Could Trump's Terrible Week Get Any Worse? Yes. (And It Just Did)
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The conventional wisdom was that Hillary Clinton would get a post-Democratic National Convention bounce in the polls. And indeed, that’s happened. Bad news for Donald Trump was basically predestined — built into the normal rhythms of the presidential campaign cycle.
What nobody could predict, though, is the way that Trump would spin so spectactularly out of control, exacerbating the expected poll results and prompting the most epic media pile-on of his campaign. Including a social media pile-on (see our Wednesday post, “Donald Trump Has Become Twitter’s New Favorite Chew Toy”), in which every bit of bad (sad!) news about Mr. Trump gets seized upon, gleefully amplied and turned into a meme.
Major GOP fundraiser Meg Whitman’s Monday condemnation of Trump and endorsement of Clinton was bad enough (see: “#DumpTrump Roars Back to Life”). But this morning The New York Times is out with an op-ed by Michael J. Morell headlined “I Ran the C.I.A. Now I’m Endorsing Hillary Clinton.” Mr. Morell notes that he’s served presidents of both parties (three Republicans and three Democrats) during his 33-year career at the Central Intelligence Agency, and is neither a registered Democrat nor Republican. He says good things about Hillary Clinton, but when he gets to Donald, he goes ballistic:
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