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564 jobs, 188 sources of income (including $26 million from just one golf club): Donald Trump's YUUUUUUUGE financial declaration revealed

Donald Trump's business empire brought in $190 million over the last year even as he sought and essentially won the GOP presidential nomination - with golf courses and property raking in cash. A single golf course in L.A. brought in $26 million, while the famed Doral course in Florida experienced $132 million in revenue. Trump said he was 'proud to say' his filing was the largest in federal elections agency history.






[h=1]564 jobs, 188 sources of income (including $26 million from just one golf club) – Donald Trump's YUUUUUUUGE financial declaration revealed![/h]

• Trump's revenue jumped by $190 million compared to last year
• A single golf club in L.A. brought in $26 million in income
• Revenue at his Doral course jumped to $132 million, from $49 million last year
• The Miss Universe pageant brought in $49 million when Trump sold it after a campaign flare-up
• Trump values a golf course in Westchester County at $50 million, though his lawyers once argued it was worth $1.35 million
• Value of license for mattress deal 'not readily ascertainable'

By GEOFF EARLE, DEPUTY US POLITICAL EDITOR and ASSOCIATED PRESS
PUBLISHED: 21:54, 18 May 2016 | UPDATED: 02:52, 19 May 2016


After a year devoted to winning the Republican nomination and bashing his opponents, Donald Trump is still rich, according to a new disclosure form Trump filed with the feds.
Trump said the revenue generated by his real estate, golf and other business empire has ballooned by $190 million since last year – even as some companies severed partnerships with Trump over his controversial statements.
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee said revenue at his businesses grew by $190 million over the past 17 months, and he had $557 million in earned income.
The Federal Election Commission released the personal financial documents that Trump filed with the agency. They provide an overview of the billionaire's assets and revenues and his roles with hundreds of corporate shell companies.
Trump experienced the windfall despite a contentious campaign that featured boycotts and where some companies severed longstanding relationships with the brash real estate mogul.



Trump has so far declined to release his tax returns, making it difficult to confirm financial details. The filing also shows that Trump has invested in some of the companies that he uses as punching bags on the campaign trail.
Though the disclosure overlaps with one he filed last year — making straight comparisons difficult — revenues from his golf resort businesses are up, with Trump reporting $306 million in revenues from his courses around the world.
About $132 million of that came from Trump's course in Doral, Florida, up from $49 million in revenue the year before.
The Mar-a-Lago club, a Trump vacation property and private club that has been a regular backdrop for campaign events, also saw a big jump. It reported $29 million in revenues, far more than the $16 million reported in Trump's filing last year.
The Miss Universe Pageant, which Trump sold after his comments on Mexican immigrants led to a dispute with television networks, went for $49 million.


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That was far more than the $5 million to $25 million the pageant was listed as worth on his financial disclosures from last year.
Trump Model Management LLC is valued at between $1 million and $5 million, with income of nearly $2 million.
Melania Trump's enterprise, Melania Marks Skincare, LLC, had royalties zero out from $100,000 in the last report.
Trump assessed his golf club in Westchester County as being worth 'over $50,000,000.' But his lawyers argued it was actually worth $1.35 million in a tax dispute, ABC News reported, then upped the estimate to $9 million later.


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Trump also lists a golf club in Bedminister, NJ as being worth 'over $50 million.' His filing gives the same valuation for Trump Turnberry in Scotland. The feds only require filings be within broad ranges.
Trump International Golf Links in Doonbeg, Ireland is valued at $5 million to $25 million, with nearly $11 million in income.
Trump Tower – the location of many Trump victory parties during the primary season – is valued at over $50 million, with income of over $5 million in rent.
Trump's vineyard in Charlottesville, Virginia is valued at $5 million to $26 million, generating income of between $100,000 and $1 million. Trump touted picking up the elegant property for $6.2 million during the primaries.


.Trump's frequent plugs for his 1987 book 'Art of the Deal' may have had an effect. He reported royalties of between $50,000 and $100,000 on the advice book. Trump's 'Time to Get Tough' brought in $100,000 to $1 million. Trump's latest book, 'Crippled America,' brought in royalty income of $1 million to $5 million, according to the filing.
Despite promising at various points during the campaign that he would release his tax returns, Trump has not yet done so. He has said audits by the IRS prevent him from doing so, and speculated that he was being singled out because of his strong Christian beliefs.
IRS officials have not said whether they were auditing Trump. They have said Trump could publicly release his filings even if such an audit was occurring.
A deal with the Serta mattress company brought in between $1 million and $5 million, although the value of a licensing deal was 'not readily ascertainable,' according to the report.
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'I filed my PFD, which I am proud to say is the largest in the history of the FEC,' Trump said when he announced he filed the financial statement Tuesday.
'Despite the fact that I am allowed extensions, I have again filed my report, which is 104 pages, on time. Bernie Sanders has requested, on the other hand, an extension for his small report,' Trump continued.
'This is the difference between a businessman and the all talk, no action politicians that have failed the American people for far too long,' Trump
The filing also revealed that Trump holds investments in companies like Ford Motor Co., Apple Inc. and the parent company of the maker of Oreo cookies— all businesses that he's assailed on the campaign trail for outsourcing, or in Apple's case, not agreeing to crack into iPhones for federal authorities.
Trump hasn't attacked all of the companies listed in his public financial disclosure who have also outsourced jobs: Trump has invested in V F Corp and Thermo Fisher Scientific, both of which moved jobs out of the U.S. in high-profile outsourcing deals last year.

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Trump's filing is 104 pages long




Trump's personal financial disclosure provides little hint that Trump is winding down his business ventures amid his presidential run. Trump reported new licensing and management companies with international names, including ones that appear to be set up to do business in Kolkata, India, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
He also resigned from about one dozen companies since last year, most of which do not appear to have been active. Among them: companies tied to a failed Trump-branded condo project south of Tijuana, Mexico; a company tied to the Trump SoHo high-rise hotel in Manhattan; a licensing company associated with an Israeli vodka company; and a branding company set up to do business in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Trump has said he would turn over the reins of his business to his children should he become president.
The Trump Entrepreneur Initiative, the rebranded name of Trump University, a real estate seminar firm that has drawn multiple class action lawsuits and a suit by New York's attorney general, reported $13,000 in income.
Despite his wealth, Trump still gets a pension from the Screen Actors Guild. It paid out $169,000.





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Trump's income jumped $190 million compared to last year, according to his latest filing

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Fore! Trump's Doral golf course brought in a stunning $132 million in revenue

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Trump banked $49 million when he sold the Miss Universe Pageant after his controversial statements stirred up controversy

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Trump said during the campaign he got a great deal on the pageant

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Income at Trump's Doral golf course in Florida is listed at $132 million

 

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Trump unveils potential Supreme Court picks including conservative firebrand judge with hilarious Twitter feed, senator's brother and ex-wife of an anti-Trump radio host

• Trump pledged in March to release a list of potential Supreme Court judges and stick to nominating only those people if he wins the White House
• On Wednesday, though, that list came only with a promise that it would be used as a go-to 'guide' of making 'possible' appointments
• List includes six federal judges and five state supreme court justices
• Missing is Ted Cruz, a seasoned Supreme Court litigator who was Trump's last serious competition for the GOP nomination

By DAVID MARTOSKO, US POLITICAL EDITOR FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and ASSOCIATED PRESS
PUBLISHED: 19:26, 18 May 2016 | UPDATED: 00:03, 19 May 2016
Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, has released a list of 11 potential Supreme Court justices he plans to vet to fill the seat of late Justice Antonin Scalia if he's elected to the White House.
A few of the names are head-scratchers. So is the question of whether or not the list is an ironclad commitment of any kind.
Diane Sykes, a federal judge on the Seventh Circuit, was until 1999 married to Charlie Sykes, a strident right-leaning talk radio host in Wisconsin who railed against the Republican front-runner in the days before his state's primary, won decisively by Trump rival Ted Cruz.
Thomas Lee, a Utah Supreme Court justice, has an even more famous brother – Senator Mike Lee, another Cruz supporter who said a week ago that he wouldn't endorse Trump because he 'scares me to death.'

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Donald Trump has weighed the nation's judges and found 11 whom he would consider appointing to the Supreme Court

Texas Supreme Court Justice Don Willett (left) and Federal judge Diane Sykes (right) made the cut

Don Willett, who sits on the Texas Supreme Court, has a statewide reputation as a hard-nosed jurist but a national following as a Twitter jokester, with more than 35,000 followers.
'Daddy, what do you call a vampire who's a good cook?' he tweeted on Tuesday, retelling a riddle from his 7-year-old daughter.
'Me—¯\_(ツ)_/¯' he wrote, indicating his own I-don't-know shrug.
'COUNT SPATULA!' came the answer.
Willett also proclaimed on May 12 in a tweet that the absence of Dr. Pepper from the U.S. Supreme Court's soft drink dispenser constituted 'CRUEL & UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT!'
In a statement, Trump said the list 'is representative of the kind of constitutional principles I value' and said that, as president, he would use it 'as a guide to nominate our next United States Supreme Court Justices.
That 'guide' standard is a far cry, however, from the more ironclad promises he has made in the past to limit himself only to a list he would publish before the November election.
In a May 5 Fox News Channel interview, Trump laid out a plan to 'put ten, 12, 15 names of the type of people that we’d like.'
'From that list, I would choose.'

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Willett has 35,000 Twitter followers and entertains them with quips and jokes about the life of a modest but powerful legal eagle

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Willett is also not above cheeky partisanship, as he showed this month in a jab at Hillary Clinton



In a March speech to party insiders in Palm Beach County, Florida, Trump had said: 'I'm going to get between five and 10 judges that everybody respects, likes and totally admires,' and that he would 'guarantee it personally, like we do in the world of business – which we don’t like to do too often – but I will guarantee it that those are going to be the first judges that I put up for nomination if I win.'
He described the forthcoming list as a collection of 'judges that I will pick, 100 percent pick, that I will put in for nomination.'
'Because some of the people that are against me say: "We don't know if he's going to pick the right judge. Supposing he picks a liberal judge or supposing he picks a pro-choice judge".'
A Trump spokesperson declined Wednesday to comment about whether Trump's standard of commitment has shifted since then.
Americans are accustomed to seeing a full-court press from journalists and political pundits whenever a U.S. president nominates a single person to the nation's highest court.
Now there are eleven, including six federal judges – all appointed by President George W. Bush – and five members of state-level supreme courts.
Trump's other picks include Steven Colloton of Iowa, Allison Eid of Colorado, Raymond Gruender of Missouri, Thomas Hardiman of Pennsylvania, Raymond Kethledge of Michigan, Joan Larsen of Michigan, William Pryor of Alabama and David Stras of Minnesota.
Trump had previously named Pryor and Sykes as examples of kind of justices he would choose.
Larsen, who serves on the Michigan Supreme Court and is a former law clerk to Scalia, delivered one of the tributes to the late justice at his memorial service in March. She served in the Justice Department office that produced the legal justifications for the enhanced interrogation techniques, including waterboarding, that critics have called torture.
Pryor was initially given a recess appointment to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals by President George W. Bush.




Senate Democrats had tried to block that appointments over his strong criticism of the Roe v. Wade decision that established a woman's right to an abortion.
Apart from Sykes, who is 58, the others all are younger than 55 and David Stras is just 41. They include eight men and three women.
Trump's list is also notable for the names that don't appear. It omits two of the biggest stars in the conservative legal world, Judge Brett Kavanaugh of the federal appeals court in Washington, and former Bush administration Solicitor General Paul Clement.
Also missing from the list is Ted Cruz, the Texas senator and longtime Supreme Court litigator whose name had been floated as a consensus pick who could help Trump mend fences after a bruising primary season.
Cruz was the last serious competitor Trump had to dispatch in a bruising primary season.
Trump told DailyMail.com this month that he had questions about whether the tea party darling's 'temperament' suited him for the federal bench.

Wednesday's news comes as Trump is working to bring together a fractured Republican Party and earn the trust of skill-skeptical establishment Republicans who question his electability in the general election and conservatives in his party still weary of his commitment to their cause.

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Ted Cruz, the hyper-conservative Texas senator whom Trump had lambasted as 'Lyin' Ted' during the Republican primary campaign, did not make the short list despite a history of arguing cases before the Supreme Court

His campaign stressed on Wednesday that the list was compiled 'first and foremost, based on constitutional principles, with input from highly respected conservatives and Republican Party leadership.'
Trump first said in March that he planned to release the list of five to 10 judges in an effort to ease concerns about his conservative credentials, which had come under attack in the heated Republican primary.
'Justice Scalia was a remarkable person and a brilliant Supreme Court Justice. His career was defined by his reverence for the Constitution and his legacy of protecting Americans’ most cherished freedoms,' Trump said in a statement.
'He was a Justice who did not believe in legislating from the bench and he is a person whom I held in the highest regard and will always greatly respect his intelligence and conviction to uphold the Constitution of our country.'
Trump's list reached reporters as White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest was briefing the press on Wednesday. Earnest declined to comment on names he had not seen included for himself.
But he said he doubted 'if there are any Democrats who would describe any of those 11 individuals as a consensus nominee.'
Many conservatives who have been critical of Trump kept their powder dry on Wednesday, but a few issued atta-boy statements of support.

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Trump has promised for two months that he would release a list of potential Supreme Court nominees, an unprecedented step meant to quell concerns that his picks might not be conservative jurists

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Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, called Trump's list 'impressive'

Carrie Severino, chief counsel and policy director for the Judicial Crisis Network, said in a statement that Trump's selections 'all seem to share in common a record of putting the law and the Constitution ahead of their political preferences.'
'It is also heartening to see so many Midwesterners and state court judges on the list - they would bring a valuable perspective to the bench, particularly since they have already served on a court of last resort in their own states,' said Severino, who once clerked for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
'This list ought to be encouraging to anyone who prioritizes the rule of law, and I congratulate Mr. Trump on making a very significant policy statement about his desire to prioritize the future of the Supreme Court.'
And Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee that would hold hearings on any Supreme Court nominee, heaped praise in Trump's direction.
'Mr. Trump has laid out an impressive list of highly qualified jurists, including Judge Colloton from Iowa, who understand and respect the fundamental principle that the role of the courts is limited and subject to the Constitution and the rule of law,' he said in a statement.
'Understanding the types of judges a presidential nominee would select for the Supreme Court is an important step in this debate so the American people can have a voice in the direction of the Supreme Court for the next generation.'


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TRUMP JUSTICE: THE DONALD'S ELEVEN PROPOSED NOMINEES TO SERVE ON THE U.S. SUPREME COURT

The Donald Trump campaign distributed brief biographical descriptions on Wednesday of the eight men and three women the Republican presidential candidate says he would consider nominating as Supreme Court justices.
The following are those summaries as Trump's office distributed them.



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Trump's choices include (left to right) Minnesota Supreme Court Associate Justice David Stras, Michigan Supreme Court Justice Joan Larsen and federal judge William Pryor

Steven Colloton of Iowa is a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, a position he has held since President George W. Bush appointed him in 2003. Judge Colloton has a résumé that also includes distinguished service as the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa, a Special Assistant to the Attorney General in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, and a lecturer of law at the University of Iowa. He received his law degree from Yale, and he clerked for Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Judge Colloton is an Iowa native.


Allison Eid of Colorado is an associate justice of the Colorado Supreme Court. Colorado Governor Bill Owens appointed her to the seat in 2006; she was later retained for a full term by the voters (with 75% of voters favoring retention). Prior to her judicial service, Justice Eid served as Colorado’s solicitor general and as a law professor at the University of Colorado. Justice Eid attended the University of Chicago Law School, and she clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas.


Raymond Gruender of Missouri has been a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit since his 2004 appointment by President George W. Bush. Judge Gruender, who sits in St. Louis, Missouri, has extensive prosecutorial experience, culminating with his time as the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri. Judge Gruender received a law degree and an M.B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis.


Thomas Hardiman of Pennsylvania has been a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit since 2007. Prior to serving as a circuit judge, he served as a judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania since 2003. Before his judicial service, Judge Hardiman worked in private practice in Washington, D.C. and Pittsburgh. Judge Hardiman was the first in his family to attend college, graduating from Notre Dame.


Raymond Kethledge of Michigan has been a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit since 2008. Before his judicial service, Judge Kethledge served as judiciary counsel to Michigan Senator Spencer Abraham, worked as a partner in two law firms, and worked as an in-house counsel for the Ford Motor Company. Judge Kethledge obtained his law degree from the University of Michigan and clerked for Justice Anthony Kennedy.

More potential Supreme Court justices on Trump's short list include (left to right) federal judges Thomas Hardiman and Steven Colloton, and Colorado Supreme Court Chief Justice Allison Eid

Joan Larsen of Michigan is an Associate Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court. Justice Larsen was a professor at the University of Michigan School of Law from 1998 until her appointment to the bench. In 2002, she temporarily left academia to work as an Assistant Attorney General in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel. Justice Larsen received her law degree from Northwestern and clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia.


Thomas Lee of Utah has been an Associate Justice of the Utah Supreme Court since 2010. Beginning in 1997, he served on the faculty of Brigham Young University Law School, where he still teaches in an adjunct capacity. Justice Lee was Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Justice Department’s Civil Division from 2004 to 2005. Justice Lee attended the University of Chicago Law School, and he clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas. Justice Lee is also the son of former U.S. Solicitor General Rex Lee and the brother of current U.S. Senator Mike Lee.


William H. Pryor, Jr. of Alabama is a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. He has served on the court since 2004. Judge Pryor became the Alabama Attorney General in 1997 upon Jeff Sessions’s election to the U.S. Senate. Judge Pryor was then elected in his own right in 1998 and reelected in 2002. In 2013, Judge Pryor was confirmed to a term on the United States Sentencing Commission. Judge Pryor received his law degree from Tulane, and he clerked for Judge John Minor Wisdom of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.


David Stras of Minnesota has been an Associate Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court since 2010. After his initial appointment, he was elected to a six-year term in 2012. Prior to his judicial service, Judge Stras worked as a legal academic at the University of Minnesota Law School. In his time there, he wrote extensively about the function and structure of the judiciary. Justice Stras received his law degree and an M.B.A. from the University of Kansas. He clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas.


Diane Sykes of Wisconsin has served as a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit since 2004. Prior to her federal appointment, Judge Sykes had been a Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court since 1999 and a Wisconsin trial court judge of both civil and criminal matters before that. Judge Sykes received her law degree from Marquette.


Don Willett of Texas has been a Justice of the Texas Supreme Court since 2005. He was initially appointed by Governor Rick Perry and has been reelected by the voters twice. Prior to his judicial service, Judge Willett worked as a senior fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, as an advisor in George W. Bush’s gubernatorial and presidential administrations, as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Policy, and as a Deputy Attorney General under then-Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott. Justice Willett received his law degree and a master’s degree from Duke.


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[h=2]'Who the hell cares if there's a trade war?' - Donald Trump blasts China at raucous event with Chris Christie in New Jersey and hints Henry Kissinger told him the Chinese are 'very concerned' about him getting elected[/h]

NEW Donald Trump says he retired New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's campaign debt - then made cracks about his GOP rivals and said he's willing to start a trade war with China.

 

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[h=6]- MAY 19, 2016 -[/h][h=1]TRUMP LEADS CLINTON BY 5 POINTS IN RASMUSSEN POLL[/h]The Hill
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has increased his lead over Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, according to a new Rasmussen Reports poll released Thursday.
Trump now leads Clinton by 5 percentage points, 42 to 37 percent. The poll also found that 13 percent of respondents prefer another candidate and 7 percent were undecided.
The new poll differs somewhat from recent polling, which shows Clinton holding a slim lead. According to the RealClearPolitics average of polls, Clinton has a 3.9-point lead over Trump, 46.2 to 42.3 percent.
But Trump led a Fox News national poll released Wednesday by 3 points.
A Rasmussen poll released at the beginning of the month showed Trump leading Clinton by 2 points.
In the new poll, Trump has 76 percent support among Republicans, while Clinton has 72 percent among Democrats. The poll also finds that 13 percent of Democrats prefer Trump, and 9 percent of Republicans prefer Clinton.
Among independent voters, Trump has an advantage over Clinton, 41 to 28 percent. But nearly one-third of voters not affiliated with either major party say they will choose another candidate or are undecided.
Trump leads Clinton among men by 22 points, while Clinton leads Trump among women by 11 points.

 

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[h=6]- MAY 19, 2016 -[/h][h=1]5 VERY SMART THINGS DONALD TRUMP HAS DONE SINCE BECOMING THE PRESUMED GOP NOMINEE[/h]The Washington Post
Donald Trump effectively locked up the Republican presidential nomination on the night of May 3 when he won a sweeping victory in the Indiana primary. Ted Cruz ended his campaign that night. John Kasich followed suit the next day.
It's been 16 days since that night. And Trump, the least orthodox presidential nominee in modern political history, has made a number of very smart moves to coalesce the GOP behind him while also setting the terms of the general election fight to come against Hillary Clinton.
Here are five examples of Trump being smart:
1. Traveling to D.C. to meet with Paul Ryan
This was a win-win for Trump. His past condemnations of many of the party leaders in Washington — and their doubts about his ability to lead the party — made it very hard from an optics perspective for people like Ryan to simply throw their support behind Trump once it became clear he was the nominee.
A gesture was needed, something that these members of Congress could point to as evidence that they had brought Trump to heel or, at the very least, that they had expressed their concerns to him, he had heard them and both parties were satisfied with the outcome.
The mood in the wake of Trump's visit — from Ryan to Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus — was ebullient. And, more importantly for Trump, it was clear that Ryan would, at some point in the not-too-distant future, be for him.
2. Hiring a pollster
Trump made much of the fact that during the primary process he had no pollster. It was a point of pride and proof that he was different (and better) than all of the calculating politicians he was running against.
The decision to bring on Tony Fabrizio, a well-known pollster within GOP circles, is a mature decision by Trump. Here's why: Winning a primary fight without a pollster is one thing. The calendar is laid out months (years?) in advance. Most of the time, a single state or, at most, two to four states vote on a single day. It's a sequential process where momentum matters. A lot.
Winning a general election is something different. The electorate is much broader and, therefore, more complex when it comes to targeting messages and the like. All of the states vote on the same day, too, meaning that you need someone with actual hard data to help justify spending and travel decisions.
Then there's this: There's no downside for Trump. Do you think one person who was for him in the primary is going to care (or even know) that he hired Fabrizio? Answer: No.
3. Making nice with Megyn Kelly
Trump has a theatrical/dramatic approach to most things. That includes his feuds, which play out as three-act plays: The introduction of the tension, the formal falling out, and then, of course, the high-profile making nice.
Trump finished that three-act arc with Fox News' Megyn Kelly this week when he shared a TV studio with her for a prime-time interview, not on Fox News but the big Fox network. The interview was largely easy on Trump — it was no interview with Sean Hannity, but what is? — and he came out looking none the worse for wear.
Plus, he was able to show the world how magnanimous he is, how he never holds grudges and how he can make up with anyone. Win, win, win.
4. Rolling out a list of potential Supreme Court picks
There's nothing that united the disparate elements of the Republican party base like talk of future Supreme Court nominees. That's long been true but is even more so now in the wake of twin decisions over the last few years that legalized same-sex marriage and upheld the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act.
If you are looking to unite a fractious party, then, proposing a list of judges you would consider naming to fill the vacancy caused by the death of conservative hero Antonin Scalia this year is a very smart strategic play. Trump made no secret of his goal with the list: to put 11 names on it that would be totally unimpeachable in the eyes of conservative activists. Look at the kind of judges I would put on the Supreme Court, Trump is saying to doubting conservatives. And imagine the kind of judges Hillary Clinton would pick. See?
5. Making clear there are no boundaries in your planned attacks against Hillary
Trump's willingness to suggest that Bill Clinton had raped Juanita Broaddrick in his Wednesday night interview with Hannity is only the latest signal he is sending to Republicans that he considers absolutely nothing off limits when it comes to drawing a contrast with Hillary Clinton in the fall campaign.
That's a stone-cold winner for his efforts to unify the GOP. Why? Because large swaths of the Republican base have spent the last almost-20 years frustrated that their party leaders weren't willing (or willing enough) to directly confront the Clintons about their moral character (or lack thereof). That Trump won't apologize for calling Hillary Clinton an "enabler" of her husband is exactly the sort of rhetoric that conservatives have been waiting the last two decades for.
It is literally impossible to be "too nasty" to Hillary Clinton (and Bill Clinton) in the eyes of the Republican base. The more Trump amps up his rhetoric toward the former first couple, the more loyalty (and unity) he engenders from a party base badly in need of a rallying force.

 

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[h=6]- MAY 19, 2016 -[/h][h=1]DONALD J. TRUMP RESPONSE TO HILLARY CLINTON[/h]The fact that Hillary thinks the temporary Muslim ban, which she calls the "Muslim ban", promotes terrorism, proves Bernie Sanders was correct when he said she is not qualified to be President.
Look at the carnage all over the world including the World Trade Center, San Bernardino, Paris, the USS Cole, Brussels and an unlimited number of other places. She and our totally ignorant President won't even use the term Radical Islamic Terrorism. And by the way, ask Hillary who blew up the plane last night - another terrible, but preventable tragedy. She has bad judgement and is unfit to serve as President at this delicate and difficult time in our country's history.

 

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[h=6]- MAY 20, 2016 -[/h][h=1]TRUMP’S BUSINESS BOOMS AS HE RUNS FOR PRESIDENT, FINANCIAL DISCLOSURES SHOW[/h]The Washington Post
Business has boomed in Donald Trump’s financial empire during the time he has run for president, according to an analysis of his federal disclosure forms.
The documents, including a lengthy filing released Wednesday and one from last July, show that revenue has increased by what Trump campaign statements say is almost* $190** million, with gains coming from golf courses to branded merchandise to book royalties.
At his tony Florida resort Mar-a-Lago, revenue nearly doubled, climbing from about $16 million in 2014 and the first half of 2015 to about $30 million since the start of his campaign, according to the forms.
Sales of his licensed bottled-water brand, Trump Ice, are up as well — from $280,000 last year to $413,000 this year, the forms show.
“Crippled America,” his book published in November, made between $1 million and $5 million in royalties, he reported.
The flood of cash highlights one of the most unusual aspects of Trump’s candidacy — the potential that a private businessman can benefit financially from a run for the White House. And it shows how his fortunes have evolved since last year, when his controversial comments about immigration and Muslims threatened to tarnish his business brand even if they boosted his political campaign.
Trump announced the new filing Tuesday, saying he is “proud” that it “is the largest in the history of the FEC.” Government officials declined to confirm Trump’s assertion.
Presidential candidates are required to provide, under oath, an annual financial disclosure listing their business interests.
To gauge the effect of the campaign on Trump’s companies, The Washington Post compared his two disclosure forms, which were released by the Federal Election Commission.
Last year’s form reported that Trump’s holdings brought in revenue of $362 million in 2014 and the first half of 2015, the campaign said in a statement.
The form released Wednesday — which the campaign said shows revenue spiking to $557 million — covers a shorter period of time but encompasses the life of his presidential campaign, from July 2015 until Monday.
The new disclosure comes amid swirling questions about Trump’s income and net worth. This week, he reiterated his past claim that he was worth more than $10 billion, although he has not provided independent evidence to back up the claim.
His refusal to release his tax returns, which would provide detailed information about his income, has drawn fire from some Republican critics and likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
Wednesday’s disclosure did little to shed light on his actual income.
While Trump’s campaign issued a statement referring to the form as a tally of his personal “income,” it is actually a list of his companies’ gross revenue — a figure that does not factor in the costs of paying employees and running the companies. In addition, the FEC form does not account for debt interest payments, a potentially significant expenditure for Trump, who lists five loans of over $50 million each.
When asked if Trump believed the campaign had been good for business, campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks said, “Mr. Trump and the Trump Organization has always owned and operated the most successful and iconic properties.”
Trump said this week he used the added revenue to fund “construction projects at various multimillion-dollar developments,” reduce his debt and fund his campaign.
The revenue jump appeared especially pronounced at Trump’s golf courses.
At Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter, Fla., where in March the mogul used his Super Tuesday victory speech to promote Trump Steaks and other products, revenue jumped from $12 million to $18 million, Trump reported.
He said revenue at his course in Bedminster, N.J., increased from $16 million to $21 million. And, he said, it jumped from $14 million to $17 million at his Virginia course.
Trump National Doral, a four-course golf complex near Miami, was again the Trump empire’s largest gross moneymaker, with revenue exploding from $50 million to $132 million, according to Trump’s disclosures.
Although a number of companies that licensed Trump’s name for consumer products announced they were cutting ties because of his campaign trail rhetoric, Trump nevertheless reported his revenue from licensing deals was little changed in the past year.
For instance, he reported that he received from $1 million to $5 million from Trump-branded mattresses over the past 12 months, although Serta Mattress announced last July that it was winding down its Trump line. A spokeswoman for Serta said the company’s contract with Trump ended Dec. 31, 2015, and that, typically in licensing deals, “royalties are paid in periodic installments over the course of the contract.”
Some aspects of Trump’s business empire have sagged during his campaign.
Revenue from his menswear line, which was pulled from the shelves of Macy’s after his campaign began, declined. In 2015, he reported that it earned between $1 million and $5 million, whereas he now reports it brought in between $100,000 and $1 million.
Commissions at Trump’s New York modeling agency, Trump Model Management, fell by about $300,000, the forms show. Royalties for the accessory and skin-care lines of Trump’s wife, Melania, dropped from up to $1 million to less than $50,000.
Trump’s new report shows that he has invested in companies that he has criticized on the campaign trail, including with stock holdings in Ford, Apple and Disney.
Trump reported making up to $20,000 from interest on bonds he holds in the makers of Carrier air conditioners and Oreo cookies, both of which he has blasted for shipping American manufacturing jobs overseas.
The report says he received more than $100,000 in income from dividends and capital gains as a shareholder in Apple. Trump called for a boycott of the tech giant because of its reluctance to cooperate with efforts to break into the phones of alleged terrorists.
Trump also owns between $50,000 and $100,000 worth of Amazon stock. He has criticized the company and chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos for “getting away with murder tax-wise” and for having a “huge antitrust problem.” Bezos also owns The Washington Post.
Trump reported that he earned $49.3 million from the sale of the Miss Universe pageant to the talent agency WME-IMG. The terms of the sale were not disclosed when it was announced in September 2015, the culmination of a fight between Trump and NBC that erupted after the start of his campaign when NBC announced it would no longer air the annual event.
Trump listed board positions on 564 different entities, most of them small partnerships or one-owner companies tied to Trump real estate. Trump said he also collected $168,584 as part of a pension from the Screen Actors Guild.
The report showed that his marquee project to build a luxury hotel down the street from the White House has prompted Trump to tack on some additional debt — a loan of $170 million from Deutsche Bank.
The disclosure also showed that Trump had over the last year opened new advisory, licensing and management corporations for ventures in foreign cities such as Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and Kolkata, India.
The filing adds another chapter to the shifting story of Trump’s wealth. Last June, when Trump descended the escalators of Trump Tower to say he was “really rich” and would run for president, his aides passed around a one-page summary asserting he was worth more than $8.7 billion.
A month later, Trump’s campaign released a new statement, saying Trump’s net worth was now “in excess of TEN BILLION DOLLARS.”
When Trump submitted his FEC disclosure last July, his campaign released a statement saying the document “was not designed for a man of Mr. Trump’s massive wealth.”

 

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[h=6]- MAY 20, 2016 -[/h][h=1]SUPER PAC BACKING DONALD TRUMP RELEASES LIST OF TOP-LEVEL SUPPORTERS[/h]CBS News
The Great America PAC, a super PAC backing presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump, released a partial inventory of its top-level supporters Thursday -- a list that includes actress Stacey Dash and LendingTree founder Doug Lebda.
"The nomination process is over and regardless of other candidates one may have supported in the primary, it's critical for the leaders in the country who believe in free markets to step up and rally behind Donald Trump and Great America PAC," Stanley Hubbard, a co-chair of Great America PAC, said in a statement. "With our expanding list of supporters, we will have the financial resources to help Donald Trump win a billion-dollar campaign."
Some high-profile Republicans are counted among Great America PAC's supporters, including former "Clueless" star Stacey Dash, a conservative pundit who had previously dubbed Trump a "true conservative" and had defended him over the violent incidents at his campaign rallies.
"There's a lot of talk about Donald Trump being violent, condoning it, or at least inciting it," Dash wrote in a blog post in March. But, she asserted, "he's not violent, he's just 'street.'"
Among some of the other well-known names are LendingTree founder Doug Lebda, who joined Hubbard as a co-chair of the committee earlier this month, New York businessman Robert Lapidus and oil executive James Volker.
The group says it has raised and spent at least $2 million for its pro-Trump efforts in the last four months, accruing over 30,000 individual donations so far.

 

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Does this cocksucker ever STOP lying????

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2...mp-lie-about-his-positions-on-libya-and-iraq/


Trump Praised For Being ‘Consistent’ After Lying About His Record On Military Intervention

by Aaron Rupar May 20, 2016 11:26 am


During a Friday phone interview on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said he “would have stayed out of Libya” back in 2011. Contrasting his own position with then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who pushed to get the United States more involved in the effort to take out Muammar Qaddafi, Trump said deposing the dictator led to “more destabilization” in the region. Trump also said he “would have stayed out of Iraq too.”
Trump’s remarks won plaudits from host Joe Scarborough, who responded by saying, “There are a lot of people who say you have an inconsistent foreign policy, but it sounds pretty consistent.”


In fact, Trump’s views on Libya and Iraq have been totally, and demonstrably, inconsistent. It doesn’t take much digging to discover that Trump was originally in favor of increased United States involvement in both countries.
In a video blog about Libya from 2011, Trump said, “Qaddafi in Libya is killing thousands of people, nobody knows how bad it is, and we’re sitting around, we have soldiers all [around] the Middle East, and we’re not bringing them in to stop this horrible carnage… Now we should go in, we should stop this guy, which would be very easy and very quick.”
Trump reiterated the point a few seconds later, saying, “We should do on a humanitarian basis, immediately go into Libya, knock this guy out very quickly, very surgically, very effectively, and save the lives. After it’s all done, we’ll go to the protesters who end up running the country, they’re going to end up liking us a lot better than if we don’t do it.”
Trump’s position regarding Iraq has followed a similar pattern. Trump has repeatedly claimed during his presidential campaign that he was opposed to the 2003 invasion of Iraq all along. But Trump’s only on-record comment about Iraq during the months preceding the invasion features him saying “Yeah, I guess so” in September 2002 when asked by Howard Stern if he was in favor of military action.
Trump initially got away with his Libya and Iraq lies during Friday’s Morning Joe interview. Later in the show, however, Scarborough attempted to correct the record(see link):

Scarborough’s effort stands in contrast to New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, who in a recent column entitled “Donald the Dove, Hillary the Hawk” wrote that “the prime example of commander-in-chief judgment Trump offers is the fact that, like Obama, he thought the invasion of Iraq was a stupid idea.” Left unstated is the fact that Trump conveniently came to that conclusion only after it became clear that the intervention was going poorly, as is also the case with Libya.