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21 Questions For Donald Trump
National Memo ^ | 1/7/2016 | David Cay Johnston

Posted on 01/07/2016 2:55:03 PM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas

1. You call yourself an "ardent philanthropist," but have not donated a dollar to The Donald J. Trump Foundation since 2006. You're not even the biggest donor to the foundation, having given about $3.7 million in the previous two decades while businesses associated with Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Entertainment gave the Trump Foundation $5 million. All the money since 2006 has come from those doing business with you.

5. The biggest gift you have talked about appears to be an easement at the Palos Verdes, California, golf course bearing your name on land you wanted to build houses on, but that land is subject to landslides and is now the golf course driving range.

Did you or one of your businesses take a tax deduction for this land that you could not build on and do you think anyone should get a $25 million tax deduction for a similar self-serving gift?

6. Trump Tower is not a steel girder high rise, but 58 stories of concrete.

Why did you use concrete instead of traditional steel girders?

7. Trump Tower was built by S&A Concrete, whose owners were "Fat" Tony Salerno, head of the Genovese crime family, and Paul "Big Paul" Castellano, head of the Gambinos, another well-known crime family.

If you did not know of their ownership, what does that tell voters about your management skills?

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalmemo.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: corruption; dumptrump; mafia; questions; tds; trump
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To: Responsibility2nd
Gawd. If the remaining 14 questions are as insipid and stupid as the 1st 7, then I may change my mind about this being a Trump hit piece.

Of course it's a Trump hit piece. Look who started the thread.

21 posted on 01/07/2016 3:34:39 PM PST by SMM48
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

I read these questions the other day and thought that they were stupid. I still do.


22 posted on 01/07/2016 3:35:02 PM PST by CommerceComet (Ignore the GOP-e. Cruz to victory in 2016.)
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To: The Iceman Cometh

23 posted on 01/07/2016 3:36:06 PM PST by conservativejoy (Pray Hard, Work Hard, Trust God ...We Can Elect Ted Cruz)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

Bookmark


24 posted on 01/07/2016 3:36:32 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: Responsibility2nd

They still don’t get it. Trump OWNS the downside. I would give the author a tiny ‘participation sticker’ and say thanks for playing.


25 posted on 01/07/2016 3:36:36 PM PST by yadent
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas
Don’t you want him to answer these questions before the media brings them up?

I didn't even read it. I know from experience, you Cruzer's are getting so panicked and desperate that the hysterical crap you post is not worth reading. It was cute initially, now it is just insulting.
26 posted on 01/07/2016 3:38:53 PM PST by JoSixChip
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

I’m a Cruz supporter and this author sounds like a retarded blog pimp.


27 posted on 01/07/2016 3:39:48 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

How tall is the Trump Tower? In Hong Kong most of the buildings up to 50 or 60 stories are concrete. So I guess it depends upon where have lived but I would not find a concrete building that tall unusual.


28 posted on 01/07/2016 3:45:00 PM PST by Fai Mao (Just a tropical gardiner chatting with friends)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas
1. You call yourself an "ardent philanthropist," but have not donated a dollar to The Donald J. Trump Foundation since 2006. You're not even the biggest donor to the foundation, having given about $3.7 million in the previous two decades while businesses associated with Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Entertainment gave the Trump Foundation $5 million. All the money since 2006 has come from those doing business with you.

I think Donald Trump's philanthropism is "open and notorious". It's beyond question.

Now, on the other hand...

Who is this "David Cay Johnston" fella?

Oh, THAT'S RIGHT - I recognize the little cockroach from the impeachment wars.

David Cay Johnston was writing for the New York Times during the impeachment. The Timesies were all Clinton spearcatchers, and David here was just one of the bunch.

LOL! He lives in San Francisco now - that hotbed of hard right conservative thought.

Johnston is batting for Team Clinton. He can jam his sleazy Lefty yellow journalism up his posterior - if there isn't anything up there already, San Francisco being what it is...

29 posted on 01/07/2016 3:45:43 PM PST by kiryandil ("When Muslims in the White House are outlawed, only Barack Obama will be an outlaw")
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To: Rennes Templar
Where's his "21 Questions for Hillary Clinton" and "21 Questions for Barack Obama" articles?

David Cay Johnston was a New York Times propagandist from 1995 to 2008 - the thick of the impeachment wars.

He's apparently had a bone for Trump for years.

Johnston also has somewhat of a reputation for unreliable [inaccurate] and bullying "reporting".

Oh David Cay Johnston, You've Done It Again! Reuters Nixes Serial Misreporter's Debut Column
July 2011
https://reason.com/blog/2011/07/13/oh-david-cay-johnston-youve-do

Johnston is as "objective" as Garry Trudeau. :)

30 posted on 01/07/2016 4:11:05 PM PST by kiryandil ("When Muslims in the White House are outlawed, only Barack Obama will be an outlaw")
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

31 posted on 01/07/2016 4:18:39 PM PST by DoughtyOne ((It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.))
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To: BlueCat; St_Thomas_Aquinas; libbylu; EveningStar
Johnston also has somewhat of a reputation for unreliable [inaccurate] and bullying "reporting".

Oh David Cay Johnston, You've Done It Again! Reuters Nixes Serial Misreporter's Debut Column
July 2011
https://reason.com/blog/2011/07/13/oh-david-cay-johnston-youve-do

Johnston is as "objective" as Garry Trudeau. :)

EveningStar wrote: Moreover, how dare he question The Trump? He should not question The Trump. He should accept everything The Trump says without question. He should bow down before The Trump. The Trump will usher in the Rapture.

Or, on the other hand, Johnston's a hack, as BlueCat so succinctly observed. :)

32 posted on 01/07/2016 4:19:08 PM PST by kiryandil ("When Muslims in the White House are outlawed, only Barack Obama will be an outlaw")
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

>>Why is the media quiet about this?
Will they be quiet if he receives the nomination?<<

I’m sure your questions are rhetorical, but for those who are having trouble putting 2 and 2 together...

The media is quiet about all this, while simultaneously giving Trump all the free coverage they can, in the hopes that the GOP actually nominates him.

And, no, the media will not remain quiet if he is nominated. They will chalk up another “Mission Accomplished” and proceed to destroy him using mostly his own words, which as we now know, any fifth grader can understand.


33 posted on 01/07/2016 4:24:53 PM PST by Norseman (Defund the Left....completely!)
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To: kiryandil
Johnston is as "objective" as Garry Trudeau. :)

He may be Jack the Ripper.

But the questions remain unanswered.

And the questions make Trump look like a sleazeball.

The questions aren't going to go away. They will appear if he wins the nomination.

Then what?

34 posted on 01/07/2016 4:38:42 PM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: SMM48
Of course it's a Trump hit piece. Look who started the thread.

But can you answer any of the questions?

35 posted on 01/07/2016 4:40:13 PM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: Rennes Templar

Agree that those article should be written...but what does that have to do with the price of tea in China. Their absence does not negate the character flaws that this article seems to highlight


36 posted on 01/07/2016 4:44:00 PM PST by Axeslinger (Where has my country gone?)
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To: sitetest
Attack Trump deal with this

37 posted on 01/07/2016 4:44:44 PM PST by jpsb
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To: conservativejoy

Trump 3:16 cause he just kicked your azz!!!!


38 posted on 01/07/2016 4:55:47 PM PST by The Iceman Cometh (Proud Teabagging Barbarian Terrorist Hobbit Crazy Cracker Trumpee Son-of-a-Bitch!)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas
Article reads..." Trump Tower was built by S&A Concrete, whose owners were "Fat" Tony Salerno, head of the Genovese crime family, and Paul "Big Paul" Castellano, head of the Gambinos, another well-known crime family."......

Well Trump did say he hangs with really bad guys......Isn't there something said about judging people by the company they keep?

The company he keeps..Trump's palling around mobsters is well-documented.... "Trump's Mobbed Up, McCarthyite Mentor Roy Cohn," published by the Daily Beast on July 23, 2015. and "Donald Trump and the Mob," published on CNN.com on July 31. 2015...as well as a story in the Federalist, published on July 28. 2015.

from left: .... Big Paul Castellano, ....Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno,... Roy Cohn,... and Trump


39 posted on 01/07/2016 4:59:51 PM PST by caww
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To: frankenMonkey

How would measure one to be a loser?


40 posted on 01/07/2016 5:01:17 PM PST by caww
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