The Real Donald Trump

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  1. Robert

    Robert Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Nah, Don's on it fer us.

    https://www.propublica.org/article/...rules-let-lobbyist-help-run-agency-he-lobbied


    https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/12/...s-now-theyre-on-his-transition-team.html?_r=0


    http://time.com/donald-trump-drain-swamp/


    https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...7d93165c6d4_story.html?utm_term=.c6f6ade76246


    https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-...ry-lobbyist-to-hud-transition-team-1480453288


    https://theintercept.com/2017/01/27/coal-doj-trump/


    http://fortune.com/2016/11/16/trump-lobbyists-dc-establishment/




    Another of Don’s Swamp Rats Bails …


    ... just before publication of this New Yorker article. Must be "fake" n ****.


    Icahn’s role was novel. He would be an adviser with a formal title, but he would not receive a salary, and he would not be required to divest himself of any of his holdings, or to make any disclosures about potential conflicts of interest. “Carl Icahn will be advising the President in his individual capacity,” Trump’s transition team asserted.


    In the months after the election, the stock price of CVR, Icahn’s refiner, nearly doubled—a surge that is difficult to explain without acknowledging the appointment of the company’s lead shareholder to a White House position. The rally meant a personal benefit for Icahn, at least on paper, of half a billion dollars. There was an expectation in the market—an expectation created, in part, by Icahn’s own remarks—that, with Trump in the White House and Icahn playing consigliere, the rules were about to change, and not just at the E.P.A. Icahn’s empire ranges across many economic sectors, from energy to pharmaceuticals to auto supplies to mining, and all of them are governed by the types of regulations about which he would now potentially be advising Trump.


    Janet McCabe, who left the E.P.A. in January, and now works at the Environmental Law and Policy Center, told me, “I’m not naïve. People in business try to influence the government. But the job of the government is to serve the American people, not the specific business interests of the President’s friends. To think that you have somebody with that kind of agenda bending the President’s ear is troubling.”


    Conflicts of interest have been a defining trait of the Trump Administration. The President has not only refused to release his tax returns; he has declined to divest from his companies, instead putting them in a trust managed by his children. Questions have emerged about the ongoing business ties of his daughter and son-in-law, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, who, since Trump took office, have reaped nearly two hundred million dollars from the Trump hotel in Washington, D.C., and from other investments. Although Trump promised to “drain the swamp,” he has assembled a Cabinet of ultra-rich Americans, including two billionaires: Betsy DeVos, the Secretary of Education, and Wilbur Ross, the Secretary of Commerce.


    But Icahn is worth more than the Trump family and all the members of the Cabinet combined—and, with no constraint on his license to counsel the President on regulations that might help his businesses, he was poised to become much richer. Robert Weissman, who runs the watchdog group Public Citizen, told me, “This kind of self-enrichment and influence over decision-making by an individual mogul who is simultaneously inside and outside the Administration is unprecedented. In terms of corruption, there’s nothing like it. Maybe ever.” In conversations with me, financiers who have worked with Icahn described his appointment as a kind of corporate raid on Washington. One said, “It’s the cheapest takeover Carl’s ever done.”


    http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/08/28/carl-icahns-failed-raid-on-washington
     
  3. Robert

    Robert Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Do you mean Democrat conservatives? Or Independent conservatives?
     
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    What I think is taking air force one to visit in the aftermath of a natural disasters is nothing but a photo OP but as I said in this day and age of optics over substance it is probably good politics. In the end though it's a waste of time and resources yes. Just as much or more can be accomplished from the White House and a presidential tour probably does more harm than good.
     
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    Perfect description of both Clinton's and obama
     
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    IF Trump had stayed in the White House - you might have a thin point. But hell, he used the SAME resources and time to play golf. It's BS and you know it.
     
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    You didn't answer the question:


    When did he give up his billionaire lifestyle?


    And :

    Why couldn't you answer my questions?

    What IS Trump going to do for the boy?

    Bump off someone else from the waiting list so he (Trump) can look good???


    Uh, "thoughts and prayers" do NOTHING.
     
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  8. HereWeGoAgain

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    I am soooooo glad they called out "thoughts and prayers" as the placating, condescending, disingenuous bs that it is.

    It is insincerity masquerading as someone who gives a damn, but really intends to do nothing.
     
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    Absolutely not. Nothing is the same at all. There is no comparison. That's just a line fed to people by the RW propaganda machine. It isn't a true response to my questions.
     
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    Your watching to much CNN and MSNBC You need to catch up.

    LG Electronics Building U.S. Factory After President Trump Criticism ...
    Fortune.com/2017/02/28/lg-electronics-us-factory/
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    LG Electronics Building U.S. Factory After President Trump ...

    fortune.com
    South Korea's LG Electronics said it would spend $250 million to build a new factory in the United States.


    Feb 28, 2017 - LG rival Samsung Electronics was also considering building a U.S. Manufacturing plant as a response to criticisms about imports from Trump,

    ExxonMobil

    On March 6, CEO Darren Woods said the company is investing $20 billion in Gulf Coast manufacturing operations over 10 years, creating 45,000 jobs.

    Charter Communications

    On March 24, Charter Communications announced plans to invest $25 billion in the United States and to hire 20,000 American workers in the next four years.

    U.S. Steel: 10,000 Jobs

    Next, during a December 7 broadcast of CNBC’s Power Lunch, the CEO of U.S. Steel Mario Longhi said that after the election of Donald Trump, he has “felt an environment of positive optimism where forces are converging to provide for a better environment,” which he hopes means he can rehire up to 10,000 employees who had been laid off.

    IBM: 25,000 Jobs

    A week after U.S. Steel noted its bullish outlook on the U.S. Economy, computing giant IBM also found its outlook had brightened and reported that it expects to create up to 25,000 new jobs in the U.S.

    Hasbro is to start making play-doh in the U.S. Again.

    U.S. Hasbro, Inc. Is returning to the U.S. And will make the beloved children’s modeling clay in a Massachusetts factory rather than in China or Turkey.

    Toyota and Mazda to build $1.6 billion factory in the U.S ...
    Money.CNN.com/2017/08/04/news/economy/Mazda-Toyota-jobs-factory...
    Aug 04, 2017 · Toyota and Mazda have announced plans to build a $1.6 billion manufacturing plant in the United States that will create as many as 4,000 jobs.



    Fiat Chrysler Is Moving a Plant From Mexico to Michigan ...
    Fortune.com/2018/01/12/fiat-Chrysler-Michigan-Mexico-nafta
    Fiat Chrysler said it will shift Ram pickup truck production from Mexico to Michigan, lowering risk if President Trump pulls out of NAFTA.

    Apple creates 2,000 jobs shifting production back to US ...
    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/05/apple-creates...
    Apple creates 2,000 jobs shifting production back to US ... Engineering and construction jobs at a new plant in ... The first Macintosh computer made in America since ...



    Bayer AG (ADR)


    Bayer representatives announced that as part of their purchase of Monsanto, they were committing to keeping Monsanto’s 9,000 U.S. Jobs in the country, plus adding 3,000 new high-tech jobs for American workers.


    Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F)




    Ford Motor Company had been planning to build a $1.6 billion factory in Mexico.

    Instead, the company announced it was cancelling the Mexican car factory and added that it would invest $700 million to expand its Flat Rock Michigan factory. The money will go toward manufacturing high-tech electric, hybrid and autonomous cars and adds 700 U.S. Jobs.

    Hyundai Motor Co


    The South Korean auto maker announced it will boost its spending in the U.S. By 50% over planned levels, spending $3.1 billion over the next five years.

    That money will go to retooling Hyundai’s existing U.S. Factories and research into high-tech systems such as autonomous vehicles. Hyundai said it is also considering building a new factory specifically to build premium vehicles for the U.S. Market.

    The company didn’t give specific number for job creation, but with that kind of expenditure — and the possibility of a new factory — it’s definitely going to be more jobs for American workers.

    It's Chinese-made in America.

    In addition, he said, wages for him in China have been increasing 30 percent each year for much of the past decade. He has pledged $220 million to build and expand a facility in South Carolina and plans to eventually move the entire business to the U.S. Where he plans to employ more than 500 people by the end of the year.

    Add in the possibility of a lower corporate tax to as little as 15 percent, as proposed by Trump, and the U.S. Becomes a no-brainer for many manufacturers Zhu said.

    "If Trump cuts the corporate tax even by 5 percent, companies that left America a few years ago, will be back," he said.

    https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apos-made-china-apos-could-042148976.html


    Apple banks on tax break to build 2nd campus, hire …
    https://www.wthr.com/article/apple-banks-on-tax-break-to-build-2nd...
    Apple plans to take advantage of that provision to bring back most of its roughly $252 billion in offshore cash, generating a tax bill of about $38 billion. That anticipated tax bill implies Apple intends to bring back about $245 billion of its overseas cash, based on the temporary tax rate of 15.5 percent on foreign profits.
     
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    Well when you find evidence that that has actually happened please let us know

    Meantime this is one case - where is the Obamacare fix he promised??
     
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    So you think Trump is riding on Obama;s coat tails do you?

    The deep recession wiped out primarily high-wage and middle-wage jobs. Yet the strongest employment growth during the sluggish recovery has been in low-wage work, at places like strip malls and fast-food restaurants.

    In essence, the poor economy has replaced good jobs with bad ones. That is the conclusion of a new report from the National Employment Law Project, a research and advocacy group, analyzing employment trends four years into the recovery.

    “Fast food is driving the bulk of the job growth at the low end — the job gains there are absolutely phenomenal,” said Michael Evangelist, the report’s author. “If this is the reality — if these jobs are here to stay and are going to be making up a considerable part of the economy — the question is, how do we make them better?”

    The report shows that total employment has finally surpassed its pre-recession level. “The good news is we’re back to zero,” Mr. Evangelist said.

    But job losses and gains have been skewed. Higher-wage industries — like accounting and legal work — shed 3.6 million positions during the recession and have added only 2.6 million positions during the recovery. But lower-wage industries lost two million jobs, then added 3.8 million.
    HTTPS://www.nytimes.com/…/recovery-has-created-far-more-low…


    The share of the labor force working part time for financial reasons rather than by choice shot up to more than 6 percent from around 3 percent prior to the 2007-2009 recession with an overall unemployment rate at around 10.4 percent. Those who work fewer than 35 hours a week account for a larger share of employment than before the recession, according to the Wall Street Journal. With about 2.4 million part-time employees today, that number is 84 percent higher than the 2003-2007 average, and this is a major reason why wage growth has been sluggish on a national basis.

    "There are now 1.2 million fewer jobs in mid- and higher-wage industries than there were before the Great Recession, according to data from the National Employment Law Project. In contrast, there are 2.3 million more jobs in lower-wage sectors than before the recession," according to CNBC. Nor is there the hoped-for renaissance in American manufacturing. We have some 300,000 fewer manufacturing jobs since President Barack Obama took office and 1.5 million jobs below the pre-recession level.

    https://www.usnews.com/news/the-report/articles/2015/08/23/the-part-time-economic-recovery
     
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    I have given you facts. If you don't like the facts then go ahead and crawl back into your rabbit hole. No problem.
     
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    I guess They never taught you in boot camp not to believe your own B/S.
     
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    That would be valid if the accusations were baseless. Unfortunatly Trump's record is well documented. From cheating small businesses to cheating on his wives to his fraudulent University the fact are not in dispute.
     
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    I'll be a happy camper if the real Donald Trump cheats China, North Korea, Russia, Iran and of course Mexico.
     
  17. Smartmouthwoman

    Smartmouthwoman Bless your heart Past Donor

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    Well documented by Mother Jones doesnt count. Facts are facts. Notice you rarely hear anyone bad-mouth Donald Trump who actually knows him?

    Donald Trump, a champion of women? His female employees think so.

    ... many women who have worked closely with Trump say he was a corporate executive ahead of his time in providing career advancement for women. While some say he could be boorish, his companies nurtured and promoted women in an otherwise male-dominated industry. Several women said they appreciated how Trump granted them entry to a new playing field.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...53018f9a0ec_story.html?utm_term=.d1f6618c2039
     
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    Well documented everywhere including divorce court. So cute that a few woman who worked for him wete willing to lie to support their jobs.
     
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    So would we all. At least that will provide some counterbalance to his cheating of the American people.
     
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    Smartmouthwoman Bless your heart Past Donor

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    TDS noted and acknowledged.
     
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    Not my fault you can't actually defend his record or his behavior as a human being. Cheating on wives, grabbing *****, paying porn stars and playmate bunnies. Hopefully should you ever marry your husband will use Trump as his role model.
     
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    Hmmm dec 2015

    Was this a paid advertisement because there are pages and pages of on record derogatory remarks from Trump

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/p...tracker-every-offensive-comment-in-one-place/
     
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    He especially likes emotionally damaged women who are programmed to accept abuse. Matchmaker.
     
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