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The pitfalls of working for Donald Trump, or why his campaign is a piece of crap

By kos
Wednesday Jul 20, 2016 · 3:09 PM CST

We’re all aware of the movie supervillain cliche, coldly murdering his top lieutenant while seething, “You have failed me for the last time!” You see that, and you’ve got to wonder: Who are these stupid henchmen? Why would anyone work for that asshole?

In real life, people don’t want to work for that asshole, particularly not when they have better options.

One reason for the shambolic nature of Trump’s staff is the difficulty it has in hiring good talent quickly. Just last week, Trump sought $10 million in damages from former campaign aide Sam Nunberg for alleged breaches of his nondisclosure agreement. That action has created paranoia among Team Trump members. “Mr. Trump requires employees to sign and adhere to strict confidentiality agreements,” Trump attorney Alan Garten said in a statement July 13, after Trump announced he was suing Nunberg. “When the agreements are not adhered to, he will enforce them to the full extent of the law, and Mr. Trump’s litigation track record on such matters is outstanding.”

Not only is Trump’s guy bragging about suing a former employee, but he’s bragging about winning such lawsuits. Why the fuck would you want to work for someone like that?

On top of that, Trump encourages a culture of backstabbing your coworkers.

Others who have been offered jobs turned them down after they realized that Trump’s management style involved promoting rivalries among subordinates.

It’s one thing working as a cook at a Trump property, and quite another to be a seasoned political veteran with a neverending stream of campaigns and party committees to work for. Thus, Trump’s “campaign” runs on sycophantic “yes” men afraid to take Trump’s Twitter password away, and they have no one to run the candidate’s wife’s speech through plagiarism software, much less enforce any notion of message discipline or cohesive themes during their big convention week.

If Trump can’t properly staff up headquarters, how can he staff up the battleground states? And he hasn’t.

So instead, we see Trump run his campaign by random fiat. What, the Melania plagiarism story is fading? Why, let’s reignite it again! And now we’re about to be treated to something we haven’t seen in the modern era: A major party candidate delivering an acceptance speech that no one has seen.

The preparation of Trump’s Thursday night acceptance speech is in shambles, with people in the know having seen only fragments of it and nervous that the speech will not be properly vetted or will consist of clichés.

Cliches? They should be so lucky. Cliches aren’t the problem. It’s Trump’s insufferable narcissism, and he has no one on staff that can rein it in. It will be glorious.

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/7/20/1550255/-The-pitfalls-of-working-for-Donald-Trump-or-why-his-campaign-is-a-piece-of-crap