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To: artichokegrower

trump tried to take an elderly woman’s house, took advatage of working class people with his trump university scam so yeah trump is definitely not for the working class especially by supporting higher tarriffs which will have the working class pay more for products


20 posted on 03/21/2016 7:07:09 PM PDT by RginTN
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To: RginTN

LOL! Really stale post Rg, try to get some new material.


22 posted on 03/21/2016 7:10:34 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: RginTN
trump tried to take an elderly woman’s house,

Dear cretinous FRiend, I call and raise your despicable slander.

http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2015/12/26/that-time-when-donald-trump-saved-a-georgia-farm/

It happened in 1986, in the midst of the worst farm crisis since the Great Depression. In Burke County, on Georgia’s eastern border, farm after farm was folding.

On Feb. 4, Lenard Dozier Hill III, a third-generation occupant of his cotton-and-soybean acreage, was about to have his land sold out from under him. ”That morning, it was going to be auctioned off at the courthouse steps, so he committed suicide,” said Betsy Sharp, his daughter.

In the bedroom of the Hill home, along with the .22-caliber rifle that did the work, was a neat stack of life insurance policies and other papers on the nightstand. Hill had intended for the life insurance payout to cover most of his $300,000 debt and so save the family farm for another generation.

It was a grievous miscalculation. Most, if not all, life insurance policies include a clause that prohibits payment in cases of suicide. “He didn’t realize all that,” Sharp said.

Hill’s desperate act struck a chord. Reporters and TV crews descended on the Waynesboro church where the funeral was held. Vandals painted “farmer killer” on the door of the local bank.

Once the family realized the financial futility of Hill’s suicide, the burden of saving the farm fell on his widow, Annabel Hill, a 66-year-old teacher and social worker with gray hair and large glasses.

Argenbright was still at the airport when his assistant called. Someone claiming to be Donald Trump had just rung, offering to help Annabel Hill.

A suspicious Argenbright called the number and demanded proof of identity from the man who answered.

“Herschel Walker works for me,” the voice said. The former University of Georgia running back was the star of the New Jersey Generals, a United States Football League team owned by Trump. That was good enough.

“Well, Mr. Trump, I apologize,” Argenbright said.

Trump wrote that, in a phone call, he twisted the arm of a vice president of the Georgia bank that held the Hill mortgage.

“I said to the guy, ‘You listen to me. If you do foreclose, I’ll bring a lawsuit for murder against you and your bank, on the grounds that you harassed Mrs. Hill’s husband to his death.’ All of a sudden, the banker sounded very nervous and said he’d get right back to me. Sometimes it pays to be a little wild,” Trump wrote.

“I had just graduated from high school. He flew us to New York, and we went to Trump Towers and had breakfast with him,” said Betsy Sharp, who is now 49 and lives in Augusta.

“We saw a whole different side of him that was kindhearted, to reach out to us, to help us,” the daughter said. “Most people don’t know and see that side. All they see is just the ‘blurt’ that people put on the TV. They don’t see the other side of him, and that’s what my family got to experience.”

Betsy Sharp, now the manager of a surgery center in Columbia County, attended a Trump rally in Bluffton, S.C., this summer. But the candidate was rushed, and the two only had time to quickly shake hands. If asked, Sharp said she would be happy to campaign with him.

Her brother, by the way, is Leonard Dozier Hill IV. He still lives on the farm that Donald Trump saved.


29 posted on 03/21/2016 7:41:40 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! - voted Trump 2016 & Dude, Cruz ain't bona fide)
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To: RginTN
trump tried to take an elderly woman’s house, took advatage of working class people with his trump university scam so yeah trump is definitely not for the working class especially by supporting higher tarriffs which will have the working class pay more for products

Let me start to count the ways you are wrong.

1. He did not try to "take" an elderly woman's house. If anything he might have tried to buy her house.

2. 98 to 99% of Trump University students are satisfied with what they got for their money. This beats the heck out of the percentage of those who are satisfied with what they got for their taxes.

3. While i understand the argument you make about tariffs I have yet to meet a liberal who was will to apply the same thinking to corporate taxes. The only "correct" corporate tax rate is zero, because corporations pass taxes on to their customers and the rich can better afford it than the poor.

At least in the case of tariffs there are times when they are economically a good thing (anti-dumping and furthering foreign policy) and the ability to impose them is justified. There is no justification for corporate taxes.

43 posted on 03/21/2016 9:02:26 PM PDT by CurlyDave
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