Posted on 03/18/2016 12:35:24 AM PDT by Zakeet
Complete Headline: The Gloves Are Off: Trump Accuses Hillary Of Being "Involved In Corruption For Most Of Her Professional Life"
It's popcorn time.
Barely 24 hours after Trump launched his first Hillary attack ad in which he showed a laughing Putin respond to a barking Hillary, and shortly after Hillary's SuperPAC responded in kind with an ad of its own in which it used a Trump quote to mock him, the gloves are officially off, and now that both presidential candidates - both convinced they will face off against each other - are beyond the foreplay stage, the gloves have come off and the direct attacks are escalating rapidly.
So rapidly, in fact, that one may say Trump is risking a potential lawsuit with the following accusation (which, however, should not be too difficult to prove should one of Hillary's SuperPACs sue him for libel).
This is what Trump tweeted moments ago.
Hillary Clinton has been involved in corruption for most of her professional life!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 18, 2016
This is more than your typical political ad hominem - this is a material allegation with legal implications that goes to the core of Hillary's biggest weakness, her trustworthiness or complete lack thereof, and Trump's charges will only escalate from here on out, hopefully with actual examples. We look forward to Hillary's response.
One thing is certain: for the next six months, America will be entertained.
Not in a lawsuit. The statement doesn’t have to be proven true, only that he wasn’t extremely reckless or malicious in his statement.
“Involved in corruption”, sorry, means nothing to the supporters of Mr. and Mrs. Bill. They mean business!
You just don’t understand how much the “little guy” admires Mrs. Bill, but I can’t explain their unusual level of devotion.
Maybe Trump didn’t care for Rick Lazio, who was a Pataki person, wasn’t he? Pataki is really anti-Trump.
Oh take your BS and post it on DU.
I always wondered what they did with all those books.
“corruption for most of her professional life”
I thought corruption was her profession
Nope, truth is not the deciding factor with public figures - extreme recklessness or malicious intent in making the false statement is required. If the statement is true then the case gets thrown out pretty quickly.
Please, Hillary, do sue! The quote from the Watergate counsel guy will start the defense ball rolling... We need another trial of the century.
The exact same thing - why pretend you don’t know the answer? Tried to get a Casino license in Mass. Trump Tower Chicago. It’s a bad tree, you should bark up something else.
Holy hell.
This woke me right up. No one is saying this. It kind of needs its own thread.
“The statement that he was corrupt in a corrupt system starts with the admission that he was corrupt. Lots of businessmen are out their doing well and making profits without buying off every corrupt politician in Washington”
I can tell by this comment that you haven’t been involved in any major development projects in states like New York, Florida, Nevada or California. You would know better than to make that statement. The corruption does not start with the developer, who would much rather play above board, it’s far cheaper. The corruption starts with the political system that requires pay to play up and down the local, state and political hierarchy for the plethora of permits and approvals that the various levels of government require before you can even begin putting pen to paper to cost it out.
This is our government’s system - not the wish of businessmen, who need to make a project pencil out. If you want to do business at any level above a storefront in a strip mall, you will pay off politicians at some level of government. It’s a nasty system.
Can’t because of freedom of “speech” which includes money. Maybe we should have death penalty for those leaving the office, that might be easier.... ;)
I think they used them for a worm farm
Hillary Clinton has been involved in corruption for most of her professional life!
— Donald J. Trump
HELLO! Can ANYONE deny now that this guy should be the nominee? WHAT politician would EVER say this? This guy is the real deal, and he’s just getting started on this b*tch. 30 plus years of the Clintons skirting the law is about to END.
She would not be in open court for a very long time after the election.
How will he force them to build a wall?
She sues she will end up in jail and she knows it. Trump will obliterate her with mountains of evidence which will make prosecutors look like incompetent fools
He is the ONLY politician with the balls to do this, NONE of them else would even Cruz which is EXACTLY what is needed to beat this bitch in the election. There is no way in hell Cruz could beat her.
When you are the last one here, what are you going to do?
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