Donald Trump adviser Michael Cohen gives a rundown of how the Trump campaign plans to woo Latino Americans. Short version: Who cares? They can't vote anyway, right?
“The truth, yeah, I’m trying to coordinate it because I am mindful of the fact that, you know, there are coalitions and I’m talking about now like Hispanic coalitions that … will not support Trump,” Cohen explained. “And that’s OK because the ones that don’t like Trump aren’t even here legally and they can’t vote, so it doesn’t really matter, right? And I understand their point of view. They’re — they do not want to be asked to leave right? And go back where? Go back to their homes? You know they don’t want to. So I understand.”
I think we could all see Donald Trump burping that out, but in this case it's one of Trump's top advisers bringing us his campaign's wisdom that they don't have to worry about Latinos because none of them folks are even 'Mericans. This quote is likely to appear in full in the Republican Party's next presidential election postmortem—perhaps we should start a pool to see who can guess the page number.
Ah, but that's not the only contribution to the Trump campaign charm offensive. Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson is also in fine form, explaining to fellow conservative S.E. Cupp that people are being far too bleeding-heart about Trump's plan to bar all Muslims from entering the country. Get a grip!
"No one's talking about allowing insurgents," Cupp responded. "You're talking about not allowing regular Muslims, that's what you're talking about. No one's talking about insurgents."
"Yes, from Arab nations, Pierson interjected. "You know what, so what? They're Muslim."
There ya go.
It looks like Donald Trump's done a fine job of surrounding himself with people who know exactly what his campaign is all about. I hope Republican National Committee head Reince Priebus is printing all these stories out to put in the ol' scrapbook, too. This next postmortem ought to be a real humdinger.