I love this idea that Trump is a phantom candidate recruited by the left. If you think about it, the real threat to the establishment was always Bernie Sanders. He would've brought they whole system down.
Apparently Trump has been close to the Clintons for years. They were at his last wedding. He has contributed to the Clintons' foundation and he has contributed to Hilary's Senate campaigns. And Trump called Bill Clinton before he tossed his hat into the presidential ring and Clinton encouraged him to run.
Conservative commentator Brian Cates says:
"Trump didn't jump into this race because of his deep abiding love for America, or his being a Republican or caring about conservatism. Trump jumped into this race because BILL CLINTON urged him to."
Noah Rothman of Commentary magazine spies a pattern in Mr Trump's diatribes, whose timing, he argues, "tends to often coincide with scandalous revelations that reflect poorly on Democratic politicians".
Trump, for instance, made his comments about closing US borders to all Muslims just a day after President Barack Obama's poorly received White House address on the so-called Islamic State. Stories about Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton's email server and actions following the Benghazi consulate attack in 2012 have likewise been swamped by Trump-mania.
"None of this establishes either correlation or causation, but it is remarkably coincidental how often Donald Trump has rescued Democrats from the jaws of a terrible news cycle and the withering scrutiny of the press," he concludes.
Then again, given the number of times Mr Trump has made incendiary, headline-grabbing comments and the number of times conservatives have perceived there to be incredibly damaging revelations about Democrats that should have grabbed the headlines, perhaps it's not surprising that Rothman's list is so long.
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