Because he’s such a tough guy, delusional Mango as usual doubles down as he loses yet another lawyer. John Dowd was likely getting tired of being the meat shield for 45*’s gaffes.
So Agent Orange now tries to make lemonade by boosting the efficiency of his campaign’s criminal theft of personal data to weaponize #TrumpRussia.
How clever, those oblique taunts … How presidential.
Coincidentally, Trump’s remarks about his infamous catchphrase came on the same night the Washington Post provided more detail than ever before about how it originated with Cambridge Analytica and Steve Bannon, who became Trump’s campaign chairman two months before he debuted “drain the swamp.”
According to Chris Wylie, a former Cambridge Analytica employee who spoke with the Post, Bannon oversaw Cambridge Analytica’s 2014 effort “to collect troves of Facebook data as part of an ambitious program to build detailed profiles of millions of American voters.” That effort included testing “of anti-establishment messages that later would emerge as central themes in President Trump’s campaign speeches” — including “drain the swamp” and “deep state.”
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Would that have been possible without data Bannon and Cambridge Analytica pilfered from Facebook users through personality tests, then used to hone messaging that would eventually be used by Trump? As Trump himself acknowledges, the slogan that was the fruit of that labor certainly played a key role.
Wadda Tough Guy! There’s always the old standards, pick on the person leading in the 2020 polls, now that Oprah put the kibosh on a run.