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Inside Trump Tower: The defiant and insulated Republican nominee By Philip Rucker, Dan Balz and Robert Costa October 8 at 7:43 PM ST. LOUIS — He beamed in just after midnight Saturday like a captive in his own gilded cage. A man who demands the best of everything was speaking to America from a dimly lit, home-built studio against a fake backdrop of the Manhattan skyline he likes to call his own.Donald Trump was a beleaguered candidate delivering conflicting messages: one of apology, insincere as it seemed to many viewers, and one of defiance. It was not clear that either message could rescue him after The Washington Post published a video Friday showing Trump making crude remarks about sexual assault.Trump’s extraordinary campaign has been guided by his own instincts, and on Friday, his instinct was to hunker down and fight. Trump spent the next 24 hours in New York mostly ensconced in Trump Tower with only his most loyal advisers, steadfastly refusing to accept or recognize the full reality of what was happening outside.Republican governors and members of Congress were calling for him to step aside — only a few at first, and then a rush — but Trump, talking to The Post by phone from the grandiose confines of his penthouse apartment, described an alternate universe.“People are calling and saying, ‘Don’t even think about doing anything else but running,’ ” Trump said. “You have to see what’s going on. The real story is that people have no idea about the support.”<...snip...>MOREhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-trump-tower-the-defiant-and-isolated-republican-nominee/2016/10/08/0b3575a0-8d8e-11e6-bf8a-3d26847eeed4_story.html?postshare=6501475970171767&tid=ss_tw
Am betting trump goes to the debate and QUITS. Pointblank quits! Gives us all a rash cussin and walks off.
