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Nothing could have less to do with Donald Trump than the campaign that made him president (satire)
This indictment story has everything. Vladimir Putin’s “niece.” $934,350 worth of carpet. Catfishing. Paul Manafort, whose involvement with the Trump campaign — as its chairman — apparently came as a total surprise to the campaign. At least, that’s what Sarah Huckabee Sanders repeatedly reassured the American people on Monday, after reading them a bizarre and lengthy story about 10 journalists going out to buy beer together that concluded, “And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how our tax system works!” It was the worst Aristocrats joke I have ever heard. Here is her account, somewhat condensed:
There is nothing less connected to Donald Trump than the campaign that worked to elect him president.
Paul Manafort is a total stranger to the campaign. He just showed up one day and started running things, and we were too polite to stop him. There was a lot of hand-wringing (very large hand-wringing, the largest), but in the end we felt it would be rude to stop these strange volunteers from taking over. Which is how Paul Manafort (Is that the correct spelling? Again, the name is not familiar.) wound up temporarily in charge.
George Papadopoulos, who pleaded guilty to making false statements to the FBI, was, again, just some sort of random volunteer who appeared one day. We tried our best to discourage him from helping because no one knew who he was or what his affiliations were, but there was a big mix-up and we named him to a list of key foreign policy advisers instead. Fortunately, we had no intention of listening to these foreign policy advisers. Seriously, look at this administration. Genuinely, the fact that we had any foreign policy advisers came as a total unpleasant surprise to the Trump campaign.
These people appeared unannounced and they were NO HELP AT ALL. It is possible that they were in a meeting with us, but we had no idea who was in any room at any given time. Who ran the campaign? I don’t know. Who’s running the government? It certainly seems to me like we’re lurching from crisis to crisis without any clear guidance or direction.
There is nothing less connected to Donald Trump than the campaign that worked to elect him president.
Paul Manafort is a total stranger to the campaign. He just showed up one day and started running things, and we were too polite to stop him. There was a lot of hand-wringing (very large hand-wringing, the largest), but in the end we felt it would be rude to stop these strange volunteers from taking over. Which is how Paul Manafort (Is that the correct spelling? Again, the name is not familiar.) wound up temporarily in charge.
George Papadopoulos, who pleaded guilty to making false statements to the FBI, was, again, just some sort of random volunteer who appeared one day. We tried our best to discourage him from helping because no one knew who he was or what his affiliations were, but there was a big mix-up and we named him to a list of key foreign policy advisers instead. Fortunately, we had no intention of listening to these foreign policy advisers. Seriously, look at this administration. Genuinely, the fact that we had any foreign policy advisers came as a total unpleasant surprise to the Trump campaign.
These people appeared unannounced and they were NO HELP AT ALL. It is possible that they were in a meeting with us, but we had no idea who was in any room at any given time. Who ran the campaign? I don’t know. Who’s running the government? It certainly seems to me like we’re lurching from crisis to crisis without any clear guidance or direction.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2017/10/30/nothing-could-have-less-to-do-with-donald-trump-than-the-campaign-that-made-him-president/?tid=ss_fb&utm_term=.2c84a0ea03ca
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