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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumNY Daily News Sunday Front Page
Stephen Bannon hire shows Donald Trump's campaign plans on losing 'in the most destructive way possible'
Make America great again by lighting a match and flicking it into the dumpster of a floundering campaign. The reshuffling of Donald Trumps brain trust could be a white flag an intentional effort to tank the presidential election in spectacular fashion.
The GOP nominees presidential bid emerged from its most disastrous stretch to date so wounded that Trump had no choice but to pull a few strings, outwardly as a last-ditch try to make his race with Hillary Clinton more competitive.
But the shakeup last week, some experts say, was actually to seal his fate a yuge November loss by bringing in flashy advisers who will just let him be himself, and let his circus tent crash and burn.
Trump may indeed be planning to lose in the loudest and most destructive way possible, David Birdsell, dean of the Public Affairs School at Baruch College, told the Daily News. That was Birdsells response when asked about Trumps decision to bring in Stephen Bannon, the executive chairman of far-right news and opinion site Breitbart. As one of the chiefs of Breitbart, which has essentially served as a propaganda machine for Trump, Bannon has been integral in overseeing the organizations embrace of all things white supremacist, anti-LGBTQ and anti-immigrant.
read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/stephen-bannon-hire-shows-donald-trump-campaign-plans-losing-article-1.2759268
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NY Daily News Sunday Front Page (Original Post)
napkinz
Aug 2016
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HipChick
(25,485 posts)1. LOL!
Gothmog
(145,530 posts)2. Trump is losing so good
napkinz
(17,199 posts)4. make that Bigly!
ornotna
(10,806 posts)3. Shouldn't be a problem for him
He's used to spectacular failures.
pressbox69
(2,252 posts)6. Good ol' Daily News
So much better than when they reported the death of Mao with Now He's A Good Commie. LOL
BadGimp
(4,018 posts)7. Maybe he is planning / expecting to lose and then rise up..
This piece speaks to a truly fascinating perspective that is rising fast in the back channels: that Trump plans to loose and is setting himself up to launch his Media Empire in the rubble left in the wake of his campaign. But maybe I'm just not reading all this right.
Trump may indeed be planning to lose in the loudest and most destructive way possible, David Birdsell, dean of the Public Affairs School at Baruch College, told the Daily News."
oasis
(49,403 posts)8. Don't go away mad Trumpster, just go away.