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Trump's allies trip him up - Politico
The indictment of Chris Christie's former aides and Rudy Giuliani's claim of insider FBI knowledge distract from Trump's closing message.
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...Friday’s news cycle did not exactly dovetail neatly with Trump’s closing argument.
As Trump was promising to “drain the swamp” in Washington and portraying the federal government and Clinton as corrupt, two top allies of one of his most high-profile surrogates were convicted — and another went on television and appeared to claim that FBI contacts had tipped him off about its ongoing investigation of Clinton.
And the journalist on whose story Trump has based his recent claim that Clinton will be indicted went on television Friday morning to apologize, calling his report “a mistake.”
Just before Trump took the stage here, a jury found two senior aides to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie guilty on all nine counts they faced for their role in the Bridgegate scandal. It was the end of a trial in which both sides presented evidence that the governor himself was involved in the decision to close lanes on the George Washington Bridge to create traffic problems as political payback to the Democratic mayor of Fort Lee who’d crossed the governor. - Politico
<snipping past the RW talking points>
...Friday’s news cycle did not exactly dovetail neatly with Trump’s closing argument.
As Trump was promising to “drain the swamp” in Washington and portraying the federal government and Clinton as corrupt, two top allies of one of his most high-profile surrogates were convicted — and another went on television and appeared to claim that FBI contacts had tipped him off about its ongoing investigation of Clinton.
And the journalist on whose story Trump has based his recent claim that Clinton will be indicted went on television Friday morning to apologize, calling his report “a mistake.”
Just before Trump took the stage here, a jury found two senior aides to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie guilty on all nine counts they faced for their role in the Bridgegate scandal. It was the end of a trial in which both sides presented evidence that the governor himself was involved in the decision to close lanes on the George Washington Bridge to create traffic problems as political payback to the Democratic mayor of Fort Lee who’d crossed the governor. - Politico
Talk about the worst red-herring fail ever! 'I alone can clean up Washington.' Meanwhile his team of surrogates are drowning in corruption, indictments, and potential jail time.
Let he who is without sin cast the first stone
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drumpf.. didn't know he was campaigning on cleaning up Washington.
As you say, ffr.. he needs to clean up his own house first. 
And, this from Politico
