Trump And CNN Hosting Veteran’s Event Tonight At The Same Time As The Debate

If there’s one thing the man knows how to do, it’s work the media. And he’s working it, all right.

Tonight, instead of being on the debate stage hosted by FOX, Trump is going to be hosting a veteran’s event, and CNN has picked that up. Because of course they have. Trump’s campaign folks have also invited “all major networks” to carry the event live.

Because of course they’ve done that, too. And I wouldn’t be surprised at all if more networks took them up on it.

According to Breitbart and a statement from Trump’s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski on Wednesday:

“As you know we just put out a statement that says Mr. Trump is going to be at Drake University tomorrow night at 9 p.m. eastern and we’re going to raise money for the veterans of our great country who are treated like third-rate citizens,” Lewandowski told Burnett. “We’ve got a full program. We’ve got hundreds of media credentialed people who are going to be there to hopefully cover Mr. Trump’s event. We’ll take care of our veterans because our country isn’t doing that. The VA is a disaster and it’s time to put those people first so that is what we’ll be doing tomorrow night at 9 p.m. eastern as opposed to participating in the Fox News debate.”

“It’s open the media and obviously as all of Mr. Trump’s speeches are if the networks choose to come and cover that we obviously would welcome that opportunity,” Lewandowski said. “It’s open. If they want to live feed or live stream that, they’re welcome to do that as they do many of his speeches. And I hope they will do that because I think the American people are going to look at that Fox News debate with that series of career politicians on that stage and say ‘you know what? This is not what we want. We want a leader. We want someone who is going to fix this.’ So why bother watching a debate which is all politicians who are all talk no action. ‘We’d rather watch a real leader in Donald Trump and what he’s going to talk about.”

And there you have it.

Let the games begin.

(PS – who’s going to be watching Netflix?)