Distraught Trump Staffer: 'He's Basically Gone Rogue'

[Frank Cannon]

http://www.dailywire.com/news/8113/distraught-trump-staffer-hes-basically-gone-rogue-hank-berrien

How little does Donald Trump care about possibly crippling not only his own presidential candidacy but also the candidacies of Republicans running for office because he is determined to go his won way and disdain counsel?

This little: according to one Trump staffer, speaking to US News and World Report: "He's not satisfied with what he's getting. So he's basically gone rogue."

Just in the last week, Trump took an argument with the Khan family to epic proportions; refused to endorse House Speaker Paul Ryan and 2008 presidential candidate Senator John McCain, and scolded a baby at one of his rallies.

A Trump campaign staffer lamented, “The campaign's imploding; it's disintegrating. Every time we do something positive, we cough up the ball."

According to US News, last week a senior advisor (not campaign chairman Paul Manafort or Manafort assistant Rick Gates) called Trump to tell him his state-by-state organization was terrible and Trump would lose in November, prompting Trump’s rage. Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, rather than Manafort, contacted the advisor, which elicited this comment from the Trump staffer: "Are the kids running the campaign? Anecdotally, from everything I've heard and seen, yes – at least in tandem with Paul and Rick.”

Trump met with Will Estrada, chairman of the Loudoun County Republican Committee, for advice on how to win that crucial area in Virginia, then said, "Don't listen to New York,” indicating he wasn’t interested in advisors back home.

One Republican operative who knows the inside of Trump’s campaign said Trump has turned back to ousted campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, who was fired reportedly because the Trump children disliked him.

One friend of Manafort’s defended him from the charge that he is too hands-off, saying, "Manafort's working his ass off. It's not an easy job. Trump's a handful.”

That may be putting it mildly; Trump habitually monitors his media coverage; Trump decides whether reporters are allowed entrance to the press pen; Trump’s shotgun approach to those he perceives as enemies occurs despite the fact the others have remonstrated with him about that tendency.

Yet rumors of an intervention with Trump are fanciful; one informal advisor to Trump said, "It doesn't work that way. You can give him advice and he can either take it or not take it. That's the way it works.”

As John Noonan, a former national security aide to Mitt Romney, put it: "Trump is Trump. You can pull somebody out of the insane asylum and staff him with the best people in the business, and he's still going to be in the parking lot screaming about the book of Revelations and there's nothing you can do about it. Hillary's the placekicker on the field. She's shanking every kick. And Trump's the guy pleasuring himself in the stands."

But Noonan also acknowledged that the dam holding back the tide within the GOP against Trump is tenuous at best, as Meg Whitman has said she’ll vote for Hillary Clinton and Colorado Rep. Mike Coffman has taken out an ad attacking Trump. He stated, "This is how movements start. There's a couple of people who blow a breach through the door and the other people look and say, 'It's safe to go on through.’”

[guitar4jesus]

Heh, great money line.

[libertybele]

Gone rogue?  His first clue should have been when Trump opened his mouth and slammed Kelly, saying ..."You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes," "Blood coming out of her wherever."  Has he made any statement (s) since then that could be determined as appropriate or presidential?   

[sinkspur]

David Brooks today:

[Kinsman Redeemer]

David Brooks today:
Events are going to force Republicans off the fence...

I have been saying that I personally need to put principle over politics. 

Cruz must have had the same conviction.

Now that the crap is floating to the top of the tank, I am very happy that I did not eat it.

We're screwed.

[XenaLee]

http://www.dailywire.com/news/8113/distraught-trump-staffer-hes-basically-gone-rogue-hank-berrien

By Jove.....I think that with this one descriptive sentence....

he has truly captured the spirit of the Trump campaign! 

And Trump's the guy pleasuring himself in the stands."

Trump is, indeed, 'pleasuring himself' at his own antics and at the responses from the GOP that it elicits.  He's having fun with it.

[Frank Cannon]

The big mistake everyone is making right now is saying that the Trump campaign is imploding. The fact is that it was always a disaster but because of the mess that the Primary was, no one ever noticed.

[mountaineer]

Unnamed "staffers" say just about whatever the news media want to say they said. I'd take this report with a grain of salt, no matter what I may think of the Trump campaign.

[sneakypete]

" campaign chairman Paul Manafort "

Anyone else noticed he seems to be developing a facial tic?

[livius]

David Brooks today:

Brooks is absolutely right, and I'd go along with such an effort and even donate money to it (as well as work). However, it needs a leader, and I honestly don't know who we have who could do it.

[Luis Gonzalez]

"There comes a time when neutrality and laying low become dishonorable." - David Brooks

For months, Trump supporters have been browbeating everyone who doesn't support their candidate with the binary choice argument... if you're not for Trump, you're for Hillary.

This election in fact is one driven by a very clear binary choice. It's one where we each will stand and decide between our integrity or support for a Presidential candidate who we know does not value that we sacrificed our integrity to support him OR her.

I've made my choice.

Have you?

[sinkspur]

Unnamed "staffers" say just about whatever the news media want to say they said. I'd take this report with a grain of salt, no matter what I may think of the Trump campaign.

You don't think Trump's staffers are frustrated, angry, embarrassed?  I believe every word of this.

This is how normal human beings react.

[mystery-ak]

You don't think Trump's staffers are frustrated, angry, embarrassed?  I believe every word of this.

This is how normal human beings react.

When these *un-named* staffers put their names on these articles maybe I'll believe all these stories...right now I look at them as Clinton campaign dirty tricks using the media to do their dirty work for them......

Have you all forgotten how the Clinton's work!

[sinkspur]

When these *un-named* staffers put their names on these articles maybe I'll believe all these stories...right now I look at them as Clinton campaign dirty tricks using the media to do their dirty work for them......

Have you all forgotten how the Clinton's work!

They'll get fired and they know it. Nobody is going to trash Trump publicly. 

Have you forgotten how Trump works?

[skeeter]

The big mistake everyone is making right now is saying that the Trump campaign is imploding. The fact is that it was always a disaster but because of the mess that the Primary was, no one ever noticed.

Nothing has changed in the Trump campaign.

During the primaries according to the media the right people were getting crap splashed on them, so they characterized Trump as 'genius'.

Who didn't see this coming? Never mind, we know who didn't.

[ScottinVA]

When these *un-named* staffers put their names on these articles maybe I'll believe all these stories...right now I look at them as Clinton campaign dirty tricks using the media to do their dirty work for them......

Have you all forgotten how the Clinton's work!

It doesn't take unnamed staffers to convince me;  Trump's behavior makes fairly obvious his having "gone rogue"  without the Clintons' help.

[Luis Gonzalez]

When these *un-named* staffers put their names on these articles maybe I'll believe all these stories...right now I look at them as Clinton campaign dirty tricks using the media to do their dirty work for them......

Have you all forgotten how the Clinton's work!

It's not like the Clintons have to work very hard to make Trump look bad.

[mystery-ak]

They'll get fired and they know it. Nobody is going to trash Trump publicly. 

Have you forgotten how Trump works?

It's also an old dirty trick by campaigns and the media to create a story.....*un-named sources*.....please we all know better.

[mystery-ak]

It's not like the Clintons have to work very hard to make Trump look bad.

That is absolutely true....sad isn't it.

[mountaineer]

It's not like the Clintons have to work very hard to make Trump look bad.

No, they don't. No argument from me on that point.

But we're all so eager to believe something critical of someone we already don't like that we don't worry about the story possibly having been concocted to advance an agenda. There's little to no chance the news media anytime soon will be quoting unnamed Hillary staffers about how concerned they are about her bizarre behavior, seizures, mood swings or anything negative, after all. 

[Frank Cannon]

It's also an old dirty trick by campaigns and the media to create a story.....*un-named sources*.....please we all know better.

When the VP nominee is going out hourly to put fires out made by Donny, you can see why this unnamed source has a lot of credibility.

[sinkspur]

No, they don't. No argument from me on that point.

But we're all so eager to believe something critical of someone we already don't like that we don't worry about the story possibly having been concocted to advance an agenda. There's little to no chance the news media anytime soon will be quoting unnamed Hillary staffers about how concerned they are about her bizarre behavior, seizures, mood swings or anything negative, after all.

Some of us told you this is what would happen when Trump won the nomination. 

I believe some of the stories coming out because they're believable.  Trump has always "gone rogue." 

[kevindavis007]

It's also an old dirty trick by campaigns and the media to create a story.....*un-named sources*.....please we all know better.

Agreed... We should know better with a story with an un-named source..

[Bigun]

Donald Trump campaign =

And no one should need any kind of source to confirm that!

[sinkspur]

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