Trump’s a walking time bomb: Don’t be fooled by his “victory,” he can implode his own campaign at any moment
Donald
Trump clinched the Republican nomination Thursday when a ragtag group
of unbound delegates announced they were going to support him. All the
networks ran with breaking news and trained their cameras on an empty
podium for hours waiting for Trump to appear before the press and bak in
his glory.
It
was a magical moment. True, everyone had known for weeks now that Trump
was going to be the nominee since all of his rivals have dropped out of
the race but why let that stand in the way of an opportunity to obsess
over his every incoherent insult and rant? As they waited, the big topic
of conversation among the TV chatterers was an interview by Howard
Fineman with Trump’s campaign chairman and chief strategist Paul
Manafort. And it was admittedly a doozy.
When
I wrote about Manafort earlier I concentrated on his long history of
working with slash and burn political consultants and foreign tyrants.
He
is uniquely qualified to head up Trump’s operation. But it’s been a
while since he’s been involved in American politics and it was unclear
if he had lost his touch.
The interview with Fineman raises more questions about that than it answers.
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