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    Trump cares about the vets as much as he cares about Mormons

    You have to give him credit for applying his "Art of the Deal" tactics on braindead Americans.

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    Trump cares about the vets as much as he cares about Mormons

    You have to give him credit for applying his "Art of the Deal" tactics on braindead Americans.
    I'm not saying you're wrong, but describe specifically what "art of the deal tactics" are.

    I get the "sometimes it pays to be a little wild" part.

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    CosmicParasite, "Americans" in USA refers to USA, not Canada, Mexico, or south of the border. Do Mexicans or Nicaraguans refer commonly to themselves as Americans?
    Get out of your mothers trailer much, Boo??

    Yes, they consider themselves part of the Americas and they consider people like you in the USA arrogant for assuming they are the only "Americans".

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    Get out of your mothers trailer much, Boo??

    Yes, they consider themselves part of the Americas and they consider people like you in the USA arrogant for assuming they are the only "Americans".
    of course they are part of the "Americas", but how many Mexicans, Costa Ricans, Bolivians, etc go around calling themselves as "Americans".

    "Are you an American?" "No, I'm Costa Rican" etc, etc.

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    of course they are part of the "Americas", but how many Mexicans, Costa Ricans, Bolivians, etc go around calling themselves as "Americans".

    "Are you an American?" "No, I'm Costa Rican" etc, etc.
    I will be going to Costa Rica fishing again in October and trust me, If they ask you where you are from and you say "American" they will quickly remind you that they are Americans too. They think it's cool as if you tell them you are a Texan though...

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    Boo, Mexico is clearly part of the Americas, you freaking racist.
    Go to England or Germany or France or just about anywhere and if you reference America they will think USA, not Mexico, not Canada, etc.

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    Go to England or Germany or France or just about anywhere and if you reference America they will think USA, not Mexico, not Canada, etc.
    You realize that Americo Vespucios, for which the "Americas" were named didn't land in your America, Right?

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    You realize that Americo Vespucios, for which the "Americas" were named didn't land in your America, Right?
    Go to England or Germany or France or just about anywhere and if you reference America they will think USA, not Mexico, not Canada, etc.
    And this doesn't even address the validity of my comment.

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    I'm not saying you're wrong, but describe specifically what "art of the deal tactics" are.

    I get the "sometimes it pays to be a little wild" part.
    Art of the deal is basically using hardcore salesman tactics to frame the narrative. It all starts with repe ion. Trump says "I love the vets" or "I raised this much money for the vets" 100 times and eventually people will believe it, at least the dullards will of which there are aplenty in America. Trump does that with everything and that's really the only way he knows how to speak. Exaggerate for effect. He'll be the "greatest" and fix whatever subject he's talking about. He doesn't give a about delivering on whatever he's selling and he doesn't care about the people he's selling to. Just use repe ion with plenty of positive reinforcement, sprinkle in some confidence and swagger, plant the seed and close the in deal. He's a used car salesman except in this case he's the lemon and he's trying to convince the American people to drive him off the lot

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    And this doesn't even address the validity of my comment.
    Doesn't really matter what random people in Europe think if you are going to defend Boo. The simple fact is the rest of the residents of North, Central, and South America think it's arrogant and ignorant for the USA to claim exclusive use of "America".

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    Trump > Clinton IMO, although that's not saying much at all.

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    Doesn't really matter what random people in Europe think if you are going to defend Boo. The simple fact is the rest of the residents of North, Central, and South America think it's arrogant and ignorant for the USA to claim exclusive use of "America".
    So we should refer to Manu Ginobili as an American? I think even he would disagree, he is an Argentine.

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    Trump University might as well be Hillary's emails. Both just dont want to go away.

    The latest:

    http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016...uments-n584071
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    So we should refer to Manu Ginobili as an American? I think even he would disagree, he is an Argentine.
    It is if he has a dual citinzenship.

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    It is if he has a dual citinzenship.
    He does, with Argentina and Italy.

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    Trump’s veterans controversy goes from bad to worse

    It no doubt seemed like a good idea at the time. In January, Donald Trump was in the middle of a spat with Fox News, so the Republican presidential hopeful boycotted a debate ahead of the Iowa caucuses, instead holding a fundraiser in the Hawkeye State for veterans. The GOP candidate boastedthat he’d raised $6 million for vets, and he’d contributed $1 million out of his own pocket.

    The trouble, however, started two weeks ago, when the Washington Post started asking what happened to the money. The newspaper found that

    Trump did not raise $6 million as he’d claimed,

    and making matters worse, though his campaign said

    Trump had already made a $1 million contribution, that turned out not to be true, either.


    Yesterday, the presumptive Republican nominee held a press conference to set the record straight, though as the Washington Post reported, it didn’t go well.

    Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he had given away all the money he had raised four months earlier for veterans – and at the same time bitterly attacked the news media for pressing him to explain what he had done with the money.

    “Instead of being like, ‘Thank you very much, Mr. Trump,’ or ‘Trump did a good job,’ everyone’s saying, ‘Who got it, who got it, who got it?‘ “Trump said during a news conference here at Trump Tower. “And you make me look very bad. I have never received such bad publicity for doing such a good job.”

    Yes, it appears that in Trump’s mind, journalists are supposed to thank Donald Trump when he thinks he’s done something worthwhile.


    But even putting that aside, whether the Republican presidential hopeful realizes it or not, yesterday’s explanation for the controversy arguably made matters worse, not better.

    The AP reported yesterday, for example, “Phone calls to all 41 of the groups by The Associated Press brought more than two-dozen responses Tuesday.

    About half reported checks from Trump within the past week, typically dated May 24, the day The Washington Post published a story questioning whether he had distributed all of the money.”
    In other words, four months after his big fundraiser, where Trump touted a tally that turned out to be untrue,

    Trump only started cutting checks to a variety of groups after the Washington Post published a story that made the candidate look awful.

    At another point yesterday, Trump insisted, “I didn’t want to have credit” for the charitable donations, except we know that’s not true, either: he obviously did want credit, which is why he held a televised fundraiser in which he boasted about his self-proclaimed leadership on raising money for veterans. There’s also the matter of Trump not actually deserving credit for the $1 million his campaign was caught fibbing about.

    Adding insult to injury, Trump insisted yesterday, “When you send checks for hundreds of thousands of dollars to people and to companies and to groups that you’ve never heard of, charitable organizations, you have to vet it.” He even demanded tax materials from the organizations before they became eligible for the money.

    Even if we put aside the irony of Trump demanding tax materials from groups while he insists on keeping his own tax returns hidden from the public,

    and even if we overlook the fact that his operation doesn’t appear to have done an especially good job in vetting, there’s also the inconvenient fact that, according to the Trump campaign, the groups were chosen in advance in January – suggesting the vetting he had heard of the organizations and that they’d already been vetted.


    So where does that leave us?

    Trump said he’d raised $6 million for veterans, but that wasn’t true.

    He later claimed he never used the $6 million figure, but that wasn’t true.

    His campaign insisted Trump had contributed $1 million himself, but that wasn’t true.

    Trump said he “didn’t want to have credit” for the fundraising efforts, but that wasn’t true.

    He said he and his team were vetting groups they’d never heard of four months after the fact, but that wasn’t true.


    And as of yesterday, all of this, the Republican candidate insisted, is the media’s fault. Indeed, Trump thinks journalists should be “ashamed” of themselves for scrutinizing his claims that turned out to be wrong.

    http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-s...d=sm_fb_maddow

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    One group Trump donated to benefits fundraisers, not veterans

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/05/31/one-group-trump-donated-to-benefits-fundraisers-not-veterans/

    You Trash supporters.



    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016...l?intcmp=hpbt1

    5.6 million.
    And he definitely did vet them first as I see he didn't donate to that scam project wounded warriors.

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    The irony of it - golf tourney at Trump's Doral moved to Mexico - they couldn't find another country to move to?

    “It is a sad day for Miami, the United States and the game of golf, to have the PGA Tour consider moving the World Golf Championships, which has been hosted in Miami for the last 55 years, to Mexico,” Trump said in a statement. “No different than Nabisco, Carrier and so many other American companies, the PGA Tour has put profit ahead of thousands of American jobs, millions of dollars in revenue for local communities and charities and the enjoyment of hundreds of thousands of fans who make the tournament an annual tradition. This decision only further embodies the very reason I am running for President of the United States.”

    http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports...xico/85238620/

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    Surely this will be the end of his campaign

    Wanna bet Hillary emails will have a far more destructive effect than the Trump University case which is being handled by a judge who donated to Hillarys campaign?

    Trump University might as well be Hillary's emails. Both just dont want to go away.

    The latest:

    http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016...uments-n584071
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    Surely this will be the end of his campaign

    Wanna bet Hillary emails will have a far more destructive effect than the Trump University case which is being handled by a judge who donated to Hillarys campaign?
    He has to testify in this case one way or the other. Can you imagine winning the presidency and the first thing you have to do is go to court because of fraudulent acts?

    The difference here is that we should know fairly soon what will happen with the Hillary thing. This university scam is going all the way till november when the first of the lawsuit will take place.

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    I wonder if there is ANYTHING that would make Trump supporters abandon him. What could he possibly say to lose their support?

    This "Trump University" stuff isnt going to matter. They dont care. So he put his name on a phony university. He still wants to kick out the illegal immigrants and kill the families of terrorists. They dont care about much of anything else.

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    PoliticusUSA: Republicans Stunned After Trump Reveals That His Presidential Campaign Is Broke

    When Donald Trump told Republicans that his campaign had money, it was a lie. In meeting with Senate Republicans, Trump's campaign privately admitted that they have no money and will not be able to run television ads until after the GOP convention in July.

    http://www.politicususa.com/2016/05/...ign-broke.html

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    Mitch, time to donate to poor Donald.

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    Mitch, time to donate to poor Donald.
    So if I dig up some stuff from breitbart on Clinton, you'll take it serious Reck?

    Call me when your comment has a networked news source attached to it, not one that features an unsourced article led "Koch Block It"

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    So if I dig up some stuff from breitbart on Clinton, you'll take it serious Reck?

    Call me when your comment has a networked news source attached to it, not one that features an unsourced article led "Koch Block It"
    What are you talking about?

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    What are you talking about?
    Bro you just read les, not click links or look at what news sources report huh?

    Click his link

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