Eli Lake, Columnist

'A Lot of People Are Saying' Trump Is a Democratic Party Plant

An outlandish claim? Of course. But not by the Republican nominee's standards.

August 15, 2016 at 4:29 PM UTC

Eli Lake is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering national security and foreign policy. He was the senior national security correspondent for the Daily Beast and covered national security and intelligence for the Washington Times, the New York Sun and UPI.

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How would Donald Trump assess Donald Trump's candidacy? As he might put it: A lot of people are saying his campaign is an operation on behalf of the Democratic Party to destroy the Republicans.

"A lot of people are saying"? That's not a very high evidentiary standard. What else?