Trump adviser Barry Bennett during an interview in Alexandria, Va., last fall. (Photo: Yuri Gripas/Reuters)



Donald Trump’s senior campaign adviser is urging the Republican frontrunner and his top staffers to ignore the political observers who say the real estate mogul’s tumultuous week will ultimately derail his presidential bid.

“America is sick of them,” Barry Bennett wrote in an internal memo obtained by the Washington Post. “Their idiotic attacks just remind voters why they hate the Washington Establishment.”

“So this week the Media and the Washington Establishment bashed the campaign with energy yet ever seen against a Republican candidate,” Bennett wrote in the April 2 memo addressed to Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski “and Team” and titled “Digging Through the Bull S***.”

Bennett’s memo (Washington Post)



“You name the medium and it was dominated with Trump Attacks,” Bennett continued. “The media themselves couldn’t wait to label the week, ‘THE WORST WEEK EVER.’ DC Pundits scurried to the networks to proclaim the end was at hand for Donald Trump. Yet another pathetic display by the so called experts who line their pockets at the expense of our candidates and causes.”

Bennett concluded with a handy scorecard:





Donald Trump 1

Washington Establishment/Media 0



Over the weekend, Bennett, who formerly served as Ben Carson’s campaign manager, dismissed the notion that the Trump campaign was in damage-control mode.

As he had in his memo, Bennett pointed to Reuters polling data that shows the real estate mogul has expanded his national lead over Texas Sen. Ted Cruz by 6 percentage points.

“So it turns out our worst week ever was a pretty good week,” he said on Sunday in an appearance on MSNBC.

On Friday, Bennett told Yahoo News that Team Trump “always assumed that we would lose Wisconsin.”

But in an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Monday, Bennett insisted the race in Wisconsin — where Cruz leads Trump by 10 points, according to one recent poll — is getting tighter.

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“It’s been tightening,” Bennett said, predicting that Trump would “win some” of the state’s 42 GOP delegates.

Trump himself tried to turn the page on his “worst week” in a pair of interviews on Sunday.

“I don’t know that it’s been the worst week of my campaign,” he said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” “I think I’ve had many bad weeks and I’ve had many good weeks. I don’t see this as the worst week in my campaign.”

On “Fox News Sunday,” host Chris Wallace asked Trump if he was self-imploding.

“This may sound harsh,” Wallace said, “but are you in the process of blowing your campaign for president?”

“I don’t think so,” Trump replied. “I think I’m doing very well. Was this my best week? I guess not.”