'Republican source' leaks Trump speech to Dems (UPDATE)
Source: Politico
A super PAC backing Hillary Clinton on Thursday night mysteriously obtained and leaked drafts of Donald Trumps nomination speech and those of several other convention speakers hours before the nights proceedings were set to kick off, sending the Trump campaign scrambling on the final night of what has been a chaotic convention.
The super PAC, Correct the Record, obtained a document containing the drafts from a Republican source who had access to it and they sent it to us, said Correct the Record founder David Brock, a close Clinton ally.
But a senior Republican operative working behind the scenes at the convention called the leak " a disaster that proved that Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his team just aren't ready for prime time.
The drafts obtained by Correct the Record were in a single document formatted for a TelePrompTer, and were time-stamped from the early afternoon.
The document began circulating in political and journalism circles and POLITICO obtained a draft of it soon after 5 p.m., but refrained from publishing it until verifying its authenticity.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/rnc-2016-donald-trump-speech-leak-hillary-clinton-pac-225981
Also on Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-speech-full-text_us_5791547ae4b0bdddc4d3ea99?uvkz0homss9d4pldi
Story from Media Matters
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/07/21/trump-s-convention-speech-will-include-dog-whistle-conspiracy-theorist-alex-jones-fans/211804
TygrBright
(20,771 posts)riversedge
(70,311 posts)still_one
(92,422 posts)days to see they are a bunch of hateful, irrational jerks
riversedge
(70,311 posts)too bad.
...............The Trump campaign did not respond to a question about how the draft might have leaked.
But a senior Republican operative working behind the scenes at the convention called the leak " a disaster that proved that Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his team just aren't ready for prime time.
The drafts obtained by Correct the Record were in a single document formatted for a TelePrompTer, and were time-stamped from the early afternoon.
The document began circulating in political and journalism circles and POLITICO obtained a draft of it soon after 5 p.m., but refrained from publishing it until verifying its authenticity.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/rnc-2016-donald-trump-speech-leak-hillary-clinton-pac-225981#ixzz4F5wodL49
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JoFerret
(10,704 posts)This is not a time to parse the niceties of Clinton v. Sanders. This is a time to come together and defeat a threat to America, to democracy and to hope for the world.
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Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,311 posts)but he emerges from this week as the only Republican with any guts
JoFerret
(10,704 posts)Equinox Moon
(6,344 posts)Wednesdays
(17,412 posts)with party insiders who detest him, and are looking for any means to defeat him. Even at the cost of making Hillary president.
Equinox Moon
(6,344 posts)Qutzupalotl
(14,334 posts)That would save time.
PSPS
(13,617 posts)Equinox Moon
(6,344 posts)"spies" is what I meant.
MADem
(135,425 posts)user name: Donald Trump
Password MakeAmericaGreat2016
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LOL!
maxrandb
(15,360 posts)We're about to give this guy Top Secret briefings and he can't even protect a firckin' speech?
tinrobot
(10,916 posts)Over the past year, he's ticked off most of the establishment GOP. This gives insiders a big incentive to take him down.
I guarantee there will be more incidents like this as we move into the general.