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Damning Report Details Trump Camp's Dysfunction That Could Spell ‘Defeat’

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“Bottom line, you can hire all the top people in the world, but to what end? Trump does what he wants,” a source close to the campaign said.

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Yeah, that IS a 'bottom line' isn't it? A mature, emotionally balanced and emotionally secure person knows how to adjust course, take advice, modify and modulate speech and behavior.

KNOWS not to insult every group among whom he will need to improve his vote share relative to Romney's share.

He's got to do BETTER, not just do what he wants.

Unfortunately for Trump, 'gratuitous remarks/insults' are a feature, not a bug!


AP Photo / Jae C. Hong

By Katherine Krueger

Published June 6, 2016, 10:32 AM EDT

Donald Trump’s shoestring campaign has been plagued with reports of infighting and internal dysfunction from the start, but an MSNBC report out Monday details how those undermining factors could lead to "defeat" for the presumptive GOP nominee.

MSNBC reporters spoke with three Trump aides and two sources working closely alongside the campaign, all of whom spoke anonymously about the dysfunction that has come to characterize an operation in which Trump’s word is law.

“Bottom line, you can hire all the top people in the world, but to what end? Trump does what he wants,” a source close to the campaign said.

After the campaign seemed largely caught off guard by unsealed Trump University court documents last week that detailed craven allegations of defrauding students, Trump repudiated calls from staffers, donors and party officials to tone down his attacks on U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel’s ethnicity, saying he didn’t want to look like he bowed to pressure.

“These are things that will defeat [us],” a Trump campaign source told MSNBC.

Many top campaign posts have remained unfilled, giving an outsized prominence to campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and spokeswoman Hope Hicks, both of whom travel with Trump.

One internal source cautioned that Trump could lose the general election if he failed to flesh out his communications team.

MSNBC reported that internal tensions boiled over on the campaign trail again last week in California, as Lewandowski and Hicks repeatedly vetoed draft press releases to roll out new endorsements that top strategist Paul Manafort had lined up.

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