Posted on 07/09/2015 3:30:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Conservatives hoping to keep Donald Trump from turning the first Republican presidential debate into a complete circus might just get their wish. Either that, or they’ve just given the business mogul and former reality TV star another reason to stick around well into the fall, if not beyond.
The Washington Post is reporting that Fox News has clarified the criteria for participation in the first GOP debate in such a way that Trump and most of his fellow candidates will have to file their personal financial disclosures before the debate or be kept off the stage. That’s unlikely to be a serious problem for the vast majority of the GOP field, but it will back Trump into a corner.
"As we have said from the beginning, part of that criteria involves filing 'all necessary paperwork with the [Federal Election Commission],'" Fox News vice president Michael Clemente said in a statement. "The FEC, as is well known, requires that presidential candidates file a financial disclosure statement as part of that paperwork." Under federal law, presidential candidates have 30 days from when they officially launch their campaigns to file. But candidates can, and often do, request and receive as many as two 45-day extensions—something most Trump watchers believed he would do as way to prolong his campaign without giving the world a closer look at his finances. While Clemente’s statement didn’t explicitly say candidates couldn’t use those extensions, the Post’s sources say that will indeed be the case. "They must fill out the form, putting the dollars and cents on the table, before they step on the debate stage," one source told the paper....
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
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The article presumes that Trump’s candidacy is nothing but a stunt, from the very beginning...and he has no intention of ever disclosing his finances.
I think they are very, very wrong.
I’m not on the Trump bandwagon...but his second in the polls right now, and obviously a viable candidate. The media is in a constant state of denial.
Actually, he’s first in the polls.
I want to see Cruz, and Trump in the debates.
I don’t think Trump really needs the GOP’s debate stage.
If Trump is not on the stage, their ratings will be ~30% lower than if he’s on the stage.
Fox “News”, Soros, Romney, and Rove will find
a way to destroy America even further.
American MUST boycott the advertisers of FOX “News”,
NBC “News”. It work in the Revolutionary war, and
it WILL work now.
He said that he would file all the financial disclosure forms required by the Federal Election Commission so I don’t see how this is supposed to hypothetically seek Trump off the stage.
He has hit on many hot buttons with the general public - both republican and democrat - which explains his early lead in the polls. These are things the people want to hear.
They think he’s not serious.
Why doesn’t the GOP just issue a statement saying “The white bitch killed in San Fran had it coming” and be done with it?
I mean apparently rapes, murders and prisons filled with illegals are mirages, and it’s going to be open season on all of us soon enough.
Every school, every tv show, every “star” is spreading the word that white heterosexual Americans are public enemy number two. God is public enemy number one.
The heroes are illegal citizens of Mexico, and men that want to be women.
And Donald Trump is the problem?
“They think he’s not serious.”
They think no such thing. They are soiling themselves in fear. They know most Americans overall, and most Republicans especially, HATE illegal invasion of our country.
Given that he has SACRIFICED a lot of endorsements, TV deals, golf ventures, and an array of boycotts against him costing him millions $$$, I'm leaning towards thinking he's in it for REAL this time and is taking no prisoners.
Which Trump is the REAL Trump? Many pundits say Trump doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell. The same was said about Reagan "the actor" early in his candidacy.
The very first sentence in the article is a damned lie.
GOP *establishment* hopes to keep Trump out of the debates, and Slate knows that.
The author starts with a damned lie, so there is no point in reading further.
We will find out next week then because he also made it clear there would be request for an extension.
...Be NO request for an extension. lol
No, I mean “serious” about filing his financials and actually running. They assume this is all some big publicity stunt.
Fox wants ratings and a debates without Trump will be a disappointment. With Trump a ratings bonanza.
I see the Reagan analogy too. Trump is the most hated candidate since 1980, something that is also reminiscent of Reagan. And lots of democrats like what Trump is saying about immigration and the 2nd amendment.
I will say that my biggest problem with Trump is that he has donated heft sums of money to Democrats, in the not so far off past. Some will say he had to, to ‘get things done’...but frankly that’s exactly what’s wrong with Washington.
I also have no idea where he stands on social issues.
But a part of me likes Trump. He seems fed up with the spineless wonders we have as our leaders. If he keeps it up, GOP candidates are going to have to quit hiding from their shadows, and stand for something.
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