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There's been much speculation about what motivated Donald Trump to run for president. The suggested impulses range from his ego to Bill Clinton made him do it.
Regardless, one thing is clear: Donald Trump has no idea what he's in for.
The Republican Primaries were infantile from the beginning. Consider that there were 17 entrants once the campaigns began and of those, only 3 or 4 were seriously credentialed for the gig. Most of them were jokers looking to raise their public profile to increase their personal marketability. Does anyone really think that Rick Santorum, Mike Huckabee, Carly Fiorina or most of the others thought they had a chance to win the nomination? Rand Paul? Really?! Of course they didn't. This exercise was simply to increase their Q-Score, that is, their fame with the general public.
It was easy for a childishly loud-mouthed blowhard to take them down. The more serious candidates, (bear with me, please!), like John Katich, Jeb! Bush, maybe Marco Rubio and even Chris Christie couldn't possibly fight back because they came from the establishment. Mr. Tump's support has come from the people the GOP has used and abused for decades. The establishment candidates were blind to this because it had never happened before.
There are two dynamics that allowed Donald Trump to escape serious scrutiny during the GOP primaries. First, there were so many candidates, many of whom had been in the public eye for years. Second, the story that news services focused on was how outlandish and outrageous Mr. Trump was behaving and that he had tapped into a powerful, if small, political undercurrent in the US.
Those days are over for Donald Trump.
Here we are heading towards the General Election and each day or so, another little story from Mr. Trump's past comes out:
- He promised to make a charitable contribution but he didn't
- He misused money from his Foundation
- He didn't contribute to his Foundation
- He doesn't have any money for his campaign
- His campaign is in shambles
- His shoddy business practices are coming to light
- Banks won't lend him money
This drip-drip of unpleasant history will continue day after day. As you know, that's what happens during a presidential campaign.
In short, Mr. Trump is starting to get the scrutiny that all presidential candidates are privileged(!) to receive. If you've followed anything of his life, you'll realize that for the first time, he's going to be under an unrelenting microscope. Everything he's ever done or said will be regurgitated and hyper-analyzed. I hope for the day when several of his former employees gather up there guts to violate their Non-Disclosure Agreements and tells us what they know.
Never before has Donald Trump had to provide concrete answers for his affairs. Using his bluster and bullying and bullshit, he's always been able to side-step away from any real accountability. He's used his lawyers as shields. But that won't work in a presidential campaign. Mr. Trump won't be able to take the unrelenting pressure. He's been coddled in his bubble for so long that he has no idea of the shit-storm he's about to experience.
It will be an amazing show to watch.
It couldn't happen to a more worthy man.
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