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Haven't you posted this before? This is old as so I'm surprised if this wasn't posted before.
Bring your largest shield Reck
Haven't you posted this before? This is old as so I'm surprised if this wasn't posted before.
Typical deflecting Hillary voter.
Feeling a little blue?
What ever is posted in the OP, for some reason I can't see. However, I honestly think that anyone who supports Hillary is a complete loser.
Please...
Those of you supporting Hillary, can you tell me why?
I don't suport Hillary, but she'd be miles better than any Repug.
Cosign this . Neocon shillary supporters, you have the mic open....
Trump would be way better than Hillary.
How?
You're comparing with tier, remember.
Trump is less of a warhawk, tbh. That's a pretty big deal
Trump is an enabler.
If one is to take him seriously, he'll hand out nuclear weapons to other countries so they can nuke each other. How's that better?
I would like to think Hillary learned her lesson with Iraq. That decision to support the war has haunted her ever since. What are the odds she would get embroiled in another one, entirely of her making? That's a lot less likely now.
Trump is too much of a wild card to be left unchecked imo. As lame as Hillary is I think we know what we get with her as POTUS.
... as if Cruz and Donny weren't rated bigger liars by all the fact checkers.
Repugs are so self- ed and un able.
They will lose the WH election because
"Donny wasn't conservative enough, not a real conservative, so Repugs must triple-down being more crazy extreme right wing sociopaths, racists, xenophobes, LGBT haters, and BigCorp s"
The focus of the POTUS needs to be on the economy right now. Trump is better equipped to deal with economic issues than Hillary.
"The focus of the POTUS needs to be on the economy right now."
Have you seen Trump's tax plan?
his only economy focus is cutting $Bs in taxes for himself and other 1%ers.
The economy is the last thing Trump should be in charge of.
He'll tank it just like he did all of his businesses. Right into the ing ground. rofl
But she didn't learn her lesson Iraq. She did the same thing in Libya and wants to put troops in Syria to remove Assad out of power. So no, she hasn't learned her lesson.
No, he wouldn't.
Trump is the singularly least qualified person to run in living memory.
LOL reality TV star, really?
May 1, 2016
The Art of the Con: the Trump U Fraud Case:
http://www.americanthinker.com/artic...raud_case.html
It is a built-in, ready made counter, that will have an active, ongoing trial as backdrop.As long as we are on the subject of “New York values”, let is consider the New York lawsuit against one Donald J. Trump and his “university” which alleges that Trump defrauded thousands of students who spent tens of thousands hoping they could benefit from his professed business a en. The case has been woefully under-covered by a largely Trump-leaning media, but it could soon be as important to Trump as the FBI investigation of Hillary Clinton’s emails and server could be to the former First Lady.
There will be a steady drip of news out of this that will take a bit of shine out of the "he's really for the average person". Kind of hard to make that credible when you are accused of defrauding average people with a souped-up bull seminar that has a "university" label slapped on it.
The Art Of The Inside Deal: How Regulators Rescued Trump
it was one carefully calculated response by one of his attorneys that saved Trump from financial collapse—just two years after Trump had proposed himself as a vice-presidential running mate for George H. W. Bush.
That moment, when New Jersey’s Casino Control Commission decided that Trump was too big to fail, was rich with lessons not just about Trump, but about how government can favor some people over others—and about how lots of journalists, then and now, don’t understand Trump.
From 1985 until 1990 Trump was awash in greenbacks. Over those four and a half years profits at his enterprises flowed into his pockets at the rate of $10,000 an hour in cash, around the clock.
At the time, Trump told me and everybody else that he was worth $3 billion. It was a dubious claim for a simple reason. If he was that rich, why was he unable to pay his bills as they came due?
In February 1990 Trump quit paying many of his personal bills. Reporting then for the Philadelphia Inquirer, I got his personal financial statement, which showed that he expected his income to fall to $748,000 in 1992 and to $296,000 the year after. That’s a lot of money to most people, but not to a “billionaire” with a personal 727 jet to maintain.
In April casino regulators made public a do ent showing Trump was down to his last $1.6 million.
Payments on more than a billion dollars of bonds on his three Atlantic City casinos came due every 90 days, but as the next payments loomed Trump lacked the money to make them.
About 100 vendors at the newly opened Trump Taj Mahal casino had not been paid. Many contractors took legal action to protect their interests.
And the Trump Shuttle, equipped with what Trump said were gold sinks, was down to $1 million cash, not enough to pay employees and keep the fleet of Boeing 727s fueled, or to pay for constant repairs, since almost all the planes were more than 20 years old.
As April ended, I broke the story that Trump’s own personal financial statement showed he was worth far less than he claimed.
All this and more forced the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) to do something it had failed to do for years — examine Trump’s finances, to see if he met a critical legal requirement to own a casino, namely that he was financially stable.
The basic standard was simple: the ability to pay bills as they came due. If you had to roll over old debt into new, that was fine with casino regulators, so long as you did not miss payments. The law put the onus on Trump to establish his financial stability by “clear and convincing evidence.”
As the DGE moved in, Trump’s bankers had an accounting firm go over his finances. I summarized their report showing
he had a negative net worth of $295 million this way: You may well be worth more than Donald Trump.
That story ran above the masthead of the Inquirer’s front page with the headline “Bankers Say Trump May Be Worth Less than Zero.”
... and lots more.
http://www.nationalmemo.com/the-art-...rescued-trump/
He would be focused on the economy (of his personal tax bills)!
"Obama joked about Trump's foreign policy experience, saying, "There's one area where Donald's experience could be invaluable, and that's closing Guantanamo. Because Trump knows a thing or two about running waterfront properties into the ground." "
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/whi...dinner-n565431
Trump responded that he has "the best waterfront properties in the world
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-says-obama-nice-job
... excluding Trump's waterfront properties in Atlantic City.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/...f_his_dad.html
Donald Trump may be a bankruptcy court recidivist and serial exaggerator of his net worth, but some recent criticisms of his business skills may have—shockingly—gone overboard. At Vox, Dylan Matthews has a piece led "Donald Trump isn't rich because he's a great investor. He's rich because his dad was rich." The gist is that in 1974, long before he had turned his family name into a global byword for garishness, the current GOP front-runner inherited a $40 million stake in his father's real estate empire. If he had simply liquidated it and invested the cash in the S&P 500, he would—maybe—be about as rich as he is today. Here's the math:
If someone were to invest $40 million in a S&P 500 index in August 1974, reinvest all dividends, not cash out and have to pay capital gains, and pay nothing in investment fees, he'd wind up with about $3.4 billion come August 2015, according to Don't Quit Your Day Job's handy S&P calculator. If one factors in dividend taxes and a fee of 0.15 percent—which is triple Vanguard's actual fee for an exchange-traded S&P 500 fund—the total only falls to $2.3 billion.
It's hard to nail down Trump's precise net worth, but Bloomberg currently puts it at $2.9 billion, while Forbes puts it at $4 billion. So he's worth about as much as he would've been if he had taken $40 million from his dad and thrown it into an index fund.
Of all the criticisms you could lob at Trump, this is a weirdly weak one.1 Basically, the man took a $40 million kernel and, while spending lavishly enough to surround himself with all the gold-plated bathroom fixtures his heart desired, managed to do a 26 percent better job growing his fortune than if he had quietly left it to grow in stocks without selling a single share or spending a single dividend check for 41 years. I'd say that's pretty good. How many actual money managers could brag they'd done the same with their clients' cash?2
Of course, Trump is not strictly an investor. Throughout his career he has been a real estate developer and manager, a builder of golf courses, a casino magnate, a reality TV host, a celebrity who slaps his name on assorted buildings for a fee, a hawker of power ties, and much more. This cuts against the idea that he is merely a glorified trust-fund kid: Rather than sit on his wealth while someone else saw to its care, he decided to jump into a number of highly entertaining, risky, and at times ill-advised business ventures, which have collectively turned him into an international celebrity. He took risks with the money he was given, and they seem to have paid off over time, both financially and personally. Meanwhile, Trump runs a company with thousands of employees. Whatever wealth he has created for himself, the total value that his company has created over the years is probably far greater.
Finally, it's a little strange to criticize someone who isn't a money manager for failing to trounce the stock market's returns. The S&P 500 is not a benchmark index for real estate conglomerates. You could argue Trump has done worse than some his fellow developers, but that's a different issue.
Anyway, now that I've spent a few hundred words defending Trump's business, I feel the need for a shower. Would the short-fingered vulgarian be fabulously rich today without the start his father handed him? My guess is not. But claiming that his father's money is the only reason he's a billionaire today? That's a little unfair, even to a boor like Trump.
1Not to get hung up on details, but it's worth noting that the first S&P Index Fund wasn't founded until 1975. Meanwhile, Vanguard exchange traded funds, or ETFs, didn't show up until 2001.
2All of this assumes that Bloomberg's estimate is close to accurate. Also, Trump's assets aren't very liquid, which makes valuing them versus stock a bit tricky.
That's a bunch of assuming, Reck. Hillary guarantees us more interventionist wars. She has the track record, Trump is an unknown commodity about that but at least he wants isolation based projection of power.
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