# Donald Trump's 2016 General Election Campaign
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901
**Category:** Politics & Elections
**Created:** [May 4, 2016, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901 "2016-05-04T02:37:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2016, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5463 "2016-08-31T05:09:41Z")
I may go to church and light a candle, asking God to have the Mexican President openly state, to Trump, in front of cameras, “We will never pay for your wall.”
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2016, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5464 "2016-08-31T05:20:12Z")
[Trump Is Sure Hillary ‘Used Chemicals’ To Delete Her Emails](http://crooksandliars.com/2016/08/trump-sure-hillary-used-chemicals-delete)
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> Someone should inform Donald Trump of that fact, because this is what he told his audience in Everett, Washington Tuesday night.
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> “33,000 emails that she deleted,” he fumed. “They’re gone!”
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> It was actually her lawyers that deleted them, but let’s not dwell on facts.
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> “Not only deleted, folks. This was after she she was subpoenaed by Congress,” he droned on.
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> “And not only that, she BLEACHED which somebody said they’d never even heard of,” Trump blithered. “In a very expensive fashion, used chemicals so that nobody will ever be able to see them.”
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### Author:  [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2016, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5465 "2016-08-31T05:23:17Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#):
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> Steve Bannon: [The left doesn’t like conservative women because they aren’t dykes who attended Seven Sisters schools.](http://crooksandliars.com/2016/08/trumps-ceo-steve-bannon-left-vilifies)
Steverino went to Harvard Business School, so why doesn’t he know the old Ivy saying “Smith to bed; Mount Holyoke to wed!” ?
That’s what I was taught at Yale. Does this mean Bannon is a mincing pinky-raising fudge-packer who never learned how to properly screw Seven Sisters women? And that he and Trump are trading lacy ladies’ lingerie to wear under their manly power suits?
I’ve been hearing this from a LOT of people. Somebody has to find out what’s going on!
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### Author:  [@coremelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coremelt)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2016, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5466 "2016-08-31T06:05:46Z")
“And not only that, she BLEACHED which somebody said they’d never even heard of,” Trump blithered. "
To be fair strong bleach is corrosive to metal, so if you drilled holes in hard drives and poured bleach into them that would probably make it harder to recover the data than just drilling holes through the platters. Somehow I don’t think thats what he means. :dubious:
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### Author:  [@coremelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coremelt)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2016, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5467 "2016-08-31T06:09:40Z")
> [@JohnT](#):
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> But that’s not even the craziest thing to happen tonight! PPP has released a poll that shows [31% of Trump’s supporters want an ‘Atlantic Wall’ to keep Muslims out.](http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2016/08/clinton-national-lead-steady.html)
Obviously they’ve been watching Pacific Rim and they’re worried that millions of muslims will somehow merge together and form a 100 meter tall Kaiju. It can only be a matter of time until we get giant robot suits to battle them… Cool !
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2016, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5468 "2016-08-31T06:12:32Z")
> [@coremelt](#):
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> Obviously they’ve been watching Pacific Rim and they’re worried that millions of muslims will somehow merge together and form a 100 meter tall Kaiju. It can only be a matter of time until we get giant robot suits to battle them… Cool !
And the pilots will be called Jaeger Masters.
_flees_
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2016, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5469 "2016-08-31T06:37:15Z")
Release the hounds.
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2016, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5470 "2016-08-31T06:42:32Z")
Well, sure, if she printed out all her e-mails, then they are on paper, right? Not on the computer any more, just the paper. So, sure, she could bleach the printed paper until the letters dissolved, yeah, that would work. And then the e-mails would be gone!
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2016, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5471 "2016-08-31T07:00:51Z")
[QUOTE=The Orange-Haired Orangutan on 'roids]
“And not only that, she BLEACHED which somebody said they’d never even heard of,” Trump blithered. “In a very expensive fashion, used chemicals so that nobody will ever be able to see them.”
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There are no words.
Oh, wait, I came up with some. Illiterate, idiotic, infantile, irrational, inexperienced ignoramus.
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### Author:  [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2016, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5472 "2016-08-31T07:19:24Z")
Not to defend Donald Trump, but democrats should not be pursuing the Bleach criticism. They could end up being labeled as less tech savvy than the Trump campaign. “BleachBit” is the name of software used to securely delete files so that they cannot be recovered.
The Wikipedia article on it even mentions Clinton’s alleged use of it.
> **[BleachBit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BleachBit)**
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> BleachBit is a free and open-source disk space cleaner, privacy manager, and computer system optimizer. The BleachBit source code is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
> BleachBit was first publicly released on 24 December 2008 for Linux systems. The 0.2.1 release created some controversy by suggesting Linux needed a registry cleaner.
> Version 0.4.0 introduced CleanerML, a standards-based markup language for writing new cleaners. On May 29, 2009, BleachBit version 0.5.0 added...
I can’t say if Trump said that thinking that it was actual chemical bleach, but he can at least plausibly claim that he knew it was software.
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### Author:  [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2016, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5473 "2016-08-31T08:01:01Z")
> [@davidm](#):
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> I can’t say if Trump said that thinking that it was actual chemical bleach, but he can at least plausibly claim that he knew it was software.
The next thing he said was, “In a very expensive fashion, used chemicals so that nobody will ever be able to see them.”
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### Author:  [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2016, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5474 "2016-08-31T08:17:47Z")
> [@Lance\_Turbo](#):
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> The next thing he said was, “In a very expensive fashion, used chemicals so that nobody will ever be able to see them.”
You know. _Software_ chemicals.
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### Author:  [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2016, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5475 "2016-08-31T09:25:22Z")
LOL at “people who leave voicemails in the year 2016” being one of the choices.
> [@Smapti](#):
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> Can we find some way to make him stay there? You know, just until we figure out what is going on.
Hahahaha! Nice one.
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### Author:  [@soonerblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soonerblue)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2016, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5476 "2016-08-31T10:00:57Z")
> [@DonLogan](#):
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> […] Conway keeps dribbling the ball until her interlocutor gives up, which is usually only two tries. People knew Katrina was a dumb shit, so they didn’t make it easy for her. Conway looks them right in the eye with the look that says, I can do this all night, you’re not getting the ball.
Yep, it’s quite a talent. Dan Rather told Rachel Maddow: “Kellyanne Conway can talk the legs off a table.”
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### Author:  [@soonerblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soonerblue)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2016, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5477 "2016-08-31T10:13:40Z")
> [@Smapti](#):
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> Can we find some way to make him stay there? You know, just until we figure out what is going on.
Good one.
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### Author:  [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2016, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5478 "2016-08-31T10:19:55Z")
It would be funny if the Mexican government, citing tightened immigration laws, turned him away at the border.
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### Author:  [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2016, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5479 "2016-08-31T10:49:48Z")
> [@Smapti](#):
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> Can we find some way to make him stay there? You know, just until we figure out what is going on.
Maybe build a wall?
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### Author:  [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2016, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5480 "2016-08-31T11:39:25Z")
> [@Lance\_Turbo](#):
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> The next thing he said was, “In a very expensive fashion, used chemicals so that nobody will ever be able to see them.”
> [@Smapti](#):
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> You know. _Software_ chemicals.
Okay. I get it. I missed that part. Statement retracted. The idiot probably saw the word bleach and cluelessly misinterpreted it as chemical bleach.
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### Author:  [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2016, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5481 "2016-08-31T12:01:07Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#):
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> LOL at “people who leave voicemails in the year 2016” being one of the choices.
> …
Yeah. That struck me as strange too. There’s something wrong with using voicemail?
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### Author:  [@Renee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renee)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2016, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5482 "2016-08-31T12:10:17Z")
> [@davidm](#):
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> Yeah. That struck me as strange too. There’s something wrong with using voicemail?
OMG, you’re one of them.
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