PoliticusUSA: Trump Has Made A Crazy Decision That Could Give Democrats Everything On Election Day

[ailsagirl]

Donald Trump has told the Republican Party that he doesn't need to raise the money he promised them because his cable news interviews will get him elected to the White House.

Bloomberg Politics reported:

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump distanced himself from his own fundraising estimate of $1 billion, refusing to commit to collecting even half that amount, and saying his campaign
didn’t need much money to win the White House.

Trump, who has held just two major fundraising events since agreeing three weeks ago to help the party raise cash, said he would rely instead more on his own star power as a former reality-TV personality to
earn free media, and has no specific goals for how much money his campaign needs.

“There’s no reason to raise that,” Trump said about raising $1 billion. “I just don’t think I need nearly as much money as other people need because I get so much publicity. I get so many invitations to be on television. I get so many interviews, if I want them.”

Donald Trump is wrong...

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/06/08/trump-crazy-decision-give-democrats-election-day.html

[Doctor Jack]

1. Ok, there is no way Trump isn't a double agent

I now firmly believe that he is a democrat that has infiltrated the republican party and is tearing it apart from the inside. There is no way that anyone running for president is this incompetent. His entire goal has to be to help sweep the dems into power and get clinton elected. This has reached the point of pure insanity. There is no way this is a serious campaign, it has to be a false flag operation.

[writes3000]

2. Right? It's completely insane, isn't it? But then I just can't see him being that...

Willing to damage his own brand for any greater good.

I just cannot make sense of it. Insane.

[Doctor Jack]

3. Maybe he hates his children?

Destroy the family business so there is nothing left when he dies?

[murielm99]

32. Let's just concede that he is a madman.

Then, let's do everything we can to keep him out of the White House.

[BlueMTexpat]

37. + a million or so! eom

[Hydra]

14. Don't you mean, willing to throw a fight?

The Clintons would owe him big time for that sort of favor...and would be in a position to deliver on it.

[Albertoo]

5. Trump, a double agent?

Why do you suspect an overgrown spoilt brat throwing hissy fits of being silly on purpose?

It could be natural.

[Doctor Jack]

6. It is hard to find his motivation for doing it, I'll give you that

But the other option, that he is completely serious and trying his hardest, is also very difficult to believe.

[Albertoo]

7. completely serious and trying his hardest, is also very difficult to believe.

That's why on another website, I've bet all my play-money against Trump 3 months ago

[jberryhill]

9. You know...

I have seen children with garden trowels who where were completely serious and trying their hardest to dig a hole to China.

We've already gotten the flavor of what powers he imagines the President to have. He is a man who has spent too much time apart from anyone able to say "no" to him. I have seen several iterations of what that does to people.

[Doctor Jack]

11. Also a good point

Might just be occam's razor here. He could just be someone that is historically incompetent that stumbled his way to the republican nomination based solely on name recognition and now is in the middle of a situation that he doesn't know the first thing about.

Seriously, based on his behavior and "strategy" he is going to be eaten alive during this election. I have seen drunk people in bars try to start fights with bouncers 5x their size and get instantly steamrolled. I believe that is what we are seeing here. Someone with waaaaaaaay too much confidence and nothing to back it up.

[mythology]

19. That's not fair

Trump didn't solely get the Republican nomination on name recognition. There's also the fact that so many Republicans primary voters are bonkers. When the runner up is Ted Cruz, it's not like even Republicans who weren't voting for Trump were displaying sensibility in exercising their vote.

[Doctor Jack]

20. You guys are too full of insight about trump

I can't compete. Too much beer tonight, perhaps. Glad we are on the same side right now

[ReRe]

21. That scenario HAS crossed my mind...

... but lots of stupid shite crosses my mind daily.

[Loudestlib]

26. People laughed at this clown when he entered the primary.

Now he's the nominee. Everyday on at least one news channel I hear him call in. Don't underestimate him.

[fleabiscuit]

29. You are thinking like a sane person.

However, he is not the nominee until we see the white smoke at the GOP convention.

[0rganism]

34. or the return of Andy Kaufman

if it turned out to be Andy Kaufman in disguise (a goddam ridiculous disguise too), and he revealed it in an unmasking press conference like 2 weeks into October, that would be the greatest piece of political performance art ever. complete mic drop. comedy dead forever. complete troll of society itself. sometimes i think of this and shake my head, nah, never gonna happen. right?

[platitudipus]

35. This is just more election Kabuki theater.

Trump and Clinton are friends, Trump is trying to 'throw' his candidacy acting a buffoon, so no one will vote for him and will vote for Hillary as the 'sane' candidate. Same thing the Clinton's are doing to the Sanders campaign...drop out of the race Bernie and support us.
She wants history to show she won the general election with as many votes as she can, so it will look like America was begging for her as opposed to holding their noses when they voted for her. Trump doesn't want to be President, never has.
This election sham was crafted over the course of 8 years and was executed masterfully, most Americans are totally unaware of the behind the scenes magic that had to happen in order to convince the public they actually had a say in this election.

[awoke_in_2003]

40. The problem is that he can't throw it

The more ridiculous he gets, the more republican voters love him. I don't think he realizes what he got himself into.

[moriah]

36. Conservatives I know have been saying that to me for awhile.

That they believe Trump ran as a spoiler to either disrupt the Republican primary enough to keep them from easily getting a good candidate, or in the event he won, being a total tool after.

But he can't totally flip out before the RNC for that strategy to work, though I think it would be extremely difficult even now to dislodge him as the Republican nominee by their rules. He's got enough bound delegates according to 538.

[JHB]

39. Nope. Was he a "double agent" in 2012?

This is full-on "The Donald."

You're trying to make sense of it like a sane adult. He really is just that arrogant and self absorbed.

[greiner3]

41. Could be

But his past history of bigotry and mysoginy and all around shitty person gives me pause to your suspicions

[spanone]

4. he's crazy as a loon....

with apologies to loons

[fleabiscuit]

31. LOL

[morningfog]

8. That explains the renewed gop revolt better than the racist judge bit. $$$$$

[Lizzie Poppet]

16. I think you're spot-on.

Not everything that happens in politics can be explained by the "follow the money" maxim...but it sure is the first place to look.

[Hekate]

10. Round the bend, crazy as a loon, beyond a sane person's comprehension.....

Possibly the Goddess's gift to Hillary Clinton.

[tomm2thumbs]

12. unfortunately the media feeds on his type and he's probably right in his assumption

trainwreck = ratings = $$$$$

they'll give him all the airtime he can handle, and he'll make the unfortunate most of it

[ZombieHorde]

13. Ha! What a jackass. nt

[Vincardog]

15. Note that his job is to make the Democratic nominee appear to be the sane choice.

[denbot]

17. The answer is..

He's relatively broke. He won't chip in his own cash because he does not have it. If he agrees to fund raising goals and donations fall short, he can't make up the difference so he won't commit to fund raising.

We are looking at the most audacious conman in the midst of the most outrageous scam in our nations history.

Holy Shit!

[Blue Idaho]

18. We now know two important things about Trump

1. He's lazy - not about to do the heavy lifting of retail politics. His lack of commitment is starting to show.

2. He's cheap - he's still thinking he can get something for nothing. That's just not going to fly in the General.

[ReRe]

22. He's not serious...

... it's all for p-u-b-l-i-c-i-t-y. He knows he's not going to win the election.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

24. LOLOL!!!

Okay! I guess he really is a double agent, working from inside to prank the repuke party!

Actually, what he said there about the loads of free publicity--that's the truth. Actually.

[phazed0]

25. Just more pandering...

distraction stuff.. he's gonna raise a boatload... he never had a goal, just 'Billion' sounds good... but that doesn't mean he isn't going to be loaded or try for contributions.

[SunSeeker]

27. Works for me! And Hillary can mine those interviews for more anti-Trump ads.

[Jack Rabbit]

28. Did anybody doubt that Trump is an entitled, selfish egoist?

Maybe he's even a solipsist. Do ya think that possible?

[jmowreader]

30. Forget all your psychoanalyses of this man. He really is this narcissistic.

Only narcissism could keep him from looking up the FEC regulations on equal time for candidates. In the general election season, if a network has Trump on for an interview, it also has to have Hillary on for one...which is going to totally hose his campaign strategy because no network wants to have presidential candidates on every night.

[vkkv]

33. Best IDEA I've heard all day !!!!

(don't) GO DONALD!!!!!!

[oberliner]

38. Everybody just does clickbait headlines these days

Why not just say what the "crazy decision" was in the headline?