In 1989, Roger and his then wife Ann began a group called “Republicans for Choice” which was dedicated to extracting the pro-life plank out of the Republican party platform.
I think he was on Anderson Pooper last night.
Huh?
yuge = you ugly GOPe?
yuge = why U gettin’ EBT?
yuge = #can’tspellyugo?
The interview was funny. As usual, the interviewer was trying to elicit something negative about Trump. It didn’t happen. The only negative about Trump or the campaign was that some staffer had leaked information to the press.
It seems a distressingly large number of his supporters are the same.
This is hilarious! I knew it when I heard about it this weekend and this article confirms it. Trump and Stone are BFFs. I would be surprised if Stone doesn’t do Trump’s hair while Trump eats a stick of frozen cookie dough at sleepovers.
Trump and Stone have a history of these hissy fits with each other, but I would bet my last dollar that they still communicate two or three times a day.
Stone says he has been approached by other campaigns, but he won’t work for them. Of course he won’t, he’s too busy running Trump’s shadow campaign.
Oh, and he’s been approached by more than two or three other campaigns, I bet. And they are now scared spitless that he will name them as examples of the two or three that contacted him. It will make them seem weak and desperate to jump to a former Trump advisor.
And that is the brilliance of this move. If you want to talk to Trump, but you don’t want to be seen talking to Trump, you talk to Stone. But then you put yourself in Trump’s pocket, because talking with Stone means you have to give him all your secrets and hope he won’t find a way to use them as leverage against you. And who is the one who controls all of the levers that Stone sets up? Trump.
That is Trump’s big secret in business and his big plan in this campaign: leverage. If you have it, and know how to use it, you can be like Archimedes and move the world.
Fox News is the perfect example of leverage. After the debate, Trump went to his numbers guys and told them he wanted the ratings number for the debate. He wasn’t really upset or angry at Megyn Kelly, nor at Fox News. Hey, it’s only business. But he needed leverage. When the ratings numbers came in, he sent them to Roger Ailes.
“What do you think of that? I brought in half of those numbers and you know it!” Then he decided to go all nuts about how unfair Fox News was to him. Ailes knew that Trump brought in the huge numbers, but now a lot of advertisers for Fox News were calling Ailes in and saying “Hey, the guy who drew in the biggest numbers of any debate is talking like he won’t come back! We want those numbers for our commercials, so you do what it takes to make sure he will be back!”
Ailes has to contact Trump and ask him to come back on, which Trump then announces to the world. Trump wins.
Oh please many people who have been fired do resignation letters. Happens all the time.
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