I wonder if the question of freedom of speech as it pertains to the national anthem will come up?
It would be interesting to hear their responses live.
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
You demand more from a candidate? You expect them to lie over and over to you like Hillary does? She plays liberals for fools and you guys fall for it hook line and sucker.
Quoted for truth.
It's weird how the hillary supporters poo poo all her lies, misdeeds, theft, etc.
But most of them couch it with a statement similar to this "I don't like hillary, but................." and attack Trump.
Yep, the liberals on this board give hillary a free pass on everything.
The conservatives do the same thing when it comes to Trump and his misteps.
#GMSTRONG
“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.” Daniel Patrick Moynahan
"Alternative facts hurt us all. Think before you blindly believe." Damanshot
Here's a general thought I had about the debates, after watching this Clinton video from a couple days ago:
She didn't say anything wrong. It's a pretty good response actually. It's just the lack of passion, lack of enthusiasm that makes it hard to spend 39 seconds listening to it let alone 39 minutes. That's the thing about debates, it's not just what you say, it's also the charisma and Trump is better at that by miles.
Now look, I'm not saying we should elect a leader based on passion. It's just a strictly neutral point that it will count for the viewers, consciously or subconsciously. Where most people (self included) don't really understand international trade deals that well, we all have a sort of sense on who makes us feel good about ourselves and who is just painful to listen to. I think it counts. I think it counts more than it should.
Now look, I'm not saying we should elect a leader based on passion again.
Qualifications for President changed dramatically back around the time of John F. Kennedy because that is when everybody had television, debates were televised, etc. Charm, charisma, looks, public speaking skills, it all became vastly more important.
It's not an accident that the average male height in America is just under 5'10" but the average height of American Presidents since Kennedy is almost 6'1"... Height implies stature, it implies strength, it implies power.. people are drawn to it more.
It's funny, about the JFK/Nixon debates. Those who watched the debates on TV said JFK won, while those listening on the radio said that Nixon did.
Micah 6:8; He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.
John 14:19 Jesus said: Because I live, you also will live.
Story highlights "Let's end the politically correct agenda that doesn't put America first," he tweeted The internet responded and criticized his tweet
Washington (CNN) — Donald Trump Jr., the Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's son, tweeted a graphic on Tuesday that likened Syrian refugees to Skittles, which was swiftly met with criticism.
"This image says it all. Let's end the politically correct agenda that doesn't put America first. #trump2016," he tweeted, with a graphic that said: "If I had a bowl of skittles and I told you just three would kill you. Would you take a handful? That's our Syrian refugee problem."
The graphic had an official Trump logo that the Republican nominee shares with his running mate, Mike Pence.
And it appears the graphic's language wasn't a Trump Jr. original, but instead that of former Illinois Rep. Joe Walsh, a former tea party congressman from Illinois and now a conservative talk radio host.
Walsh tweeted at Trump Jr.: "Hey @DonaldTrumpJr, that's the point I made last month. Glad you agree."
Walsh's tweet included a screenshot of a tweet he made dated August 13.
Hillary Clinton's campaign spokesman Nick Merrill retweeted Trump Jr. adding: "This is disgusting."
The 2016 campaign has featured heated rhetoric around US policy for accepting refugees. Clinton has called for an increase in the number of Syrian refugees the US should accept and Trump has called for "extreme vetting" of immigrants, as well as a ban on immigrants from countries that are hotbeds of terrorism, such as Syria.
One of President Barack Obama's former speechwriters responded to Trump Jr. with a link to CNN reporting about a little boy in Aleppo, Syria who became the face of the humanitarian crises in Syria.
"Hey @DonaldJTrumpJr, this is one of the millions of children you compared to a poisoned Skittle today," Jon Favreau tweeted.
Former Obama campaign staffer, Jason Sparks, tweeted at Trump Jr. photos of the Syrian refugee children in the crises and said: "These aren't Skittles, @DonaldJTrumpJr."
And musician John Legend, who has been an outspoken critic of Trump on Twitter, wrote: "There's a tiny chance that anyone could be a murderer. Get rid of everyone now!!! #trumplogic"
Legend also retweeted a photo of the Aleppo boy, where someone said: "This is not a skittle."
The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Mars Candy, the parent company of Wrigley who makes Skittles, put out a statement saying "Skittles are candy; refugees are people. It's an inappropriate analogy. We respectfully refrain from further comment, as that could be misinterpreted as marketing."
Last week, Trump Jr. was criticized for making a "gas chamber" reference when complaining about how the treatment his father has received form the media compared to the coverage from Clinton.
"They've let her slide on every discrepancy, on every lie, on every DNC game trying to get Bernie Sanders out of the thing," he said. "I mean, if Republicans were doing that, they'd be warming up the gas chamber right now. It's a very different system -- there's nothing fair about it."
Hillary Clinton's campaign spokesman Nick Merrill retweeted Trump Jr. adding: "This is disgusting."
It's not disgusting, it's a metaphor. One would think with all of the elitest academic intelligence on the left, somebody would know that. Now go back to comparing conservatives to Nazis because you know... that's not disgusting at all.
Hillary Clinton's campaign spokesman Nick Merrill retweeted Trump Jr. adding: "This is disgusting."
It's not disgusting, it's a metaphor. One would think with all of the elitest academic intelligence on the left, somebody would know that. Now go back to comparing conservatives to Nazis because you know... that's not disgusting at all.
But it is a fallacy, because since 9/11 we have had 100s of thousands of refugees and not one of them has committed a terrorist attack. So the real analogy would be there are enough skittles to fill a refrigerator and not one of them is poison.
Its scare tactic BS that is what Trumps whole campaign is based on .
You may be in the drivers seat but God is holding the map. #GMSTRONG
Haus, you are looking at the reaction of Hillary in a very narrow lens.
Trump used it as campaign fodder. I actually believe that when things like this occur, maybe a little sadness, calm and deliberation beats going off the deep end and trying to use it for personal gain.
Intoducing for The Cleveland Browns, Quarterback Deshawn "The Predator" Watson. He will also be the one to choose your next head coach.
Hillary Clinton's campaign spokesman Nick Merrill retweeted Trump Jr. adding: "This is disgusting."
It's not disgusting, it's a metaphor. One would think with all of the elitest academic intelligence on the left, somebody would know that. Now go back to comparing conservatives to Nazis because you know... that's not disgusting at all.
But it is a fallacy, because since 9/11 we have had 100s of thousands of refugees and not one of them has committed a terrorist attack. So the real analogy would be there are enough skittles to fill a refrigerator and not one of them is poison.
Its scare tactic BS that is what Trumps whole campaign is based on .
That's fine. If want to disagree with his metaphor... have at it. But insinuating that it is somehow disgusting and racist is BS.
Haus, you are looking at the reaction of Hillary in a very narrow lens.
Trump used it as campaign fodder. I actually believe that when things like this occur, maybe a little sadness, calm and deliberation beats going off the deep end and trying to use it for personal gain.
eh, I got the vibe that she was totally out of it, like she was hopped up on meds or something like that. You're right though that a certain calm sadness was/would be an appropriate response, given the situation. A longer video and more context would have been appropriate.
I have to give Trump credit for working the refs (debate mods) over. It was like vintage Phil Jackson criticizing refs during a playoff series. Saying the system is rigged beforehand is equivalent to saying the refs aren't making correct calls. It makes the refs (mods) so worried about their integrity being damaged that they over compensate in favor of the accuser.
If people don't believe it will work, look at how he made Matt Lauer his bitch at the forum debate. Hillary is such a weak candidate that she has let Trump dictate terms from day 1. Article on what I meant in a sports phrase-
PHOENIX — Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Tuesday vowed to the Surprise Tea Party Patriots, the group that five years ago petitioned him to investigate President Obama’s birth certificate, that he was continuing the inquiry.
“I don’t care where he’s from,” Arpaio told the crowd of about 200. “We are looking at a forged document. Period.”
For Arpaio, last week’s statement by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump that Obama was born in this country had no weight on his volunteer posse's work.
USA TODAY Trump finally says Obama born in U.S., blames Clinton for controversy
“I know all the politicians say, ‘Sheriff, don’t talk about it,’” he told the crowd. “But how can I back down when we started it? I’m not going to just forget it.”
Arpaio started his investigation in August 2011, months after Trump raised the issue. In April of that year, Obama held a news conference and posted an image of his birth certificate on the White House website.
“I had nothing to do with Trump on the birth certificate,” Arpaio told the crowd. “We did it on our own, because of you guys.”
The Surprise Tea Party asked Arpaio to investigate the birth certificate in a letter dated Aug. 20, 2011.
“They’re the ones that got me stuck in this thing,” Arpaio said in a brief interview before walking into the meeting room in the Sun City West Foundation Plaza.
Donald Trump scored a coup against the media Friday, convening the press at his new Washington hotel after promising a big announcement, but delivering just a brief acknowledgement that President Obama was born in the US. (Sept. 16) AP
Arpaio received the letter three days after Jerome Corsi, an author and reporter for World Net Daily, spoke to the Surprise Tea Party about his doubts on Obama’s birth records.
On that day, according to a copy of the letter sent to Arpaio, the group gathered 242 signatures on a petition asking Arpaio to investigate whether Obama’s birth certificate was a forgery.
Arpaio began the investigation that week. It has continued since.
“I’m not going to give up, and we’re looking into it,” he said. “I don’t know how it’s going to turn out.”
Mike Zullo, the lead investigator on the case and commander of Arpaio’s Cold Case Posse, told the crowd that he knew Trump’s statement was a “punch in the gut, because it was unexpected.”
Zullo said he thought Trump’s statement was “strategic.”
“It’s not going to deter us,” Zullo said. “It’s not going to stop us. I am closer than ever.”
Zullo, however, said that he was not sure whether Obama was not born in the United States. He also said an unnamed official high up in Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children in Honolulu, the hospital listed on Obama's birth certificate, has “assured me that birth never took place there, and I believe him.”
Hillary Clinton says rival Donald Trump owes President Barack Obama and the American people an apology for his role in the so-called "birther" movement that questioned the president's American citizenship. (Sept. 16) AP
Trump said Friday that he believed Obama was born in the United States. He has not elaborated on what led him to this conclusion.
In a statement, his campaign said that Trump successfully ended the issue when Obama released his birth certificate in 2011.
“Having successfully obtained President Obama’s birth certificate when others could not, Mr. Trump believes that President Obama was born in the United States,” reads the statement on Trump’s website.
State Rep. Phil Lovas, a Peoria Republican and director of the Trump campaign in Arizona, said in a brief interview that the Trump statement speaks for itself.
Lovas said he, personally, believes that Obama’s birth certificate is real.
“I believe it is, but I haven’t examined it,” Lovas said before addressing meeting attendees.
Jeff Lichter, who was among the Surprise Tea Party Patriots who signed the letter asking Arpaio for the investigation, demurred when asked about Trump’s statement.
“I don’t want to say anything that hurts Trump,” Lichter said before the meeting began. “I don’t want to say anything that makes national news.”
But during a presentation to the Surprise Tea Party Patriots, Lichter said that, when he and two state lawmakers traveled to New York in April 2011 and met with Trump in Trump Tower, the businessman told them he anticipated Obama would be releasing a fake birth certificate.
“My sources in D.C. are telling me there is going to be a fake birth certificate,” Lichter quoted Trump as saying.
Barb Heller, 59, of Glendale, who attended the meeting, said that she doesn’t see a conflict between the birth certificate investigation and Trump’s statement.
“He said he was born in the United States,” Heller said before the meeting. “He didn’t say it was a true document.”
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
Haus, you are looking at the reaction of Hillary in a very narrow lens.
Trump used it as campaign fodder. I actually believe that when things like this occur, maybe a little sadness, calm and deliberation beats going off the deep end and trying to use it for personal gain.
eh, I got the vibe that she was totally out of it, like she was hopped up on meds or something like that. You're right though that a certain calm sadness was/would be an appropriate response, given the situation. A longer video and more context would have been appropriate.
Hillary Clinton's campaign spokesman Nick Merrill retweeted Trump Jr. adding: "This is disgusting."
It's not disgusting, it's a metaphor. One would think with all of the elitest academic intelligence on the left, somebody would know that. Now go back to comparing conservatives to Nazis because you know... that's not disgusting at all.
Either way, it was a stupid thing to say.
#GMSTRONG
“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.” Daniel Patrick Moynahan
"Alternative facts hurt us all. Think before you blindly believe." Damanshot
New York (AFP) - Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump used funds from his charitable foundation to pay settlements in legal cases involving his businesses, an apparent violation of laws governing non-profits, the Washington Post reported Tuesday.
The cases involved a combined $258,000 paid out by the Donald J. Trump Foundation -- a charity almost entirely funded with other people's money, the newspaper said -- and follow a review of legal documents and the foundation's tax records.
The newspaper carried out a weekslong investigation into the charity's finances, finding that Trump himself has not contributed a dollar since 2009. The group is funded by donations from third parties instead.
One of the group's suspect payments was a $100,000 donation to a veterans' charity in 2007 as part of a legal settlement with the city of Palm Beach, Florida.
Trump had sued the city after it fined him $120,000, or $1,250 per day, for erecting an 80-foot (24-meter) flagpole at his Mar-a-Lago Club that exceeded the maximum 42 feet permitted by local regulations.
The Trump Foundation also made transactions that appeared to be exclusively for the benefit of the real estate mogul or his businesses, apparently in violation of regulations governing charities, the Washington Post said.
In one case, the charity paid $20,000 in 2007 for a six-foot portrait of Trump, the newspaper reported.
"Clearly the Trump Foundation is as much a charitable organization as Trump University is an institute of higher education," said Christina Reynolds, a spokeswoman for the campaign of Trump's White House rival, Democrat Hillary Clinton.
"Once again, Trump has proven himself a fraud who believes the rules don't apply to him," she said in a statement. "It's past time for him to release his tax returns to show whether his tax issues extend to his own personal finances."
Some Democrats have complained that the media has not sufficiently reported about the Trump Foundation's suspected wrongdoing, accusing journalists of being lenient in their treatment of the outspoken billionaire.
News outlets have also been criticized for being more keen to cover a tweet by Trump's son comparing Syrian refugees to a bowl of colorful Skittles candy.
"If I had a bowl of skittles and I told you just three would kill you. Would you take a handful?" he wrote. "That's our Syria refugee problem."
"If you are covering Skittles-gate instead Trump's illegal use of his foundation, you are probably in journalism for the wrong reasons," tweeted Dan Pfeiffer, a former top advisor to President Barack Obama.
Trump's campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
I have to give Trump credit for working the refs (debate mods) over. It was like vintage Phil Jackson criticizing refs during a playoff series. Saying the system is rigged beforehand is equivalent to saying the refs aren't making correct calls. It makes the refs (mods) so worried about their integrity being damaged that they over compensate in favor of the accuser.
If people don't believe it will work, look at how he made Matt Lauer his bitch at the forum debate. Hillary is such a weak candidate that she has let Trump dictate terms from day 1. Article on what I meant in a sports phrase-
that Donald Trump accused the moderator of Monday's upcoming debate of being a Democrat as a reason the debates are rigged against him. But Lester Holt is a registered Republican, Time magazine reports.
“By the way, Lester is a Democrat. It’s a phony system. They are all Democrats. It’s a very unfair system,” Trump told Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly Monday night.
The NBC anchor — who will moderate the first debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y. Sept. 26 — has been a registered Republican since 2003, according to Time’s review of New York voter registration documents.
Earlier this month Trump said the debate shouldn't have a moderator and he and Hillary Clinton should just moderate themselves.
I am sure that this is how he will finish the election and govern if by some how he is elected potus. If he fails, it wasn't his fault. To get his message across, it is bs and lies. Morning Joe also stated that in addition to already putting it out there that if he gets crushed, it wasn't his fault, Trump really isn't studying policy for the debate, just comebacks and zingers
Apparently I can't say things like xenophbia or bigotry, but things like this are okay?
Come on.
Your go to word is xenophobia even when there's legitimate concern, even after the San Bernadino shooting you went straight there. I mention that I'm concerned that all the illegals that are coming into the country are either going to take my job or dilute the skilled trade pool to the point that I have to slash my prices in order to work and it falls on deaf ears. I suggest lightening up on the accusations you make and reserving them for actual cases of such.
WE DON'T NEED A QB BEFORE WE GET A LINE THAT CAN PROTECT HIM my two cents...
I can relate with the price thing. My expenses go up and up: business insurance, health insurance (gotten through my wife's job) Personal (home and auto insurance), electric, food.
Yet, if I raise my prices, I may lose jobs.
I'm getting squeezed on both ends (and not in a good way).
Apparently I can't say things like xenophbia or bigotry,
Come on.
Trump is neither xenophobic nor a bigot, he is all about America First! He is running for President of the United States, not president of the world like Hillary.
Apparently I can't say things like xenophbia or bigotry,
Come on.
Trump is neither xenophobic nor a bigot, he is all about America First! He is running for President of the United States, not president of the world like Hillary.
He's actually both.. and a Liar as well. and a joke of a candidate.
Hillary isn't any better, I'm going with Johnson.
#GMSTRONG
“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.” Daniel Patrick Moynahan
"Alternative facts hurt us all. Think before you blindly believe." Damanshot
Wow. I was surprised to find MSNBC being this hard on Clinton.
The Clinton campaign attacks Trump on the Syria thing, saying "well, he says he has some secret plan to deal with it......ha ha", but when asked point blank, Hillary's spokesperson says "well, she has made clear what her plan is"
Apparently I can't say things like xenophbia or bigotry,
Come on.
Trump is neither xenophobic nor a bigot, he is all about America First! He is running for President of the United States, not president of the world like Hillary.
If you haven't read the transcript of Obama's recent speech at the UN, I would suggest you go read it. It sounds very much like he is kicking off his campaign to run for President of the world and most of the accomplishments he touts from his Presidency involve how much better off other countries are now than they were when he took office.
But such use of charitable foundations is not illegal under the federal tax laws, even if it may appear unseemly. A foundation only crosses into illegality if a substantial return benefit is received by a foundation insider or a business in which they or their family has a substantial ownership stake.
This is where the Trump Foundation distinguishes itself from the Clinton Foundation. As detailed in a series of articles by David Fahrenthold of the Washington Post, the Trump Foundation allegedly purchased a Tim Tebow helmet and paintings of Mr. Trump that may have been kept by Trump personally, bought an ad for a Trump business, made a $25,000 contribution to a political organization affiliated with Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi that Trump had promised to make at a time her office was considering possible action against Trump University, and paid over a quarter million dollars to charities in order to settle lawsuits against Trump businesses.
None of the allegations against the Clinton Foundation, much less the actually demonstrated facts, show this type of personal benefit to Ms. Clinton, her family or any business in which she or they had an interest.
Quote:
While both Ms. Clinton and Mr. Trump used their foundations to enhance their extensive networks of relationships, it seems that only Mr. Trump treated his foundation as just another pot of money he could draw upon whenever there was any type of "charitable" connection and even when the primary beneficiary of the foundation's spending was himself or his businesses. This is where the Trump Foundation appears to have crossed into illegality, as the Post indicates, while the Clinton Foundation did not.
