# Donald Trump's 2016 General Election Campaign
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901
**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
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### Author:  [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2016, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5283 "2016-08-27T03:08:42Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#):
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> [After Steve Bannon left Goldman Sachs, and before he became a Hollywood mogul, he ran Biosphere 2.](http://www.star-telegram.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/bud-kennedy/article97952922.html)
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> [His ex-wife says that he didn’t want their kids going to a certain private school because there were too many Jews there.](http://www.nydailynews.com/news/election/trump-campaign-ceo-bannon-complained-jews-daughters-school-article-1.2767615)
And according to Maddow, one of the women in the biosphere brought a lawsuit against Bannon for emotional abuse. I’m not sure of her source and I don’t think the video is online yet.
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### Author:  [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2016, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5284 "2016-08-27T03:16:08Z")
> [@davidm](#):
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> And according to Maddow, one of the women in the biosphere brought a lawsuit against Bannon for emotional abuse. I’m not sure of her source and I don’t think the video is online yet.
Okay, not emotional abuse but rather breach-of-contract and abuse of process. At one point during the suit he called her a “bimbo” and a “self-centered, deluded young woman." He also threatened to kick her ass.
> **[Trump’s Campaign Chief Was Once Hired to Manage a Bio-Dome. It Went Worse...](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2016/08/that-one-time-steve-bannon-was-hired-to-run-an-artificial-world.html)**
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> Steve Bannon does not, at this point, seem to have been a good hire for Donald Trump's campaign. It has emerged that he was charged with domestic...
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2016, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5285 "2016-08-27T03:16:36Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#):
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> Hitler learns that Trump is waffling on immigration: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=545aq1V1upM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=545aq1V1upM)
Love it! My only criticism: they didn’t find a way to somehow use the word “Stalin” when Hitler says it. The best of these do.
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### Author:  [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2016, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5286 "2016-08-27T03:56:36Z")
nm
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### Author:  [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2016, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5287 "2016-08-27T03:57:30Z")
> [@Merneith](#):
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> Donald Trump just hired ex-Christie aid Bill Stepien for his GOTV effort (guess he decided he needed one after all … one month before early voting starts).
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> Stepien is up to his pinkie ring in the Bridgegate mess -
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> It’s like Donald’s got a giant FAIL tramp stamp on his butt that attracts skeezy operatives when it flashes.
Combined with the Stephen Bannon and other campaign chair hires, he’s putting together one heck of a menagerie. Imagine that clown car occupying the White House January 20, 2017.
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### Author:  [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2016, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5288 "2016-08-27T04:22:37Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#):
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> Combined with the Stephen Bannon and other campaign chair hires, he’s putting together one heck of a menagerie. Imagine that clown car occupying the White House January 20, 2017.
God help us. :eek:
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### Author:  [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2016, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5289 "2016-08-27T04:23:27Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#):
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> [After Steve Bannon left Goldman Sachs, and before he became a Hollywood mogul, he ran Biosphere 2.](http://www.star-telegram.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/bud-kennedy/article97952922.html)
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> [His ex-wife says that he didn’t want their kids going to a certain private school because there were too many Jews there.](http://www.nydailynews.com/news/election/trump-campaign-ceo-bannon-complained-jews-daughters-school-article-1.2767615)
Holy cats. If Bannon was involved with Biosphere 2, he should be proscribed from any profession more influential than street sweeper for the rest of his miserable life.
The anti-Semitism and wife-beating is just more icing on the cake.
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### Author:  [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2016, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5290 "2016-08-27T07:09:19Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#):
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> Holy cats. If Bannon was involved with Biosphere 2, he should be proscribed from any profession more influential than street sweeper for the rest of his miserable life.
Bannon came in after the original researchers made a mess of Biosphere 2 and prepped it for sale to Columbia University. For all the other shady things he’s done, this appears to have been quite successful and non-controversial.
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### Author:  [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2016, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5291 "2016-08-27T07:29:56Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#):
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> [After Steve Bannon left Goldman Sachs, and before he became a Hollywood mogul, he ran Biosphere 2.](http://www.star-telegram.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/bud-kennedy/article97952922.html)
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> [His ex-wife says that he didn’t want their kids going to a certain private school because there were too many Jews there.](http://www.nydailynews.com/news/election/trump-campaign-ceo-bannon-complained-jews-daughters-school-article-1.2767615)
Trump _sure_ does know how to hire the best people, doesn’t he?
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### Author:  [@soonerblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soonerblue)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2016, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5292 "2016-08-27T10:53:22Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#):
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> Hitler learns that Trump is waffling on immigration: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=545aq1V1upM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=545aq1V1upM)
Good one!
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#):
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> […] The Brownback pick is just too on the nose to be anything but a deliberate attempt to pick the worst.
He’s doing his best to lose, I tell you!
BTW, this was a good read: Cue sound of deflating balloon indeed…
[https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-campaign-goes-flaccid/2016/08/26/4654589c-6bbd-11e6-8225-fbb8a6fc65bc\_story.html?utm\_term=.f116dac4f66b](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-campaign-goes-flaccid/2016/08/26/4654589c-6bbd-11e6-8225-fbb8a6fc65bc_story.html?utm_term=.f116dac4f66b)
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### Author:  [@Alley\_Dweller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alley_Dweller)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2016, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5293 "2016-08-27T11:27:27Z")
> [@Smapti](#):
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> Trump _sure_ does know how to hire the best people, doesn’t he?
Well, to be fair, he can only pick from among the type of people who would want the job.
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2016, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5294 "2016-08-27T13:03:48Z")
[From The Borowitz Report in The New Yorker:](http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/pence-recaptured-after-fleeing-trump-campaign-bus)
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> Calling it a “scary moment” and a “close call,” Donald Trump’s campaign officials confirmed that they had recaptured Mike Pence after the Indiana governor attempted to flee the campaign bus in the early hours of Friday morning.
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> According to the campaign, Pence had asked to stop at a McDonald’s in rural Virginia so that he could use the bathroom, but aides grew concerned when the governor failed to reappear after twenty minutes.
:D:D:D
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### Author:  [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2016, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5295 "2016-08-27T14:00:22Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#):
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> [From The Borowitz Report in The New Yorker:](http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/pence-recaptured-after-fleeing-trump-campaign-bus)
> :D:D:D
“News that Pence had vanished touched off a panic in Indiana, where residents feared that he might return to resume his political career.”
Ha!
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### Author:  [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2016, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5296 "2016-08-27T14:02:14Z")
> [@Smapti](#):
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> Trump _sure_ does know how to hire the best people, doesn’t he?
Well, he practices extreme vetting so he knows that only the right people are getting in.
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### Author:  [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2016, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5297 "2016-08-27T14:11:51Z")
> [@Jophiel](#):
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> Well, he practices extreme vetting so he knows that only the right people are getting in.
Unfortunately, to Trump, “extreme vetting” means that he has a letter to prove that he has the healthiest cat you’ve ever seen.
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### Author:  [@oft\_wears\_hats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oft_wears_hats)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2016, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5298 "2016-08-27T17:31:54Z")
[Trump callously tweets about the shooting of Nykea Aldridge, and Don Cheadle reams him on twitter.](http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/08/27/don-cheadle-unleashes-twitter-storm-donald-trump/89477440/) I suppose someone should reset the “x days without a gaffe” sign at campaign headquarters.
> [@](#):
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> Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump claimed Saturday that the fatal shooting of NBA star Dwyane Wade’s cousin is a reason why African-American voters will back his candidacy.
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> “Dwayne Wade’s cousin was just shot and killed walking her baby in Chicago,” Trump tweeted Saturday morning, misspelling the basketball player’s first name. “Just what I have been saying. African-Americans will VOTE TRUMP!”
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> Actor Don Cheadle and other Trump critics Saturday pounced on the tweet, saying he was seizing on Aldridge’s death and Chicago’s gun violence for political gain. In a series of tweets — often employing pretty salty language — Cheadle blasted Trump as using the shooting to throw “red meat to his alt-right troglodytes.”
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> “People of Drumpf’s ilk are contributors to the conditions that lead to the ‘Chicagos’ of this country,” Cheadle said in one tweet, referring to the surname of Trump’s German ancestors.
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> The election, Cheadle added in another tweet, “is like a Shakespearean farce except it could end in a mushroom cloud.”
Trump is a fucking shit stain. It would be bad enough to use this for political gain, but he did it so stupidly. “Black lady got shot, this means African Americans will vote for me!” What the actual fuck?
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### Author:  [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2016, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5299 "2016-08-27T17:52:49Z")
He’s been clear about blaming problems in the black community on the Democrats, and that they’d be better off with President Trump. He simply left that part out this time. Understandable with only 140 characters available, and texting with those stubby little fingers.
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### Author:  [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2016, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5300 "2016-08-27T18:31:04Z")
What’s super weird is that the original with the misspelling was the Android Trump (ie- probably Donald Trump personally) but then the iPhone Trump (probably staffer or one of the kids) deleted the original and reposted it with the correct spelling.
Because that was the major problem the Tweet!
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### Author:  [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2016, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5301 "2016-08-27T19:04:05Z")
Hey, you wanna tell Android Trump he’s made a mistake and have him go all T3 on you?
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2016, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5302 "2016-08-27T19:25:26Z")
> [@oft\_wears\_hats](#):
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> Trump is a fucking shit stain. It would be bad enough to use this for political gain, but he did it so stupidly. “Black lady got shot, this means African Americans will vote for me!” What the actual fuck?
Well, what do they have to lose?
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