Facebook co-founder pledges $20 million to help Clinton defeat Trump
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at the 136th Annual National Baptist Convention held at the Kansas City Convention Center, in Kansas City, Mo., on Thursday.
SAN JOSE, Calif. » In the latest and most concrete example of the tech industry elite’s distaste for Donald Trump, Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz has pledged $20 million to help Hillary Clinton win the presidency and defeat the Republican presidential nominee.
In a Medium post late Thursday, Moskovitz wrote that he and his wife, Cari Tuna, have never given to a presidential candidate before but felt “compelled to act” given the stakes in November’s election.
“We cannot ignore the remarkable alignment between these two visions for society and the choices in this year’s election,” he wrote. “The Republican Party, and Donald Trump in particular, is running on a zero-sum vision, stressing a false contest between their constituency and the rest of the world.”
Moskovitz, who was Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s roommate at Harvard, has a net worth of $10.5 billion, according to Forbes. In 2008, he left Facebook to co-found Asana, a San Francisco-based maker of work-collaboration software, and is its chief executive.
In July, Moskovitz was one of about 150 tech CEOs, investors, academics and others who signed an open letter calling Trump “a disaster for innovation.” The tech industry has for the most part been no friend to Trump, speaking out loudly against the candidate’s immigration policies and more.
While tech executives such as Apple CEO Tim Cook have held fundraisers for Clinton, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich canceled a planned fundraiser for Trump in June. And Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman, a Republican, has also started stumping for Clinton.
One of Trump’s only high-profile supporters from the tech industry is billionaire entrepreneur, investor and longtime libertarian Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and Palantir Technologies.
Thiel, who was an early investor in Facebook and sits on its board, was a California delegate for Trump at the Republican National Convention. He gave a prime-time speech at the RNC in July in which he said he agreed with Trump that “it’s time to end the era of stupid wars and rebuild our country.”
In addition, Thiel wrote in a Washington Post op-ed earlier this week that “Trump’s heretical denial of Republican dogma about government incapacity is exactly what we need to move the party — and the country — in a new direction.”
With their donation, Moskovitz and Tuna — a former reporter who now heads Good Ventures, the couple’s philanthropic foundation — become the second-largest contributors to the Democrats in this election after hedge fund billionaire Tom Steyer, according to The Associated Press. OpenSecrets.org, the Center for Responsive Politics website that tracks contributions, shows that Steyer has given nearly $40 million to Democrats and liberals in this election cycle. Thiel has given $2 million to Republicans, the site shows.
Moskovitz said the money will go to the Clinton campaign, other Democratic Party committees, the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) Victory Fund, MoveOn.org, Color of Change and others.
“We hope these efforts make it a little more likely that Secretary Clinton is able to pursue the agenda she’s outlined, and serve as a signal to the Republican Party that by running this kind of campaign? — ?one built on fear and hostility? — ?and supporting this kind of candidate, they compel people to act in response,” he wrote.
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©2016 The Mercury News (San Jose, Calif.)
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Follow the money train!…..now really ? Who’s really looking out for the small guy. It used to be the dems,not any more!These Rich Billionaires think they can buy the elections …….and this used offend people,but not any more? The MSM can’t hide their agendas ,it’s become sooooo obvious
Yah, enough with the billionaires who don’t know diddly about the real world. What we need is a working class everyman who doesn’t mind getting his hands dirty… Like Trump.
lol, the Donald who even stiffs young girls.
I think this is what Bill did.
Listen, ol’trump has got an endless amount of court proceedings in the works that could put him away for a dozen life times.
Boots..represents the liberal mindset of ALL the liberal posters here and abroad.
mctruck represents the mindset of ALL liberals..Liberal priority: MONEY OVER AMERICAN LIVES.
And Keonigohan represents the so called conservative mindset of all so called conservative posters here and abroad. Little girls are to be exploited. How stupid of them to expect that the Donald would pay them. Didn’t they know that just to be close to the Donald is their reward?
Boots..where’s your patented “lol”…you P.O.? Why so ill tempered?
Caught you with your panties down because of Bubba’s wrong doings?
MoiLee, agree with your post to follow the money and the liberal Billionaires detest the light shinning on them. Mr. Trump has exposed many of those who claimed to be Conservative but support the liberal agenda. I have been surprised a number of times during this 2016 Presidential election. We can “Make America Great Again” knowing our competition.
That $20 mil could solve a lot of more important issues, like homelessness, obamacare medical, education, food, and mental illness in presidential candidates (x2).
MoiLee, it’s not buying the election it’s saving the nation from a moron. The problem is there are too many uneducated people out there who can’t recognize a con when they see one. Do you want someone who changes his mind every other day? A person who says he knows more about terrorist then the generals? Is he out of his mind?
“Make America Great Again”. We are on our way. HiLIARy can’t even handle an interview with MSM’s Matt Lauer. Such a wimp. Disgraceful Cough lie cough lie cough
What are you talking about? Matt has shown himself to be incompetent but the Donald has shown that is is definitely not presidential material. Shame Matt didn’t do his job. What a disgrace.
He did his job better then the FBI and the libs can’t handle the truth. That’s what I’m talking about.
Obviously sarge, you cannot handle the truth. So you are alright with the Donald saying Russia is better than the United States? You are fine with having a president who will be nice to someone if they only complement him? Wake up. The Donald is a joke. But he would continue the republican tradition of making the previous republican president look good.
Amela, you are right…the money is needed to save the nation from a moron! However, I for one wish there was less spending on politics and instead putting the money to help so many charities that really need it. It is so outlandish spending millions on politics.
It’s widely known that Facebook, etc. would like to have open borders for the cheap labor to flow into this country. Hence, their support for the democratic nominee.
What are you talking about? If you did a salary survey at Facebook, the average salary is well into the six-figures…..facts, not pithy platitudes.
Spectacular ignorance. Disgraceful.
Wrong! Facebook employs 6K workers, most of whom are office workers, not your high-paying tech geniuses. Do you homework and quite watching those liberal alpha media channels.
You are entirely wrong, please review this documented salary survey:http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Employer=Facebook_Inc/Salary
Further, even admin and support staff, when taking into account stock options and vesting of other equitable instruments have total compensation well into the six figures. How do I know, I worked for Boston Consulting and did work at Facebook.
You really should read more, delve into the actual data and try and make the most elementary research before commenting on things you obviously know nothing about and have nary any actual experience. It’s just sort of embarrassing for you…
You are brilliant, Ike.
Right on.
What Sandi–cat got your tongue….chirp, chirp, join the awkward silence cricket crew.
ehy, give your money to the homeless don’t throw it away
According to last nights Bloomberg report, Trump is winding down his personal contributions to his own campaign as the General campaign draws near; why is that you might wonder?, especially if his campaign claims he will win??
Well the simple truth to the matter is because, as a divisive business/crook that he is, he’s going to stop the bleeding now and pull back as much $$$$ back into his pocket. Then when the time comes for him to answer where the campaign funds have gone?, he’ll say he has “NO” idea!!
Yep, he’s going to be laughing his head off all the way to the secret bank in probably, Russia.
Hillary is the worst candidate possible. She has lied, manipulated the government through her position, she has not supported our ambassadors nor military, and she has sold interest in our country’s welfare to foreign entities. Trump is not great either, but how could anyone spend so much money to get such a corrupt candidate like Clinton into office. It is lunacy.
At least she doesn’t stiff young girls. lol
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/09/06/usa-freedom-girls-sue-trump-campaign-for-stiffing-them.html
Real Class Donald. How cheap can you get? Who else would you stiff if you became president? Your buddy Putin?
ditto.
Boots & mctruck;
Bill Clinton took repeated trips on the ” Lolita Express”—the private passenger jet owned by billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein—with an actress in softcore porn movies whose name appears in Epstein’s address book under an entry for “massages,” according to flight logbooks obtained by Gawker and published today for the first time. The logs also show that Clinton shared more than a dozen flights with a woman who federal prosecutors believe procured underage girls to sexually service Epstein and his friends and acted as a “potential co-conspirator” in his crimes.
Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 in Florida to one count of soliciting underage girls for sex (and one count of adult solicitation), for which he served just over a year in county jail.
Keonigohan, I have been criticized many times for bringing up G W Bush as he has been gone from office now close to 8 years. So what do you do? Bring up Bill Clinton who has been out of office for close to 16 years. love it.
Tell me do you think Hillary will be taking trips on the “Lolita Express”?
Only if she gets an out of jail card.
Boots – Maybe he heard that news on the made up ear piece he was lying about yesterday!
Boots…where’s your patented “lol”?
Haven’t you heard…Politics is a “Blood Sport”…Bubba is fair game.
hiLIARy..”Lolita Express”? uhmm she’d not have any clients so she would have to be the clean up crew or something.
klastri…Matt was brutal on Crooked hiLIARy wasn’t he? what happened..Matt was being fair? Matt was great I thought…he almost exposed hiLIARy’s horns.
Inductive EARBUD…MSM won’t report it so that’s why you’re uninformed about it.
Hey did you see SA’s report on the FAILING OBAMACARE on Sept. 6..go check it out. You said..”OBAMACARE IS O’s SIGNATURE LEGACY”…what happened?
Keonigohan I wouldn’t say Matt was brutal on sweet Hillary but he sure had a double standard. He seemed to constantly be telling Hillary to make it short or end her statement while he allowed the Donald to just ramble on. But this is ok as if a republican rambles, he is just telling the truth. Pathetic.
Boots..if Matt upset you go cry to him. Matt surprised many with his FAIR & BALANCED interview myself included. hiLIARy was doing her typical (ala OBAMA) “cover-up” by extending her b l a h…b l a h chirping so Matt had to cut her short.
There seems to be some confusion about what was agreed.
I read in one place that they were going to be allowed to sell their merchandise.
There were also references to “verbal contracts”,
I watched a video of their performance, and quite honestly I did not think it was up to standard and I could understand it being cancelled, if that is what happened.
Someone I read said it was something you might see at a North Korean rally, without the skill of the performers. But I think this seems too harsh.
If I have this right, the father of one of the children wrote the song (with a copied tune) and is the group’s promoter.
There was no written contract and Donald was not involved in the arrangement.
Per flight logs, Bill Clinton left his Secret Service detail behind on at least five of his flights on Epstein’s “Lolita Express”. I wonder why?
Who are we voting for Hillary or Bill? Was Melania one of the escorts?
Neither. Trump 2016
Be careful what you wish for Sarge. Should the Donald get in you will be among the first to be stiffed. You might have to start paying for your health care.
amela: cheap shot. Who want’s a sleaze ball like Bill in the White House. He’s part of the package, so he’s fair game.
You think Trump’s not a liar too? He’s withholding his taxes because of his dealings with Russia. A lot of his income is hidden so he doesn’t want to pay taxes yet he complains about companies doing the same thing. Paying politicians for favors is his MO.
Wikileaks should release Trump’s taxes too. Why won’t they release it?
Perhaps the Donald never even submitted taxes?
Why won’t Hilary release transcripts of her speeches to her Wall Street backers? You know, the speeches she was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for.
Photos: Embarrassing Turnout For Hillary Clinton Keynote Speech At Baptist Convention
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton delivered a keynote speech at the National Baptist Convention Thursday night, but photos show that many people failed to show up…http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/09/09/photos-embarrassing-turnout-hillary-clinton-keynote-speech-baptist-convention/
What is embarrassing sarge is your support for a Candidate who loves Russia more than the United States. So Putin is a more loved leader than Obama? Really? Are you like the Donald and actually believe this?
I must admit, I find it interesting that it is now the republican candidate who loves Russia.
He has admitted that he is a businessman and he will pay and has paid both demoncrats and republicans to get business deals; he also has openly admitted that he’ll do anything legal to pay the least amount of tax he can. Let’s see what the audit will show where he erred in filing his tax.
amela, congratulations. You’ve taken the first step. Admitting Hillary is a liar. Now move on to the second, which involves carefully considering the ramifications of having an accomplished liar in power or one that’s easy to catch. Better yet, do the right thing and support Johnson. It’ll make you feel good, and remember, you haven’t actually voted till you’ve run it through the ballot box..
Except that Mr. Johnson apparently doesn’t read newspapers.
It would be helpful to have someone in the White House with at least a passing interest in world affairs.
I’ll stick with Gary. Newspapers are easy to get. Trust, not so much…
Another Billionaire like Cuban who needs his stock price to rise. This donation is nothing to him his stock price is at an all time high. He probably lost more in todays market drop. Never mind Hillary send over 100 million to online colleges in grants that gave Bill Clinton over 25 million to be their Chancellor that is why she is giving Trump University a pass. Bill got more and she gave out our tax dollars for it.
Where are the tax returns? Put up or shut up dump.
You probably couldn’t understand it anyway.
He probably owes more than 20 m for back taxes
testing, testing, testing.
The man who does not understand the dynamics of the military and the role of the President.
Of the many ways in which Trump contradicted himself or betrayed a misunderstanding of how things work, this rapid evolution was hardly the most egregious example. There was, for example, his return to the idea that America should have purloined Iraq’s oil after ousting Saddam Hussein. He once suggested this should have happened to provide revenue to wounded soldiers; he now argues it would have blocked the rise of the Islamic State (or ISIS, as he calls the group).
“If we would have taken the oil, you wouldn’t have ISIS, because ISIS formed with the power and the wealth of that oil,” Trump told Lauer. How would we take it? “Just we would leave a certain group behind and you would take various sections where they have the oil,” he replied. One might wonder if we couldn’t just, you know, guard the oil on behalf of the Iraqis to curtail the Islamic State, if we’re putting people around the oil anyway? Well: “It used to be to the victor belong the spoils,” Trump said. But lest you think that implies that we — meaning advocates of the conflict such as Hillary Clinton — were somehow victorious in Iraq, we weren’t. “Now, there was no victor there, believe me. There was no victor,” Trump said. “But I always said: Take the oil.” So it’s not “to the victor belong the spoils,” then, but “take the spoils of a sovereign nation for reasons that may vary over time.”
But, again: Let’s set that aside. Let’s focus on the generals.
The way the promotional structure of the United States military works is not complicated. Generals are not selected by being hired from the private sector thanks to their thorough LinkedIn profiles. Instead, they slowly rise through the ranks. Here is an interesting thread outlining what it takes to be promoted to general in various branches of the armed forces. The short version is that it’s the culmination of a flawless decades-long career within one branch that rides heavily on personal and professional chance. The long version is longer than that.
Trump offered his views on America’s top generals to Lauer over the course of a few questions.
“ ‘I know more about ISIS than the generals do. Believe me,’ ” Lauer quoted Trump as saying, then asked: “Was that the truth?”
“Well, the generals under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have not been successful,” Trump replied. “I think under the leadership of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, the generals have been reduced to rubble. They have been reduced to a point where it’s embarrassing for our country.”
“Have you lost faith in the military commanders?” Lauer pressed a bit later.
“I have great faith in the military. I have great faith in certain of the commanders, certainly,” he said. “But I have no faith in Hillary Clinton or the leadership.”
An audience member asked Trump for details on his promise to rapidly defeat the Islamic State. This is where Trump started talking about the oil, so Lauer brought it back to the terrorist group. “You very often say, I’m not going to give you the details because I want to be unpredictable,” he said. “But yesterday, you actually told us a little bit about your plan in your speech. You said this. Quote: ‘We’re going to convene my top generals and they will have 30 days to submit a plan for soundly and quickly defeating ISIS.’ So is the plan you’ve been hiding this whole time asking someone else for their plan?”
“No,” he replied. “But when I do come up with a plan that I like and that perhaps agrees with mine, or maybe doesn’t — I may love what the generals come back with.”
“If I win, I don’t want to broadcast to the enemy exactly what my plan is,” Trump added. “And let me tell you, if I like maybe a combination of my plan and the generals’ plan, or the generals’ plan, if I like their plan, Matt, I’m not going to call you up and say, ‘Matt, we have a great plan.’ ”
“But you’re going to convene a panel of generals, and you’ve already said you know more about ISIS than those generals do,” Lauer rebutted.
“Well, they’ll probably be different generals, to be honest with you,” Trump replied, then boasting of having the endorsement of 88 former military leaders. (As Lauer noted, that’s a number that is a bit lower than what Clinton claims.)
Trump offered that line about “different generals” casually, but it’s not an insignificant claim. As president, Trump’s ability to overhaul the leaders of the military is limited. As commander in chief, he can remove generals from positions but he “doesn’t enjoy Donald Trump-like powers to summarily fire service members,” as Brian Palmer explained for Slate back in 2010 (clearly when “The Apprentice” was still on the air). When President Obama relieved Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal of his command in 2010 after McChrystal gave some ill-advised comments to a reporter, McChrystal retained his rank as a four-star general, until he decided to retire. Trump could seek the counsel of other members of the military’s leadership, but he can’t simply clean house or bring in people from the outside.
It’s not clear that Trump recognizes such nuances, though. He has in the past seen the line between the military and the commander in chief as blurrier than it is in reality. During a debate in March, Trump was asked by Fox News’s Bret Baier what he would do if the military refused to carry out his orders to commit acts of torture or target civilians.
“They won’t refuse,” Trump replied. “They’re not going to refuse me. Believe me.”
Buried in all of this are competing instincts: Trump’s lack of interest in being wrong and his great interest in being the boss. He threatens to oust top leaders of the military for little other reason than they were in positions of authority under Obama. While his prepared comments from Tuesday suggested that he would seek the counsel of service members who’d committed decades to protecting America’s interests, he tossed that to the side in favor of not being embarrassed by Matt Lauer, insisting that he still did have his own secret plan. Probably one that involves oil.
Bear in mind, the president’s role as commander in chief was the primary focus of the town hall. It’s what Trump was there to talk about. And, for good or bad, he talked about it.
WP.
And the Donald’s latest rant on his campaign trail; “One God, one Nation.” What the heck is that all about?? Which God is he talking about?? Seeing how he got a big applaud from his practically all white audience, I guess he’s talking about the Christian God? Everybody else is out of the picture. But that’s how the republican’s think as the American Reich-land salutes their Trump-leader.
McTruck, it is an interesting commentary similar to those who want religion in schools–but only if it’s their specific religion that they have approved.
I can’t really decide whether that slogan is closer to “Kinder, Küche, Kirche” or “Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer”.
The more enemies the greater the honor!
Beside his involvement Facebook, what is his background for such a profound ideology. Thought he was nerd?
Donald gave 100 mil to himself. I vans gave $12. and had it deducted from her divorce settlement from done I heard the total settlement for 3 years married and 6 sexual encounters ( variety of ) was somehow whittled down to $103 000. Don has great lawyers. A whole army of them. On Jr first birthday, he bought out the Manhattan Chuck Cheese. Great Father.
Bill Clinton took repeated trips on the ” Lolita Express”—the private passenger jet owned by billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein—with an actress in softcore porn movies whose name appears in Epstein’s address book under an entry for “massages,” according to flight logbooks obtained by Gawker and published today for the first time. The logs also show that Clinton shared more than a dozen flights with a woman who federal prosecutors believe procured underage girls to sexually service Epstein and his friends and acted as a “potential co-conspirator” in his crimes.
Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 in Florida to one count of soliciting underage girls for sex (and one count of adult solicitation), for which he served just over a year in county jail.
Per flight logs, Bill Clinton left his Secret Service detail behind for five flights on Epstein’s “Lolita Express”. I wonder why?
Mr. Trump is now on his third wife, largely because of his serial adultery with women who were not his wife at the time. And he bragged about those episodes in public.
Mr. Clinton is not running for President. Mr. Trump is.
klastri..read this..
Bill Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States (1993-2001), has been publicly accused by several women of sexual misconduct. Juanita Broaddrick has accused Clinton of rape; Kathleen Willey has accused Clinton of groping her without consent; and Paula Jones accuses Clinton of sexually harassing her. Other women have alleged adulterous affairs with Bill Clinton (e.g., Dolly Kyle, Gennifer Flowers, Monica Lewinsky). In addition, rumors of additional sexual misconduct have been publicized in tabloid magazines and on the Internet.
Of all the allegations made against him regarding his sexual history, Clinton has only admitted extramarital relationships with Monica Lewinsky and Gennifer Flowers. He denied having an affair with Dolly Kyle.
kalstri..I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention Bubba paid Paula Jones $850,000.00 big ones.
Some of the women trump keep in his Manhattan slums were there for what ever his desires. Because he has a fancy for foreign accents, he had them read Russian opera, while dom matrix checked his pipes. They say he spent millions, but after putting his army of great lawyers on them, lol, he got off with cents on the dollars. He had a whipping room in the casino penhouse. Once a billionaire Chinese wanted to actually dominate trump. He did IT at that casino. Go Google it.
And don’t forget that Trump has called Epstein his close friend and while taking advantage of Epstein’s female services he was involved in RAPING an under age GIRL numerous times and threatened her and her parents with physical harm if she would report the rape to authorities at the time. It’s been documented with valid witnesses, and another court/legal case in the works.
So, Keonigohan…don’t be tooting your horn about Bill Clinton when your own Trump shares the same Epstein connections and he broke the law by repeatedly raping the same underage girl.
How ignorant can you folks be to over look what’s right there, and accuse another under the veil.
klastri: Clinton was President and lied to the American people about his affair with his White House aide. Just like good lawyers, Bill and Hill deny everything until cornered by the truth. Sleeze ball Bill is part of the package, so is fair game.
Keonigohan says:
September 8, 2016 at 7:28 am
The Don won the forum hands down.
btw..did you see the story on the NYPD confirming that it was an inductive earbud that hiLIARy was wearing?
Keonigohan says:
September 8, 2016 at 7:30 am
NYPD confirmed hiLIARy was wearing an inductive EARBUD…who was she listening to?
Hey Keonigohan, just wondering if you have an updated on the inductive ear bud scandal. Or have you and Alex Jones moved on to new lies?
I reported it, you decide for yourself…typical liberal..lazy..that’s what your O said the other day about you.
Keonigohan, loved your link about the NYPD. Did you get this from Alex? Inquiring minds would like to know.
Boots..link? what link? Why are you lying? as Klastri would say..”STOP LYING!” lol
Keonigohan wrote that the New York City Police Department had “confirmed” that Mrs. Clinton was wearing an earpiece during the debate. That was, obviously, a lie. He lies on here all the time.
Constantly. He lies here so often that it’s hard to track them all.
The NYPD, of course, confirmed no such thing. It was all a lie. He keeps trying to change the subject – which is what serial liars do.
So big deal… all politicians promise… but never deliver. LOL LOL LOL
Enough with supporting the party that supports the most despicable, lying and unhealthy Presidential candidate EVER. A candidate that had to manipulate and cheat in the primary just to beat Bernie Sanders. Hillary ? I think not. PS: Everyone knows Facecrook is a bottomless pit of selling your information to the highest bidder. Yeah, it’s free ! ! Ha..Ha..Ha…Nothing is Free people..No one ever takes the time to read what that free Facebook Acc. allows them to harvest from you personally. Do you think Facebook is valued in the Billions of dollars because it’s Free ???
With regard to unhealthy, Mr. Trump is morbidly obese; he exists on a diet of fast food; and he’s orange. The note he produced by a “doctor” was a jumbled mess of typos and misstatements that could not have been written by a medical doctor. No doctor would write that “all his test results were positive” which would mean that all of his test results showed something out of the norm or remarkable. So he obviously wrote that himself or it was written by a minion.
On the other hand, Mrs. Clinton released a medical report written by a real doctor. An M.D. With no typos or ridiculous mistakes.
“Cough cough cough” That wasn’t Donald Trump. HiLIARy “I don’t remember” Clinton. Blood clots, concussion and blood thinners. Not good.
There are pictures of hiLIARy falling down and needing assistance in walking…sad. I don’t a crooked lying old unhealthy female running my family and country.
Correct Keonigohan, why have a crooked lying old unhealthy female running things when you can have an old lying unhealthy male run things who has a history of ripping people off, including young girls. 🙂
Boots…your hiLIARy has American Blood on her hands…The Donald does not. BIG DIFFERENCE.
Sure he has blood on his hands, just like all draft dodgers who let others fight and die while they themselves hide behind daddy’s skirts.
klastri: do you have a source for your analysis of Mr. Trump’s doctor?
Thanks to Mr. Moskovitz and Ms. Tuna.
True patriots!
you ok?
the reason Facebook co-founder or founder or other big companies are afraid of trump is because he will use the Anti-Trust laws, so one man cannot own a big company, just like they did when standard oil was owned by one man and anti trust laws made him break his company up so other people can have there own business that’s why you have a lot of chevron stations that people own.
You sound like an educated person who is moving to the dark side. We’re not talking about Anti-Trust we’re talking about a competent person to run this country. Do you want someone to appoint his own generals?
How did you manufacture this? Trump will enforce anti-trust laws? What are you talking about?
This guy is giving the money because he wants special treatment from Clinton if she wins.. Clinton is good for business if you are an insider.
He wants Junior to be a general. “BELIEVE ME”, he wants to do it! “I KNOW HOW TO DO IT” Donald said. Anybody check if his wife is actually a U.S. CITIZEN?
Who cares if she’s a citizen. She’s smokin’ hot. That’s good enough for me.
Shame, you’ve given your soul to the devil. ha,ha.
nboss: aren’t you one of the ardent supports of rail?
Isn’t it surprising that Donald’s “Donors” are basically made up of small donors, like “Every Day People” ? People like you and me?? (may be not klastri & Boots.lol).
But yes, small donors who can barely afford to donate $5, $ 10, $20 ,$50,$100 and as much as $200? What kind of People ? People who are so sick & Tired of the status quo? “We The People”, the kind you can’t Buy?
And yes did you know those “Every Day People”do contribute more money to the Trump campaign and then do Democrat supporters?
Also,did you know that Donald has been funding most of his campaign on his own? With his own Money and his own Plane?
—-Oh? BTW did you see with all her Mega donors,(Millions)Hillary can now afford to buy a PLANE of her own? With money, she did not earn on her OWN!
Did you also know that Donald spend 2 thirds less than the Clinton Campaign does?
And lastly,did you know that Donald will NOT take a Salary as POTUS? Now who do think is more genuine and serious and who do you think will be looking out for the “Small Guys” ? Guys like the….. Every Day People.Like You and me.
Off grid. Trump leading in swing states . Florida and Ohio
You made most of that up from thin air. The facts are all listed in his FEC filings. You just didn’t bother to do any research before commenting.
With regard to who is paying for what, Mr. Trump has reimbursed his various companies $ millions for things like use of the airplane and office rent with money people have contributed to his campaign. He loaned the campaign money, so he could get paid back from people like you who contribute to him. He’s also paying his kids salaries for working in the campaign, and he’s even paying himself.
All a big sham. All of it.
The Clinton Foundation comes to mind. What’s the latest?
Nice try No cigar! Klasles. “Made up most of that stuff out of thin air”. Did you fail to fact check the other stuff or did you just pick and choose or are just as blind as the rest ? Made up stuff huh? Really now.
I have come to the conclusion that No Matter what “Crooked Hillary” is guilty of , or what the polls say there is just no getting to you,even if the facts are before your very eyes! Or eevn Boots for that matter.Who,at the time was all Gung -Ho for Bernie Sanders and now seems to be “Flipping ” for Hillary Clinton? I mean Really? Clinton? C’mon Boots!
What was all the huhu for,if you don’t stand up for what you believe in but only “folds up like a Limp Lumpia” in the end? What’s up with that?
SAD.
Oh ? Here’s another one for your favorite guy….. The 400 million “Ransom” Obama claimed was all a charade,with all his smiles,telling the American People that this was an old debt,Smiling over the various networks.Like we were some idiots. Right! That this was not a Ransom,but now we find out that it was 1.7 billion and some figures and different agencies are claiming that amount to be in excess 3 Billion and over $10 Million seemed to have VANISHED “Out of Thin air”.
Yeah so much for “Transparency” the kind you are used to backing up.
You can change the subject if you want – which is what you do when caught in a lie. What you wrote was not true. Whether you just don’t know any better, or are deliberately lying, doesn’t matter. It wasn’t true.
And according to the Bloomberg report last night, Trump has decided to substantially decrease his contributions to his own campaign as the General Election nears; and why??, because he sees the hand writing on the wall and wants to ensure he doesn’t take any more financial losses.
With all of the law suits he has facing him in the near future, he’s going to be known as Trump the small-time millionaire because his empire is crumbling as we speak.
And another thing; from here on in, trump will try to recoup whatever monies he’s pumped into his failing campaign before the General election.
Soon after the General election when everyone is scrambling around to account for the “what and where the funds” are?, hey!, the donald will be laughing his head off as he heads to a Russian bank account provided by none other than another crook of the feather, Putin with a wink.
If Trump triumphs, look for a downturn in the Economy after the elections….mark my words.
If Clinton wins, we all benefit (by paying higher taxes, and more debt, but a continuation of services).
“Watch me spend your money….LOL” says Captain Obvious.
Wow, that’s a whole lot of Tuna.
So the rich billionaires want to elect Democrats. I guess they believe they will get a better deal from Democrats, meaning less taxes on billionaires and more giveaways to the rich.
So much for the fairy tale of democrats being the party of the little guy.
This is yet another example of your remarkable logic. You think that because someone is wealthy, that they cannot also be a champion of the “little guy.”
Democrats are much better educated than Republicans as a rule; they earn more money, and give a lot more of it away.
You seem to know a lot. Unfortunately so much of what you know is wrong. That being settled, I am forced to agree with you that democrats do give a lot of money away. The problem is that they are usually giving other people’s money away and not their own.
Trump is a fool and an idiot, the epitome of Mark Twain’s famous quote, “Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”
George Carlin’s quote is also a perfect fit – “Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.”
And Trump seems to have aspirations to be a dictator, like Putin. And unfortunately, Clinton has to deal with Trump every day.
Drumpf reminds me of Putin not a whit. He possesses none of Putin’s salient characteristics.
Who he does remind me of, most emphatically, is Idi Amin Dada.
Here’s another Mark Twain quote. Guess which democrat presidential nominee it applies to.
“There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded”.
From the Washington Post –
Here is what Powell stated to Clinton –
“I didn’t have a BlackBerry. What I did do was have a personal computer that was hooked up to a private phone line (sounds ancient.) So I could communicate with a wide range of friends directly without it going through the State Department servers.”
He also stated that “I even used it to do business with some foreign leaders and some of the senior folks in the Department on their personal email accounts. I did the same thing on the road in hotels.”
He acknowledged warnings from intelligence services, but stated that they “went about our business and stopped asking.” He also advised that BlackBerry records could become public. He counsels, “I got around it all by not saying much and not using systems that captured the data.”
Ioho, what conclusions can you reach about this? We think this has unfortunately been almost “common practice” by past Secretary’s of State. That does not make it right, and this practice should never happen again. If Republican’s think Clinton should be investigated for this, so should they investigate Powell.
Wow! 20 million dollars. Think of how many poor and homeless and left behind people could be helped with that much money. If Hillary were truly concerned about the have nots she would urge the Facebook dude to distribute the money in poor inner city neighborhoods instead of using it to fund her campaign.
The contributions are done because they are dead serious not to allow the con-man, trump to ever step foot in the White House. It’s all over except for some whispers from die hards who will be barking at the moon.
The hardest thing for Drumpf to accept won’t be his election loss. It’ll be the realization that he was out-fundraised and outspent that slays him. The hustler out-hustled — that’s a karmic comeuppance.
Mind you, I detest our current campaign-contribution situation but as long as Citizens United is still the law of the land, it’s silly to play by two sets of rules.
I see your point(s) and I agree.
So the Republican nominee appears on Putin’s propaganda television network and blasts the American free press and the US President. Do any Republican leaders see anything wrong with this? Their silence is an astounding act of cowardice. If a Democrat did this, he would be accused of treason.
20 million is not enough.
No, no, no; that’s to pay you off, lespark.
Your check is in the mail.
She better hustle and line up a bunch more 1 %’rs. The Donald is coming up fast in her rear view mirror. She actually has to get out and work for the vote now. Unfortunately for Waldo, the more the electorate sees of her the less confidence she inspires. She is not a natural politician like Bill or Barry Hussein. Listening to her speak must be agonizing for her supporters. She can’t help but sound angry and strangely robotic. Additionally, she is an empty haz-mat suit. She has zero accomplishments and is only known to the public because of her husband. Had she not been riding Bill’s coattails for the last 4 decades she would be selling real estate or working the cosmetics counter at Target.
The disastrous showing by Mr. Trump the other night has the pools pulling away again for Mrs. Clinton.
She’s going to be the President – probably for eight years. Get used to it.
Oops. Polls.
Trump, the self-proclaimed greatest negotiator of all, now claims that he was tricked by Larry King. Really? People are actually going to vote for this moron?
That’s trump’s MO, always blame the other guy(s). Pure Adolescent.
Good for him