Goes Inside Dark And Dreary Final Days Of Trump Campaign

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a rally, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016, in Bedford, N.H. (AP Photo/John Locher)
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In the final days of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, the New York Times embarked on a deep dive into the campaign’s attempts to salvage Trump’s candidacy, interviewing several aides and advisers.

Here are a few of the highlights from the Times’ report:

  • Aides have finally succeeded in taking away Trump’s access to his own Twitter account.
  • Surprise! His campaign staff has enormous trouble keeping Trump focused.
  • Trump “privately muses about all of the ways he will punish his enemies after Election Day” and has floated using a super PAC to seek revenge.
  • Ivanka Trump filmed an ad for her father’s campaign, but she “discouraged the campaign from promoting the ad in news releases” due to concern that the ad could hurt her brands.
  • After the FBI announced it would review newly discovered emails related to its probe into Clinton’s use of a private email server, Trump campaign CEO Steve Bannon was so focused on what Trump should say that a hot light near the teleprompter caused his “Kuhl hiking pants to begin smoldering.”
  • On his campaign plane, Trump forces his aides to constantly talk to him rather than lest them rest, and he “prefers the soothing, whispery voice of his son-in-law.”
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    1. But surely Steiner’s counterattack will halt the Russian advance.

    2. he “prefers the soothing, whispery voice of his son-in-law.”

      “Yessss my precioussss. You are a winner, yesss, resssst.”

    3. Another reminder of how much better the Clinton campaign is being run. (As if we needed more.)

    4. Avatar for dweb dweb says:

      Just read it. The parallels to certain messianic despots holed up in the Bunker in the final days is starkly chilling.

      My only thought once done reading was, "Holy Christ! Can you imagine this clown and his gaggle of disfunctional, ill informed, competing aides trying to run the United States?

      But hey…he’s going to make America Great again, and he is a great businessman, and he tells it like it is.

      Truly Chilling!

    5. Thanksgiving at the Trumps’ gonna be a blast this year.

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