GOP frustrations with Trump mount as allies weigh options
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump pauses while speaking at a campaign town hall at Ocean Center.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. >> Republicans’ frustration with Donald Trump has reached new heights, with party leaders scrambling to persuade their presidential nominee to abandon divisive tactics that have triggered sinking poll numbers and low morale.
Party chairman Reince Priebus is appealing to the New York billionaire’s adult children to help amid new signs of a campaign in trouble.
Trump’s operation has been beset by internal discord, including growing concern about general election preparedness and a lack of support from Republican leaders, according to two people familiar with the organization’s inner workings.
One of the people said Trump privately blames his own staff for failing to quiet the backlash from his own party after he criticized an American Muslim family whose son, a U.S. Army captain, was killed in Iraq.
The inner tension comes as Priebus and handful of high-profile Trump allies consider whether to confront the candidate directly to encourage a new approach following a series of startling stances and statements. In the midst of the uproar over his continued criticism of the Khan family, Trump infuriated Priebus and other party leaders by refusing to endorse GOP House Speaker Paul Ryan’s re-election.
The officials, including one with direct knowledge of Priebus’ thinking, were granted anonymity to discuss internal strategy because they were not authorized to discuss the sensitive issuer publicly. This came after one of the most tumultuous weeks of Trump’s presidential campaign.
Trump on Wednesday dismissed suggestions that the GOP frustration was hurting his campaign, even as he openly contemplated an Election Day loss.
“Wouldn’t that be embarrassing to lose to crooked Hillary Clinton? That would be terrible,” he said during a campaign stop in battleground Florida. He also insisted, “We’ve never been this united.”
In an interview later Wednesday with Florida’s WPEC-TV, Trump was asked if he was being “baited into battles.”
“I think that’s probably right,” he acknowledged. “We’re going to focus more on Hillary Clinton.”
The most powerful Republicans in Washington and New York’s Trump Tower concede things will not change unless Trump wants them to.
“The candidate is in control of his campaign,” campaign chairman Paul Manafort told Fox News Channel, highlighting his inability to control the nominee. “And I’m in control of doing the things that he wants me to do in the campaign.”
Clinton, meanwhile, kept up her assault on Trump’s business practices, holding up a Trump-branded tie as she spoke at the Knotty Tie Company in battleground Colorado.
“I really would like him to explain why he paid Chinese workers to make Trump ties,” she told employees in Denver, “instead of deciding to make those ties right here in Colorado.”
Trump blamed the media — “so dishonest” — for growing criticism of his recent statements and his unwillingness to accept guidance from senior advisers.
Privately, however, Trump has concerns about his own team.
He was deeply upset when GOP leaders “took the other side” during his ongoing quarrel with the Khan family, one person said, and blames his campaign staff for not keeping top Republicans in line. Another person said Trump is irritated that general election planning in battleground states isn’t further along with less than 100 days until Election Day.
The internal tension is complicated by Trump’s frequent travels without his senior advisers and his adult children, who wield significant influence in the campaign, the people close to the campaign said.
“I would say in the last couple of weeks, he has been remarkably underperforming and we’ll see whether or not he can take a deep breath and learn these lessons,” said former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Fox Business News.
Trump stunned Republicans by telling The Washington Post in an interview Tuesday that he wasn’t ready to endorse Ryan, who faces a primary contest in Wisconsin next week. Ryan has backed Trump despite deep differences on policy and temperament, and has encouraged other Republicans to unite behind the party’s nominee.
Former Trump adviser Barry Bennett acknowledged signs of poor morale among the campaign staff he maintains contact with, but he also said it would be silly to dismiss Trump’s chances with three months before Election Day.
“This would be the end of any other Republican candidate in the history of the country. And he’s only 5 or 6 points behind,” Bennett said.
Indeed, Trump on Wednesday reported raising $80 million in July for his campaign and the Republican Party, a significant improvement from past months. Clinton raised about $90 million over the same period.
Privately, Trump points to his recent fundraising success, large rallies and decent polling against a seasoned candidate as evidence that his campaign is working well.
And his loyalists continue to stand behind him.
“The media is blowing this out of proportion significantly,” said New Hampshire Rep. Stephen Stepanek.
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Perhaps Donald Trump is in actuality, a Democrat party plant, whose mission is to infiltrate, disrupt, and destroy the Republican party from within. He’s certainly doing an excellent job at that! Meanwhile some people are beginning to question his mental stability.
The whole world is rigged, according to trump.
And only he can fix it by building trump hotels wherever and creating jobs.
And then screwing contractors by not paying them so they go out of business.
Coups de gras happen suddenly
& China is setting world-wide policy to accommodate their hegemony in world currency. Our Monroe Doctrine, long in the dust bin, is their design for the South China Sea. English, Japanese, Russian & American colonization is their design for economic dominance only, before any military stupidity like Vietnam, via the Silk Road and Nicaragua Canal. Bush’s embracing of “globalism” & Obama’s continuation of it poured USDs to Chinese coffers in a non quid pro quo, one-way economic mega welfare system which destroyed hundreds of indigenous industries & millions of US jobs. Now they’re going to back their “money” with gold & silver. Quickly countries like South Africa & Mexico will leap to prominence. While we wallow in acrimonious, greedy discontent & losing wars, China builds power. Don’t think they won’t use it. This is the country of “human wave” attacks (S. Korea) within many of our lifetimes. Wake up, “folks”, before it’s too late!
Thank you sarge22. While I don’t agree with you on Trump, I do agree with you on this/your post. You’ve pretty much covered topics that I’d have stated. ‘Nuf said on my part.
Why is the GOP frustrated? This is Trump. This IS The Donald. He hasn’t changed. What we see is what we get. Now, it’s up to us to select carefully.
The candidate has been on a roll. He was criticized by the parents of a Muslim soldier killed in Iraq and responded that they were really upset because he plans to keep Islamic terrorists out of the country — “I think that’s what bothered Mr. Khan,” Trump insisted. These are the parents of a fallen American soldier, and Trump accuses them of being enablers of Islamic terrorism based on the fact that they have criticized him. Trump later showed off a Purple Heart medal someone gave him, saying he’d “always wanted to get the Purple Heart” and that this method was “much easier” than, say, earning one in combat. Trump, a draft-dodger whose disabling bone spurs seem to have disappeared (mirabile dictu) once bragged that evading sexually transmitted diseases over the course of what he promises has been a somewhat exotic sex life was his “own personal Vietnam,” so perhaps he believes he earned that Purple Heart at the Battle of Poontang.
Somewhere in the midst of all that, he assured us that he had good reason to believe the Russians would never invade Ukraine, which they did in 2014, annexing Crimea. Trump apologists on the Right will no doubt insist that the president’s dismissal of Trump is unseemly, and perhaps it is. Hugh Hewitt responded with criticism of President Obama’s “lead from behind” strategy, his failure in Syria, etc., as though those were relevant to the question. Of course Barack Obama has been a terrible president. He could be ten times worse, a thousand times worse, Adolf Hitler, or the screenwriting team behind the Star Wars prequels and that would not change anything. This is a classical example of why the ad hominem fallacy is a fallacy: Yes, Obama is a preening mediocrity and a genuine dullard in the matter of international relations — but is what he said about Trump true?
Of course it is true. Dennis Prager, who in January insisted that “Trump is unfit to be president” and that arguments about Supreme Court appointments were mostly baloney because there is no reason to have “confidence that he would nominate conservatives to the Supreme Court,” is lecturing Trump critics that we must support him in order to “prevent a left-wing Supreme Court.” Prager should read Prager. Prager, who sells books about anti-Semitism, is among those getting into bed with every Jew-hating weirdo not named Al Sharpton to elect a candidate who opposes conservative ideas at nearly every turn, and who is — even Obama gets one right every now and again — morally and intellectually unfit for the office, and he is doing so on the strength of a Supreme Court argument that Prager himself thought was bumf just a few months ago. Donald Trump could very well nominate Judge Judy to the Supreme Court.
If your argument is, “Regardless, I prefer him to Hillary Rodham Clinton,” okey-dokey. But let’s be honest about what exactly it is you prefer to Mrs. Clinton, what manner of man you would see entrusted with the most powerful political portfolio on Earth. If you are going to do that, then you should have the intellectual honesty and the moral courage to be straight and plain about what it is you are doing.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/438664/obama-donald-trump-unfit-serve-president-correct
Is this Ike posting blah blah blah rhetoric? Is the work of the some liberal rag? Nope and nope, again, and for the umpteenth day in a row, the beacon of conservatism, the standard bearer of republican politics has another scouring article against, yes against Donlad Trump. Enjoy ….
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump blamed his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, who was secretary of state during Obama’s first term, for launching the talks with Iran.
“Our incompetent Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, was the one who started talks to give 400 million dollars, in cash, to Iran. Scandal!” Trump said in a Twitter post.
The chairman of the Republican National Committee, Reince Priebus, also weighed in. “The Obama-Clinton foreign policy not only means cutting a dangerous nuclear deal with the world’s number one state sponsor of terrorism, it also means paying them a secret ransom with cargo planes full of cash,” he said.
House Speaker Paul Ryan was more measured, saying, “If true, this report confirms our longstanding suspicion that the administration paid a ransom in exchange for Americans unjustly detained in Iran.”
We knew about in January. This is just a ploy to cause a distraction from the continuously stupid actions of the Chump. Ridiculously stupid.
Why moderation?
Listen up. Baghdad Bob back on TV.
You are completely wrong (again). Here are the facts, as reported by AP:
THE FACTS: Trump is wrong about Clinton’s involvement. The $400 million payment — plus $1.3 billion in interest to be paid later — is a separate issue from the Iran nuclear deal that Clinton initiated. The process that resulted in the payout started decades before she became secretary of state.
In the late 1970s the Iranian government, under the U.S.-backed shah, paid the United States $400 million for military equipment. The equipment was never delivered because in 1979, his government was overthrown, revolutionaries took American hostages at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, and diplomatic relations between the United States and Iran were severed.
In 1981 [under President Reagan], the United States and Iran agreed to set up a commission at The Hague that would rule on claims by each country for property and assets held by the other. Iran’s claim for return of the equipment payment was among many that had been tied up in litigation before the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal, and interest the U.S. owed for holding the money for so long was growing.
Litigation over these claims has continued intermittently for 35 years, with some being settled and others going to the tribunal for judgment. All private U.S. claims before the tribunal have been resolved, with Iran paying more than $2.5 billion to American people and businesses. Some claims remain unresolved.
As secretary of state, Clinton did initiate secret talks with Iran over its nuclear program. After John Kerry succeeded her on Feb. 1, 2013, those secret contacts grew into 18 months of formal negotiations that culminated in the July 2015 nuclear deal.
U.S. officials had expected a ruling on the Iranian claim from the tribunal any time, and feared a ruling that would have made the interest payments much higher. As the nuclear talks progressed, the separate, intermittent talks on the military-equipment claim continued.
On Jan. 17, a day after the nuclear deal was implemented, the United States and Iran announced they had settled the claim, with the U.S. agreeing to pay the $400 million principal along with $1.3 billion in interest. Administration statements at the time made clear that the principal and the interest would be paid separately, but did not specify how the money would be delivered.
Trump is correct that the $400 million was paid in cash and flown to Tehran on a cargo plane. But litigation on the Iranian claim preceded Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state by decades and heated up only after she left the job.
Nice overview, the less read folks are conflating these distinct events. One needs to look at history and our previous obligations…the reality is that 400 million is Irans money, not ours.
Obama scrambling to cover his ransom payment to Iran. The Treasury had trouble coming up with the cash as a check may bounce. He needed foreign money to evade the law. He got caught red handed. Best yet, Obama didn’t think it was illegal. Just like HiLIARy didn’t know what was classified. It’s Iran’s money but I guess it wasn’t kept in a “lock box”. Wonder how much tax they will pay on the $1.3 billion interest income.
Very insignificant concerns because the Chump has dug a whole so deep that he will never get out from it.
The level of alarm among top Republicans is mounting. Even Priebus, who has tried to gently coax Trump to help unify Republicans around his campaign, abandoned his softer demeanor when he spoke with senior Trump staff on Tuesday afternoon. “He lit into him [Trump] pretty good,” said a source with knowledge of the conversation. “It was basically him saying, ‘Do you realize how badly you’re fucking this up?’”
Amid reports suggesting that he and other staffers are beginning to “phone it in,” Manafort subtly shifted blame to his candidate. He admitted that Trump’s comments in response to Khizr and Ghazala Khan were “not smart.” And he made it clear that it’s Trump, not any adviser or ally bending his ear, who is responsible.
“Well, first of all, the candidate is in control of his campaign. That’’s No. 1,” Manafort said in a TV interview. “And I’m in control of doing the things that he wants me to do in the campaign.
He attempted to dismiss the “turmoil” as “another Clinton narrative that’s being put out there.” But sources close to the campaign tell a different story of dysfunction and dismay inside Trump Tower.
“There’s just not much communication going on. It’s really sad, to be honest with you. They really just aren’t working as a team. Everyone’s just doing their own little thing,” said one former Trump adviser, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. “I just wish he’d stop answering the questions. People don’t want a politician and they got someone who’s not a politician, so he’s going to make these kind of mistakes.”
This adviser said Trump “literally can’t help himself” in responding to perceived slights or taunts — and that his team and closest allies are demoralized and frustrated, especially over the apparent disconnect between Trump and the RNC.
The adviser said Trump had easily bounced back from other controversies, but this latest round borders on a point of no return. “It feels like we’re close to it.” The only silver lining? “Republicans’ intense hatred for Clinton. You remind yourself who the opposition is.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/trump-republicans-frustration-226625#ixzz4GN658nmw
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Wassup SA?
the Clinton-Kaine ticket leads the Trump-Pence ticket by 10 points (49-39 percent) in the race for the White House. Clinton’s advantage is outside the poll’s margin of error. A month ago, Clinton was up by six points (44-38 percent, June 26-28).
And this is the gently slanted to the Rs Fox poll. As I previously mentioned, when the margin exceeds 8% (which is also beyond the margin of error) all other races are affected and the US House comes in play…..
Clinton + 11 in PA, +17 in NH, throw Stein and Johnson into the mix in NH and she is STILL up by 15. MI +9. This is more than a convention bounce. This is the voters making a decision.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/
Indeed. Many folks don’t realize that these horrible polling numbers are the underpinnings for Rs on the Hill and their want to breakaway. If not, the Senate was already thought to be lost, but now, it’s taking the House with them……..jump everyone!!
BAD Swing State Polling New
If Donald Trump has looked at the poll numbers this morning, he’s probably due for an incoherent, angry Twitter rant right about now.
Three new swing state polls released this morning show Trump at an even larger deficit than the newly released national poll showing him down 10 points.
A Franklin & Marshall poll in Pennsylvania shows Hillary Clinton up by 11 points, standing at 49 percent with Trump trailing at 38 percent. Previous polls in Pennsylvania only had Clinton up by as little as six points, and Trump was even up by 2 at the beginning of July, pre-conventions.
New Hampshire has two more polls from WBUR/MassINC showing even worse news for Trump. In a head to head matchup between Clinton and Trump, the reality TV star trails behind by an embarrassing 17 points, with Clinton at 51 and Trump at 34.
The other New Hampshire poll includes candidates Gary Johnson and Jill Stein in the mix, and is almost just as bad for Trump. Clinton still wins that matchup: Clinton 47, Trump at a measly 32, Johnson 8, and Stein 3. Note that previous polls in New Hampshire had not yet shown Clinton’s lead in double digits.
And although he’s not at a deficit as bad as the states above, a new Detroit News Michigan poll shows Trump behind by 9 points. In a matchup between Clinton, Trump, Johnson, and Stein, Clinton comes out on top at 41, Trump 32, Johnson 8 and Stein 3.
If I’m a Trump supporter, I’m wondering where all this “winning” is that I was promised. If I’m a reasonable person, I already saw this coming a mile away.
If he can’t win PA, then all is lost. That is in inflection point that pollsters on the R and L agree about….aloha no, Trump.
Sarge, Les, Kuro,,Winston, Thos, Ronin, Keoni, did I not say this past Sunday, which you refuted that, PA was in the 10-11% range of being behind???
Crickets……chirp, chirp…….the painful awkward silence that is almost becoming the norm on a everyday basis here.
You are so excited that you forgot to wake up your parrot this morning.
Is that all you got to say? Go take two aspirins and check with us tomorrow morning.
Good news, Sarge!! Katrina Pierson, a major Trump surrogate, yesterday said that Captain Khan’s death was Obama’s fault! Oh wait, that happened in ’04 and Obama wasn’t president until ’09.
Eastwood said he wasn’t endorsing anyone for president. But asked to choose between Trump and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton he said, “I’d have to go for Trump . you know, ‘cause she’s declared that she’s gonna follow in Obama’s footsteps. There’s been just too much funny business on both sides of the aisle.”
Trump is doing fine. I’m going to vote for him no matter what. All you have to do is look at the Clinton Foundation list of donors, the blatant lies, the bad judgement and a feckless career. This is the one chance you have in a lifetime to give government back to the People.
As far as the Republican elite, if Trump loses and they lose the Congress they won’t be the elite. They might as well just stay home.
Trump isn’t going anywhere, neither is Crooked Hillary.
Choose your poison.
He is not doing fine. Look literally everywhere and the message, more times than not, from very conservative sources, is that the campaign is in shambles and that his personal style and ethos is NOT of the Republican Party and most of America.
You can say many things, but you can’t say Trump is doing just fine, where almost every conceivable metric says otherwise. In other news, his wife is posted on almost every porn site out there…..how vey modest of her and the family should be so proud.
Eastwood said he wasn’t endorsing anyone for president. But asked to choose between Trump and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton he said, “I’d have to go for Trump . you know, ‘cause she’s declared that she’s gonna follow in Obama’s footsteps. There’s been just too much funny business on both sides of the aisle.”
Just another angry old white guy who is part of the minority.
Being part of the minority we want more free stuff.
Then stand in line.
Gladly.
So what’s your problem?
No problem at all but since you asked. The country has the problem and the people have to wake up before a criminal is elected President. MSM and liberal critics hate the movie Hillary’s America and the people love it. At least that’s a move in the right direction.
http://twitchy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/hillarysamerica-reviews-rotten-tom.png… “Clinton Cash” is another good show ..http://dailycaller.com/2016/08/04/clinton-cash-watch-the-entire-documentary-right-here-for-free-video/…Clinton Cash, the groundbreaking documentary film exposing the Clinton Foundation’s global corruption, has been viewed more than 2 million times in the opening week of its global online premiere.
Views of the film on Breitbart News’ YouTube channel and the Philly Blunt pirated YouTube version have exceeded a combined viewer count of more than 2 million views; however, that number doesn’t include an accounting of those who’ve watch the recently released director’s cut of the film, attended watch parties, watched the film during its debut over the weekend on One America News Network, or viewed it via myriad other pirated formats.
Looks like you’re getting closer to reality. The pain must be unbearable.
In a beautiful piece of irony, it turns out that Melania not only lied about getting a college degree, she was an illegal immigrant!
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/melania-trump-immigration-donald-226648
The Chinese are preparing to build a Nicaraguan Canal. Like the Panama Canal, it will be a shortcut for ships to pass through Central America.
If all goes to plan, China will finish its canal in about 10 years.
And here’s the thing…
China’s Nicaraguan Canal is just a small piece of a much larger strategy of building strategic infrastructure to bypass U.S. control.
The focal point of this strategy is a project called the “New Silk Road.” And if China has its way, the New Silk Road will help China dethrone the U.S. as the dominant world power.
The New Silk Road is the biggest story you’re not hearing about. The U.S. media has barely made a peep about it. Maybe because it’s just too big and complex to fit into soundbites…
Then how in the world are you ever going to begin to understand it????
SA must have missed this story…http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-sent-cash-to-iran-as-americans-were-freed-1470181874..“President Obama’s…payment to Iran in January, which we now know will fund Iran’s military expansion, is an appalling example of executive branch governance,” said Sen. James Lankford (R., Okla.), who co-wrote the bill. “Subsidizing Iran’s military is perhaps the worst use of taxpayer dollars ever by an American president.”.
If you limit yourself to media that limit themselves to news that fits into soundbites (Fox News?), there’s a lot you won’t understand. On the other hand, you could read stories about the proposed Nicaragua canal, like this story in a real newspaper.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/04/world/americas/nicaragua-canal-chinese-tycoon.html
How would the Nicaraguan Canal “bypass U.S. control,” in the unlikely event it is ever built? The U.S. does not control the Panama Canal.
NYT a real newspaper? Establishment tool….“I’ve seen that lake, and it is in miserable shape,” he said. “Are we going to kill a lot of fish to build the canal? Yeah, we are. But without the canal, I think we are doomed.”
Kamilo Lara, a member of the Nicaragua Canal Commission, a group appointed by the government to oversee the project, said many critics of the project were political opportunists. Mr. Lara said the canal plan had been adjusted to deal with problem issues, like potential earthquakes, tsunamis and environmental concerns. And people who might be displaced by it, he said, could be moved to small cities with new schools and services they never had before.
The Chinese company selected to dig a $50bn trans-oceanic canal across Nicaragua plans to start building a fuel terminal and wharf on the Pacific side of the route this coming August, after more than a year of delays to the controversial scheme.
Hong Kong-based HKND Group said the terminal and wharf will be part of a new port facility needed to import machinery for the “major works” of the canal, such as dredging, the group’s executive vice president, Pang Kwok Wai, told Bloomberg last week. http://www.globalconstructionreview.com/news/enabling-works-nicaragua-ca7nal-star7t-aug7ust/
Despite very obvious signs that the Chump was not a stable and disciplined nominee. His supporters followed him into the stormy sea and now are caught in the riptide. How sad.
Here is some more good news that SA missed… Monday, Illinois citizens were jolted by a piercing pain in the wallet as federal officials unveiled proposed Obamacare insurance premium rates for 2017. Insurers plan to dial up rates as much as a heart-stopping 45 percent for those who buy plans on the Obamacare marketplace when open enrollment starts Nov. 1.
That means thousands of people will scramble for affordable insurance … and won’t find it.
Is this rate shock unforeseen? Not really. Rocketing Obamacare rate requests have become an annual rite of summer, as welcome as sunstroke. In California, for instance, Obamacare health coverage is slated to rise by an average of 13.2 percent next year — more than three times the increase in each of the past two years. In Michigan, the pass-the-smelling-salts proposal is 17.3 percent…http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-obamacare-illinois-rate-hike-unsustainable-edit-0803-md-20160802-story.html
Someday the Republicans will wonder why they killed the public option.
Look at his picture. He looks old, tired and weary. He looks like a defeated old man.
Once again, Trump has lied about seeing a film that doesn’t exist. Politicians exaggerate, but pathological liars can’t help telling lies even when they knew they’ll be caught. Why would a sane person say that he’d received a letter from the NFL, knowing that within hours, if not minutes, the NFL would deny the existence of the letter and he would again be exposed, yet again, as a liar. Trump is said to obsessively watch television news coverage of himself, yet he flatly denies saying things even though television news coverage shows the words coming out of his mouth over and over and over. This is a disqualifying pathology.
Yesterday, Trump claimed to have seen a film of Iranians unloading a planeload of cash, but later in the day, his campaign admitted that no such film exists. Today, Trump repeated the same claim. He is a pathological liar and his campaign is a chaotic mess.
When people lie about things they don’t have to lie about or that can be easily verified, well, that’s a pathology we have to examine.
Yeah Why does Hillary keep lying. Only thing is she has to lie. You better give her a talking to. Evidently washing her mouth with soap hasn’t worked for the past forty years. Donald’s folks are talking to him so he’ll work that out. He’s still 16-0 and is now the comeback kid. That planeload he saw was Hillary getting her shipment from Wall St.
In Portland, Maine today, people at a Trump rally held up small copies of the Constitution. They were booed and thrown out.
Just saw on msnbc that the Chump’s Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City is closing after Labor Day and 3000 jobs will be lost. He is on the ground and now being stomped on.
Typically executive/leader/boss — blame your staff!
Yup. Just like Obama blaming the Republicans.
Today, Paul Ryan made a statement that tacitly conceded that Trump will lose in a landslide. Echoing language that the Republican leadership used when they abandoned Bob Dole’s effort to unseat the incumbent Bill Clinton, Ryan said, “If we fail to protect our majority in Congress, we could be handing President Hillary Clinton a blank check.” In other words, “Man the lifeboats! The Trump/Titanic is going down!”
Yes, this race has ceased really being about Trump v. HRC,,but rather an exercise of mitigation so Ds don’t take every race from DC to Toledo and everything in-between.
The Chump can bend down and ki– his sorry a– goodbye.
Charles Krauthammer, a conservative Washington Post columnist is also a graduate of Harvard Medical School and is a board certified psychiatrist, so his description of Trump, which appeared today, needs to be taken as more than just a layman’s analysis:
“Trump’s hypersensitivity and unedited, untempered Pavlovian responses are, shall we say, unusual in both ferocity and predictability. This is beyond narcissism. I used to think Trump was an 11-year-old, an undeveloped schoolyard bully. I was off by about 10 years. His needs are more primitive, an infantile hunger for approval and praise, a craving that can never be satisfied. He lives in a cocoon of solipsism where the world outside himself has value — indeed exists — only insofar as it sustains and inflates him.”
I am not a board certified psychiatrist but I’m pretty sure he said that the Chump is a spoiled brat.
Also why is he on Fox News defending the Chump. Political w-or-s who will sell their a– for who knows what? He will be another one of the Chumps victims that will step on his d-do and the stink is already there.
So is he 12 or 1 ? Shouldn’t be a very hard ?
Have your fun, Say what you will about Trump but at the very least he provides jobs and pays taxes in Hawaii. What has Crooked Hillary done for Hawaii? What will Crooked Hillary do for you in Hawaii? What will Crooked Hillary supporters do for you except run off at the mouth? Nothing.
What? He refuses to release his tax returns so he must be hiding something. His other problem is that his supporters are either as dumb or dumber than him. The odds are overwhelming and the more they squirm, the more they get swallowed by the quicksand.
And I mean DUMB
Ho Ho Ho cChristmas is coming very early this year.
Fun! It is a lu’au!
Lespark, in my eyes you are as significant as a fly on a elephants ass. You need to start communicating in a more honorable way. Which I don’t think that you are capable of doing.My suggestion to you is to start campaigning in a more respectable way. If your hero is the Chump? Frankly you’re days are numbered because your principles are strange to those who practice the Aloha spirit that comes naturally to us.
Hey keau. Look at your last five comments, you are as significant as a fly on a elephants a$$. Your Aloha Spirit is severely lacking.
Where are the jobs that Trump provides in Hawaii? The Trump International Hotel and Tower in Waikiki is not owned, developed, or contain property sold by Donald J. Trump, The Trump Organization or any of their affiliates. Trump does NOT provide any jobs at this location. He simply licensed his name to the developers and owners who are the ones who actually provide the jobs.
Why are we asking Congress for Zika funding when we throw cash down the drIran?