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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Trump Calls Clinton Foundation ‘a Scam’
This is why those who love him do.
I don't recall Rubio or Jebbers ever saying anything like this. Maybe that's why they're not the nominee-in-waiting...
[BLOGS.WSJ] In his first campaign rally as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump opened a new line of attack against likely general election opponent Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Dean Rusk ...
, calling her family’s foundation "a scam" to enrich themselves.

"You look at the Clintons with the foundation, it’s a disgusting situation," Mr. Trump told a crowd of supporters at an arena in Charleston, W.Va.

Mr. Trump added that he has been a financial supporter of the Bill, Hillary & Princess Chelsea Clinton Foundation but suggested the funds had been misused.

"I gave money to the foundation," Mr. Trump said. "I didn’t know they were going to use it to fly around in a private jet."
Posted by: Fred || 05/08/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  not so much a scam as a pay to play operation, i.e., a criminal enterprize

Trump was paying (somewhere near $110k) to play
Posted by: lord garth || 05/08/2016 0:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Winning is nice. Loosing is nasty. When losing means putting Hillary in charge of the World's strongest military, it's practically criminal.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/08/2016 2:31 Comments || Top||

#3  I don't recall Rubio or Jebbers ever saying anything like this. Maybe that's why they're not the nominee-in-waiting...

The GOPe decided to play as the Washington Generals for a career more than a generation ago. They're afraid of being called racist, misogynist, hateful, et al by the Donk operatives aka the MSM. Trump has found that to do so against him, seems only to increase his poll numbers.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/08/2016 8:38 Comments || Top||

#4  Well, he would know.
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/08/2016 8:41 Comments || Top||

#5  The GOPe decided to play as the Washington Generals for a career more than a generation ago. They're afraid of being called racist, misogynist, hateful, et al by the Donk operatives aka the MSM. Trump has found that to do so against him, seems only to increase his poll numbers.

Trump is tied with Hillary.
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 05/08/2016 17:53 Comments || Top||

#6  Tied? Electoral votes, no. Hillary wipes him out as things stand now.
Posted by: Dino Thruck6757 || 05/08/2016 19:04 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Russia's 'Obama' Ice Cream
h/t Instapundit
A Russian company is trying to cash in on chilly relations between Moscow and Washington by releasing an ice cream called "Little Obama", irritating U.S. officials.

The product, called "Obamka" in Russian, is glazed with chocolate and its wrapping features an image of a smiling young African boy, wearing an ear ring and holding an ice cream.
Lucky for them, Russia doesn't have German laws
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/08/2016 17:05 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Russians think it's clever to photoshop pix of our African American president to show him eating a banana. They also hit a reggae-style hit pop song called "They killed another N____". Cute.

Someone needs to remind them that their national poet was, um, African.
Posted by: Victor Emmanuel Unomons7400 || 05/08/2016 19:25 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Donald Trump turns his scorn to 'goofus' Elizabeth Warren
  • [DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] Massachussetts Senator Warren went on a strong Twitter storm against Trump Tuesday night

  • Friday Trump hit back, labelling her Hllary Clinton's 'goofy friend' and a 'goofus' and mocking her claims of Native American heritage

  • Warren returned to Twitter with a slew of anti-Trump tweets

  • She derided Trump's nickname and his response delay as weak and lame

  • She also said his policies make her sick and his only play is to bully
Posted by: Fred || 05/08/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Trump, the last of male chauvinist pigs?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/08/2016 2:57 Comments || Top||

#2  This would be #21 on Besoeker's list g(r)om
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 05/08/2016 6:56 Comments || Top||

#3  Keep it up and I may really start to like this guy. Alinsky rules - hit em with ridicule
Posted by: Frank G || 05/08/2016 9:21 Comments || Top||

#4  +1, #3 Frank. :-D
Posted by: Barbara || 05/08/2016 10:24 Comments || Top||

#5  ...and his only play is to bully

Interesting bit of projection there, Chief Warren!
Posted by: Raj || 05/08/2016 17:17 Comments || Top||

#6  It's very simple. They hit him and he hits them back harder.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/08/2016 17:42 Comments || Top||

#7  Trump may be a bully but he has an unsurpassed gift for summarizing his enemies' weakness in one unforgettable phrase.

Others called Warren "Pocahontas" but it didn't stick.

I think his "Indian name" insult will stick. Even her fans knows she's All Talk No Action.
Posted by: Victor Emmanuel Unomons7400 || 05/08/2016 19:18 Comments || Top||

#8  @Abu
Trump ca.1988 talking about business ethics:
"I play nice. But if you screw me, I screw back, in spades."
Posted by: Victor Emmanuel Unomons7400 || 05/08/2016 19:20 Comments || Top||


Indiana Gov. Mike Pence endorses Donald Trump
[POLITICO]
Posted by: Fred || 05/08/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Preference cascade starting?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/08/2016 3:00 Comments || Top||


Mitt! meets with leader of third-party effort
[THEHILL] Willard Mitt Romney
...former governor of Massachussetts, the Publican nominee for president in 2012. He is the son of the former governor of Michigan, George Romney, who himself ran for president after saving American Motors from failure, though not permanently. Romney has a record as a successful businessman, heading Bain Capital, and he rescued the 2002 Winter Olympics from the midst of bribery and mismanagement scandals....
met this week with William Kristol, who is pushing for a third-party alternative to Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as For a good time at 3 a.m. call Hillary and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Dean Rusk ...
.

"He came pretty close to being elected president so I thought he may consider doing it, especially since he has been very forthright in explaining why Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton should not be president of the United States," Kristol told the Washington Post Friday.
Kristol, editor of the conservative Weekly Standard, told the Post that he and Romney had met on Thursday in D.C.

And he said that even if Romney doesn't want to run himself, Kristol hopes he will support another third-party candidate.

"It was not like, ’You should do it.’ I wouldn’t presume he’d do it. But I’m hoping that he begins to think about it a little more," Kristol said. "His name is one of the names part of the discussion."
Posted by: Fred || 05/08/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Starting to think the party "Elites" are afraid of some documents or something that Trump will see.
Posted by: 3dc || 05/08/2016 0:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Comment No. 2 kind of reminds you of this guy...

Posted by: Ho Chi Crinens5363 || 05/08/2016 2:18 Comments || Top||

#3  It's Hemingway, Ho Chi Crinens5363.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/08/2016 2:33 Comments || Top||

#4  Lets check out Trump's presidential qualifications

1. Obama is against Trump
2. Hillary, Bill, and the Clinton Foundation are against Trump
3. The Media is against Trump
4. The establishment Democrats are against Trump
5. The establishment Republicans are against Trump
6. The UN is against Trump
7. The EU is against Trump
8. China is against Trump
9. Mexico is against Trump
10. Capitalists seeking cheap foreign labor are against Trump
11..Globalization and trade negotiators are against Trump
12. Illegal aliens are against Trump
13. Extremist Muslim Terrorists posing as refugees are against Trump
14. Lobbyists peddling influence in Washington are against Trump
15. Soros is against Trump
16. Black Lives Matter is against Trump
17. MoveOn.Org is against Trump
18. Koch Bro's are against Trump
19. Hateful, racist, violent Liberals are against Trump
20. Basement dwelling millenials are against Trump

Bonus points
1. Cher says she will leave the country
2. Mylie Cyrus says she will leave the country
3. Whoopi says she will leave the country
4. Rosie says she will leave the country
5. Al Sharpton says he will leave the country
6. Gov. Brown says California will build a wall
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/08/2016 5:09 Comments || Top||

#5  IIRC since Ross Perot, a number of states have passed laws that prohibit someone who ran in a party primary from registering as an independent candidate before the general election. Of course, these days law doesn't mean what it used to be for the wealthy and well connected.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/08/2016 7:55 Comments || Top||

#6  Great endorsements for Trump, #4 B. :-D
Posted by: Barbara || 05/08/2016 10:12 Comments || Top||

#7  Numbers 1 and 2 are really all the motivation I have ever needed. Numbers 2 thru 20 along with the Bonus Points are simply overkill.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/08/2016 11:48 Comments || Top||


#9  ...the electoral version of 'make the rubble bounce'.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/08/2016 11:57 Comments || Top||

#10  Hat tip to SteveS
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/08/2016 12:06 Comments || Top||

#11  Lets check out Trump's presidential qualifications

As I said, B, he's pissing off all the right people.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/08/2016 17:44 Comments || Top||

#12  3dc: if you're talking about the redacted 20.pages in the 911/report... We already know beyond a.doubt that Pakistan did.worse.than whatever's in the redacted pages, and we.ignore.it.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 05/08/2016 22:04 Comments || Top||


Government
Champ's last act is to force suburbs to be less white and less wealthy
[NYP] Hillary's rumored running mate, Housing Secretary Julian Castro, is cooking up a scheme to reallocate funding for Section 8 housing to punish suburbs for being too white and too wealthy.
Because eliminating 'white' and 'wealthy' from urban America has had such splendid results.
The scheme involves super-sizing vouchers to help urban poor afford higher rents in pricey areas, such as Westchester County, while assigning them government real-estate agents called "mobility counselors" to secure housing in the exurbs.

Castro plans to launch the Section 8 reboot this fall, even though a similar program tested a few years ago in Dallas has been blamed for shifting violent crime to affluent neighborhoods.

It’s all part of a grand scheme to forcibly desegregate inner cities and integrate the outer suburbs.

Anticipating NIMBY resistance, Castro last month threatened to sue suburban landlords for discrimination if they refuse even Section 8 tenants with criminal records. And last year, he implemented a powerful new regulation -- "Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing" -- that pressures all suburban counties taking federal grant money to change local zoning laws to build more low-income housing (landlords of such properties are required to accept Section 8 vouchers).

Castro is expected to finalize the new regulation, known as "Small-Area Fair Market Rents" (SAFMR), this October, in the last days of the Obama presidency.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/08/2016 11:19 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Please excuse me for a moment whilst I quietly ponder the phrase 'last act.'
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/08/2016 11:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Let's start with San Francisco first.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/08/2016 11:59 Comments || Top||

#3  Considering how many hipster enclaves, college towns, and RINO strongholds could be affected by this, it may be a grotesquely good thing in the end.

Pain can be the best teacher.
Posted by: charger || 05/08/2016 12:40 Comments || Top||

#4  It will fail. The people will not want to leave their hood. The people of the hood will say,"what are you better than us". With the destruction of the family who will these people be, felons, immigrants?. Once there what transportation will be provided. They will not be working so how will their situation improve. This liberal dream is very old. Individuals have tried this before and it fails. They will not fit in. They will not become a part of the community. It can only work if others pay for everything. The basic reason for failure is no family units. Just multi people units. So you go off to work. Crime goes way up because you didn't earn that. They bring their beliefs not integration. We had a liberal try this. Constantly causing one problem after an another. Never satisfied, never happy. Raw sewage dumped in their yard for recycling. Low income apartments, it all failed.
Posted by: Dale || 05/08/2016 14:15 Comments || Top||

#5  What Dale said.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/08/2016 21:32 Comments || Top||



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