Trump is owned by his donors

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  1. Borat

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    Are you trying to sabotage your own thread with this irrelevant garbage? I can't blame you, the OP is a total fail so changing the topic and throwing mud hoping that perhaps some day (8 years from now;) ), something will stick is your only option. :roflol:
     
  2. Seth Bullock

    Seth Bullock Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Small Business Administration seems appropriate. Better her than some dumb politician who has never run anything ... like Obama appointing Clinton or Kerry to Secretary of State.
     
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    No, I am stating that Obama was and still is owned by his donors. Why don't you give Trump a chance instead of trying to sabotage him beore he is even inaugurated. Obama has proven time and again to be corrupt. Trump is not the president yet and so far he is trying to live up to voter expectations. Obama NEVER did that. Give Trump a chance....
     
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    Good, so the debt has been paid off, no one owns Trump, proving that the OP is complete nonsense.
     
  5. Foolardi

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    Ironic in a sense,ain't it.That the Clintons used a record $1.2 Billion in
    campaign chest for 2016 to support Hillary's bid for the White House where they left
    in 2000 broke.Now the Clintons pride themselves on being worth in the
    neighborhood of $ 200-250 Million.With a charity that spends less than
    10 cents on the dollar actually going to Charity.
    Is this a case of Mistaken ethics.

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    I say let the whining cry babies get it our of their system.
    I mean,what else are they gonna do.? Write a book about.They'd fail
    at that also.
     
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    Foolardi Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Hmm ... You mean Obama did that.
    I thought he handed them the job { Secretary-of-State } on a silver
    platter with an extra set of keys to the WH executive washrooms.
    w/o fresh towels,naturally.
     
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    Yeah he's down to his last few personally owned billion dollars.

    Poor guy.
     
  8. Robert

    Robert Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    What does Hillary's list look like?

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    FAVORS such as?
     
  9. Robert

    Robert Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Based on my barrage of e mail to raise cash for Trump, seems it started once he was nominated at the convention.

    I never sent him a dime. However that is, many of his donors donated small sums. It looks like the public owns the Donald.
     
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    If someone loans you money that you can't pay back, then that creditor may "own" you. But Trump didn't NEED their money, and he could return it if they got to be a pain in his ass.
     
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    Small potatoes:

    Hillary Donors:

    Thomas Steyer - $67.3 million The billionaire environmentalist and former hedge fund manager announced his support of Clinton in June.

    Donald Sussman - $39.1 million Another hedge fund manager, Sussman poured the majority of his donations into pro-Clinton PAC Priorities USA

    Fred Eychaner - $34.3 million The owner of Midwest media conglomerate Newsweb Corp.,

    Michael Bloomberg - $20.1 million The billionaire CEO and founder of Bloomberg L.P.

    James Simons - $19.7 million The hedge fund manager

    George Soros - $ 19.5 million A supporter of the Black Lives Matter movement, the hedge fund manager has also given $3 million to a PAC seeking to mobilize Hispanic voters

    Jennifer Pritzker - $19.5 million Formerly James Pritzker, the CEO of Tawani Enterprises

    Dustin Moskovitz - $17.3 million Co-founded Facebook

    Haim Saban - $13.5 million, Univision

    Marsha and Henry Laufer - $9.1 million, Renaissance Technologies
     
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    Trump, compared to Obama and Hillary got chump change. So he hardly owes anything compared to what Hillary would have owed back as policy and favors, had she got elected.

    So, Chump Change Trump. I think Hillary may have out spent him, by a quite a few hundred million, and that is a lot of money with strings glued to it.

    He had an inferior ground game, exponentially less money, both parties and MSM trying to take him down and yet he still beat the worst possible candidate the dems could have provided, and she was chosen long ago. When sanders was getting too much support the DNC got busy with antidemocratic behavior, ethical corruption, was backed by MSM, and got rid of sanders who would have been president now. And if you added what sanders would have spent, plus what trump spent, it would have been less than what Hillary spent. Both trump and sanders would have run campaigns that were mostly speeches to the People, traveling around. Instead of attending fund raisers selling themselves out to these rich elites, attaching puppet strings to themselves, so the puppet masters could make them dance to their tunes.

    Trump is not in debt to these people who need to be paid back, which generally involves screwing over the working and middle class for the disparity in income is high, record setting, but it can still go higher. Greed of these people is just impossible to satiate.
     
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    Before you begin your Obama tourettes and take up defense of the reality TV clown, understand this thread is about Trump who promised that he wasn't owned by anyone.
     
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    Great question. But nobody wants to talk about that, now, do they?

    Politicians place people they trust in high level positions. Is it any great surprise that the trust and support goes both ways? That those highly successful people who trusted and supported Trump during his presidential bid might be big donors as well? And they call me silly...

    Ah, let 'em vent on PF. It's cheaper than having to go for therapy...

    You'd think that would be obvious, right?

    Excellent bottom line. The folks who argue that Trump is gonna be a patsy haven't been paying close enough attention.
     
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    Geez, "Trump is a liar" Trump is owned by donors" "Trump is working for the Russians"....can't the lefties pick a phony meme and stick with it? :roflol:
     
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    Just a few more reasons why I had dubbed him LICE Trump. Just think the E will not apply in a few weeks Ibwill have to retire the title. '
     
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    Says the clintonite. Just when one thinks the left can't get more foolish. Bingo, a star is born.
     
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    Research that in detail and you'll find that most of those cases were situations where the jobs were not done to standard, not completed on-time, or not completed at all!

    As a businessman, paying in full what's been charged without having the contract fulfilled to specifications is financial suicide.

    I'm not making excuses for him - because I don't know all of the details....but neither do you!



    Last time I checked, Trump was in no position to grant a minimum wage increase. Do you know something different?

    Also, the left loves to tout minimum wage increases as a litmus test for "caring for the working class". What about those in the working class who lose out on job opportunities because companies have to reduce their workforce because of the increased overhead created by increased payroll commitments?

    Most employers are small businesses. Even places like McDonalds are owned by franchisees - who are simply small business owners. They do not have the deep pockets of large corporations, so they have to raise prices of goods and services and/or reduce their workforce as a consequence of increasing the minimum wage.

    The end result: higher costs for consumers, increased demand for a smaller workforce to produce more, and eventually on a nationwide scale - inflation.

    Confounding the situation is the FACT that minimum wage is NOT intended to be what the left calls "a living wage". Minimum wage is intended to provide a base wage amount for the very young, very unskilled, and ultimately, the unmotivated workers who cannot seem to prove themselves worthy of having their wage elevated through outstanding performance and demonstrated potential for increased responsibility.



    Wait a minute! I thought you lefties were in favor of providing job opportunities to "foreign laborers"?!?!?!

    You know -- like the undocumented aliens to whom I assume you are referring.

    Which is it?

    Oh ok - I see. You want it both ways.

    Nevermind.....I think I've got it now!

    The point is to bash Trump - no need to pay any attention to pesky details like facts.
     
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    OR replace it with a k ...
     
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    You got it all wrong...

    Trump owns the left...

    He slicked them at every turn.

    Trump is playing the music

    and the left is doing the dancing..

    hillary spent a whole lot more to lose

    than Trump did to win...:roflol:
     
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    And Hillary spent 1.4 BILLION on her campaign. She definitely didn't come up with it all on her own. Sooooooo..... yeah....
     
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    Cool, these guys all lost their hiney's .

    Pay attention to whom you do not want to earn more cash to donate to the Democrats.

    For instance, why support Bloomberg?
     
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    They are like the Jeb! donors. They might as well have lit their money on fire and thrown it out the window.

    Bullet Dodged!
    [​IMG]
     
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    Good Lord....I LOVE THAT PICTURE!!!!!!
     
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    Congratulations on by far the most pathetic attempt at defamation. Especially when considering the competition was Hillary, who every single power broker was donating to, world wide.

    Truth is king. Your side really has nothing. I've never seen anything like it.
     

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