“Donald J. Trump” has an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today in which he whines that the Republican establishment robbed him of delegates by rigging the contest in Colorado. As Michael Warren reported the other day, Trump’s claim is the opposite of true: The establishment wanted a primary in Colorado; conservatives wanted caucuses and a convention.
But saying something untrue isn’t unusual for Trump. He does that all the time. What’s interesting about his Wall Street Journal op-ed is how unbelievably stilted the prose is. Try to imagine Donald Trump ever saying or writing this sentence:
Or this sentence:
Or this paragraph:
Candidates rely on campaign staffers all the time to write speeches and op-eds. It helps when the ghostwriters make it seem vaguely plausible that the candidate himself wrote the text.
