Posts made by aadam101

@Frederick:

Trump is under no obligation to produce his tax returns, in fact, a businessman would be a fool to do so. 
Nevertheless,

Of course he is under obligation.  It was one of his major campaign promises.

@PUTIPUELCA:

@aadam101:

My first anti-Hillary thread and none of guys with mommy issues had anything to say…....

http://www.dailywire.com/news/16707/fake-news-no-ivankas-not-receiving-100-million-amanda-prestigiacomo#
http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tom-blumer/2017/05/22/reporters-falsely-claim-ivanka-trump-will-control-world-bank-women

In short, the $100 million are NOT for Ivanka but for the "World Bank Fund"/"Women Entrepreneurs Fund" which isn't controlled by her nor by any of the Trumps.

But she does raise money for them in an official capacity.  This is textbook "pay to play."

One step closer to impeachment…...

According to Ben Carson…..

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/05/24/ben-carson-calls-poverty-a-state-of-mind-during-interview/

I guess that makes sense.  It's been my belief for a very long time that Trump isn't a billionaire and never has been.  That's why he won't show his tax returns.  He is only a billionaire in his head.

I guess it's also ok to discriminate against Trump supporters???  The liberals could very easily just ban them from all forms of public education (it's not like have much use for it anyway).

Everyone knows that polls are fake.  The only real ones are the ones that make Trump look good.

Sponsors are pulling out of Hannity's show too.  I'm thinking he will be going on "vacation" really soon…...

I always thought Frederick just had a small penis….....now I'm starting to think he has a vagina.  It's all starting to make sense now.......

I can understand Kushner…....but Stephen Miller????? BARF!  He would probably complain and whine the entire time.

@raphjd:

InfoWars is more real news than "it's not a hate crime" CNN.

You can't pretend that Infowars is a news site.  Alex Jones literally calls it entertainment.  I understand there is an argument to be made for CNN or FOX.  That can be debated.

Infowars cannot be.  It's entertainment.  They are one step above doing stories about Elvis being spotted in Tulsa.

There is a small city of 90,000 people near me that had two full service hospitals 20 years ago. Both hospitals were public hospitals that were run by the city.  That's right…..government run hospitals.

Republicans hate that so they closed one and sold the other to a private company.  This private company has bought up everything over the last decade or so and as a result we have the highest cost healthcare in the nation.  They are closing the remaining hospital next year leaving this city the only one of it's size in the state without a hospital.  This company pretends to be a non-profit but you wouldn't know it.  Google the "nantucket effect" and you can read about how they royally screwed over the ENTIRE healthcare system and rose costs for literally everyone by classifying a tiny 19 bed hospital for the ultra rich as a "rural hospital."  Just the fact that one tiny hospital can have that much of an impact on the entire country is absurd.

I"m really having a lot of trouble understanding all of the Hillary comments.  I would recommend just skipping anything where Hillary is mentioned in the first two posts.

Although you should read my Hillary thread which all the Hillary haters mysteriously stayed away from.  I can't imagine why…..

My first anti-Hillary thread and none of guys with mommy issues had anything to say…....

@royalcrown89:

@Frederick:

the media were acting as if a Hillary victory was certain.

It's really sad how you can't frame your argument nor your defense of #45 without mentioning his opponent who lost. Why are you so obsessed with a candidate who lost the election and is not our president nor will ever be our president? If you cannot frame an argument without bringing up Hillary Clinton, then what is the purpose of you chiming in on these discussions bringing her up constantly when these discussions have absolutely nothing to do with Hillary Clinton? It severely weakens all of your arguments.

Frederick has some major MOMMY ISSUES he hasn't worked out yet.  Hopefully he doesn't lose his healthcare so he can deal  with this in therapy.

Speaking of healthcare I'm wondering how many jobs will be lost when 23 million people lose their health insurance.  A million?  More?  I don't know the answer but I do know that many hospitals and health centers around the country will be forced to close…...especially in rural areas.

@Frederick:

The media interjecting itself into politics has always been a disaster.  It goes way back.. including the "muckrakers" of roughly 120 years ago.

That pesky First Amendment really is a problem…...we should abolish it.......

Seriously, why don't you just move to North Korea?  It sounds like you would be much happier there.

I would like to be able to blame him but the fact is that he is a total moron.  He has no idea anything that is in this budget or what any of it means.  The responsibility for this lies solely on Trumptards.

Even I don't buy this one.  Wiener is just a pervert.  He would have made a great President….

The public gave just as much weight to Melania wearing a scarf on her head as Trump gave to the same exact issue.  The Presidents words and opinions matter and they should be reported on.

#5 is just plain false.  Trump's "foundation" was nothing more than a slush fund.

http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37369515

Compared to the Clinton Foundation, the Trump Foundation hasn't received nearly as much media attention, but the stories that have come out have painted a sometimes-less-than-flattering picture. Here are some of the reasons why:
Co-opted credit: Mr Trump has repeatedly claimed that he's making a donation to a charity only to fund that donation with money from his foundation. Given that at this point the foundation's funding comes from outside sources, he is in effect taking credit - and being lauded - for simply passing charitable donations along.
The Washington Post's David Fahrenthold, who has conducted extensive investigation into Mr Trump's charitable involvement, cites the "Palm Tree Award" Mr Trump received for a $150,000 donation he made (from his foundation's money) to the Palm Beach Police Foundation. That donation came only after the Trump Foundation had received a $150,000 contribution from the New Jersey based Charles Evans Foundation, however. When the Evans Foundation donations stopped, the money to the police charity from Mr Trump's foundation ended as well.
"Trump had effectively turned the Evans Foundation's gifts into his own gifts, without adding any money of his own," Fahrenthold notes.
Mr Trump also benefited from the fact that the Police Foundation holds its annual charity dinner at Mr Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach. In 2014, for instance, the charity paid the club $276,463 in rental fees. Mr Trump often gave foundation donations to groups that were paying top dollar to hold events on his properties.
Personal purchases: Although much of the money in the Trump Foundation has been gifted to other charitable organisations, some of it has been spent on purchases from charity auctions, including $20,000 for a 6ft tall painting of Mr Trump in 2007 and $12,000 for a football helmet signed by NFL quarterback Tim Tebow in 2012.
The whereabouts of those two items are currently unknown. If they stayed in Mr Trump's possession, it would appear to be a violation of US tax law prohibiting "self-dealing" - where managers of charitable groups purchase gifts for themselves from foundation funds. If the IRS determines this was the case, Mr Trump would have to reimburse his foundation for the market value of the purchase and pay a penalty.
Questionable donations: As Mr Trump began attempting to curry favour with Republicans in recent years, more of his donations have been directed to conservative causes. In 2014 he made a $10,000 donation to the American Spectator Foundation, the nonprofit group that publishes the arch-conservative magazine of the same name.
The Trump Foundation also made a $100,000 donation - its largest gift of that year - to Citizens United, a conservative group best known for a lawsuit that ended with the US Supreme Court striking down limits on many of the kinds of political campaign donations Mr Trump has criticised during his candidacy.
These kinds of donations, while representing a shift in the foundation's charitable giving patterns, are perfectly legal. In 2013, however, the Trump Foundation made a $25,000 contribution to "And Justice for All", a campaign committee supporting Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi. Political donations of this kind from a charitable foundation are prohibited. When the contribution was discovered in 2016, Mr Trump moved $25,000 from his personal account to compensate his foundation and paid a $2,500 IRS fine. Trump Foundation representatives have said the contribution was made in error.
As multiple news outlets have pointed out, the original donation arrived just days after Florida announced it was not joining a multi-state lawsuit against Trump University - a Trump-branded for-profit company that offered real-estate seminars and has been accused of fraud. A New York Times open-records request found no evidence that Ms Bondi was directly involved in that decision, however.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman speaks at a press conference.Image copyrightGETTY IMAGES
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New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says his office is looking into possible Trump Foundation "impropriety"
OK, Trump paid a fine. Does the foundation have any other legal troubles?
Yes. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman - the Democrat who is spearheading the investigation into Trump University - announced on 3 October that he has ordered the Trump Foundation to stop fundraising.
The foundation had neglected to register under article 7A of New York's Executive Law, which is required for any charity soliciting more than $25,000 (£19,440) a year, a letter from Schneiderman's office said
Trump officials have denounced the investigation as partisan.
Democrats in Congress have requested that the US Department of Justice initiate a criminal investigation into the Bondi donation for possible violation of federal bribery laws. The left-leaning Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has made a similar request of a US attorney in Florida - although proving such quid-pro-quo cases is extremely difficult.
In addition the group has filed a formal request that the IRS revoke the Trump Foundation's nonprofit tax status - an action the IRS will likely only take if it finds egregious and repeated violations of its regulations.
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Donald Trump lists free rounds on his golf courses as part of his charitable giving
But Trump says he gives lots of money to charities. Is he lying?
Who knows?
Because Mr Trump hasn't released his tax returns, there's no way to tell exactly how much he gives to charities. The Post's Fahrenthold has been doggedly trying to track down any and all of Mr Trump's personal donations but has only identified one gift, of less than $10,000, between 2008 and May 2016.
In May, four months after pledging to do so and after heightened media attention, Mr Trump donated $1m to a veterans' charity. The Republican candidate has also recently donated $100,000 to a charity aiding relief efforts following devastating floods in Louisiana.
Mike Pence, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, said on 12 September that his running mate "has given away tens of millions of dollars to charitable causes throughout his business life".
The Trump campaign released a list of charitable donations it says the candidate has made totalling $102m over the past five years - but the items listed were either in-kind contributions such as free rounds of golf at Mr Trump's courses offered at charity auctions and land-conservation agreements or money originating from the Trump Foundation.
"The Foundation's second-biggest donation described on the campaign's list went to the charity of a man who had settled a lawsuit with one of Trump's golf courses after being denied a hole-in-one prize," Fahrenthold and the Post's Rosalind Helderman write.

@mhorndisk:

I really think with the gay community, that you guys mostly think with your dicks. You don't care what's coming out of their mouth. If Obama wants to use Fast and Furious to send guns to Mexico, you're OK with that, just because you MIGHT suck his dick. You don't find Trump physically attractive, so you find him repulsive and won't hear him. It's kind of sad. With a woman, it doesn't matter what she says. It's all sexual. If some hot dude got up there and told you we should invade Australia, I think you'd be ok with that, just because you wanted to suck him off. Sorry if that's offensive. But I think so. I think most people don't think with their minds and are shallow enough to tend to the hive bee queen mentality. It has NOTHING to do with politics. I don't know how many times I've talked to people about Trump and when they just can't make an argument, they say, "I just don't like him." It's about personality and looks rather than mentality. It's really sickening and sad and makes me so ashamed of the gay family.

I think lots of people didn't like a lot of the things Obama did either.  Right now I have a big problem with him taking $400,000 from the healthcare industry to give a speech.

But….he isn't the President so I'd rather spend my time and energy on someone who matters.  If Trump wants positive coverage he should do something positive.  It's not that difficult.  Obama did it everyday for 8 years.