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groundloop

(11,519 posts)
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 02:06 PM Aug 2020

Former Trump staffer who penned tell-all book and sued the president, back working on Republican Con

Source: ABC News

Former Trump staffer who penned tell-all book and sued the president, back working on Republican Convention


Cliff Sims, a former aide to President Donald Trump, who sued the president after writing a brutal tell-all book about his time in the Trump White House called "Team of Vipers", is back on the Trump team, serving an important role overseeing speechwriting for the upcoming Republican National Convention.

Sims is not only supervising speech writing for the convention, but multiple sources tell ABC News he is also spearheading the efforts for remarks by the president’s children, including Donald Trump Jr. and Tiffany Trump

Trump Jr. told ABC News that "Cliff is a staunch supporter of my father and his America First agenda. He fought to elect President Trump on the 2016 campaign and has done a terrific job as Alabama co-chair of Trump Victory this year." Trump Jr. added, "I’m excited that he’s now working with the convention team to help make this year’s RNC a gigantic success."

“Cliff has been an outspoken supporter of the President and a resource for the administration since the beginning,” a senior White House official told ABC News. “He has a real talent for communicating the President’s message and vision, and so it was a no-brainer for the political team to turn to him for a helping hand with the convention speakers.”

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-staffer-penned-book-sued-president-back-working/story?id=72568745&cid=clicksource_4380645_5_three_posts_card_hed



The GOPer shit show is getting weirder and weirder all the time.
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Former Trump staffer who penned tell-all book and sued the president, back working on Republican Con (Original Post) groundloop Aug 2020 OP
Well. I guess he's fluent in Parseltongue soothsayer Aug 2020 #1
Perfect! Evolve Dammit Aug 2020 #7
As usual moreland01 Aug 2020 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author moreland01 Aug 2020 #3
Possibly he is a mole. Mr.Bill Aug 2020 #4
Cults can be hard to break free of. Binkie The Clown Aug 2020 #5
Trump personally comes off pretty well in the book... thesquanderer Aug 2020 #6
and people wonder why we don't agingdem Aug 2020 #8
Maybe...maybe not. We'll have to see. AZ8theist Aug 2020 #11
they're down on the very same guys they worked for as agingdem Aug 2020 #13
Same church, different pew. RhodeIslandOne Aug 2020 #16
Some idiots fell for it rockfordfile Aug 2020 #9
It's all a grift. Miguelito Loveless Aug 2020 #10
I don't think I heard of him before JI7 Aug 2020 #12
That's because he's a coffee boy.. AZ8theist Aug 2020 #14
The grift rolls on. RhodeIslandOne Aug 2020 #15

moreland01

(739 posts)
2. As usual
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 02:16 PM
Aug 2020

Grifters gotta grift. This proves that his book was simply a money making venture. OTOH, it could simply mean that trump is scraping the bottom of the barrel to get help. What could go wrong? LOL

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Mr.Bill

(24,300 posts)
4. Possibly he is a mole.
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 02:22 PM
Aug 2020

Having Trump's kids speak at the convention sounds like sabotage to me.

Or the other angle is he is being paid an obscene amount of money to appear to do a job in return for shutting down his book and signing an NDA.

thesquanderer

(11,989 posts)
6. Trump personally comes off pretty well in the book...
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 02:36 PM
Aug 2020

...at least based on the Amazon reviews I scanned. That explains why he could make his way back.

agingdem

(7,850 posts)
8. and people wonder why we don't
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 02:42 PM
Aug 2020

trust the Lincoln Project guys...the supposed "never trumpers"...bottom line..make no mistake they hate Trump more than they hate Democrats...they're making a small fortune riffing on Trump every time someone says "and you're on"...they are amusing in their biting commentary, however, 5 minutes after Biden is elected they're going to go back to where they came from and turn on him...

AZ8theist

(5,470 posts)
11. Maybe...maybe not. We'll have to see.
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 09:31 PM
Aug 2020

A lot of these LP guys are very down on the current Repuke party. A lot of conservatives are down on the current makeup of the Repuke party. Trumpism won't disappear with Doturds imprisonment. We will wait and see if true "conservatives" can resurrect a political movement.

As far as I'm concerned, Democrats can have all three branches of government for the next 500 years...

agingdem

(7,850 posts)
13. they're down on the very same guys they worked for as
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 09:49 PM
Aug 2020

republican operatives..Lincoln Project has a lot to atone for and that still won't be enough...it's like the quack surgeon who amputates the wrong foot..sorry, my mistake, I'll do better next time, forgive me...the conservative pundits, now never-trumpers, and Mika, Joe, Willie, Andrea, all Clinton haters, cleaned up their depraved party pal and sold him as a viable candid...imagine their disappointment when he didn't "grow" into the office ...he debased it and peed on the carpet..

and I'm with you...screw the two party system at least for now, I say the Oval Office, the House and the Senate ...Democratic forever...

 

RhodeIslandOne

(5,042 posts)
16. Same church, different pew.
Tue Aug 25, 2020, 12:14 PM
Aug 2020

The Never Trumpers are looking for a landing spot in the next government, now that the GOP has gone full Nazi.

 

RhodeIslandOne

(5,042 posts)
15. The grift rolls on.
Tue Aug 25, 2020, 12:13 PM
Aug 2020

Never trust these tell all bullshit artists. They are just looking for the next payday.

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