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From The Reporter’s Notebook
Donald Trump’s campaign on Wednesday morning announced a staffing shakeup. But don’t hold your breath for a major change in strategy, TPM’s Caitlin MacNeal reported. Trump’s new campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, says that while she wants the GOP nominee to “sharpen the message,” she will also “let him be him” so he doesn’t “lose that authenticity.”
Agree or Disagree?
Josh Marshall: “Needless to say, Gawker courted a huge amount of controversy. And the decision to shutter it may, for all I know, be tied entirely to legal liability. But I have no doubt Gawker’s controversial rep put a permanent dent in ads sales — think of it as an inverse premium. The other thing though is that Gawker had no endemic ad proposition. Fun, news scoops and schadenfreude have no allied consumer products. But if you look at the other Gawker Media sites they were each carefully and wisely aligned with strong endemic ad propositions.”
Say What?!
“I think I unraveled her.”
– Trump lawyer Michael Cohen came out of a remarkably awkward interview which quickly went viral declaring victory.
BUZZING: Today in the Hive
From a TPM Prime member: “The start of voting is, what, 6 weeks off? I saw this as a play to get the GOP to cut Trump loose. The campaign goes even further off the deep edge and the GOP looks to salvage the party. The August report will be out in a few days and we’ll see how much cash the campaign has on hand. I say that there will be enough to payback Trump. Trump and his ‘campaign’ deserve to be dumped by the RNC and there certainly already is talk about that. If Trump and the campaign become another Breitbart front page then that makes the choice that much easier for the RNC.”
Related: Several ex-Breitbart representatives and editors expressed concerns about Trump’s new campaign chief, their onetime boss.
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What We’re Reading
Who really paid for Trump’s “personal” donations on “Celebrity Apprentice.” (The Washington Post)
A brief history of Scientology. (Jacobin)
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