trump is serious!!!!!

[Lord Jim]

Trump delivers yet another disciplined, on message performance:

Donald Trump Tells Connecticut Audience: “I Might Lie to You” In Rambling Rally Speech

Donald Trump actually said to a Connecticut rally audience: “I might lie to you.” He added: “Just like Hillary.” Then he turned from the audience and pointed to a high school kid he’d introduced who’s battling cancer: “But not to you.” But clearly to the audience, he might lie. This promise or threat came as Trump reiterated he’s building his wall in Mexico and Mexico will pay for it.

Trump attacked the media in general, CNN, the New York Times, brought up Monica Lewinsky’s blue dress, made fun of the way Hillary Clinton speaks to crowds, mocked Connecticut governor Dannell Malloy’s first name, and reiterated without sarcasm his belief that President Barack Obama is the “founder of ISIS.”

The rally was at Sacred Heart College in Fairfield, Connecticut, and was live streamed until a lightning and thunder storm broke out with massive rains literally right on top of the school. The gods were not happy, my friends. It was a bad bad storm.

Many people say that Sacred Heart was roundly criticized locally for hosting the event. T shirt vendors out front hawked both Trump-Pence and Clinton-Kaine souvenirs.

Meantime, Trump’s running mate Mike Pence says he’ll released his tax statements. This seems like a rebuke to Trump, who won’t do it. Many people also wondered by Trump bothered to rally in Connecticut –which will vote Democratic– instead of a key red state or battleground state like Philadelphia, Florida, or Ohio. Connecticut has not voted Republican since 1988.

http://www.showbiz411.com/2016/08/13/do ... lly-speech

[Lord Jim]

Trump NY Co-Chair: Khan Doesn’t Deserve Gold Star Title

Carl Paladino, the co-chair for Donald Trump’s campaign in New York, defended the Republican nominee’s attacks on Khizr Khan, whose son died in Iraq in 2004, saying Khan doesn’t deserve the title of a Gold Star parent because he’s shown himself to be “anti-American” and may be a supporter of “the ISIS-type of attitude against America.”

“We’ve got an un-indicted felon as his opponent and you’re talking about Khan, about him making a remark about this man,” Paladino, a former New York gubernatorial candidate, told interviewer Connell McShane on Imus in the Morning.

“All right, I don’t care if he’s a Gold Star parent. He certainly doesn’t deserve that title, OK, if he’s as anti-American as he’s illustrated in his speeches and in his discussion. I mean, if he’s a member of the Muslim Brotherhood or supporting, you know, the ISIS-type of attitude against America, there’s no reason for Donald Trump to have to honor this man.”

Khan, a lawyer and longtime critic of Trump, has said that “is the time for us American Muslims to rat out any traitor who walks amongst us. This is high time for Muslims to stand firm [against terrorists].” In his DNC speech, Khan praised American democracy and the “hard work and goodness of this country”; then criticized Trump on the grounds of his rhetoric toward religious and ethnic minorities, as well as women; he then asked Trump if he had read the U.S. Constitution, and then held up his pocket-sized copy. His son, an Army captain, was killed by a car bomb in Iraq.

Paladino also fueled conspiracy theories that Hillary Clinton is hiding health problems, calling her “devious” for doing so.

“If you sit there and just dissect Donald Trump, you may feel that way,” Paladino said of criticisms of Trump. “But if you’re really looking at what’s been exposed about Hillary and Hillary’s demeanor. I mean, just look at the deviousness, if it is true about her health problems. I mean, how devious can a woman possibly be? And not telling the American people that she’s got some sickness, she’s definitely impaired.”

In the interview, Paladino also reiterated his belief that President Obama is Muslim, a comment first noted by Mediaite.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/christophermas ... .ojzj5vjj3

This guy is a perfect fit for the Trump campaign...

He should have been the VP pick...

[BoSoxGal]

[rubato]

Me, I loved the Newt's "Contract With America'. Most honest and understandable promise I have ever heard from a politician.

Go look it up. The contract was 1. Elect us and 2. We will think about talking about doing something about the following issues." Actually accomplishing anything was not part of the contract.

snailgate.

Well there WAS the disguised bribe in the form of phony book sales.


yrs,
rubato

[BoSoxGal]

[BoSoxGal]

Or at best:

[Lord Jim]

Here's an excerpt from the NY Times investigative piece that has set off The Donald's latest fit of apoplexy:

Advisers who once hoped a Pygmalion-like transformation would refashion a crudely effective political showman into a plausible American president now increasingly concede that Mr. Trump may be beyond coaching. He has ignored their pleas and counsel as his poll numbers have dropped, boasting to friends about the size of his crowds and maintaining that he can read surveys better than the professionals.

In private, Mr. Trump’s mood is often sullen and erratic, his associates say. He veers from barking at members of his staff to grumbling about how he was better off following his own instincts during the primaries and suggesting he should not have heeded their calls for change.

He broods about his souring relationship with the news media, calling Mr. Manafort several times a day to talk about specific stories. Occasionally, Mr. Trump blows off steam in bursts of boyish exuberance: At the end of a fund-raiser on Long Island last week, he playfully buzzed the crowd twice with his helicopter.

But in interviews with more than 20 Republicans who are close to Mr. Trump or in communication with his campaign, many of whom insisted on anonymity to avoid clashing with him, they described their nominee as exhausted, frustrated and still bewildered by fine points of the political process and why his incendiary approach seems to be sputtering.

He is routinely preoccupied with perceived slights, for example raging to aides after Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, in his re-election announcement, said he would stand up to the next president regardless of party. In a visit to Capitol Hill in early July, Mr. Trump bickered with two Republican senators who had not endorsed him; he needled Representative Peter T. King of New York for having taken donations from him over the years only to criticize him on television now.

And Mr. Trump has begun to acknowledge to associates and even in public that he might lose. In an interview on CNBC on Thursday, he said he was prepared to face defeat.

“I’ll just keep doing the same thing I’m doing right now,” he said. “And at the end, it’s either going to work, or I’m going to, you know, I’m going to have a very, very nice, long vacation.”[ I'd be delighted to see him start that vacation this afternoon...]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/14/us/po ... .html?_r=0

It's a fascinating article, well worth reading in its entirety.

[BoSoxGal]

His father had Alzheimer's; I think he's starting down that road himself, which is making his natural narcissistic personality disorder even more bizarre in action and words.

Scary, thank goodness he is far down in the polls we must pray he doesn't get elected.

[Bicycle Bill]

Good one, BSG.

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[Bicycle Bill]

A brief .gif showing how Trump's campaign has been (and will end up):



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[MajGenl.Meade]

... and the last Trump shall sound...

[Scooter]

[Bicycle Bill]

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[Lord Jim]

Wall Street Journal: Trump faces ‘moment of truth’

In a scathing editorial published Sunday evening, The Wall Street Journal declared that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s “window for a turnaround is closing.”

The paper’s editorial board declared the GOP nominee “has alienated his party and he isn’t running a competent campaign.”

It points to Trump’s poor polling numbers in swing states, as well as his lack of organization and ground game.

“Those who sold Mr. Trump to GOP voters as the man who could defeat Hillary Clinton now face a moment of truth,” the editorial board wrote, name-checking top Trump allies Newt Gingrich, Chris Christie, Rudy Giuliani and campaign manager Paul Manafort.

“If they can’t get Mr. Trump to change his act by Labor Day, the GOP will have no choice but to write off the nominee as hopeless and focus on salvaging the Senate and House and other down-ballot races,” the editorial board continued.

“As for Mr. Trump, he needs to stop blaming everyone else and decide if he wants to behave like someone who wants to be President—or turn the nomination over to Mike Pence.”

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/pre ... t-of-truth

[Econoline]

“...—or turn the nomination over to Mike Pence.”

I think we've discussed this here already, and that's not the way it works. He can give the nomination back to the party, and the party can nominate whoever it wants. Again.

Personally I think the Republican Party should be forced to carry this candidacy to term.

[Big RR]

Econoline, it's not worth the chance (however small) of him winning.

Roy

[Burning Petard]

'Personally I think the Republican Party should be forced to carry this candidacy to term'

I love it! Perfect karma bite for the supporters of 'Right to Life' and the death penalty.

snailgate

[MajGenl.Meade]

In a speech delivered in the vital swing state of Ohio, Trump also said that in implementing his call for a temporary ban on Muslims immigrating to the country, he would institute "extreme vetting" and develop a new screening test to try to catch people who intend to do harm to the United States.

It will have one question:

Would you have voted for Donald Trump in November 2016?

If the answer is "yes", that person is barred from entering the USA

[BoSoxGal]

[Bicycle Bill]

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