Posted on 02/23/2016 5:53:47 AM PST by reaganaut1
Among South Carolina Republicans who preferred above all else a candidate “who tells it like it is,†77 percent voted for Donald J. Trump.
That is astonishing, given that Donald Trump’s entire life has been an extended exercise in deception.
Start with his wealth. How much is Donald Trump worth? $1.7 billion? $6 billion? “TEN BILLION DOLLARS,†as he claimed in his presidential filing? Tim O’Brien, 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 Trump’s finances have put the number significantly lower.
And Trump has admitted to lying about his wealth. “Have you ever exaggerated in statements about your properties?†he was asked during a deposition in the mid 2000s. “I think everyone does,†Trump replied. “Does that mean that sometimes you’ll inflate the value of your properties in your statements?†the lawyer followed up. Trump: “Not beyond reason.â€
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Then there are Trump’s 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 Trump’s 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?)
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So now it's Nevada's fault that the feds own 85% of Nevada land? Brilliant!
Said the mainstream media.
And beyond my point about cheap labor and bad trade deals, is the fact that the Tea Party handed the GOP the power to fight Obama, and for the most part the GOPe has rolled over instead. So tell me how doing the same thing over and over again makes sense?
And... Like we don't all know that problem? So you think electing a would-be king is going to fix it? Really???
Trump may or may not be the answer. Only time will tell. But I know what ISN'T the answer - more of the same.
Actually, we were getting somewhere, having taken 31 State houses and both houses of Congress, and are giving up because of a feckless leadership we've culled significantly when handed the first opportunity to have a conservative government since 1924. We were doing great when we got rid of Cantor but didn't get McConnell. So we have a few more to cull. Why just give up?
And the voters.
And... Like we don't all know that problem? So you think electing a would-be king is going to fix it? Really???
Would-be king? Hyperbole much?
Actually, we were getting somewhere, having taken 31 State houses and both houses of Congress, and are giving up because of a feckless leadership we've culled significantly when handed the first opportunity to have a conservative government since 1924. We were doing great when we got rid of Cantor but didn't get McConnell. So we have a few more to cull. Why just give up?
Yeah we got rid of Bohner and got ... Ryan.
Yeah Trump!
He’s also paying off about a half billion in outstanding loans. Income doesn’t always equal profit.
Seems to be the pattern about 65-70% of the time for your typical Trumpsters:
You point out any misdeed by Trump, any prevarication or outrageous statement issuing forth from the lips of his Worshipful Highness, and DT's lemming-like followers almost invariably will justify their Idol's deeds or words by saying that Obama did something even more terrible, Hilary said something even worse, Cruz is a bigger liar, etc. etc. etc.
In other words, in the system of air-tight Trumpistic logic, two wrongs can always make a right, as long as the other side's wrongs are at least a little bit worse than wrongs committed by the Dear Leader.
Got it!
So two wrongs make a right?
Is that it?
Somebody on NR's favored list might have been a draft dodger, so it's immaterial if DT had a questionable 4F?
Love it!
>> Trump is PEELING the Media DeathStar for all that cash equivalency. He doesn’t need a billion dollars <<
Wait until the General, my FRiend, wait until the General.
At that point, the media will chew him up so thoroughly and spit him out so powerfully that heads will spin, will go into orbit, will explode.
And when we reach that point, moreover, even a billion might not be enough to win the day.
Trump is the Briar Patch Kid. “Throw me in there!”
For him there is NO bad publicity, none.
And for large part, because they can’t take away his nuclear Tweets and they keep on playing into them.
I've seen this rodeo more than once.
At that point, the media will chew him up so thoroughly and spit him out so powerfully that heads will spin, will go into orbit, will explode.
Trump is the only person I've ever seen to absorb the direct beam from the Media DeathStar, laugh, and grow stronger.
I think you're misunderestimating The Orange One.
In other words, in the system of air-tight Trumpistic logic, two wrongs can always make a right, as long as the other side's wrongs are at least a little bit worse than wrongs committed by the Dear Leader.
Say, I wonder if Cruz is going to go 0 for Nevada today, like he went 0 for South Carolina?
BTW - did you hear that The TrumperTantrum peeled Rubio for a delegate in New Hampshire?
It is to laugh. :)
Amazing that you can't even admit Trump should not have done it.
The FRumpters will hail the nomination of Rubio/Romney/Kasich as VP selection as very smart politics.
Cruz is not a VP type, I just hope Trump is smart enough to nominate his as Attorney General.
Not a bit.
Yeah we got rid of Bohner and got ... Ryan.
McCarthy too. Two down, two to go.
No, just that NR won’t bust their GOPe friends as they do DT on a daily or hourly basis. Hypocrites.
From what I’ve read the two figures are referring to Trumnp’s US assests and the other is assets in other countries.
National Review doesn’t want their apple cart (ie the present political system) upset.
Interesting that a huge financial backer of Breitbart is a heavy Cruz supporter. I wonder what $$ is behind Nat’l Review.
Exactly. Derbershire tells the truth. When people hate the truth, they are no longer worth listening to.
But here a few links to question NR's conservative bona fides:
My understanding having read it here is that Trump earns nearly $400,000,000 a year from his Privately held Company, Trump Enterprises.
Are we now going the Harry Reid trick that was used aganst Romney about releasing his Tax Returns? Remember Harry saying that he heard from an friend that Romney hadn’t paid Income Taxes for ten years.
The difference of course is simple, Romney was embarrassed by his Wealth, Trump is not so he won’t be shamed into anything.
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