Top Trump Aide On ‘Woman Card’: ‘Our Candidate Knows What He’s Doing’

Donald Trump strategist Paul J. Manafort, left, chats with former presidential candidate Ben Carson as they head to a Trump for president reception at the Republican National Committee Spring Meeting, Thursday, April... Donald Trump strategist Paul J. Manafort, left, chats with former presidential candidate Ben Carson as they head to a Trump for president reception at the Republican National Committee Spring Meeting, Thursday, April 21, 2016, in Hollywood, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee) MORE LESS

A top Donald Trump aide brushed off concerns that Trump’s remarks that Hillary Clinton was playing a “woman card” was hurting his campaign.

“Our candidate knows what he’s doing,” Paul Manafort told MSNBC’s Luke Russert, who asked whether the comments were an unforced error.

“I’m comfortable that the campaign messages that’s he’s communicating are working. We saw that on Tuesday, we’re going to see it again next week,” Manafort continued, referring Trump’s five-state primary sweep this week and the Indiana primary coming next week.

In a press conference after Tuesday’s victories, Trump said Clinton “was playing the woman card.”

“I think the only card she has is the woman’s card. She’s got nothing else going. And frankly, if Hillary Clinton were a man, I don’t think she’d get 5 percent of the vote,” he said. He has since doubled down on the comments.

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  1. So Donald knows he’s making an ass of himself? Glad we cleared that up.

  2. an unforced error

    Trump’s House of Women Cards…More like the old pornographic playing cards.

  3. But on the other hand perhaps that is the only card she needs to play? Only time will tell if that lowly, insignificant card is enough to ‘trump’ being a ‘short fingered vulgarian’.

  4. “Our candidate knows what he’s doing,”

    Losing an election? I don’t think I’ve ever see anyone try so hard to not get people to vote for him. In that, he’s the best, the greatest, the yugest candidate that ever lived. Just ask him.

  5. Romney had his binders of women. Trump’s got his decks*

    *available for $39.99 at any Trump Casino

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