Former Trump Strategist Writes Open Letter To His Supporters. It’s A MUST READ!

This post confirms most of what I suspected about Donald Trump’s candidacy and about Trump himself. Shoot, it almost confirms what The Jimmy Kimmel Show JOKED about!

Stephanie Cegielski was once Trump’s campaign strategist. She was there at the beginning of the campaign and was privy to the initial goals of Team Trump. In an open letter, she details how things got started and where things started to go wrong – and what ultimately led her to leave the campaign and warn Trump supporters about the kind of person they’re voting for to run the country.

The campaign started out purely as a protest campaign – not actually serious about winning, but someone who would shake things up a little. Kind of as a goofy sideshow where Trump would say outrageous things, but no one would actually take seriously –

Almost a year ago, recruited for my public relations and public policy expertise, I sat in Trump Tower being told that the goal was to get The Donald to poll in double digits and come in second in delegate count. That was it.

The Trump camp would have been satisfied to see him polling at 12% and taking second place to a candidate who might hold 50%. His candidacy was a protest candidacy.

It pains me to say, but he is the presidential equivalent of Sanjaya on American Idol. President Trump would be President Sanjaya in terms of legitimacy and authority.

And I am now taking full responsibility for helping create this monster — and reaching out directly to those voters who, like me, wanted Trump to be the real deal.

My support for Trump began probably like yours did. Similar to so many other Americans, I was tired of the rhetoric in Washington. Negativity and stubbornness were at an all-time high, and the presidential prospects didn’t look promising.

In 2015, I fell in love with the idea of the protest candidate who was not bought by corporations. A man who sat in a Manhattan high-rise he had built, making waves as a straight talker with a business background, full of successes and failures, who wanted America to return to greatness.

I was sold.

Stephanie talks about the first debate and how Megyn Kelly going after Trump was “like manna from heaven for a communications director” because it looked like a journalist wasn’t taking Trump’s candidacy seriously (even though the campaign wasn’t actually serious) and that’s where things started to go wrong. Mostly because nobody predicted just how ticked off the electorate really was –

It wasn’t long before every day I awoke to a buzzing phone and a shaking head because Trump had said something politically incorrect the night before. I have been around politics long enough to know that the other side will pounce on any and every opportunity to smear a candidate.

But something surprising and absolutely unexpected happened. Every other candidate misestimated the anger and outrage of the “silent majority” of Americans who are not a part of the liberal elite. So with each statement came a jump in the polls. Just when I thought we were finished, The Donald gained more popularity.

I don’t think even Trump thought he would get this far. And I don’t even know that he wanted to, which is perhaps the scariest prospect of all.

He certainly was never prepared or equipped to go all the way to the White House, but his ego has now taken over the driver’s seat, and nothing else matters. The Donald does not fail. The Donald does not have any weakness. The Donald is his own biggest enemy.

After that, Trump basically started buying his own press. His already-over-inflated ego ballooned like crazy and he started saying things like he was the only one who could stop terrorism and every other terrible thing going on in the world –

A devastating terrorist attack in Pakistan targeting Christians occurred on Easter Sunday, and Trump’s response was to tweet, “Another radical Islamic attack, this time in Pakistan, targeting Christian women & children. At least 67 dead, 400 injured. I alone can solve.”

Ignoring the fact that at the time Trump tweeted this (time-stamped 4:37 p.m.) the latest news reports had already placed the number differently at 70 dead, 300 injured, take a moment to appreciate the ridiculous, cartoonish, almost childish arrogance of saying that he alone can solve. Does Trump think that he is making a cameo on Wrestlemania (yes, one of his actual credits)?

This is not how foreign policy works. For anyone. Ever.

Superhero powers where “I alone can solve” problems are not real. They do not exist for Batman, for Superman, for Wrestlemania and definitely not for Donald Trump.

And then there’s this – where Stephanie pleads with Trump supporters from the point of view of someone who actually worked for the man and his campaign. She asks people to stop supporting him, because Trump’s way leads to nowhere good –

I’ll say it again: Trump never intended to be the candidate. But his pride is too out of control to stop him now.

You can give Trump the biggest gift possible if you are a Trump supporter: stop supporting him.

He doesn’t want the White House. He just wants to be able to say that he could have run the White House. He’s achieved that already and then some. If there is any question, take it from someone who was recruited to help the candidate succeed, and initially very much wanted him to do so.

The hard truth is: Trump only cares about Trump.

And if you are one of the disaffected voters — one of the silent majority like me — who wanted a candidate who could be your voice, I want to speak directly to you as one of his biggest advocates and supporters.

He is not that voice. He is not your voice. He is only Trump’s voice.

I don’t know who else is more qualified to ask that question and be taken seriously by Trump supporters. It’s one thing for someone like me, who never supported Trump and never bought into his bluster and bravado, to say “Don’t vote for this guy!” But it’s quite another for someone like Stephanie who supported Trump at the beginning and only recently realized what a disaster President Trump would be for this country to ask people to pick somebody else.

Trump acts as if he’s a fictional character. But like Hercules, Donald Trump is a work of fiction.

No matter how many times he repeats it, Trump would not be the “best” at being a president, being in shape, fighting terrorism, selling steaks, and whatever other “best” claim he has made in the last 15 minutes.

He would be the best at something, though. He is the best at looking out for Donald Trump — at all costs.

Don’t let our country pay that price.

Just another point in the “This Election is NUTS” experiment.