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Post by greenchristian on Apr 17, 2016 8:31:16 GMT
Just more pathetic whining from a candidate either too stupid, too lazy or too miserly to build an effective ground operation. Everyone with even a basic knowledge of the nomination process will know that it involves a mix of primaries, caucuses and conventions. Trump is perfectly happy with the system when and where it suits him but moans and complains when it doesn't. He then whips up his idiotic supporters with ridiculous claims of "stolen delegates" and "rigged systems". Well, there's a good argument to be made that, if anything, it's rigged in Trump's favour. |
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Post by greenchristian on Apr 18, 2016 5:58:18 GMT
Good thing for him that he won't be President, then. Isn't it? |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2016 7:02:09 GMT
Good thing for him that he won't be President, then. Isn't it? She is clearly doing it to sell a book and unlikely to know what Trump wants. I just thought it fitted well into this thread. |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 18, 2016 8:11:01 GMT
Jon Sopel said a few months ago that he had been told Trump just announced for the fun of it, intending to say a get a bit of attention and put pressure on the other Republicans before withdrawing. But his campaign snowballed and he had to go through with it. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2016 15:42:07 GMT
A True Progressives guide to American politics:  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2016 7:51:19 GMT
Lets see the details of this That has to be the most pathetic 'defamation' claim I have ever seen in my life. Lets look at the context. A number of journalists have made consistent attacks against Donald Trump and his fitness for the job he's running for. Many of these attacks have been quite personal. Yet when Trump responds in kind you get this kind of whining.She thinks that as a 'journalist' perhaps especially a female journalist she should be in a special category that can dish it out but shouldn't be expected to take it. She isn't. If she's on TV then she's person with a media platform giving her views. Trump on twitter is a person on a media platform giving his views. She's not in any special category and if she dishes it out she shouldn't be surprised if her target dishes it back. 2 things: (i) A candidate and a journalist are not the same thing. When a candidate is questioned/attacked, that is the healthy normal course of democracy in which the fourth estate holds politicians to account. When journalists are attacked, that is an abuse of power; it is flirtation with quashing a fundamental right to freedom of expression. It is especially worrying when the person doing this hopes to hold the most powerful office in the world. (ii) You appear to take on Trump's ridiculous reasoning about attack and counter-attack as though this were normal human behaviour. It isn't. Besides, defamation is not a question of who attacked first but one of whether the content of the statement was true. If she is right to say that Trump's repeated attacks are false, and if she can show that they caused harm, then there is absolutely nothing pathetic or frivolous about the suit. |
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Post by gwynthegriff on Apr 19, 2016 19:11:31 GMT
What are these terrible slurs that Trump is alleged to made about her? That she, a Republican political consultant, asked him, a Republican candidate, for a job. Hardy a slur, and she admitted she did ask for a job. The idea that she 'went hostile' to Trump for less than pure motives. Well she did go hostile to trump and nobody has pure motives so that's hardly a defamation either. Some might consider her description of Lewandowski as “unprofessional” and “a powder keg” to be defamation but apparently its OK for her to say things like that because she's a 'journalist'. But the link you provide upthread says that she was approached by a Trump staffer, and that after two meetings she decided to go no further. |
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Post by john07 on Apr 19, 2016 21:14:20 GMT
What are these terrible slurs that Trump is alleged to made about her? That she, a Republican political consultant, asked him, a Republican candidate, for a job. Hardy a slur, and she admitted she did ask for a job. The idea that she 'went hostile' to Trump for less than pure motives. Well she did go hostile to trump and nobody has pure motives so that's hardly a defamation either. Some might consider her description of Lewandowski as “unprofessional” and “a powder keg” to be defamation but apparently its OK for her to say things like that because she's a 'journalist'. But the link you provide upthread says that she was approached by a Trump staffer, and that after two meetings she decided to go no further. Typical Trump lying. He approaches someone to offer them a job. Because they don't immediately tell him to piss off, this is reported as the person concerned is on her knees begging him for a job. Don't believe a word the creep says. |
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Post by finsobruce on Apr 19, 2016 22:43:08 GMT
But the link you provide upthread says that she was approached by a Trump staffer, and that after two meetings she decided to go no further. Two meetings about what? The weather? She attended to meeting to see about getting a job. She says she turned them down, they say they turned her down. I don't really see how a dispute of that order can be thought to constitute defamation, let alone a $4 million defamation.This is America we're talking about...  |
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Post by john07 on Apr 20, 2016 16:29:47 GMT
It was a comment in the category 'file under the bleeding obvious' column but pretty stupid given the polling information.
With the benefit of hindsight, a 60% target should have been set! #epic fail!
I assume that had Ted Cruz not done well in Texas he would have quit. 43.8% in a crowded five candidate field was acceptable.
Similarly has Kassich failed to win Ohio he would have drummed out of the race. He obtained 46.8% in a four way contest.
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Post by greenchristian on Apr 20, 2016 19:31:09 GMT
This image makes me wonder if Trump is secretly one of David Icke's reptile people.  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2016 20:51:13 GMT
 <- Hillary Clinton  <- Sanders campaign |
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Post by gwynthegriff on Apr 20, 2016 21:47:15 GMT
<- Hillary Clinton <- Sanders campaign That can't be Clinton. Far too animated. |
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