Donald Trump Thread

[TMC]

The spin will be, we didn’t consider Ernst as a VP candidate.

It seems like people are running away from the VP spot, ad passing the hot potato.

I think they wanted her name out there so they could say they can say a woman was one of the “finalists”.

 

[TMC]

Gingrich would probably be a good choice. That way, he and Trump would each have had three wives apiece. I’m sure they would make a good team. And Gingrich is such a good guy. He divorced him first wife while she was in the hospital with cancer.

Supposedly Trump really likes Gingrich. I think he would be a disaster for the campaign. But I can’t see Trump going with a “boring” pick like Pence when Gingrich is available.

 

[meltzerboy]

Supposedly Trump really likes Gingrich. I think he would be a disaster for the campaign. But I can’t see Trump going with a “boring” pick like Pence when Gingrich is available.

Why do you think Gingrich would be a disaster for the campaign? I think Trump is a one-man disaster for his own campaign; anyone else would be beneficial.

 

[estesbob]

Trump beats expectations, raises $51 million with GOP in June

washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/07/06/trump-raises-51-million-with-gop-in-june-including-26-million-for-his-campaign/

 

[Al_Moritz]

Good article:

The Theology of Donald Trump

 

[Sy_Noe]

I am still waiting for his people to call. Even have my tax returns handy.

If you get invited to Mar-a-Lago for your photo-op, be sure to let us know so we can see you standing behind him like Christie was on those primary nights.

 

[TMC]

Why do you think Gingrich would be a disaster for the campaign? I think Trump is a one-man disaster for his own campaign; anyone else would be beneficial.

I think Gingrich will reinforce Trump’s worst qualities. Like Trump, he tends to hyperbole, likes to make shocking statements, and often speaks before checking facts. Gingrich is a smart and experienced politician, but he will make Trump (and the overall campaign) even hard to control (IMO).

Also, Gingrich does little to help Trump with conservatives. Gingrich (like Trump) has a history of supporting policies that are heresy to most conservatives - such as single payer health care.

 

[TMC]

If you get invited to Mar-a-Lago for your photo-op, be sure to let us know so we can see you standing behind him like Christie was on those primary nights.

I will probably be off fetching food for Trump - I assume the VP will take over that duty from Christie.

 

[TMC]

Trump beats expectations, raises $51 million with GOP in June

washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/07/06/trump-raises-51-million-with-gop-in-june-including-26-million-for-his-campaign/

A very good month for Trump. If he can keep up that pace he will still be a bit behind Hillary, but given their differences in style that may be enough.

 

[Ridgerunner]

Good article:

The Theology of Donald Trump

Terrible article.

If the writer doesn’t understand Trump any better than he understands Nietzsche, (whom he totally mischaracterizes) then he doesn’t understand him at all.

 

[GaryTaylor]

‘It’s corrupt! It’s rigged! It’s disgraceful!’ Trump lets it all hang out after Hillary FBI decision as he brands her ‘one of the most crooked politicians in history’ and claims she ‘bribed’ Loretta Lynch – as he calls Obama campaign stop a ‘carnival act’
Donald Trump spoke in Raleigh, North in his first public remarks since the FBI’s director announced Clinton wouldn’t be charged over her classified email scandal
He said Barack Obama ‘knew that the FBI was going to do this’ and it ‘was set up a long time ago’ so the president could campaign with Clinton hours after the announcement
One man in the audience yelled ‘Hang the b***ch!’ as Trump’s policy director warmed up the crowd
Trump claimed Attorney General Loretta Lynch accepted a bribe from Hillary Clinton by plotting to get her ‘off the hook’ in exchange for the possibility of keeping her job if Hillary wins the White House
‘She’s crooked Hillary! Don’t you understand that? This is one of the most crooked politicians in history!’ Trump boomed as he accused her of carrying out an ‘Enron-style purge’ of her emails
He said Bernie Sanders was the day’s big loser because he was hoping Hillary would be indicted: '‘He was waiting for the FBI primary, and he lost’

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3676285/Trump-brands-Hillary-one-crooked-politicians-history-claims-bribed-Loretta-Lynch-calls-Obama-s-campaign-stop-carnival-act.html

He said Bernie Sanders was the day’s big loser because he was hoping Hillary would be indicted: '‘He was waiting for the FBI primary, and he lost’

 

[estesbob]

Terrible article.

If the writer doesn’t understand Trump any better than he understands Nietzsche, (whom he totally mischaracterizes) then he doesn’t understand him at all.

I guess they would do an article on the theology of Hillary Clinton but it would be about one word long.Crooked

 

[Monte_RCMS]

Trump’s assets are mostly unique pieces of real estate, which are very hard to value unless and until they are put on the market. What difference does it make in terms of his political candidacy? Especially in contrast to Bill and Hillary Clinton, whose assets of some 100-200 millions of dollars consist almost entirely of recent gifts from corporations hoping to gain government favoritism.

Wow!

Trump only has $5 Billion.

22,450 employees.

No telling how much Bill and Hillary are actually worth.

I started reading “Clinton Cash” and have been outlining and taking notes. After two chapters, it looks like $105 million for Bill and $145 for Bill and Hillary [from “facilitating” (approvals from CFIUS … Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. … the transfer of U.S. uranium to Rosatom … in Russia … with Canadian intermediaries and the dictator of Kazakhistan]. [Somebody “said” it was 20% of U.S. uranium, but the book says 50%.]

No telling how high the Clinton totals will go. There are 11 chapters in the book.

Supposed to be tens of millions from Saudi Arabia and other places that disrespect women.

[Is it ALL from foreign countries???]

Stay tuned, as I continue to outline and summarize each chapter.

 

[Thorolfr]

From today’s Guardian:

Hillary Clinton fires up Atlantic City, a hotbed of anger against Donald Trump

The way Donald Trump tells it, his ventures in Atlantic City were wild successes. An outsider real estate developer from New York, he clawed his way to the top of this resort town’s gambling industry and then, with remarkable prowess and foresight, left before it all came crumbling down.

Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, speaking in view of the most recent casualty of Trump’s boardwalk empire, Trump Plaza, which closed in 2014, told it another way.

“What Donald Trump did in Atlantic City is nothing to brag about – it’s shameful – and every voter in America needs to know about it,” Clinton told the crowd gathered on the boardwalk in the sweltering summer heat.

theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/06/donald-trump-atlantic-city-hillary-clinton

 

[Songcatcher]

Hillary Clinton on her faith:

“ I am a person of faith. I am a Christian. I am a Methodist. I have been raised Methodist. I feel very grateful for the instructions and support I received starting in my family but through my church, and I think that any of us who are Christian have a constantly, constant, conversation in our own heads about what we are called to do and how we are asked to do it, and I think it is absolutely appropriate for people to have very strong convictions and also, though, to discuss those with other people of faith. Because different experiences can lead to different conclusions about what is consonant with our faith and how best to exercise it.

The idea you heard on the radio of looking at individuals, I think, is absolutely fair. My study of the Bible, my many conversations with people of faith, has led me to believe the most important commandment is to love the Lord with all your might and to love your neighbor as yourself, and that is what I think we are commanded by Christ to do, and there is so much more in the Bible about taking care of the poor, visiting the prisoners, taking in the stranger, creating opportunities for others to be lifted up, to find faith themselves that I think there are many different ways of exercising your faith. But I do believe that in many areas judgment should be left to God, that being more open, tolerant and respectful is part of what makes me humble about my faith, and I am in awe of people who truly turn the other cheek all the time, who can go that extra mile that we are called to go, who keep finding ways to forgive and move on. Those are really hard things for human beings to do, and there is a lot, certainly in the New Testament, that calls us to do that.

The famous discussion on the Sermon on the Mount should be something that you really pay attention to. There’s a lot of great Bible studies: What does the Sermon on the Mount really mean? What is it calling us to do and to understand? Because it sure does seem to favor the poor and the merciful and those who in worldly terms don’t have a lot but who have the spirit that God recognizes as being at the core of love and salvation.

So there is much to be learned and I have been very disappointed and sorry that Christianity, which has such great love at its core, is sometimes used to condemn so quickly and judge so harshly. When I think part of the message that I certainly have tried to understand and live with is to look at yourself first, to make sure you are being the kind of person you should be in how you are treating others, and I am by no means a perfect person, I will certainly confess that to one and all, but I feel the continuing urge to try to do better, to try to be kinder, to try to be more loving, even with people who are quite harsh.

So, I think you have to keep asking yourself, if you are a person of faith, what is expected of me and am I actually acting the way that I should? And that starts in small ways and goes out in very large ones, but it’s something that I take very seriously. So thank you for asking.”

Trump on his faith:

“I think if I do something wrong, I think, I just try and make it right. I don’t bring God into that picture. I don’t.”

“When I drink my little wine — which is about the only wine I drink — and have my little cracker, I guess that is a form of asking for forgiveness, and I do that as often as possible because I feel cleansed."

 

[Monte_RCMS]

Wow!

Trump only has $5 Billion.

22,450 employees.

No telling how much Bill and Hillary are actually worth.

I started reading “Clinton Cash” and have been outlining and taking notes. After two chapters, it looks like $105 million for Bill and $145 for Bill and Hillary [from “facilitating” (approvals from CFIUS … Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. … the transfer of U.S. uranium to Rosatom … in Russia … with Canadian intermediaries and the dictator of Kazakhistan]. [Somebody “said” it was 20% of U.S. uranium, but the book says 50%.]

No telling how high the Clinton totals will go. There are 11 chapters in the book.

Supposed to be tens of millions from Saudi Arabia and other places that disrespect women.

[Is it ALL from foreign countries???]

Stay tuned, as I continue to outline and summarize each chapter.

I just added them up and the book has 550 footnotes … actually they are END notes. But they are very detailed. Anyone “into” political money would enjoy reading this book. “Clinton Cash” by Peter Schweizer.

 

[GaryTaylor]

I am a person of faith. I am a Christian. I am a Methodist.

We know she is excessively careless and reckless and we should pray for sister HIllary but what are her new thoughts, I mean the Methodist amended their ways in the Lords Kingdom, and we all know there no escaping the Kingdom come…

lifenews.com/2016/05/20/united-methodist-church-quits-pro-abortion-coalition-after-years-of-promoting-abortion/

So, I think you have to keep asking yourself, if you are a person of faith, what is expected of me and am I actually acting the way that I should?

“is a one-sided political lobby that opposes all disapproval or limitation of abortion. RCRC’s advocacy often directly contradicts our Social Principles on abortion, but it still uses our Church’s name. Several annual conferences and many United Methodist leaders have urged the Church to end all association with RCRC.”

Does Hillary’s church remain a member of RCRC?

Maybe we are all moving to unity! Unless Hillary thinks she is God which the Bishop has suggested.

breitbart.com/national-security/2015/05/03/bishop-pro-abort-hillary-clinton-thinks-she-is-a-god/

I believe there are three groups of people in this world: those who believe in God, those who do not believe in God, and those who think they are gods. Hillary Clinton I think is one of those who thinks she is a god,” said Badejo, who is Director of Communications for the African Bishops.

I believe so and yesterday would further convince anyone.

 

[meltzerboy]

Hillary Clinton on her faith:

Trump on his faith:

That’s quite a contrast, and rather amusing too.

 

[Thorolfr]

That’s quite a contrast, and rather amusing too.

It sounds like Trump is a teetotaler except when he’s having his wine and crackers.

 

[estesbob]

You’re going to be looking at a long 4 years of Hillary Clinton if Donald Trump is nominated at the Republican convention. It’s not too late to demand that the convention rules change!

Latest Ramussen poll has him 5 points up He is going to be the nominee and may very well win. If he does the Democrats can blame themselves for picking such a crooked congenital liar as their nominee. We really shouldn’t say nominated as she was coronated eight years ago to be this year’s standard bearer.