It's not complicated. They're white & from the deep south. Just like NASCAR drivers.
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It's not complicated. They're white & from the deep south. Just like NASCAR drivers.
His rationale is that he's got a lot of skeletons in the closet which he doesn't want people to find out. He's likely not worth as much as he claims. That's almost a fact. He likely doesn't give as much to charity as he boasts. He likely has dealings with questionable governments/rogue countries. He also may not have paid much taxes. Or all of the above.
Donald Trump will never release his taxes, although he once promised to (when he didn't believe he'd ever win the GOP nomination). He doesn't want people to realize how much of a scumbag he is if they ever wind up seeing his income tax statements. He's deeply hurting the Republican party and it's likely already too late for the GOP to ever unite. Once Trump loses, his followers will leave the party and follow him as a non-existent third party. The Trump Party. And when you think about it, the Trump Party was already in motion at the recent GOP convention. The only Republican speaker at the party was Ted Cruz, and we know how it turned out. The rest were Trump cronies and Trump kids.
Because they're white Southerners?????????????????????????????????????????? C'mon. Then how is Trump in trouble in Florida, North Carolina, and Virginia and probably with less than the usual Red State support elsewhere. They're often very Conservative, Evangelicals, anti-government, anti-taxes, and a lot of other things that put them against Clinton. I'm sure they feel as STUCK with Trump that many others feel.
As I posted before, strong indications show Trump may have not paid taxes at all for many years out of the last 30. The last 5 years for certain, and 2 or 3 more years that can be proven. It's simply a bigger embarrassment not to have paid than to fail to report. As we know Trump it my only be he doesn't have a rationale and simply refuses to.
Many people don't understand it's not "We The People" who have the final vote, it's the electors apportioned to the number of people in each state. It's very rare when an elector goes against the state voters choice but it happens. I've heard as many as 2 electors nationally have not gone as their state voted in one election but no election this century has been that close. But it is interesting and illuminating how the Republican electors have such doubts about Trump.
As for Clinton's lead in New York, the state along with California, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maryland, Oregon, and Washington are among the most BLUE of all states. So it's not very telling when Clinton has a wide lead in New York, except that Trump's support is even worse than it was for Romney and McCain.
Poll: Clinton Maintains Big Lead as Voters Doubt Trump's Temperament
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/fir...n-has-owned-airwaves-general-election-n631706
The gist of this is voter believe Trump is slightly more honest, but far more unstable. A kook is more honest about what they think but still a kook in the first place.
Trump shakes up campaign team
Trump critics scoff at campaign shuffle
Republicans and Democrats alike dismiss the idea that Trump will change — 'Trump is Trump.'
By Nick Gass, Politico
Donald Trump’s critics on both sides of the aisle scoffed at the shakeup of his top aides, arguing the Manhattan businessman needs to take a long, hard look in the mirror to figure out the root cause of his woes.
For weeks, Trump has been hit with tanking poll numbers, distracted by political opponents not named Hillary Clinton and staring down the distinct possibility that his last 14 months could all have been for naught. With Stephen Bannon, the brash and bare-knuckled executive of Breitbart News, coming on as Trump's campaign CEO and chief pollster Kellyanne Conway boosted to the role of campaign manager, the Manhattan businessman vowed to "do whatever it takes to win this election."
The announcement came hours after a well-received policy speech in Wisconsin in which he trained his "law and order" message onto the ongoing unrest in the Milwaukee area following another police-involved shooting, while accusing Clinton and the Democratic Party of "bigotry" toward African-Americans. And, as the Trump campaign blasted out in an early-morning announcement email, the move comes as he rolls out his first general election TV ads later this week, promising "additional top-flight operatives joining the movement on a near-daily basis."
Noted Never Trump critic Bill Kristol mocked the notion that Trump's gambit would pay off in the long run.
"I don’t think it matters because the problem is Donald Trump," the Weekly Standard editor told MSNBC's "Morning Joe." "You know, his unfavorable rating has been consistently too high to win a presidential election. Hillary Clinton’s, you would normally say is too high, but it’s about 10 points lower than Trump’s."
In an ordinary election where a candidate from the party of the incumbent president is treading water in terms of public approval, Republicans would generally be ahead at this point, Kristol said, while acknowledging that he could still see Trump ultimately prevailing.
Mike Murphy, the former head of Jeb Bush’s super PAC, said he was “dubious” the shakeup means Trump’s serious about changing his ways.
“You know, we've been through a couple of these. And we've got plenty of time left,” Murphy said on MSNBC. “Could Trump change? Maybe. But he's Trump. It's unlikely. Like, my Labrador could walk up to the piano and start playing. Not going to bet on it. Trump is Trump."
Paul Begala, the senior adviser to the pro-Clinton super PAC Priorities USA, also said the campaign can shuffle around advisers all it wants — it won’t make such of a difference.
"It's the candidate, stupid," Begala remarked, borrowing a phrase from Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign, on which he served as chief strategist.
Begala also compared Trump's moves to rearranging the deck chairs on the fated Titanic.
And given the Breitbart's reputation for viciously attacking the Republican establishment, there are concerns on Capitol Hill and beyond that Trump’s decision to hire Bannon may turn off some GOP allies once and for all. The grief was already starting to emerge on Wednesday, with one senior Republican aide told POLITICO, “If the underlying thinking with the move is to better enable Donald being Donald, he is toast."
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), who has drawn no shortage of negative coverage from Breitbart, has remained silent so far. But Ryan spokesman Brendan Buck suggested Wednesday that he, if not his boss, were barely holding their tongues.
“I have shelved so many hot takes this morning I can’t even tell you,” Buck tweeted.
Trump campaign team shuffle
Doc Holliday says: "I agree with most of the critics that the shake-up won't help the candidate much. Trump is the problem, and Trump is and will always be Trump. His unlikeability numbers are so high that he doesn't stand a chance of getting elected. None of the blacks will vote for him, the large majority of women won't vote for him, the majority of hispanics won't vote for him, and only 20% of white voters under the age of 35 will vote for him. All he has left are white middle-class men over the age of 35, the bigots and the racists from the deep south. It's not a winning formula.
It also wouldn't surprise me to learn that Paul Manafort was the one who asked to leave the campaign and not the other way around. Trump's insistence on hiring the serial sexual predator and former Fox News chief Roger Ailes might have been the last straw. There had been rumblings for the past couple of weeks that Trump campaign officials had grown exasperated with Trump and were getting tired of working for a failing campaign that was looking more and more like it had no chance to win. In other words, Trump was out of control and why should they bother to stay on if they could no longer control him and his sinking ship?"
Trump critics scoff at campaign shuffle
Republicans and Democrats alike dismiss the idea that Trump will change — 'Trump is Trump.'
By Nick Gass, Politico
Donald Trump’s critics on both sides of the aisle scoffed at the shakeup of his top aides, arguing the Manhattan businessman needs to take a long, hard look in the mirror to figure out the root cause of his woes.
For weeks, Trump has been hit with tanking poll numbers, distracted by political opponents not named Hillary Clinton and staring down the distinct possibility that his last 14 months could all have been for naught. With Stephen Bannon, the brash and bare-knuckled executive of Breitbart News, coming on as Trump's campaign CEO and chief pollster Kellyanne Conway boosted to the role of campaign manager, the Manhattan businessman vowed to "do whatever it takes to win this election."
The announcement came hours after a well-received policy speech in Wisconsin in which he trained his "law and order" message onto the ongoing unrest in the Milwaukee area following another police-involved shooting, while accusing Clinton and the Democratic Party of "bigotry" toward African-Americans. And, as the Trump campaign blasted out in an early-morning announcement email, the move comes as he rolls out his first general election TV ads later this week, promising "additional top-flight operatives joining the movement on a near-daily basis."
Noted Never Trump critic Bill Kristol mocked the notion that Trump's gambit would pay off in the long run.
"I don’t think it matters because the problem is Donald Trump," the Weekly Standard editor told MSNBC's "Morning Joe." "You know, his unfavorable rating has been consistently too high to win a presidential election. Hillary Clinton’s, you would normally say is too high, but it’s about 10 points lower than Trump’s."
In an ordinary election where a candidate from the party of the incumbent president is treading water in terms of public approval, Republicans would generally be ahead at this point, Kristol said, while acknowledging that he could still see Trump ultimately prevailing.
Mike Murphy, the former head of Jeb Bush’s super PAC, said he was “dubious” the shakeup means Trump’s serious about changing his ways.
“You know, we've been through a couple of these. And we've got plenty of time left,” Murphy said on MSNBC. “Could Trump change? Maybe. But he's Trump. It's unlikely. Like, my Labrador could walk up to the piano and start playing. Not going to bet on it. Trump is Trump."
Paul Begala, the senior adviser to the pro-Clinton super PAC Priorities USA, also said the campaign can shuffle around advisers all it wants — it won’t make such of a difference.
"It's the candidate, stupid," Begala remarked, borrowing a phrase from Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign, on which he served as chief strategist.
Begala also compared Trump's moves to rearranging the deck chairs on the fated Titanic.
And given the Breitbart's reputation for viciously attacking the Republican establishment, there are concerns on Capitol Hill and beyond that Trump’s decision to hire Bannon may turn off some GOP allies once and for all. The grief was already starting to emerge on Wednesday, with one senior Republican aide told POLITICO, “If the underlying thinking with the move is to better enable Donald being Donald, he is toast."
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), who has drawn no shortage of negative coverage from Breitbart, has remained silent so far. But Ryan spokesman Brendan Buck suggested Wednesday that he, if not his boss, were barely holding their tongues.
“I have shelved so many hot takes this morning I can’t even tell you,” Buck tweeted.
Trump campaign team shuffle
Doc Holliday says: "I agree with most of the critics that the shake-up won't help the candidate much. Trump is the problem, and Trump is and will always be Trump. His unlikeability numbers are so high that he doesn't stand a chance of getting elected. None of the blacks will vote for him, the large majority of women won't vote for him, the majority of hispanics won't vote for him, and only 20% of white voters under the age of 35 will vote for him. All he has left are white middle-class men over the age of 35, the bigots and the racists from the deep south. It's not a winning formula.
It also wouldn't surprise me to learn that Paul Manafort was the one who asked to leave the campaign and not the other way around. Trump's insistence on hiring the serial sexual predator and former Fox News chief Roger Ailes might have been the last straw. There had been rumblings for the past couple of weeks that Trump campaign officials had grown exasperated with Trump and were getting tired of working for a failing campaign that was looking more and more like it had no chance to win. In other words, Trump was out of control and why should they bother to stay on if they could no longer control him and his sinking ship?"
Oh please!!!!!
There's a statue of a nude Donald Trump that showed up in Union Square today......not very flattering, i may say:
Nude statue of Donald Trump
There's a statue of a nude Donald Trump that showed up in Union Square today......not very flattering, i may say:
Nude statue of Donald Trump
I hear Stephen Bannon has been a big conspiracy theories promoter. Just what T'Dump needs, someone feeding him conspiracy scenarios to encourage him to go off even more on utterly crazy comments.
The naked statue of Trump is priceless. If you look carefully it seems he pissed down his own left leg. Fits how he's pissed all over himself in this campaign.
New polls currently show Clinton already has enough electors to win the election, and that's not counting the swing states.
Right now polls show Donald Trump losing every single swing state
http://www.vox.com/2016/8/15/12455240/donald-trump-polls-today
Donald Trump’s post-convention collapse has hurt him in the polls across the country. But it’s really hurt his numbers in some crucial swing states in particular — states that would be enough to give Hillary Clinton an Electoral College majority.
Now Trump is trailing in an average of post-convention poll results for every swing state from the past two cycles. That includes, of course, the traditional powerhouses of Florida and Ohio, where Clinton has taken single-digit leads.
But there are six states that have moved especiallydramatically in Clinton’s direction.
Four of these — Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and New Hampshire — have pretty consistently supported Democratic presidential candidates for decades, and are returning to old form despite speculation that Trump could put them in play this year.
There are another two — Virginia and Colorado — that appear to have transformed. They were solid Republican states in presidential years as recently as 2004. But Barack Obama won them twice, and Clinton is now leading in both by very comfortable double-digit margins.
If those six swing state leads hold up, they’ll be enough to give Clinton the presidency even if the national race tightens enough to let Trump win the old standbys of Ohio and Florida.
Clinton currently has very large leads in enough states to give her the presidency
Clinton starts off with a bloc of 201 votes or so that have always seemed to solidly be in her column (give or take one electoral vote from Maine’s second congressional district).
But then there’s a set of six more states where, since the convention, she’s consistently run up really big polling leads — 9 points or above, on average. So if she adds just those six states to her bloc and nothing else, she’ll win 273 electoral votes and therefore the presidency.
The naked statue of Trump is priceless. If you look carefully it seems he pissed down his own left leg. Fits how he's pissed all over himself in this campaign.
New polls currently show Clinton already has enough electors to win the election, and that's not counting the swing states.
Right now polls show Donald Trump losing every single swing state
http://www.vox.com/2016/8/15/12455240/donald-trump-polls-today
Donald Trump’s post-convention collapse has hurt him in the polls across the country. But it’s really hurt his numbers in some crucial swing states in particular — states that would be enough to give Hillary Clinton an Electoral College majority.
Now Trump is trailing in an average of post-convention poll results for every swing state from the past two cycles. That includes, of course, the traditional powerhouses of Florida and Ohio, where Clinton has taken single-digit leads.
But there are six states that have moved especiallydramatically in Clinton’s direction.
Four of these — Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and New Hampshire — have pretty consistently supported Democratic presidential candidates for decades, and are returning to old form despite speculation that Trump could put them in play this year.
There are another two — Virginia and Colorado — that appear to have transformed. They were solid Republican states in presidential years as recently as 2004. But Barack Obama won them twice, and Clinton is now leading in both by very comfortable double-digit margins.
If those six swing state leads hold up, they’ll be enough to give Clinton the presidency even if the national race tightens enough to let Trump win the old standbys of Ohio and Florida.
Clinton currently has very large leads in enough states to give her the presidency
Clinton starts off with a bloc of 201 votes or so that have always seemed to solidly be in her column (give or take one electoral vote from Maine’s second congressional district).
But then there’s a set of six more states where, since the convention, she’s consistently run up really big polling leads — 9 points or above, on average. So if she adds just those six states to her bloc and nothing else, she’ll win 273 electoral votes and therefore the presidency.
Paul Manafort resigns as Trump campaign chairman
I knew the claim he was staying on was just a sham. There's no way he would have stayed on knowing fully well he was being pushed away to make way for the likes of Steve Bannon, who heads one of the most radical right wing websites out there. Bannon has attacked the GOP as much as he's attacked Democrats. He has constantly attacked speaker Paul Ryan and went out of his way to attempt to make him lose his recent re-election in Wisconsin by backing a rival candidate. The GOP are not very happy at his hiring and neither are they happy with the recent hiring of serial sex predator and fallen Fox News creator Roger Ailes as an advisor. The optics are not very good considering Bannon is even more of a mysogyst than Trump ever will be, and Ailes' long history of sexually harassing women.
Expect the personal attacks against the Clinton family to increase and don't be surprised if the bigotry and racism increases. This is mind-boggling considering Trump needs to lure various demographic groups into his camps such as women, blacks, hispanics and others. Right now, only 20% of college/university-educated voters under the age of 35 are supporting him. The blacks are under 1%, something never seen in US politics. Only a small minority of women will vote for The Donald and the majority of hispanics will vote for anyone but Trump. Hiring the likes of Steve Bannon and Roger Ailes doesn't cut it. Neither will it impress women, blacks and hispanics.
Only the HMS Titanic sank quicker than The Donald's campaign. But what can i say? Trump didn't like the way he was told to behave and wanted someone more like him: racist, bigoted and mysogynist. Steve Bannon fits the bill perfection and will continue to expand the Trump message: more lies, more vitriol, more racist and bigoted statements....and more attacks towards women. Sad.
I knew the claim he was staying on was just a sham. There's no way he would have stayed on knowing fully well he was being pushed away to make way for the likes of Steve Bannon, who heads one of the most radical right wing websites out there. Bannon has attacked the GOP as much as he's attacked Democrats. He has constantly attacked speaker Paul Ryan and went out of his way to attempt to make him lose his recent re-election in Wisconsin by backing a rival candidate. The GOP are not very happy at his hiring and neither are they happy with the recent hiring of serial sex predator and fallen Fox News creator Roger Ailes as an advisor. The optics are not very good considering Bannon is even more of a mysogyst than Trump ever will be, and Ailes' long history of sexually harassing women.
Expect the personal attacks against the Clinton family to increase and don't be surprised if the bigotry and racism increases. This is mind-boggling considering Trump needs to lure various demographic groups into his camps such as women, blacks, hispanics and others. Right now, only 20% of college/university-educated voters under the age of 35 are supporting him. The blacks are under 1%, something never seen in US politics. Only a small minority of women will vote for The Donald and the majority of hispanics will vote for anyone but Trump. Hiring the likes of Steve Bannon and Roger Ailes doesn't cut it. Neither will it impress women, blacks and hispanics.
Only the HMS Titanic sank quicker than The Donald's campaign. But what can i say? Trump didn't like the way he was told to behave and wanted someone more like him: racist, bigoted and mysogynist. Steve Bannon fits the bill perfection and will continue to expand the Trump message: more lies, more vitriol, more racist and bigoted statements....and more attacks towards women. Sad.
I realize that there are many bad things to say about either of these two politicians but is there anything good to say about either of them. Even a short list if that is possible.
The following is true if you leave out your strong disagreement with or hate of her.
Clinton is stable and very rational.
She knows how to recognize good advice, listen, and learn from it.
She's got to be very skilled at handling herself in the face of endless serious attacks on her.
She's highly intelligent for the same reasons.
*** In one poll I saw people had a lot of negative things to say about Clinton as they did Trump. But the major difference was they all said he's very temperamental, scary, and DANGEROUS.
Personally, I buy she made big mistakes. Otherwise, those mistakes have been greatly exaggerated solely for political purposes. The email server stuff for instance, she has been excoriated for having a private server, neither G.W Bush or Jeb Bush have gotten a wiff of crap over theirs.
There's a lot anyone can say justifiably about Clinton's faults. However, there's a lot of people who obviously buy everything hook, line, and sinker the Republican smear machine puts out like drooling dogs, largely for hate's sake alone. On Benghazi especially. Presidents, cabinet members, and legislators make policy. How the situation actually gets carried out is not under their tactical control in the field at all. For example the Killing of Bin Laden. Obama said GO! After that everything is up to soldiers and commanders in the field doing the work. Failure or success is up to them. If every act was run by the President then FDR would be the greatest military commander ever. In case you missed it, he wasn't.
Cheers,
I doubt it could get any worse than the public finding out the pro-Putin former PM of Ukraine had been paying him millions of $$ as an 'advisor' to his government.
My guess is that there was no longer any room for him on the Trump rollercoaster once radical right winger Steve Bannon was hired to head the campaign. There were also grumblings today coming from the
Trump camp that he was actually forced out because Trump didn't like the fact Manafort spent weekends at his home on Martha's Vineyard.
There's no doubt the Trump side would prefer denying Manafort ditched them and would rather imply they forced him out. Expect more attacks from the Trump camp towards Manafort.
With Steve Bannon now running the clown show, it would't surprise me to see former KKK grand wizzard David Duke join the campaign.
p.s. What's with Trump recently addressing african americans at his rallies with nearly zero blacks in attendance?
GOP insiders: Trump's overhaul won't succeed
Roughly a third of Republican respondents say the addition of Bannon and promotion of Conway will make things worse.
By Steven Shepard, Politico
Donald Trump says this week’s dramatic campaign overhaul will put his presidential bid on the right path, but GOP leaders in key battleground states aren’t buying it.
Fewer than a third of Republican members of The POLITICO Caucus — a panel of activists, strategists and operatives in 11 key battleground states — believe Trump’s reshuffling will move the campaign in the right direction. Just as many, 31 percent, say the installation of Breitbart News executive Stephen Bannon as campaign CEO and pollster Kellyanne Conway as campaign manager, represent a turn for the worse.
“There is no way to right this ship,” said one New Hampshire Republican — who, like all respondents, completed the survey anonymously. “Changes in top staff this late in the game are always a sign that the campaign and candidate recognize that they are lost. In this case, they have gone from bad to worse. Campaigns do not need ‘CEOs,’ and pollsters are not qualified to manage presidential efforts. He is in a constant cycle of moving from one set of ‘yes men’ to another.”
Nearly a half-dozen GOP insiders compared the changes to “rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic” — a reference to Trump’s significant deficit in the polls.
A Virginia Republican made a similar analogy: “You can keep moving people in and out of the car, but so long as the drunk guy is driving it while blindfolded, the ride probably isn't going to get any smoother.”
In fact, a slight plurality of Republicans, 37 percent, said they weren’t sure whether the changes would move the campaign in the right or wrong directions. For most of those insiders, Trump’s difficulties begin and end at the top.
“The problem was never the organization, or obvious lack thereof. The problem has always been Donald,” said an Iowa Republican. “He lost the election the day he descended down the escalator. There is no pivot, no second act, and no path to the presidency that runs down the road of racism and incendiary intolerance. He chose that road when he chose birtherism, and it's a one-way route to ruin. How fitting that that final word associated with Trump, after all, will be ‘loser.’ ”
“No matter who he hires,” a Florida Republican added, “his Inner Voice runs the show.”
But some Republican insiders praised the moves. A North Carolina Republican called Bannon “a bomb-thrower” but with “good aim.”
“Installing a guy at the top whose motto is ‘Honey Badger don't give a f---’ won’t do much to reassure donors and establishment Republicans,” the Republican said. “But we’re way past that now. [Bannon] is an unconventional pick — but for this most unconventional of candidates, it makes sense.”
GOP insiders don't believe anything will change with Trump
Doc Holliday says: "I believe things will only get worse considering who's now leading the campaign. Paul Manafort wasn't perfect and had his faults, but at least he had a lot of experience running political campaigns. And things won't change because Trump is Trump, will always be Trump, and he's largely been the big problem with the entire campaign. The ship is sinking and sinking faster.
Roughly a third of Republican respondents say the addition of Bannon and promotion of Conway will make things worse.
By Steven Shepard, Politico
Donald Trump says this week’s dramatic campaign overhaul will put his presidential bid on the right path, but GOP leaders in key battleground states aren’t buying it.
Fewer than a third of Republican members of The POLITICO Caucus — a panel of activists, strategists and operatives in 11 key battleground states — believe Trump’s reshuffling will move the campaign in the right direction. Just as many, 31 percent, say the installation of Breitbart News executive Stephen Bannon as campaign CEO and pollster Kellyanne Conway as campaign manager, represent a turn for the worse.
“There is no way to right this ship,” said one New Hampshire Republican — who, like all respondents, completed the survey anonymously. “Changes in top staff this late in the game are always a sign that the campaign and candidate recognize that they are lost. In this case, they have gone from bad to worse. Campaigns do not need ‘CEOs,’ and pollsters are not qualified to manage presidential efforts. He is in a constant cycle of moving from one set of ‘yes men’ to another.”
Nearly a half-dozen GOP insiders compared the changes to “rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic” — a reference to Trump’s significant deficit in the polls.
A Virginia Republican made a similar analogy: “You can keep moving people in and out of the car, but so long as the drunk guy is driving it while blindfolded, the ride probably isn't going to get any smoother.”
In fact, a slight plurality of Republicans, 37 percent, said they weren’t sure whether the changes would move the campaign in the right or wrong directions. For most of those insiders, Trump’s difficulties begin and end at the top.
“The problem was never the organization, or obvious lack thereof. The problem has always been Donald,” said an Iowa Republican. “He lost the election the day he descended down the escalator. There is no pivot, no second act, and no path to the presidency that runs down the road of racism and incendiary intolerance. He chose that road when he chose birtherism, and it's a one-way route to ruin. How fitting that that final word associated with Trump, after all, will be ‘loser.’ ”
“No matter who he hires,” a Florida Republican added, “his Inner Voice runs the show.”
But some Republican insiders praised the moves. A North Carolina Republican called Bannon “a bomb-thrower” but with “good aim.”
“Installing a guy at the top whose motto is ‘Honey Badger don't give a f---’ won’t do much to reassure donors and establishment Republicans,” the Republican said. “But we’re way past that now. [Bannon] is an unconventional pick — but for this most unconventional of candidates, it makes sense.”
GOP insiders don't believe anything will change with Trump
Doc Holliday says: "I believe things will only get worse considering who's now leading the campaign. Paul Manafort wasn't perfect and had his faults, but at least he had a lot of experience running political campaigns. And things won't change because Trump is Trump, will always be Trump, and he's largely been the big problem with the entire campaign. The ship is sinking and sinking faster.
TRUMP'S INTEREST IN THE PRESIDENCY REVEALED?
Complex heavy debts of at least $2.65 billion could be resolved by Presidential appointments.
Trump’s Empire: A Maze of Debts and Opaque Ties
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/us/politics/donald-trump-debt.html
On the campaign trail, Donald J. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, has sold himself as a businessman who has made billions of dollars and is beholden to no one.
But an investigation by The New York Times into the financial maze of Mr. Trump’s real estate holdings in the United States reveals that companies he owns have at least $650 million in debt — twice the amount that can be gleaned from public filings he has made as part of his bid for the White House. The Times’s inquiry also found that Mr. Trump’s fortunes depend deeply on a wide array of financial backers, including one he has cited in attacks during his campaign.
continued...
As president, Mr. Trump would have substantial sway over monetary and tax policy, as well as the power to make appointments that would directly affect his own financial empire. He would also wield influence over legislative issues that could have a significant impact on his net worth, and would have official dealings with countries in which he has business interests.
continued...
Beyond finding that companies owned by Mr. Trump had debts of at least $650 million, The Times discovered that a substantial portion of his wealth is tied up in three passive partnerships that owe an additional $2 billion to a string of lenders, including those that hold the loan on the Avenue of the Americas building. If those loans were to go into default, Mr. Trump might not be held personally liable, but the value of his investments would sink.
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Complex heavy debts of at least $2.65 billion could be resolved by Presidential appointments.
Trump’s Empire: A Maze of Debts and Opaque Ties
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/us/politics/donald-trump-debt.html
On the campaign trail, Donald J. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, has sold himself as a businessman who has made billions of dollars and is beholden to no one.
But an investigation by The New York Times into the financial maze of Mr. Trump’s real estate holdings in the United States reveals that companies he owns have at least $650 million in debt — twice the amount that can be gleaned from public filings he has made as part of his bid for the White House. The Times’s inquiry also found that Mr. Trump’s fortunes depend deeply on a wide array of financial backers, including one he has cited in attacks during his campaign.
continued...
As president, Mr. Trump would have substantial sway over monetary and tax policy, as well as the power to make appointments that would directly affect his own financial empire. He would also wield influence over legislative issues that could have a significant impact on his net worth, and would have official dealings with countries in which he has business interests.
continued...
Beyond finding that companies owned by Mr. Trump had debts of at least $650 million, The Times discovered that a substantial portion of his wealth is tied up in three passive partnerships that owe an additional $2 billion to a string of lenders, including those that hold the loan on the Avenue of the Americas building. If those loans were to go into default, Mr. Trump might not be held personally liable, but the value of his investments would sink.
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It may be difficult to come up with anything positive to say about Trump and his record. The more his business dealings are investigated, the more fraudulent they appear. But there are plenty of good things to say about Hillary. It's important to look beyond the Republican attacks on her (many of which are simply nuts) promoted by an irresponsible right-wing media campaign, and consider the actual record. She is, to many, a flawed candidate with a penchant for unnecessary exaggerations and inventions, and her ties to big money and Wall Street is disturbing to some. But regardless of whether or not you agree with her political positions, she has a formidable record of public service. She spent years promoting family and children's law; her record in the senate for eight years was serious and respected; and her work as secretary of state offers many accomplishments. While Trump has no experience with governance and apparently little understanding of world affairs, Hillary has one of the stronger records of service among presidential candidate in years.
I understand that people don't like her, and certainly that they don't like her policies; and I wish that she didn't create unforced errors. But, really, the Republican attacks are ludicrously out of proportion to reality and history. I don't consider myself a particularly enthusiastic Hillary supporter; I would much rather have someone bring new ideas and new blood to the white house. But she is certainly qualified and has many accomplishments to her name.
Rise of Donald Tramp is the best thing that could ever happen to Hilary. Considering her unlikable personality she would have an extremely hard time to compete against any “real” republican candidate. Is this Trump phenomenon just purely accidental? May be not, considering a very cozy relationship between Tramp and Clinton clans before election and no connection of Trump to Republican Party before elections. I have strong impression that Donald just plays the role of a spoiler and has no real intention to be elected. However, watch him to make billions on infrastructure projects that Hillary will initiate after she is elected.
Trump's true reasons of seeking the presidency are become more & more obvious as time goes on. But why am i even surprised that the reasons are mostly financial?
Before Chris Christy became governor of New Jersey, Trump's casinos owed the state $30 million, which they refused to pay. They were sued by the state. And then, the moment his good buddy Christy became governor, a deal was made and Trump wound up paying only $5 million in taxes. In other words, the state and its tax payers got screwed by Trump once again. Here's the story:
Trump tax debt reduced once Chris Christy took office
Donald Trump is an awful businessman. He's a con artist and a mega bullshitter. We've learned that he owes a massive debt to a Chinese bank. This is equally massive leverage for the Chinese over Trump if he ever becomes President. They'd have him at their mercy. People wonder why many of his financial debts are to foreign banks. The reason is that he can no longer get loans in the States because of his unstable financial situation. Sure, he has a lot of assets. But he also has a whole lot of debt. And that's just one of the many reasons why he'll never release his taxes. Especially now when it looks he'll lose the election in a landslide. With the election likely lost already, why should he bother exposing himself more by releasing his income tax?
Another reason may be that he'd be incriminating himself if the government and other tax experts get to have a better look at his tax reports. My opinion is that he's hiding a lot of stuff and belongs in jail.
The guy is simply a bad guy. He's smeared and attacked everyone who he perceives as an enemy or whom he doesn't recognize as an equal. He lies all the time.....fact-checking has proven that he lies 79% of the time he opens his mouth. And this is a guy whom many regard as a truth teller who tells it like it is?? Please!!!!!
Hillary Rodham Clinton isn't perfect. No one is, including all of us. But she's more than qualified to become President. She was a great Secretary of State and even Donald Trump once praised her about this. She was a great First Lady. She's surrounded by political geniuses and advisors. The Benghazi thing was in reality a very minor thing & she was cleared of wrongdoing. It was nothing but a political witch hunt from the Right because she happened to be running for the presidency. Same thing with the whole email bullshit. She wasn't the first government official or Secretary of State to use such a system (and former Secretary of State Collin Powell even suggested she use such a system) and had she not run for President, we would never have heard about it.
Many who have a negative impression of her have been drinking the right's kool-aid. They believe all the lies and smears about her. But even if true (and it ain't), she's still a much safer bet that Donald Trump, who potentially could be the world's most dangerous person should he ever manage to win the Presidency. There's nothing good about this guy. He's a bad man. A very, very bad man. Were i a religious person (i'm not!!), i'd say that this guy is going straight to hell. And there is quite a history of mental illness in the family. His father suffered from dementia/alzheimers at Donald's current age. From my personal observation, he already suffers from a form of dementia. But that's another story.
But i get it. He's very popular among angry white middle-class men over the age of 35 with no college/university education. He's very popular among the right wing's fringe....the wingnuts. I get that. He's also very popular among bigots and racists... aka 'white supramacists'.....i get that. He's told them what they've wanted to hear. He's made them feel like he's one of them. I get that. I also get that many in the struggling middle class might take a liking to him because he's also told them that life will be great under his presidency and they'll be wealthy again......i get this because they've failed to do their homework and don't realize what a gigantic lying bullshit con artist this guy is and he's in reality a failed businessman who has faced thousands of lawsuits from disgruntled contractors, workers and former tenants, among others. The government even once sued him for racial profiling. And believe it or not, his ex-wife Ivana once accused him of once brutally raping her. I kid you not! This guy is a world-class scumbag and it shouldn't be a surprise he's in love with some of the world's most brutal dictators. He has a lot in common with these sociopaths.
Were I an American, i'd vote for Mickey Mouse instead of voting for Trump. Yes, even if i'd be a Republican. My love for my country trumps everything else. I'd do it for the love of my country, and my fellow Americans. And most important, my love for the world as a whole.
Before Chris Christy became governor of New Jersey, Trump's casinos owed the state $30 million, which they refused to pay. They were sued by the state. And then, the moment his good buddy Christy became governor, a deal was made and Trump wound up paying only $5 million in taxes. In other words, the state and its tax payers got screwed by Trump once again. Here's the story:
Trump tax debt reduced once Chris Christy took office
Donald Trump is an awful businessman. He's a con artist and a mega bullshitter. We've learned that he owes a massive debt to a Chinese bank. This is equally massive leverage for the Chinese over Trump if he ever becomes President. They'd have him at their mercy. People wonder why many of his financial debts are to foreign banks. The reason is that he can no longer get loans in the States because of his unstable financial situation. Sure, he has a lot of assets. But he also has a whole lot of debt. And that's just one of the many reasons why he'll never release his taxes. Especially now when it looks he'll lose the election in a landslide. With the election likely lost already, why should he bother exposing himself more by releasing his income tax?
Another reason may be that he'd be incriminating himself if the government and other tax experts get to have a better look at his tax reports. My opinion is that he's hiding a lot of stuff and belongs in jail.
The guy is simply a bad guy. He's smeared and attacked everyone who he perceives as an enemy or whom he doesn't recognize as an equal. He lies all the time.....fact-checking has proven that he lies 79% of the time he opens his mouth. And this is a guy whom many regard as a truth teller who tells it like it is?? Please!!!!!
Hillary Rodham Clinton isn't perfect. No one is, including all of us. But she's more than qualified to become President. She was a great Secretary of State and even Donald Trump once praised her about this. She was a great First Lady. She's surrounded by political geniuses and advisors. The Benghazi thing was in reality a very minor thing & she was cleared of wrongdoing. It was nothing but a political witch hunt from the Right because she happened to be running for the presidency. Same thing with the whole email bullshit. She wasn't the first government official or Secretary of State to use such a system (and former Secretary of State Collin Powell even suggested she use such a system) and had she not run for President, we would never have heard about it.
Many who have a negative impression of her have been drinking the right's kool-aid. They believe all the lies and smears about her. But even if true (and it ain't), she's still a much safer bet that Donald Trump, who potentially could be the world's most dangerous person should he ever manage to win the Presidency. There's nothing good about this guy. He's a bad man. A very, very bad man. Were i a religious person (i'm not!!), i'd say that this guy is going straight to hell. And there is quite a history of mental illness in the family. His father suffered from dementia/alzheimers at Donald's current age. From my personal observation, he already suffers from a form of dementia. But that's another story.
But i get it. He's very popular among angry white middle-class men over the age of 35 with no college/university education. He's very popular among the right wing's fringe....the wingnuts. I get that. He's also very popular among bigots and racists... aka 'white supramacists'.....i get that. He's told them what they've wanted to hear. He's made them feel like he's one of them. I get that. I also get that many in the struggling middle class might take a liking to him because he's also told them that life will be great under his presidency and they'll be wealthy again......i get this because they've failed to do their homework and don't realize what a gigantic lying bullshit con artist this guy is and he's in reality a failed businessman who has faced thousands of lawsuits from disgruntled contractors, workers and former tenants, among others. The government even once sued him for racial profiling. And believe it or not, his ex-wife Ivana once accused him of once brutally raping her. I kid you not! This guy is a world-class scumbag and it shouldn't be a surprise he's in love with some of the world's most brutal dictators. He has a lot in common with these sociopaths.
Were I an American, i'd vote for Mickey Mouse instead of voting for Trump. Yes, even if i'd be a Republican. My love for my country trumps everything else. I'd do it for the love of my country, and my fellow Americans. And most important, my love for the world as a whole.
“We are the demographic Trump is appealing to”: Whether the establishment likes it or not, white nationalists still power the Trump train
Republicans must now reckon with what it means that their party's nominee "is the darling of white supremacists"
by Alex Kotch
Read on
Great article and it shows what i've been saying all along about Donald Trump.
Republicans must now reckon with what it means that their party's nominee "is the darling of white supremacists"
by Alex Kotch
Read on
Great article and it shows what i've been saying all along about Donald Trump.
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