Posted on 02/23/2016 5:53:47 AM PST by reaganaut1
Among South Carolina Republicans who preferred above all else a candidate âwho tells it like it is,â 77 percent voted for Donald J. Trump.
That is astonishing, given that Donald Trumpâs entire life has been an extended exercise in deception.
Start with his wealth. How much is Donald Trump worth? $1.7 billion? $6 billion? âTEN BILLION DOLLARS,â as he claimed in his presidential filing? Tim OâBrien, then a reporter for the New York Times, wrote in his book TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald, that in one 24-hour period, Trump claimed two different net worths differing by $3.3 billion. He has never permitted an independent, third-party audit of his finances. The closest anyone has come is Deutsche Bank, which in 2005 estimated that Trump was worth . . . $788 million. Several sources with knowledge of Trumpâs finances have put the number significantly lower.
And Trump has admitted to lying about his wealth. âHave you ever exaggerated in statements about your properties?â he was asked during a deposition in the mid 2000s. âI think everyone does,â Trump replied. âDoes that mean that sometimes youâll inflate the value of your properties in your statements?â the lawyer followed up. Trump: âNot beyond reason.â
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Then there are Trumpâs lies about his personal life.
How was it that the star athlete at the New York Military Academy received a deferment for bone spurs in both heels? And how is it that those maladies seem to have disappeared, a miracle otherwise unknown in medical history?
Presumably Trumpâs affair with Marla Maples during his marriage to his first wife involved some serious deception, as did the affairs he claims to have had with married women. (Or is he lying about those affairs?)
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Oh goody, another hit piece from NRO. Is this your Bible for all things Trump? Geesh!
Oh goody, another hit piece from NRO. Is this your Bible for all things Trump? Geesh!
At this point, these people are just campaigning for Marco Rubio, and their attacks on Trump are just emulating everything I’ve ever seen written about him by the left.
After Trump wins tonight, I’m making a list of sites I’m simply going to refuse to click on for the rest of my life if this keeps up. I’ll block them in my browser so I don’t accidentally give them clicks. If Trump has 3/4 decisive primary victories, he’s on his way to the nomination, as far as I’m concerned, and it’s fine to opine about his positions on issues, but these gutter-level hit pieces will just reveal who really controls these publications (as if there was much doubt already).
“Time to face up to facts. Trump supporters are at the top of Mt. Sinai, the flames they see are his hair and everything that spews from his mouth (today, not yesterday) is gospel.”
And which side just had Glenn Beck call for a fast to get God’s favor for their candidate?
Whatever you might think of NR now, back in the day Wm. F. Buckley and his magazine were a lonely voice in a wilderness of an even more absolute Liberal hegemony than today. There’s no way to know for certain what Bill would think of Trump’s candidacy, but as a Conservative icon alongside people like Thomas Sowell, Milton Friedman, Barry Goldwater, and Ronald Reagan the chances are he’d be appalled at the Republican Party falling for an American version of Juan Domingo Peron.
National Review is CW’s favorite source also!
Trump thoroughly embarrassed the National Review and now those clowns are doubling down on their stupidity. I love it!!!
Go Trump!
More NR blah blah blah...again.
EVERYBODY running for President (and the Senate and the House and dogcatcher) are LIARS. What else is new?
One thing I like about Trump...if he’s going to talk dirty to you, it’s going to be to YOUR FACE, face to face.
That’s a heck of a lot better than throwing dirty darts behind one’s back.
For a man who supposedly hates truth, he sure does shine the light of truth on things around him.
"Liar! Liar! Liar All Lies !
Back in the day Woody Allen used to show NR on the racks in a pornography shop.
Four decades later I finally get the punchline.
LOL!
Not the point, genius. Cruz supporters, by and large, think Glenn Beck’s an idiot too; put me at the top of that list.
You, on the other hand, think everything Chump does or says is pure genius - even if it’s diametrically opposed to what he said last week.
>> everything that spews from his mouth (today, not yesterday) is gospel <<
Amen to that. Yesterday DT said the federal government should keep ownership of the 85% of Nevada lands that are now in federal hands. He said we should not give the lands to Nevada, should never sell them to private parties.
But just watch:
Sometime today he and/or his spokesperson will be out there to explain away the plain meaning of what he said yesterday. Seems to happen at least twice per week.
Just another sign of the DEAR LEADER’s brilliance?
>> Trump is a liar and thug <<
A bit harsh, doncha think?
I’d prefer to call him an insecure bully and paranoid narcissist.
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