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Girard442

(6,071 posts)
Thu Jan 4, 2018, 11:24 AM Jan 2018

Still skeptical of the claims being made in Wolff's book but...

...it certainly throws a lot of fuel on the fire of the notion that no one in the Trump camp had any ability to run a presidential campaign and that someone else was.

Who do you suppose that could have been?



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GusBob

(7,286 posts)
1. I am sorry but: Huh?
Thu Jan 4, 2018, 11:27 AM
Jan 2018

Cant quite catch your drift. The Book has not much to do with the campaign. Its about the first year in the White House

Girard442

(6,071 posts)
4. The point is, who ran the Trump's winning presidential campaign?
Thu Jan 4, 2018, 11:37 AM
Jan 2018

Because it doesn't sound to me like any of the numbnuts that ended up in the Trump administration could have possibly done it.

kpete

(71,991 posts)
2. There are tapes..........................
Thu Jan 4, 2018, 11:28 AM
Jan 2018

Wolff spent hours at a time in private areas of the West Wing, according to Axios, where he recorded dozens of hours of tapes with a variety of sources, and hosted a dinner for six that included White House strategist Steve Bannon and former Fox News chief Roger Ailes, whose conversations are quoted at length in the book.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/take-it-to-the-bank-he-said-this-heres-proof-that-bannons-anti-trump-quotes-are-real/

Girard442

(6,071 posts)
5. Skeptical, in the sense that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Thu Jan 4, 2018, 11:40 AM
Jan 2018

My gut feeling is that the book is essentially accurate, but that's just me.

Wounded Bear

(58,656 posts)
3. Well, Bannon is anything but a reliagle source...
Thu Jan 4, 2018, 11:30 AM
Jan 2018

But this could split the Trumplodytes into Team Trump and Team Bannon, which will weaken their resolve.

The dogs are sniffing assholes to see which one smells better.

PJMcK

(22,037 posts)
7. Why are you skeptical?
Thu Jan 4, 2018, 11:58 AM
Jan 2018

From the excerpts released so far, Trump's White House is everything we've expected and less. Every one of the people in Trump's administration are unqualified or compromised.

They are a ship of fools and criminals without a functioning captain. Is that so hard to believe?

Javaman

(62,530 posts)
9. no author would print stuff that would open themselves up to a libel suit.
Thu Jan 4, 2018, 01:55 PM
Jan 2018

that would be plain fucking professional suicide.

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