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One of the smarter things Trump has done is get ahead of the whole tax thing by admitting that he pays as little taxes as he can legally.

 
Leroy Hoard said:
One of the smarter things Trump has done is get ahead of the whole tax thing by admitting that he pays as little taxes as he can legally.
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Sure, red herrings everywhere. If that's wall he was potentially hiding then it wouldn't be that big a deal. Heck if that's all he was hiding then he would have released them by now.

 
He's playing to the crowd...brilliantly.  

I think a lot of political elites probably always thought 'do we need to say anything or tell the any truth or can we just ignore and tell lies'  Well trump has shown that it will work.  He has opened up a new window in this democracy.  Things will probably never be the same again.

Strangely, even as a more of a centrist, I agree with some of his proposals.  That being said the guy is a slimy as they come and I can't believe he is going to be rewarded for that behavior

 
Loan Sharks said:
OH NO. MY GOD his list is not set in stone!  The flexibility will destroy the country. 
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Sure, flexibility, or completely unpredictable policy, or he's just hiding what he plans to do because he thinks we don't have a right to know, or maybe he thinks voters will hate what he's really planning, or he actually has no bleeping idea what the heck he's talking about. - Really looking forward to this presidency.

 
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Dying GOP Senator Apologizes to Muslims for Donald Trump


Former GOP senator Bob Bennett lay partially paralyzed in his bed on the fourth floor of the George Washington University Hospital. He was dying.
Not 48 hours had passed since a stroke had complicated his yearlong fight against pancreatic cancer. The cancer had begun to spread again, necessitating further chemotherapy. The stroke had dealt a further blow that threatened to finish him off.
Between the hectic helter-skelter of nurses, doctors, and well wishes from a long-cultivated community of friends and former aides, Bennett faced a quiet moment with his son Jim and his wife Joyce.
It was not a moment for self-pity.


Instead, with a slight slurring in his words, Bennett drew them close to express a dying wish: “Are there any Muslims in the hospital?” he asked.
“I’d love to go up to every single one of them to thank them for being in this country, and apologize to them on behalf of the Republican Party for Donald Trump,” Bennett told his wife and son, both of whom relayed this story to The Daily Beast.
The rise of Donald Trump had appalled the three-term Utah senator, a Republican who fell victim to the tea-party wave of the 2010 midterms. His vote for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, had alienated many conservative activists in his state, who chose lawyer Mike Lee as the GOP nominee for Senate instead.


But as Bennett reflected on his life and legacy in mid-April, following the stroke, he wasn’t focused on the race that ended his political career. Instead, he brought up the issue of Muslims in America—over and over again.
He mentioned it briefly in a hospital interview with the Deseret News, a Utah news outlet. “There’s a lot of Muslims here in this area. I’m glad they’re here,” the former senator told the newspaper in April, describing them as “wonderful.”
“In the last days of his life this was an issue that was pressing in his mind… disgust for Donald Trump’s xenophobia,” Jim Bennett said. “At the end of his life he was preoccupied with getting things done that he had felt was left undone.”


Trump’s proposal to ban Muslim immigrants from America had outraged the former senator, his wife Joyce said, triggering his instincts to do what he could on a personal level. They ultimately did not canvass the hospital, but Bennett had already made an effort in his last months of life.
As they traveled from Washington to Utah for Christmas break, Bennett approached a woman wearing a hijab in the airport.
“He would go to people with the hijab [on] and tell them he was glad they were in America, and they were welcome here,” his wife said. “He wanted to apologize on behalf of the Republican Party.”
“He was astonished and aghast that Donald Trump had the staying power that he had… He had absolutely no respect for Donald Trump, and I think got angry and frustrated when it became clear that the party wasn’t going to steer clear of Trumpism,” his son relayed.
Bennett’s Mormon faith also played into his beliefs on Trump and Muslims: the billionaire’s proposal to ban Muslims prompted the LDS Church to issue a statement in support of religious freedom, quoting its founder saying he would “die in defending the rights… of any denomination who may be unpopular and too weak to defend themselves.”
“That was something my father felt very keenly—recognizing the parallel between the Mormon experience and the Muslim experience. [He] wanted to see these people treated with kindness, and not ostracized,” Jim Bennett said.
His concern for Muslims was not the only issue he raised in his last days: to his brother-in-law, he spoke urgently on plans for low-income housing in Salt Lake city; to his son Jim, he mentioned a land management plan to mitigate the effects of drought.
“His sense of humor was still there,” his wife recalls, as the former senator lay bed-ridden, unable to swallow or stand up. At the end of his days, Bennett cried out, “Procrustes!”—a reference, and a joke about, the Greek mythological figure who stretched or cut off people’s legs in order to force them to fit on a bed.
As this all occurred, letters flowed in from former staff and friends from a long career in politics. One former aide recalled an incident in which she had lied to a television producer to excuse her boss’s lateness for an interview. Outed by the producer, the senator had found out about the fib.
“‘I never want you to lie for me, and I’ll never ask you or any of my staffers to lie for me,’” the staffer, who asked to remain anonymous, recalled Bennett saying to her. “I realized that I was working for a man of great integrity. It was something kind of stuck with me.”
At his D.C. area funeral—he had two, the second in Utah—there was an outpouring of grief from both sides of the aisle. Both Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid spoke at the service.
“As someone who worked hard to bring both sides together to solve problems, it was only fitting that Bob Bennett brought together the Senate Majority Leader and Senate Minority Leader to deliver remarks at his memorial service,” Tara DiJulio, a former Bennett spokesperson, told The Daily Beast. “When there was a problem before us, he always worked hard and challenged his staff to find common ground between both parties without wavering on his core principles.”
The Tea Party wave that ousted Bennett from the Senate in 2010 was one of the first signs of popular discontent that has arguably led to the tsunami of support for Donald Trump. As that initial wave receded, it swept away many of the values that Bennett cherished: bipartisanship and concern for vulnerable refugees among them.
But even as he was passing away, Bennett struggled to press the issues—to ensure that though his life was ending, the ideas he held dear would not go with it. He died Wednesday, May 4.
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I disagreed with him on almost every issue, but we could use more people like Bennett in political office.



 
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Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump 6h6 hours ago

Looks like yet another terrorist attack. Airplane departed from Paris. When will we get tough, smart and vigilant? Great hate and sickness!
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This is absolutely unacceptable for a President candidate.

 
Widbil83 said:
Make no mistake, Trump wasn't supposed to be within 10pts of her in any poll ever.  Gonna be fun to watch Democrats make excuses every day.   :popcorn:
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well, its not like either of them are polling particularly strong - 21% other/undecided is pretty damn high.  But anyone that isn't worried at this point is a fool.

 
Widbil83 said:
Make no mistake, Trump wasn't supposed to be within 10pts of her in any poll ever.  Gonna be fun to watch Democrats make excuses every day.   :popcorn:
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The left will come at the Donald with both barrels in the general, make no mistake. With that said, has there ever been a Republican candidate who appeared to care any less of what the left (or opposition within his own party) had to say or thought of him than Trump, who clearly has no qualms catching the grenades and throwing back atomic bombs over the fence? Hillary will be perfect fodder for him, and it will basically be a daily "just what will the Donald say next!" this fall.

 
mquinnjr said:
The left will come at the Donald with both barrels in the general, make no mistake. With that said, has there ever been a Republican candidate who appeared to care any less of what the left (or opposition within his own party) had to say or thought of him than Trump, who clearly has no qualms catching the grenades and throwing back atomic bombs over the fence? Hillary will be perfect fodder for him, and it will basically be a daily "just what will the Donald say next!" this fall.
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Doesn't matter, all he needs is 65 million or so people to vote for him.

 
mquinnjr said:
The left will come at the Donald with both barrels in the general, make no mistake. With that said, has there ever been a Republican candidate who appeared to care any less of what the left (or opposition within his own party) had to say or thought of him than Trump, who clearly has no qualms catching the grenades and throwing back atomic bombs over the fence? Hillary will be perfect fodder for him, and it will basically be a daily "just what will the Donald say next!" this fall.
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You mean the same guy that couldn't stop complaining about people making fun of his tiny hands and potentially tiny penis?

 
dparker713 said:
You mean the same guy that couldn't stop complaining about people making fun of his tiny hands and potentially tiny penis?
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Yeah, who turned it into a Richard joke during a Republican primary debate...and his ratings went up. Good or bad, I think he's got the Howard Stern "love me or hate me, they can't stop listening" approached locked in and perfected.

 
mquinnjr said:
Yeah, who turned it into a Richard joke during a Republican primary debate...and his ratings went up. Good or bad, I think he's got the Howard Stern "love me or hate me, they can't stop listening" approached locked in and perfected.
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How does this in any way relate to whether or not he cares about public opinion of him?

 
mquinnjr said:
The left will come at the Donald with both barrels in the general, make no mistake.
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NY Times fired the first shot this past weekend and it's absolutely backfired. He demolished them on this. Multiple women featured in the piece came out to say they were mis-represented. Ivanka all over the place doing her thing. 

Anyone else that lines up opposite this guy should expect more of the same. 

 
RBM said:
I can't remember the original ones name that came out but Carrie Prejean was the other. Kyle Boller's wife. 
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She was quoted fairly. The fact that she doesn't like the way it looks/sounds doesn't change what was said. https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2016/05/16/a-laughable-backlash-against-the-new-york-times-article-on-trumps-treatment-of-women/

Over a six-minute-plus interview, however, Lane couldn’t muster a single example of her being misquoted. Her gripe centered on how the New York Times “spun” her experiences with Trump.

 
3C's said:
Like almost everything else he tweets. His tweeting amount seems like a sickness.
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He's had a long history of crazy tweeting.  There's never been a conspiracy theory he didn't endorse.  It was actually quite amusing back when he was relatively harmless. 

 
3C's said:
She was quoted fairly. The fact that she doesn't like the way it looks/sounds doesn't change what was said. https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2016/05/16/a-laughable-backlash-against-the-new-york-times-article-on-trumps-treatment-of-women/

Over a six-minute-plus interview, however, Lane couldn’t muster a single example of her being misquoted. Her gripe centered on how the New York Times “spun” her experiences with Trump.
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I didnt say they were misquoted. 

 
The General said:
It's that he's not worth what he says is my guess. 
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Who cares.  If it's because of that - no big deal.  So he's worth 2 billion instead of 10 billion.  Nobody's vote is changing because of that.

If it's because he is hiding something - then that will come out during the Audit and he'll get busted.  Personally I don't see a chance of this happening.  The guy has been through numerous Audits and his tax attorneys know how to keep things on the up and up.

I have no idea why Trump is holding out, but I do know that it's not going to be all that impactful.  I wouldn't be surprised if he really is just following the advice of Counsel and not releasing because he is under Audit.  

 
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3C's said:
She was quoted fairly. The fact that she doesn't like the way it looks/sounds doesn't change what was said. https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2016/05/16/a-laughable-backlash-against-the-new-york-times-article-on-trumps-treatment-of-women/

Over a six-minute-plus interview, however, Lane couldn’t muster a single example of her being misquoted. Her gripe centered on how the New York Times “spun” her experiences with Trump.
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I liked that sweater Ainsley Earhardt had on today...

Wait, what were we talking about?

 
Higgs said:
Who cares.  If it's because of that - no big deal.  So he's worth 2 billion instead of 10 billion.  Nobody's vote is changing because of that.

If it's because he is hiding something - then that will come out during the Audit and he'll get busted.  Personally I don't see a chance of this happening.  The guy has been through numerous Audits and his tax attorneys know how to keep things on the up and up.

I have no idea why Trump is holding out, but I do know that it's not going to be all that impactful.  I wouldn't be surprised if he really is just following the advice of Counsel and not releasing because he is under Audit.  
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I wouldn't be surprised if his net worth were closer to zero than 2 billion.

 
SaintsInDome2006 said:
Have to laugh: when does Chelsea get grilled in front of cameras with her father's alleged misdeeds?
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:lmao:

"Your reaction, at the time, when you found out your father ejaculated all over an intern in the White House while he cheated on your mother, 2016 Democratic Nominee Hillary Clinton?"

 
dparker713 said:
Not all that uncommon for people in real estate to be heavily leveraged.
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But heavily leveraged means net worth of assets close to net worth of liabilities. 

So if he is heavily leveraged, there is no way he is worth 10 or 4.5 billions.

Besides, he's worth whatever he feels that day....

:lmao:

 
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