"In fact," said Bannon, "I could use your help here." He then spent several minutes trying to recruit Ailes to help kneecap Murdoch. ... Bannon wanted Ailes to suggest to Trump, a man whose many neuroses included a horror of senility, that Murdoch might be losing it.
"I'll call him," said Ailes. "But Trump would jump through hoops for Rupert. Like for Putin. Sucks up and shits down. I just worry about who's jerking whose chain."
Best of all was the high regard that everyone had for Donald Trump. From his friends "
"Few people who knew Trump had illusions about him. That was his appeal: He was what he was. Twinkle in his eye, larceny in his soul. Everybody in his rich-guy social circle knew about his wide-ranging ignorance."
To his transition team ...
"Ailes had a suggestion: John Boehner, who had stepped down as Speaker of the House only a year earlier.
"'Who's that?' asked Trump."
To his business partners ...
"'Here's the deal,' a close Trump associate told Priebus. 'In an hour meeting with him, you're going to hear 54 minutes of stories, and they're going to be the same stories over and over again. So you have to have one point to make, and you pepper it in whenever you can.'"
No one can say that Donald Trump's campaign staff wasn't united -- by the idea that Trump was an idiot who really, really shouldn't be president.
The only thing worse than listening to Trump's moronic statements is listening to everyone else. There's not a single voice on the team that comes across as anything close to competent, and few that make the hurdle of "sane." Only Kellyanne Conway seemed to have a real plan -- one that demonstrated how everything worked on Team Trump.
"She had spent a good part of the day calling friends and allies in the political world and blaming Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee. Now she briefed some of the television producers and anchors whom she had been carefully courting since joining the Trump campaign -- and with whom she had been actively interviewing in the last few weeks, hoping to land a permanent on-air job after the election."
Find someone to blame. Run for the door. Don't look back.
It's too bad we can't all follow that plan.
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