# Donald Trump's 2016 General Election Campaign **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [May 4, 2016, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901 "2016-05-04T02:37:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 20
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2016, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/381 "2016-05-14T05:46:38Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > As a former public relations counselor I resent that. If I lied to media it was MY reputation that took the hit, not my client’s. A publicist who lies quickly loses any influence with the media – which is what we’re supposed to bring to the table. Ok. I don’t know what a PR counselor does, but it sounds like a job where reputation matters. Especially with corporate clients. I would _think_ that there would be parts of the publicist business where all parties understand that fidelity to truth is generally observed in the breach. I’ve heard that Hollywood publicists are like that: they routinely spread tissue-thin phony stories about their clients. “Angelina Jolie insists on doing her own stunts,” is one of my favorites. Somehow I seriously doubt whether movie insurers would sign off on that plan. Movie reviewers know this but report the hokum anyway. Not to diss Jolie - it’s just business. She does fine humanitarian work and doesn’t humiliate herself with sock puppetry, at least to my knowledge. At any rate, are my impressions accurate? I honestly don’t know too much about this stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2016, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/382 "2016-05-14T06:10:51Z")
A reporter reminisces about covering Trump in NYC during the 1980s: [INDENT][INDENT] It may have been this lie—or perhaps another; there were so many—that prompted me to call Cohn and suggest he give his client a lesson in media relations. There were rules, I insisted: You could say “no comment” or not return a call, but you could not directly lie, certainly not to someone’s face, and still expect them to continue writing about you. Cohn found this very funny, and told me not to worry, that Trump meant no harm: “He’s just very excitable.” During the meeting in which he lied to me about Lincoln West, Trump said he didn’t pay much attention to the press. It was of little importance to him. This, mind you, during an interview with two newspaper reporters. A moment later, he pulled open a desk drawer and took out copies of a profile of him that had appeared in the Washington Post. Had we seen it, he wondered? [http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/04/2016-donald-trump-tabloids-new-york-post-daily-news-media-213842#ixzz48biz29XO](http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/04/2016-donald-trump-tabloids-new-york-post-daily-news-media-213842#ixzz48biz29XO) [/INDENT][/INDENT] The most delectable part is that the reporter was a gossip columnist. For _The New York Post_, a tabloid not known for its steadfast devotion to accuracy. Calling Roy Cohn, of Joseph McCarthy fame, asking him to please, _please_ have a discussion with Donald about _ethics_. Because he’s really crossing some lines here! ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2016, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/383 "2016-05-14T17:08:52Z")
The problem of seeking and getting support from reprehensible people like Joe Arpaio is that eventually one **should** repudiate them or just let everyone know that one is happy to be joined to the hip with racial profilers and people that think that they are above the law. [http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/defiant-arizona-sheriff-found-contempt-court-39102680](http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/defiant-arizona-sheriff-found-contempt-court-39102680) > [@](#): > > Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona Found in Contempt of Court > > The six-term sheriff of metro Phoenix has been found in contempt of court for disobeying a federal judge’s orders in a racial profiling case, bringing the lawman who calls himself “America’s Toughest Sheriff” a step closer to a possible criminal contempt case that could expose him to fines and even jail time. > > Friday’s ruling marked one of the biggest legal defeats in long career of Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who is known for cracking down on illegal immigration, and was expected to lead to greater court oversight of his office. > [@](#): > > The contempt case also examined a secret investigation by the sheriff’s office that opponents say was intended to discredit Snow. Arpaio has been accused of retaliating against his critics in the past but vigorously denied investigating the judge. > > He insists the investigation examined claims that someone had hacked the bank information of thousands of people. Snow has said the investigation tried to prove a “bogus conspiracy” between him and the U.S. Justice Department, which was pursuing a separate civil rights lawsuit against Arpaio. > > The sheriff had testified that others in his office ran the investigation. Snow said the inquiry was relevant to the contempt case because it raises questions about whether Arpaio testified truthfully about it. Seeing how close Trump is to Arpaio then the longer Trump is not repudiating Arpaio will only lead for many to realize what Trump does really want for him and for America, to gain power so as to be able to disregard the law and to impose the same kind of authoritarianism as seen in Arizona. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2016, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/384 "2016-05-14T17:17:44Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > Nah, it was the good old days with some bad aspects. Today, with the death, crime and misery from drugs, people being robbed, raped and murdered by 28-year-old violent criminals who’ve been turned loose over and over again, SJWs attacking everyone in sight, etc., etc., it’s the bad old days with a few good aspects. The crime rate is down. And there is nothing sillier than characterizing “SJWs attacking everyone in sight” as a social problem, especially one on a level implicitly equivalent to crime. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2016, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/385 "2016-05-14T18:09:51Z")
> [@Johnny\_Ace](#): > > …3) And again, just your best guess, can you tell me who the current Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is?.. People don’t know who has the gig almost certainly don’t know that the title is actually “Chief Justice of the United States.” ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2016, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/386 "2016-05-14T18:44:43Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > The crime rate is down. And there is nothing sillier than characterizing “SJWs attacking everyone in sight” as a social problem, especially one on a level implicitly equivalent to crime. What’s being said, basically is that some people think that crime is rampant because they don’t look at the actual facts and statistics, but rather believe the garbage propaganda being spread to keep them in a state of fear. They long for the “good old days”, that their imagination tells them was crime free, and when they could indulge their bigoted, disgusting ways without being called on it. They blame those who no longer tolerate racism and hatred towards gays. “That’s not fair!” they whine. “I should be allowed to openly hate and discriminate, like in the good old days, and THOSE PEOPLE had to just suck it up.” ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2016, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/387 "2016-05-14T20:44:49Z")
> [@Johnny\_Ace](#): > > Hahaha Trump’s full of it (again, as usual). That is _totally_ his voice on the tape. This silly story clears some things up for me. We knew that Trump was a narcissist, and _public_ brags about how many women he claimed to be dating apparently were news to Marla Maples. Unsurprisingly inconsiderate on Trump’s part. What I didn’t appreciate was the extent to which Trump is an attention seeker. There’s no business or branding advantage for Trump to call gossip columnists out of the blue with that kind of song and dance. Apparently he wasn’t especially popular with the press. Trump simply craved attention. Eight months ago, I figured that Trump was conducting a branding exercise. These pointless phone calls from the early 1990s show how much he revels in having his name in the paper. Even if they make him look ridiculous. Pitiful! Worthy of pity! Just the break Rubio needs! ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2016, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/388 "2016-05-14T21:55:37Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > The crime rate is down. And there is nothing sillier than characterizing “SJWs attacking everyone in sight” as a social problem, especially one on a level implicitly equivalent to crime. Crime is down from its peak, but it skyrocketed in the wake of the counterculture revolution of the late sixties and is still higher than it was then. And for all we know the reason crime is down now is because of stricter sentencing guidelines and parole restrictions. I suspect it’s also due to the fact that people from high crime areas have begun to move to other areas of town where the commission of crime becomes more difficult. And of course SJWs attacking everyone in sight is a social problem. It leads to anger and conflict and sets groups of people against each other and it may well result in a Donald Trump presidency. I imagine you would agree that would be a social problem. ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2016, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/389 "2016-05-14T22:47:37Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > Crime is down from its peak, but it skyrocketed in the wake of the counterculture revolution of the late sixties and is still higher than it was then. And for all we know the reason crime is down now is because of stricter sentencing guidelines and parole restrictions. I suspect it’s also due to the fact that people from high crime areas have begun to move to other areas of town where the commission of crime becomes more difficult. > > And of course SJWs attacking everyone in sight is a social problem. It leads to anger and conflict and sets groups of people against each other and it may well result in a Donald Trump presidency. I imagine you would agree that would be a social problem. Not many people lose their wallets or lives due to social justice warriors. More generally, impressions of TV news form a weak basis for criminology conclusions. Crime started declining during the 1990s - it occurred faster in some places and slower in others. In New York City, violent crime peaked in 1990, 4 years before Willie Bratton appeared on the scene. If you have statistical evidence that parole restrictions play a role I’d like to see it. I have statistical evidence. Toddlers exposed to higher levels of lead are more likely to have anger management, criminal and general intelligence issues when they get older. Taking lead out of gasoline led to reductions in crime rates 23 years later in the US: this effect is robust across states (who did this with different lags) as well as countries (ditto). There’s also solid medical evidence that lead has devastating effects on cognitive development. Remember superpredators? Jacked up trigger happy teens with poor impulse control ready to overwhelm the cops and spill blood over the land. Didn’t happen. Instead crime declined. Because fewer toddlers and fetuses were being exposed to high lead levels one or two dozen years earlier. Cites: > **[Sick Kids Are Just the Beginning of America’s Lead Crisis](https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/02/lead-exposure-gasoline-crime-increase-children-health/)** > > The hidden villain behind violent crime, lower IQs, and the ADHD epidemic. > **[Analysis: Is Lead Exposure the Secret to the Rapid Rise and Fantastic Fall of...](https://jjie.org/2014/05/19/analysis-is-lead-exposure-the-secret-to-the-rapid-rise-and-fantastic-fall-of-the-juvenile-crime-rate/)** > > Perhaps the most important thing our nation can do to reduce juvenile crime — and also to boost youth success in general — has nothing to do with juvenile courts or corrections systems. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2016, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/390 "2016-05-14T23:02:46Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > Crime is down from its peak, but it skyrocketed in the wake of the counterculture revolution of the late sixties and is still higher than it was then. Again, it is not as simple as you want it to be, in reality crime was almost as bad at the end of the 1930’s, **and then there was no counterculture**. There was a big drop in crime during the 40’s and it did go up during the 1960. After the 90’s we can see the current drop in crime that it is closer now to the rates seen in the 50’s. [http://thepublicintellectual.org/2011/05/02/a-crime-puzzle/](http://thepublicintellectual.org/2011/05/02/a-crime-puzzle/) As the counterculture was not seen approvingly by many in the civil rights movement and the leaders of the counterculture faded or died by 1975 you are demanding a causality that is not there. Around the end of the Vietnam war in 1975 [many historians point that the counterculture disappeared.](http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/160407) The high crime rate that showed up in the 1960’s remained that way until the 1990’s, and that is one very important reason why pointing at the counterculture as the guilty party is only to talk about a very incomplete view of history. ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2016, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/391 "2016-05-14T23:42:55Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > Again, it is not as simple as you want it to be, in reality crime was almost as bad at the end of the 1930’s, **and then there was no counterculture**. There were however [lead pipes](http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/jfeigenbaum/files/feigenbaum_muller_lead_crime.pdf) dating from the late 1800s and [lead paint](http://jjie.org/analysis-is-lead-exposure-the-secret-to-the-rapid-rise-and-fantastic-fall-of-the-juvenile-crime-rate/106841/) dating from the early part of last century. (Ban on leaded interior paints began in 1950 in the US and the total ban took place only in 1978). To be clear though, I’m not pushing a monocausal explanation. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2016, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/392 "2016-05-15T18:11:22Z")
NPR reports that, as befitting his status as a major party nominee, Trump is about to get national security briefings from the CIA. To which I say: :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek: This shit isn’t funny any more. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2016, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/393 "2016-05-15T18:19:54Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > NPR reports that, as befitting his status as a major party nominee, Trump is about to get national security briefings from the CIA. > > To which I say: :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek: > > This shit isn’t funny any more. And we’ll quickly learn just what goes on in those meetings. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2016, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/394 "2016-05-15T18:34:13Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > And we’ll quickly learn just what goes on in those meetings. Or alternatively: we’ll see a sudden drop-off in off-the-cuff foreign policy idiocy (like how fast he’d take out ISIS or encouraging South Korea to develop nukes), and he’ll need to explain the change in tone. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2016, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/395 "2016-05-15T18:58:20Z")
> [@Measure\_for\_Measure](#): > > …If you’re going to be a player (or rather pretend to be one), you should be discrete or at least a little subtle about it… He has always been discrete - hell, that’s part of the problem. I just wish he would be more discreet (esp. now that he’ll be getting CIA briefings). ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2016, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/396 "2016-05-15T19:02:42Z")
If discreet = saying nothing of substance, ever, then yeah, Trump is that…in spades. ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2016, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/397 "2016-05-15T19:21:52Z")
I’d like to know whether Trump will take an advisor with him to the CIA briefings and if so whom. [http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/290625/donald-trump-cia-briefing-trumpcast/](http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/290625/donald-trump-cia-briefing-trumpcast/) Jeb Bush attracted the best GOP foreign policy advisors: Cruz made do with Iraqi dead-enders as well as a few loons. But Trump really [scraped the bottom of the barrel](http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/03/oh-wait%E2%80%94donald-trump-decides-he-has-foreign-policy-team-after-all). Some think that primaries between now and July don’t matter. I disagree. Even if they have suspended their campaign, there are plenty of Republicans on the presidential primary ballot who are not outsiders. Hell, you could vote for Pataki. I think it matters if a candidate as unserious as Trump gets 60% moving forwards (running against nobody), 40% or even (I can dream) 35%. Like most reality show contestants, he is fun to watch because he lacks a normal sense of [shame](http://www.vox.com/2016/2/10/10956978/donald-trump-terrifying) or dignity. But that doesn’t mean the ordinary conservative has to sign up with that. “This is not political entertainment. This is politics.” Here’s a Venn diagram of some of the GOP alternatives from a Jan 2015 538 post: [https://espnfivethirtyeight.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/silver-datalab-candidate-venn1.png?w=575](https://espnfivethirtyeight.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/silver-datalab-candidate-venn1.png?w=575) Just the break Rick Santorum needs! ETA: Elendil’s Heir: Well, I suppose he is discrete about his taxes, if not his personal life or at least his fantasies of the same. ETA2, from the Ezra Klein piece: [INDENT][INDENT]Trump lives by the reality television trope that he’s not here to make friends. But the reason reality television villains always say they’re not there to make friends is because it sets them apart, makes them unpredictable and fun to watch. “I’m not here to make friends” is another way of saying, “I’m not bound by the social conventions of normal people.” The rest of us are here to make friends, and it makes us boring, gentle, kind. This, more than his ideology, is why Trump genuinely scares me. There are places where I think his instincts are an improvement on the Republican field. He seems more dovish than neoconservatives like Marco Rubio, and less dismissive of the social safety net than libertarians like Rand Paul. But those candidates are checked by institutions and incentives that hold no sway over Trump; his temperament is so immature, his narcissism so clear, his political base so unique, his reactions so strange, that I honestly have no idea what he would do — or what he wouldn’t do. [/INDENT][/INDENT] ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2016, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/398 "2016-05-15T19:50:36Z")
I have to agree with the Huffington post on this one. > **[RNC Chair Says 'People Just Don't Care' About Reports Donald Trump Mistreated...](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/reince-priebus-donald-trump-women_n_573875eee4b060aa781a8971?0571jx5ix5ro5yiudi=)** > > Trump impersonated a publicist years ago. He won't release his tax returns. Reince Priebus: ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯ > [@](#): > > RNC Chair Says ‘People Just Don’t Care’ About Reports Donald Trump Mistreated Women In their headline in the website they make the point that this move from the RNC chair is a dumb one: it infers that women do not care (or that the RNC thinks that women are not people? :dubious: ) and the Republicans are falling for the Trump method of ignoring women because Trump should know already that 7 in 10 women have an unfavorable opinion of Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2016, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/399 "2016-05-15T21:12:53Z")
I expect a ration of bullshit in presidential campaigns, but you just have to love the obfuscation the desperate Pubbies are throwing up. The irony is so thick you can cut it: [http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/15/politics/donald-trump-women-reince-priebus-jeff-sessions/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/15/politics/donald-trump-women-reince-priebus-jeff-sessions/index.html) Priebus comes up with an argument that, in almost as many words, is “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone” in regard to Trump’s past. > [@](#): > > “Look, I mean, these are things that he is going to have to answer for,” Priebus said. “But I also think there are things from many years ago and I think that, you know, as Christians, judging each other I think is – is problematic. I think it’s when people live in glass houses and throw stones is when people get in trouble.” > … > "It’s not necessarily that people make mistakes or have regrets or seek forgiveness; it’s whether or not the person launching the charge is authentic in their own life and can actually be pure enough to make such a charge. That’s what I think most people can look at when they evaluate people’s character. > > Priebus said he doesn’t believe voters are judging the thrice-married Trump on his personal life. > > “I think people are judging Donald Trump as to whether or not he’s someone that’s going to go to Washington and shake things up. And that’s why he’s doing so well,” Priebus said." I’m guessing women won’t be forgiving of that line…or, for that matter, anyone with a bullshit detector. Next in the Bullshit Brigade is Jeff Sessions. > [@](#): > > Sessions echoed Priebus, saying that voters don’t expect Trump to be pure and also aren’t judging him on his private life. > > “People have not expected purity on his part. What they’re concerned about, they’re deeply concerned about is this: somebody strong enough to take on Washington,” he said. “Will he challenge the establishment? Will he end the illegality in immigration? Will he insist on trade agreements that lift our economy, increase manufacturing? And will he stand up to the elites? And he’s doing so and the people are responding.” I won’t even quote Manafort’s bullshit…he lies all the time anyway. Suffice it to say that Trump told him it wasn’t him on the recording, and Manafort believes it. Yeahrite. Well, now we know how the propaganda machine is going to roll. You have to give it to them, they’re doing everything to get their guy home. I just hope to Christ no one’s snowed by this crap (other than the Kool-Aid drinkers, for whom it’s unnecessary anyway). ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2016, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/400 "2016-05-16T01:19:51Z")
I assume they will offer the same counsel when it comes to HRC. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901.md?page=19) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901.md?page=21)