Donald Trump continued mocking Elizabeth Warren as 'Pocahontas' on Saturday for allegedly faking her Native American heritage
He said he's been asked to apologize, and said he would – to Pocahontas!:lolBIG:
Looks like Fauxcahontas is on the warpath again. She is such a phony!!:lolBIG:
Pale Face Fauxcahontas speak with forked tongue.
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EMBRACE: Toward the end of his speech, Trump supporters broke into a chorus of 'Happy Birthday.' He turns 70-years old on June 14. As his supporters began singing, Trump laughed and said 'I don't want to hear about it.'
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He said he's been asked to apologize, and said he would – to Pocahontas!:lolBIG:
Looks like Fauxcahontas is on the warpath again. She is such a phony!!:lolBIG:
Pale Face Fauxcahontas speak with forked tongue.
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EMBRACE: Toward the end of his speech, Trump supporters broke into a chorus of 'Happy Birthday.' He turns 70-years old on June 14. As his supporters began singing, Trump laughed and said 'I don't want to hear about it.'
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You have snatched the title of Biggest Moron on this forum, a fiercely contested title formerly passed around between Witless Willie, Festering Shit, Gas Bag, and Asap-not only have you posted well over 40,000 stupid, pointless, often-non-responded-to posts, obsessing over a country you don't live in and candidates you cannot vote for, you've made a complete and utter fool of yourself by continually posting dumb fucking gifs(along with that other Uber Idiot, Road Scum) about Frump, as if all is well, when virtually all commentators-friend and foe alike of his-have stated that the last 1.5 to 2 weeks have been an absolute disaster for him, from being shown yet again to be a liar re: the 6 million contribution to the Vets, to being bitch slapped by Hillary, to the ever increasing scrutiny over the fraud charges against him, to his pathetic racist comments about the judge on one of the cases, leading to people and organizations rescinding their support for him. When you and many other Repub schmucks around here take a foot long dong up the ass come Election Day, I'm sure it'll come as a great shock to you-and, hopefully, send you scurrying back down your rat hole where you belong, Jeeves.
Once again you have proven you are Guesser
Guesser = DaFinch
These words were used by Guesser to a poster from Canada
"obsessing over a country you don't live in and candidates you cannot vote for"
Then it was quite rightly pointed out that
He had friends in America so it did matter to him.
The security of the West depends on the USA so it is very important to those in these Countries what happens in the USA.
Guesser you are Dafinch and cowardly to post as both. You are just full of Trepomema Pallidium
Gay rights groups backing Trump after Orlando Terror
It seems like many in the gay community are siding with Trump over Hillary. Trump has also proven to be better than Hillary on issues important to LBGT communities. http://prntly.com/2016/06/12/orlando-islam-religious-leader-e…
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The Americans murdered by an ISIS fanatic as they partied: Brand manager, pharmacy technician and theme park employee are among the 50 shot dead by terrorist in Florida gay club slaughter
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Edward Sotomayor Jr. (left) and Stanley Almodovar III (right) were the first victims identified in the aftermath of the worst mass shooting in American history
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Juan Ramon Guerrero (left) and Luis Vielma (right) also died in the nightclub shooting on Sunday, authorities have confirmed
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Luis Omar Ocasio-Capo (left) and Eric Ortiz-Rivera (right) also died in the shooting at Pulse nightclub, authorities have said
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Gonzalez-Cruz (pictured left and right), who worked at UPS and lived in Orlando, Florida, was also named as a victim
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Juan Guerrero (left), who has been named as one of the 50 people to have lost their lives, is pictured with his boyfriend Christopher Leinonen (right)
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Vielma (pictured), 22, worked at Universal Orlando as a production assistant on the Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey ride, according to his Facebook page
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Christine Leinonen (pictured with her son Christopher Leinonen) drove to Orlando at 4am after learning of the shooting from a friend of her son, who was at Pulse and is missing
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Christine Leinonen's son Christopher is believed to have been at Pulse nightclub when Omar Mateen, 29, opened fire, killing 50 people
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Angel Mendez holds up a cell phone photo of his brother Jean C. Mendez, who he is looking for information about outside the hospital
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Friends and family gathered outside Orlando Regional Medical Center to see if their loved ones were safe after the shooting
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Trump's Broke-Ass Campaign begs for mercy
By brooklynbadboy
Saturday Jun 11, 2016 · 5:31 AM PDT
Allies of Mitt Romney are gathered in their annual mountain retreat and they have plenty to say about just how broke Donald “$10 Billion” Trump’s campaign is. The money quote, if you will, comes from Trump’s national finance chairman, Steve Mnuchin:
By brooklynbadboy
Saturday Jun 11, 2016 · 5:31 AM PDT
Allies of Mitt Romney are gathered in their annual mountain retreat and they have plenty to say about just how broke Donald “$10 Billion” Trump’s campaign is. The money quote, if you will, comes from Trump’s national finance chairman, Steve Mnuchin:
"You have to understand we literally just started this in the last four weeks," said Mnuchin, who didn't disclose the amount of money that the campaign has raised so far.
Haha! No, what we want to understand is why can’t Trump just pay for his campaign like he said he would. Nobody wants to hear Donald Trump pleading for a little understanding of his money problems. Maybe he should try selling his 24 karat gold bathroom fixtures. “Trump Gold,” right next to the steaks.
More quotes from the CNN article below.
Haha! No, what we want to understand is why can’t Trump just pay for his campaign like he said he would. Nobody wants to hear Donald Trump pleading for a little understanding of his money problems. Maybe he should try selling his 24 karat gold bathroom fixtures. “Trump Gold,” right next to the steaks.
More quotes from the CNN article below.
Obvious bundlers haven't even been contacted. A small-dollar operation is nonexistent. And the fund-raising agreement with the Republican National Committee continues to wobble.
"The fund-raising intensity is missing -- totally," said John Rakolta Jr., a former national finance chair for Romney who said he is flabbergasted to not have received a single phone call from Trump's team. "Who is driving the bus?"
"The fund-raising intensity is missing -- totally," said John Rakolta Jr., a former national finance chair for Romney who said he is flabbergasted to not have received a single phone call from Trump's team. "Who is driving the bus?"
"You've got to have an army of people who are out there working for you, and I don't know that they do yet," said Zwick, recalling how Romney raised $100 million in this month four years ago. "I don't know how much Donald Trump wants to spend time raising money."
A joint fund-raising agreement was hatched last month to split proceeds between the RNC and the Trump campaign. And while the first joint fund-raisers have gone well, RNC chair Reince Priebus has phoned some associates expressing frustration that Trump wants to direct dollars to his own ambitious plans, according to a person who has spoken directly with Priebus, which includes quixotic bids to win deep blue states like California and New York.
Hushang Ansary, a Houston businessman named to the RNC's Presidential Trust team, said he had contributed to the fund but had not picked up the phone to call anyone in his network.
"I wasn't asked to," Ansary said in a phone interview. "I've hardly ever done fund-raising, but I've lent my name to fund-raising efforts from time to time."
"I wasn't asked to," Ansary said in a phone interview. "I've hardly ever done fund-raising, but I've lent my name to fund-raising efforts from time to time."
Romney's network was assembled with people like Randy Boyd, an aide to the governor of Tennessee who was not a longtime bundler but fundraised out of loyalty to Romney.
"He is somebody I would aspire to be like," Boyd said of Romney and who isn't raising for Trump. "The idea of putting my name on anything is anathema to me."
Lol, this fucking con man is duping millions of Republican sheep, unreal..."He is somebody I would aspire to be like," Boyd said of Romney and who isn't raising for Trump. "The idea of putting my name on anything is anathema to me."
Trump super-PAC co-chair: Trump 'doesn't have the resources' to fund his own campaign
By Hunter
Friday Jun 10, 2016 · 10:12 AM PDT
You know, Trumpism.
By Hunter
Friday Jun 10, 2016 · 10:12 AM PDT
Ed Rollins, a co-chairman of a super PAC backing Donald Trump, said this week that Trump does not personally have the resources to fund his campaign.
Um, Ed? You're not supposed to say that out loud. I'm pretty sure Trump has sued people for less. You're supposed to say that Donald Trump has a wallet so bigly that the people who make wallets had to invent a special, ultra-dense megawallet just for him, and that he can't even open it unless he's in a secured room because of that one time on the campaign trail when he opened it and a little 12 year old boy was killed by the rushing onslaught of money.You know, Trumpism.
“The Trump campaign at this point is playing catch up,” Rollins said this week on Kilmeade and Friends when asked how they planned to respond to attacks on Trump. “Both his campaign — the dilemma was you talk about self-funding his campaign. Now he certainly doesn’t have the resources or, says he doesn’t have the resources to self-fund the rest of the way. So, it’s a scramble to get the money and get resources together.”
Lol, are you Trump knob polishers sensing a trend here?
Lol, are you Trump knob polishers sensing a trend here?
[h=1]Trump Claimed Orlando Shooting Suspect Was Foreign-Born. Actually They Were Born In The Same City.[/h]BY AARON RUPAR
JUN 13, 2016 3:27 PM
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During a counterterrorism speech on Monday, Donald Trump claimed that Orlando shooting suspect Omar Mateen was born in someplace called “Afghan.” He then transitioned to discussing how his proposed ban on Muslim immigration would help prevent similar attacks from occurring in the future.
[FONT="]But there’s a big problem with Trump’s linkage of the Orlando shooting suspect’s origins and his Muslim ban — Mateen wasn’t actually foreign-born. In fact, he was born in the same borough of New York City that Trump was. (Mateen’s parents were born in Afghanistan.)[/FONT]
[FONT="]During Monday’s speech, Trump later turned his focus to the alleged dangers of letting Syrian refugees into the country. His fear-mongering about refugees is belied by the fact that not a single one has been found to be involved in planning a credible terrorist attack against the United States. In fact, a recent analysis found that Americans are seven times more likely to be killed by a right-wing extremist than they are to be killed by a Muslim terrorist.[/FONT]
JUN 13, 2016 3:27 PM
During a counterterrorism speech on Monday, Donald Trump claimed that Orlando shooting suspect Omar Mateen was born in someplace called “Afghan.” He then transitioned to discussing how his proposed ban on Muslim immigration would help prevent similar attacks from occurring in the future.
[FONT="]But there’s a big problem with Trump’s linkage of the Orlando shooting suspect’s origins and his Muslim ban — Mateen wasn’t actually foreign-born. In fact, he was born in the same borough of New York City that Trump was. (Mateen’s parents were born in Afghanistan.)[/FONT]
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[FONT="]Trump’s “Afghan” comment may have been a slip of the tongue, but he’s recently made the same sort of error while attacking the judge presiding over a Trump University fraud case. He’s repeatedly referred to federal Judge Gonzalo Curiel as “Mexican” despite the fact Curiel was actually born in Indiana. (Curiel’s parents were born in Mexico.)[/FONT]
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2:36 PM - 13 Jun 2016
[FONT="]During Monday’s speech, Trump later turned his focus to the alleged dangers of letting Syrian refugees into the country. His fear-mongering about refugees is belied by the fact that not a single one has been found to be involved in planning a credible terrorist attack against the United States. In fact, a recent analysis found that Americans are seven times more likely to be killed by a right-wing extremist than they are to be killed by a Muslim terrorist.[/FONT]
[h=2]Donald Trump's pro-gay Islamophobia is straight out of the European right-wing playbook[/h]Updated by Dylan Matthews on June 13, 2016, 5:00 p.m. ET @dylanmatt dylan@vox.com
Trump and Dutch anti-Muslim politician Geert Wilders.
One of the more striking rhetorical tricks of Donald Trump’s venomous anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant speech on the mass shooting in Orlando was Trump's repeated invocation of the LGBTQ community as a cover for his proposal to exclude Muslims from the US solely based on religion.
"The burden is on Hillary Clinton to tell us why we should admit anyone into our country who supports violence of any kind against gay and lesbian Americans," he declared. "Hillary Clinton can never claim to be a friend of the gay community as long as she continues to support immigration policies that bring Islamic extremists to our country who suppress women, gays and anyone who doesn’t share their views."
To American audiences, this is striking rhetoric from the Republican nominee for president. It was little over a decade ago that the incumbent Republican president was calling for a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage, and to this day few in the party have come out in favor of marriage equality. Trump’s main primary rival was once introduced at a campaign event by a pastor who, before ceding the stage, called for gays and lesbians to be executed.
But from an international vantage point, Trump’s maneuver here is totally predictable. While new to America, using gay rights as a smokescreen through which to advocate anti-Muslim policies is a favorite trick of the European far right, and has been for more than a decade. Trump’s innovation is taking advantage of the US’s pro-gay trajectory in recent years to adapt the technique for American audiences.
[h=3]European far-rightists love to pit LGBTQ people and Muslims against each other[/h]
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Sylvain Lefevre/Getty ImagesFrench far-rightist Marine Le Pen has appealed to the gay vote.The first politician to master this line of argument was the Dutch activist Pim Fortuyn, whose just-founded political party took second place in the 2002 Dutch elections, nine days after Fortuyn himself was assassinated.
As Vox’s Zack Beauchamp notes, there are more than a few parallels between Fortuyn and Trump. They both rose to political power seemingly out of nowhere by exploiting anti-immigrant sentiment. Both proposed blanket bans on Muslim immigration. Each terrified the center-right establishment in his country.
But Fortuyn wasn’t a businessman; he was an openly gay former sociology professor, a former Marxist who moved rightward with age. His core argument against Muslim immigration to the Netherlands was his contention that Islam posed a threat to Western progressive values on, among other things, LGBTQ rights. "In Holland, homosexuality is treated the same way as heterosexuality," he noted at one campaign event. "In what Islamic country does that happen?"
Since Fortuyn's death, his place in Dutch politics has been taken by Geert Wilders, leader of the far-right Party for Freedom, currently the third-largest party in Dutch parliament. Wilders is straight, but like Fortuyn he repeatedly invokes LGBTQ rights to argue for anti-Muslim policies, including an immigration ban, prohibition of the Quran, and a tax on Muslim women's headscarves.
"Islam is a totalitarian ideology. Muslims are its victims. Just imagine you’re a gay person in a Muslim family," Wilders wrote in a recent op-ed. "the more Islamic apostates there are, the less misogyny, the less hatred of gays, the less anti-Semitism, the less oppression, the less terror and violence, and the more freedom there will be." Despite currently being on trial for hate speech, Wilders, and his party, is currentlyleading polls for the Netherlands' next election.
Marine Le Pen, of the Front National in France, is among the most successful far-right leaders in Europe and has a good shot at finishing first in the initial round of presidential elections next year. She's also fastidiously courting the gay vote by appealing to the specter of Muslim homophobia. A poll last year found that her party was winning a quarter of Paris's gay voters, compared with only 16 percent of straight ones — despite Le Pen’s opposition to same-sex marriage.
Sébastian Chenu, co-founder of the French gay rights group GayLib, has joined Le Pen's team as an adviser and future candidate. "FN traditionalists complained loudly that their party was being taken over by a gay cabal," the Spectator's Rachel Halliburton reports.
And so it is in many European countries. Alternative for Germany (AfD), the German anti-Muslim party, is led by politicians with a strong social conservative background but has moved left on gay rights in recent years. Swedish far-rightists organized a pride parade going through Muslim neighborhoods, intending to highlight anti-gay attitudes in the Muslim community.
There are exceptions — Austria’s Freedom Party is quite anti-gay — but broadly speaking, the use of gay rights as a rhetorical tool against Islam is quite common on the European right.
[h=3]This tactic has been limited in the US — until Trump[/h]
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Fredrik Persson/AFP/GettyImagesPamela Geller and fellow anti-Muslim activist Robert Spencer in Stockholm in 2012.Radical anti-Muslim bigots in the US, often with ties to Wilders and other far-right European politicians, have latched on to this approach as well.
Pamela Geller, one of the most vociferous and vocal anti-Muslim writers in the US, took out ads on San Francisco buses quoting anti-gay statements by figures like Osama bin Laden and the Muslim Brotherhood’s Yusuf al-Qaradawi, saying, "The ads will increase awareness about the subjugation and oppression of gays under Shariah law. The gay community should be standing with me, not against me."
She was at it again after Orlando. "Where are the left-wing, the gay and LGBT organizations denouncing the Islamic texts that inspire such mayhem and murder of gays?" she asked in a blog post. "Where is that fierce gay leadership condemning Muslim oppression of gays under the sharia? The silence is deafening."
Frank Gaffney, another vocal anti-Muslim bigot and former adviser to Ted Cruz, hasmade similar comments, expressing bafflement at left-wing solidarity with Muslims: "the antipathy of the Islamists to homosexuality yet being supported by people who prize homosexual rights and have many of them in their ranks."
Gaffney and Geller have close ties with the European far right; both have worked repeatedly with Wilders on events in the US. But despite Gaffney's ties to mainstream Republican politics, they’ve remained mostly on the fringes of the conservative movement.
That’s what makes Trump's remarks so striking. They represent a moment in which this particularly vicious brand of Islamophobia, including the use of pro-gay rhetoric as a smokescreen, can go mainstream and become the defining ideology of the Republican Party for a whole election cycle.
Timothy A. Clary and Remko de Waal/AFP/Getty Images
One of the more striking rhetorical tricks of Donald Trump’s venomous anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant speech on the mass shooting in Orlando was Trump's repeated invocation of the LGBTQ community as a cover for his proposal to exclude Muslims from the US solely based on religion.
"The burden is on Hillary Clinton to tell us why we should admit anyone into our country who supports violence of any kind against gay and lesbian Americans," he declared. "Hillary Clinton can never claim to be a friend of the gay community as long as she continues to support immigration policies that bring Islamic extremists to our country who suppress women, gays and anyone who doesn’t share their views."
To American audiences, this is striking rhetoric from the Republican nominee for president. It was little over a decade ago that the incumbent Republican president was calling for a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage, and to this day few in the party have come out in favor of marriage equality. Trump’s main primary rival was once introduced at a campaign event by a pastor who, before ceding the stage, called for gays and lesbians to be executed.
But from an international vantage point, Trump’s maneuver here is totally predictable. While new to America, using gay rights as a smokescreen through which to advocate anti-Muslim policies is a favorite trick of the European far right, and has been for more than a decade. Trump’s innovation is taking advantage of the US’s pro-gay trajectory in recent years to adapt the technique for American audiences.
[h=3]European far-rightists love to pit LGBTQ people and Muslims against each other[/h]
As Vox’s Zack Beauchamp notes, there are more than a few parallels between Fortuyn and Trump. They both rose to political power seemingly out of nowhere by exploiting anti-immigrant sentiment. Both proposed blanket bans on Muslim immigration. Each terrified the center-right establishment in his country.
But Fortuyn wasn’t a businessman; he was an openly gay former sociology professor, a former Marxist who moved rightward with age. His core argument against Muslim immigration to the Netherlands was his contention that Islam posed a threat to Western progressive values on, among other things, LGBTQ rights. "In Holland, homosexuality is treated the same way as heterosexuality," he noted at one campaign event. "In what Islamic country does that happen?"
Since Fortuyn's death, his place in Dutch politics has been taken by Geert Wilders, leader of the far-right Party for Freedom, currently the third-largest party in Dutch parliament. Wilders is straight, but like Fortuyn he repeatedly invokes LGBTQ rights to argue for anti-Muslim policies, including an immigration ban, prohibition of the Quran, and a tax on Muslim women's headscarves.
"Islam is a totalitarian ideology. Muslims are its victims. Just imagine you’re a gay person in a Muslim family," Wilders wrote in a recent op-ed. "the more Islamic apostates there are, the less misogyny, the less hatred of gays, the less anti-Semitism, the less oppression, the less terror and violence, and the more freedom there will be." Despite currently being on trial for hate speech, Wilders, and his party, is currentlyleading polls for the Netherlands' next election.
Marine Le Pen, of the Front National in France, is among the most successful far-right leaders in Europe and has a good shot at finishing first in the initial round of presidential elections next year. She's also fastidiously courting the gay vote by appealing to the specter of Muslim homophobia. A poll last year found that her party was winning a quarter of Paris's gay voters, compared with only 16 percent of straight ones — despite Le Pen’s opposition to same-sex marriage.
Sébastian Chenu, co-founder of the French gay rights group GayLib, has joined Le Pen's team as an adviser and future candidate. "FN traditionalists complained loudly that their party was being taken over by a gay cabal," the Spectator's Rachel Halliburton reports.
And so it is in many European countries. Alternative for Germany (AfD), the German anti-Muslim party, is led by politicians with a strong social conservative background but has moved left on gay rights in recent years. Swedish far-rightists organized a pride parade going through Muslim neighborhoods, intending to highlight anti-gay attitudes in the Muslim community.
There are exceptions — Austria’s Freedom Party is quite anti-gay — but broadly speaking, the use of gay rights as a rhetorical tool against Islam is quite common on the European right.
[h=3]This tactic has been limited in the US — until Trump[/h]
Pamela Geller, one of the most vociferous and vocal anti-Muslim writers in the US, took out ads on San Francisco buses quoting anti-gay statements by figures like Osama bin Laden and the Muslim Brotherhood’s Yusuf al-Qaradawi, saying, "The ads will increase awareness about the subjugation and oppression of gays under Shariah law. The gay community should be standing with me, not against me."
She was at it again after Orlando. "Where are the left-wing, the gay and LGBT organizations denouncing the Islamic texts that inspire such mayhem and murder of gays?" she asked in a blog post. "Where is that fierce gay leadership condemning Muslim oppression of gays under the sharia? The silence is deafening."
Frank Gaffney, another vocal anti-Muslim bigot and former adviser to Ted Cruz, hasmade similar comments, expressing bafflement at left-wing solidarity with Muslims: "the antipathy of the Islamists to homosexuality yet being supported by people who prize homosexual rights and have many of them in their ranks."
Gaffney and Geller have close ties with the European far right; both have worked repeatedly with Wilders on events in the US. But despite Gaffney's ties to mainstream Republican politics, they’ve remained mostly on the fringes of the conservative movement.
That’s what makes Trump's remarks so striking. They represent a moment in which this particularly vicious brand of Islamophobia, including the use of pro-gay rhetoric as a smokescreen, can go mainstream and become the defining ideology of the Republican Party for a whole election cycle.
But But But. He's Self Funding. He told his sheep that hundreds of timesTrump super-PAC co-chair: Trump 'doesn't have the resources' to fund his own campaign
By Hunter
Friday Jun 10, 2016 · 10:12 AM PDT
Ed Rollins, a co-chairman of a super PAC backing Donald Trump, said this week that Trump does not personally have the resources to fund his campaign.Um, Ed? You're not supposed to say that out loud. I'm pretty sure Trump has sued people for less. You're supposed to say that Donald Trump has a wallet so bigly that the people who make wallets had to invent a special, ultra-dense megawallet just for him, and that he can't even open it unless he's in a secured room because of that one time on the campaign trail when he opened it and a little 12 year old boy was killed by the rushing onslaught of money.
You know, Trumpism.“The Trump campaign at this point is playing catch up,” Rollins said this week on Kilmeade and Friends when asked how they planned to respond to attacks on Trump. “Both his campaign — the dilemma was you talk about self-funding his campaign. Now he certainly doesn’t have the resources or, says he doesn’t have the resources to self-fund the rest of the way. So, it’s a scramble to get the money and get resources together.”
Lol, are you Trump knob polishers sensing a trend here?
hno:
It's not so unreal when you see the "intellect" of those supporting the clown. Just use this dump as an example and extrapolate.Trump's Broke-Ass Campaign begs for mercy
By brooklynbadboy
Saturday Jun 11, 2016 · 5:31 AM PDT
Allies of Mitt Romney are gathered in their annual mountain retreat and they have plenty to say about just how broke Donald “$10 Billion” Trump’s campaign is. The money quote, if you will, comes from Trump’s national finance chairman, Steve Mnuchin:"You have to understand we literally just started this in the last four weeks," said Mnuchin, who didn't disclose the amount of money that the campaign has raised so far.
Haha! No, what we want to understand is why can’t Trump just pay for his campaign like he said he would. Nobody wants to hear Donald Trump pleading for a little understanding of his money problems. Maybe he should try selling his 24 karat gold bathroom fixtures. “Trump Gold,” right next to the steaks.
More quotes from the CNN article below.
Obvious bundlers haven't even been contacted. A small-dollar operation is nonexistent. And the fund-raising agreement with the Republican National Committee continues to wobble.
"The fund-raising intensity is missing -- totally," said John Rakolta Jr., a former national finance chair for Romney who said he is flabbergasted to not have received a single phone call from Trump's team. "Who is driving the bus?"
"You've got to have an army of people who are out there working for you, and I don't know that they do yet," said Zwick, recalling how Romney raised $100 million in this month four years ago. "I don't know how much Donald Trump wants to spend time raising money."
A joint fund-raising agreement was hatched last month to split proceeds between the RNC and the Trump campaign. And while the first joint fund-raisers have gone well, RNC chair Reince Priebus has phoned some associates expressing frustration that Trump wants to direct dollars to his own ambitious plans, according to a person who has spoken directly with Priebus, which includes quixotic bids to win deep blue states like California and New York.
Hushang Ansary, a Houston businessman named to the RNC's Presidential Trust team, said he had contributed to the fund but had not picked up the phone to call anyone in his network.
"I wasn't asked to," Ansary said in a phone interview. "I've hardly ever done fund-raising, but I've lent my name to fund-raising efforts from time to time."
Romney's network was assembled with people like Randy Boyd, an aide to the governor of Tennessee who was not a longtime bundler but fundraised out of loyalty to Romney.Lol, this fucking con man is duping millions of Republican sheep, unreal...
"He is somebody I would aspire to be like," Boyd said of Romney and who isn't raising for Trump. "The idea of putting my name on anything is anathema to me."
