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October 13, 2016

Brand New Video of Trump in Sexual Misconduct on Tape in 2000

If I didn't see this with my own eyes, I wouldn't believe it.

It's a 30 second ad all by itself.

October 10, 2016

Trump Concedes That There are More Damaging Tapes of Him

In this article, complete with Donald Trump's quotes, he concedes that there are more videos that are damaging to him. This may confirm the existence of the rumored "Apprentice Show" edited, backroom tape in which Donald used the N word.


<snip>Though Clinton’s campaign has denied any involvement in leaking the “Access Hollywood” clip that has dogged Trump’s campaign all weekend and prompted an exodus of support from prominent Republicans, Trump said more such releases will come at a risk for the Clintons — he cast Bill Clinton as a predator Monday and Hillary Clinton as a “total hypocrite” who enabled him to hurt more women.

“If they wanna release more tapes saying inappropriate things, we’ll continue to talk about Bill and Hillary Clinton doing inappropriate things,” Trump said. “There are so many of them, folks.” <snip>

On Edit: If he didn't commit any other inappropriate acts or make any other shocking statements, why would Trump have to make these threats?

Link:
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/trump-threatens-clinton-attacks-tapes-229566

October 9, 2016

Clinton Response to Trump Attack on Bill's Indiscretions during Debate

I posted this suggestion prior to the first debate, in anticipation of a Donald Trump attack on Hillary about the past issues concerning Bill Clinton.

First off, Bill didn't get away with anything. He was impeached after lengthy interrogations. He was humiliated in public. All the accusations were adjudicated. Hillary doesn't need to rehash that, defend that, or relive that.

Here's my suggested response for Hillary when that topic comes up tonight.

"Donald, I'm not a quitter. I never have been a quitter. Not in my public life and not in my private life. All these issues that you allude to were discussed and dealt with, in public, 20 years ago. I will not litigate them again in this election or in this forum."

"And, finally, Donald, I hope you won't be offended that I don't take marital advice from you!"

Link to Post on Oct. 1:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512459251

October 3, 2016

Who Says that Trump's Audit is Routine, or that He Broke No Tax Laws?"

Ya, who says?

Let's look at the facts as we know them. By Donald Trump's own admission, his taxes, for numerous years, are under "routine audit". Why should we take his word that it's "routine"? If he's worth $10 billion, and, as he admitted in the first debate, he's paid no taxes for a number of years, because he's smart, why should everyone concede that he broke no laws?

Whether or not he has broken any tax laws should not be conceded until the audit is complete. Don't you think that if someone lives the life style that Donald Trump leads and pays no taxes for decades, that the IRS audit is more than "routine". Don't you think that the IRS may be suspicious of a non-taxpaying multi-billionaire?

Let's not let Trump or his surrogates get away with saying he hasn't broken any laws. They should be confronted with "how do you know that? Is the audit complete?"

Maybe Trump is no more a genius than Bernie Madoff was.

October 2, 2016

I believe Hillary unfavorables are a result of lot of Trump supporters' racism

Let me see if I can explain this correctly.

During the primaries, a lot of Trump supporters would give their reasons for voting for him as "he uses his own money to run. He's beholding to nobody." or "He speaks from the heart. He doesn't use a teleprompter". or "He's not a politician". Those were, at the time, all plausible, although naïve reasons. Hillary's negatives were high, but less than 50%, generally. In reality, the only reason anyone can support Donald Trump is that they're bigots and racists. That's his only attraction.

Let me digress into the modern history of political bigotry. The bigots used to belong to us. Up until 1960, the black vote split about 50% to 50% in national elections. The racists belonged to us, the Democrats. These people, mostly in the South, were so bigoted, they couldn't vote for a Republican for 5 generations, because of Abraham Lincoln. Then came the civil rights and voting rights acts in 1964 and 1965. The bigots then became Wallace Democrats, and supported the racist, bigoted campaign of George Wallace in 1968 and 1972. Nixon captured a great deal of the racist vote in 1972 in what was known as the Southern Strategy. Now, these are not the exact, same people, but the same ideology, as those same racists and bigots gravitated to Reagan in 1980 and especially 1984. They became a major part of the Republican coalition, as the Democratic party became the party of tolerance and inclusion. African-Americans, Gays, Latinos and Asians were the cornerstone of the modern Democratic party and the bigots were now all in the Republican Party. The mainstream Republicans didn't want to acknowledge it. They could take the substantial bigoted vote for granted, since the party of tolerance and inclusion now rested with the Democrats and the bigots had no place else to go.

As a result, bigots like to vote in a racist and bigoted manner, but they don't want to be known by their neighbors and friends as racists or bigots. They know that Trump is a bigot, or at least makes racist and bigoted statements. So, when confronted by others as Trump supporters, they use the default position, "I just can't stand Hillary." Come on, you hate Hillary that much that you could vote for a racist? The fact is that you ARE voting for Trump because both he and you are racists, and your feigned dislike for Hillary is just a smoke screen and a poor excuse for a bigot to vote for a bigot.

October 1, 2016

Clinton Response to Trump Attack on Bill's Indiscretions During Debate

"Donald, I'm not a quitter. I never have been a quitter. Not in my public life and not in my private life. All these issues that you allude to were discussed and dealt with, in public, 20 years ago. I will not litigate them again in this election or in this forum."

"And, finally, Donald, I hope you won't be offended that I don't take marital advice from you!"

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