Donald Trump Moves Closer To A Third (Reich) Party Campaign

The overgrown crybaby Donald Trump has unleashed yet another tirade of the ego-soaked entitlement that defines his personality and presidential campaign. At a press conference scheduled for damage control following his embarrassingly brutish performance at the CBS News GOP debate, Trump revisited his previous threats to violate his loyalty pledge to the Republican Party.

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At issue this time is Trump’s accusation that the Republican National Committee conspired to embarrass him by packing the debate audience with lobbyists and donors to his rivals’ campaigns. He whined that the crowd, which booed him several times, was deliberately chosen to be hostile to him. And he wasn’t sitting still for it. He warned that “The RNC better get its act together,” lest they risk the onslaught of his vengeful wrath. Then he got specific about the consequences of offending him:

“I signed a pledge. But the pledge isn’t being honored by them. I signed a pledge. The pledge isn’t being honored by the RNC. Because those tickets were all special-interest people. […] The RNC does a terrible job — a terrible job. And just remember what I said — remember in this room — I signed a pledge. But it’s a double-edged pledge. And as far as I’m concerned, they’re in default of their pledge when they do that.”

He seems to be saying that he signed a pledge. [Has anyone else noticed how much he repeats himself?] Here’s the thing – despite Trump’s characterization, there were no conditions attached to the pledge. It was simply a promise to “endorse the 2016 Republican presidential nominee, regardless of who it is” and “not seek to run as an independent.” The pledge was implemented to prevent Trump from taking advantage of the RNC’s auspices, particularly the debate schedule, and then bolting to run against them.

It appears at this point that the RNC was foolish to have trusted him. They refuted his accusations about the audience composition saying that “Each candidate received 100 tickets.” But Trump expanded on his conspiracy theory to baselessly suggest that college students who received tickets sold them to anti-Trump lobbyists. So we can now officially add paranoia to Trump’s diagnosis of Narcissistic Personality Disorder. And if the charge of packing the audience isn’t enough, Trump is also warning the RNC that they had better support his birther complaints against Ted Cruz:

“One of the ways I can fight back is to bring a lawsuit against him relative to the fact that he was born in Canada and therefore cannot be President. If he doesn’t take down his false ads and retract his lies, I will do so immediately. Additionally, the RNC should intervene and if they don’t they are in default of their pledge to me.”

This isn’t the first time since signing the pledge that Trump has threatened to violate it. He was asked last November by George Stephanopoulos if he still intended to honor the pledge and he answered “I’m going to have to see what happens. I will see what happens. I have to be treated fairly.” It is becoming increasingly clear that Trump’s word is worthless. If the RNC continues to have faith in him they are setting themselves up for betrayal. The only loyalty Trump has is to himself.

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In addition to Trump’s repeated threats to double-cross his supposed GOP allies, There seems little likelihood that Trump would support them if he is not the nominee. How could he profess to support people that he has castigated so viciously as liars, losers, and weaklings. Via his crushing and childish insults he has dug himself a hole so deep that it would be absurd to later pretend to respect any of the other other candidates. And they would likely spurn his endorsement, were he to offer one. So the pledge that was signed last year by the whole GOP field is a sad joke that has no value. How appropriate for the Republican Party.

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2 thoughts on “Donald Trump Moves Closer To A Third (Reich) Party Campaign

  1. Trump lies? I’m shocked. The man is a liar? He lied? He doesn’t play fairly? The RNC is probably also shocked. It’s not as if this man hasn’t played the system his entire life..and won. Three marriages. Affairs. Bankruptcies in which the only people who took a loss were his employees, never the Donald. This is your legacy, GOP. Him, the christo-fascist, the Senator who is so ‘bored’ with legislating that he is quitting, but not before retaining his job for another year while not doing it, or the Governor who is one step above Snyder-he hasn’t poisoned a minority city yet. Oh, and the barely memorable retired brain surgeon who speaks softly because he has nothing to say (‘this administration turned tail and ran away from Iraq’ because BUSH had a status of forces agreement in place, and we honored it. Otherwise, US troops would be under Iraqi law, and in jail right now. Pesky facts.) There is not one of their candidates with an ounce of humility, honor, or loyalty to country. They are all egomaniacs out to be King. Please proceed, GOP.

  2. You say the Donald’s performance at the debate was “embarrassing.” Maybe to any normal sentient being, such as ourselves, but apparently not to the Republican loyalist base: In a poll conducted after the debate, PPP has Trump picking up 5 percentage points on the rest of the field in South Carolina.

    Not that we should put a whole lot of faith in tracking polls, but it does bespeak of something disturbing in certain corners of the Republican psyche, and I’m guessing it’s a soul-deadening darkness pretty much emanating from Fox Nation.

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