Posted on 01/20/2016 11:52:48 PM PST by nikos1121
We have never had total war against a candidate like we're seeing with Donald Trump. All elements of national media are uniting to stop him.
Look for a fake Trump scandal to break -- probably from a conservative news outlet -- right before the Iowa caucus.
A few months ago, an alleged Trump quote from a 1998 People magazine interview was circulating on the Internet, claiming Trump said that if he ever ran for president, he'd run as a Republican because Republican voters are "the dumbest group of voters in the country. They believe anything on Fox News. I could lie and they'd still eat it up."
I pay a lot for Nexis, and Trump has never said anything remotely resembling this. Snopes.com investigated, too, and also concluded the quote was a fake. But you can probably still find some idiot tweeting it out right now.
Last week, Glenn Beck "retweeted" a post allegedly tweeted by Trump the day after the 2012 election, saying: "I always vote for the winners! Congratulations to My Friend, @BarackObama!"
If that doesn't sound like Trump, it's because Trump never said it. Beck's retweet sure made it look real, but you can check Trump's Twitter archive.
All the stories about Trump being a fraud keep turning out to be the real frauds. I assume that, like most sentient beings, he's changed his mind about some things. But the one consistent thread running through his entire life is his love for this country and his fellow Americans.
The attacks on Trump from the "conservative" media calling him a socialist, a Democrat, a flip-flopper, a fake conservative are just name-calling. I notice that the accusers never include examples, not true ones, anyway. Here are some examples of how Trump has always been for Americans first. Wouldn't it be nice to have a president who likes us more than he likes foreigners -- and the rich donors who employ them?
In 1986, Trump saw a TV broadcast with Annabell Hill, whose 67-year-old husband had committed suicide 20 minutes before their family farm was to be auctioned off in a foreclosure sale, hoping the life insurance money would be enough to save the farm. It wasn't.
Trump immediately called Annabell, promising to save her farm and pledging $20,000 toward the effort. "Last night when he called, my heart went pitter patter," Annabell told ABC's "World News Tonight." "I never talked with a man with that much money before. And he assured me that one day the land would be mine. I thought, after I hung up, 'This can't be true, this just can't be true.'"
As Trump explained to The Atlanta Constitution at the time, "I've seen what's happened to farmers, but I was particularly interested in a lovely woman I saw, Annabell Hill."
Within a month of Trump's launching a national campaign with two other businessmen to save Annabell's farm, they had raised more than $100,000. One of the businessmen, Frank A. Argenbright Jr., said, "That is thanks totally to Mr. Trump and his organization. Most of the money has come from the New York area."
By Christmas that year, Annabell and her entire family flew to New York to burn the mortgage in the lobby of Trump Towers and have Christmas dinner with the Trump family. The lovely Annabell said, "Well, we have a real celebration not only to celebrate the birth of Jesus but also to celebrate the goodness in men's hearts."
Thirty years ago, Trump wasn't thinking about running for president. And yet, this is how he explained his campaign to save Annabell's farm, as quoted by The Associated Press: "We give a lot of money to foreign countries that don't give a damn about us, but we don't help the American farmers."
Two years later, Trump was interviewed by Larry King at the 1988 Republican National Convention. Please look up this interview -- it's fabulous.
Two things will be of particular interest. First, watch how Trump keeps circling back to praise Dan Quayle. King doesn't even ask him about Quayle -- a figure of media ridicule at the time because of his Midwest conservatism. It's Trump who keeps doggedly bringing up Quayle, in order to say, he's a "very impressive guy" who did "a great job -- I don't mean a good job, I mean a great job."
Second, Trump expressly rejects King's characterization of him as an "Eastern Republican," or a "Rockefeller Republican," saying the people he does best with are "the taxi drivers and the workers."
Trump's business is real estate, and real estate can't be outsourced. His flag is planted in this country. If America goes down, his empire goes down.
Conservative pundits keep assuring clueless viewers that Trump is not a "real Republican." They seem not to grasp that most viewers are saying, That's fantastic! Thanks for reminding me. (I look forward to conservative talk show hosts 20 years hence billing themselves as "Trump Republicans.")
Looking at what the party has become, I certainly hope he's not a "real Republican." I know he's a real American. Those used to be the same thing.
I don’t think it was her support of Romney. I think is was more her dissing of the TEa Party, and some pretty obscene articles. The things she said about Newt were bad.
i forget who appointed him.
that’s why you go with my people, the Italians :)
Alito, Scalia, who’s next?
we dont give a @##$ about the progressive movement.
we’re still semi recent, 2 or 3 generations in my neighborhood, and we have Great Pride and Love for the country we call home
being recent matters because you are told how bad the place you came from was at the time, compared to here!!
I no longer listen to Beck. Once I learned that he kept having Matt Bevin on to endorse him for Kentucky governor and that Matt Bevin’s hedge fund managed Beck’s money, I decided he is no better than the bigger networks who just have bigger money. Beck is trying to get Trump to give him money, that’s all. He gets louder and louder with the insults and figures Trump will pay him off. Sorry, Beck!
Sorry, I love Ann, but she got it wrong.....again.
No one is saying Trump is a “fake” Republican. They are saying he is a fake “Conservative.” Ann continues to think that being a Republican means you are a Conservative.
I’ve heard his interview at the 1988 repub convention is worth the view also.
Later today...
Helping someone who tugs at your heartstrings is all well and good. But there is a story out there about him vengefully cutting off medical coverage for a family member’s baby. Now I know there is always more to the story, and I have wondered if the child got the care it needed. What really bothered me was the fact that he seems to admit it and that he did that to a child because he was mad at the parents. If true it really does tell us what he is all about.
“I would trust Cruz way more on a few issues, particularly the appointment of judges[.]”
I’ve also given this a bit of thought. If the Donald is to reform immigration by, among other things, eliminating anchor babies, he’s going to need judges who will look closely at the 14th Amendment and its provision that citizenship is granted to persons born in the US to parents who are “subject to the jurisdiction” of the US. “Jurisdiction” as used in that context appears to refer to both physical jurisdiction and allegiance jurisdiction, allegiance jurisdiction being the idea that the child’s parents must legally owe their allegiance to the US and not another country. The only judge who’s likely to accept that interpretation of the 14th Amendment is a person who’s very strong on originalist construction. Thus, I think the Donald will appoint conservative judges and justices if he wants to enact his immigration program.
The subject of my comment was Beck, not Trump.
What part of my post do you think is ‘slander’? That Beck has given up alcohol? Or that he has been fired by a series of mentors for not cooperating with the 12 step program?
Or is it ‘slander’ to mention Beck’s painfully obvious delusions of grandeur? Please cite the ‘slander’ in my post.
The reason is simple. Who do we have higher expectations for? Our family and friends, that's who. When a stranger does something stupid you will probably comment and then move along. If it is someone close you you take it personal, usually as betrayal, almost treason.
Can you imagine the number of gold-diggers you have to deal with as a matter of course if you were in his shoes? Now imagine if the gold-diggers are in your family, or at least gold-digging lawyers backing members of your family against you. No-one except for a pathological masochistic pacifist dummy takes these things lying down.
I hope you don't actually believe some of the nonsense that his grand-nephew was left hanging without medical care! That whole thing *was* settled at some point.
Helping someone who tugs at your heartstrings is all well and good. But there is a story out there about him vengefully cutting off medical coverage for a family member's baby. Now I know there is always more to the story, and I have wondered if the child got the care it needed. What really bothered me was the fact that he seems to admit it and that he did that to a child because he was mad at the parents. If true it really does tell us what he is all about.
It's a 'Dan Rather'/MSM/elite liberal dirty trick... but I suspect the GOP Establishment will use it... Ann's got their number.
Trump, however is like the big bully on the street. He’s already gone after just about everyone who crosses him, whether it’s by destroying them verbally like Clinton or suing them, as in Univision.
He’s fearless. He spend a lot of time talking about the press and how they distort.
There’s not anything out there other than his ruthlessness when he want’s something.
He plays to win. He always has.
If the whole thing was settled to the benefit of the child, great. I am not a Trump supporter, you can see by my posts. I think ill enough of him, but I didn’t want to add something untrue to his negative column.
There are always two sides to every story, and I have no opinion either way about what took place as long as the bottom line is, the child got what he needed, and it wasn’t up to the taxpayers to provide it.
Here’s the difference:
Bernie’s a good person with ideas that won’t work, have never worked anywhere, and lead to totalitarian nightmares.
Hillary’s a monster with horrible ideas. She and her husband are evil. Anything they touch is damaged.
Cruz is a good man - a man of thought... Many of his ideas are correct - well thought out ... but Cruz won’t be able to implement his idea. He’s not strong enough or flexible enough to overcome the democrat machine or the Republican Establishment.
Trump’s a strong workaholic. If he’s pointed in the right direction, nothing - absolutely NOTHING - will stop him. He’s the right person for this time, but like Churchill - once he’s saved the world - he’ll be dumped... And yeah, Trump will save the country if given a chance. And after that he’ll need to be put out to pasture.
You’re right...
Both the left and right want Trump out of the way to continue pushing amnesty. They will get dirty to stop him. Trump will deport Hispanics and stop Islamic immigration. They can’t handle that.
My mistake as I read Fai Mao and erroneously thought you were talking Trump. Yes, Beck is out of it. He damn sure is on something. I was wrong to not read your post thoroughly. My apologies.
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