Trump Turns Thug

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  1. dairyair

    dairyair Well-Known Member

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    tRUMPers are always shaking. Whining.
     
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    He's the best *******n president in my lifetime....even better than Reagan. I know it burns libs's asses because they know the blowhard is absolutely making this country a better place....all the while erasing that **** show that the messiah Obungo left behind.

    Blowhard is killing it and the Dims know it. :roflol::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
     
  3. jcarlilesiu

    jcarlilesiu Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    He is right.

    If progressives keep pushing further and further, this is going to turn into a civil war, and weak limped wrist progressive liberals are going to find themselves in a precarious situation in which their loud constant squealing doesnt matter anymore.
     
  4. jcarlilesiu

    jcarlilesiu Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I can think of another on this very forum that should get the same sentiment.
     
  5. FoxHastings

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    [paste:font size="4"]Sexual-Assault AllegationsJill Harth says Trump assaulted her in the 1990s. Trump’s ex-wife Ivana Trump once suggested he had raped her, though she has since recanted her story. Former Miss Utah Temple Taggart said he kissed her on the lips inappropriately. But since the release, more women have come forward. Two told The New York Times that Trump had assaulted them, one saying he tried to put his hand up her skirt on a flight in the 1970s and another saying he forcibly kissed her. A Florida woman says Trump groped her. A former People reporter recounted an alleged assault at his Mar-a-Lago debate, and says he told her, “You know we’re going to have an affair, don’t you?” Several former teen pageant contestants said Trump walked in on them while they were naked or partially dressed.

    The upshot: Trump denies all of the allegations. In the sexual-assault cases, Trump faces the difficulty that he in some cases bragged openly about just the behavior of which he has accused—whether grabbing or forcibly kissing. Trump has demanded a retraction from the Times, and has threatened to sue several outlets. The paper, in a letter, refused. A woman who brought a rape case against Trump (twice) withdrew her suit in November, but in January, Summer Zervos sued Trump for defamation, after he labeled her claims of sexual assault false.

    Read more: The New York Times, People, BuzzFeed, me

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    [paste:font size="4"]The Beauty Pageant ScandalsThe Boston Globe’s Matt Viser reports on the mess of the American Dream pageant in 1992. After years of attending beauty pageants—Trump seems to have always enjoyed the company of beautiful, scantily clad women—he decided he wanted to get in on the business himself, meeting with George Houraney and Jill Harth, a couple that ran the American Dream pageant. It was an ill-fated effort. Harth and Houraney alleged that Trump started making passes at her almost immediately. On one occasion, Trump allegedly asked them to bring some models to a party. Harth alleges Trump groped her at the party. In a limo afterward, another model said she heard him say that “all women are bimbos” and most “gold diggers.” Trump reportedly joined another model in bed, uninvited, late at night. On other occasions, he forced Harth into bedrooms and made passes at her, she said. But after the contest, Trump broke off dealings. Harth sued Trump, alleging sexual misbehavior, while the couple together sued him for breach of contract. In the suit, they also alleged that Trump had kept black women out of the pageant.

    he boasted to Vanity Fair later. In 2012, he won a $5 million suit against a former contestant who claimed the contest was rigged. By 2015, he operated Miss Universe as a joint venture with NBC, but after he slurred Mexican immigrants at his campaign launch, Univision and NBC both announced they would not air the pageant. Trump bought out NBC’s share, then promptly sold the company. He sued Univision but settled in February. The terms were undisclosed.

    Read more: The Boston Globe, Vanity Fair

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    [paste:font size="4"]Racial Housing Discrimination The New York Times reported. “It also charged that the company had required different rental terms and conditions because of race and that it had misrepresented to blacks that apartments were not available.” Trump called the accusations “absolutely ridiculous.”

    The upshot: The Trumps hired attorney Roy Cohn, who had worked for Joe McCarthy and whom Michael Kinsley once indelibly labeled “innocent of a variety of federal crimes.” They sued the Justice Department for $100 million. In the end, however, the Trumps settled with the government, promising not to discriminate and submitting to regular review by the New York Urban League—though crucially not admitting guilt. The Times has much more on the long history of allegations at Trump-owned properties

    Read more: The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New York Times

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    [paste:font size="4"]Mafia Ties not everyone agrees. There have been a string of other allegations, too, many reported by investigative journalist Wayne Barrett. Cohn, Trump’s lawyer, also represented the Genovese crime family boss Tony Salerno. Barrett also reported a series of transactions involving organized crime, and alleged that Trump paid twice market rate to a mob figure for the land under Trump Plaza in Atlantic City. Michael Isikoff has also reported that Trump was close to Robert LiButti, an associate of John Gotti, inviting him on his yacht and helicopter. In one case, Trump’s company bought LiButti nine luxury cars.

    report after Barrett’s 1992 book on Trump generally found no mafia-related wrong-doing on Trump’s part. Trump Plaza was fined $200,000 for keeping black employees away from LiButti’s table, at his behest, and for the gift of the cars, though Trump personally was not penalized.

    Read more: Wayne Barrett, Michael Isikoff, Time, Yahoo, David Cay Johnston

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    [paste:font size="4"]Trump University suckered in by slick free “seminars”—to learn how to get rich. One ad promised they would “learn from Donald Trump’s handpicked instructors, and that participants would have access to Trump’s real estate ‘secrets.’” In fact, Trump had little to do with the curriculum or the instructors. Many of the “students” have since complained that Trump U. was a scam. At one time, it had some prestigious instructors, but over time the “faculty” became a motley bunch of misfits. (It was also never really a “university” by any definition, and it changed its name to the “Trump Entrepreneur Initiative,” because as it happened, the school was violating New York law by operating without an educational license.)

    The upshot: The school shut down in 2010. In November 2016, Trump agreed to settle a series of lawsuits related to the school for $25 million. Trump did not admit any wrongdoing as part of the settlement. But he had insisted for months that he would not settle the suit because he expected to win. For a time, he appeared to have been trying to intimidate plaintiffs, including countersuing one for $1 million (a favorite Trump litigation tactic) and refusing to let her withdraw from the suit. (The countersuit was thrown out.) His lawyers cited positive reviews, but former students say they were pressured to give those. Trump also mounted a length attack on the judge, claiming his ethnicity made him biased. Trump has been widely repudiated across the board, with fellow Republicans openly calling him racist.

    Read more: Tom McNichol, Steven Brill, National Review, Matt Ford (1) (2)

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    [paste:font size="4"]Tenant Intimidation swore in court that mushrooms grew on their carpet from a leak. Perhaps Trump’s most outlandish move was to place newspaper ads offering to house homeless New Yorkers in empty units—since, as Trump wrote in The Art of the Deal, he didn’t intend to fill units with permanent residents anyway. City officials turned him down, saying the idea did not seem appropriate. Typically, Trump also sued tenants for $150 million when they complained."""""""""""""""



    Just a few ...you're welcome
     
  6. jcarlilesiu

    jcarlilesiu Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    First of all, disapproval is not at 60 percent. Second of all, disapproval is not the same as hate.
     
  7. LangleyMan

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    I said like those two. You're missing the point that a moderate Democrat will have a huge advantage given Trump's extremism.
     
  8. LangleyMan

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    Some of them seem to like Trump sleaze if for no other reason than it seems to anger liberals.
     
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    Trump doesn't wear well even with many of his supporters.
     
  10. mitchscove

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    In other words, you've got nothing to back up this statement:

    Just alot of smoke.

    In the meantime, as Speaker of the House, Pelosi cut a deal with VISA to screw every person who used a VISA credit card. In exchange for VISA letting Pelosi participate in their IPO, Pelosi would hold up legislation to ban swipe fees. She pocketed the proceeds of her corrupt deal, screwing millions of people.

    That is what's called, "Harming people with shady business deals ... cheating, robbing, and hurting people people in Pelosi's business as usual" that Democrats voted to repeat.

    Again. You have nothing.
     
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    You keep on wishin'. Maybe someday we will have something positive come out of your keyboard.
     
  12. dairyair

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    He is the worst prez ever. Thank goodness obama left this country in such a strong position.
    In the end, if he makes it long enough, he will have the country in worse shape than bush left it in.
    If not for his continuous lies, he'd never have anything to say. Other than his continuous whining.
    But then, you might be very young and this is the only prez in your lifetime.
     
  13. Aleksander Ulyanov

    Aleksander Ulyanov Well-Known Member

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    Didn't we do that in 2016?

    Part of me agrees with you. I can't help but think that a Sanders candidacy would have just given Trump the popular vote too. If what you say is true all we really have to do is make sure we campaign hard in the rural states as well as the urban powerhouses we over-relied on last time.

    OTOH we lost mainly on TURNOUT. We had a poor turnout and the Republicans had a good one. The reason for this is that the Republiracists were running LITERALLY the Great White Hope while our candidate, undoubtedly competent and a good person, also has her name in the dictionary next to "uninspired policy wonk"

    Do we dare risk repeating that situation?
     
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  14. LangleyMan

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    Civil war? No, not in this country.

    Antifa is unpopular with voters.

    http://www.rasmussenreports.com/pub...fa_protesters_say_they_re_looking_for_trouble

    The alt right isn't popular, either.

    https://www.vox.com/2018/8/10/17670992/study-white-americans-alt-right-racism-white-nationalists
     
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    That could be true....their standards, if they ever had any, drop in their worship of Trump.
     
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    :) I presented you with how Trump harmed people.....just because you LIKED what he did doesn't mean he didn't harm people.

    Trump harmed people with his MANY shady business deals ...cheating and robbing hurt people even if Righties think it's "just business as usual"...and ADMIRE IT!!!
     
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    he has been this way for some time
     
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    Ah, so you do understand Trump is a wuss pretending to be a tough guy.
     
  19. LangleyMan

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    As I said, you're missing the point.
     
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    First 99 times out of a hundred Trump tweets are a response to assaults either upon his character or that of his voters. In my opinion, such responses given the politics of the day are not only acceptable but damn near mandatory.

    2nd as for his other character flaws. Every available candidate had them. Trump at less was offering to try to end a status quo that was destroying the country.
     
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    Um...aren't all members of the state thugs?
     
  22. LangleyMan

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    Hillary would have won in 2016 if she had been more likeable and not seen as dishonest. Sure, an unlikeable moderate might lose to Trump, but I don't think someone like that could win the nomination.
    Unless Democrats run someone as unpopular as Hillary was in 2016, I don't think they'll have a turnout problem.
     
  23. LangleyMan

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    People don't like Trump's behavior. I think he would be favored to win re-election if he wasn't so obnoxious.
     
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    Hillary DID win in 2016, at least she won whatever Election where "likeability" was a factor.

    Hillary was not nearly as unpopular when that election ended as she had been when it began, The sheer force, scope and breadth of the Republican Parties' calumny against that woman was astonishing, about the most disgusting thing I have seen in a fairly long lifetime of political observation. While I don't think they could get away with that a second time you never can tell. The fecklessness of the Democrats in early 21st century America invites that kind of thing and the Republicans have been noted for it forever

    Look what they are trying on AOC now.
     
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    No, you don't get the point. The alt lefties will fight a moderate Democrat candidate. They want a socialist. The moderate democrats are afraid of the socialist wing. Trump is rubbing his hand together with joy.
     
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