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 ...
Everything the man says is all about him and positioning himself for the big pay day, along with his friends. Imagine how soon he’ll have his fingers in the pie that’s in Washington if he wins.
The guy is just not believable....though he’s certainly a master of manipulation!
Didn’t feel a thing.
Cruz gets to stay “principled” yet has never built anything in his life.
Speaking of company they keep:
http://www.texastribune.org/2012/07/03/ted-cruzs-gay-billionaire-donor-draws-criticism/
On Fortune Magazine’s 1999 list of the 496 most admired companies,....
.... Trump’s casino company ranked at the bottom, worst or almost worst in management, use of assets, employee talent, longterm investment value and social responsibility...then it went bankrupt.
http://www.pensitoreview.com/2015/09/08/why-the-silence-about-donald-trumps-mob-ties/
So, trump is all mobbed up. We used to think clinton was bad for renting out the Lincoln Bedroom. Now, we’ll have mobsters in and out of the White House.
Dead issue...already been posted and done with.
Trump is really doing groundbreaking work (pun unintended) making concrete-core buildings.
http://cenews.com/article/4761/trump-tower-the-record-setting-scc-mat-foundation
Where is trump’s documentation proving he’s not in the pocket of the mob.
Peter Thiel is dead? Or is the Gay Marriage issue dead?
He needs to prove he stopped beating his wife too!
Indeed.
I believe you when you say that you think the questions are stupid.
But what are we supposed to do with this information that you've provided?
It doesn't answer any of the questions.
For example, consider question #10:
10. A federal judge later found you conspired to cheat both the Polish workers, who were paid less than $5 an hour cash with no benefits, and the union health and welfare fund. You testified that you did not notice the Polish workers, whom the judge noted were easy to spot because they were the only ones on the work site without hard hats.Was Trump responsible for paying the illegal Polish workers $5/hr & no benefits without providing proper safety equipment?What should voters make of your failure or inability to notice 150 men demolishing a multi-story building without hard hats?
If he didn't know, why not? Isn't this a failure of the developer to do his due diligence?
Trump hired 150 illegal immigrant workers. Why should we believe him when he says that he opposes illegal immigration?
Whoops!
Well, don't say you weren't warned.
I am an architect. Concrete is used on tall buildings in 3rd world countries where skilled labor is scarce and wages are low. It’s rarely used on towers in the US these days. It’s labor intensive, wreaks havoc on schedules, and is easy to mess up. Fire treated steel is almost always used because of strength, weight, and cost.
Chinese are obsessed with concrete structures. It’s all the Design Institute knows. Not sure if HK is under the DI though.
Well, trump got a good deal on the concrete. A deal he couldn’t refuse. And I’m sure his “friends” will offer him many more deals of similar quality. And we taxpayers will be left hoping the bag for them.
The article suggests they are not legit. Owned by crime families.
Even mobsters need to make a living. What’s a few broken legs between “friends.” At least that weren’t on “welfare.’
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