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Trump a Genius?

Or, like many disputes his companies are currently involved in, did he illegally deflate the value of his properties and/or exaggerate his business losses in order to create an overall larger loss for tax avoidance purposes? That is the kind of thing full tax returns would show. Also, I wonder what all the small businesses owners who were left holding the bag from Trump's multi-hundred-million-dollar business "losses," most of whom were in no position to take a Trump-like advantage of such a loss, feel about the "genius" comments?

Vice Presidential Debate

I really hope that the the VP debate questions aren't just a rehash of Trump's faults and/or Pence's defense of them, which would easily take up the whole debate. Mike Pence's own current and past positions should be frightening to anyone to the left of the extreme right wing. Add to that the stories about Trump Jr telling the Kasich camp that if Kasich agrees to be VP, he'll end up with most of the presidential duties and responsibilities. Senator Kaine must bring all of that out, in addition to making the case for Hillary.

Everybody's missing the point

on Trump's latest line of attack. He's not blaming Hillary for the transgressions of her husband. He and his surrogates, especially Rudy, are trying to erase Hillary's entire history of fighting for women by saying she did horrible things to her husband's accusers. I heard a bunch of this kind of thing on cable news this morning and there was virtually no pushback on this line of attack, with the anchors letting it go as a given, though ancient history. Even Hillary's supporters had very little to say. I lived through the 90's and I know that Hillary did not try to "destroy" her husband's accusers. But I can't remember the specifics. If anyone can point me to some good recaps of all that, I would appreciate it. This is going to be Trump's most talked about line of attack between now and the next debate and maybe at the next debate as well. I want to know the facts in order to blunt it and I want the anchors to push back based on the facts and I want, especially, Hillary's supporters to push back.

Does anyone have a good source for facts regarding

Hillary's treatment of Bill's accusers? I know the Trump people are grossly exaggerating, e.g., the "loony toon" comment about Lewinsky was not made publicly and was disclosed much later in her deceased friend's private diary. But I'm having a hard time finding credible sources about this. Trump's campaign has instructed all surrogates to start talking about it and I need ammunition for not only the deplorables but also the fence sitters.

RMS just had a great segment

regarding the stark differences between the conduct of Hillary and Trump during separate meetings at the U.N. with the Egyptian president. Basically, Trump cuddled up to a dictator who took power via a military coup and smashed the press and any opposition and said you're doing a great job and I hope to visit soon and hope you can visit me. It was pathetic, yet another example of Trump crumbling into jello in the presence of a an actual world leader. Hillary, however, took el-Sisi to task for human rights violations and, among other things, demanded the release of a U.S. citizen improperly imprisoned in Egypt. Just another example of Trump's true cowardice when he finds himself face to face with anyone. I need a Facebook-ready post so Trump's low education voters can understand how the stark differences on display with el-Sisi will be magnified exponentially on the world stage if he were elected. Which he won't be but they don't know that.