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Reid: Trump is a 'hateful con man'
The Hill ^ | July 27, 2016 | Alexander Bolton

Posted on 07/27/2016 4:52:44 PM PDT by jazusamo

Greg Nash

Speaking for the last time at a Democratic convention as a party leader or elected official, Senate Minority LeaderHarry Reid (Nev.) used the occasion Wednesday to unload on Donald Trump, calling him a “hateful con man.”

Reid blamed what he called the divisive tactics of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and other congressional Republicans for enabling Trump’s rise.

“His Republican Party decided that the answer to hard-working Americans' dreams is to slander our African-American president, stoke fear of Muslims, sow hatred of Latinos, insult Asians, and, of course, wage war against women,” Reid said.

“In other words, the only thing Republicans, like Mitch McConnell, have accomplished is setting the stage for a hateful con man, Donald Trump.”

Reid has served as the Senate Democrats’ leader since the 2004 election and helped pass some of the party’s biggest legislative accomplishments, such as the 2010 Affordable Care Act.

But his parting speech to the convention didn’t dwell on sentiment and memories, focusing instead on the party’s next generation of leaders such as Catherine Cortez Masto, who’s running for his Nevada seat, and Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Clinton’s running mate.

“In a few months, I'll be stepping out of the ring, one last time. But Democrats will always — always — be in your corner. So together, let's keep fighting, together; fighting the good fight!” he said, alluding to his younger days as a semi-professional boxer.

True to his reputation as a pugilistic politician, he didn’t leave the stage without a hard parting shot at the GOP.

He argued that Trump and his running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R), want to put insurance companies in charge of the healthcare system, give free rein to banks and “gamble” with retirement benefits by encouraging people to adopt private investment accounts instead of Social Security.

“Republicans want to tear down the pillars of middle-class security. We won’t let that happen,” he said.



TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: 2016dncconvention; 2016election; dingyharry; dirtbag; reid; trump
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To: jazusamo

and next Trump: Reid is a ‘hateful con man’


61 posted on 07/27/2016 5:34:01 PM PDT by reaganaut (I'm looking forward to Trump as President. I'm an Evangelical and I vote.)
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To: jazusamo

//“His Republican Party decided that the answer to hard-working Americans’ dreams is to slander our African-American president, stoke fear of Muslims, sow hatred of Latinos, insult Asians, and, of course, wage war against women,” //

Same can be said of Reid’s own Mormon church...


62 posted on 07/27/2016 5:35:06 PM PDT by reaganaut (I'm looking forward to Trump as President. I'm an Evangelical and I vote.)
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To: jazusamo

That picture looks like an elderly Bonnie and Clyde.


63 posted on 07/27/2016 5:36:04 PM PDT by bkopto
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To: Karl Spooner

I don’t think he will change. But I hope he does. I would never want to see someone go to hell.


64 posted on 07/27/2016 5:37:00 PM PDT by castlegreyskull
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
I cannot WAIT until the last of these evil Socialist grifters are GONE!

It won't end with this bunch. The DNC produces this socialist army the way Orcs and Uruk-hais were created at Saruman's castle. Each generation just gets worse and more bold.

65 posted on 07/27/2016 5:43:39 PM PDT by Major Matt Mason (Those that can, do, those that can't, work in the Beltway.)
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To: mothball

Sorry, FIFY? Don’t know that one.


66 posted on 07/27/2016 5:46:41 PM PDT by piytar (http://www.truthrevolt.org/videos/bill-whittle-number-one-bullet)
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To: Jamesmm
Michael Salamone on Twitter: “The Democrats are bussing in actors to fill space after kicking half the party out. This is not a convention. Just a con.” http://investmentwatchblog.com/michael-salamone-on-twitter-the-democrats-are-bussing-in-actors-to-fill-space-after-kicking-half-the-party-out-this-is-not-a-convention-just-a-con/

Well I got me some dumb a$$ rellies just eating this stuff up, cannot wait to pull the lever for the high priestest of abortion and all things perverted.
67 posted on 07/27/2016 6:02:33 PM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Jane Long

A talking turd wearing shades...should be in the circus.


68 posted on 07/27/2016 6:13:51 PM PDT by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: jazusamo

And Hillary is a whore,l:


69 posted on 07/27/2016 6:15:15 PM PDT by DownInFlames
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To: jazusamo

Wish I could get Reid to say bad stuff about me.

Lucky Donald.


70 posted on 07/27/2016 6:19:45 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

“But then, this man has most likely NOT lived his life like your Grandpa or mine!”

After a hundred million innocent dead in the twentieth century, no liberal is entitled to the slightest consideration, courtesy, or civility. Liberals should be reviled, abominated, spat upon, even beaten, whenever they have the gall to show their faces in the presence of decent people.


71 posted on 07/27/2016 6:26:46 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: Col Frank Slade
Trump is over the target. Heavy flack incoming.


72 posted on 07/27/2016 6:28:23 PM PDT by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: jazusamo

A con man calling Trump a what?


73 posted on 07/27/2016 6:28:43 PM PDT by jetson
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Too bad the Mob didn’t use a better treadmill.../s


74 posted on 07/27/2016 6:37:36 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: jazusamo
a 'hateful con man'

Projection alert!

75 posted on 07/27/2016 7:08:35 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (We will no longer surrender this country to the false song of globalism. --Donald Trump)
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To: jazusamo

%ep, like most ‘Rats, pure Projection.


76 posted on 07/27/2016 7:33:39 PM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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To: jazusamo

These DemonRATs are just taking http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=3453734%2C1#helpthe talking points that Cruz spewed out against Trump. The Cruz misinformation polluted the political landscape like a toxic waste dump. All the DemonRATs have to do is scoop it up and throw it at Trump. If Trump takes the time to respond to all of it, he wastes media time for his offensive against der Hildebeast.


77 posted on 07/27/2016 8:08:12 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
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To: doc maverick

Spot on. The DemonRATs are going to take Cruz’s playbook chapter and verse. Damn that Cruz for putting out all that crap.


78 posted on 07/27/2016 8:10:01 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
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To: jazusamo

Goes to D.C. as Poor as Hillary Clinton.

Leaves D.C. as Rich as Hillary Clinton.


79 posted on 07/27/2016 8:10:13 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Hillary Clinton has killed four more People than Three Mile Island.)
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To: jazusamo

Mr. Pot meet Mr. Black, and whats with the sun shades?


80 posted on 07/27/2016 9:23:07 PM PDT by longhorn too
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