Trump Supporters

[Smiles]

One just can't let the latest flood of hilarious Trumpisms slide by. This one in particular should reset your eyeballs to rollin' (one more time).
This doosie speaks for itself:

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz ... gs-he-says

[Gaybutton]

It seems to me every time Trump opens his mouth, in goes his his foot. His latest speaks for itself.

I know of no election, ever, when higher-ups in a political party not only will vote for the opposing candidate, but publicly said so, along with urging voters to do the same.
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Trump: If Clinton wins Pennsylvania, she cheated

By Rachel Chason, CNN

August 12, 2016

(CNN)Donald Trump declared Friday that there's only one way he could lose the state of Pennsylvania: if he's cheated out of it.

"We're going to watch Pennsylvania. Go down to certain areas and watch and study and make sure other people don't come in and vote five times," he said at a rally in Altoona, Pennsylvania. "If you do that, we're not going to lose. The only way we can lose, in my opinion -- I really mean this, Pennsylvania -- is if cheating goes on."

Trump said that Republican leaders in the state "are very concerned" about the possibility of cheating -- adding that "we have to call up law enforcement, and we have to have the sheriffs and the police chiefs and everybody watching."

Hillary Clinton's lead in the polls in Pennsylvania is solid -- a Quinnipiac survey of likely voters released Tuesday found Clinton leading Trump 52% to 42%. But both candidates are devoting significant resources to the state, which has a base of working class voters that Trump's campaign hopes could work in his favor.

Trump, who campaigned earlier Friday in Erie, Pennsylvania, said he "knows the state very well" and knows Clinton "can't beat what's happening here."
Unless there's cheating.

"The only way they can beat it, in my opinion -- and I mean this 100% -- if in certain sections of the state, they cheat," he said.
Trump's comments Friday echoed -- but went even further than -- his statements last week in Ohio that he's "afraid the election is going to be rigged."

Pennsylvania does not require voters in the state to show photo identification -- which Trump said he finds "shocking."

Ben Carson, who supports Trump, told CNN's Erin Burnett that the focus should be on how to make sure there is no voter fraud -- which he noted would be good for both parties. He also acknowledged he might not have used the words as Trump, his former Republican primary rival.

"I would've said it in a different way. I would've said, 'There have been some irregularities and we want to make sure that those don't occur.'"

At his first rally of the day, Trump put his dislike of the media in harsher terms than usual -- calling journalists "the lowest form of life."
"I tell you, the lowest," he said. "They are the lowest form of humanity."

http://us.cnn.com/2016/08/12/politics/d ... index.html

[Smiles]

Trump is setting himself up for defeat by pulling the Rigged Card. The man's ego is so ponderous and all-encompassing that he cannot abide loss regarding even the most simple of narratives.
So ... he'll lose, and immediately blame it on a totally rigged election, and then talk himself to actually believing it. He's started already.
And, I'm sure, he's staunch followers will believe it as well.

[Gaybutton]

So ... he'll lose

"Gooooood."
- Gregory Peck (Dr. Josef Mengele), 'The Boys from Brazil'

[RichLB]

I've been playing with the theory that Trump is doing everything he can on purpose to get himself kicked out of the election by the RNC. That, to me, explains how an otherwise intelligent man (he can't be a complete idiot to have accumulated a fortune in real estate) can continue to make outrageously stupid and near seditious comments. If he was jettisoned by the party, his ego would remain intact and he could assume the mantle of a martyr to his followers. He might even be able to keep a high percentage of the campaign funds he's collected. I don't think this notion is too far fetched.

[Dodger]

He might even be able to keep a high percentage of the campaign funds he's collected. I don't think this notion is too far fetched

I think he's already pocketing a portion of the campaign funds ($millions$) the same way he kept 4 million dollars a few months ago when he held that last-minute rally under the guise of being a benefit for the U.S. Veterans. He informed those in attendance, many of whom were veterans, that 6.2 million dollars had been donated to the cause in less than 24 hours, although, following the accounting of the actual funds received by more than 28 major U.S. veteran charity organizations it was determined that only 2.2 million dollars was actually accountable as being been donated. A 4 million dollar profit to Donald's bottom line for a 2 hour speaking gig which was financed entirely by his followers. I guess it's all in the "Art of the Deal."

[travelerjim]

Pardon me...
But the FACT is that 5.6 Million + $$$ was raised and donated to 40 Veterans charity groups in the USA.
NO $ went into Trump's pocket...

Vote for Hillary if you wish...thankfully...you have that right.

But I appreciate Trump for calling attention to many important issues in America needing attention.

Good Day!
Tj

[Smiles]

TravelerJim, is quite easy to state a FACT without a credible URL link which gives full credence to said FACT. Hell, Trump has been pulling the same con job for the last year.
To be fair, Dodger also states a FACT without evidence as well. I'd certainly like to see links to both of their contentions ~ for simple contentions are what they are right now. Only one can be correct, but we do not know which one. Some hard evidence is needed for this seeming conundrum.

" ... But I appreciate Trump for calling attention to many important issues in America needing attention ... "

Yes, well that's just jim-dandy for you. Glad you can find a 'positive' which sticks to Mr Trump. Unfortunately, most thoughtful people ~ and they don't have to be Repubs ~ cannot see your appreciation.
Do you also appreciate his demagoguery, his constant lying, his massive lack of and empathy or decency, his foul mouth, his lack of loyalty, his bigotry, his disdain for the American constitution, his flights of utter fantasy, his cynical pandering to "the poorly educated", his love affair with Putinism, his howling scorn of the disabled, his serial bankruptcies, his 1960's misogyny, his anti-gay-ishness, his never-ending boasting bombast, his eyeball rolling ignorance on just about everything ... etc etc etc?
I won't attach links to every one of these human deficits, but rest assured, I could.

[RichLB]

Pardon me...
But the FACT is that 5.6 Million + $$$ was raised and donated to 40 Veterans charity groups in the USA.
NO $ went into Trump's pocket...

We, of course, only have his word for that since he refuses to release his income tax records. His excuse that they are being audited is specious since no law prohibits their publication while the IRS investigates and his records from 2008 and back are NOT being audited. As to his gifts to veterans organizations, so far no news agency (which have surveyed virtually every known veterans group) have found any contributions from Trump save one of one million dollars which was only made after he was challenged by CNN (I think it was CNN) and that was several months after his promise made at the fund raiser. Can you think of any legitimate reason he refuses to share his income tax records other than to cover up lies?

[thaiworthy]

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.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show ... -bad-worse

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In a contentious press conference, Donald Trump -- after prodding from the media -- released the list of veterans groups that he and supporters raised money for earlier this year.

Trump said his efforts resulted in $5.6 million in donations to 40 veterans’ groups. Below is a list of the organizations, with links to their pages on Charity Navigator, an independent organization that rates the transparency and efficiency of charitable groups.

The 40 groups that benefited from Trump’s largesse run the gamut from large, highly rated charities to smaller groups about which very little is known.

Of the 40 groups, 16 received ratings from Charity Navigator -- 13 that received four out of a possible four stars and three groups that received three out of four stars.

Charity Navigator has not yet rated seven groups -- a decision that is not a reflection either way on the efficiency and transparency of the organization, it says.

Charity Navigator has declined to rate another 13 of the groups because their revenues are too small, and two other groups were not rated because they have an "atypical business model" or "nontrivial fundraising expenses." (Charity Navigator cautions that neither factor indicates that it is making "a positive or negative assessment" about those groups.) We were unable to immediately find independent information on two other groups.

The groups that received donations from Trump varied in size. Some had annual revenues in the tens of millions of dollars. Others had annual revenues in the $100,000 to $200,000 range, making Trump’s donations of $75,000 to $200,000 a sizable part of their annual income. And a half-dozen groups have not filed federal tax forms, according to Charity Navigator, leaving it unclear how large their revenues are.

The recipient groups are headquartered all across the country, but the early caucus state of Iowa was home to five of them. Trump’s original fundraising event was held in Iowa, when he dropped out of a debate sponsored by Fox News, with which he was feuding at the time.

Here is the complete list, with links to Charity Navigator’s main page on the organization. Not included on our list is a $100,000 donation to a group called Projects for Patriots that Trump said is on hold pending further review of the group’s finances.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter ... e-donated/