Clinton Up 6 on Trump in Two-Way Race in Bloomberg National Poll

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Michael68 said:
I ask about lies and you give me a biased opinion piece?
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For what it’s worth I’m reading a piece in the New Yorker about Trump’s ghostwriter on ‘The Art of the Deal’ and he claims Trump lies regularly and compulsively - in his business dealings at least.

The relevant quote being '“Lying is second nature to him,” Schwartz said. “More than anyone else I have ever met, Trump has the ability to convince himself that whatever he is saying at any given moment is true, or sort of true, or at least ought to be true.” Often, Schwartz said, the lies that Trump told him were about money—“how much he had paid for something, or what a building he owned was worth, or how much one of his casinos was earning when it was actually on its way to bankruptcy.” Trump bragged that he paid only eight million dollars for Mar-a-Lago, but omitted that he bought a nearby strip of beach for a record sum. After gossip columns reported, erroneously, that Prince Charles was considering buying several apartments in Trump Tower, Trump implied that he had no idea where the rumor had started. (“It certainly didn’t hurt us,” he says, in “The Art of the Deal.”) Wayne Barrett, a reporter for the Village Voice, later revealed that Trump himself had planted the story with journalists. Schwartz also suspected that Trump engaged in such media tricks, and asked him about a story making the rounds—that Trump often called up news outlets using a pseudonym. Trump didn’t deny it. As Schwartz recalls, he smirked and said, “You like that, do you?” ’
 
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For what it’s worth I’m reading a piece in the New Yorker about Trump’s ghostwriter on ‘The Art of the Deal’ and he claims Trump lies regularly and compulsively - in his business dealings at least.

The relevant quote being '“Lying is second nature to him,” Schwartz said. “More than anyone else I have ever met, Trump has the ability to convince himself that whatever he is saying at any given moment is true, or sort of true, or at least ought to be true.” Often, Schwartz said, the lies that Trump told him were about money—“how much he had paid for something, or what a building he owned was worth, or how much one of his casinos was earning when it was actually on its way to bankruptcy.” Trump bragged that he paid only eight million dollars for Mar-a-Lago, but omitted that he bought a nearby strip of beach for a record sum. After gossip columns reported, erroneously, that Prince Charles was considering buying several apartments in Trump Tower, Trump implied that he had no idea where the rumor had started. (“It certainly didn’t hurt us,” he says, in “The Art of the Deal.”) Wayne Barrett, a reporter for the Village Voice, later revealed that Trump himself had planted the story with journalists. Schwartz also suspected that Trump engaged in such media tricks, and asked him about a story making the rounds—that Trump often called up news outlets using a pseudonym. Trump didn’t deny it. As Schwartz recalls, he smirked and said, “You like that, do you?” ’
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I wish I had a link to it. I was watching one of the political commentary shows, it may have been John Oliver. And he actually played a clip of Trump calling in to a news outlet with a scoop in this manner pretending to be a third party employee of the Trump organization. When it was very clearly Trump.
 
Padres1969 said:
I wish I had a link to it. I was watching one of the political commentary shows, it may have been John Oliver. And he actually played a clip of Trump calling in to a news outlet with a scoop in this manner pretending to be a third party employee of the Trump organization. When it was very clearly Trump.
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I googled that story. Here’s what came up on page 1;

Donald Trump masqueraded as publicist to brag about himself - The …
washingtonpost.com/…/donald-trump…barron/…/02ac…The Washington Post
May 13, 2016 - A “John Baron,” described as a “vice-president of the Trump organization,” appeared in a front-page New York Times article as early as 1980, …
Donald Trump’s ‘John Miller’ interview is even crazier than you think …
washingtonpost.com/…/donald-trumps-john-miller-int…The Washington Post
May 16, 2016 - The name Trump assumed varied slightly — “John Miller,” John Barron," and “John Baron” — but the goal didn’t: Tout Trump as a hyper-cool, …
The amazing story of Donald Trump’s old spokesman, John Barron …
washingtonpost.com/…/the-amazing-story-of-donald-t…The Washington Post
Mar 21, 2016 - Update: The Post’s Marc Fisher and Will Hobson are out with a fuller look at Trump’s use of both Barron and another false name – John Miller …
Donald Trump admits to using aliases two weeks after denying it | US …
www.theguardian.com › US News › Donald TrumpThe Guardian
May 26, 2016 - Less than two weeks after denying that he ever pretended to be a publicist named John Miller or John Barron in promoting his business affairs …
Meet Donald Trump. I mean John Miller. I mean John Barron …
www.dailykos.com/…/-Meet-Donald-Trump-I-mean-John-Miller-I-mean-Jo…
Daily Kos
May 16, 2016 - This may literally be the most Donald Trump thing Donald Trump could … He would task John Miller with being his press secretary; John Barron …
Donald Trump has posed as ‘John Barron’ many times before - NY …
www.nydailynews.com/…/donald-trump-posed-john-barron-times…New York Daily News
May 13, 2016 - Donald Trump repeatedly denied ever posing as his own publicist on Friday. But in court in 1990, Trump testified under oath that “On occasion I …
Donald Trump’s Long, Strange History of Using Fake Names - Fortune

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Donald Trump’s Long, Strange History of Using Fake Names | Fortune

Trump used two aliases over at least a decade and he now practices a new form of verbal trickery.
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May 18, 2016 - I know from my work as Trump’s biographer that even prior to the John Miller episode, Trump had posed as John Baron (or Barron). A close …
Reports Say Trump Posed His Own PR Agent Named John Miller Or …
www.npr.org/2016/05/13/477976042/-memeoftheweek-donald-trumps-alter-egoNPR
May 13, 2016 - Donald Trump meets his spokesman John Miller (h/t … Obama” during the last 8 years you have to call Trump “John Miller” or “John Barron.”.
Donald Trump on recording: Not me - CNNPolitics.com
www.cnn.com/2016/05/…/donald-trump-recording-john-miller-barron-fake-pres…
CNN
May 13, 2016 - Donald Trump said Friday that a newly resurfaced recording of a man … as a publicist named John Miller or John Barron, advocating for himself …
Remembering John Barron, Donald Trump’s ‘Spokesman’ Alter Ego …
www.vice.com/…/remembering-john-barron-donald-trumps-spokesman-alter-ego…
Vice
Nov 6, 2015 - Because throughout the 1980s, Donald J. Trump was John Barron—a literal alter ego that allowed Trump to say what he wanted, when he …
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Padres1969 said:
I wish I had a link to it. I was watching one of the political commentary shows, it may have been John Oliver. And he actually played a clip of Trump calling in to a news outlet with a scoop in this manner pretending to be a third party employee of the Trump organization. When it was very clearly Trump.
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He could be his own communications director, after winning the election.
 
Trump looks and sounds very presidential today! Polls are gonna tighten even more
 
Michael68 said:
Trump looks and sounds very presidential today! Polls are gonna tighten even more
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Answering questions from reporters after the two addresses, Donald Trump told journalists that he and Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto did not discuss who would pay for his proposed wall along the 2,000-mile border between the United States and Mexico.
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Trump has said before that Mexico would be forced to pay for the wall’s construction.
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“We’re saving that discussion for a later date.”
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theguardian.com/us-news/live/2016/aug/31/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-mexico-us-election-livedonald-trump-hillary-clinton-mexico-us-election-live

I’m glad that he didn’t tell the Mexican president that Mexico would have to pay for the wall because Peña Nieto has already said that Mexico won’t pay for it.

I guess that Mr. Trump has changed his mind about Mexicans mostly being criminals:
“Mexicans are just beyond reproach,” Trump said. “Spectacular, spectacular and hardworking people.”
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Michael68 said:
Trump looks and sounds very presidential today! Polls are gonna tighten even more
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One day of looking and sounding presidential is worth noting. However, a four year term requires that he put together 1460 days of looking and sounding presidential. If past experience is any guide, that is going to be difficult for Donald Trump. He can seem to stop himself from saying something cringeworthy on a regular basis.
 
Exiled_Child said:
NPR seems to have reported on Trump more than any other single American source. That’s my impression, anyway.
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Has it been negative, positive or both? I’m finding the mainstream media ( NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC ) are all going negative on Trump 24/7
 
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