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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Deserves a bharf alert just for the writing style ...
Good explanation. That is correct. I had a feeling that after 8 years of darkness, it would be our turn.
Is this the schiller/author of the new Fake News Bannon/Trump book?
If I could write, me too.
5.56mm
How bizarre. A book about Donald Trump losing the election.
HOW HE GOT THE STORY This story is adapted from Michael Wolff’s book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, to be published by Henry Holt & Co. on January 9. Wolff, who chronicles the administration from Election Day to this past October, conducted conversations and interviews over a period of 18 months with the president, most members of his senior staff, and many people to whom they in turn spoke. Shortly after Trump’s inauguration, Wolff says, he was able to take up “something like a semi-permanent seat on a couch in the West Wing” — an idea encouraged by the president himself. Because no one was in a position to either officially approve or formally deny such access, Wolff became “more a constant interloper than an invited guest.” There were no ground rules placed on his access, and he was required to make no promises about how he would report on what he witnessed.
Since then, he conducted more than 200 interviews. In true Trumpian fashion, the administration’s lack of experience and disdain for political norms made for a hodgepodge of journalistic challenges. Information would be provided off-the-record or on deep background, then casually put on the record. Sources would fail to set any parameters on the use of a conversation, or would provide accounts in confidence, only to subsequently share their views widely. And the president’s own views, private as well as public, were constantly shared by others. The adaptation presented here offers a front-row view of Trump’s presidency, from his improvised transition to his first months in the Oval Office.
Anyone who actually wants to be President is insane and unfit for the office. X42, for example, had dreamed of being President since childhood, and went out of his way to "maintain his political viability". He WANTED to be President. He was a disaster.
Yeah LOL totally makes sense right..he had NO Desire to become President..yet he called Putin on the phone and made a deal to hack the DNC emails/sarc
This is fake news garbage, but the truth is unlike most career swamp politicians such as Little Marco, Jeb !, Lying Ted etc - Trump didn’t spend his whole life wanting to be President.
No, he saw things get so bad under Obozzo and despaired at the weak RINO challengers that he knew he HAD to become President.
Trump sacrificed everything, his billionaire lifestyle, his personal safety, his sacred honour - everything he has he gave up to save the Republic
What!?
Michael, about those South Park episodes where Mr. Garrison didn’t really want to win the election?
Those were just cartoons, fiction if you will.
Some of these ‘writers’ need to be issued handlers, for their safety.
This is the same author that is peddling the notion that Bannon called Trump’s son “treasonous”.
Michael Wolff has a reputation for making stuff up.
Wolff just won the garbage piece of the year award with this.
Wolff would probably love it. Boost his sales.
Yeah it’s the same guy.
Donald Trump, the most reluctant POTUS since George Washington.
I didn’t get past the drawing to know that it was a joke. The picture and the story. First of all Melanie would not wear one of Mikie’s dresses. Melania has style that dress has Michelle O written all over it. Oh, Ivanka’s hairstyle was never that. She too is classy and that hairdo is right out of barber college styles.
Yep. That’s why he did 3 and 4 rallies PER DAY almost EVERY DAY up until the very end, because he DID NOT WANT TO BE PRESIDENT!
Notice the arrogance in the first few paragraphs and then notice my Tagline.
Easily. Election Day afternoon, Kellyanne Conway was watching Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, et al, predicting victory.
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