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Trump Will Win the Nomination

jhmd2000 said:
I'və got a video of a sickly old woman who can't stay on her feet. PM for the link.
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Since the Colin Powell emails were posted on the Crooked Hillary thread, it should also be noted that Mr. Powell doesn't think too highly of The Donald either. http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/14/politics/colin-powell-dcleaks/index.html

Powell also lampooned Trump's proposal that he could win over the African-American population.
"For him to say yesterday that within four years he would have 95% of blacks voting for him is schizo fantasy," Powell wrote, adding, "And (former Fox News chief Roger) Ailes as an adviser won't heal with women."
READ: Roger Ailes picked wrong women to mess with
Moreover, the former secretary of state tore into Trump as an embarrassing figure to represent the United States.
"Trump is a national disgrace and an international pariah," Powell wrote in June.
"He appeals to the worst angels of the GOP nature and poor white folks," Powell wrote in another email.
As Trump's lead in the Republican primary solidified, Powell complained to CNN's Fareed Zakaria about the network's political coverage.
READ: Why the 2016 presidential debates really matter
"You guys are playing his game, you are his oxygen," Powell wrote in December.
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I was going to add some red highlights, but too lazy.
 
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/09/how-donald-trump-exploited-charity-for-personal-gain/499535/

Some make a spectacle of their charitable giving. Others give without ever letting on. There are even people who eagerly talked about a particular charitable organization they support, in hopes of raising awareness or because they’re so involved in the work, but prefer to donate quietly, in keeping with the counsel of scripture.

What I have never encountered is someone positively eager to brag loudly about the sums that they donate, but totally unwilling to name any organization they support or people who they have helped. Trump strikes me as an especially unlikely man to possess that attribute. If a hypothetical charity wrote him to say his donation of mosquito nets saved 100 lives, he seems like the type who would inflate the number tenfold and talk about his huge win over malaria, which many people say is terrible, not the type to never tell anyone about the people his generosity helped.
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For example: Trump once approached a New Jersey charity called the Charles Evans Foundation and asked them to donate to the Donald J. Trump Foundation, citing efforts to raise funds for the Palm Beach Police Foundation. “The Evans Foundation said yes,” Fahrenthold reported. “In 2009 and 2010, it gave a total of $150,000 to the Donald J. Trump Foundation, a small charity that the Republican presidential nominee founded in 1987. Then, Trump’s foundation turned around and made donations to the police group in South Florida. In those years, the Trump Foundation’s gifts totaled $150,000. Trump had effectively turned the Evans Foundation’s gifts into his own gifts, without adding any money of his own.”

How could Trump have made money on the deal? The Florida police group gave Trump an award for his giving (which was actually Trump giving them money he got from someone else). Trump dressed up in a tuxedo to accept the honor that he didn’t deserve. And “on the night that he won the Palm Tree Award for his philanthropy, Trump may have actually made money,” Fahrenthold reports. “The gala was held at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, and the police foundation paid to rent the room. It’s unclear how much was paid in 2010, but the police foundation reported in its tax filings that it rented Mar-a-Lago in 2014 for $276,463.”
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Trump’s demonstrated willingness to misuse charitable funds for his own advantage is yet another reason why his refusal to release his personal tax returns is suspicious and unacceptable. One wonders how much he deducts from his tax bill as donations and whether that sum ever made its way to charitable organizations.
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Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Give a man someone else’s fish, then accept an award for your generosity while renting out a room at Mar-a-Lago Club for six figures, and you, Melania, Ivanka, Don Jr., and Eric eat caviar forever.
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Also therein, details on the Pam Bondi fiasco, actual quid pro quo political corruption that somehow is getting less press than Clinton's dizzy spell and "pls print" emails.

This guy.
 
Deacon923 said:
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/09/how-donald-trump-exploited-charity-for-personal-gain/499535/

Also therein, details on the Pam Bondi fiasco, actual quid pro quo political corruption that somehow is getting less press than Clinton's dizzy spell and "pls print" emails.

This guy.
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Trump will never release his taxes, but boasts he's donated tens of millions to charity, so why not release a summary of charitable giving? Hillary's vulnerable on CGI and health issues, but Trump can't fully capitalize on that because of own transperancy issues.
 
conservatives: Hillary is too secretive!

Trump: i don't have to release anything about myself whatsoever
 
Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Give a man someone else’s fish, then accept an award for your generosity while renting out a room at Mar-a-Lago Club for six figures, and you, Melania, Ivanka, Don Jr., and Eric eat caviar forever.
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I like that.
 
At least Presdent Trump won't have to worry about who to appoint as the Ambassador to Israel or Germany. They can fight it out for Donald Jr. Loser country's consolation Ambassador will be the head of whichever charitable foundation funneled the most money through the Trump Foundation to bribe pols or buy signed Tebow helmets.
 
Trump is still a birther. In 2016. And he is the GOP nominee for president.

This is why we can't have nice things.
 
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