21 Questions For Donald Trump

National Memo ^ | 1/7/2016 | David Cay Johnston

[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?

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

The one thing the trumpeters have almost completely in common is their unwillingness and/or inability to answer questions about him.

It's astounding.

Cult of Personality

[demshateGod]

First this article only talks about the concrete for the below grade foundations. 198 ft of the 1,300+ ft tower. Secondly, it doesn't talk about the time it took to build the forms and steel reinforcement. Concrete has advantages for sites that are difficult to get to and for people who don't have the means to get large steel members to the site, but when done correctly, is like building the building twice.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Trump is "all mobbed up"? Good. I trust the mob more than I trust D.C. politicians. At least they're effective and honest.

The mafia is "effective and honest"?

Trump supporters say the darndest things.

[sitetest]

Anything to justify the worship of their god.

[kiryandil]

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

Then what?

Then, Trump will jam the "questions" down the throats of clown-face Clinton spearcatchers like DwarfBoy Stephanopoulos. :)

[kiryandil]

Oh, did I mention that Stephanopoulos, Clinton @sslamprey extraordinaire, probably makes more in a DAY than you make in a year?

Not sure how much practice that takes...

[kiryandil]

Was Trump responsible for paying the illegal Polish workers $5/hr & no benefits without providing proper safety equipment?

LOL! Your entire post tells me you've never worked a construction site in your entire life.

Sit down and shut up.

[poconopundit]

I want to know if Trump inappropriately uses a salad fork for cutting into a rib eye. LOL!

[kiryandil]

Can you believe the roster of The Usual Suspects posting on this thread?

I think libbylu has got the night off...

[CatherineofAragon]

I remember all the ire right here on this site about Romney’s illegals, and rightfully so.

But people stick their fingers in their ears, shut their eyes, and hum loudly if it’s Trump because he’s the savior of the country. Or something.

I laugh when I hear someone say he fights the establishment...he IS the establishment.

[sitetest]

The Establishment AND the Mob, all rolled into one.

[Solson]

Reagan had Sinatra there all the time. JFK was strongly affiliated with mobsters. Most of NYC, Chicago, Milwaukee and Las Vegas were built with mob money. Does any of it matter?

Just to people looking to lower the floor on Trump because their guy has a proverbial glass ceiling of 15%.

[CatherineofAragon]

Yep.

[caww]

Interesting....thanks for posting that.... I have a couple questions if you’d care to answer...

Would third world or otherwise foreign employees have the ‘skill ability’ to work with steel in the numbers required to erect such a building here in the states.....and if not... then wouldn’t the costs overall increase because the owner would have to increase his use of American workers?

[poconopundit]

Cool pictures of Melania. More are on Google Images.

And how about this one next to Julie Christie of Doctor Zhivago.  You can bet that Putin will insist Melania come along when Trump visits Moscow!  A thaw in the Cold War?!

[sitetest]

Frank Sinatra was a singer who knew folks in the mob. He wasn’t part of it. Reagan knew Sinatra.

trump has involved business dealings with major mafiosi.

As for jfk, I’m hardly going to come to the defense if another dammocrap, like trump.

[CommerceComet]

As I suspected, Trump was neither indicted nor convicted of a crime despite the misleading wording of the question. The class-action lawsuit (read civil, not criminal, lawsuit) was settled which is often done regardless of the merits, just to get rid of it.

I'm guessing that the other candidates haven't brought it up because there is little or no substance there.

[caww]

That would be the case if you're into those types of "Images" representing our leaders and their wives...... I've frankly had enough of this first lady Hollywood wannabe theatrics, as stated. Don't care to see more of this.....

[caww]

...”Trump was neither indicted nor convicted of a crime”...

Oh you don’t say.....but then neither were many in the Mob even though they were guilty as sin.

The fact is Trumps openly admitted he hangs with bad guys...”some very bad guys’...as he said.

[Solson]

Okay...you keep believing whatever your little heart desires.

Trump 41%, Cruz 13%, others...all less.