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Dennis Donovan

(18,770 posts)
Mon Jun 17, 2019, 01:25 PM Jun 2019

TPM: Michael Cohen Wanted Trump To Debut 2016 Campaign With Women In Bikinis, Elephants

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/michael-cohen-trump-campaign-debut-women-bikinis-elephants

Go big or go home, right?


President Donald Trump made plenty of headlines in 2015 when he descended the golden escalator at Trump Tower to announce his presidential campaign, but apparently some of his allies wanted something a little … flashier.

According to a Monday Washington Post report, former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen and several other Trump associates favored what the Post described as a “circuslike spectacle” for the nascent 2016 Trump campaign: Bikini-clad women and elephants.

However, it appeared that Trump ignored the Hugh Hefner-esque fantasy for a somewhat simpler announcement in front of a crowd of “supporters” who were either paid to be there or were random people pulled from the streets.

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Oy vey!
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TPM: Michael Cohen Wanted Trump To Debut 2016 Campaign With Women In Bikinis, Elephants (Original Post) Dennis Donovan Jun 2019 OP
We got a circus anyway. The Velveteen Ocelot Jun 2019 #1
you can take the man out of the circus, but you can't take the circus out of the man. nt Javaman Jun 2019 #2
So we just got MuseRider Jun 2019 #3
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