{"id":4647,"date":"2016-08-17T17:08:48","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T22:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=4647"},"modified":"2016-08-17T17:08:48","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T22:08:48","slug":"petulance-of-the-day-ctd-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/08\/17\/petulance-of-the-day-ctd-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Petulance of the Day, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

A number of responses concerning Mr. Trump’s drive<\/a> for the Presidency:<\/p>\n

[Moore is a]\u00a0good source for making stuff up. But the idea had occurred to me some time ago. What does that say about me?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Another:<\/p>\n

Just a few weeks ago, Michael said Trump was going to win.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My oh my. Covering all the bases, eh? And another reader replies:<\/p>\n

Why are the two ideas mutually exclusive? It is entirely possible that Trump could win despite not wanting to.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Which just about makes my head explode. While another disagrees with Mr. Moore:<\/p>\n

I’m in agreement with Moore that Trump absolutely does not want to be labeled as the loser, but I disagree in that I think Trump actually does want the position.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So there’s news today out of Camp Trump – a shakeup. Is it just more maneuvering to keep the supporters happy, or does Mr. Trump really believe bringing in a co-founder of Breitbart will help? Many sources, Steve Benen on Maddowblog<\/strong><\/em> is convenient<\/a> and has a neat tidbit:<\/p>\n

For the third time in five months, Donald Trump has overhauled<\/a>\u00a0his presidential campaign\u2019s leadership team. As of this morning, Kellyanne Conway is now the Republican candidate\u2019s campaign manager \u2013 a post that was apparently vacant since June \u2013 and Stephen Bannon, of Breitbart News notoriety, is Trump\u2019s campaign CEO. …<\/p>\n

GOP consultant Rick Wilson told<\/a> the Washington Post<\/em>, \u201cIf you were looking for a tone or pivot, Bannon will pivot you in a dark, racist and divisive direction. It\u2019ll be a nationalist, hateful campaign. Republicans should run away.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more background info on Trump\u2019s new top aides, Bloomberg Politics published an interesting profile<\/a> on Bannon last fall \u2013 it described him as \u201cthe most dangerous political operative in America\u201d \u2013 while Media Matters has published overviews of Breitbart News<\/a> and Kellyanne Conway\u2019s controversial record<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From the Bloomberg Politics<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0report cited by Steve:<\/p>\n

Bannon is the executive chairman of Breitbart News, the crusading right-wing populist website that\u2019s a lineal descendant of the Drudge Report (its late founder, Andrew Breitbart, spent years apprenticing with Matt Drudge) and a haven for people who think Fox News is too polite and restrained.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There’ll be no shortage of entertaining news for a few weeks. I wonder what\u00a0Mr.\u00a0Bannon was promised if Mr. Trump wins?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A number of responses concerning Mr. Trump’s drive for the Presidency: [Moore is a]\u00a0good source for making stuff up. But the idea had occurred to me some time ago. What does that say about me? Another: Just a few weeks ago, Michael said Trump was going to win. My oh \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4648,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4647\/revisions\/4648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}