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NY Times Reports the Trump Campaign has Barred Donald from Tweeting


NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–November 6, 2016

By Lefty Coaster

Cartoon by Matt Bors -- Trump's Nazi tweets

Since Trump seems to think much the same way a child does, apparently his campaign has decided to treat Donald like a child.

Inside Donald Trump’s Last Stand: An Anxious Nominee Seeks Assurance

By: MAGGIE HABERMAN, ASHLEY PARKER, JEREMY W. PETERS and MICHAEL BARBARONOV

He requires constant assurance that his candidacy is on track. “Look at that crowd!” he exclaimed a few days ago as he flew across Florida, turning to his young press secretary as a TV tuned to Fox News showed images of what he claimed were thousands of people waiting for him on the ground below.

And he is struggling to suppress his bottomless need for attention.

The contrasts pervade his campaign. Aides to Mr. Trump have finally wrested away the Twitter account that he used to colorfully — and often counterproductively — savage his rivals. But offline, Mr. Trump still privately muses about all of the ways he will punish his enemies after Election Day, including a threat to fund a “super PAC” with vengeance as its core mission.

I’ve noticed the absence of vindictive tweets of late.

For the next week, his campaign staff deployed a series of creative tricks to protect its boss from his most self-destructive impulses.

Several advisers warned him that he risked becoming like a wild animal chasing its prey so zealously that it raced over a cliff — a reminder that he could pursue his grievances and his eagerness to fling insults, but that the cost would be a plunge into an electoral abyss.

Taking away Twitter turned out to be an essential move by his press team, which deprived him of a previously unfiltered channel for his aggressions.

On Thursday, as his plane idled on the tarmac in Miami, Mr. Trump spotted Air Force One outside his window. As he glowered at the larger plane, he told Ms. Hicks, his spokeswoman, to jot down a proposed tweet about President Obama, who was campaigning nearby for Mrs. Clinton.

The president has larger plane than Donald’s? What effrontery!

Of course, a few days of good behavior cannot erase 16 months of erratic conduct, and aides acknowledge that their efforts to steer a straight course may falter.

Too little too late.

How can any candidate who can’t be trusted with a Twitter account, be trusted with the nuclear launch codes?

Donald shouldn’t be.

Source: http://dailykos.com


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