The Donald Trump Score Card

Discussion in 'Politicians' started by MeAgain, Nov 15, 2016.

  1. Okiefreak

    Okiefreak Senior Member

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    Rep. Trey Gowdy (Republican) of South Carolina says its time for Special Prosecutor Mueller to wrap up his investigation. Nothing to see here. Same Trey Gowdy chaired the congressional investigation into Hillary's alleged misconduct in Benghazi. That witch hunt took 2 1/2 years and yielded nothing. Maybe we should apply the same time frame to Mueller's inquiry.
     
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  2. egger

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    An article that speculates on the Broidy issue.

    Trump has engaged in underhanded behavior before and was caught recently when he finally admitted to being involved with Stormy Daniels.


    Here’s a Theory About That $1.6 Million Payout From a GOP Official to a Playboy Model
    by Paul Campos
    Updated on May 8, 2018 2:15 pm

    Theory: Playboy Model Who Got $1.6 Million Had Affair With Trump, Not Broidy

    excerpt:

    "Let me offer an alternative explanation of the affair and the payoff. It is still just a hypothesis, but, I would argue, it fits more comfortably with what we know about the various players than the reported version of events: Donald Trump, not Elliott Broidy, had an affair with Shera Bechard. Bechard hired Keith Davidson, who had negotiated both Playboy playmate Karen McDougal’s deal with the National Enquirer and Stormy Daniels’s NDA with Trump. Davidson called Cohen, and the two of them negotiated a $1.6 million payment to Bechard.

    At this point Cohen needed to find a funding source. Cohen asserts he took out a home equity loan to come up with a mere $130,000 to pay off Stormy Daniels, so it seems clear he couldn’t have fronted the $1.6 million for the Bechard deal himself. So Cohen reached out to Elliott Broidy, a very rich Republican fundraiser with several pending and highly lucrative business deals with foreign governments: deals that hinged on whether Broidy could convince the U.S. government to take various actions. By stepping up to take responsibility for the affair and to fund the seven-figure settlement, Broidy was ensuring that he could continue to peddle his influence with Trump to governments around the world.

    Which is to say, it was a cover-up concealing a bribe. Indeed, it turns out that Broidy not only has a history of bribing public officials, but of bribing them in an uncannily similar fashion to the method which I hypothesize he employed in this case.

    So, according to this hypothesis, when Cohen’s office was raided by federal prosecutors, they found documentation of what was actually a fabricated affair, concocted by Cohen and Davidson to create a justification for funneling Broidy’s money to Bechard, while creating a paper record designed to protect Trump from further exposure.

    This account — as bizarre as it may seem at first glance — is actually more plausible than the story leaked to the Journal, the New York Times, and CNN."
     
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  3. stormountainman

    stormountainman Soy Un Truckero

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    Egger, that exactly what I've been thinking. It was a false front show to protect Trumpy Dumpy before the public announcement about a presidential run. No one knows when the "investors" decided to put their money behind a Trump Run for office. They needed someone with appeal to the base and someone who they can claim an outsider. The rest of it was clean up the image work, so the Christian fundies would accept him.
     
  4. MeAgain

    MeAgain Dazed & Confused Lifetime Supporter Super Moderator

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    We used to call them "one way" motherf____s.
     
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  5. MeAgain

    MeAgain Dazed & Confused Lifetime Supporter Super Moderator

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    Fiat/Chrysler announced they have been developing contingency plans to combat Trump's trade tariffs.
    "On a massive scale".
    Analysts claim new tariffs will cost U.S. automakers 2 million light vehicle sales a year.
     
  6. themnax

    themnax Senior Member

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    just quoting YOUR conditions for entry, so make up your mind. how many of the 574 AMERICAN languages can you speak? english is not one of them.

    what do you know of the history of the rocks and dust beneath the pavement beneath your house?
    america is not rome, greece or england. AMERICAN history is eleven thousand years old. no one is "crying over spilt milk".

    just pointing out that euro-americans, are by your 'white supremist' OWN definician "illegal aliens".

    as for asia, yes it was here, twice. some time 2 or three thousand years ago, and also of course the bearing sea path of the three known ancient immigrations.

    and just as a btw, the meritme archaic wheren't "white". there was no such thing as a "white human" as recently as two or and most three, thousand years ago.

    your claim of legitimacy as to having a say as to whom is welcome and whom is not, lacks any factual basis.
     
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  7. GeorgeJetStoned

    GeorgeJetStoned Odd Member

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    I'm not justifying anything, just calling it as it is.
     
  8. GeorgeJetStoned

    GeorgeJetStoned Odd Member

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    Countries set the rules, I don't. This is a useless response to what I stated. You know very well what the primary language of the US happens to be, and it's not Uluru or what have you. But if this helps you feel superior, then have a participation trophy on me!
     
  9. stormountainman

    stormountainman Soy Un Truckero

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    Trump just wrote the Fair Trade And Reciprocal Act to attack the WTO (World Trade Organization) and this is no joke: It is called the FART Act!
     
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  10. egger

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    Trump Has a Bill That Would Blow Up the WTO. It’s Called the U.S. FART Act.
    by Eric Levitz
    July 2, 2018 10:04 am

    Trump Has a Bill That Would Blow Up the WTO. It’s Called the U.S. FART Act.

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    "Fortunately, all signs suggest that the FART Act is just a bunch of hot air. There is an approximately zero percent change that Congress would ever pass such a measure. For all the talk of Trump “transforming” the Republican Party, it remains the case that his signature immigration legislation — which would have upset a variety of business interests, by cutting legal immigration in half — failed to garner more than 38 GOP votes in the Senate. And the WTO bill would, of course, threaten corporate America far more than Trump’s immigration ambitions ever did. Anyhow, according to Axios, the White House has done essentially nothing to advance the legislation since it was drafted in late May.

    Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross tried to reassure markets of that latter point Monday morning, telling CNBC that the “WTO knows some reforms are needed. So I think there really is a need to update and synchronize its activities, and we’ll see where that leads. But I think it’s a little premature to talk about simply withdrawing from it.”

    And yet, at some point, the WTO is almost certain to veto the trade moves that Trump has already made. When that happens, there’s good reason to think that the president might force his congressional allies into a bitter, intra-party fight, by letting his FART loose — no matter how foul it smells to all but himself."
     
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  11. tumbling.dice

    tumbling.dice Visitor

    LMFAO! I'm tempted to support it just for the acronym!
     
  12. 6-eyed shaman

    6-eyed shaman Sock-eye salmon

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  13. unfocusedanakin

    unfocusedanakin The Archaic Revival Lifetime Supporter

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    So what is the point of that? Is that a good example of his proper place or is that naive 6?
     
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  14. egger

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    That news story about Bussa Krishna stems from a incident where a U.S. Navy veteran shot two people of Indian descent in February 2017 and killed one of them. It occurred at a time when there was an upsurge in hate crimes in the U.S. in the wake of Trump becoming President.

    The person using the photo of Trump has stated his sorrow for the Indian person in the U.S. who was killed in the shooting. He says he is trying to change the attitude of Trump. It's similar to attempting to give a heart to Ebenezer Scrooge or The Grinch but much more difficult.


    Srinivas Kuchibhotla killed in Kansas shooting:
    Who was the Indian engineer killed by xenophobic gunman?
    World FP Staff
    Feb 24, 2017 13:18:22 IST

    Srinivas Kuchibhotla killed in Kansas shooting: Who was the Indian engineer killed by xenophobic gunman? - Firstpost


    WATCH: Indian man worships Donald Trump as ‘god'
    by News Desk
    June 28, 2018

    WATCH: Indian man worships Donald Trump as ‘god' | The Express Tribune

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    "The idea struck him after Srinivas Kuchibhotla, a software engineer from the state, was killed by a US navy veteran in an alleged act of hate crime in February last year.

    “I was very much pained at the incident. I thought the only way the US president and his people could understand the greatness of Indians is to display our love and affection towards them. That is why I started worshipping Trump with a hope that the prayers would reach him one day,” he said.

    “I believe Indians can win over anyone with their spiritual powers. When you cannot take on a mighty person directly, you can win over him with love and worship and that is what I am doing,” he added."
     
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  15. Flagme15

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    and surprise surprise, these are trump supporters.
     
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  16. Noserider

    Noserider Goofy-Footed Member

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    Weather it's our own Spaceman Spiff or this Indian guy, I've noticed that some of Trump's biggest and most vocal supporters live in other countries.

    That says a lot...
     
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  17. stormountainman

    stormountainman Soy Un Truckero

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    Your home is with US O' Neo! We Love you...come to the Democrats O' Neo! Come and walk on the side of righteousness and goodness!
     
  18. egger

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    Trump vows to help Harley-Davidson competitors move into the U.S.
    CBS/AP
    July 3, 2018, 11:16 AM

    Trump vows to help Harley-Davidson competitors move into the U.S.

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    "President Donald Trump says his administration is courting motorcycle companies that want to move to the U.S. after Harley-Davidson disclosed last week it would move some assembly overseas.

    Harley-Davidson drew Mr. Trump's wrath last week after the manufacturer announced it's moving production of motorcycles sold in Europe to facilities outside the U.S. The company blamed the decision on tariffs imposed by the European Union to retaliate for tariffs President Trump has imposed on EU steel and aluminum products.

    Mr. Trump said Tuesday on Twitter that Harley-Davidson customers aren't happy with the Milwaukee-based company's announcement. He also noted that sales were down 7 percent in 2017, even though a sales drop last year cannot be attributed to Harley-Davidson's announcement last week."
     
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  19. Noserider

    Noserider Goofy-Footed Member

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    Nah. I've taken enough bashing in this thread to virtually guarantee that will never happen.
    Are the Democrats back on track?
     
  20. MeAgain

    MeAgain Dazed & Confused Lifetime Supporter Super Moderator

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    Boy I'll bet Yamaha, Honda, BMW, Ducati, and Kawasaki are gonna jump on that after the way Trump's been treating our allies.

    But Ural will probably move right in.
    [​IMG]
     
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