Posted on 01/03/2018 11:14:05 AM PST by EdnaMode
On the afternoon of November 8, 2016, Kellyanne Conway settled into her glass office at Trump Tower. Right up until the last weeks of the race, the campaign headquarters had remained a listless place. All that seemed to distinguish it from a corporate back office were a few posters with right-wing slogans.
Conway, the campaign’s manager, was in a remarkably buoyant mood, considering she was about to experience a resounding, if not cataclysmic, defeat. Donald Trump would lose the election — of this she was sure — but he would quite possibly hold the defeat to under six points. That was a substantial victory. As for the looming defeat itself, she shrugged it off: It was Reince Priebus’s fault, not hers.
She had spent a good part of the day calling friends and allies in the political world and blaming Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee. Now she briefed some of the television producers and anchors whom she had been carefully courting since joining the Trump campaign — and with whom she had been actively interviewing in the last few weeks, hoping to land a permanent on-air job after the election.
Even though the numbers in a few key states had appeared to be changing to Trump’s advantage, neither Conway nor Trump himself nor his son-in-law, Jared Kushner — the effective head of the campaign — wavered in their certainty: Their unexpected adventure would soon be over. Not only would Trump not be president, almost everyone in the campaign agreed, he should probably not be. Conveniently, the former conviction meant nobody had to deal with the latter issue.
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What a bunch of made up spew!
I'll tell you who didn't want to be president was Bernie Sanders. He did everything he could to laud his opponent, Hillary Clinton, and never really went after her like he should have.
Instead, he rolled over for a tummy rub and a token of the Clinton Cartel's appreciation, a $700,000 gem of 3rd home on the lake. Bernie didn't grab the brass ring because he didn't know how to.
Donald Trump's been grabbing brass rings his whole life. He wanted this job and he went after it.
This man is not used to losing.
This. I watched the interview. Jonny, yours is an accurate paraphrase of that interview. He had been asked if he would ever run for President.
Perfect tagline. The media still can’t seem to figure out that millions of people are tired of them and the establishment.
Trump did not want to win. That is why he did 2-3 speeches a day. That makes sense in far-left logic.
I was listening to Howie Carr in Boston talking about this issue and he mentioned that Trump had called in to his show at 6:30pm when the polls closed at 7:00. He thought it was unbelievable that anyone ready to lose would be working that hard. He mentioned several politicians he’d followed in the area who knew they weren’t going to win and who gave up. He said Trump’s behavior was completely unlike those others.
The same Michael Wolff who quoted Bannon?....LOL!
This book is the leftards’ plan Z from the heretofore unknown planet Nutbegone. After all, if Trump really didn’t want to be President, there was no reason for him to “collude” with the eeeevil Russians to steal the election from the Witch and for his son to go to the meeting with the Russian female lawyer and engage in “treasonous activity” to “get dirt on Hillarhy.”
He’s a WOLFF without a snake...................
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LOL
“This. I watched the interview. Jonny, yours is an accurate paraphrase of that interview. He had been asked if he would ever run for President.”
I’ve not found that interview on you tube but I did find others of him saying he didn’t want to go into politics.
Yeah, Trump did not want to win, that is why he coasted lightly through the campaign, staying out of sight, just like Shrillary.....
Oh, wait.....
[Ofc she wanted badly to win, but knew that public appearances could be her downfall.... anyway, she thought the MSM could drag her over the finish line without her having to meet too many grubby peasants!]
This is the story that is the brainchild of Steve Bannon that prompted President Trump’s and Don Jr’s scathing retorts today. With “friends” like this, who needs enemies? He was apparently the leaker that was causing so much chaos according to the Donald Trump Jr. tweet and now basically admits he was using Trump and his campaign to promote himself for what would come after Trump lost - which Bannon says he and others thought Trump was trying intentionally to lose. Interesting, since Trump was barnstorming to the point of exhaustion the key states needed to win, including making a stop in MN when polls showed things were closing there (and he nearly won there). Then ran those blistering ads during the highly rated World Series near the even of the election attacking Hillary on corruption...interesting behavior for a candidate who wasn’t trying to win. The fact that Bannon would go to the likes of Michael Wolff at New York Magazine for this “tell all” is also quite revealing.
And hillary had a 99% chance of winning!
Donald Trump wanted to save our country from the left and the state it was in. Whether anyone words it as “he didn’t want to be President” or “he volunteered to leave his nice comfortable life to get our country back from the left” to create jobs, to spur the economy, to stop the downward trend .. to stop the decay.. he volunteered to serve the people!
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