Donald Trump Intentionally Tanking The GOP? Analyst Believes So
Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has been fraught with blunders – to say the least – from its inception a few weeks ago. In his announcement that he was running for president, Donald Trump went out of his way to insult Mexicans, calling them “drug dealers” and “rapists.” The backlash was almost immediate, with Univision cutting ties with Donald Trump’s Miss Universe pageant and NBC firing Trump’s show, The Apprentice, from its lineup as a result.
Donald continues his – most would say – outlandish sound-off’s against a variety of minorities and his over the top attacks on various other groups. Trump has been so over the top, in fact, that at least one high-profile, conservative political analyst thinks the billionaire presidential candidate is acting like a Democratic mole.
Conservative political analyst George Will was posed the following question by FOX’s Brit Hume last weekend: “If Donald Trump were a Democratic mole placed in the Republican Party to disrupt things, how would his behavior be any different?”
It’s an interesting question. After all, does anyone really think that Donald Trump has a serious shot at capturing the Republican nomination for president? Does Trump even think so?
George Will answered Brit Hume’s question.
“Put him [Donald Trump] on stage in Cleveland [at the first GOP debate]. He says something hideously inflammatory, which is all he knows how to say, and then what do the other nine people on stage do? Do they either become complicit in what he said by their silence, or do they have to attack him? The debate gets hijacked, and at the end of the day he is a one-man Todd Akin.”
Wait a minute, you might be thinking. Donald Trump just got stood up by Univision and fired by NBC. Is blowing up the GOP nomination process worth all the money he’s about to lose? Let’s think about that for a moment. Donald will actually probably make money suing Univision for breach of contract… if he sues them at all.
Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh posed another theory: what if Trump apologizes to the Mexican people and Univision after the nomination process and regains their ties with the Miss Universe pageant? What if he regains his contract with NBC after the nomination process? What if they are all in on it – a complicit combination of events all designed by a master businessman to tank the GOP nomination process?
In light of all the money Trump has donated to Democratic Party candidates in the past, it is an interesting theory, if perhaps a bit convoluted. However, think about it this way: the GOP nomination process could decide who is the next President of the United States, the most powerful person on the planet. The country is more divided than ever, especially in light of the latest Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage. If an outspoken, controversial figure could sway the presidential election in favor of the Democrats, is that something worth working out a convoluted plan to accomplish? Is that something that Donald Trump would be on board with if it helped him achieve his own ambitions?
What do you think? Is Donald Trump trying to tank the GOP nomination, or is this all just a wild idea thought up to distance the rest of the GOP from Donald Trump?
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