Election 2016 Thread

[piscator]

Donald Trump used money donated for charity to buy himself a Tim Tebow-signed football helmet

Four years ago, at a charity fundraiser in Palm Beach, Donald Trump got into a bidding war at the evening's live auction. The items up for sale: A Denver Broncos helmet, autographed by then-star quarterback Tim Tebow, and a Tebow jersey.

Trump won, eventually, with a bid of $12,000. Afterward, he posed with the helmet. His purchase made gossip-column news: a flourish of generosity, by a mogul with money to burn. "The Donald giveth, and The Donald payeth," wrote the Palm Beach Daily News. "Blessed be the name of The Donald."

But Trump didn't actually pay with his own money.

Instead, the Susan G. Komen organization — the breast-cancer nonprofit that hosted the party — got a $12,000 payment from another nonprofit , the Donald J. Trump Foundation.

Trump himself sent no money. (In fact, a Komen spokeswoman said, Trump has never given a personal gift of cash to the Komen organization.) He paid the bill with money from a charity he founded in 1987, but which is largely stocked with other people's money. Trump is the foundation's president. But, at the time of the auction, Trump had given none of his own money to the foundation for three years running...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/pos ... ll-helmet/

[Seth]

The obstructionists you put in the Senate are refusing to hold the SCOTUS nomination hearing for Merrick Garland. That's much more of a crime and dereliction of duty than 'holding the Rule'* during discovery or Requests For Information.

Nonsense, and your statement shows utter ignorance of the Constitution. The President NOMINATES a SC justice but cannot APPOINT one without the "advice and CONSENT" (emphasis added) of the Senate. By refusing a hearing the Senate is telling the President that his nominee is unacceptable and that it will not consent to an appointment. The Senate is doing exactly what it's mandated and chartered to do in such cases.

Moreover, it's quite clear to everyone with an IQ over 80 that this email deal is a hypocritical political shitshow.

If it's a "shitshow" it's Hillary's shit that's being splattered all over the place, and she shat it. We just want to make sure that she won't get 4 years as the most powerful politician on the planet to shit on the rest of us for her own narcissistic benefit.

Some of us can even remember the 22,000,000 emails deleted by the Rove White House in 2007.

That was then, this is now. As if pointing to a past wrongdoing by someone else is or ever has been a justification of any sort for current malfeasance. Sheesh.

So pretty much any legal means HRC and her staff of hotshit attorneys wants to employ to confound and embugger your little Republican monkeyfuck committee is just fine by us.

Yes, Marxist totalitarianism tends to view the rights of citizens that way...

I bet now you wish you voted for someone competent, rather than "Anyone but a Democrat", don't ya?

The vote ain't till November, and it ain't necessary "anybody but a Democrat," but it's sure as fuck "anybody but Hillary."

[Seth]

Maybe they talked about racism?

Doesn't matter what they talked about, the mere fact that they met, in secret, for even two seconds is enough to warrant impeaching the bitch and sending her to prison, much less forcibly recusing her from the case.

[piscator]

In an apparent effort to drum up support following the Brexit vote, Donald Trump‘s campaign made its dumbest legal move yet. And there have been some to pick from. Trump’s campaign reportedly sent out emails directly soliciting money from foreign politicians including at least 54 Scottish members of parliament, and to an unknown number of politicians in England, Iceland, Australia, Canada, and Denmark. This isn’t a political issue. I don’t care how you feel about Donald Trump. This is a legal issue, and there is no question that under federal law soliciting money from foreign nationals is illegal. The Federal Elections Campaign Act expressly prohibits this. The feds don’t even need a subpoena to prove the violations. They need only to turn to twitter.

Here’s the pretty damning evidence from the politicians themselves who received the email:

Has someone added me to the Trump email list as a prank, or has he bought a really dud spam email marketing list? pic.twitter.com/QnN6vaBFcI

— Tim Watts MP (@TimWattsMP) June 24, 2016

May be Donald Trump bought lists – bizarre for grassroots campaign – but how does he opt out of foreign donations? pic.twitter.com/jVwfdFnI6U

— Natalie McGarry MP (@NatalieMcgarry) June 27, 2016

@MDKanin @nytimes @realDonaldTrump – that’s exactly what I mean: even kindly offering to match our donations “dollar-for-dollar” up to $2.7k

— Stuart McDonald MP (@Stuart_McDonald) June 27, 2016

@jensschott @joshtpm yes pic.twitter.com/2CJ6MO8hMx

— Ida Auken (@IdaAuken) June 29, 2016

I’ve emailed Trump’s campaign several times to try to figure out who the heck let this happen, but haven’t heard back. On CNN Friday morning, former Trump campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, gave what could be the most convoluted and confusing excuse (though he wasn’t with the campaign when this happened). Lewandowski claims the politicians must have opted into the email listserv. That’s clearly not true—see Australian Member of Parliament Tim Watt’s tweet above where he asks, “has someone added me to the Trump email as a prank?”

On Wednesday, the Campaign Legal Center, a nonprofit and nonpartisan group, filed an official complaint with the Federal Election Committee. And, in case you were wondering, in 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court emphatically upheld the prohibition against foreign contributions in U.S. elections.

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http://lawnewz.com/politics/this-might- ... -move-yet/

[Scot Dutchy]

Now if this had been Clinton?

[pErvinalia]

Money is free speech!

[Svartalf]

Money is free speech!

Yep, and the Nazgûl have affirmed that it's so

[Seth]

In an apparent effort to drum up support following the Brexit vote, Donald Trump‘s campaign made its dumbest legal move yet.

No, somebody appearing on the surface to be with the Trump campaign sent the emails. Sounds like a disinformation attack from the left to me.

Of course it's well known that the Clintons have been soliciting money from foreigners for decades for their "Clinton Foundation," which is actually nothing more than a personal slush-fund.

[piscator]

In an apparent effort to drum up support following the Brexit vote, Donald Trump‘s campaign made its dumbest legal move yet.

No, somebody appearing on the surface to be with the Trump campaign sent the emails. Sounds like a disinformation attack from the left to me.

Everything sounds like a disinformation attack from the Left to you, so please differentiate this attack from all the others to help the reader follow your thinking on this.

Of course it's well known that the Clintons have been soliciting money from foreigners for decades for their "Clinton Foundation," which is actually nothing more than a personal slush-fund.

Well, that's been asserted on talk radio. But you have to remember the talk radio hosts were very likely high on oxycodone at the time, and just entertaining you for money anyway. Have a Snapple and relax.

[Seth]

In an apparent effort to drum up support following the Brexit vote, Donald Trump‘s campaign made its dumbest legal move yet.

No, somebody appearing on the surface to be with the Trump campaign sent the emails. Sounds like a disinformation attack from the left to me.

Everything sounds like a disinformation attack from the Left to you, so please differentiate this attack from all the others to help the reader follow your thinking on this.

Only an idiot would require such assistance, and I don't care if idiots understand or not.

Of course it's well known that the Clintons have been soliciting money from foreigners for decades for their "Clinton Foundation," which is actually nothing more than a personal slush-fund.

Well, that's been asserted on talk radio.

Indeed. And the financial records show that they have been doing so. What's left to prove before an indictment is their diversion of funds for personal gain, particularly during Clinton's tenure as a Senator and at the State Department. Wikileaks is on it I believe, having just dumped thousands more of Hillary's emails.

But you have to remember the talk radio hosts were very likely high on oxycodone at the time,

Which comment is merely a fallacious ad hominem argument.

and just entertaining you for money anyway.

Not me, I never listen to talk radio.

Have a Snapple and relax.

No thanks, hate Snapple.

[piscator]

In an apparent effort to drum up support following the Brexit vote, Donald Trump‘s campaign made its dumbest legal move yet.

No, somebody appearing on the surface to be with the Trump campaign sent the emails. Sounds like a disinformation attack from the left to me.

Everything sounds like a disinformation attack from the Left to you, so please differentiate this attack from all the others to help the reader follow your thinking on this.

Only an idiot would require such assistance, and I don't care if idiots understand or not.

That sounds like disinformation to me, Seth.

Of course it's well known that the Clintons have been soliciting money from foreigners for decades for their "Clinton Foundation," which is actually nothing more than a personal slush-fund.

Well, that's been asserted on talk radio.

Indeed. And the financial records show that they have been doing so. What's left to prove before an indictment is their diversion of funds for personal gain, particularly during Clinton's tenure as a Senator and at the State Department. Wikileaks is on it I believe, having just dumped thousands more of Hillary's emails.

But you have to remember the talk radio hosts were very likely high on oxycodone at the time,

Which comment is merely a fallacious ad hominem argument.

and just entertaining you for money anyway.

Not me, I never listen to talk radio.

Have a Snapple and relax.

No thanks, hate Snapple.

An obvious disinformation attack. Reported for Exporting Fraud.

[Seth]

Only an idiot would require such assistance, and I don't care if idiots understand or not.

That sounds like disinformation to me, Seth.

Your lack of understanding merely proves my point.

[pErvinalia]

Of course it's well known that the Clintons have been soliciting money from foreigners for decades for their "Clinton Foundation," which is actually nothing more than a personal slush-fund.

Well, that's been asserted on talk radio.

Indeed. And the financial records show that they have been doing so. What's left to prove before an indictment is their diversion of funds for personal gain, particularly during Clinton's tenure as a Senator and at the State Department. Wikileaks is on it I believe, having just dumped thousands more of Hillary's emails.

But you have to remember the talk radio hosts were very likely high on oxycodone at the time,

Which comment is merely a fallacious ad hominem argument.

and just entertaining you for money anyway.

Not me, I never listen to talk radio.

Have a Snapple and relax.

No thanks, hate Snapple.

An obvious disinformation attack. Reported for Exporting Fraud.

[Drewish]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=C23uhLtcbIw

I just can't bring myself to vote for Clinton or Trump.

[Tero]

Why hasn't Trump not made any remarks about Hillary's pussy yet? Guys with small hands do that stuff.