THE ART OF WAR MEETS THE ART OF THE DEAL: Rush, Farah explain Trump’s victim strategy. [archive] Rush Limbaugh said, “You know what we have here? Trump and Colorado is a classic lesson in winning by losing. How to win by losing.”

[Joseph Farah wrote,] “All the analysts seem to be persuaded that Donald Trump doesn’t understand the Republican Party rules that cost him some delegates in Colorado . . . But what if Donald Trump, the master negotiator, the brilliant media tactician, the unparalleled manipulator of public opinion, DID know all about the rules? What if he didn’t bother going after those delegates because he knew it would benefit him more profoundly if he didn’t – turning what was perceived by his supporters and the general public unfamiliar with the arcane rules of the GOP into a national cause célèbre that would help his campaign steamroll over the competition in upcoming primaries in New York, Maryland, California and elsewhere?” . . .

[Limbaugh said,] “It is apparent to me now that the Trump campaign was fully aware that they were gonna lose Colorado this way and had found and discovered a way to turn that to their advantage by claiming that Colorado had cheated, by claiming that Colorado was disenfranchising people, by claiming that Colorado was gonna have a vote and then changed their mind . . . But there never was a plan to vote. . . . Trump waited ’til after Colorado to exploit the fact that there was not an election there, and it helped his point if he lost.”

As Farah asked, “Am I the only one who thinks Donald Trump didn’t earn $9 billion by being stupid?”