Trump Allies Plot Candidate Intervention After Disastrous 48 Hours

[brooklynite]

Source: NBC

Key Republicans close to Donald Trump's orbit are plotting an intervention with the candidate after a disastrous 48 hours led some influential voices in the party to question whether Trump can stay at the top of the Republican ticket without catastrophic consequences for his campaign and the GOP at large.

Republican National Committee head Reince Priebus, former Republican New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich are among the Trump endorsers hoping to talk the real estate mogul into a dramatic reset of his campaign in the coming days, sources tell NBC News.

The group of GOP heavyweights hopes to enlist the help of Trump's children - who comprise much of his innermost circle of influential advisers - to aid in the attempt to rescue his candidacy. Trump's family is considered to have by far the most influence over the candidate's thinking at what could be a make-or-break moment for his campaign.

The idea is in its early stages, and there's no guarantee that Trump's team would entertain a conversation requiring such comprehensive changes for a candidate who has resisted calls to moderate his tone or reel in his most outlandish political positions.

Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/trump-allies-plot-candidate-intervention-after-disastrous-48-hours-n622216?cid=sm_twitter_feed_politics

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Remember when the Trump campaign was going to reboot after the Judge Curiel debacle?

Remember when the Trump campaign was going to reboot with Paul Manafort providing "professional" management?

[Native]

1. Oh to be a fly on that wall!

[Fritz Walter]

46. Not me!

Flies on the wall can get hit by shrapnel!

And the Mangled Apricot Hellbeast will go to pieces that fast in an intervention.

[underpants]

2. His kids? They know how life in their bubble works

Daddy is awesome. We all work for Daddy.

If they really do get on board with this, they are playing with fire.

[graegoyle]

11. At great risk to their...

...trust funds.

[ToxMarz]

30. They're stuck with him after all this is over

The family business will never be the same

[Skittles]

53. it has to be affecting the Trump name

we now see up close what this family is really like, and it ain't pretty

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. Those assholes are just as crazy as trump.

[unitedwethrive]

48. Exactly! Making one wonder what exactly they're going to try to get out of this.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. Trump always does a 360 degree pivot. He's a winner -- he said so himself. . . . nt

[getting old in mke]

31. 'Cause 360 is twice as good as 180.

Winners exceed expectations...

[livetohike]

5. LOL at Trump's children being any help. They are just like him. Now

America has seen what a disgusting piece of work he is beyond "You're fired!". There are a few months left to have him and the adult children be completely humiliated.

[emulatorloo]

6. Ha like that'll work. Trump's convinced he's winning and doing everything right.

Kids are enablers.

[WinstonSmith4740]

25. True that!

This reminds me of how Romney (and even more deliciously, Karl Rove) was totally caught off guard when Obama won in 2012. He believed his OWN polls, instead of, you know, reliable ones that showed him losing. Nobody will ever be able to convince Trump he's wrong...it just won't happen. And since his kids are as delusional as he is, well do the math.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. A reboot is not a clean slate

the baggage remains, the personality endures

[cab67]

8. Too little, way too late.

Had they done this - successfully - before the convention, it might have had an impact. But now? You can only walk back so much.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. It's not going to work.

Trump isn't a guy you can do an "intervention" on because that would require a capacity for introspection, which he doesn't have. His kids won't be any use because they are political rookies who have spent their entire lives in Daddy's bizarre alternate universe and are as clueless as he is. And Giuliani and Gingrich have been among Trump's biggest enablers - they've encouraged and defended his behavior so far; how are they going to persuade him to behave now? How is anybody going to stop him from being what he is?

[underpants]

14. Maybe Melania can step in

Someone at sometime must have said something that she can use.



He'll cast Rudy and Newt off like yesterday's food photo prop. They all are tied to him. He owns them and he knows it.

[eShirl]

21. Dr Phil or maybe Jerry Springer ?

[kskiska]

58. Sociopath's can't change

They can mimic "normal" for a short time, but will always revert to their natural state.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

59. Exactly. We see that every day.

Trump goes off script during every speech, usually within minutes. He is what he is; they can "intervene" every day and nothing he does or is will change.

[ffr]

10. Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!

Stay the course my friend!

Let me speak to Drumpf. "You're doing great. You're a winner and you're winning. Keep up the good work. Here's your phone back."

[mahatmakanejeeves]

12. It's time for ... Trump Family Feud.

[underpants]

13. LOL

[brooklynite]

15. UPDATE: "Christie not part of the plan"

@KatyTurNBC reports Christie is not part of the intervention, sources say it's because he's still mad about the VP process.

[auntpurl]

16. LOL, poor Christie.

Couldn't have happened to a nicer shitbag.

Oh, that gave me a chuckle.

[Yavin4]

18. Christie is too busy eating bowls of ice cream and listening to Adele. n/t

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

19. LOL!

For Chris:

[kairos12]

28. He's part of the plan picking up the pizza.

[Yavin4]

17. This worked out really well for Charlie Sheen.

not.

[geek tragedy]

20. "There is no better Trump. There is not Presidential Trump."

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/06/rick-wilson-epic-never-trump-tweetstorm

[3catwoman3]

27. I do so enjoy listening to...

...Rick Wilson.

hey, Rick - c'mon over. The water's fine.

[rollin74]

22. Trump has the emotional maturity of an adolescent and no impulse control

I really don't think he is capable of controlling his mouth or resetting the direction of his campaign

the republicans would be wasting their time trying to convince him to change. They're basically dealing with someone who thinks, behaves and reacts like a child.


good luck with that, GOP

[groundloop]

23. It says something about the GOPer party when 'Gingrich' & 'Party Heavyweight' are in close proximity

[relayerbob]

24. How do they simply reboot?

That doesn't even make sense. Yes, you can reboot a computer, whose memory is stripped clean, but you cannot "reboot" actual history. As much as they might try, no matter how much Trump tries to kissy-kissy, it'll only make him look phony on top of insane. Dumping him as a candidate reflects on the entire party and also won't help. And Obama's handing the paint can to Mitchell and Ryan to apint the,selves into a corner with is not going to help them on this ride. They "reboot", now suddenly a whole team of Democratic leaders are saying"We told you so, they did what we asked" and the right goes (more) insane. They are seriously screwed right now. The best they can hope for is that he mellows out, but come the debates and Hillary starts pulling off his armor in front of the whole country, whatever facade they concoct will all melt away

[gwheezie]

26. This is going to make a great reality show

On lifetime network.

[randr]

29. Priebus, Giuliani, Gingrich

Three Republicans who had already lost any personal credibility propping up a dementian old man.
May they go down in flames together.
They truly represent between them the face of the Republican Party, or what is left of it.

[Helen Borg]

32. GWB will come to the rescue!

[forgotmylogin]

33. He will just fire them n/t

[Ford_Prefect]

34. Bring in the marmalade the candidate is TOAST, just like his brain.

[GulfCoast66]

54. Would that be Orange Marmalade?

[apnu]

35. My word! Trump and his campaign are a national embarrasment

An intervention?!?! Like Trump is a drunk or druggie?

Everyday is a day of Presidential firsts with Trump, none of them are good.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

36. Which goes to prove

When it comes to the GOP it takes a village to raise an idiot

[tclambert]

37. Just remember Trump is such an egotistical narcissist, he will want to do the opposite of any advice

you give him. Yeah, try to work out the psychological calculus of that. Do you intentionally give him bad advice, hoping for him to do the opposite and risking he might follow it? Or do you give him the best advice, the greatest, and risk he does the opposite just to show you he's smarter than everyone else?

(Answer: It doesn't matter. He won't listen. He will do whatever the hell he happens to think of in that moment. You're stuck with the Donald you've got, and can never get to the Donald you wish for.)

[bucolic_frolic]

38. Intervention

is something parents and supporting staff do with a wayward teen

ADD, narcissism, borderline ... this is beyond the pale in the way they
are putting up with all these tantrums

It's like they too, have no sound minds

[Koinos]

39. I think that Trump would withdraw for the right price.

If they pay him $650 million to pay off his debts, including those to the Russian oligarchs (aka mob) and they offer him a lifetime position with Fox, he might consider stepping down.

[anamandujano]

40. Guiliani and Gingrich set out on the long and winding road to distance themselves.

Now that they helped enable the monster, we should expect them to troubleshoot a potentially explosive situation when he loses. They should speak of this immediately.

"And it's clear that deep unease within the Republican Party is continuing to fester, despite party officials' efforts to turn the corner with a parade of "unity" pageantry of the GOP convention two weeks ago"

Needless to say, Trump will not be intervened. I suspect Melania has no influence over him at all and possibly no real place in his life, jmho.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

41. Trump sees all of them as the enemy.

[Doctor Jack]

42. Oh god how many times have we heard this?

How many times can the guy pivot before the media realizes he is just spinning in circles ?

[nadine_mn]

43. Trump will say any attempt of "intervention" is more proof the system is rigged

It will cause him to spin even more off script. He will accuse Gingrich, Guiliani and Preibus of being Hillary operatives determined to bring him down.


That should be delightful to watch.

[safeinOhio]

44. Tax returns, debate, tax returns, debate

Rinse and repeat.

[Botany]

45. Trump is a train wreck into a dumpster fire w/an onboard cluster fuck .... no need to change

Trump was in Columbus, OH for one day and he picked a fight w/the Fire Dept. the Mayor,
and a venues’s management team.


http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2016/08/01/some-trump-supporters-unhappy-after-being-turned-away-because-of-space-capacity.html

[IronLionZion]

47. Oh yeah they should keep rebooting every few days

until they lose spectacularly to Hillary. it will be yuuuge! The greatest landslide ever!

[DFW]

49. Let Trump stay on as the Republican nominee. Let him say what he wants.

Let him drag the chances of the Republican Party recapturing the White House downward toward zero, and let him him drag the chances of every Republican nominee for Senate, House, Governor, and State Legislature down along with him.

Trump is the choice of a Republican rank and file created by 20 years of their propaganda arm of Fox "News." Now their version of Rosemary's baby is all grown up and running as their candidate for president. If they don't like that, they should abandon their propaganda machine and get themselves another one.

[forest444]

50. These are Republicans we're talking about.

By "intervention" they probably mean something along the lines of an Arthur Bremer scenario.

[Squinch]

51. Didn't they ALREADY have an intervention a few months ago? Guess what? It didn't work. Maybe

they should try something different this time. A barbecue or a nail spa party...

[Skittles]

52. an intervention will not work

the man is not capable of changing

[GulfCoast66]

55. I can hear him now when they walk in

"Newt, fetch me a Perrier on ice, lime, not lemon."

"Reince, grab the car and go pick up my dry cleaning."

"Where is Chris? I need my shoes shined."

[frogmarch]

56. I want Trump to keep digging his hole

and fall into it headfirst in November...but not until then, because I don't want him to quit or be kicked out of the race and be replaced by a GOP candidate who'd be more popular than Trump is.

[lindysalsagal]

57. The kids to the rescue??? With inheritances on the line?

The group of GOP heavyweights hopes to enlist the help of Trump's children - who comprise much of his innermost circle of influential advisers - to aid in the attempt to rescue his candidacy.

They learned long ago not to challenge daddy: he will cut them off!

This would be where fRump would lose his family. He's lost washington already.