http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/donald-trump-is-a-problem-that-will-solve-itself/article/2569895Donald Trump is a problem that will solve itself
By W. James Antle III • 8/8/15 6:59 PM
Donald Trump now says he is booting all publicity-seekers from his campaign. Wags can be forgiven for asking if that means he's applying his trademark catchphrase — "You're fired!" — to himself.
Since Thursday night's debate, Trump has unloaded on Twitter, attacked Fox News host Megyn Kelly on television, been disinvited from the RedState Gathering and has now separated from Roger Stone, his most experienced political consultant, who made the final call in the dispute. (Trump says Stone was fired, but Stone has told multiple reporters he resigned.)
Trump's conservative critics have found his presidential campaign frustrating. He says and does things that would have destroyed almost any other Republican presidential candidate yet builds his lead in the polls. He looks out of his depth in the debate and some still declare him the winner. Whether you invite him to your event or disinvite him, he dominates the headlines.
Conservative Trump supporters seem impervious to arguments about his past and present policy positions, to the extent that they can be discerned, which are sometimes to the left of the past policy positions that made Mitt Romney unacceptable to many of the same people. They brush off his long history of donations to Democrats, including Hillary Clinton and Harry Reid, as well as his cronyist justifications for the same. And the Bill Clinton phone call?
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