Reflecting on changes in Donald Trump's campaign leadership structure, a former official who worked in the ex-president's administration predicted heads will roll because his re-election chances are now seriously in doubt. Appearing on MSNBC's "The Weekend," Olivia Troye, one of leaders of Republicans Against Trump , admitted that she is surprised Vice Presidential candidate J.D.
Vance (R-OH) hasn't been cast aside. Speaking with co-host Michael Steele, Troye began. "Watching the campaign, I think it's imploded.
" "What has happened here is they were caught flat-footed," she continued. "I think they have nothing to counter this powerful ticket of two relatable people who are out there actually campaigning, talking to voters everyday showing that they they truly identify with the challenges they face." ALSO READ: Donald Trump deep in debt while foreign money keeps coming: disclosure "What does Donald Trump have?" she asked.
"I guess, you know, I don't know, country club owner, maybe, lots of bankruptcies, convicted felon. Then you have J.D.
Vance, who denigrates women and talks about menopausal women, childless cat and dog ladies, I don't know where they're going with this." 'I think you're seeing a lot of turmoil there," she continued. "I wonder how long some of these people are going to stay in their roles .
.. I think Trump is grasping here, trying to figure out what to do because he really does have no plan, no actual policy objectives and it is just a bunch of mudslinging.
" "You know, I'm surprised he still has J.D. Vance on the ticket, I keep wondering if he's going to bump him off," she added.
Watch below or at the link - YouTube youtu.be Donald Trump's decision to make President Joe Biden's age a centerpiece of his re-election bid has now come back to haunt him after Biden gracefully stepped aside for much younger Vice President Kamala Harris to take her spot at the top of the Democratic ticket. According to a report from Politico's Megan Messerly and Myah Ward, the former president went to great pains to portray Biden as a "doddering old man" and, with the 59-year-old Harris running an upbeat and energetic campaign, the former president's latest public efforts have led to his earlier age attacks to bounce back and attach themselves on him .
As the report notes, the Harris campaign has focused on talking about the future and, combined with rally chants of "We're not going back," Trump increasingly looks like a relic of "a past that the country can’t afford to return to." ALSO READ: Donald Trump deep in debt while foreign money keeps coming: disclosure "Some Democrats are relishing the fact that they can finally make an attack based on age after months of being forced to defend a historically old nominee. Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz , 60, veered into overt attacks on Trump’s age at a fundraiser in Newport Beach, California , this week.
He called Trump 'low energy,' 'tired' and the 'guy that needs to get a little rest on the weekend,'" Politico is reporting. According to one Democratic pollster, Trump's age is the "cherry on top" for the Harris campaign. “You already thematically want to go to the future, but now you’re able to also point to a very real thing, which is how much confidence do you have in this guy’s mental acuity, energy, overall health?” Paul Maslin suggested.
“Yeah, he can still play a decent game of golf. Okay, we’ll give him that. Is that enough?” You can read more here .
Former President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner is planning to build a luxury resort in Albania. But the proposed development has been attacked by critics in both the Balkan country and the U.S.
Kushner — who launched his private equity firm Affinity Partners after Trump was voted out of office — has been working with Richard Grenell , who was Trump's acting Director of National Intelligence, on plans to develop in both Albania and Serbia. According to a new Washington Post report , the two have been working closely with Albania's "very transactional" prime minister, Edi Rama on plans to develop a section of protected land in the southern European nation. However, environmentalists say Kushner's plans to raze protected acreage in the coastal area of Zvernec could prove to be dangerous to rare flora and fauna and tip the ecosystem out of balance.
This includes Patagonia CEO Ryan Zellert, who told the Post he has "huge concerns" about the development. READ MORE: Jared Kushner blasted over new $500 million 'present' from Serbian government "It is a stunning area, unique across the Mediterranean," he said. "And the idea of them developing this, particularly in the absence of a master plan, is a really bad idea.
" Albania's minister of tourism and the environment, Mirela Kumbaro, told the outlet that "all of Albania is open for potential development." She dismissed concerns from environmentalists, saying that they want the government to "abandon the region forever and to have only the birds. She added that Albania couldn't afford to sacrifice economic progress and leave protected land untouched, particularly as the acreage under environmental protection makes up roughly 21% of Albania's total area.
But ornithologist Joni Vorpsi suggested the ecosystem could be significantly harmed by the development, as the vegetation would suck the area dry without birds to feed on it. He reminded the publication that Kushner's resort would require access roads and additional infrastructure throughout the construction process, and all the traffic that comes with it. “It can’t coexist,” he said.
“Even if you try to be cautious, there is just so much disturbance.” READ MORE: Senate Dems open investigation into Jared Kushner's 'lucrative' foreign business deals Aside from the concerns raised by environmentalists, anti-corruption activists are also sounding the alarm about the development. Sen.
Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) accused Kusher — who is married to Trump's eldest daughter, Ivanka — of trading on his relationship to the former president in order to fuel his own business interests. In a June letter , Wyden asked an Affinity official to shed light on the ex-president's son-in-law, writing that he had concerns about the high percentage of Kushner's business coming from foreign sources. He added that it "creates an appearance that Affinity’s investors are motivated not by commercial interests of seeking a return on investment, but rather by strategic considerations of foreign nationals seeking to funnel money to U.
S. individuals with personal connections to former President Trump ." Kushner has countered that nothing about what he's done is illegal under statutes in both the U.
S. and the Balkan nations he does business with, and that soliciting foreign investment isn't inherently corrupt. "A lot of people [leave the public sector and] they kind of sell their services, you know, based on their relationships," Kushner told the Post .
I" didn’t want to do that. I’ve always been an investor.” READ MORE: 'Corrupt': Jared Kushner's overseas business deals under fire as Trump runs for president Donald Trump has never lacked for self-confidence, but his presidential campaign has been sent into a tailspin by the extraordinary events of the past month, and suddenly he appears older, more awkward and grasping for direction.
An assassination attempt, the shock withdrawal of Joe Biden from the White House race and replacement by his younger, high-energy vice president, Kamala Harris , all seem to have taken a toll on a candidate who -- until recently -- had seemed well on course for victory in November. President Biden's exit has been particularly impactful, removing a rival whose 81 years, faltering speech and physical frailties had largely shielded Trump from scrutiny of his own age and weaknesses. Now it is Trump, 78, who is the oldest presidential nominee in history, and the point of comparison is a 59-year-old former prosecutor who has come out fast and swinging.
Trump is "very upset" as he huddles with aides searching for a new campaign narrative, said Anthony Scaramucci, who served briefly as Trump's White House communications director in 2017 before the two had a falling out. "He's now frightened, he's now cornered, and he's very angry," Scaramucci told MSNBC . - 'Quit whining' - Trump's campaign managers are reportedly desperate to have their candidate focus on issues that play with his base like immigration and inflation.
And while Trump does address those subjects at length during his long and often rambling public appearances, he repeatedly pivots to personal insults, questioning Harris's intelligence, attacking her racial identity and branding her a "communist." Republicans including Nikki Haley , who Trump vanquished in the primaries but who has since endorsed him, say such attacks play badly with the undecided voters Trump needs to win. "Quit whining about her," Haley said on Fox News , while also urging Trump to stop obsessing over who draws the most people to their campaign rallies.
"The campaign is not gonna win talking about crowd sizes," she said. But Trump's long list of grievances has only grown -- "they're not being nice to me," he complained recently -- as the momentum has shifted to Harris, erasing the poll leads Trump had in the swing states likely to decide the November election. Sensing an opportunity, the Harris campaign has sought to amplify the image of Trump as withdrawn, angry and embittered.
"Donald Trump To Ramble Incoherently," it said in a mock promotion for a Trump campaign event on Thursday that promised "another self-obsessed rant full of his own personal grievances." The Thursday event had been billed as a press conference focused on Trump's economic agenda. Standing in front of tables loaded with supermarket goods aimed at illustrating the household cost of inflation, Trump stayed on message at first -- head down, reading out examples of product price rises that were listed in a binder.
But then he repeatedly veered off topic, talking about wind turbines that killed birds, going over crowd sizes again and peppering it all with derogatory personal remarks about Harris. While politics of resentment can play well with his base, "it is less clear how Trump's personal attacks against Harris will play with undecided swing voters," political science professor Elizabeth Bennion of Indiana University told AFP. "Some observers wondered whether Trump might exercise restraint when facing a multi-racial female candidate," Bennion added.
"The answer is clearly no.".
