Trump Opposition Research Thread

[erowe1]

The thing is, do any of Trump's supporters care about anything bad that could be said about him?

 

[r3volution 3.0]

The thing is, do any of Trump's supporters care about anything bad that could be said about him?

A great many clearly do not, but I'm sure some do - & every little bit helps.

There are also potential supporters out there in need of inoculation.

 

[enhanced_deficit]

He did an ad with controversial neocon Giuliani:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IrE6FMpai8



[h=3]Hillary fund raisers could lose big money if media owners took Trump out too soon[/h]

 

[r3volution 3.0]

More Mob Ties

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/w...-a-criminal-hurt-his-campaign/article/2569496

But in an interview with the Examiner, Sater rattled off the projects he and Trump worked on together — Trump SoHo, Trump International Hotel and Residence Phoenix, Trump International Hotel and Residence Ft. Lauderdale — and talked about traveling with "The Donald" to Denver for a never-completed project. Sater wished Trump well and said, "He will probably make the best president ever because of his acumen and intelligence and ability to get things done."

In 2009, a federal judge sentenced Sater for his role in a stock fraud and money-laundering scheme during the mid-1990s. Despite Sater's agreement to having owed $60 million in restitution to victims of his crime, the judge handed Sater a $25,000 fine after Sater's cooperation with the federal government on other matters.

...

"By 2002, [Sater] had infiltrated and largely controlled Bayrock, a New York developer with ties to organized crime, in the next several years using it to launder hundreds of millions, skim and extort millions more, and again swindle his investors and partners," the petition alleged. "[F]or example, fraudulently inducing banks to lend hundreds of millions to Bayrock by concealment fraud (hiding the material fact of his conviction from them), threatening to kill anyone at the firm he thought knew of the crimes committed there and might report it."

Also in 2002, Sater said, he began working with Trump. At least one of the projects Trump worked on with Sater has come under additional scrutiny. In 2010, Reuters reported, "Donald Trump and the promoters of his Trump SoHo hotel-condominium were sued by buyers who accused them of fraudulently touting out-sized sales figures to encourage them to buy units and inflate the financial project's health."

Sater said he worked as a senior adviser to Donald Trump in 2011, which is after his sentencing in the stock-fraud case, and after the lawsuit was filed against his and Trump's work on Trump SoHo. The lawsuit was settled in November 2011, and the buyers reportedly received 90 percent of their total deposits back. Sater's LinkedIn page also says he worked as a senior adviser to Donald Trump at the Trump organization during 2010 and 2011.

 

[P3ter_Griffin]

Anyone got dirt on Carl Icahn (corporate welfare, support for bailouts/stimulus)? Trump retweeted Icahn's acceptance of the treasury secretary position offered by Trump.

 

[Henry Rogue]

Probably taken out of context, but I can't imagine that the quotes would be any less funny in context.
Link to article, but don't click on it, to much spam over article.http://thedailybanter.com/2015/06/10-quotes-from-donald-trumps-speech-that-show-hes-totally-ready-to-be-president/#

10 Quotes From Donald Trump’s Speech That Show He’s Totally Ready to be President
Ben Cohen*on June 17, 2015

Donald Trump’s speech announcing his 2016 campaign at the Trump Tower in New York City yesterday was a spectacle that will go down in American history. The billionaire real estate mogul wasted no time laying out his case to become President that included calling Mexican immigrants rapists, claiming God created him to create jobs, and*using*his knowledge of air conditioning units to create a military strategy against ISIS.

If you had any doubts as to whether Trump*was ready to run for President, these 10 quotes should clear them up for you pretty quickly. The Donald is ready America, so buckle up.

1. Donald*sewing up the Mexican vote:

When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re sending people that have lots of problems. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.

2. On*using his expertise in air conditioning to create a competent ISIS strategy:

Some of the candidates, they went in and didn’t know the air conditioner didn’t work and sweated like dogs, and they didn’t know the room was too big because they didn’t have anybody there. How are they going to beat ISIS?

3. *On how he would fix HealthCare.gov:

We have a 5 billion dollar website. I have so many websites … I hire people. They do a website. It costs me three dollars.

4. Donald showing his diplomacy skills:

When was the last time anybody saw us beating, let’s say, China in a trade deal? They kill us. I beat China all the time.

5. On God making*him to make jobs:

I will be the greatest jobs president that God ever created.

6. On getting Mexicans to build a wall to keep themselves out of America:

I will build a great wall — and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me —and I’ll build them very inexpensively. I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will make Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words.

7. Er…

They built a hotel. When I build a hotel, I have to pay interest. They don’t have to pay interest because they took the oil when we left Iraq, I said we should have taken. So now ISIS has the oil.

8. On politicians using the*moon to distract people:

I watch the speeches of these people, and they say the sun will rise, the moon will set, all sorts of wonderful things will happen, and people are saying, ‘What is going on? I just want a job.’

9. On free trade:

Free trade is terrible. Free trade can be wonderful if you have smart people. But we have stupid people.

10. On why we need a President who wrote Donald Trump’s*The Art of the Deal:

We need a leader that wrote*The Art of the Deal.

Donald Trump*will*be President in 2016, so don’t doubt him*you losers.

 

[DevilsAdvocate]

Meme fuel:

Trumpeting - The act of continually, obsessively talking about Trump.

Applies to quite a few on RPF

 

[timosman]

Donald Trump Pizza Hut ads

 

[nikcers]

O'reilly : Libya- um, the libyan action is being explained as a humanitarian issue

"I support stopping that kind of slaughter, but the problem is where do you stop..."

Iraq:
"To the victor go the spoils"
"as sure as you are sitting there Iran is going to come in and take over the oil (in Iraq), you stay and you take the oil"

"I am the most militaristic person that you will find."


https://youtu.be/i6G4AAI77kI?t=1344

 

[notsure]

You may be able to add this to 'Support for Mitch McConnel'

 

[Lucille]

I'll just put this here. Looks like the Trump Chumps are working Stucky's last nerve too.

The Donald Exposed
http://www.theburningplatform.com/2015/08/27/the-donald-exposed-for-starfcker-and-his-trumpeteers/

It is pure idiocy to support a man simply because he is outspoken, or says popular things, or has mastered the art of titillation. Have you people forgotten Chris Christie??
[...]
It’s all emotional bullshit because what one hardly ever reads about from these Trumpeteer Marionettes is an actual discussion about Trump on the issues. It’s more important to squeeze out yet another orgasmic fountain of joy because he threw out some Univision reporter; “Oh, look! Isn’t zee Donald just Wunderbar!!”

Screw that. So, let’s look at what The Donald believes …. by his own words. And, although I can, I will not spoon-feed you links to his quotes. If you think I’m lying, look up the quotes yourself. You might actually learn something about the Donald in the process.
[click the link and check it out]
MY CONCLUSION: — While Mr. Trump is on the correct side on a few issues, it doesn’t make up for his being on the wrong side in so many others. In the above chart, The Donald is clearly on the far left side on almost all issues. In other words, he is no different than the Same Old Crap Sandwich you’ve been fed for decades now. Yet, you Trumpeteers believe he’s The Great White Hope. Yeah, well, hope in one hand and shit in the other, and see which one fills up faster.

Both his words and actions prove his rejection of the free market and a propensity for confiscating wealth and placing it in the hands of corporate elites and government bureaucrats. But, key to me is that he has no respect for individual rights. His non-existent stance for the Constitution is extremely problematic. Whether he has any adherence to liberty and justice is questionable at best considering his support of the most vile politicians in the nation, while running around with mobsters. This is no reformer!
[...]
In a March 1990 Playboy interview Mr. Trump said; — “I know what sells and I know what people want.” The Donald is still using that strategy in 2015, and he’s playing you Trumpeteers for fools.

 

[hillertexas]

Thanks to Brett85

http://www.buzzfeed.com/adriancarra...mers-and-said?utm_term=.olPa0GnX0#.gsz11KmmKY

That Time Donald Trump Had A Meeting With DREAMers And Said “You Convinced Me” On Immigration

That Time Donald Trump Had A Meeting With DREAMers And Said “You Convinced Me” On Immigration

Two years ago, Trump met with immigration activists who told them their stories and asked for his support on immigration. “You convinced me,” Trump said as the meeting ended.

On an August day two years ago, Donald Trump was in a much different place: He was just a billionaire with the simple goal of connecting his beauty pageant business with the upcoming Hispanic Heritage Awards.
So at his New York penthouse office atop Trump Tower, he convened a meeting.
Trump ushered in a pair of men — one to talk about the awards and a Democratic strategist who works with nonprofits — and three young DREAMer activists. The DREAMers were on a tour sharing their stories with those less likely to support them, like Tea Party supporters.
Trump, according to four attendees who recounted the meeting to BuzzFeed News, talked about how rich he is (“This is the best view in New York!”), the golf courses he was building around the world, and about each prospective Republican candidate (“What do you think about Jeb Bush?”) and whether Latinos liked them.
Then the DREAMers began telling their life stories.
Jose Machado spoke about how his mom was deported when he was 15 years old. Diego Sanchez talked about how he was trying to go to law school and struggling to come up with ways to pay for it.
Trump alternated between making no sense and broad ignorance on the issue, according to Gaby Pacheco, a prominent national activist and the third DREAMer in the meeting.
“Don’t you think someone in a wheelchair is more deserving than you all?” Trump said to silence.
But he also kept asking, “Can’t you just become a citizen if you want to?” No, we can’t, the activists said, there’s no process for that. Trump was reflective, the activists said.
“You know, the truth is I have a lot of illegals working for me in Miami,” he told them, using the term for undocumented immigrants those in the meeting found offensive. “You know in Miami, my golf course is tended by all these Hispanics — if it wasn’t for them my lawn wouldn’t be the lawn it is, it’s the best lawn,” Pacheco recalled Trump saying.
Trump said he knew the work of undocumented people is what makes his golf courses and hotels great.
“At the end of the day, what we’re looking at is a value proposition for America,” Tijerino said to Trump at the end of the meeting, referring to immigration legislation.
“You’ve convinced me,” Trump said to the delight of the activists in the room.
“We all smiled at each other and said, ‘Wow, we did it, we got this guy to change his mind,’” Pacheco said.
Two years later, they see a showman just playing to the crowd. Trump, of course, has spun the Republican field into a debate about immigration that has involved whether the 14th Amendment should be revoked, and if the U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants should be deported.
“This is an entertainer who knows how to appease his audience,” Rodriguez said. “In his office he had an audience that was completely receptive to what he had to say about respecting the drive of these students who are here to change their lives. But once that conversation was done, that conversation was done. There was no follow up.”
Antonio Tijerino, the businessman who spoke about the Hispanic Heritage Awards at the meeting, said Trump’s people didn’t expect him to come with activists in tow — but Trump was “gracious, engaged, warm, and friendly.”
It was very different, Tijerino said from the Trump of 2015, the man whom Tijerino believes provoked the alleged beating of a homeless Hispanic man last week by two white men from Boston who justified the attack by telling police, “Donald Trump was right, all these illegals need to be deported.”
In 2013, though, he was in entertainer mode even as the meeting concluded, cracking jokes with the group about how they needed better ties — and walked them downstairs straight to his gift shop.
Trump declared that they could have whatever they wanted for free.
He gave away a watch, and his daughter’s book. He gave away chocolate. Pacheco scored a perfume, the guys got a bunch of Donald Trump ties.
“Everything said, ‘Made in China,’” Pacheco said.
Sanchez, who is 25 and now in law school, cracked up when asked about the ties. He said he was literally wearing one of the three Trump gave him that day.
“Considering what he told us, it’s a complete 360, all he’s doing now is spewing hate,” Sanchez said. “He’s digging himself in a hole even more. He was nice then but now he wants to kick us out of the country.”
Rodriguez, who took a tie and gave it to his dad, said this is what should upset Trump’s supporters: They’re just being used by a showman who knows what to say depending on who he’s talking to.
“That’s what he’s doing now — using his celebrity and getting people starstruck by playing to his audience.”

 

[DevilsAdvocate]

Trump can't name his favorite verse in the Bible. Sounds totally clueless when asked about it.

 

[LatinsforPaul]

Nice video even though it's done by establishment Jeb...

 

[notsure]

That's good stuff.

For the time being, I'm going to just link to your post, since the video itself is so long.

If someone wants to cut out the relevant section and put it up on youtube, that'd be great.

EDIT: found a way to cut the video, link to the relevant section

 

[Dary]

Trump: I think eminent domain is wonderful. Conservatives don't understand eminent domain.

Fox News interview 10/06/2015.

At roughly 4:02 into the vid.

 

[acptulsa]

Donald Trump to Endorse Harry Reid

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Reality TV star, Donald Trump, who endorsed and contributed money to Harry Reid and Charlie Rangel will travel today to Nevada to endorse a Republican candidate?

Please explain to us why anyone would care.

Please explain to Republican voters in Nevada why they should consider the opinion of a billionaire from New York who endorsed the arch enemy of all Republicans in Nevada, and really the enemy of all Republicans in the US.

Hopefully, media reports of this event will include this delicious irony.​

See below for more info on Trump’s political history.

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Washington Post: “Trump’s donation history shows Democratic favoritism”

“Billionaire Donald J. Trump, an early presidential favorite among tea party activists, has a highly unusual history of political contributions for a prospective Republican candidate: He has given most of his money to the other side.”

“Recipients include Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (Nev.), former Pennsylvania governor Edward G. Rendell, and Rahm Emanuel, a former aide to President Obama.”

“The Democratic recipients of Trump’s donations make up what looks like a Republican enemies list, including former senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.), Sen. John F. Kerry (Mass.), Rep. Charles B. Rangel (N.Y.), Sen. Charles E. Schumer (N.Y.) and the late liberal lion Edward M. Kennedy (Mass.).”

“The biggest recipient of all has been the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee of New York...”

“He donated $10,400 to Reid, including for his 2010 battle with Sharron Angle, the GOP nominee and tea party favorite.”

CNN: “Trump has a long history of assisting Democrats”

“Over the last two decades, Trump gave money to a number of high-profile Democrats and liberal icons, including Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, Tom Daschle and Joe Biden.”

“The biggest recipient of Trump's largesse? The scandal-plagued Rangel…”​

..

 

[LatinsforPaul]

Trump: I think eminent domain is wonderful. Conservatives don't understand eminent domain.

Fox News interview 10/06/2015.

At roughly 4:02 into the vid.

 

[Dary]

Trump said this morning (11/3) on Good Morning America that he thinks that the profits that the networks make from the debates should go to the wounded warriors.

I wonder what the network share holders think about that. I mean who does this guy think he is?

He is showing himself to be anything but a Conservative and now he's showing himself to be anything but a Capitalist.

I would think that if anyone should understand what capitalism is, it would be him.

How he is even considered eligible to run as a Republican is beyond me.

 

[William Tell]