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An Open Letter to Trump Voters from His Top Strategist-Turned-Defector
XOJANE ^ | 3/28/16 | Stephanie Cegielski

Posted on 04/06/2016 7:11:00 AM PDT by justlittleoleme

Even Trump's most trusted advisors didn't expect him to fare this well.

Almost a year ago, recruited for my public relations and public policy expertise, I sat in Trump Tower being told that the goal was to get The Donald to poll in double digits and come in second in delegate count. That was it.

The Trump camp would have been satisfied to see him polling at 12% and taking second place to a candidate who might hold 50%. His candidacy was a protest candidacy.

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I don't think even Trump thought he would get this far. And I don’t even know that he wanted to, which is perhaps the scariest prospect of all.

He certainly was never prepared or equipped to go all the way to the White House, but his ego has now taken over the driver's seat, and nothing else matters. 

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What was once Trump's desire to rank second place to send a message to America and to increase his power as a businessman has nightmarishly morphed into a charade that is poised to do irreparable damage to this country if we do not stop this campaign in its tracks.

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You can give Trump the biggest gift possible if you are a Trump supporter: stop supporting him.

He doesn't want the White House. He just wants to be able to say that he could have run the White House. He’s achieved that already and then some. If there is any question, take it from someone who was recruited to help the candidate succeed, and initially very much wanted him to do so.

(Excerpt) Read more at xojane.com ...


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KEYWORDS: antitrump; cegielski; charade; ego; ibtz; ntsa; protest; stephaniecegielski; trump
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To: bigbob

“Even if Trump won every single remaining delegate he could not get to 1237. Due to no chance of winning Montana and South Dakota, Trump is effectively eliminated at the end of May.

Trump’s campaign staffers have done this math. That is why they are increasingly laying the groundwork to call for Cruz to exit the race when he is eliminated from a majority. They know Cruz is the second ballot favorite, and that Kasich is a non-factor.”

- See more at: https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2016/04/cruz-and-trump-likely-to-miss-delegate-target#sthash.6nwJQvIC.dpuf


21 posted on 04/06/2016 7:21:46 AM PDT by justlittleoleme
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To: justlittleoleme
Really tired of hearing about this resume-inflating woman. She's not, and never was, anything close to "Trump's top strategist." In fact, if you read her account of the meeting she claims as the basis for her statement, it doesn't sound like Trump himself was even there.

She should just go away and shut up, and I say that as someone who doesn't even support Trump.

22 posted on 04/06/2016 7:23:07 AM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: Byron_the_Aussie

Byron_the_Aussie...the pro-liberal content around here does get tiresome.
I have taken to viewing FR "join date" to help consider the sincerity of poster.
Many of the posters who are rabble-rousers tend to be 2008 and forward.

23 posted on 04/06/2016 7:23:19 AM PDT by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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To: justlittleoleme
Stephanie Cegielski ‏@SCegielskiPR 17 hours ago

Of all the nasty things said to me and about me this past week, being called a liar and a fraud were the most difficult. #integrity

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Stephanie Cegielski ‏@SCegielskiPR Apr 5

I have realized that lack of civility isn't just confined to #Congress, it is rampant in our society.

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Stephanie Cegielski ‏@SCegielskiPR Apr 3

One of my biggest regrets was seeing @megynkelly as an opportunity for candidate gain rather than the reality. I'm sorry for that.

24 posted on 04/06/2016 7:23:33 AM PDT by Byron_the_Aussie (It's them or us.)
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To: justlittleoleme

Donald Trump needs to do 3 things:

1-Focus: stop playing defense, that’s how they are taking you off message.

2-Change language: stop using Me & I “man-up”

3-Outline what you do in your presidency for America!


25 posted on 04/06/2016 7:27:47 AM PDT by conservativesister (Elio Motors coming 2016 WooHoo!!!)
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To: Blue Jays
It's incredible now. Back in the 90s we used to squabble like glue sniffing civet cats here. But pretty much everyone agreed the Dems and libs were our common enemy.

Now it's 'if Trump gets the nomination I'm voting Hillary' and similar Quisling sewage. The best remedy is to scorn them hard and scorn them often. Why? Because, at core, that kind of Freeper is more concerned with posturing and virtue signalling than they are about America's future. They're ego driven, and that's their Achilles heel.

26 posted on 04/06/2016 7:30:41 AM PDT by Byron_the_Aussie (It's them or us.)
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To: justlittleoleme

A bunch of BS that is actually an attack on Trump.

I wish they’d quit treating us as if we’re stupid. We’re not.

The chance to close our border and control immigration, jobs, and trade is the issue, folks.

If we lose Trump, then we lose all of that.


27 posted on 04/06/2016 7:32:17 AM PDT by xzins (Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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To: justlittleoleme

I wonder how much the RNC paid her to write this garbage. Or perhaps it was the Cruz campaign.


28 posted on 04/06/2016 7:36:36 AM PDT by Signalman
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To: justlittleoleme
Stephanie Cegielski ‏@SCegielskiPR Mar 29

To be clear, the Trump campaign never employed me. I only consulted for the MAGA Super PAC. All mtgs took place before I joined the PAC.

29 posted on 04/06/2016 7:38:10 AM PDT by Byron_the_Aussie (It's them or us.)
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To: justlittleoleme
Stephanie Cegielski followed Lawrence O'Donnell and Katy Tur

Lawrence O'Donnell Verified account @Lawrence Host of @TheLastWord with @Lawrence O'Donnell on MSNBC.

30 posted on 04/06/2016 7:38:50 AM PDT by Byron_the_Aussie (It's them or us.)
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"Cruz wins 100% of the vote in the remaining primaries and he still falls short." -- How the Rest of the Delegate Race Could Unfold, 8 posted on 04/06/2016 5:18:17 AM PDT by King of Florida
How the Rest of the Delegate Race Could Unfold


31 posted on 04/06/2016 7:39:59 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: justlittleoleme

From a disgruntled former


32 posted on 04/06/2016 7:41:45 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: justlittleoleme

How much does Ted Cruz’s campaign pay you people?


33 posted on 04/06/2016 7:44:56 AM PDT by McGruff (The Republican elite would rather see Hillary Clinton president than Donald Trump.)
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To: Genoa

“That denial has a Clintonian ring to”

Yet even the liberals over at Snopes agree that Cegielski never worked for Trump.

She worked for a Super PAC that was raising money using Trump’s name without permission from Trump.

The Trump campaign denounced her PAC last December calling it a big league scam that was raising money for their own benefit.

Only the true believers at Team Hate Trump are peddling this fake story.


34 posted on 04/06/2016 7:47:27 AM PDT by Pelham (A refusal to deport is defacto amnesty)
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To: justlittleoleme

So you were recruited to lose?

Not sure that is a resume enhancement....


35 posted on 04/06/2016 7:47:57 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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To: justlittleoleme

History shows Trump doesn’t compete to wind up a happy 2nd place. Not buying it. Gotta weed through the onslaught of BS now headed to dump on him even more.


36 posted on 04/06/2016 7:48:18 AM PDT by tflabo (truth or tyrrany)
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To: justlittleoleme

Next you’ll be posting the love letters of Putzi Hanfstaengl. They’d be more relevant than this fabrication that even the Cruz hemorrhoid, Rush Limbaugh, has debunked.


37 posted on 04/06/2016 7:48:38 AM PDT by Stentor
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To: Byron_the_Aussie

http://theweek.com/articles/616179/why-karl-rove-rooting-brokered-convention


38 posted on 04/06/2016 8:23:30 AM PDT by GOPJ ("We have the fight of our lives coming up to save our nation!" ~ Jim Robinson)
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To: ghosthost

Yes its up on Salon and bunch of BS. Donald Trump never sets out to be second best. Get real.


39 posted on 04/06/2016 8:23:53 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: justlittleoleme

Donald Trump
743
Ted Cruz
517


40 posted on 04/06/2016 9:07:51 AM PDT by Harpotoo
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