On Wednesday morning, Republican influencers connected to Donald Trump's campaign began to warn that a story was soon going to appear in the news; a story that clearly caused them concern. This story makes them so nervous, that they deployed a trick from their election-denying toolkit to plant doubt about its reality before the first word of this story ever came from the press.
These messages were reportedly accompanied by a memo from Lara Trump warning Trump supporters in the media to be prepared for something "desperate" from Democrats.
These foul weather flags followed a Tuesday night appearance by Newmax commentator Mark Helprin who revealed that he had been pitched a story that, according to Helprin, would end Trump's campaign if it proved true.
This story, whatever it is, appears to be unrelated to the news of Trump's former chief of staff John Kelly warning that Trump admired Hitler, that he was poised to be a dictator if he returned to power, and that he met the textbook definition of "fascist."
As Chris Sununu made clear on CNN Wednesday morning, Republicans are already aware that Trump is pro-Hitler. And they're fine with that.
Whatever the story may be that has Republicans ruffled, it also seems unconnected to Tuesday's story in The Atlantic in which Trump not only called for "the kind of generals that Hitler had," but had something to say about the cost of a memorial held for American soldier Vanessa Guillén, who was murdered on base at Fort Hood, Texas.
Trump became angry. “It doesn’t cost 60,000 bucks to bury a fucking Mexican!” He turned to his chief of staff, Mark Meadows, and issued an order: “Don’t pay it!” Later that day, he was still agitated. “Can you believe it?” he said, according to a witness. “Fucking people, trying to rip me off.”
The double dose of Hitler comments, as well as Trump complaining about the bill to honor a member of the military bludgeoned to death on her own base (complete with an extra large side order of racism), broke before whatever story reportedly has Lara Trump sweating.
They already know that Trump admires Hitler, repeatedly demeaned the American military, cheated on three wives, paid off porn stars to cover up his affairs, stole from a charity, scammed "students" at his fake university, followed a woman into the dressing room of at a department store and sexually assaulted her, and led a violent attempted coup.
They're okay with all of that.
So what could possibly be in the story that the media is apparently sitting on that has guys like that jackass Halperin thinking it would be a career-ender for Trump?
And what are the odds we'll hear any details before November 6?
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