When he speaks of lobbyists having a say so to the people they contribute to, he was probably speaking from first hand experience in bending politicians to his will in getting out of his way in his various business projects.
No surprise that a businessman big enough to attract the attention of regulators donates to local pols to get them off his back.
?Politifact? Note bene that liberals always want a handle on how the truth is spun. Nobody seriously believes Trump to be a conservative. He’s at best a RINO, yet he’s saying things that a large swath of the public wants to hear or at least wants to believe is being noticed by a politician or elected official. There’s a void he’s meant to fill and he’s filling it.
Trump has actually been relatively evenhanded in doling out cash to the two parties, but since 1989, he’s contributed over $350,000 more to Republicans running for federal and state offices, campaign finance records show
From the same article in the "Our Rating" section:
We can’t say definitively that his claim is wrong at all levels of government, since we don’t have the local data. But public records show that the real estate tycoon has actually contributed around $350,000 more to Republicans at the state and federal level than Democrats. That, however, is a recent development.
THIS is why I never take much stock in anything "Politifact". You can google their liberal Tampa origins and their involvement with AJC for background. What they do is to intersperse a little data/truth in the mix and then make sweeping judgments in their bottom line - that which gets in the headlines or becomes the bottom line.
If you want to build up a 10 BILLION DOLLAR empire, you sure as heck are going to be playing BOTH SIDES.
Maybe the left can come up with another reason to dislike him - but I have no problem with him doing what it takes to legally make money in this country, nor do most Republicans, based on the latest polling.
Donald T. Is to conservatives what Lucy is to Charlie Brown in place kicking footballs. If the man has changed, it’ll take more than a couple years of proof.
Businessmen buy access to politicians of both parties wherever they do business. Is it really a surprise that a real estate developer from NY who invests in lots of blue states donated more to Democrats?
Since then this "Democrat" has best I can tell almost exclusively supported Republicans. This person had done a 180 degree turn. They were the last person I ever expected to do what they did but 4 years ago they changed parties.
My friend is the smartest person I have ever met. An absolute and gifted genius.
In the last few years I would expect that a lot of people have changed their mind about the insanity going on in this country. Especially the fiscal insanity. The country has gone nuts in other ways as far as morals and the foundation of this country has been spit on by people that are insane. A case in point was the room that was mostly full of people that gushed over a drag queen at the ESPY awards last night.
It is starting to look like Trump just like my friend got to the point they could not longer support a group (democrats and leftists) who reject God and strangely at the same time rejects science. A group that has turned reality on its head where men are women and chopping the unborn up and selling the parts is worthy of discussion over a nice salad and glass of wine. Pfffffft!!
Politifact is a left-leaning organization.
Donald Gump
Yeah.. my question as well.. more important, what the hell is Trump really up to?
My uncle is the CEO of a major corporation and he often told me that most intelligent corporations donate equally to both sides. So what’s the big deal with Trump doing that?
After the last two ‘cranial gas escapes’ that the Republicans have put forward in the last two election cycles, I sit and watch how much the Republicans, whether talking heads on TV, or other folks attempting to get enough notice, are screaming for Trump to ‘shut up’.
Trump, as it is already said, is saying things that need to be said. The cookie-cutter politicians of today, that WE have allowed to procreate, are no longer operating in the Constitutional model, but are working to enslave us, under THEM.
“Everyone’s Democratic,” he told Sean Hannity in 2011. “So what am I going to do — contribute to Republicans? One thing: I’m not stupid. Am I going to contribute to Republicans for my whole life when they get heat when they run against some Democrat and the most they can get is 1 percent of the vote?”
A man of principle. Now let’s think about what that principle is.
Donate? Trump wasn’t donating. He was buying and they were selling.
Let’s see, most cities where Donald Trump operates are dominated by the corrupt Democrat political machine. A donation to Hillary floats back as an easier time with a licence or a building permit. OR floats back as not having a hard time, so in effect, he’s “donating” extortion money. He’s guilty of doing business where corrupt politicians hold sway, as are most of us who have to frequent cities.
As far as I am concerned, Mark Zuckerberg fell into his billions. Trump had to make thousands of decisions and deals to get his. Take away both of their fortunes and only Trump will rise again. Is that the ambition of a libtard who squanders to failed causes or a conservative who retains resources in order to grow them?
If he keeps bitch-slapping Hillary, the GOPe, and Obama, he’ll get my vote.
That left wing front group is owned by the St pete slimes a farrrrrrrr left wing DNC front group ,
Your getting desperate in Jeb bot world.
“Donald Trump is not some big GOP Republican”
There’s only one real republican running for president and his name is Ted Cruz. He’s also the only real conservative.
I totally believe that, at Trump’s level, you have to bribe them all, AND, that the Democrats are more demanding than the Republicans.