Trump suggests general election could be ‘rigged’
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a town hall event today in Columbus, Ohio.
COLUMBUS, Ohio » Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump suggested today that he fears the general election “is going to be rigged” — an unprecedented assertion by a modern presidential candidate.
Trump’s extraordinary claim — one he did not back up with any immediate evidence — would, if it became more than just an offhand comment, seem to threaten the tradition of peacefully contested elections and challenge the very essence of a fair democratic process.
“I’m afraid the election is going to be rigged, I have to be honest,” the Republican nominee told a town hall crowd in Columbus, Ohio. He added that he has been hearing “more and more” that the election may not be contested fairly, though he did not elaborate further.
Trump made the claim after first suggesting that the Democrats had fixed their primary system so Hillary Clinton could defeat Bernie Sanders. Trump has previously backed up that thought by pointing to hacked emails from the national party that appeared to indicate a preference for Clinton. Still, the former secretary of state received 3.7 million more votes than Sanders nationwide and had established a clear lead in delegates by March 1.
The celebrity businessman — who has been known to dabble in conspiracy theories, including claims that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States and, more recently, that Sen. Ted Cruz’s father was an associate of President John F. Kennedy’s assassin — also claimed that the Republican nomination would have been stolen from him had he not won by significant margins.
He then asserted that November’s general election may not be on the up-and-up.
He repeated the charge tonight on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” saying: “November 8th, we’d better be careful, because that election is going to be rigged. And I hope the Republicans are watching closely or it’s going to be taken away from us.”
Requests to Trump’s campaign for additional explanation were not returned.
The statement could be an effort by Trump to lay the groundwork of an excuse if he goes on to lose the general election. But if he were to be defeated in November and then publicly declare that the election results were bogus, his claim could yield unpredictable reactions from his supporters and fellow Republicans.
Trump has not been shy about asserting that the electoral process has been “rigged.”
It became a frequent catchphrase of his during a low-water mark of his primary campaign this spring, when forces allied with Republican rival Ted Cruz managed to pack state delegations with supporters of the Texas senator. Trump also asserted that the Republican Party had changed the delegate allocation in the Florida primary to favor a native candidate, like Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio, at Trump’s expense.
In recent weeks, in an effort to woo angry Sanders supporters to his campaign, Trump has made the claim that the Democrats’ process was also rigged. Tonight, Trump said Sanders “made a deal with the devil,” and said of Clinton, “She’s the devil.”
The Clinton campaign declined to comment about Trump’s remarks.
The event in Ohio was Trump’s first campaign appearance since the onset of his tussle with the parents of a slain Army veteran, but he did not address the flap. He spoke for nearly an hour today in Columbus, but did not mention his criticism of Khizr and Ghazala Khan, Muslims whose son was killed in Iraq in 2004.
The Khans spoke out against Trump and questioned his familiarity with the Constitution last week at the Democratic National Convention. Trump struck back by questioning whether Ghazala Khan had been allowed to speak. She said she is still too grief-stricken by her son’s death.
Trump criticized the family in an interview Sunday and again in a pair of tweets Monday morning. Asked on MSNBC Monday whether Trump should apologize, Ghazala Khan said, “I don’t want to hear anything from him and I don’t want to say anything to him.”
But his running mate, Mike Pence, quieted a campaign rally crowd Monday that booed a woman who said she had a son who serves in the U.S. Air Force and asked how he can tolerate what she called Trump’s disrespect of American servicemen.
Pence asked the Nevada crowd to quiet down, then said about the questioner: “That’s what freedom looks like. That’s what freedom sounds like.”
He continued: “Capt. Kahn is an American hero. We honor him and his family … we cherish his family.” He added that Trump had great respect for veterans.
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This is how Mr. Trump is going to explain his inevitable loss.
Even through the fog of breathtaking personality defects, can probably see the loss on the way.
This guy is not only losing the election. He is losing his mind. He says the most ridiculous things and for me it’s very entertaining. Who needs the The Three Stooges when you have Bozo aka Chump the Clown.
Eugene Robinson in today’s Washington Post writes that more and more, it seems like Mr. Trump is clinically insane.
Haha. Garry Trudeau, Doonesbury creator and Eli grad, had these choice words about Trump:
I wanted to remind people just how long he’s been struggling with acute self-regard. Even though he’s changed wives twice and party affiliation five times since I’ve been watching him, the underlying personality disorder has remained remarkably stable.
Haha, acute self-regard….I like it!
What has Crooked Hillary and Obama sacrificed. Have they read the Constitutuion, if not I will lend them my copy.
I can tell you without a doubt and hesitation, that they have not only read the entire constitution many times (they both formerly taught at law schools, Obama specifically in the area of constitutional law), they have great detexrity and a granular knowledge of this complicated and nuanced document.
As to sacrifice, a life time of public service is far more profound for society than schelping goods, going bankrupt every five years or so, and then manipulating it, so that you pay-off your vast personal debt, , so yes……they have.
What have Crooked Hillary and Obama sacrificed? The Clintons’ sacrifices;….http://www.akdart.com/body-c.html Clinton’s sacrifices;…
sarge22 – You seem somehow unable to follow the issue. Mr. Trump (not Mrs. Clinton or Mrs. Obama) are suggesting that Muslims should not be able to immigrate.
Mr. Trump has proven himself a coward. He fabricated a medical deferment (forgetting afterwards what it was) and now has criticized Gold Star parents.
It helps to read. Just a little would work for you. Try it!
Wow, I was looking for something positive to say about Hillary but this turned up…One e-mail reveals that an effort by Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi to create a gold-backed currency for the region was among the key reasons globalists supported killing Gadhafi and destroying Libya. Other e-mails reveal that the Obama administration knowingly supported al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria, hoping to create an Islamic State. Another shows that Clinton knew her Libyan “rebels” were massacring blacks as part of an “ethnic cleansing” campaign, along with other war crimes. So far, though, the press has largely ignored the scandals, and in some especially bizarre cases has even tried to deny reality.
http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/africa/item/23772-wikileaks-e-mails-expose-clinton-gun-running-to-terrorists
Is this where you get your info “the new American world” an obscure off-brand rag, that has nary an objective editorial world and its core espouses conspiracy theories…..rich, very rich.
Yes, of course, but only one of many. Infowars is also good. Gotta offset the lib rag NYT that is controlled by the establishment. Did you hear what Rush had to say today? I missed him.
sarge22 – Another drug addict and criminal?
How do you choose your sources?
Last time I listen to Rush, he was trying to score Percocet and OxyContin…..and was slurring.
Ahh You are no help. Last time I saw Obama he was smoking pot but still arrogant.
sarge22 – And smoking pot is the same as trying to force a cleaning woman to illegally purchase bulk oxycontin. And then taking so much of it over so long a period of time, that the drug causes deafness.
You definitely know how to choose your sources!
Just accept it. Trump is done.
It ain’t over yet. I found another one;…SHE LIED! Hillary’s Tearjerker About Handicapped Girl in Wheelchair in DNC Speech WAS ALL A LIEhttp://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/07/wow-hillarys-tearjerker-handicapped-girl-wheelchair-dnc-speech-lie/!…
Wow where is the coverage in SA…http://www.jta.org/2016/08/02/news-opinion/politics/3-dnc-staffers-in-leaked-bernie-exchange-resignA… Three high-ranking staffers at the Democratic National Committee have resigned amid the email controversy that forced their boss, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, to resign last week.
Chief executive Amy Dacey, Chief Financial Officer Brad Marshall and Communications Director Luis Miranda will leave later this week, the Washington Post reported Tuesday.
The three were involved in one of the most controversial email exchanges that was hacked and leaked days before the Democratic National Convention. In it, Marshall noted, erroneously, that then-Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders is an atheist and suggested that this information could be used to undermine his campaign among religious voters.
What has Crooked Hillary and Obama sacrificed. Have they read the Constitutuion, if not I will lend them my copy.
lespark – You missed, again, the whole point of the discussion. Not a particular surprise.
Keep up with that argument. You can see by Mr. Trump’s rapidly collapsing poll numbers that his message is working!
Ikefromeli’s poll RABA has Trump up be 4 in Virginia 7/30/2016.
TNN poll has Trump up 10 points,
CNN poll has Crooked Hillary up br 9.
CNN pollster question Are you republican? Yes, got to run, thank you for participating in our poll.
CNN pollster question. Are you democrat? Yes, that’s great.
For your participation we will send you a copy of the pocket version of the Constitution as seen at the DNC. Are you voting for Honest Hillary, Yes. Great, thank you for your sacrifice.
Are you actually citing a Tennessee poll for a national election???
No one would, with credibility and moreover understanding, utilize a state poll for a national overview……
Ok. In return, I’ll let you borrow my dictionary.
He won’t concede nicely either. LOL
Yes, it is just an excuse to give himself an out. The way he has handled his campaign and his lack of commitment to even do the minimum work to learn and understand the issues is just embarrassing.
What has Crooked Hillary and Obama sacrificed. Have they read the Constitutuion, if not I will lend them my copy.
espark – You missed, again, the whole point of the discussion. Not a particular surprise.
Keep up with that argument. You can see by Mr. Trump’s rapidly collapsing poll numbers that his message is working!
Obama holding a press conference instead of HiLIARy. What’s up with that. Lying crooked rotten Hilly must be having health issues.
sarge22 – Mr. Obama is having the news conference because it was a head of state meeting between Mr. Obama and the Prime Minister of Singapore.
Mrs. Clinton will be speaking at those meetings starting late in January, 2017.
Be patient!
Isn’t Hilly against the TPP and Barry for it? The DNC is falling apart. Oh wait Obummer is blaming the Republicans and Mr Trump again while talking up his legacy. What a joke.
sarge22 – Falling apart? Of course. That is one great analysis!
Republicans are avoiding Mr. trump like he’s radioactive.
Wow…Clinton Cash strikes again…http://www.yesimright.com/heres-one-awful-thing-about-khizr-khan-that-hillary-is-trying-to-hide-from-america/
Never mind the hogwash, what about the RABA Virginia poll. Who was ahead?
Since Ikefromeli doesn’t want to come clean I will tell you that Mr. Trump, the next POTUS, was ahead by 4 in Tim Kaine Country.
You can’t see it, but it’s over. He’s finished. WOO HOO!
What are you smoking?
HWhat has Crooked Hillary and Obama sacrificed. Have they read the Constitutuion, if not I will lend them my copy.
Exactly, everything Mr. Drumpf says is “hogwash”. Couldn’t have said it better.
What has Crooked Hillary and Obama sacrificed. Have they read the Constitutuion, if not I will lend them my copy.
laspark – You missed, again, the whole point of the discussion. Not a particular surprise.
Keep up with that argument. You can see by Mr. Trump’s rapidly collapsing poll numbers that his message is working!
Gary Byrne’s “Crisis of Character” contains shocking new details about the Clinton administration. Working as a member of the White House Secret Service, Byrne witnessed a severe deficit of character in the administration, from Bill Clinton’s many sordid affairs to Hillary Clinton’s explosive temper at the smallest of infractions.
What he witnessed convinced him that the Clintons should never regain the White House. Here are five of his most shocking accounts.
Heh!, he writes and sells books; what do you expect?? another $$$-hungry trump apostle. He’s just free riding on trumps coat tails with his fairy-tales.
Documentary evidence proves that Mr. Byrne was not on duty in some cases when he wrote that he was on duty. In other cases, documentation and access control shows that he did not have access to spaces he claimed he did. Other Secret Service agents have debunked that book as being almost entirely false.
How about another try?
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/01/hillary-clinton-hit-list-102067
sarge22 – You might learn to write for yourself.
Posting links to words written by others all the time shows remarkable laziness. Is the problem that you can’t write?
What ever works and I guess it is. Read on my friend. It’s not lazy it’s called research. Words written by others are used as references and provide the rest of the story. Hard to find any positive articles on Hillary. Why is that?
Absolutely. He is prepping now…and his supporters will be fully indoctrinated by then…that it was “rigged.” I believe that he can see the handwriting on the wall, and we will hear the word “rigged” more and more as November approaches.
What a fool. What a travesty the Republican party has become!!
A living joke!
What has Crooked Hillary and Obama sacrificed. Have they read the Constitutuion, if not I will lend them my copy.
lespark – You missed, again, the whole point of the discussion. Not a particular surprise.
Keep up with that argument. You can see by Mr. Trump’s rapidly collapsing poll numbers that his message is working!
I’m enjoying watching klastri and lespark “play” with each other! Legal po rn!
It’s not fair playing because I always win. But it’s entertaining nonetheless.
Do your kids understand the importance of God’s role in American history? Learn Our History’s latest film, One Nation Under God, celebrates and explains the crucial role that God has played in America’s founding and development – and helps children understand how all of our rights and freedom come directly from God, not the government. It’s a great way to help your children understand how God and the Holy Bible have influenced our world.
http://www.freegoddvd.com/01fg16w44z06.html
You are kidding right Sarge, again, I urge you to read everything, not just things that already support your existing beliefs. So, I’ll school you free this time:
The idea is that the Framers desired a Christian nation, in which government oversaw the spiritual development of the people by reminding them of their religious duties and subsidizing the churches where they worship. “Establishment of religion,” in this reading, simply means that no single Christian denomination could be officially favored. But official prayers, exhortations to faith, religious monuments, and participation by church bodies in government were all part of the “original intent,” the argument goes.
Because the words “separation of church and state” do not appear in the Constitution, the argument runs, the document provides for merger of the two.
It’s bosh: ahistorical, untextual, illogical.
Patriots like Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and James Madison were profoundly skeptical about the claims of what they called “revealed religion.” As children of the 18th-century Enlightenment, they stressed reason and scientific observation as a means of discovering the nature of “Providence,” the power that had created the world. Jefferson, for example, took a pair of scissors to the Christian New Testament and cut out every passage that suggested a divine origin and mission for Jesus. In their long correspondence, Jefferson and John Adams swapped frequent witticisms about the presumption of the clergy. (“Every Species of these Christians would persecute Deists,” Adams wrote on June 25, 1813, “as soon as either Sect would persecute another, if it had unchecked and unbalanced power. Nay, the Deists would persecute Christians, and Atheists would persecute Deists, with as unrelenting Cruelty, as any Christians would persecute them or one another. Know thyself, Human Nature!”) As president, Adams signed (and the U.S. Senate approved) the 1797 Treaty with Tripoli, which reassured that Muslim nation that “the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.”
James Madison, the father of both the Constitution and the First Amendment, consistently warned against any attempt to blend endorsement of Christianity into the law of the new nation. “Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions,” he wrote in his Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments in 1785, “may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other Sects?” Unlike the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution conspicuously omits any reference to God.
Wassup SA?
agree but the statement he made directly undermines faith in democracy. No other candidate in history from any party has made such an outrageous claim. Republicans need to denounce this dangerous anti-American candidate and run their own person. Trump is not a conservative and in no way is he qualified for anything but a TV entertainment show.
If by rigged, you mean, I can’t keep my foolhardy mouth closed for two complete seconds, or I refuse to read through all my briefing material thoroughly, or I will pick a fight with any Tom, Dick and Harry on the street and not exercise any impulse control, or I will continue to embellish or straight-up lie, or I will not read the entire constitution or understand its construction and underlying themes, or I will not release my tax returns, or I will continually force established and prominent Rs to leave the party, or I will fail miserably in the fund raising aspect of the campaign, or I will just make a plain mockery and and joke out of the highest position in the land, then yes, it’s all rigged.
SA wassup.
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.
Initial reaction to Clinton Cash was overwhelming, with more than 170,000 viewers watching the film within the first three hours of it’s worldwide release
I think the article was about Trump, now if you want to wait for an article thats actually related and stay on topic…
Another day, another set of debacles (yes, plural):
The system is rigged (Hmmmn, seems the system was just fine for you to win the primary);
I apologized directly to the Khans ( the family had received no direct communication from either him or his campaign representatives);
Hillary is the Devil (and what, you’re the night manager of the lake of hell??); and
Telling folks that he can win California (he is trailing by high double digits in the most diverse state in the republic).
“The system is rigged (Hmmmn, seems the system was just fine for you to win the primary)” The system was rigged against Mr TRUMP and he beat the rigged system. In fact he is 16-0. Now it’s rigged against him again as the DOJ is letting a criminal run for President. It’s an uphill battle but very early in the game.
Huh, there is less than a 100 days til we vote….time is critical and compacted.
Plenty of time. 144,000 minutes.
Oh, by minutes, sure we have a lot of minutes….
Sorry, but as a native American I can not support Trump. He is no qualified for any positon., let alone the presidency. He is dangerously anti-American. And by the way, he appears to be mainly supported by working class white males without high school degrees or college degrees. They are sure a whiny bunch of privileged people. I have zero respect for them.
They don’t sound so privileged to me – no education, no special native benefits, etc.
Loser#
i think should be: #Loser
What will he think of next. Maybe he wants to say stuff like this so he can get the attention from the media.
Lost all interest in him since the primary when he started all the name calling.
I think he wants to establish on a national scale, to even the whole world that he’s a certified insane person. Therefore, when he’s convicted of many things coming down in the near future his lawyers can claim that he’s insane and unstable therefore he should receive no jail time for all his wrongs. Now, that’s thinking well ahead, and that’s the only thing he’s good at doing.
I think HiLIARy wants to establish on a national scale, to even the whole world that she’s a certified sane person. Therefore, when she’s convicted of many things coming down in the near future her lawyers can’t claim that she’s insane and unstable therefore she should receive jail time for all her wrongs. Now, that’s thinking well ahead, and we just have to wait on the next email leaks.
The detailed anthology and chronology of a coward: the Donald Trump story.
See: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/02/us/politics/donald-trump-draft-record.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0
Yes. A loathsome coward, who was hoping people would ignore or forget his cowardice. He may have been able to keep the record of his cowardice a secret forever, had be not been such a mean spirited buffoon.
Like I wrote earlier, this is like sinking Bismarck.
– Buffet challenging Trump’s business success represents the torpedo fired by John Moffat from a Swordfish flying off Ark Royal. The torpedo hit the stern of Bismarck, badly damaging the rudder control system, and sending the ship into an uncontrolled turn to port.
– The furious reaction about the Khan insults represents the 16″ shell from The Rodney that struck Bismarck on the superstructure and badly damaged the two forward turrets.
Help for Bismarck is no where to be found – except perhaps for some rowboats manned by intellectual lightweights on here.
Admiral of the Fleet Jack Tovey’s ships are circling the wounded Bismarck now, and loading armor piercing shells into the turrets. Side-firing torpedos are being loaded into the deck tubes by the crew of Dorsetshire.
Trump’s campaign today put out a general call for Republicans to support him publicly in the Khan fiasco that he created. Not one person responded. The silence is deafening. The Luftwaffe is not going to help. Bisnarck is now listing slightly, while sending out distress calls.
You can bet on a non-stop barrage of attacks starting soon. The ship cannot be sunk soon enough.
Literary gem…poetic justice.
ditto.
Lucid and cogent.
What would Jimmy Buffet say.
His campaign against the bereaved parents of a decorated American combat casualty, Army Captain Humayun Khan, goes on. His associate Roger Stone shamelessly broadened it with unfounded slurs against the Khan family. Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, and other Republicans (including Mike Pence!) “distanced themselves” from Trump’s criticism of the Khans. John McCain went further, in an outright denunciation of what Trump had said. But not even McCain was willing to draw the obvious conclusion: that such a man is unfit for leadership. He and the rest still say, Vote for Trump!
Another day, another set of amazing embellishments and/fibs:
Trump told George Stephanopoulos that the National Football League had sent him a letter complaining that the dates for this fall’s debates conflict with two NFL games. The NFL immediately denied that it had ever sent such a letter. The Commission on Presidential Debates pointed out that the dates had been set last year, with full knowledge of all parties. As a headline in Deadspin put it, “NFL Says Trump Is Full of Shit.” More on the debate fracas and related events in upcoming posts.
Trump claimed that the Koch brothers had asked him for a meeting to offer support, but he had turned them down because he wasn’t anyone’s puppet. Koch representatives quickly said this did NOT occur at all.
Trump told Stephanopoulos that Vladimir Putin “is not going to move into Ukraine” and seemed caught unaware when Stephanopoulos pointed out that in fact he already had, via the seizure of Crimea two years ago. The next day Trump sent out a Tweet denying the plain meaning of what he had said on air the previous day.
Wassup SA.
Hillary’s America, the latest film from the creators of America: Imagine The World Without Her and 2016: Obama’s America takes audiences on a gripping journey into the secret history of the Democratic Party and the contentious rise of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
In Hillary’s America, New York Times #1 best-selling author and celebrated filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza reveals the sordid truth about Hillary and the secret history of the Democratic Party. This eye-opening film sheds light on the Democrats’ transition from pro-slavery to pro-enslavement; how Hillary Clinton’s political mentor was, literally, a cold-blooded gangster; and how the Clintons and other Democrats see foreign policy not in terms of national interest, but in terms of personal profit.
Hillary’s America uncovers how their plan is to simply steal America.
Sarge, you are another Bismarck story.
mctruck – You can see that he’s not worth the effort.
Anyone who defends a sociopath has his own issues to manage.
Anyone who supports a criminal has their own issues to manage. Did they mention Warren Buffoon in “Clinton Cash”? The guy that stopped the pipeline in collusion with Obama so his railroads could make more money. Doesn’t he have enough?
….and the absolute stupidity of so many will vote for this clown! What has happened to people??
LYING about an NFL letter, and he doesn’t think he’ll be caught in that lie ????
That’s what pathological liars do. They lie about things needlessly, even when they know that everyone else knows they’re lying. It’s clinical.
Don’t pick on HiLIARy. She lies about things needlessly, even when they know that everyone else knows they’re lying. It’s clinical.
sarge22 – You know that your effort becomes more pathetic and wasted every day, don’t you?
As it should be. The son was the one did the sacrificing. He son died, honor his sacrifice. The father makes millions bringing in wealthy Saudis for cash. Connect the dots. I heard Trump is ahead of Crooked Hilliary in Virginia. Tim Kaine’s Country. Wassup Ikefromeli?
Trump is ahead in one poll (only) out of twelve recognized polls.
Adults do not analyze that as being ahead.
He’s finished. Good riddance.
One state does not constitute a nation. He is trailing in 18 states that constitue almost 60% of the electoral college–care to comment on that point?
Khan was out of line for questioning Trump on the Constitution and sacrifice. Totally.
Just keep ringing that bell.
How’s that line of attack working for Trump? It’s like watching an orange balloon slowly deflate. He’s finished.
If Trump pulls this off it will be the greatest thing to happen ever.
I will be laughing at all you blowhards. So much so I might write a book about it.
Don’t worry I won’t forget. I won’t erase/delete all your comments. I need to save it for the Trump Presidential Library. Some of you might disappear into oblivion, the shame so great. It’s too late. No jumping ship. Klas, Ike, boots, Keaukaha, et. al. you can jump into Lake Wilson.
Trump isn’t going to win, but keep that dream alive!
Good luck with the book. All of us already know what kind of author you are. You’ll probably sell plenty!
you can and trumpy can jump into the lava pit. you are both made from the same stock, bigoted rednecks. just leave Hawaii, we don’t want your kind here.
I’m not a redneck and you are a racist and a bigot. That’s how the Crooked Hillary supporters roll. You know she lies you have to insult people to make her stink go away. Is it true that Bill and Loretta met on the Tarmac in PHX? 2 days later, no charges?
delete your account
While not advised from the optics of politics, there is NO illegality whosoever about folks saying hello and chatting….none.
Wait a minute you’re calling others racist and bigot? Were’t you the one that always attack other posters here and calling them names? No wonder you’re a trump supporter? The nuts do flock together.
maybe a dumb redneck?
Writing a book assumes you have the ability to write–you do not.
strange that there’s no mention of the female felon’s failing health in light of the latest debacle in ohio. her audience waited two hours in sweltering heat for the female felon to show for a scheduled fluff. more than 50 of the audience were carried off on stretchers as they fell ill because of the heat and extended delay waiting for the female felon to shake the confusion off.
Just keep repeating that and see if anyone listens. The more times a day you write that on here, the better.
How’s that working for you?
Working pretty good…strange that there’s no mention of the female felon’s failing health in light of the latest debacle in ohio. her audience waited two hours in sweltering heat for the female felon to show for a scheduled fluff. more than 50 of the audience were carried off on stretchers as they fell ill because of the heat and extended delay waiting for the female felon to shake the confusion off.
delete your accounbt
What an idiot! He has done nothing to unite our Nation, His financial plan is a mess. He can’t shut his mouth. His best asset is, he makes Hillary look good!
Moderation, my arse!
Hillary’s America, the latest film from the creators of America: Imagine The World Without Her and 2016: Obama’s America takes audiences on a gripping journey into the secret history of the Democratic Party and the contentious rise of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
In Hillary’s America, New York Times #1 best-selling author and celebrated filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza reveals the sordid truth about Hillary and the secret history of the Democratic Party. This eye-opening film sheds light on the Democrats’ transition from pro-slavery to pro-enslavement; how Hillary Clinton’s political mentor was, literally, a cold-blooded gangster; and how the Clintons and other Democrats see foreign policy not in terms of national interest, but in terms of personal profit.
Hillary’s America uncovers how their plan is to simply steal America.
In 2014, Mr. D’Souza was arrested and charged with a felony. He pleaded guilty to a reduced charge in exchange for a reduced sentence of eight months in prison.
You certainly have compiled a great list of criminals to use as role models!
This is the guy who was a purported reborn chirstian, and tried to check into a NYC hotel with his mistress, and then promptly got canned from his job as President, at a basically made up Christian college. Yup, very reputable.
Same old excuse, attack the messenger not the story It’s just not working anymore. DNC emails- attack the hacker not the fix. Now you attack Mr D’Souza while ignoring the rapist married to HiLIARy. Did you watch the movie? …Despite overwhelming positive reactions from audiences and already rocketing to number one documentary of 2016 in its opening week, establishment critics slammed Dinesh D’Souza’s film Hillary’s America in Rotten Tomatoes with a laughably unrealistic rating of 5%….http://www.infowars.com/establishment-critics-demonize-dsouzas-film-hillarys-america/
Do you deny he is both a felon and a reborn Christian who practices adulteration?
I don’t know him but let’s stay on point. How was the movie? He is New York Times #1 best-selling author and celebrated filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza. Wow NYT.
Well if Trump would stop trying to throw the election we wouldn’t have this rigging issue now would we.
I always thought he was a Democrat.
There is absolute nothing wrong with Trump. He won the Republican nomination, and is the Republican Presidential candidate. Now, if you vote for Mr. Trump, that is you and what you believe in.
P.S. I am not voting for Trump.
Trump is threatening to overthrow the government because he believes the election is rigged against him. What a megalomaniac. Sorry, but even Trump supporters are not stupid enough to try that.
You got at least 2/3 of them here on this site; what a laugh!
Reminds me of Sadaam Husseins right hand man during Desert Storm, even when they were getting their asses kicked ever which way when interviewed on tv he would say that they were winning the war.
I forgot how to spell Sadaam Husseins name correctly but who gives a damn, just like who will care about trump the day after elections.
“Trump is threatening to overthrow the government ”
What he actually said is
“I’m afraid the election is going to be rigged, I have to be honest”.
Not really the same thing.
There is a kind of delusional thought pattern in which you hear something through your own filters, turning it into something that satisfies an internal narrative.
It is quite common in the statements of Trump detractors. He makes a statement of fact and the detractors shout that “Trump claimed X”, where X is their own spin or misstatement of what was actually said.
Just viewed on AOL, heavy weight Billionaire Warren Buffet taking down light weight billion/millionaire?? trump. He also endorsed Hillary Clinton. He asked why trump was afraid to divulge his tax returns? Buffet also wanted America to know that like trump, he and his family never served in the military. But he takes no offense to anyone saying anything about it.
In fact, Buffet said that when trump started in on the Khan family, he felt convinced about who he would vote for.
This is Trump’s election to lose. If he doesn’t learn to tone down his comments or research his facts, he will lose. It seems the more he opens his mouth, the more people he irritates.
On the other side of the coin, we have Hillary. The more we learn, the more we find out how crooked and self-centered she is.
2 self-aggrandizing selfish idiots. Only one cloaks herself in the appearance of “public service.”
Maybe it’s time to look at the green party, libertarian, and anyone else the media refuses to talk about.
What has Crooked Hillary And Obama sacrificed?
lespark – You missed, again, the whole point of the discussion. Not a particular surprise.
Keep up with that argument. You can see by Mr. Trump’s rapidly collapsing poll numbers that his message is working!
Klastri, I look forward to your comments when Wikileaks makes its next dump of Clinton emails that show how she and Obama were personally involved in an illegal gun running operation between Libya and Syrian rebels. It will make the Iran Contra scandal look like kids play.
You do like your fantasies, don’t you?
Maybe write a book?
http://patriotupdate.com/smoking-gun-obama-was-operating-gun-running-scam-through-benghazi-to-syria/ I know,,I know ,,It’s not the NYT
Trump, a Republican candidate complaining about a rigged election? Really? That makes as much sense as Trump complaining about hair spray and spray tans. Consider the fact that Republican gerrymandering has been so successful that it is actually possible for Democrats to get 62% of the votes for the House of Representatives and not have a majority of those elected. Consider the voter suppression laws passed by Republican legislatures, which will disenfranchise millions of voters.
Trump is playing the press like a fiddle, HilLIARy is such a poor opponent, the people see through her bald faced lies. By making controversial statements, he gets press, and reaction from the Obama/HilLIARy sycophants, which then gets his point further into the American psyche. This was a formula that Trump used to get the Republican nomination, and it worked. So thank you for your condemnations, you are actually helping to defeat the worse choice candidate since Obama, HilLIARy Rotten Clinton.
What I have discovered about the Trump supporter, and what data actually supports or allude to:
They are by and large males;
They are not college graduates and in many instances undereducated;
They have had difficulty holding either/or a permanent job or elevating up through the ranks of their respective job and thus frustrated;
They hold visions and portraits of revisionism, that America was some how better 50-60 years ago ( perhaps if you were a white male, prior to Jim Crow, living in the rust belt, working in obsolete manufacturing jobs, where equality across the board did not apply to many sectors of society– especially communities of color, women, and younger people);
And finally, there is a pronounced self-loathing, they see many sections of society moving up and on, and they wonder why not me? What happen to me? The world happen to you…while you were enjoying the affectations of your pity party, folks got better educated, they moved to where jobs are, they adapted and embraced change, and they complimented this with good old fashion hard work.
I agree. The choice between the candidates is a combination intelligence, personality, and achievement test. It’s sad that there are masses of Americans susceptible to Trump’s demagoguery, but I truly I disdain the leaders of the Republican Party who are intelligent enough to know what a disaster a Trump presidency would be, but lack the moral character to disavow Trump and chose country over party.
“that America was some how better 50-60 years ago ( perhaps if you were a white male, prior to Jim Crow, living in the rust belt, working in obsolete manufacturing jobs”
Not exactly.
In the case of Detroit, these were jobs that often permitted blacks from the South a way into the middle class.
Big manufacturing industries included automative, steel, and appliances, none of which is obsolete.
Well, an inroad to the middle class was realized by some, that said, Jim Crow had a profound and a rather lengthy effect to the black community, thus negating all attributes gained through industry.
Jim Crow laws segregated not only public venues but also restaurants, restrooms, hospitals, churches, libraries, schoolbooks, waiting rooms, housing, prisons, cemeteries, and asylums. Customary signs noting “colored” and “white” or “white only” marked off the southern landscape, dividing public conveyances, public accommodations, and birth, residence, and death. Purportedly equal, these circumstances usually were unequal. Laws regulated not only segregation but also social relations. In most states, blacks and whites could not marry by law, or socialize by custom. According to a Maryland law, “all marriages between a white person and a negro, or between a white person and a person of negro descent, to the third generation, inclusive … are forever prohibited, and shall be void.” Blacks and whites could not compete against each other, whether at checkers or college sports. A Mississippi law read, “any person guilty of printing, publishing or circulating matter urging or presenting arguments in favor of social equality or of intermarriage between whites and negroes, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.”
It is rigged. The electoral system. The super delegates. America is a corporatacracy: the United Corporations of America control both parties, which is the primary reason they are determined to destroy Trump. He’s a loose canon who cannot be controlled.
So you are suggesting that after people vote in November, the number of votes will be manipulated by some gigantic group of conspirators who will falsify the numbers so that Mr. Trump loses?
That is what you are suggesting? Really?
Written today by Robert Kagan, and required reading for all Americans:
Imagine (Donald Trump) person as president. What we have seen in the Trump campaign is not only a clever method of stirring up the anger in people. It is also a personality defect that has had the effect of stirring up anger. And because it is a defect and not a tactic, it would continue to affect Trump’s behavior in the White House. It would determine how he dealt with other nations. It would determine how he dealt with critics at home. It would determine how he governed, how he executed the laws, how he instructed the law-enforcement and intelligence agencies under his command, how he dealt with the press, how he dealt with the opposition party and how he handled dissent within his own party.
His personality defect would be the dominating factor in his presidency, just as it has been the dominating factor in his campaign. His ultimately self-destructive tendencies would play out on the biggest stage in the world, with consequences at home and abroad that one can barely begin to imagine. It would make him the closest thing the United States has ever had to a dictator, but a dictator with a dangerously unstable temperament that neither he nor anyone else can control.
One can hope it does not come to that. In all likelihood, his defects will destroy him before he reaches the White House. He will bring himself down, and he will bring the Republican Party and its leaders down with him. This would be a tragedy were it not that the party and its leaders, who chose him as their nominee and who now cover and shill for this troubled man, so richly deserve their fate.
Yet another Trump bashing party, replete with pithy pot shots gleefully fired, mimicking an AR on full auto. One of our more rabid Hilary devotees alluded to the Titanic as descriptive of Trump’s campaign, which, although beyond his comprehension, actually is quite apropos when used in reference to the entire presidential election. As the Titanic gradually slipped away, it did so first by bow, then, with stern raised skyward, it slowly sank beneath the waves, taking all aboard to the depths below. What an unfortunate yet eerily accurate parallel that tragedy offers to the race between Hillary and the Donald, for, as Trump descends from sight, we’re left with a ship full of Clinton troops, momentarily giddy with the disappearance of their nemesis, yet seemingly oblivious to their inevitable fate. There were those lucky few left adrift in lifeboats, which also mimics somewhat a typical election cycle’s third party offerings, available, but with limited viability. Today we’re facing the same situation those poor ocean travelers were, in that the only realistic option for survival we have is a seat in a lifeboat. The joyous news is that Gary Johnson has come alongside with a gradually filling Ark, reminiscent of Noah’s own lifeboat, and offers us all a seat. There’s more than enough room, so, as one of the volunteer staff, please allow me to suggest that you come aboard.
Johnson’s candidacy is a fantasy. Good luck with it.
Say hi to Charlie…
I like Johnson but that party just does not have the numbers, never will.
I’m sure that means something to you.
In the midst of a “normal” cycle, I’d agree, but if there’s ever been a chance to do the right thing successfully, this could be that opportunity.
klas, you disappoint. A hint; “tuna”?
Claiming that the election is “rigged” is very sinister and can’t be laughed off as just another instance of Trump shooting his mouth off without thinking. Paul Manafort, Trump’s campaign manager, has a long history of working for Putin allies, foreign dictators and autocratic rulers. Delegitimizing elections that they might lose is a common strategy for those who seek power illegitimately. Trump’s campaign is lurching from being un-American, by rejecting our founding principles, to being anti-American as he reveals himself to being a Putin acolyte. We are watching the creation of an American Mussolini.
How did the fixed primaries work out for you all? The emails proved that it was fixed. Claiming that the election is “rigged” with the Clintons involved is not a far reach. Awaiting the next email release. Any day now.
Keep writing about your fantasies. They may come true some day.
Wow where is the coverage in SA…http://www.jta.org/2016/08/02/news-opinion/politics/3-dnc-staffers-in-leaked-bernie-exchange-resignA… Three high-ranking staffers at the Democratic National Committee have resigned amid the email controversy that forced their boss, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, to resign last week.
Chief executive Amy Dacey, Chief Financial Officer Brad Marshall and Communications Director Luis Miranda will leave later this week, the Washington Post reported Tuesday.
The three were involved in one of the most controversial email exchanges that was hacked and leaked days before the Democratic National Convention. In it, Marshall noted, erroneously, that then-Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders is an atheist and suggested that this information could be used to undermine his campaign among religious voters.
The trump ship is really starting to sink; latest report on AOL shows a three-term republican from the House goes on record to say that he is voting for Hillary. At first he was quoted as saying he could not vote for trump; because trump continues to dig a deeper hole and taking the party followers with him, it’s time to jump ship.
The Ark has room…
The media coverage is certainly “rigged.”
Every time a Trump detractor offers their opinions they should follow their statement with…”and that’s why you should vote for a pathological liar and most corrupt politician in the history of U.S. politics…Hillary Clinton.”
Oh, so you must be the guy who is writing “lesparks” lines.
Trump does a good job making Hillary look like only the second worse person who could be president.
The process is rigged. It favors the smart, those able to work with others, and the non-bullies. Trump stands no chance.
Now, trump is bragging about an officer giving him his Purple Heart and then saying he always wanted one but the fact that he and his family never served in the military, makes this arrangement a lot easier?
What stupidity would making accepting another person’s Purple Heart as an appropriate jesture??
What an embarrassment! What is he going to say tomorrow?
Joe Scarborough questioned Trump mental competency this morning, It’s pretty remarkable. I fielded calls all day yesterday from conservatives, from Republicans, from officials, from people that the media would call right-wing bloggers, from whatever you’d call them, and everybody was asking me about his mental health… it was all everybody was talking about yesterday. It’s not like there was talking points shot that were out by the DNC or by anybody else. Everybody was talking about his mental health yesterday. Everybody was calling me saying ‘What’s happening to him? What is wrong with him?’”
It’s not that grief validates a particular point of view, or someone who has suffered a terrible loss should be above criticism. But the grieving mother or father deserves an extra measure of respect. This isn’t just Politics 101, but Decency 101.
President George W. Bush was gentle with Cindy Sheehan, the Gold Star mother who became a fierce critic of the Iraq War. Asked on Fox News Sunday about two parents of State Department employees killed in the Benghazi attack who have criticized her — including Patricia Smith at the Republican National Convention — Hillary Clinton said first, “My heart goes out to both of them,” and then countered their criticisms without making it personal.
This isn’t hard. Trump may figure he needn’t bother because he has weathered so many other controversies that appalled critics on the left and the right. But the playing field is different when he is potentially three months away from being elected president of the United States, as opposed to a Republican primary contender among many others. It is one thing to beat Ted Cruz and his family about the head and shoulders — he’s just another pol — but something else entirely to do it to the parents of an exemplary young man who sacrificed his life protecting others in Iraq. Trump believes, from his decades in the public eye in the media capital of the world, that it always pays to be on the attack. This isn’t true anymore. The question no longer is whether he can garner headlines, but whether he can demonstrate his suitability to becoming commander-in-chief. The only one he’s hurt by his assault on the Khans is himself.
Who wrote this, another liberal rag? An adjunct to HRC campaign? Me? Nope, this is an article from today from the ultra-conservative and iconic publication of the right–the National Review, yes the National Review had to reiterate and tell Donald what we all know–this is Decency 101.
Not A trump surpporter… but people in this nation should realize one thing thats true…the election process and system is rigged from the get go…
Only two party system? rest of the world is no two party system. But again that is why American are Americans… non-educated, not informed, brian washed by watching TV endlessly… Trust me Hilary was picked to win the election long long time ago…
Trust you, after that scholarly and fully researched explanation? Has your work been peer-reviewed?
Sure!
And the giant slide begins:
Retiring Rep. Richard Hanna (R-N.Y.) on Tuesday announced he will vote for Hillary Clinton in November because Donald Trump is “unfit to serve our party and cannot lead this country.”
The three-term congressman, who represents New York’s 22nd Congressional District, is the first Republican member of Congress to announce he will vote for the former secretary of state. He previously said he could never support the GOP nominee, putting him among several conservative and establishment holdouts known as the #NeverTrump movement.
Trump’s repeated Islamophobic attacks on the parents of a slain American war hero who appeared at the Democratic convention last week was the deciding factor.
“In his latest foray of insults, Mr. Trump has attacked the parents of a slain U.S. soldier. Where do we draw the line?” Hanna asked in an article that the news outlet Syracuse.com published Tuesday. “I thought it would have been when he alleged that U.S. Sen. John McCain was not a war hero because he was caught. Or the countless other insults he’s proudly lobbed from behind the Republican presidential podium. For me, it is not enough to simply denounce his comments: He is unfit to serve our party and cannot lead this country.”
Wassup SA.
There’s a time and a place to tar and feather Trump. But it’s not at a press conference with the Prime Minister of Singapore present. Poor judgement and lack of leadership. He owes Trump and the American people an apology.
Hold your breath, place a plastic bag around and now count to 8 gazillion, the apology is on its way.
Did Obama or the Prime Minister of Singapore mention anything about Russian naval forces plan to join Chinese forces for a joint exercise in the South China Sea, highlighting Moscow’s partnership with Beijing after a recent international legal ruling underlined rifts between China and Southeast Asian nations over rival claims across the sea. ..http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/29/world/asia/russia-china-south-china-sea-naval-exercise.html?_r=0
The bottom line is vote for Hillary and all her baggage or vote for Trump and be prepared for someone who mouths off and then tries to take it back by saying that’s not what he meant (unfortunately, he can’t do that if he says “go” to firing missiles/nuclear weapons); continues to talk on topics he doesn’t really understand, just “thinks” he understands, and be surrounded by family (and friends?) who continue to enable him in his behaviors.
Not a tough choice for me.
Trump for sure.Beats a criminal who is in bed with Russia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LYRUOd_QoM
Yes, I don’t blame you for not voting for Crooked Hillary. She’s going to raise taxes, increase entitlements, bring in 65,000 refugees and put them on welfare, increase medical copay, and put you on the streets and have you pay for it.
You’ve taken that all important first step. You acknowledge that Clinton has a lot of baggage. Good. How much is another subject. Regardless, it’s obvious neither her or the Donald deserve the presidency. Now that we’ve passed that hurdle, we can start looking around for a solution to this mess. There’s a third party, long comprised of impossible choices hardly noticed by our routine D and R media driven tennis match between two players. This election cycle has a real, qualified, experienced, and totally honest third candidate in Gary Johnson. Nuff said for now. Check him out. His history, his positions, his running mate. I think you’ll like what you see.
Today, Trump said the most ridiculous thing–“I have regrets about not serving in the military.”
Really, says the coward, who basically ran numerous times from the war. I grew up in public housing and know from first hand knowledge that the bully is only the bully until you false crack him in the jaw, that after that, anytime he sees you in the street, he avoids you and/or tries to say hi. That pretend bully is Trump.
I got a feeling you got cracked a few times. Am I right? Yes, of course I am.
As rough and crazy as the truth sounds it is the truth nonetheless. It’s not slick and edited by a group of political correctness wordsmiths. Stop and think how opening our borders to criminals and anti American Muslims and shipping more jobs overseas is a good thing I don’t care what race, religion or party you are. If you are an American please explain how these policies benefit you or your children.
Pop, it may not benefit you or your children but it will benefit Clinton with more cash. A story will break how the United States gave Iran $400,000,000 secretly. I hope they have a good lie to explain. Quite frankly, I’d rather jump from the frying pan into the Trump.
There’s a time and a place to tar and feather Trump. But it’s not at a press conference with the Prime Minister of Singapore present. Poor judgement and lack of leadership. He owes Trump and the American people an apology.
No, he doesn’t. People deserve to know the truth. Not the nonsense you feed your comrades here.
My daily comment: “What an embarrassment. What is he going to say today?” Well he did not disappoint today. A veteran gave him his Purple Heart and Trump said, “I’ve always wanted to get the Purple Heart. This was much easier.” What will he say tomorrow?
I predict Trump will withdraw, claiming he couldn’t win anyway, the way it’s rigged. This is his “out.” Save face.