Donald Trump: President or Mob Boss?

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  1. opion8d

    opion8d Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    This is a tricky question for some so let’s begin with a couple of examples to get things rolling.

    A President looks like any president you want to think about or consider from, let’s say, Jimmy Carter to Barak Obama.

    A Mob Boss looks like Don Corleone in the Godfather or Tony Soprano in series by that name.

    The previous president’s shared similar qualities of honesty, dedication to the office, unifier of people, morality, decency, empathy, respect for all Americans, respect for the law, and selflessness.

    Donald Trump has none of these qualities. However, he shares many qualities of a Mob Boss or any number of unsavory leaders in the world, many of whom he openly admires and invites to the White House.

    Now, it's your turn.
     
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    My turn.

    The Left supports Totalitarian Censorship, Identity Politics, and Presumption of Guilt in sexual misconduct cases.

    I know President Trump has many faults. But I consider him the Lesser Evil.
     
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    It's time the American Public stops settling "for the lesser of two evils".
    We really, really need a viable third party in this country, and shame on those who settled for a toxic devil like Trump when there were plenty of other Republican choices to choose from. Shame on them. And shame on Democrats for settling on Hillary -who would have been just as toxic.
     
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    Trump is fighting every Congressional subpoena. He does not want any of his staffers, current and former, talking to Congress. He does not want Congress to see his tax returns even though all other Presidents for the past 50 years have disclosed their tax returns. He refused to part with his businesses, and he and his companies are profiting from his Presidency. So is Ivanka and Jared, both of whom are senior advisors to the President.

    The Mueller Report provided significant evidence against Trump, cooperation with the Russian government on the part his Presidential campaign and obstruction of justice. Several portions of it were redacted by his consigliere, William Barr. Trump refuses to allow Congress to see the full, unredacted version of the report and the underlying evidence.

    Trump is operating a secret Presidency. His White House has not held a press conference in eight weeks. In 29 months, Trump has not conducted a full-fledged press conference with the White House press corps. By contrast, Obama had 17, Bush 7, and Clinton 27,same time frame.

    He and his spokesperson, press secretary Sarah Sanders, are both pathological liars. As our President, his word can't be trusted. He often makes official Presidential statements designed solely to anger his enemies.

    Trump is very capable of running his organization, but his knowledge of how government works is sadly lacking.

    Please accept my apologies. From the standpoint of our Trump friends, I probably short circuited your thread. They are not fans of reality.
     
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    Ludicrous. Straight off the front page of a far right conspiracy website. You can't prove any of it.
     
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    Golem Well-Known Member Donor

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    Donald Trump doesn't know how to be President. But he plays the mob boss role very well.

    He also admires the role of dictator. But mob boss is the role that fits him like a glove.
     
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    opion8d Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Trump's Six Families

    Rodrigo Duterte - Philipines
    Vlademir Putin - Russia
    Recep Tayyip Erdoğan - Turkey
    Kim Jung Un - North Korea
    Viktor Orban - Hungary
    Mohammed bin Salman - Saudi Arabia
     
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    Mob Boss? No way. He's not smart enough.
     
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    The Left supports Totalitarian Censorship, Identity Politics, and Presumption of Guilt in sexual misconduct cases.

    Based on many sources -- mostly Leftist. Sad but true.

    If the choice was between modern Left and Joseph Stalin, the latter would have been better.
     
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    Duterte's Atheism and blasphemy are evil. He is designed to fail.

    President Bolsonaro is much better.
     
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    Neither did Hillary Clinton, and you guys voted for her. The hypocrisy is stunning.
     
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    I think that I tried to respond to a thread that was of a similar nature to this one; only it was rightward slanted. When I clicked on "post reply", I got the fault message that the thread could not be found. It existed for eight minutes.

    You're doing good!
     
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    Nice to know you'd choose a communist who was responsible for the murder of millions of people..
     
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    Western stats about Joseph Stalin are vastly exaggerated. Out of all mortal people he played the greatest role in saving the World from Nazis.
     
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    If Trump acts like a mob boss, thank you brotherhood of Mob bosses.
     
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    How long do you think it will take for it to become acceptable here? Aren't we headed down the path of the extermination of unapproved ideas? How long until it follows for people who hold those ideas?
     
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    Half of this country has no awareness of who the president is. And it did not give a damn about Obama either. Those are your candidates for the third party. Go recruit them.
     
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    I was not aware current Russians like Stalin. He was hated when he lived.
     
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    I consider that your coming out of the closet post. Now you admit you support the Hillary team and the Democrats.
     
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    Calling the president a "mob boss" is not an argument that will get me to vote against him. You'll have to do better than that.
     
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    I so enjoy their wailing I plan to vote for him even if we can resurrect Reagan to run again.
     
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    Why don't you share with us some examples to back up what your saying?
     
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    Mob boss!

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