### Author:  [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2016, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/4923 "2016-08-21T20:00:14Z")
> [@naita](#):
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> You’re talking about a predicted 40% of eligible voters. You really think most of them are that crazy, and not just so stupid they hear only what they want to hear when Trump speaks?
I used to cut them some slack, thinking most were just being misled. But as the Angry Cheeto upped the ante with inasanity following lunacy, and they continued to follow him, it became apparent to me that the vast majority have some kind of pathology. They’re nuts.
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### Author:  [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2016, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/4924 "2016-08-21T20:53:39Z")
Don the Con’s expenses for the last month have doubled, even though he hasn’t added any campaign staff or run any tv ads.
[http://www.newsday.com/news/nation/donald-trump-s-campaign-expenses-double-but-no-tv-ads-or-payroll-boost-1.12205721](http://www.newsday.com/news/nation/donald-trump-s-campaign-expenses-double-but-no-tv-ads-or-payroll-boost-1.12205721)
Half of the money went to a web-design firm that’s connected to Trump’s real estate company. News day notes that several of Donald’s campaign staff are “mysteriously well-paid”.
> [@AP article linked above](#):
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> Instead, about half of the campaign’s $18.5 million in spending was vacuumed up by Giles-Parscale, a web design and marketing firm new to national politics, Federal Election Commission filings show. It’s a crossover vendor from Trump’s real estate organization.
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> The campaign paid Giles-Parscale $8.4 million in July, about twice what the San Antonio firm had collected from it over the course of the preceding year. Brad Parscale, the president, is the campaign’s director of digital marketing.
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> \
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> Chess Bedsole, the campaign’s Alabama state director, was paid $64,000 last month for field consulting. His last campaign payment was for $15,000 in December.
They also spent half a mil renting planes from Donald’s own air company.
Ph, and they’re still paying Cory Lewandowski the same salary he was getting when he was officially on staff - $20k a month. I don’t watch CNN. Do they ever mention that Lewandowski is still on Trump’s payroll?
Also, that poor writer, Meredith McIver, who took the fall for Melania’s plagarism? She got paid, too - a grand total of $356.01. I hope it was worth it for her.
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### Author:  [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2016, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/4925 "2016-08-21T21:55:06Z")
> [@Merneith](#):
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> I don’t watch CNN. Do they ever mention that Lewandowski is still on Trump’s payroll?
Yes, they frequently introduce him with the note that he is still receiving “severance pay” from the Trump campaign.
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### Author:  [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2016, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/4926 "2016-08-21T21:59:06Z")
> [@john\_L](#):
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> can’t measure **accurately** was my remark.
One, maybe. We’re talking “all of them.”
> [@](#):
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> too much political correctness out there for lotsa voters to say " outloud " they’ll vote Trump.
> especially higher educated white collar corp types in all demos.
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> but who a person votes for , ’ in the voting booth " , is still private thank goodness.
Right. Maybe some would never say out loud that they’d vote for a Democrat, but will do so in the privacy of a voting booth.
> [@](#):
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> ads… ??
> Jeb spent $150 million on Trump bash ads… zilch !
> Hillary’ s spent lots more than that … yet polls are getting narrower.
Since the conventions? What universe do you live in?
Bush and the other Republicans had the problem of needing to appeal to the racist Republican base. Hillary doesn’t have to. Bush’s reasonable immigration policy didn’t help. In the general, it would. And Clinton has a lot more ammunition to work with.
> [@](#):
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> too much " boy cries wolf " in past.
> nobody’s interested in it now.
> old news.
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> the " new Trump " is all folks will prolly talk about til Nov.
> we’ll see.
The new Trump? You mean the Stephen “Goebbels” Bannon Trump? Appealing even more to the fever swamps of the right? That will go over real well.
Not to mention, Clinton has the infrastructure and the data. Trump doesn’t even believe in data. I used to work in data and Trump is a moron.
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### Author:  [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2016, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/4927 "2016-08-21T22:00:08Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#):
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> I will have to steal that “Don the Con”. 😃
Feel free. Maybe we can make Don the Con and Trumptanic go viral.
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### Author:  [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2016, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/4928 "2016-08-21T22:11:31Z")
Trumptanic is good but Don the Con is brilliant. It just rolls off the tongue. I’m going to steal it myself, first opportunity. 😉
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### Author:  [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2016, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/4929 "2016-08-21T22:22:11Z")
> [@Merneith](#):
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> Don the Con’s expenses for the last month have doubled, even though he hasn’t added any campaign staff or run any tv ads.
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> [http://www.newsday.com/news/nation/donald-trump-s-campaign-expenses-double-but-no-tv-ads-or-payroll-boost-1.12205721](http://www.newsday.com/news/nation/donald-trump-s-campaign-expenses-double-but-no-tv-ads-or-payroll-boost-1.12205721)
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> Half of the money went to a web-design firm that’s connected to Trump’s real estate company. News day notes that several of Donald’s campaign staff are “mysteriously well-paid”.
I saw they actually paid money to a data company that worked for Cruz. However one of his hedge fund backers is an investor in it, so who knows if Trump will listen to their advice, or if this is just more money laundering.
Given that most of his ground game is RNC owned, if they ever decide to pull out he is really toast. If Priebus had any guts he’d threaten Trump into moderation.
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### Author:  [@john\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/john_L)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2016, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/4930 "2016-08-22T00:48:27Z")
> [@DSeid](#):
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> Got it. You are saying that this “lotsa bad” week for Obama, that I should “check gallup middle of next week” over, will not have a significant impact on Obama’s approval ratings this week because the public is not hearing anything other than Trump bashing right now, in what you have been describing as a week in which he has been giving some excellent speeches that should turn it around for him. But the impact of this bad week (and possibly other Obama disasters you expect to happen) _will_ make his approval drop dramatically and bring down Clinton by her being tied to him, by Election Day.
Obama’s already dropped 1 Gallup point since yesterday. :eek:
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### Author:  [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2016, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/4931 "2016-08-22T01:12:41Z")
Dude finally capitalizes, punctuates and uses a noun and verb, and then he gets banned.
ETA: :smack::(:smack:
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### Author:  [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2016, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/4932 "2016-08-22T01:14:03Z")
Wow, a complete sentence from **john L** , with subject, verb, capitalisation and period! The whole shebang!
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### Author:  [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2016, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/4933 "2016-08-22T03:17:46Z")
Esteemed focus group moderator/genteel GOP establishment hatchet-man Frank Luntz chats with hand-picked ordinary Republicans who used to support Trump. [http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/another-frank-luntz-gop-focus-group-spells-disaster-for-donald-trump/](http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/another-frank-luntz-gop-focus-group-spells-disaster-for-donald-trump/)
You-tube vid: [Why are former Trump supporters wavering on the GOP nominee? - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9C87r_gIew)
The very best part is the incredulous tone of voice as they discuss Don the Con’s antics. They want more policy! From Trump. Who has never shown any sort of policy depth on any topic whatsoever including running a casino.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2016, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/4934 "2016-08-22T03:45:46Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#):
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> Wow, a complete sentence from **john L** , with subject, verb, capitalisation and period! The whole shebang!
And even an emoticon! I am agog.
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### Author:  [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2016, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/4935 "2016-08-22T03:49:03Z")
[Washington Post reporter can’t get anybody to confirm that Trump donated anything in Louisiana.](http://occupydemocrats.com/2016/08/22/just-louisiana-officials-reveal-trump-never-donated-truckload-supplies/)
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### Author:  [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2016, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/4936 "2016-08-22T04:14:34Z")
This is just speculation, and it’s on Bipartisanreport and is based on a months old Gawker article, so take it with a grain of salt, but this article speculates, with some amount of evidence, that Trump is on some kind of speed. It would confirm something that I’ve been thinking for a while now; that he’s either drunk or on speed or cocaine.
[http://bipartisanreport.com/2016/08/19/just-in-trump-campaign-floored-by-accusation-that-donald-takes-amphetamine-like-diet-pills/](http://bipartisanreport.com/2016/08/19/just-in-trump-campaign-floored-by-accusation-that-donald-takes-amphetamine-like-diet-pills/)
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2016, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/4937 "2016-08-22T04:15:57Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#):
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> [Washington Post reporter can’t get anybody to confirm that Trump donated anything in Louisiana.](http://occupydemocrats.com/2016/08/22/just-louisiana-officials-reveal-trump-never-donated-truckload-supplies/)
He’s not a Washington _Post_ reporter, he’s Washington Times.
The link is OccupyDemocrats.
[Facebook.](https://www.facebook.com/WSBYSO/about/?entry_point=page_nav_about_item&tab=page_info)
> [@](#):
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> Lou is an investigative journalist for [theantimedia.org](http://theantimedia.org), [occupydemocrats.com](http://occupydemocrats.com),[ruthless-politics.com](http://ruthless-politics.com), [WTFMagazine.com](http://WTFMagazine.com). Formerly of [Examiner.com](http://Examiner.com)
Strikes me as less than a legit cite.
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### Author:  [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2016, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/4938 "2016-08-22T04:29:14Z")
> [@davidm](#):
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> This is just speculation, and it’s on Bipartisanreport and is based on a months old Gawker article, so take it with a grain of salt, but this article speculates, with some amount of evidence, that Trump is on some kind of speed. It would confirm something that I’ve been thinking for a while now; that he’s either drunk or on speed or cocaine.
> [http://bipartisanreport.com/2016/08/19/just-in-trump-campaign-floored-by-accusation-that-donald-takes-amphetamine-like-diet-pills/](http://bipartisanreport.com/2016/08/19/just-in-trump-campaign-floored-by-accusation-that-donald-takes-amphetamine-like-diet-pills/)
If he has ADHD, as speculated in [this HuffPo article](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/george-sachs-psyd/unfit-unfocused-or-is-tru_b_11568002.html), speed would actually help him focus.
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### Author:  [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2016, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/4939 "2016-08-22T04:33:41Z")
> [@running\_coach](#):
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> He’s not a Washington _Post_ reporter, he’s Washington Times.
> The link is OccupyDemocrats.
> [Facebook.](https://www.facebook.com/WSBYSO/about/?entry_point=page_nav_about_item&tab=page_info)
>
> Strikes me as less than a legit cite.
He says he confirmed with the Trump charity and the Parish government. And his Twitter page says he’s a Post reporter.
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### Author:  [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2016, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/4940 "2016-08-22T04:56:01Z")
David Fahrenthold is def a WaPo reporter. Here’s his bio page there:
> **[David A. Fahrenthold - The Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/david-a-fahrenthold/)**
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> David A. Fahrenthold is a reporter covering the Trump family and its business interests. He has been at The Washington Post since 2000, and previously covered Congress, the federal bureaucracy, the environment and the D.C. police.
He’s been doing other stories about Trump’s “charity” activities.
Here’s a link to the tweet in question -
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Here’s more links to tweets about Trump’s “charity” photo op:
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> David Fahrenthold @Fahrenthold
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2016, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/4941 "2016-08-22T04:59:50Z")
> [@Merneith](#):
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> David Fahrenthold is def a WaPo reporter. Here’s his bio page there:
> [https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/david-a-fahrenthold](https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/david-a-fahrenthold)
>
> He’s been doing other stories about Trump’s “charity” activities.
> Here’s a link to the tweet in question -
> [x.com](https://twitter.com/Fahrenthold/status/767431694504828929)
>
> Here’s more links to tweets about Trump’s “charity” photo op:
> [x.com](https://twitter.com/Fahrenthold/status/767351106754211840)
>
> [x.com](https://twitter.com/Fahrenthold/status/767432386669928448)
That’s not who wrote the story \*\*RK \*\*linked to.
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### Author:  [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2016, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/4942 "2016-08-22T05:14:42Z")
The link is REPORTING on what FARENTHOLD is saying.
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