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Thu Jul 14, 2016, 12:01 AM Jul 2016

Today in ‘Donald Trump’s Campaign Is a Garbage Fire’

By Jonathan Chait
July 13, 2016
3:51 p.m.

... The Republican candidate is now suing his fired former aide Sam Nunberg for violating a nondisclosure agreement ... Nunberg replies that the lawsuit is “'a misguided attempt to cover up media coverage of an apparent affair' between senior campaign staffers” ... Trump’s lawsuit .. probably will not make .. national media less curious about this alleged affair.

... Trump is now running for president as both the plaintiff in one legal case and the defendant in another. Also, the Republican platform has officially changed its use of the term “illegal immigrants” — not to adopt a less offensive term, but to adopt a more offensive one. The Republican Party’s official preferred nomenclature is now “illegal alien,” in the Trumpian spirit of giving maximal offense to crucial demographic groups for no good reason.

In other garbage-fire news, the Trump campaign continues to barely exist ...

... “Bikers for Trump” will patrol the streets in Cleveland during the Republican convention ... So relax — there’s no way a riled-up paramilitary gathering of rabid bikers could react in any way that reinforces middle America's concerns about the Republican nominee.


http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/07/today-in-the-trump-campaign-is-a-garbage-fire.html#

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