Donald Trump Jr. recently sent out multiple tweets attacking two female reports. He wrote:
“1/ Earlier today Fake News @NBC published a made-up story about a fictional Iowa phone call that never happened. I told them it never happened, but reporters @DashaBurns and @KatiaDoyl still wrote it anyway.
The fact NBC would run a story based on a single-source, anonymous “tip,” with no verification, and a firm denial in response, really says something about their journalistic integrity.”
In another tweet he wrote:
“2/ The reality is that my father has the best campaign operation in Iowa he’s ever had.
He’s leading the state by 37%, the campaign has Captains in all 99 counties, over 1,000 precinct captains, they’ve collected 25,000 caucus pledge cards (including 10,000 at the State Fair), staffed more than 100 parades, and they’ve launched an impressive Farmers for Trump Coalition with 100+ members.”
The third Tweet read:
“3/ Meanwhile the Ron DeSanctimonious campaign is in a complete free-fall, fighting with their SuperPAC and finishing third in poll after poll.
President Trump is crushing Ron DeSanctus at every turn in Iowa, and it’s a shame Fake News @NBC and reporters @DashaBurns and @KatiaDoyl are the only group of “journalists” who don’t see it.”
https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1700227198878130285
He was referring to NBC’s coverage noted that a number of Donald Trump’s allies are growing concerned that his lead in Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucuses isn’t built to last.
The outlet reported that Trump supporters are trying to beef up the campaign’s lean Iowa operation with more experienced hires. They are scrambling to fill roles handling regional political work around the state — jobs that “should have been filled six to eight months ago,” according to one Republican operative based in Iowa.
And they are preparing for months of battle against Republican presidential opponents who trail badly in the polls but have built better machinery to find and secure votes, according to interviews with a dozen sources including longtime Trump campaign allies, state and local officials in Iowa and GOP strategists.
The outlet reported that One Trump-supporting source who has worked in Iowa spoke out in an effort to spur change in the campaign, described a phone call with the former president’s son Donald Trump Jr. in which he worried about a lack of experience on the campaign’s Iowa team and said multiple times that they need “an adult in the room.”
Trump Jr. was concerned “that they were running from behind in getting things going, and that there was concern about that at the highest levels,” the source said, adding that “they were giving [Florida Gov. Ron] DeSantis too many opportunities.”
In response, Trump Jr. told NBC News, “As usual, this is 100% fake news, in what is likely the last breath from the dying Ron DeSanctimonious campaign.”
The stakes in Iowa are clear. If Trump wins the first contest of 2024, where he starts with a strong polling lead in what was one of his weaker states in 2016, his rivals may not be able to stop him steamrolling through the rest of the nominating process. But demonstrating Trump’s vulnerability early could open a window to defeating him — which is among the big reasons DeSantis, still Trump’s closest rival in polls, is digging into Iowa while cutting back operations elsewhere.
