Now It All Makes Sense. Trump Doesn't Plan To Win. He's Launching A Media Empire.

Sorry I just don't think so. If the Clinton's planted him there is no way in heck that they would allow a continued linking of their family to sexual predatory behavior, bill to rape, her as a rape apologist, and they wouldn't let him repeat repeat repeat the idea of Hillary needing a real investigation and incarceration. Furthermore all this BS about it giving him a boost to make more money in the future, public record shows he really is paying out the wazoo to fund his campaign plus he canceled the final two contracts to produce two more Apprentices and believe me people those programs are more valuable than the puppet guy in Vegas who gets 100-200million dollars a year doing his show. Were talking network primitive and huge conglomerate sponsorship. How much can he expect to make giving up hundreds of millions of dollars. Plus the show is so popular cuz everyone was a fan of his. The accusations and mud slinging were never ever there til after he ran. And Hess not an idiot he knows running would cost him about half the peoples support and destroy his name with them forever after that's what dirty political campaigns do. And see how he plasters his name in giant letters to everything he does? He is too proud of his name and his family both father and his pretty neat kids, just none of it adds up.

a reply to: AlexandrosTheGreat

If he's not an idiot, and he actually WANTS to win the election, why does he keep saying and doing things that alienate the vast majority of voters? Unless you don't believe the polls, (the same one that were telling all of Romney's supporters on 2012 that he was also going to lose, but were dismissed by GOP 'experts' - Karl Rove, I'm looking at you...), Trump's numbers are indicating a shellacking is on its way. Of course, pandering to the extreme right-wing is a good way to build a ready-made audience for a new 'conservative' media network. Going down in flames could make him appeal to be a martyr for his 1950's ideas regarding how the country should be run. You'll never be alone in America when you present yourself as the underdog. And, if a media empire is Trump's true desire, all he's doing now is scamming his supporters who think he actually DOES want to be President. I agree with you. Trump's not an idiot. He knows exactly how to get his supports' money.

originally posted by: theantediluvian
This puts all the pieces together perfectly. Trump and his inner circle of right-wing media execs know that he's not going to win the election and they're putting together a new alt-right media empire.

Financial Times - Trump son-in-law makes approach on post-election TV start-up

Mr Kushner — an increasingly influential figure in the billionaire’s presidential campaign — contacted Aryeh Bourkoff, the founder and chief executive of LionTree, a boutique investment bank, within the past couple of months, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.

Their conversation was brief and has not progressed since, the people said. Mr Bourkoff and Mr Kushner both declined to comment.

However, the approach suggests Mr Kushner and the Republican candidate himself are thinking about how to capitalise on the populist movement that has sprung up around their campaign in the event of an election defeat to Democrat Hillary Clinton next month. Mr Trump has in recent days ramped up his criticism of the “dishonest and distorted” mainstream media, which he accuses of being biased against him in collusion with the Clinton campaign.

Roger Ailes invented right-wing infotainment. If you read my Roger Stone thread, you saw this:

Interesting (and important side note):

In 1967, the then Executive Producer of the The Mike Douglas Show struck up a conversation with show guest Nixon following his appearance. That conversation led to the Executive Producer, Roger Ailes, becoming Richard Nixon's media consultant. Though it would be decades before his dream was fully realized in Fox News, Ailes had been planning it fo r decades:

A memo entitled “A Plan for Putting the GOP on TV News,” buried in the the Nixon library details a plan between Ailes and the White House to bring pro-administration stories to television networks around the country. It reads: “Today television news is watched more often than people read newspapers, than people listen to the radio, than people read or gather any other form of communication. The reason: People are lazy. With television you just sit—watch—listen. The thinking is done for you.”

It's no coincidence that Roger Ailes (a long time associate of Stone, Manafort AND Trump) was brought into the campaign along with Bannon, CEO of Breitbart News who has been carefully trying to expand the media empire. Sean Hannity is openly campaigning for Trump and his contract with Fox is up next year. Lou Dobbs is doxxing Trump accusers. Then you've got Stone on with Alex Jones constantly.

Clearly they're not expecting to win — why else would Kushner be approaching investors for a Trump media company? Instead, Trump is dumping the election and at the same time making himself the world's most prominent alt-right figure as he continues to launch attack after attack on the "mainstream media."

he wont win, people that think it will be close or trump winning is delusional.

latest utah poll has independent leading the republican candidate.

utah is the reddest state in the union, republican for over 50 years.

because of trump the independent is leading the republican candidate.

you know if trump cant win utah, hillary is going to win by a landslide.

a reply to: theantediluvian

goodluck with that getting his blue collar core to pay for it.

no one else will subscribe to it.

Turns out Trump actually to win