# Donald Trump's 2016 General Election Campaign **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 330
**Author:** ![parovoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@parovoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/parovoz)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/6583 "2016-09-16T16:27:06Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > This didn’t happen. A call to build “physical barriers” didn’t happen? ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/6584 "2016-09-16T16:27:33Z")
> [@parovoz](#): > > violently wearing offensive baseball caps I am honestly unsure if you are joking or not. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/6585 "2016-09-16T16:29:08Z")
> [@parovoz](#): > > A call to build “physical barriers” didn’t happen? An endorsement of “Trump’s racist calls to build a wall in such a hateful manner, as depicted in the video” didn’t happen. The video didn’t show this. ---
**Author:** ![parovoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@parovoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/parovoz)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/6586 "2016-09-16T16:29:44Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > I am honestly unsure if you are joking or not. Nothing funny about a student going about her daily business in the university having to confront an offensive and racist baseball cap. ---
**Author:** ![parovoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@parovoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/parovoz)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/6587 "2016-09-16T16:31:14Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > An endorsement of “Trump’s racist calls to build a wall in such a hateful manner, as depicted in the video” didn’t happen. The video didn’t show this. Point taken–the endorsement to build a wall happened in a calm, relaxed manner. Which makes the politician in question even more of a cunt, than originally suggested, IMO. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/6588 "2016-09-16T16:32:38Z")
But there’s nothing violent about it either. I also question her “having to confront” it. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/6589 "2016-09-16T16:33:03Z")
nm, I think he’s gone. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_stamos_left_ear/32/3198_2.png) [@John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Stamos_Left_Ear)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/6590 "2016-09-16T16:47:12Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > Yes, bad example. > > [Actually, Clinton Should Have Destroyed Her Phones Better | WIRED](https://www.wired.com/2016/09/actually-clinton-destroyed-phones-better/) > > This would be a hell of false equivalence if there was actually any meat to it (another pseudoscandal that has no effect on Clinton’s ability to govern), but there’s really nothing there. This is pretty much SOP when it comes to getting rid of old hardware. Thank you for posting that. I’ve been reading on my mobile device and unable to take the time to find that link to Wired. Sent from my SM-G920P using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_stamos_left_ear/32/3198_2.png) [@John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Stamos_Left_Ear)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/6591 "2016-09-16T16:55:12Z")
Additionally, it highlights the hypocrisy and inconsistency of complaints against Clinton. Sent from my SM-G920P using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_stamos_left_ear/32/3198_2.png) [@John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Stamos_Left_Ear)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/6592 "2016-09-16T16:57:44Z")
Sorry, didn’t mean to post before pointing out what I meant. “Hillary Clinton didn’t protect classified information! She’s unfit for office!” “Hillary Clinton destroyed classified information! She must be hiding something!” Sent from my SM-G920P using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/6593 "2016-09-16T16:59:29Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > nm, I think he’s gone. For the moment, anyway. Man, that guy hates the board so much he keeps coming back to tell us. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/6594 "2016-09-16T17:10:44Z")
So, Donald has finally admitted that Obama was born in the US. Of course he’s doing it in such a way that he thinks he can claim credit for raising a serious issue and making sure that it was given the attention it deserves, which is utter horseshit. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/6595 "2016-09-16T17:12:33Z")
Obama can now rest easy: [Trump finally admits it: 'President Barack Obama was born in the United States](https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/09/16/donald-trump-is-a-racist-conspiracy-theorist-dont-let-him-lie-his-way-out-of-it/?utm_term=.1d1d6b14ec73) But now the Trump campaign says Hillary started the birther thing. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/6596 "2016-09-16T17:48:21Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > Obama can now rest easy: [Trump finally admits it: 'President Barack Obama was born in the United States](https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/09/16/donald-trump-is-a-racist-conspiracy-theorist-dont-let-him-lie-his-way-out-of-it/?utm_term=.1d1d6b14ec73) > > But now the Trump campaign says Hillary started the birther thing. The media are veritably lit up with headlines that tend to boil down to: “Trump finally agrees to recognize a fact that everyone else knew years ago”. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/6597 "2016-09-16T17:57:08Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > An endorsement of “Trump’s racist calls to build a wall in such a hateful manner, as depicted in the video” didn’t happen. The video didn’t show this. For those who didn’t watch the video, it has been heavily edited so all context is lost, but the “incriminating” statements are > [@](#): > > Mexico’s policies are pushing people over the border With all context edited out its hard to know what policies she’s talking about but probably Mexico’s economic policies making jobs in Mexico scarce. A far cry from Mexico is deliberately sending rapists, murders and drug dealers here. > [@](#): > > There isn’t any sensible approach but to do \<\\> what we to do simultaneously is secure our border with personnel technology, and physical barriers if necessary in some places. First off they obviously deleted what her preferred method of dealing with immigration was. Secondly her discussion of barriers was “in some places” and “if necessary”. A far cry from a wall across the entire Mexico border right now and Mexico is going to pay for it. Selective editing and interpretation at its worst. ---
**Author:** ![Crazyhorse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crazyhorse/32/31_2.png) [@Crazyhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crazyhorse)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/6598 "2016-09-16T18:19:30Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > The media are veritably lit up with headlines that tend to boil down to: “Trump finally agrees to recognize a fact that everyone else knew years ago”. That also proves that if he ever did have any legitimate doubt (which of course he didn’t) it had to have been answered to his satisfaction in 2011 when Obama produced his long form birth certificate. No new information has come out offering any additional “proof.” But for years since he’s continued to foment the birther’s racism and stir the pot with conspiracy theories and innuendo like “A lot of people feel it wasn’t a proper certificate.” If there was any question about whether or not he was deliberately manipulating a racist movement against the President of the USA knowing it was all a lie (which of course there wasn’t) that is now indisputable by his own admission. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/6599 "2016-09-16T18:28:05Z")
Good to know that those super dooper hot shit investigators he paid for got paid for nothing! Finally, somebody screws him! (Wait. Unless they never existed in the first place. Shit. NM.) ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/6600 "2016-09-16T18:32:04Z")
Barron & Miller Investigations includes top men. Top. Men. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/6601 "2016-09-16T18:32:13Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > Obama can now rest easy: [Trump finally admits it: 'President Barack Obama was born in the United States](https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/09/16/donald-trump-is-a-racist-conspiracy-theorist-dont-let-him-lie-his-way-out-of-it/?utm_term=.1d1d6b14ec73) > > But now the Trump campaign says Hillary started the birther thing. Any comment yet from his buddy Arpaio? ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/6602 "2016-09-16T18:35:38Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Good to know that those super dooper hot shit investigators he paid for got paid for nothing! Finally, somebody screws him! > > (Wait. Unless they never existed in the first place. Shit. NM.) Given his record, I’m going to assume Trump stiffed 'em. In any event, if some billionaire asked me to go to Hawaii and investigate something, I’d be damn thorough, even if it took _years_ to get the bottom of the matter. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901.md?page=329) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901.md?page=331)