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Trump Hires Breitbart Chief For Top Post, Diminishes Manafort Role In Shakeup
« on: August 17, 2016, 12:26:52 pm »
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Donald Trump is shaking up his senior campaign staff yet again in the wake of several weeks of sinking poll numbers and critical press coverage of his gaffes from the trail.

Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon will “temporarily step down from his role with Breitbart News” to join the team as the campaign CEO, while Republican strategist Kellyanne Conway will be promoted to campaign manager.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-hires-breitbart-chief-campaign-shakeup


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Re: Trump Hires Breitbart Chief For Top Post, Diminishes Manafort Role In Shakeup
« Reply #1 on: August 17, 2016, 12:36:44 pm »
Quote from: AbaraXas on August 17, 2016, 12:26:52 pm


Sorry Paul, you aren't a wartime consigliore after all...
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Re: Trump Hires Breitbart Chief For Top Post, Diminishes Manafort Role In Shakeup
« Reply #2 on: August 17, 2016, 12:39:53 pm »
So basically nothing changes.
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Re: Trump Hires Breitbart Chief For Top Post, Diminishes Manafort Role In Shakeup
« Reply #3 on: August 17, 2016, 12:45:25 pm »
Thereby making the obvious painfully obvious:  Breitbart stopped being an independent source of news and commentary during the primary and became nothing more than an agit-prop mouthpiece for Trump.  The epithet "Trumpbart" is more fitting than ever.
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Re: Trump Hires Breitbart Chief For Top Post, Diminishes Manafort Role In Shakeup
« Reply #4 on: August 17, 2016, 12:50:37 pm »
Quote from: Gov Bean Counter on August 17, 2016, 12:36:44 pm
Sorry Paul, you aren't a wartime consigliore after all...
Does this mean that the Trump Family is "going to the mattresses"?
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Re: Trump Hires Breitbart Chief For Top Post, Diminishes Manafort Role In Shakeup
« Reply #5 on: August 17, 2016, 12:51:40 pm »
Quote from: andy58-in-nh on August 17, 2016, 12:50:37 pm
Does this mean that the Trump Family is "going to the mattresses"?

Haha. Looks that way, doesn't it?
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Re: Trump Hires Breitbart Chief For Top Post, Diminishes Manafort Role In Shakeup
« Reply #6 on: August 17, 2016, 12:53:25 pm »

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Bannon has convinced Trump that rest of campaign needs to be bare-knuckles brawl, w/ full-bore populism/movement politics



So more of what hasn't worked.
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Re: Trump Hires Breitbart Chief For Top Post, Diminishes Manafort Role In Shakeup
« Reply #7 on: August 17, 2016, 12:54:31 pm »
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Bannon has convinced Trump that rest of campaign needs to be bare-knuckles brawl, w/ full-bore populism/movement politics



So more of what hasn't worked.

They are just doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results.
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« Reply #8 on: August 17, 2016, 12:55:52 pm »
Quote from: AbaraXas on August 17, 2016, 12:54:31 pm
They are just doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results.

Isn't that, according to some folks, the definition of stupidity?
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Re: Trump Hires Breitbart Chief For Top Post, Diminishes Manafort Role In Shakeup
« Reply #9 on: August 17, 2016, 12:56:27 pm »
Quote from: Oceander on August 17, 2016, 12:45:25 pm
Thereby making the obvious painfully obvious:  Breitbart stopped being an independent source of news and commentary during the primary and became nothing more than an agit-prop mouthpiece for Trump.  The epithet "Trumpbart" is more fitting than ever.

I've boycotted Breitbart for months now, since it became painfully obvious that it was being used as a tool for the Trump campaign. 
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« Reply #10 on: August 17, 2016, 12:56:55 pm »
When you hire butchers to run your campaign you do so knowing they're going to tell you all anyone ever buys is red meat.
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Re: Trump Hires Breitbart Chief For Top Post, Diminishes Manafort Role In Shakeup
« Reply #11 on: August 17, 2016, 12:57:06 pm »
Quote from: Oceander on August 17, 2016, 12:55:52 pm
Isn't that, according to some folks, the definition of stupidity?

No.  Insanity!
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Re: Trump Hires Breitbart Chief For Top Post, Diminishes Manafort Role In Shakeup
« Reply #12 on: August 17, 2016, 01:00:32 pm »
This is Stephen Bannon TODAY

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« Reply #13 on: August 17, 2016, 01:03:49 pm »
stuart stevens ‏@stuartpstevens  1h1 hour ago

The RNC shouldn't give a dime or help in any way a campaign run by Breitbart. It's like funding the CDC run by a Witch Doctor.
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Re: Trump Hires Breitbart Chief For Top Post, Diminishes Manafort Role In Shakeup
« Reply #14 on: August 17, 2016, 01:07:04 pm »
Quote from: sinkspur on August 17, 2016, 12:53:25 pm
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Bannon has convinced Trump that rest of campaign needs to be bare-knuckles brawl, w/ full-bore populism/movement politics

So more of what hasn't worked.

The problem with "populism" is what it has always been, everywhere in the free world: it is never all that popular.

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Re: Trump Hires Breitbart Chief For Top Post, Diminishes Manafort Role In Shakeup
« Reply #15 on: August 17, 2016, 01:07:26 pm »
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« Reply #16 on: August 17, 2016, 01:08:20 pm »
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The Post reported that Bannon, whose site has been a prominent booster of the Trump campaign, has been privately advising the real estate mogul for months, urging him to run as an “outsider” and “unabashed nationalist.”

More preaching to the choir.  No effort to win any new voters.
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Re: Trump Hires Breitbart Chief For Top Post, Diminishes Manafort Role In Shakeup
« Reply #17 on: August 17, 2016, 01:09:54 pm »
Add this to Roger Ailes working for the Trump team. 
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Re: Trump Hires Breitbart Chief For Top Post, Diminishes Manafort Role In Shakeup
« Reply #18 on: August 17, 2016, 01:15:05 pm »
Josh Marshall ‏@joshtpm  45m45 minutes ago

Hilarity here is that Manafort, corrupt and rusty as he may have been, strove mightily to make Trump act half-sane. Now dumped for it.
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« Reply #19 on: August 17, 2016, 01:16:11 pm »
Quote from: sinkspur on August 17, 2016, 01:00:32 pm
This is Stephen Bannon TODAY



So he's living on his moms couch in her basement.  Pitiful...Just pitiful

A Trumps best people hire again.
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« Reply #20 on: August 17, 2016, 01:19:40 pm »
David Frum ‏@davidfrum  50m50 minutes ago

US stock markets seem to be taking remarkably in stride the rising likelihood of a Democratic landslide in November
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Re: Trump Hires Breitbart Chief For Top Post, Diminishes Manafort Role In Shakeup
« Reply #21 on: August 17, 2016, 01:23:48 pm »
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After his military service, Bannon worked at Goldman Sachs as an investment banker in the Mergers & Acquisitions Department.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Bannon

So more evil Goldman Sachs employees join the team.
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« Reply #22 on: August 17, 2016, 01:25:42 pm »
Quote from: andy58-in-nh on August 17, 2016, 01:07:04 pm
The problem with "populism" is what it has always been, everywhere in the free world: it is never all that popular.


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« Reply #23 on: August 17, 2016, 01:29:35 pm »
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Bannon has convinced Trump that rest of campaign needs to be bare-knuckles brawl, w/ full-bore populism/movement politics



So more of what hasn't worked.



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« Reply #24 on: August 17, 2016, 01:30:55 pm »
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I read that article this morning on a news website and thought, "There goes Manafort and crazy Trump returns to his normal crazy self."  It is apparent he doesn't like reading from a teleprompter and presenting a sane person to the public.  It appears he is returning to his normal self as he says something like, "You have to be you."  Likely his next speech will be off the cuff and irrational.
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