Eh, I dunno. Every schoolchild learns where President Obama lives. That's not a threat. Trump lives in Trump Tower - he talks about it in his books. Publishing his books isn't a threat. It becomes a threat in
context, a context that was definitely there for both the delegates in Colorado, and Roger Stones' threat to release the hotel names and room numbers of delegates in Cleveland.
What? No they didn't.
1. You don't have a right to vote in a GOP Primary election - that's why (for example) they can limit it to Registered Republicans (which they did). The GOP
could choose their Presidential candidate via coin tosses, straw polls, or cage-match fighting if it wanted to, it's a private organization.
2. That being said, the people of Colorado
did vote, they simply voted in caucuses at the precinct level rather than at the State level. Caucuses are more resource and organization intensive, and you have to have a plan. Trump, apparently, had no idea that the race was a caucus, had no organization, and had no plan. He
fired the guy who was supposed to be rounding up delegates for him
the day before the vote. The campaign
in some cases didn't even pay the fee to put a delegate on the ballot. Astonishingly, having failed to pay to be on the ballot, and then having failed to actually show up to do the work of trying to convince their fellow voters to vote for them in the caucus, Trump's "delegates" (when and where they existed) did badly.
Furthermore, all of this was laid out in public last
August. The Caucus System in Colorado is laid out in the
publicly available and easily web-searchable Party Rules.
In short - winning a caucus requires more management and planning, especially when that caucus is not for a presidential candidate, but for unbound delegates (as Colorado's are, and have been).
Did the Trump campaign do the hard work of
actually bothering to google the rules and realize that maybe they should do some state organizing? No they did not. In fact,
Trump’s campaign didn’t put a visible paid staffer on the ground in Colorado until last week, when it hired Patrick Davis, a Colorado Springs political consultant, to organize national delegate candidates at the 7th Congressional District convention in Arvada. By then, Cruz had won the first six delegates. Cruz went personally to appeal to the voters and the delegates. Trump skipped the state.
Trump failed to plan, and he failed at management, and so when he lost, he blamed "The System" and "Cheating". That he still managed to pick up 7 alternate delegates is a testament to the sheer stick-to-it-tive-ness of his local supporters, because the campaign effectively abandoned them.