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What Trump excels at is that he knows in his gut how his supporters feel about a given subject. Mexicans are steeling our jobs and the rest are criminals; build a wall. Affirmative Action is reverse discrimination; Pocahontas. All Muslims are bad people; a complete shutdown. Obama hates all police and should never have been elected president anyway; body language.
The list goes on for miles but one gets the picture. I am not sure if this “talent” of his is instinctual or is he has advisors scouring polls and telling him the hot button issues for the talk radio crowd and extreme right internet gangs. What ever it is it seems to be working for him as all important, nuanced, and difficult subjects can be distilled to its essence with a whip like one liner.
Yet I have often wondered what he really thinks about anything other than effective self promotion that might get him into the White House. Where he truly belongs.
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
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Mysterious Fires Plague Williamsburg Condo Building Owned By Trump's Son-In-Law Why is it that this does not surprise me????? Residents of a high-priced apartment building in Williamsburg are gripped with paranoia following a series of mysterious fires that management is blaming on a resident pyromaniac. The block-long rental building, 184 Kent Avenue, is a century-old warehouse that Jared Kushner, a real estate developer and Donald Trump's son-in-law, bought for $275 million and started converting to condos last April, along with Asher Abehsera's unfortunately monikered LIVWRK and the Boston private equity firm Rockpoint Group.
There's a snag in the condo conversion process, though: previous owner, Jason Halpern's JMH Development, was building condo apartments in the former Austin, Nichols & Co. wholesale grocery distribution center just after the 2008 economic collapse, and amid the fallout, switched to marketing them as luxury rentals. In the process, the company applied for a tax abatement through a program called J51, which made the apartments rent-stabilized until 2025, and thus harder to empty for would-be buyers.
One resident who moved into the building two years ago and, like most tenants we spoke to, asked to remain anonymous out of fear of retribution, said that after Kushner and friend bought the building, many tenants had their rent increased by $400 or $500. This was possible thanks to a loophole in the lease that they had overlooked, which deemed their previous rent preferential, a legal term for a rent-stabilized rate that is below what could technically be charged. A one-bedroom in the building last year rented for $3,500.
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Last-Ditch Rebellion Against Donald Trump FailsCLEVELAND ― Chaos erupted on the floor of the Republican National Convention Monday as fervent opponents of Donald Trump fought and lost an ugly, public rebellion to derail him.
New Hampshire delegate Gordon Humphrey, who has been working with the Delegates Unbound and Free the Delegates groups, tried to force party leaders on Monday to approve their rules for the convention on a roll-call vote, rather than a voice vote as is normally done.
The idea was that with a public roll call, a majority of delegates might defect.
“Donald Trump is so ignorant of anything that he hasn’t a clue what is going on here in general or in detail,” said Humphrey, a former senator who backed Ohio Gov. John Kasich during the primary season.
The bid for a roll-call vote failed, but caused an ugly moment in Trump’s march to the nomination.
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It is well worth the 20 bucks that I owe the G-man to watch these pigs explode in public.
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Here's a nice collection of Trump lies misspeaks.
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THE NEW FACE OF THE GOP — Roger Stone, longtime confidant and informal adviser to Donald Trump, removed his all-access convention credentials and ascended the stage at Citizens for Trump’s America First Unity Rally on Monday afternoon.
Stone, wearing a yellow linen suit, white saddle shoes and suspenders, explained that he was late because “I had some meetings that I had to conclude over at the Westin with members of the Trump staff.”
And what did this boastful Trump consigliere, fresh from his meeting with Trump aides, wish to impart on this first day of the GOP convention?
He wished to revisit the Vince Foster murder conspiracy. “They told us that he died in Fort Marcy Park and his body was found 50 yards down a muddy trail,” Stone said of the Clinton family friend and aide who killed himself 23 years ago. “But there was no mud or dirt on his shoes. . . . There was carpet fiber all over his body because they rolled him in a carpet. Hillary Clinton ordered a guy named Sullivan and a guy named Kennedy, her hoodlums, her thugs, [to] move his body.”
Welcome to the Donald Trump Republican National Convention.
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Is it just me, or did anybody else think some of the speakers had been drinking>
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a nice collection of Trump lies misspeaks But for his fans none of that matters. They want to believe everything he says is true, therefore it is true. Anyone who might dispute the vomit that spews from Trump’s mouth is simply a lying liberal. And that’s that.
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Donald Trump Formally Nominated For President Donald Trump made his hostile takeover of the Republican Party official Tuesday, with convention delegates casting their votes to make a bombastic, thrice-married New Yorker with a checkered business history their choice for president.
Trump earned the 1,237 bound delegates necessary to secure the party’s nomination in early June. The chairs of each state delegation expressed their vote totals and support for Trump in a roll call vote during the second day of the Republican National Convention. I PM'd the mailing address, cash check or money order will do nicely, it all spends the same.
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Donald Trump Formally Nominated For President Donald Trump made his hostile takeover of the Republican Party official Tuesday, with convention delegates casting their votes to make a bombastic, thrice-married New Yorker with a checkered business history their choice for president.
Trump earned the 1,237 bound delegates necessary to secure the party’s nomination in early June. The chairs of each state delegation expressed their vote totals and support for Trump in a roll call vote during the second day of the Republican National Convention. I PM'd the mailing address, cash check or money order will do nicely, it all spends the same. Duly noted.
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