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Maven

(10,533 posts)
Thu Jul 21, 2016, 12:31 AM Jul 2016

Tweety is trying hard to sell the idea that Cruz getting booed was Trump's master plan

That he planned for Cruz go out there and not endorse him so that Cruz would get booed, whereupon Trump would come out and overshadow the end of Cruz's speech, to create a moment of theater. In other words, he deliberately let Cruz hang himself. I don't buy it.

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Tweety is trying hard to sell the idea that Cruz getting booed was Trump's master plan (Original Post) Maven Jul 2016 OP
ROFL alcibiades_mystery Jul 2016 #1
CNN Saying Same Thing Stallion Jul 2016 #2
Because Trump is an idiot.... ProudToBeBlueInRhody Jul 2016 #3
An idiot who made a fortune by conning people. DetlefK Jul 2016 #7
And the result of it in tomorrow's papers? LiberalFighter Jul 2016 #4
It's a reality TV plot twist lapfog_1 Jul 2016 #5
How far does Tweety think he can crawl up Trump's ass? eleny Jul 2016 #6
Overshadows Pence Completely- how can that be plan? Justice Jul 2016 #8
Manafort was urging on the NY delegation to boo while Trump stood in the shadows. When it started... Hekate Jul 2016 #9
 

alcibiades_mystery

(36,437 posts)
1. ROFL
Thu Jul 21, 2016, 12:35 AM
Jul 2016

This supposed plot is even dumber than the suggestions that the plagiarism was deliberate for some other brilliant Trumpian scheme. How you gonna have a convention where even your own speakers are sabotaging you? And you're gonna bring the strongman to Putin? It's ridiculous.

Trump is a figure of ridicule. If not after the Melania fiasco - the action of an arrogant, lazy asshole - then by this Cruz catastrophe, the only explanation of which is that the strong man is not only weak, but deeply stupid and gullible.

Justice

(7,188 posts)
8. Overshadows Pence Completely- how can that be plan?
Thu Jul 21, 2016, 04:09 AM
Jul 2016

I get idea of making Cruz look bad to unite GOP. If this happened on Tuesday, I would almost say brilliant. But why would Trump do this on Pence's night - over shadows Pence completely.

Hekate

(90,690 posts)
9. Manafort was urging on the NY delegation to boo while Trump stood in the shadows. When it started...
Thu Jul 21, 2016, 04:09 AM
Jul 2016

...yet Cruz continued to speak, Trump stepped into the light and onto the stage. Wtf was he even doing there? Then Heidi was mobbed on her way out and security had to escort her to safety.

I heard Matthews, Michael Steele, and one of the floor reporters describe this. It's a bad scene.

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