Senior Trump aide blurts out frustration over former president's 'unrestrained campaign'
According to MSNBC's Vaughan Hillyard, there is at least one senior to Donald Trump who is growing exasperated with the undisciplined campaign the former president is running made worse by his latest echoing of Hitleresque rhetoric, which ally Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is defending.
Hillyard, who has been following the former president to his rallies as he makes a third bid for the Oval Office after losing to President Joe Biden in 2020, noted that Trump is taking his rallies to new extremes that his fans seem to lap up, and explained there are some concerns within the Trump camp.
Speaking with the hosts of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," he explained, "I talked to, or attempted to talk to, throngs of supporters in the rally in New Hampshire there. When I say attempt to talk, it is difficult because it is not about even beginning to rationalize basic truths with his supporters at this point. It's not about tamping down one conspiracy or two conspiracies at this point — the conspiracies are too entangled to the point that they cannot be unraveled."
"While that is one subsection of America, there's the other subsection of America," he elaborated. "Many of them at that rally in New Hampshire, and those are folks that may not know the conspiracy theories, but they trust family and friends who do. At the core, they trust Donald Trump, they echo the words that the man says on stage."
"As he heads to the election, he is moving farther to the right, praising murderous dictators and leaders of illiberal democracies,." he added before reporting, "Before the rally in New Hampshire, I was talking with one of his senior advisors for his campaign. I asked why they were allowing Donald Trump to run, really, this unrestrained campaign over the last year. That senior adviser responded to me, quote, 'What choice do I have?'"
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