Inside Trump’s Press Pen
An interesting read. Trump is going to get eaten alive come the general election. He's put all the pieces in place.
Inside Trump’s Press Pen
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/04/2016-media-issue-donald-trump-press-pen-campaign-reporters-campaign-lewandowski-schreckinger-213824?o=0
"Here’s what I learned. A candidate who puts reporters in pens, who talked as much about me as about the Islamic State at a big rally, who thinks it’s a good idea to revisit the First Amendment, isn’t really winning-or he wouldn’t be doing those things."
"Which is why if there’s one consistent theme to what I’ve experienced covering Trump, it’s the unpredictability. The handshakes sometimes come after the hardest slaps, and the doghouse is a short elevator ride away from the penthouse."
This is not the first I've heard of this behavior from Trump. This is how he runs his business. That's why he is surrounded by such loyal people. They are the only ones who can tolerate him.
"She passed him the phone. The first words out of his mouth were, 'I respect your writing abilities, Ben. They’re good.' (I relate this not to boast: A week later, he would go on the radio and say I write 'so badly and so incorrectly.')"
"The campaign responded to the stress in characteristic fashion. They cracked down on us. Just after Super Tuesday, I showed up at a Trump rally in New Orleans and found that the press cage had sprouted new bars. Rather than opening directly onto the floor of the airport hangar where Trump was set to speak, metal barriers now formed a narrow corridor leading out of the hangar, so members of the press would have to essentially exit the venue to get out of the press pen. Affixed to the barriers were placards that read, 'Police Line-Do Not Cross.'"
"Reporters have grown personally aggrieved by his abuse and his threats of 'opening up the libel laws,' which feel less amusing and more menacing each day he creeps closer to the Republican nomination."
“'I have a great relationship with these people,' [Lewandowski] insisted. He meant us, the press corps. And like so many things about Donald Trump’s presidential campaign this year, it wasn’t true."
Inside Trump’s Press Pen
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/04/2016-media-issue-donald-trump-press-pen-campaign-reporters-campaign-lewandowski-schreckinger-213824?o=0
"Here’s what I learned. A candidate who puts reporters in pens, who talked as much about me as about the Islamic State at a big rally, who thinks it’s a good idea to revisit the First Amendment, isn’t really winning-or he wouldn’t be doing those things."
"Which is why if there’s one consistent theme to what I’ve experienced covering Trump, it’s the unpredictability. The handshakes sometimes come after the hardest slaps, and the doghouse is a short elevator ride away from the penthouse."
This is not the first I've heard of this behavior from Trump. This is how he runs his business. That's why he is surrounded by such loyal people. They are the only ones who can tolerate him.
"She passed him the phone. The first words out of his mouth were, 'I respect your writing abilities, Ben. They’re good.' (I relate this not to boast: A week later, he would go on the radio and say I write 'so badly and so incorrectly.')"
"The campaign responded to the stress in characteristic fashion. They cracked down on us. Just after Super Tuesday, I showed up at a Trump rally in New Orleans and found that the press cage had sprouted new bars. Rather than opening directly onto the floor of the airport hangar where Trump was set to speak, metal barriers now formed a narrow corridor leading out of the hangar, so members of the press would have to essentially exit the venue to get out of the press pen. Affixed to the barriers were placards that read, 'Police Line-Do Not Cross.'"
"Reporters have grown personally aggrieved by his abuse and his threats of 'opening up the libel laws,' which feel less amusing and more menacing each day he creeps closer to the Republican nomination."
“'I have a great relationship with these people,' [Lewandowski] insisted. He meant us, the press corps. And like so many things about Donald Trump’s presidential campaign this year, it wasn’t true."