# 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:** 87
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2016, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/1721 "2016-06-21T22:44:29Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Frankly, Ivanka has a terrific body, terrific body. Millions of men would love to sleep with her, believe me. And some women too in liberal circles. Just an outstanding body. And just possibly, millions of men _have_ slept with her. As for Trump’s campaign running out of money, that was all part of his plan, until someone pointed out out you can’t declare bankruptcy on a political campaign. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2016, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/1722 "2016-06-21T22:51:01Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > In other news, [a woman has filed a lawsuit claiming Trump raped her when she was 13.](http://www.rawstory.com/2016/06/donald-trump-accused-of-raping-13-year-old-in-federal-lawsuit/) And she’s filing a civil suit? Hmmm… ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2016, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/1723 "2016-06-21T23:01:42Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Does anyone else hear “xenotherapeutics” and think about plants craving electrolytes? I get that distinct feeling from their website. It’s a lot of words, and none of it seems to say anything at all. I see no references about their own published research; Holzer has one publication listed as submitted, which means nothing in the science world. All their other references are other people’s work. Their principle investigator (who doesn’t list the company as part of his resume anywhere) in their clinical trial is listed, but I find no evidence that there is any clinical trial going on (nothing listed at [clinicaltrials.gov](http://clinicaltrials.gov)). Their scientific founder and CEO has no scientific degree. Their vice president and director of business development has no business degree. Their director of operations and treasurer has no accounting degree. The only whiff of legitimacy is that their Chief Medical Officer seems to be a real person with real qualifications, though his linkedin page does not list Xenotherapeutics which is a bit odd. In fact, xenotherapeutics linkedin only has three employees listed, and it’s the three people above who are lying about their degrees. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2016, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/1724 "2016-06-21T23:05:20Z")
Also, I find no evidence that xenotherapeutics holds any patents on anything. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2016, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/1725 "2016-06-22T00:02:10Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > Well if he’s a liar, he seems to have put in a lot more leg work than the average fake SEAL. > [https://geiselmed.dartmouth.edu/news/2015/paul-holzer-a-long-winding-road-to-medicine/](https://geiselmed.dartmouth.edu/news/2015/paul-holzer-a-long-winding-road-to-medicine/) > > Which was linked from this article: > [Here’s the Guy Behind Trump’s Weird ‘Mad Men’ Connection](http://fortune.com/2016/06/21/trump-mad-men/) Interesting! Thanks for the correction. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2016, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/1726 "2016-06-22T00:57:52Z")
[“It’s very possible that I could be the first presidential candidate to run and make money on it.”](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/22/us/politics/donald-trump-self-funding-payments.html) ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2016, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/1727 "2016-06-22T01:02:41Z")
> [@](#): > > … In fact, xenotherapeutics linkedin only has three employees listed, and it’s the three people above who are lying about their degrees. So, what you got is some innovative and bold investigators, unhindered by the confines and mediocrity of the academic world! Approaching the whole question of therapeutics from _outside_ the restrictions of the accepted paradigms! ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2016, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/1728 "2016-06-22T01:04:42Z")
Sorry but a private company trying to develop a new product is not publishing their work along he way. Merck doesn’t either. ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2016, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/1729 "2016-06-22T01:09:40Z")
> [@Johnny\_Ace](#): > > And she’s filing a civil suit? Hmmm… Statute of limitations. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2016, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/1730 "2016-06-22T01:20:09Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Does this now mean the campaign only has 28 people on staff? In her new book [_Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right,_](https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Money-History-Billionaires-Radical/dp/0385535597) Jane Mayer writes that in preparing for the 2014 midterm elections, “Americans for Prosperity had expanded its ground game to 550 paid staffers, with as many as 50 in a pivotal state like Florida, as _Politico_ reported.” But it’s pretty clear the Koch Brothers and their allies don’t like Trump. They’re not going to help him. Does their network have such numbers of staffers this year, I wonder, and if so what will they do with them? ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2016, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/1731 "2016-06-22T01:28:44Z")
> [@CaptMurdock](#): > > Statute of limitations. I actually found out that some states expanded the list of limitation-less crimes beyond murder, sometimes significantly. Of course, that’s not to say prosecutors will always pursues, especially against a wealthy defendant years after the fact. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2016, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/1732 "2016-06-22T01:28:44Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > And just possibly, millions of men _have_ slept with her. Knock it off. [/Moderating] ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2016, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/1733 "2016-06-22T01:34:29Z")
> [@Lok](#): > > She doesn’t actually have to go negative. She just has to quote him. That’s what her Super PAC has been blanketing Florida TV with for at least a month now - video and acted-out audio clips of his most egregious statements from the primaries. I think that must have a lot to do with her strong lead here. ---
**Author:** ![Corry\_El](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecae2f/32.png) [@Corry\_El](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corry_El)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2016, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/1734 "2016-06-22T02:11:12Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > I saw that too, but it sounds too outlandish. I’m not real familiar with RawStory, but it looks like they’re the Left’s answer to World Net Daily. The story is reported as from ‘The Gothamist’ blog on RawStory and some other sites, though the NY Daily News is a real newspaper (if not exactly top drawer) also carrying the story without crediting it to anyone else. I assume it’s a fact that the suit has been filed and what it claims, which is all those stories actually say. But I guess most major media outlets, which haven’t carried this story, want to have some handle on the credibility independent of the claim before they run a story. And as the articles mention, a similar suit by the same person was thrown out on a paperwork technicality a few months ago, and I don’t recall seeing that at all in the media, certainly didn’t make any big splash. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2016, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/1735 "2016-06-22T02:27:44Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > Sorry but a private company trying to develop a new product is not publishing their work along he way. Merck doesn’t either. Of course they do. They secure the IP, and they publish. Merck might not because they don’t have to. But, a small company trying to get funding for a clinical trial is absolutely going to have some data, generally in the form of publications, to show investors. This company has no IP and no data. As far as I can tell their “xeno skin” doesn’t actually exist. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2016, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/1736 "2016-06-22T04:05:30Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > That’s what her Super PAC has been blanketing Florida TV with for at least a month now - video and acted-out audio clips of his most egregious statements from the primaries. > > I think that must have a lot to do with her strong lead here. There is no path to victory for a Republican candidate who loses Florida. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2016, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/1737 "2016-06-22T04:41:30Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > There is no path to victory for a Republican candidate who loses Florida. Sure there is. You just have to win Virginia, Ohio, Wisconsin, Colorado, Nevada, Iowa and New Hampshire, plus all the usual suspects. 272, easy peasy. Don’t even need Pennsylvania. Those are the best swing states anyways. Absolutely the best, classiest swing states. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2016, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/1738 "2016-06-22T04:49:34Z")
[Trump fools a bunch of evangelicals.](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-kenneth-copeland_us_5769880de4b065534f47fb24) > [@](#): > > Donald Trump’s campaign on Tuesday announced that it had assembled a stable of religious advisers to help the presumptive GOP nominee get his message through to evangelical voters. The list of names includes former Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), high-profile figures like Focus on the Family founder James Dobson and Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr., a\*\*s well as a televangelist who once claimed God had endorsed Trump’s onetime rival, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), for president. > \*\* > Kenneth Copeland – who, along with his wife Gloria are members of Trump’s new advisory board – hosted a conference in January in which speakers discussed the topic of “Reclaiming America.” Rafael Cruz, the Texas senator’s preacher father, was on hand to deliver a sermon. **When Copeland introduced Cruz, he told attendees that God had chosen Ted Cruz to win the White House.** Talk about awkward. ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2016, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/1739 "2016-06-22T05:41:18Z")
Another article on Trump making YUUGE money off his campaign. [http://bigstory.ap.org/article/9f7412236962464f9f2c0a8d2696ba25/trumps-campaign-cycles-6-million-trump-companies](http://bigstory.ap.org/article/9f7412236962464f9f2c0a8d2696ba25/trumps-campaign-cycles-6-million-trump-companies) ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2016, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/1740 "2016-06-22T05:58:12Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > Sorry but a private company trying to develop a new product is not publishing their work along he way. Merck doesn’t either. Is Merck three guys and a phony advertising agency? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901.md?page=86) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901.md?page=88)