Trump Did Not Follow Adviser’s Plan

In a 13-page memo to Donald Trump, Roger Stone urged him to state that “the system is rigged against the citizens” and that he is the lone candidate “who cannot be bought,” the Washington Post reports.

“But Trump did not heed the advice. Instead, after briefly flipping through the papers, he decided to wing it — just as he had vowed to do. In a debate watched by a cable-news-record 24 million Americans, Trump followed his gut, and the theater that followed was defined more by outbursts than by substance — most memorably when he sparred with moderator Megyn Kelly over his past incendiary comments about wom­en.”