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SHRED

(28,136 posts)
Wed Sep 14, 2016, 08:45 AM Sep 2016

Did "Don the Con" think this through?

Did he not realize that by stepping into the public sector spotlight, with a run for the Presidency, he would forfeit a lot of his privacy?

Buying people off has become a liability for him now. He's being investigated on many fronts now that otherwise may have "gone away" had he not done this.

With this much potential dirt and the lingering investigations even after this election I'm scratching my head wondering why he jumped into the spotlight.

Is it just an ego thing? Because otherwise it makes no sense to draw the heat like this.

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SHRED

(28,136 posts)
3. That's different than this
Wed Sep 14, 2016, 08:51 AM
Sep 2016

It's still a private show.
Stepping into the public sector (government) arena subjects a person to a whole other level of scrutiny.

liberal N proud

(60,334 posts)
2. Kellyanne will just go on TV and whine that they are picking on him
Wed Sep 14, 2016, 08:49 AM
Sep 2016

And they will all back off as they do.

 

randome

(34,845 posts)
4. Not one GOPer thought it through enough to vet him.
Wed Sep 14, 2016, 08:52 AM
Sep 2016

They are at their weakest today, with little awareness of what they want to do. Now is the time to drive the stake in.
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Siwsan

(26,262 posts)
5. I'll say it, again. He's never wanted the job. He just wants the ego stroke of the title.
Wed Sep 14, 2016, 09:00 AM
Sep 2016

I truly believe the talk that he would have no intention of ever doing the work involved - he'd delegate all of that to Pence.

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