Is Trump Part of the Clinton Campaign to Win the White House?

Wait!  That’s not necessarily the fevered question it might seem to be on first impression.  Consider:  Clinton campaign insiders have long known that they had a deeply flawed candidate both in terms of personality and integrity.  The 2016 contest to come was viewed with intense worry, even dread.  According to John Podesta, Clinton campaign chief (in a Wikileaks email), even Senator Ted Cruz, considered the most polarizing and weakest of the prospective GOP contenders, had a 50-50 chance against her.  So what to do?

Enter Donald Trump.  He was a long-time New York Democrat on record in support of various liberal causes and candidates, including Hillary Clinton.

 

Did his leftist friends and acquaintances urge him to run?

Unknown.  But a year or so before announcing his candidacy in June of 2015, the TV reality star registered as a Republican.  The media attention he received up to and through the primary season was extensive and generally friendly with regular appearances on, ironically, Fox News as well as liberal outlets.

Donald Trump, as a result, in a year’s time was catapulted from a fringe, joke candidate into the GOP nomination for president.

 

The Clinton campaign was elated.  And well they should have been.  John Podesta’s fears had been prescient, indeed.

As this blog is being written, Mrs. Clinton holds onto a slim four percent national lead in a Washington Post poll.  This is after several weeks of Trump’s repeated blunders and hostile (surprise!) media coverage.

Is it reasonably conceivable that any serious nominee would be losing to her now?  No.  Hillary Clinton has demonstrated once more America’s intense dislike for her.  Only Donald Trump, even more unpopular, is able to save her.

Did not the Clinton campaign foresee that as well? 

For conspiracy theorists, the basic query remains:  did the Democrats simply “luck out” in running against Trump or was the crude, vulgar billionaire in on it from the start.  Or, to phrase the question another way, is Trump’s dismal campaign performance the result of a compulsive, undisciplined personality or intentional self-destruction?