Trump Calls ABC Reporter a 'Sleaze' in Combative Press Conferenc

It's easy for politicians to bash the press, because the public has just as much sustain for the press as they do that politician.

 

the media is obsessed with Trump, he can't lose the election even if he loses... if he loses the election he'll start some reality tv show and make more money from the media coverage he's getting now than ever before,

in fact I think he'll personally be better off if he does lose... he'll be able to make more money

 

So would the world.

 

no the world would be better off, if I can use him in the trolley cart experiment
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October 28, 2015
McCain: Sanders has better record on veterans than Hillary
By Bradford Richardson


Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) says Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has a better track record when it comes to caring for veterans than Hillary Clinton.

McCain said the Vermont senator, who is competing with Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination next year, worked hard for veterans in his role as chairman of the Veterans’ Affairs Committee.
“The fact is we were able to come together and pass legislation that was nearly unanimous in both the House and the Senate, so he does have a record of advocacy for our veterans,” he said in response to a question about the candidates' positions on veterans' issues during a press call on Wednesday. “To my knowledge, I know of no activity, legislative or otherwise, that Hillary Clinton was engaged in during her time as a United States senator,” he added.

McCain’s comments follow the former secretary of State's statement that lengthy delays for patients seeking treatment at Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals are not a “widespread” problem.

McCain, who was a Vietnam prisoner of war, said the comments call into question Clinton’s qualifications to serve as commander in chief.

“I would say that if Hillary Clinton really believes the comments that she made, I don’t see how any veteran who cares about their fellow veterans could possibly have any good things, nor could support her quest for being commander in chief,” he said.

“[The] commander in chief not only sends the young men and women into conflicts, but [the] commander in chief has an obligation, as Abraham Lincoln so eloquently stated, about our care for the widows and the wounded,” he added.

“So, I would say that a veteran looking at her comments would question her qualifications to be commander in chief.”

Clinton said Friday on MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show” that protracted wait times at veterans hospitals have not been “as widespread as it has been made out to be.”

She also blamed Republicans for pursuing an “ideological agenda” to make VA hospitals “fail.”

McCain called on Clinton to apologize for her comments in a statement on Monday, accusing her of trying to “downplay” the scandal.

Clinton backtracked from her comments on Monday, saying she is “outraged” by the delays at veterans’ clinics.

An inspector general report last year found that as many as 40 veterans died while waiting for care at a facility in Phoenix. The average wait time for an appointment was 115 days, but official data claimed that the average wait was only 24 days.

A subsequent report described the problem at VA hospitals around the nation as “systemic.”


I am sorry but we all know that your source is in the tank for Hillary and they will lie or exaggerate to protect her. I don't think that she did much as a senator. It just looked good on her resume.

 

Records: Hillary Clinton Has Donated $70,000 to Veterans
Charlie Spiering
June 1, 2016

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her husband Bill Clinton have donated $70,000 to veterans and military groups from their personal Clinton Family Foundation in recent years, according to public records.
The list of donations from the Clintons is not comprehensive, but is dwarfed by Donald Trump’s release of a list of 41 groups that identified donations of $5.6 million to veterans groups.

“Find out how much Hillary Clinton’s given to the veterans,” Trump dared reporters gathered at Trump Tower yesterday. “Nothing.”

According to recent public records of the Clinton Family Foundation, the family donated $25,000 in 2009, $20,000 in 2010, $5,000 in 2011, $15,000 in 2012, and in 2014, they donated $5,000.

The Clintons, however, have funneled millions of their charitable dollars to the Clinton Foundation, an organization that does not disclose its donations publicly. The Clinton Foundation did not respond to a request for detailed donations to veterans and military groups.

Last year the Clintons released eight years of tax returns, revealing the couple had earned $139 million in adjusted gross income from 2007 to 2014 and gave almost $15 million to charity in that period, but it is unclear how much of that money went to veterans. The Clinton campaign did not respond to a request for comment.

A great portion of their wealth comes from a series of speeches. According to CNN, the Clintons gave 729 speeches between February 2001 – May 2015 with an average fee of $210,795 per speech.

Below is a list of donations to veterans groups from the Clinton Family Foundation according to the organizations recent 990 tax filings:

In 2009, The Clinton Family Foundation gave $25,000 to the Friends Of American Lake Veterans Golf Course.

In 2010, The Clinton Family Foundation gave $5,000 to the Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society, $5,000 to Operation Gratitude, and $10,000 to Any Soldier.

In 2011, The Clinton Family Foundation gave $5,000 to Our Military Kids Inc.

In 2012, The Clinton Family Foundation gave $10,000 to Operation Homefront, and $5,000 to Operation Hat Trick.

In 2014, The Clinton Family Foundation gave $5,000 to Operation Hat Trick.

 

I just spit my coffee all over my phone. 😊

Fair? Hillary's and Trumps treatment by the MSM has been polar opposites. Denying it is disingenuous and intellectually dishonest.

Claiming they gave him free press is laughable. Go count positive vs negative stories. It's not he because they're trying to help him. This topic is a perfect example. Top Google stories on the Clinton Foundation are positive. If you Google Trump, it's all negative and scathing.

Not a single positive story on Trump in the morning news either, except on Fox, but they're reporting more on all the bad news surrounding Trump. It's so biased it's sad.

You have to be blind and deaf.

The opinion section in my Local paper have 4 articles ripping into Trump. Nothing negative on Hillary.

It's the same as when Bush was in office. There were daily death reports on how many soldiers died. When Obama took office those reports stopped cold.

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Good grief...

•In March of 2003, Clinton voted against a budget resolution that called for “$13 billion for veterans to receive concurrent disability and retirement benefits.”

•In May of 2006, Clinton voted against an amendment that would have added $20 million for veterans’ health care facilities. It offset additional spending by striking $20 million in the underlying bill for AmeriCorps.

•Little over one year later, Clinton was one of only 14 senators to vote against a 2007 supplemental appropriations bill that contained $1.8 billion for veterans’ health care. The funding would have assisted with mental health, benefit claims, and the backlog maintaining VA facilities. It also included an additional $2 billion for military heath care at Walter Reed and other hospitals, including Traumatic Stress Disorder/Counseling and the Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) care and research.

•A little over seven months ago, Clinton downplayed a VA scandal that involved 30% of veterans dying as they waited for health care.

“Now nobody would believe that from the coverage you see, and the constant berating of the VA that comes from the Republicans, in part in pursuit of this ideological agenda that they have,” Clinton charged.

“They try to create a downward spiral, don’t fund it to the extent that is needs to be funded, because they want it to fail, so then we can argue for privatization,” she added.

Ian Prior, a spokesman for American Crossroads, said “we’re so glad Crooked Hillary brought up veterans’ issues, after claiming the VA scandal was overblown and voting against veterans’ benefits time and time again.”

The non-profit organization also blasted her, saying “Hillary hides behind her staff that sends out emails highlighting her veterans’ ‘plan’ and offers a sanitized version of her record on veterans’ issues.”

While everyone is combing through the records to catch Trump in a fundraising mistake involving our veterans, Hillary’s record shows she has legislated actual mistakes involving our veterans.

http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/hillary-give-a-damn-about-veterans/

 

He rarely if ever speaks without a teleprompter. He is basically nothing more than an actor reciting lines others have written

 

He doesn't want money.

He wants to go in the history books.

 

First, that isn't a demonstration that liberals hate free speech...oops.

Did you now, well then you should be able to find some credible evidence that liberals hate free speech. So let's see it.

Again where is the evidence? You have none, you are just mindlessly repeating demagoguery you have heard or read.

Well, that's what Republicans believe. CNN is more geared toward sensationalism, but does tend to favor Republicans. MSNBC has both liberal and conservative oriented programming. Conservative programming in the morning, neutral programming during the day and liberal programming during the evening hours. There is no left wing equivalent of Fox News or Republican talk radio.

Well, believing anything you read or hear from Breitbart is a mistake. Their journalist credentials are specious at best.

 

Well you can believe that, but it doesn't make it so. I attended both private and public colleges and universities. I wasn't defrauded. After graduation, I got a very good job which paid a nice salary with some really nice benefits. I wasn't defrauded. Most schools aren't fraudulent. But a few are as evidenced by Mr. Trump. There are a number of "schools" like Trump's "university" which never was a university, and many of them have been put behind bars for fraud.

The irony here is that the man who claims to be the working man's champion, has never labored a day in his life. He was born to privilege. He attended the best private schools. He's the guy accusing others, other Republicans of lying (e.g. lying Ted) when in fact Trump is a pretty prolific liar in his own right. The irony here is that this working man's champion has been screwing hard working people for a long time, and if you listen to and understand what he is saying, he intends to continue doing what he has always done (i.e. screw middle class Americans).

 

LOL...that's funny coming from someone who cannot prove his allegations. Just because right wing partisans make these accusations, it doesn't make them true. Right wing partisans have accused Clinton of many things over the years including fraud and murder. They have investigated Hillary to hell and back and spent 10s of millions if not hundreds of millions of dollars investigation her and they have yet to produce even an iota of evidence to support any of their claims, and you have the chutzpah to accuse others of living in an alternate reality....really?

Unfortunately for you and your Republican pals, facts, evidence and reason do matter. You have absolutely no evidence that there is anything untoward at The Clinton Foundation. All of the accusations that you folks have thrown at Clinton over the years have been debunked.

Remember when Republicans use to say nice things about Hillary....? Here is the reality, when Republicans perceive Hillary as a political threat suddenly she is a criminal. But when she isn't running for office, she is competent, hardworking, accomplished, bastion of moral integrity....funny how running for election changes all that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baDdRW-YcMk

 

Derision and hate...

 

First, none of that has anything to do with the issue at hand, which is the fact that Hillary has a long track record of supporting veterans and has far done more than Trump has in that regard. Hillary's support for veterans didn't begin with this election cycle. She has supported veterans and veteran causes for many years. The unfortunate fact for Republicans an Trump supporters is that Trump is a newbie, a johnny-come-lately to veterans causes.

The fact is Trump used veterans causes as a way to avoid a debate in January. Trump said he donated 1 million dollars out of his pocket to veterans groups. He didn't. It was only after months of badgering by the press that Trump cut a check to veterans organization. Trump didn't make that promised donation until last week and then only after months of badgering.

Two, where is the reference to back up your assertion with respect to McCain? The issue isn't about Hillary and Bernie. It's about Hillary and Trump.

 

Well, here is the thing, the press isn't obligated to print certain quantities of good stuff and bad stuff about each candidate, nor should they. They shouldn't be obligate to invent good stuff or bad stuff to balance the scales. What they should do is print the truth. What they should do is be honest. It really is that simple. When you leave out important things, and advance untruthful ideas (e.g. Fox News), that become partisan advocacy. Hannity recently described himself as a journalistic advocate. I think that's putting lipstick on a pig. Hannity is either an entertainer or outright advocate. There isn't a journalistic bone in his body.

I was listening to the Rush Limbaugh show earlier today, and Rush was complaining abut the silliness of egalitarianism in academics. When people do good things, when people earn awards, that effort shouldn't be diluted. Well the same principal applies here. It's one of those may hypocrisies which vex the Republican Party. The press should just report the truth. The press should ask the tough questions. The press should thoroughly vet the candidates. But they shouldn't try to balance the scales. Their job is to report the full and honest truth.

 

LOL...yes good grief, you should check out your references. The bills you claimed Hillary voted against, weren't bills, they were concurrent resolutions. There is a difference. Concurrent resolutions aren't bills and only express an opinion.

Two, these laws are often large and complex. Just because Clinton voted against a bill which contained provisions affecting veterans, it doesn't mean she was opposed to those veteran benefits. Just because a congressman votes against a bill, it doesn't follow they are against everything in the bill. Your referenced material is a very good example of the simplistic thinking we so much of on the left and especially on the right of the political spectrum.

If you want to hold to your standard, every Republican in both the Senate and the House have at one time or another voted to deny funding to veterans. Hell, Republicans even shut down the government and repeatedly threatened to cause a debt default which would adversely effected every American and they did it more than once.

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So did Reagan.

 

I love how every time obama does something dumb, liberals look to Reagan for comparison and every time obama does something supposedly good they do the same thing. Ronnie lives in your heads

 

I need some help here: I've been kind of busy lately, so I missed whatever coverage that may have aired on the whole vets money raising thing that led up to Trump's recent going off on the press. Does anyone know of a link to the original coverage itself? I'd like to see it and judge it for myself.

 

And what dumb thing did Obama do exactly? Pointing out hypocrisy and contradictions on your part, and there are volumes, should make you think.

 

He never had to "toil" as you say as some uneducated people are forced to do out of necessity. Sitting on your ass collecting interest is one thing, taking that inheritance and turning your name into a world famous brand is something that few have ever done. The name Trump is synonymous with wealth, much like the name Rockefeller was. It's something to be proud of. I've learned a lot from reading his books and following his advice.

 

I thought Trump could pull it together and be Presidential, I think I was wrong, sorry republicans too late to pick someone new

 

I think that is Trumps real purpose.... I think republicans fell for it.. the long con...servative

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Then why haven't they reported the truth about Hillary or Benghazi or her foundation or BLM or violence against cops or the actual truth about Trump? They completely distort what he says, regarding immigration and the Muslim comments. They're misleading people. They do NOT paint Obama or Hillary in the same light. They are biased. The distort gun violence statistics. They distort illegal immigration statistics. They distort Obamas wars vs Bushs wars. They paint Republicans with a dark brush and Democrats with rainbows. It's vindictive and dishonest. It's abusive and irresponsible.

Basically it's the Daily Show or that hag Samantha Bee. She's sooooo biased it's pathetic, but that's the MSM. Highlighting all the negatives from one side while hiding all the negatives from the other is NOT honest reporting. Sure you can say they're not lying, but it's dishonest at the core.

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Did you now, did his books make you a billionaire? You are right in this Trump has turned his name into a brand. The Donald is a marketer. But in running for POTUS he is destroying that brand. Some corporate golf sponsors has cancelled events at his golf clubs, revenues at his hotels are down significantly. Trump has inflicted severe damage on his businesses in his run for POTUS.

How well The Donald has performed as a businessman depends upon his net worth. If you believe Trump's valuations, which most experts don't, Trump has out preformed most businesses. If you believe the experts, at best, Trump has been a mediocre businessman. The fact is a number of his businesses have failed. And the fact is, Trump has made a lot of his money off the backs of middle class Americans. Trump has a been sued a lot for fraudulent business practices. He is being sued for fraudulent business practices, and not just for Trump University. It's a pattern of behavior with The Donald. The Donald is a fraud.