Michael Moore Knows ‘For a Fact’ Donald Trump Ran for President to Fleece NBC

Michael Moore may have just dropped a massive bombshell in the form of a blog post titled “Is Donald Trump Purposely Sabotaging His Campaign?”

In it the Oscar-winning documentarist says the answer is an emphatic “Yes.”

Moore claims this is not just an opinion but a fact, one he’s been able to corroborate using several sources — though he won’t say who they are. The director is essentially claiming Trump only embarked on his presidential bid for one reason: Squeezing more money from NBC ahead of his “Celebrity Apprentice” contract renegotiations.

“I know this for a fact,” Moore writes. “There are certain people reading this right now, they know who they are, and they know that every word in the following paragraphs actually happened.”

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Moore goes on to say that Trump was “unhappy” with his NBC deal, only descending Trump Tower’s golden escalator in June of 2015 to create leverage. But, according to Moore, Trump “knew, as the self-proclaimed king of the dealmakers, that saying you’re going to do something is bupkis — DOING it is what makes the bastards sit up and pay attention.”

Moore continues: “With no prepared script, he went off the rails at his kick-off press conference, calling Mexicans ‘rapists’ and ‘drug dealers’ and pledging to build a wall to keep them all out. Jaws in the room were agape. His comments were so offensive, NBC, far from offering him a bigger paycheck, immediately fired him with this terse statement: ‘Due to the recent derogatory statements by Donald Trump regarding immigrants, NBCUniversal is ending its business relationship with Mr. Trump.'”

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Moore argues that Trump was “stunned” by NBC’s response but decided to press on anyway.

“And then something happened,” Moore writes. “Trump, to his own surprise, ignited the country, especially among people who were the opposite of billionaires. He went straight to #1 in the polls of Republican voters. Up to 30,000 boisterous supporters started showing up to his rallies. TV ate it up.”

He ends his essay arguing that Trump has been deliberately tanking his campaign in recent weeks because, let’s face it, being POTUS is hard.

“The job of being president is WORK and BORING and you have to live in the GHETTO of Washington, DC, in a small 200-year-old house that’s damp and dreary and has only two floors!” Moore wrote.

“Many now are sensing the end game here because they know Trump seriously doesn’t want to do the actual job — and, most importantly, he cannot and WILL NOT suffer through being officially and legally declared a loser — LOSER! — on the night of November 8th.”

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Always helpful, Moore has this postscript for the GOP candidate:

“Don, if you’re reading this, do it soon. Give your pathetic party a chance to pick up the pieces and nominate Ryan or Romney so they can be the ones to lose the White House, the Senate, the House and yes, praise Jesus and the Notorious RBG, the Supreme Court. Don’t be too hard on yourself. You’re only the logical conclusion to a party that has lived off the currency of racism and bigotry and fellating the 1% for decades, and now their Trump has come home to roost.”

You can read the entire post here.

15 Republicans Who Won't Be Voting for Donald Trump (Photos)

• While many major Republican figures like Mitch McConnell and John Boehner have towed the party line and pledged their support to Donald Trump, there are some who refuse to back him -- even if it means that Hillary Clinton will become the next President. Here are some notable names who see Trump as an opponent to conservative values.

• Sen. Ted Cruz was booed off the stage at the Republican National Convention when he did not endorse Trump in his speech. “Don’t stay home in November," he said. "Stand and speak and vote your conscience, vote for candidates up and down the ticket who you trust to defend our freedom and to be faithful to the Constitution.”

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• Sen. Lindsey Graham has been one of the most outspoken conservative critics of Trump, calling frequently on fellow Republicans to pull their support for him. Following Trump's derogatory comments against Judge Gonzalo Curiel, Graham said that at some point "there’ll come a time when the love of country will trump hatred of Hillary."

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• 2012 Republican candidate Mitt Romney has also been an early voice of dissent, telling the Wall Street Journal that he thinks Trump has "a character and temperament unfit for the leader of the free world."

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• While his brother and father have refrained from comment on Trump, Jeb Bush has continued his crusade against Donald even after losing to him in the primary. In a Washington Post column, Bush said he will not vote for Clinton or Trump and declared that "Trump’s abrasive, Know Nothing-like nativist rhetoric has blocked out sober discourse about how to tackle America’s big challenges."

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• Jeb Bush's mother and former first lady, Barbara Bush, also spoke out against Trump, telling CBS how she didn't understand how women could vote for him after his comments against Megyn Kelly.

• One of Jeb Bush's aides, Sally Bradshaw, was so disgusted by Trump that she decided to leave the Republican Party all together. "Ultimately, I could not abide the hateful rhetoric of Donald Trump and his complete lack of principles and conservative philosophy," she told CNN. "If and when the party regains its sanity, I’ll be ready to return."

• During the primary, former Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman made it quite clear how he views Donald Trump in a Minneapolis Star-Tribune column: "I won't vote for Donald Trump because of who he isn't. He isn't a Republican. He isn't a conservative. He isn't a truth teller. He's not a uniter ... I also won't vote for Donald Trump because of who he is. A bigot. A misogynist. A fraud. A bully."

• Glenn Beck, a staunch Cruz supporter during the primary, has not joined other pundits like Sean Hannity on the Trump bandwagon. "Donald Trump is the face of the GOP. Well, that makes us crony capitalists. It makes us wafflers. It makes us pretty racist,” Beck said on his show in May. “It makes us big government guys. Just, you name it -- it makes us that.”

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• In August, The Weekly Standard's Bill Kristol got into a heated debate on CNN with conservative commentator Kayleigh McEnany over Trump. "You're supporting a man who is utterly unfit to be President of the United States," Kristol said. "For a second in your personal life you would not tolerate him. A bully, a man of genuinely bad character!"

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• Erick Erickson, editor of right-wing site The Resurgent, had this to say about Trump and his supporters: "This is not a game. This is not team sport. This is about the future of the country. If Donald Trump was unfit last month, two months ago, or last September to be placed in front of the nuclear button, he is unfit this month, next month, and in November."

• At a luncheon for the Federalist Society in June, Washington Post conservative columnist George Will said that he will no longer be registered as a Republican following Trump's nomination. "This is not my party," he said, noting that Paul Ryan's endorsement of Trump was a factor in his decision to leave.

• Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker says he will not vote for Trump or Clinton. In February, while voicing his support for Chris Christie during the primaries, Baker had this to say about Trump: "I think there’s a certain temperament and a certain collaborative nature that’s fundamental to somebody’s ability to succeed in government, and I question whether he has the temperament and the sense of purpose that’s associated with delivering on that."

• Former CIA and NSA head Michael Hayden was one of four Republican national security officials who signed a letter in August declaring they would not vote for Donald Trump, claiming he would "put at-risk our country's national security and well-being."

• Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk, whose seat is up for grabs in November and is pictured right, was the first sitting GOP senator to pull his support of Trump. He has said that he will vote for a write-in candidate, though he hasn't decided who that would be. He has previously said he would write in David Petraeus and Colin Powell for his vote.

• While Paul Ryan has rescinded his opposition to Trump, another Wisconsin Republican, Rep. Reid Ribble, said he "would not compromise principle for a party." When asked what he would say to Ryan about his endorsement, Ribble said that "he needs to make sure that his own principles and convictions" hold true, because after this is over, "you have only got that."

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From Jeb Bush to Glenn Beck, the Trump campaign has prompted many right-wing politicians and pundits to break rank with the GOP

While many major Republican figures like Mitch McConnell and John Boehner have towed the party line and pledged their support to Donald Trump, there are some who refuse to back him -- even if it means that Hillary Clinton will become the next President. Here are some notable names who see Trump as an opponent to conservative values.

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