I agree. He’s not getting anything that would do major or lasting harm to U.S. interests if it got out. Maybe embarrassing, but that’s all. We can think of it as a test: can he keep his yap shut about it?
I wasn’t sure where to put this, but this thread seemed the most apt.
The guy who wrote Benghazi Mom’s speech for the RNC isn’t voting for Trump.
Awkward.
Supposedly President Obama has the final say over what information is given to the candidates in their intel briefing.
If I were Obama, Trump’s briefing would be a manila folder containing only a photo of the President with one hand firmly grabbing his nuts.
Yes. Had Trump been born poor (with not a sycophant in sight), he might still have had his ability to read an audience and tell them what they want to hear. But he’d have had to exercise that ability on a much smaller stage. Perhaps he’d have been that cliché of the con-man arts: a used-car dealer.
He’d have had to learn to control his combativeness and suck up insults, because he’d have lacked the insulation that rich kids get (at least those rich kids born to less-intelligent-but-more-entitled parents).
Most of all, he’d have lacked the glamour that wealth conveys to its possessor in the eyes of a particular type of onlooker. Someone posted in this folder, recently, about an acquaintance who was starry-eyed about Trump’s riches and who attributed all good qualities to him because, hey, rich people are just better than the rest of us, right? (It’s a distorted view not limited to the poorly-educated; F. Scott Fitzgerald had it in spades.)
For this reason I’m convinced that exposing Trump’s actual net worth and the extent of his business failures is absolutely critical. For millions of his fans, he can do no wrong because he’s a billionaire. If he’s not a billionaire, he will lose their faith. And it’s important that happen, because Trump wants to be President and he will do everything he can to get his hands on the White House.
I am seriously concerned about this. Not so much because it might work to get Trump elected. I think that’s possible but unlikely. I’m just concerned about the suffering and damage that Putin could cause if his goal is to cause political unrest. Unfortunately, I don’t think it would be difficult for Putin to cause or enable some kind of major terrorist attack or economic shock.
He sticks up for Reagan. He sticks up for Eisenhower. He even sticks up for Nixon. “But the only prospect more terrifying than voting for Hillary Clinton is not voting for her. The reality of American politics today is, she is the only choice.”
Probably the wrong place for this, but what’s so terrifying about Clinton? Uninspiring, maybe, but terrifying? I guess right-wingers scare easy.
20 second CNN clip, must be seen to be believed. Michael Cohen, Trump’s lawyer… “says who?”
The stony glare afterwards was a bit unnerving.
Wonder what Mike Pence thinks of his Breitbartian Lord and Master?
WOW. That’s just…wow.
Everyone needs to take a chill pill!
I just saw a TV with Gary Bauer that called the latest Trump shake up a “home run! After a great week of great speeches!”
Gary freakin Bauer!!
LOL
“All of them.”
To be found in all of Sarah Palin’s newspaper readin’!
you’re worried about no caps on 2 sentences w/ total of 9 words. ??
while other posts are nothing but ad hominem attacks on Trump ?
that’s funny.
maybe your time would be better spent on reading and facts ?
i already gave reason why Vox article is wrong , doesn’t apply.
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you’re worried about no caps on 2 sentences w/ total of 9 words. ??
while other posts are nothing but ad hominem attacks on Trump ?
that’s funny.
maybe your time would be better spent on reading and facts ?
i already gave reason why Vox article is wrong , doesn’t apply.
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I am not sure I understand your reason for the Vox article being wrong.
And I do read facts and stuff. I even defend Trump when I think people are making wrong accusations, despite me wanting him to lose. So I can worry about that and still make a style suggestion to you. It would really add a little seriousness to your posts. Just sayin’.
I too would like to see the reason you gave why the Vox article is wrong. i could not seem to find this explanation anywhere.
100 plus days
yep.
Podesta Group too.
ie—John & Tony Podesta
I think Trump goes back and forth. There are days when his ego gets the better of him and he probably gets excited about the possibility of winning, but it must have crossed his mind that he would actually have to be president, and being president of a massive governmental bureaucracy and all of the enormous responsibilities that come with it are just something that seems to frighten him.
The behavior speaks for itself. He actually had a lead on Clinton, and his lead was partly because he had backed away from his repeatedly race-baiting remarks about a federal judge – well that and Hillary’s FBI debacle. But here’s the thing, Hillary still is dealing with that debacle – and badly, I would add. Trump is not blind.
Paul Manafort was not the reason Trump collapsed. Quite the opposite, he is the reason he was able to fend off a late primary season surge from Ted Cruz. Trump knows that. His family knows that. Trump just didn’t like being told be an outsider who’s a political insider that he’s wrong. And he knows by now that doubling down on the crazy is not going to work.
You might argue that he’s so delusional that he doesn’t believe the polls, but guess what? This is the work of a desperate man, so he obviously believes those polls despite all the bullshit to the contrary.
Trump does not really want to win, but he doesn’t want to be humiliated either. The tricky part is, he could accidentally win. The odds of that are quite low right now, but still within the realm of the possible.