For those of you who don’t know Susie Wiles, she currently is the CEO of Donald Trump’s PAC and the runner of his political life.
Her Trump World credentials are stellar:
But/and a look at her political resume shows it goes back to Jack Kemp, passes through Ronald Reagan, and has kept her at the highest levels of Republican politics – especially in Florida – over several decades:
For today’s Wide World of News, marking the occasion of Donald Trump’s first public post-White House return to DC at a scheduled 3pm ET speech to his government-in-exile think tank, please enjoy this FAKE memo from Susie Wiles to Donald Trump below.
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TO: DJT
FROM: Susie Wiles
DATE: July 26, 2022
RE: The future is now…
Please, please, please stop obsessing over Rupert.
Today’s event is our big opportunity to break through to the Fake News and the American people simultaneously, to turn you from the candidate of grievance about 2020 and about your enemies into the candidate about the future.
You won in 2016 because you were (the Fake News focus to the contrary) that very candidate about the future – the future of crime, immigration, culture, China, the economy, the nation. Secretary Clinton was the candidate of the past. That was really the key to your victory.
And if you play today and the coming weeks as we have planned, you will once again be seen as the candidate who is thinking above all else about the well-being of working class Americans.
You continue to repeal many of the iron laws of presidential politics, but we both know that there’s one you can’t erase: elections are about the future, not the past.
So please, please, please stop obsessing about Rupert. I know you are (rightly) pissed about the editorials in the Journal and the Post, and the coverage on “Fox and Friends.” But once you win the nomination and the Democrats put up someone who has to run on the Biden record, Mr. Murdoch will be back in the fold.
Remember his history, as Politico lays it out today:
Although Murdoch’s breakup dazed some members of the commentariat, it shouldn’t have. Murdoch has no friends. He has no loyalties. He has no principles. And never has. His support of politicians has always been transactional and extractive. Now entering the final days of his political career, Trump is expendable, making the Post’s and Journal’s twin discoveries in the same moment of Trump’s crimes against the Constitution a convenient cover story for the orange man. Murdoch has always been a political cad, swooning and then dumping his political partners when a better-looking one comes along. Murdoch’s next fling looks to be Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, whom Fox News has slathered with positive attention in recent months….
Although it looks great in headlines, the Murdoch-Trump divorce isn’t the seismic event that some pretend it is. The two masters of demagoguery have had their differences over the years. In 2015, Murdoch was calling Trump a “phony” to his friends and a “fucking idiot,” according to Michael Wolff’s 2018 book Fire and Fury. These insults did not prevent Trump from using Murdoch or Murdoch from using Trump. If Trump runs for president in 2024 and buries the field, there will be plenty of time for Murdoch to do what he traditionally does: Place his bet on the leading pony. Like a pair of powerful gangsters who quarrel over how to divide the spoils, Murdoch and Trump will reconcile if they determine it’s in their mutual interests to reconcile.
And, yes, as you requested, we made sure there was a Truth Social post Monday pushing back:
@foxandfriends just really botched my poll numbers, no doubt on purpose. That show has been terrible — gone to the ‘dark side.’ They quickly quote the big Turning Point Poll victory of almost 60 points over the number two Republican, and then hammer me with outliers.
As I said, please, please, please stop focusing on Rupert and think instead of the message coming out of his empire about Joe Biden.
Remember: You are the overwhelming frontrunner for a Republican presidential nomination you could sew up in less than 20 months to run against the record of Democratic governance put up by Team Biden-Harris-Klain-Pelosi-and cryin’ Chuck.
If you stop talking about 2020 all the time, you take away a lot of the reason for folks to oppose you.
We have promised a bunch of people that today’s speech will surprise and delight them; please don’t turn us into liars.
Here’s what the Associated Press says:
Trump will address the America First Policy Institute’s two-day America First Agenda Summit as some advisers urge him to spend more time talking about his vision for the future and less time relitigating the 2020 election as he prepares to announce an expected 2024 White House campaign.
“I believe it will be a very policy-focused, forward-leaning speech, very much like a State of the Union 5.0,” said Brooke Rollins, AFPI’s president. Composed of former Trump administration officials and allies, the nonprofit is widely seen as an “administration in waiting” that could quickly move to the West Wing if Trump were to run again and win….
“President Trump sees a nation in decline that is driven, in part, by rising crime and communities becoming less safe under Democrat policies,” said his spokesman, Taylor Budowich. “His remarks will highlight the policy failures of Democrats, while laying out an America First vision for public safety that will surely be a defining issue during the midterms and beyond.”
Newt got a great reaction from our group on Monday, with remarks built around a simple truth: “The American people want solutions.”
By talking about safety, you will be reprising one of your strongest themes from 2016 (when you won) and 2020 (when you got the second-most votes of any presidential candidate in history, and more than enough to win for the second/third time in 2024).
The Fake News cheerleaders for Biden are trying to prop him up, as with this story you have probably already seen in the clips, leading the Washington Post:
The first major prescription drug legislation in nearly 20 years. More than $50 billion to subsidize computer chip manufacturing and research. A bill that would enshrine protection for same-sex marriage.
After a turbulent stretch in which much of President Biden’s legislative agenda seemed to be foundering, the president and his party may be on the cusp of significant wins in Congress that the White House hopes will provide at least a modest political boost.
The reality is of course much darker, and the American people know that. You just need to remind them — and point them to a better road.
As the Wall Street Journal’s lead editorial today says, Bidenomics means higher inflation, higher interest rates, slumping economic output, all of which will be illustrated over the next two days with the release of a bunch of government data.
Gerard Baker, no pal of ours, writing on the same page, heralds the reality of Biden’s stagflation record, which you will run against:
The political peril for President Biden and the Democrats is so obvious that the White House is already out doing aggressive damage control. Their message is a familiar one, denial—only this time, twice over: This is not a recession. And inflation is not our fault.
The papers are filled with big fat targets: Nouriel Roubini predicts a major recession; the upper middle class (a/k/a: voters!) is being squeezed hard; Walmart is warning “that higher prices for food and fuel [are] causing consumers to pull back, an ominous sign for the U.S. economy that has relied on resilient household spending power through rising inflation.”
Oh, and older folks (a/k/a: also voters!) are feeling the effects of incompetence of their contemporary, Joe Biden:
Rising inflation coupled with higher costs of living have put strains on many Americans’ pursestrings. But estimates from the University of Massachusetts-Boston’s Elder Index detail the toll of the cost of aging on the nation’s elderly residents.
More than half of older women who live alone are classified as poor under federal poverty standards or have insufficient incomes to pay for essential expenses, while 45 percent of men share the same financial situations. (The Hill)
To encourage you to stay on message, all of fundraising solicitations in this news cycle are about the Democrats’ record, not about Stopping the Steal:
The Radical Democrats will do anything to line their pockets and destroy our great country. They’ve attacked OUR values, destroyed OUR economy, put America Last, called us racist and deplorable. It’s disgusting really. If we’re going to win in 2022 and 2024, we need to do something NOW.
And this one
Biden’s horror show record isn’t just about the economy of course. On every issue in your 2016 arsenal, there is stuff to say.
* The New York Times reports China is ready to take Taiwan, which they never threatened while you were in the Oval Office.
* Look at this slide on education from the latest Bruce Mehlman deck (the ones you are obsessed with…), showing that we are now the Education Party:
I could go on: immigration, the culture wars, crime. As Al Gore would say, everything that ought to be up is down, and everything that ought to be down is up.
Which is why Joe Biden squealed like a stuck pig about law enforcement Monday, lashing out at you by name over January 6, because that is about all Democrats have to talk about before the midterms:
"Brave law enforcement officers were subject to the medieval hell for three hours, dripping in blood, surrounded by carnage, face to face with the crazed mob that believed the lies of the defeated president," Biden told the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives Conference.
"For three hours, the defeated former president of the United States watched it all happen as he sat in the comfort of the private dining room next to the Oval Office," he said.
"The police were heroes that day. Donald Trump lacked the courage to act," Biden said, adding: "You can't be pro-insurrection and pro-cop. You can't be pro-insurrection and pro-democracy. You can't be pro-insurrection and pro-American."
I know you aren’t that keen on Mike Pence’s political advice these days, but he has it exactly right.
This is what he was supposed to say at Heritage last night, before his event was cancelled on account of rain:
“Some people may choose to focus on the past, but I believe conservatives must focus on the future. If we do, we won’t just win the next election, we will change the course of American history for generations.”
So, please, please, please stay on your prepared text and focus on the future this afternoon.
Yes, there is a LOT to distract you.
Like this:
Two senior advisers to the former vice president, Mr. Pence’s chief of staff, Marc Short, and legal counsel Greg Jacob, appeared before a grand jury under subpoena in Washington in connection with the investigation, the people said.
Also, this:
Gov. Brian Kemp is scheduled to testify before the Fulton County grand jury investigation into whether former President Donald Trump and others illegally tried to interfere in the 2020 general election in Georgia.
And same-sex marriage. Stay out of it. You have more gay friends than Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper combined. You don’t want to head down a path like Rep. Glenn Thompson (R-PA.), who voted against same-sex marriage just about the time he was attending his gay son’s wedding.
I know you don’t much care for Ted Olson, but that other Mehlman brother (Ken) has an op-ed in the Journal with him, urging Senate Republicans to support this bill. We should stay out of that morass. You will need the suburbs in 2024.
And don’t be too pissed off, but, as you suspected, the Maggie-Jared alliance is going strong.
There is some good news, but don’t let that distract you either: The Republicans are finally getting in line behind Doug Mastriano in Pennsylvania, and even the Washington Post is promoting the fact that Jill Biden is making America pine for our greatest ever First Lady, Melania.
So, let’s make a deal: Stay on your “future” script this afternoon and I promise to finish up that DeSantis memo, explaining to you with no punches pulled why his America First+ record in Florida is the reason he is the ONLY Republican who could beat you for the nomination. It certainly isn’t his charming personality!
And, yes, at your request, the memo will also detail his vulnerabilities, including his lack of low-dollar donors.
In response to your question, we have no idea yet if MSNBC, CNN, or even FOX will take your speech live this afternoon. I doubt it.
But please, please, please put such distractions out of your head.
You have a chance today with one disciplined address to remind voters, the Fake News, and the Hill why you won in 2016, and why you will be the Republican nominee (and then president) again in 2024.
As the second-greatest football mind of all time used to say: The future is now, Mr. President.
Seize the moment.
Please, please, please.