Trump Campaign Wheels Falling Off?
Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses the media regarding donations to veterans foundations at Trump Tower in Manhattan, New York, U.S., May 31, 2016. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
It’s been a bad few days for Donald J Trump (couldn’t happen to a nicer guy). Just a few stories:
Trump University a Scam Just Like Trump Campaign
- In response, and in the absence of any backup from either campaign staff or other sympathetic prominent Republicans, Trump himself tweeted that she was making it all up. Which she wasn’t, as she had the documentation to prove, conclusively and emphatically. No, she hasn’t got under his skin at all (makes me think of a scene from one of my favorite movies, Chef: “You’re not getting to me!”).
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The Trump University fallout has been particularly damaging to him, with its predatory sales tactics and un-subtle whiff of “scam.” And he has responded to it in the most self-destructive possible way, attacking the presiding judge in an ever-more-furious web of bigotry and bluster that could not be more un-American, and insisting that his (few) surrogates turn up the heat, too.
James Fallows has been constructing what he calls a “Time Capsule” to “catalogue some of the things Donald Trump says and does that no real president would do” (you can find all of the entries here). One of the most distressing things he is chronicling is the spectacle of the GOP’s “grown-ups,” who should be disassociating themselves from this bullying bigot, getting on board with him. And they know what they’re signing on to!
But in the last few days – and maybe this is wishful thinking – Fallows thinks he may be seeing some signs that a few of them are beginning to look for an “off ramp.” (Lindsey Graham was never a fan, but now I see Mark Kirk has decided to return his ticket.) We can only hope.
Schadenfreude is fun for a while, but this has long ago passed into the frightening zone.
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