Steve Schmidt left
Posted on 07/27/2020 11:54:41 AM PDT by conservative98
Steve Schmidt, one of the co-founders of anti-Trump political action group the Lincoln Project, met with then-candidate Donald Trump and tried to join his campaign during a 2016 Manhattan meeting, sources with knowledge of the conversation told The Post.
But the Republican operative — best known for his work on John McCain’s failed presidential bid before becoming one of the faces of the “Never Trump” movement — failed to get the gig because Trump thought he was a “total idiot,” one of the sources said.
Ten days after Schmidt’s March 2016 meeting at Trump Tower, the campaign hired Paul Manafort as chairman and eventually promoted him to campaign manager.
In an interview with PRWeek two years later, the Jersey-born political strategist and PR executive nonchalantly recounted the meeting with Trump as a chance to “see what he was about” and likened it to being given the opportunity to see a UFO in Central Park.
But sources familiar with the meeting said Schmidt spent the entire encounter presenting what he thought the outsider candidate needed to do to win the election and was reportedly gunning for the campaign chief role, which Corey Lewandowski was fired from three months later.
One source said Schmidt, 49, thought the president was “the best candidate he had ever seen” and recounted how the campaign and the operative exchanged emails for months beforehand.
But things quickly soured when Trump thought Schmidt’s ideas were bad and the Big Apple real estate mogul left the meeting with a feeling that Schmidt was “very untrustworthy” and a “total idiot,” the insider said.
“The president was very turned off by the fact that Schmidt had turned on McCain, his former boss, for the money,”
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He should have kept Cory Lewandowski.
Manafort was hired for a reason. Remember Cruz said he was going to win it all by stealing delegates without even winning the primaries.
Steve Schmidt is an incompetent buffoon who said, just days before the 2016 election, that Trump should be working on his concession speech.
Hilarious!
Very interesting article. Now, think of all the Steve Schmidts at the middle levels who DON’T get weeded out.
And he still is!
So, that's what you're best known for? Sad.
Schmidt is only 49? He was only 37 when he was McCain’s Campaign Manager? Schmidt was also anti-Sarah Palin and anti-Tea Party.
He was vying for a spot to sabotage the campaign.
Illinois anti Trumpers
Adam Kinzinger worked with John Mc Cain is is #1
Joe Walsh
Mark Curran CURRENTLY on the ballot for US Senate in Illinois is an ANTI-TRUMPER they are hopeful will go to DC and Give ROMNEY help.
Pretty much the whole Leadership of the Illinois Republican Party is ANTI-TRUMP.
Steve Schmidt is a political whore. If the money is right, he’s your boy.
L M A O...
COM-POST...YOU ARE KIDDING...JACK ASS LIBERAL RAG..NEVER REPORT TRUTHFULLY.
Trump thought Schmidt’s ideas were bad and the Big Apple real estate mogul left the meeting with a feeling that Schmidt was “very untrustworthy” and a “total idiot,” the insider said.
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Trump judged him correctly... thank goodness! He would have been a saboteur placed in a critical position.
Bump
He pushed aRnie’s wagon in the 2003 Recall, nuff said.
Total Idiots Attract, I reckun.
in 2008 Schmidt was busy running back and forth spreading rumors and stabbing Palin in the back, essentially, he was working for the 0bama campaign.
A Royal Flush of LOSERS!!
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