Do tell:'Blacklisted' Trump advisers worry about who replaced them: 'It's bad -- like, next level' https://t.co/nnPS3b8lmK
— Raw Story (@RawStory) July 14, 2022
“The circle’s very small,” said one current Trump adviser. “Obviously, a lot of these Cabinet officials and others who have been going out there, they are blacklisted or cast out.”Right now, as Trump contemplates jumping into the 2024 race, his top adviser is Susie Wiles, who heads his Save America PAC, followed by former 2020 campaign manager Bill Stepien and attorney Justin Clark, while Citizens United chairman David Bossie remains in his orbit, along with former speechwriter Stephen Miller, campaign spokesman Jason Miller and former White House press aide Margo Martin, who fetches Diet Cokes and prints out polling and news articles to hand out to guests.“It’s Trumpworld, man,” said the current adviser. “It’ll be done the way we do everything else. It’ll be very last minute, it’ll be a surprise. We’ll cowboy it like 2016.”
That alarms some Trump veterans who watched with dismay as the former president surrounded himself with increasingly lower-quality advisers like Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell and Mike Lindell, and they're worried that trend will continue downward if he seeks -- or even wins -- a second term."The quality is going to be even worse, if that’s imaginable,” said a former Trump adviser. “It’s bad. It’s, like, next level. It’s just one too many times of screwing people that were loyal. I definitely think people are done, like the closest of the close.”
Bad advice? Really?
For nearly a year, a kitchen cabinet of Donald Trump confidants have told the former president not to announce his 2024 candidacy before the midterms, arguing that he could be a drag on 2022 candidates and would be blamed if Republicans underperformed. https://t.co/TOu2sjJLz2 pic.twitter.com/0XboHNv4hY
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 14, 2022
Trump should put them in a room and let them fight it out for 6 hours, and then post a tweet (or whatever his platform calls those things) promising: "Will be wild!"But others, such as Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel and longtime adviser Kellyanne Conway, have cautioned Trump against announcing a bid now, arguing that he doesn’t want to be responsible for any losses in the Senate. https://t.co/TOu2sjJLz2 pic.twitter.com/wkXDOHWYdA
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 14, 2022
“A lot of people are saying, ‘You’ve got to announce so you’re protected. It’s a witch hunt, they’re trying to do this to you again. You’ve got to do it before the grand jury meets with Lindsey Graham in the Georgia case,’” a former adviser said.
Running for President is not the "Get Out Of Jail Free Card" his shrinking band of supporters imagine it is.
Graham reportedly wants Trump to announce now, because in five months Trump won't (he argues) be viable otherwise. Of course, the person who announces first is usually the person who doesn't finish the marathon. And Trump is already wearing lead boots.
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After the George W. Bush regime it was incredible that nothing was changed to prevent that disaster ever happening again (nod to Charles Pierce's observation you post above) it's even more incredible that we are even considering the possibility of an even worse Trump regime without a single thing being done to prevent that as Republican-fascists have been doing everything they can to steal the election through voter suppression.
ReplyDeleteOur Constitution is a mess, it has been totally gamed and whatever virtues it was alleged to have had have proven to not protect and defend The People, equality, democracy or even a rational conception of the truth even as it is used to undermine and destroy all of the above UNDER THE CONSTITUTIONAL ORDER.