Hillary Clinton Piles Up Research in Bid to Needle Donald Trump at First Debate

[RKP5637]

An excellent approach IMO.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/30/us/politics/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-debate.html

Her team is also getting advice from psychology experts to help create a personality profile of Mr. Trump to gauge how he may respond to attacks and deal with a woman as his sole adversary on the debate stage.

They are undertaking a forensic-style analysis of Mr. Trump’s performances in the Republican primary debates, cataloging strengths and weaknesses as well as trigger points that caused him to lash out in less-than-presidential ways.

Mrs. Clinton, a deeply competitive debater, wants to crush Mr. Trump on live television, but not with an avalanche of policy details; she is searching for ways to bait him into making blunders. Mr. Trump, a supremely confident communicator, wants viewers to see him as a truth-telling political outsider and trusts that he can box in Mrs. Clinton on her ethics and honesty.

The Clinton camp believes that Mr. Trump is most insecure about his intelligence, his net worth and his image as a successful businessman, and those are the areas they are working with Mrs. Clinton to target.

“Trump has severe attention problems and simply cannot take in complex information — he will be unable to practice for these debates,” said Mr. Schwartz, who was the subject of a New Yorker profile last month that portrayed Mr. Trump as a charlatan. “Trump will bring nothing but his bluster to the debates. He’ll use sixth-grade language, he will repeat himself many times, he won’t complete sentences, and he won’t say anything of substance.”

[tblue37]

1. And these are the very qualities that most appeal to his deplorables:

“Trump will bring nothing but his bluster to the debates. He’ll use sixth-grade language, he will repeat himself many times, he won’t complete sentences, and he won’t say anything of substance.”

[RKP5637]

2. Yep, they see in him theirselves. n/t

[Bucky]

3. Trump could use a good old fashioned bitch-slapping

But that said, I assume this story was planted in the papers in order to psych Trump into being cautious about going on the attack.

[RKP5637]

5. Interesting, could be, but it's NYT, likely not. n/t

[lindysalsagal]

4. The fool has no idea who he's dealing with.

“Trump has severe attention problems and simply cannot take in complex information — he will be unable to practice for these debates,” said Mr. Schwartz, who was the subject of a New Yorker profile last month that portrayed Mr. Trump as a charlatan. “Trump will bring nothing but his bluster to the debates. He’ll use sixth-grade language, he will repeat himself many times, he won’t complete sentences, and he won’t say anything of substance.”

Underestimate HRC at your own peril.

This is brilliant: psych him out days ahead of time.

[RKP5637]

6. And some sixth-graders have a better command of language than Trump! I'm serious. n/t

[Bucky]

7. But do they have the best words?

sad

[RKP5637]

8. Amazing how someone running for US president has so gravely lowered the level of dialogue. n/t

[gopiscrap]

9. hope she baits him into losing his cool