Was Donald Trump’s campaign too chaotic to pull off a conspiracy?

AMID the spicy anecdotes, superficial insights, sycophancy, score-settling and casual loutishness displayed in a new memoir of Donald Trump’s election campaign, “Let Trump be Trump”, by Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie, the two essential characteristics of Trumpland shine through. One is a permanent state of confusion, and sometimes chaos, attending a campaign that initially did no opinion polling, had no detailed policies, set its communications strategy by whatever crazy thing Mr Trump had just made up, was mainly staffed by people who “wouldn’t know the difference between a caucus and a cactus”, and whose top logistical priority was co-ordinating the tycoon’s post-rally return to his plane with the arrival of a warm Big Mac. It fell to Mr Lewandowski, as campaign manager, to perform that task, which he considers “as important as any other aspect of [Mr Trump’s] march to the presidency”. He had it lucky. The campaign’s press secretary, Hope Hicks, who is now the White...Continue reading