This is my idea of a Trump-Blitzer conversation:
WOLF — You’re nuts, right? I mean, you’re just nuts.
TRUMP — Yeah, I have people working on it, I won’t be nuts by January.
WOLF — You will spare Buffalo, right?
TRUMP — Yeah, I will build a casino there.
WOLF — I knew you were crazy. A casino in Buffalo? Do you want to go broke?
Much of the discussion begs the question, at what point is the event in Cleveland not really the Republican convention? What’s in a name, if it’s only Donald Trump and his supporters there?
And if the other elements of the party then meet at some other time and place, and don’t call it a convention, but nominate a candidate? How does that make my theory wrong except on technicalities?
But I think I would revise some of my details after getting this feedback. As I said, I have no (insider) knowledge.