In an open letter to voters supporting Donald Trump in the Republican presidential primary, the former communications director of Trump’s now-defunct Super PAC said that the former reality television star not only never expected to be the Republican nominee, much less president, but never even wanted to be.
Writing for the website xojane.com, Stephanie Cegielski said that when she was brought aboard as communications director for the Make America Great Again PAC last summer, the instructions from Trump Tower were to make sure that Trump finished a respectable second in the GOP primary. It was made clear that Trump was running not as a serious contender, but as a “protest” candidate.
So when did Trump have a PAC? Some time after he announced, some were started using his name, but he quickly disavowed them, used no $ from them, and ordered them to stop using his name. So why should we believe this person? If this is accurate, Trump has lied prodigiously. If not true, this person (”Cegielski, now an adjunct professor at New York University and the owner of a communications firm”) is lying prodigiously and obviously doing so at someone’s behest. And she is “now” an adjunct prof, when did that start? Usually prof jobs don’t start in the middle of the year. What’s the time line and all that?