Trump can’t handle the truth
Voters beware!
Warning: If you plan to vote for Hillary Clinton next Tuesday, you might find yourself getting sued.
That’s because Donald likes to sue, or threatens to sue, anybody who isn’t among his most loyal followers.
Heck, he’s been involved in 4,095 lawsuits in his life. And, according to one report, 75 of those lawsuits are still unresolved.
A President Trump (and oh how that pains be to type those words), won’t have much time to plan for his now famous wall, because he’ll be so busy running back-and-forth to court.
He’s also threatened to sue nearly two dozen people since he declared his candidacy.
Saturday a week ago, he even opened his much-ballyhooed Gettysburg Address, with a threatened lawsuit against the women who’ve alleged he either sexually assaulted, or harassed them against their will.
“All of these liars will be sued after the election is over,” Trump announced, before he launched into some campaign promises that had immediately lost their importance.
But that’s Trump’s way.
If he’s forced to go on the defense, he strikes back – and always carelessly.
His oversized ego won’t allow him to step back so he might act like a fully-formed adult.
He’s not built that way.
He faced Hillary Clinton in three debates.
Every legitimate poll indicated Clinton had won all three.
The days following each, Trump bragged that he’d won them.
When he leads in a poll, he makes sure he mentions it in his stump speeches.
When he’s not leading, he claims the polls are all “rigged.”
He gave one interview with a CNN reporter last week, and his unwillingness to accept reality was on full view.
“New polls are coming out. We’re leading in Florida,” he told CNN’s Dana Bash.
What he didn’t mention was that he’s leading in one Florida poll, but that he’s behind by as much as 4 percent in three others.
He added, “We’re doing great in North Carolina.” (NOTE: he’s ahead in one poll, but he’s behind by as much as 7 percent in the five most recent polls)
“We’re doing great in Pennsylvania,” he bragged. (NOTE: There have been 27 polls in Pennsylvania since mid-June. He hasn’t led in any of them)
Trump was on a roll.
Dana Bash didn’t even try to stop him when he blurted out, “We’re doing really well in New Hampshire.” (NOTE: Trump has never led in a single poll in New Hampshire. In one of those polls, he’s down by as much as 15 percentage points)
And worse, the states of Arizona, Georgia, and even Texas – places that have been reliably Republican – have been shifted from “leans Trump” states – to “toss-ups” by Real Clear Politics.
And nationwide, Trump is consistently behind Clinton.
The current edge Clinton has in some states, as well as nationwide, may be the result of the superior ground game she’s managed to put together.
Only Barack Obama’s ground game in 2008 tops hers.
While Trump boasts that his rallies are better attended than Clinton’s, he doesn’t seem to understand that a well-oiled campaign apparatus is far, far more important.
Clinton has 498 filed offices across the country, compared to only 207 belonging to Trump’s campaign.
That means that there will be thousands more Clinton supporters fanning out, and making sure that her potential voters get to the polls.
It doesn’t matter, then, if Trump blames the media, the crooked Clintons, or his fellow Republicans for his travails.
He simply isn’t up to the task of running (to this point) a presidential campaign that appears to be on the threshold of winning.
He’s a guy who has formed his campaign on the premise of building empires.
Yet, his presidential campaign has been poorly built, and he knows it.
That’s why, next Tuesday, if you don’t vote for Donald Trump – beware!
He’s likely to go door-to-door and file a lawsuit against you, and every Hillary voter in the country.
Donald Trump, as Jack Nicholson’s character (Col. Nathan R. Jessup) said to Tom Cruise in the 1992 classic film “A Few Good Men,” You can’t handle the truth.”!
Edward A. Owens is a three time Emmy Award winner and 20-year veteran of television news. E-mail him at freedoms@bellatlantic.net