2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumRachael BREAKs WEIRD NEWs story re: Trump's bizarre phone call to Bill Clinton
to get his advice about running, a few weeks before Trumps announcement.
Trump had a longish conversation with Bill Clinton before his announcement
to get Bill's 'advice' about getting into the GOP race, and Bill basically said "totally, I
encourage you to get into the race" <-- a paraphrase, but still, this is
pretty weird shit.
Anyone else see that?
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Uhh...yeah Trumpster....You're a brilliant man and can accomplish great things... Holds phone away. Hillary, you're not going to believe this shit!!!!
niyad
(113,329 posts)msrizzo
(796 posts)....Bill is smart but who could have imagined that Trump would have made such a splash. Let's see what Trumpy says tomorrow because you know Fox will ask him about this.
LuvNewcastle
(16,846 posts)All of these 'front-runners' have their roles to play in this farce.
artislife
(9,497 posts)PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)I find most of what people post from Maddow's show has been discussed previously on DU.
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)FSogol
(45,488 posts)It'll be huge!
Cheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)That's territory. Nobody could every prove it, or disprove it. Just your run of the mill conspiracy theory.
Except for that yes they actually did discuss it before hand, that's known.
And Bill Clinton did actually encourage Donald Trump to run.
So I don't know what further pieces of evidence are needed to complete the proof beyond that.
Bjorn Against
(12,041 posts)Heather MC
(8,084 posts)infiltrated the Republican party
ericson00
(2,707 posts)and that renders this story very suspect to me
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)that aides to Trump have confirmed the conversation happened - but they also claim 2016 election was not the topic.
ericson00
(2,707 posts)but until they do, its all just typical media
AnnieBW
(10,427 posts)And The Donald took the bait.
Vattel
(9,289 posts)Trump called Clinton and offered to help Hillary by running. The plan would be to feed the news media a fun narrative in which Bernie would be characterized as the Democrat's Trump, an unelectable crazy racist extremist with bad hair. Trump went on to tell Bill that it would cost him one million dollars. Of course Bill just laughed at the allusion to Dr. Evil's demand in the Austin Powers movie and then he told his Foundation peeps to secretly pay Trump 10 billion dollars.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)The NYT will be running with it next week.
fadedrose
(10,044 posts)am watcbing it now to get all of it....2nd showing...
AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)They are friends.