Killary Clinton, The Donald, or Jill Stein: The US Election

[angelburst29]

I may not agree with a lot of things Trump has stated but his remarks on what happened to Recovery Funds sent to Iraq and then to Afghanistan, in the amount of Million's of dollars - NEVER reaching their intended destination, mirrors my own findings in researching the money trail.

U.S. Soldiers Had Stolen Millions Of Dollars Of Recovery Funds From Iraq And Afghanistan ! – Trump
http://novorossia.today/125914-2/

US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump implied during a speech in Greensboro, North Carolina that US soldiers had stolen recovery funds sent to Iraq during the war.

Iraq, crooked as hell… Millions and millions of dollars and handing it out? I want to know, who are the soldiers that had that job because I think they’re living very well right now, whoever they may be,” Trump said Tuesday night, as quoted by CNN. In September 2015, he made similar remarks about the $50 million of recovery funds sent to Afghanistan, implying that money never reached the destination, while soldiers in charge were enriched. The Republican is an outspoken critic of the US foreign policy in the Middle East, including invasions in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya.

Quote from: c.a. on Yesterday at 01:34:16 AM

OilPrice.com's
Russia Is Reportedly Set To Release Clinton's Intercepted Emails
http://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Russia-Is-Reportedly-Set-To-Release-Intercepted-Messages-From-Clintons-Private.html

The article CA Posted might be a spin-off from a WikiLeaks article, promising to do the same, with the exception of blaming Russia instead?

Wikileaks Threatens To Publish More Hacked Clinton Emails
http://dailybail.com/home/wikileaks-threatens-to-publish-more-hacked-clinton-emails.html

Wikileaks will publish ‘enough evidence’ to indict Hillary Clinton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34giUftE7BI

RT

Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange warns more information will be published about Hillary Clinton, enough to indict her if the US government is courageous enough to do so, in what he predicts will be “a very big year” for the whistleblowing website. “We have emails relating to Hillary Clinton which are pending publication,” Assange told Peston.

Mr Assange said the emails Wikileaks holds about Ms Clinton contain "very strong material", such as the former secretary of state allegedly instructing her staff to remove the "classified" header from a classified document and send it by unclassified fax. About 32,000 emails from her private server have been leaked by Wikileaks so far, but Assange would not confirm the number of new emails to be released or when they are expected to be published.

Assange said the leaked emails revealed that she overrode the Pentagon’s reluctance to overthrow sovereign Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, and that “they predicted the post-war outcome would be what it is, which is ISIS taking over the country.”

WikiLeaks to publish more Hillary Clinton emails

The Guardian

WikiLeaks already launched a searchable archive in March of 30,322 emails and email attachments sent to and from Clinton’s private email server while she was secretary of state. The 50,547 pages of documents are from 30 June 2010 to 12 August 2014, and 7,570 of the documents were sent by Clinton, who served as secretary of state from 2009 to 2013.

Assange, a trenchant Clinton critic, said she was receiving constant personal updates on his situation. He also accused Google last week of helping Clinton in her presidential campaign, lumping together two of his bugbears. Google “is intensely aligned with US exceptionalism” and its employees will likely be rewarded if Clinton wins the presidential election come November, Assange told an international media forum in Moscow.

 

[luc]

On The Other Hand, and this is why this election choice is so frustrating, even though Trump is a despicable narcissist fanning the flames of nativist racism, his foreign policy statements are on point when it comes to Hillary's. From a speech he gave at St. A senior college on the shooting:

America must do more – much more – to protect its citizens, especially people who are potential victims of crimes based on their backgrounds or sexual orientations.

It also means we must change our foreign policy.

The decision to overthrow the regime in Libya, then pushing for the overthrow of the regime in Syria, among other things, without plans for the day after, have created space for ISIS to expand and grow.

These actions, along with our disastrous Iran deal, have also reduced our ability to work in partnership with our Muslim allies in the region.

For instance, the last major NATO mission was Hillary Clinton’s war in Libya. That mission helped unleash ISIS on a new continent.

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Well, that's part of the problem IMO, that these spellbinders do say some "good stuff", thus creating an "opnening" for their toxic spells. But we have to keep the big picture in mind, as you said, and the details - for example, saying that "we had no plan for after the invasion" is missing the point: so it's okay to invade foreign sovereign countries, crushing elected governments, if only we have a "plan" for after the invasion!? This is actually similar to arguments made repeatetly by the "progressive left"...

The same "spellbinding problem" exists here in Germany, where the right-wingers have some "good stuff" to say, for example in their media criticism, or their view of Russia and Putin. But they are still spellbinders, and I think our task is to think clearly and rationally, to be okay with contradictions - such as that some nasty right-wingers can be right with some stuff they say, and the mainstream can also be right with some stuff. That way, we don't fall into the trap that we think we have to "choose a side" - we should choose the side of critical thinking and truth, and not be taken in by those spellbinders, wherever they are and whatever they say. Fwiw

 

[Oxajil]

Trump: "America must do more – much more – to protect its citizens, especially people who are potential victims of crimes based on their backgrounds or sexual orientations."

Yet, he has no problem expressing his views on Latino immigrants/citizens or Muslim immigrants/citizens, continuing to divide the people this way. If he really cares about protecting "people who are potential victims of crimes based on their backgrounds", what is he actually doing that is helping them?

When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you. They're not sending you. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.

But I speak to border guards and they tell us what we're getting. And it only makes common sense. It only makes common sense. They're sending us not the right people.

It's coming from more than Mexico. It's coming from all over South and Latin America, and it's coming probably -- probably -- from the Middle East. But we don't know. Because we have no protection and we have no competence, we don't know what's happening. And it's got to stop and it's got to stop fast.

Two brothers reportedly attacked a 58-year-old Hispanic homeless man in Boston, breaking his nose and urinating on him, in mid-August. They allegedly told police they targeted the man because of his ethnicity and added, “Donald Trump was right, all these illegals need to be deported.” After the GOP candidate was told of the attack, instead of denouncing the act Trump said his followers were “passionate.” Later the presidential candidate tweeted about the incident, saying he would “never condone violence.”

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Well, that's part of the problem IMO, that these spellbinders do say some "good stuff", thus creating an "opnening" for their toxic spells. But we have to keep the big picture in mind, as you said, and the details - for example, saying that "we had no plan for after the invasion" is missing the point: so it's okay to invade foreign sovereign countries, crushing elected governments, if only we have a "plan" for after the invasion!? This is actually similar to arguments made repeatetly by the "progressive left"...

Yeah, I think so too.

 

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Maybe there is some hope........

Susan Sarandon Crucified For Making Sense On Hillary Clinton
Published on Mar 30, 2016
_https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q3OQ2MXvXw

Jon Stewart Donald Trump(NEW)
Published on May 10, 2016
Jon Stewarts destroys trump

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Oldie but a Goody
Published on Apr 11, 2014

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The woman accused of chucking a shoe at the head of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during a speech in Las Vegas has been released from jail, according to police.

Comments:
Cynthia .C2 years ago

It is a shame she didn't have better aim. Hillary Clinton is a joke and God help us all if that idiot is our next president.

Ame3thyst32 years ago

Has anyone sent roses to The THROWER OF THE SHOE yet for her wonderful arm? I sure hope so! Hillary thought it was a bat! Well no wonder...look who she hangs with, a bunch of vampires sucking out every penny they can get! Psychic vampires that drain the life out of you. And her comment was condescending and insulting regarding the "solid waste management." How would she know? Because she is full of sh$#!!! Literally and figuratively! Go home hillary. Nobody cares.

Staceylane742 years ago



OOPS! HECKLERS FORCE HILLARY OFF Stage In LA After Only One Minute
Published on May 7, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh792mKpyn8

Hillary Clinton gets heckled at San Jose Rally.
Published on May 26, 2016
_https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh792mKpyn8

 

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Man tried to kill Trump at Las Vegas rally
PressTV HomeUSPolitics
http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2016/06/21/471360/US-Donald-Trump
Tue Jun 21, 2016 12:13AM

A man has attempted to assassinate presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump at one of his rallies in Las Vegas, according to a federal complaint.

The suspect identified as Michael Steven Sandford, 19, was arrested Saturday at Treasure Island after trying to grab at the holster and handle of a gun of a Las Vegas police officer.

Sandford, who had a UK driver’s license, said he had been plotting to kill Trump for about a year and that he thought the business mogul could be killed by one or two rounds before officers kill him for his act.

He told a US Secret Service agent that he had driven to Las Vegas from California on Thursday to kill Trump, according to the complaint filed on Monday.

He also said that he even went to a Las Vegas gun range on Friday in order to learn how to fire a gun, noting he fired almost 20 rounds from a 9 millimeter Glock pistol, the complaint said, adding he

had never fired a gun before.

Sanford said, during the rally, he thought he saw the officer’s gun unlocked, adding he figured acquiring a gun this way would be the easiest, the complaint alleged.

Sandford “knowingly attempted to engage in an act of physical violence against Donald J. Trump ... by attempting to seize a firearm from Las Vegas Metropolitan Department Officer,” according to the complaint.

He also said that he had bought tickets for another rally in Phoenix, Arizona, later that day, in order to kill Trump, if the first attempt had been unsuccessful.

_https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnwzIr8nY4E

 

[Ca.]

F-in Bizarre. Wounder if this situation was do to a mental malfunction.

I'd be trembling too coming off what ever he's pumped up with?

AZ CAPITOL
_http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2016/06/20/bail-denied-for-uk-man-accused-of-trying-to-kill-trump/
Bail denied for UK man accused of trying to kill Trump
By: The Associated Press June 20, 2016 , 7:03 pm

A British man accused of trying to take a police officer’s gun and kill Donald Trump during a weekend rally in Las Vegas will not be released on bail.

Federal Magistrate Judge George Foley said at a hearing Monday that Michael Steven Sandford, 20, was a potential danger to the community and a flight risk. Sandford, who wore leg irons and appeared to tremble during the court hearing, is charged with an act of violence on restricted grounds and was assigned a federal public defender.

He has not entered a plea.

Public defender Heather Fraley said Sandford appeared to be competent and hadn’t been diagnosed with a mental illness but has autism and previously attempted suicide. He was living out of his car, didn’t have a job and was in the country illegally after overstaying a visa.

His mother told court researchers that he was treated for obsessive compulsive disorder and anorexia when he was younger, and that he once escaped a hospital in England, according to the public defender.

Fraley argued that Sandford should go to a halfway house because he didn’t have a criminal history, but the judge said he should stay in detention ahead of a July 5 court date.

Secret Service agents said Sandford went to a Trump rally on Saturday at the Treasure Island Casino and approached a Las Vegas police officer to say he wanted an autograph from Trump. The criminal complaint said Sandford was arrested after grabbing the handle of an officer’s gun in an attempt to remove it from a holster.

Agents said Sandford told them he had been in the U.S. for about a year and a half, lived in Hoboken, New Jersey, and drove to the San Bernardino, California, area before coming to Las Vegas on June 16.

Sandford told officers he had been planning an assassination for about a year and was convinced he would die in the attempt. He said he also reserved a ticket for a Trump rally in Phoenix, scheduled for later in the day, as a backup plan.

He told authorities that he went to the Battlefield Vegas shooting range the day before the rally and fired 20 rounds from a 9mm Glock pistol to learn how to use it. Police detectives who visited the range spoke with an employee who confirmed that he provided Sandford shooting lessons, according to the complaint signed by Secret Service Special Agent Joseph Hall.

About 1,500 people attended the Las Vegas rally, which was held in the Mystere Theater inside the casino. Attendees had to pass through metal detectors manned by Secret Service, police and casino security officials.

 

[angelburst29]

Man tried to kill Trump at Las Vegas rally

http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2016/06/21/471360/US-Donald-Trump

Verbal violence in this Presidential campaign is getting out-of-hand? I doubt they will arrest this "Bruce Ash" character? I am personally horrified and ashamed of what "America" has become!

An Arizona Republican National Committee Member Calls For Trump Staffers To Be ‘SHOT IN THE BACK OF THE HEAD’
http://dailycaller.com/2016/06/20/republican-national-committee-member-calls-for-trump-staffers-to-be-shot-in-the-back-of-the-head/

A Republican National Committeeman from Arizona has called for Donald Trump’s Arizona campaign staffers to be killed because of their gross ineptitude.

The committee member is Bruce Ash, reports the Arizona Independent.
https://arizonadailyindependent.com/2016/06/18/arizona-rnc-committeeman-calls-for-trump-operatives-to-be-shot-in-the-head/

Ash suggested the executions on Saturday during an interview on Tucson AM talk radio station KVOI as he was criticizing Trump staffers for failing to prevent the appointment of former Utah Congresswoman Enid Mickelsen to the rules committee at the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland.

Ash described Mickelsen as someone who is loyal to 2012 GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney. He also described Trump’s Arizona campaign as an organization in terrible disarray.

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[bjorb]

For some who worried that Trump would not be the typical psychopath the PTB can put on a leash. I think that they have plenty of info to keep him in check. You just have to put those psychopaths/pedophiles on tape, and they are yours forever. Every 'decent' psychopath could not resist raping someone if they get the chance.


Epstein scandal connections: Trump accused of raping 13-year-old girl
https://www.sott.net/article/320711-Epstein-scandal-connections-Trump-accused-of-raping-13-year-old-girl
A lawsuit filed in federal court in New York has accused presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump of repeatedly raping a 13-year-old girl more than two decades ago. A suit with similar allegations filed by the same plaintiff was dismissed in California.

The suit filed Monday, first reported by The Real Deal, alleges that the rapes occurred in 1994 at Upper East Side parties hosted by ex-hedge fund manager and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Trump had known Epstein for seven years by that time.

The plaintiff, known only as Jane Doe, claims that Trump and Epstein lured her and other girls to the parties at Epstein's mansion with promises of a modeling career. The plaintiff said that instead she was sexually assaulted by the two men in a way the suit characterizes as "savage."

The complaint alleges that Trump tied the plaintiff to the bed and raped her. It claims that when she pleaded for him to stop, Trump struck her in the face with an open hand and screamed "that he would do whatever he wanted," according to the suit.

"Immediately following this rape, Defendant Trump threatened me that, were I ever to reveal any of the details of Defendant Trump's sexual and physical abuse of me, my family and I would be physically harmed if not killed," the plaintiff said in an affidavit, according to the New York Daily News.

Epstein is claimed to have subsequently raped the plaintiff twice, and to have reiterated violent threats against her family.

Some of the claims of girls being lured to parties were corroborated by another anonymous woman identified as Tiffany Doe. She claims that Epstein met her at the Port Authority and paid her to recruit other underage girls for his parties.

A very similar lawsuit was filed by the same Jane Doe in federal court in Los Angeles. That suit included claims that Trump gave the plaintiff money for an abortion after she expressed fear of pregnancy, and that Trump called Epstein, but these allegations are nowhere to be found in the latest complaint.

The Los Angeles lawsuit - which asked for $100 million in damages - was dismissed by a judge last month, and the Trump campaign called it "categorically false" and "disgusting."

While Monday's suit may not have the price tag or some of the sensational claims of its forerunner, it still has the core allegations of sexual assault.

Doe said in the filing that she remained silent on the matter for so many years because she was afraid of the threats against her family being carried out, but said she remains traumatized by the incident due to the media coverage of Trump.

The Donald Trump campaign did not immediately respond to RT's request for comment.

 

[realitybugll]

It won't take a third party candidate to foil Trump2016, If he can't raise money. We may be witnessing the end of his campaign. It's remarkable how Trump did against the big spending campaigns of Cruz Rubio And Bush. But General election is very different from republican primary. Needs money.

 

[Mal7]

I think Putin also sort of endorsed him, ...

Yes.
Putin had good things to say about him. I think a question to C's might be helpful -- regarding Trump's true nature and motivations. (The answers may be rather surprising I think.)

As previously noted, Putin was being "diplomatic". In fact, I think Putin was being "innocently sarcastic". What he said was that Trump was a "smart guy" or words to that effect. He never said he was a good guy nor did he endorse him.

Here's a recent video of Putin explaining what he said about Trump earlier in the year. His earlier remark was translated from Russian to say that Trump was "bright", which many took to mean "smart" or "intelligent", and Trump talk to mean "He called me a genius" :) . In this video Putin clarifies that the meaning he intended was more like "colourful" than "intelligent".

Putin also says in this video that he will work with whichever candidate is elected by the American people, and that is not his place to endorse one candidate over another. He does question though how democratic the process of using the votes of superdelegates to nominate a candidate is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avBAT6Op0lU "Putin on Donald Trump and US elections". Video posted by Inessa S, 19 June 2016.

Video description:

Fareed Zakaria, as a host on CNN, is known to misquote Putin as well as misrepresent Russia's intentions to the world. At the St Petersburg Economic Forum 2016, Zakaria wasn't going to get away with that very easily...
It's important to understand that Trump, unlike Hillary, is the candidate that doesn't call for war with Russia, and that's the extent of Putin's apparent support for Mr Trump.

Similarly, Putin mentions some uncomfortable truths in relation to the not entirely democratic nature of the US Presidential elections.

And when was the last time Mr Obama invited international, non-Western media to come and speak to him?

 

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Sputnik
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Poll Shows 10% of Voters Prefer a Giant Meteorite to Trump or Clinton
http://sputniknews.com/us/20160702/1042324152/poll-shows-voters-prefer-meteor.html

A recent poll showed that one in ten respondents would rather trust their fate to a giant meteorite than vote for Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump. Public Policy Polling asked participants, “If the choices for President were Democrat Hillary Clinton, Republican Donald Trump, and a Giant Meteor hitting the earth which would you choose?”

The giant meteorite came in third, with 13%. Trump came in second, with 38%, and Clinton took the lead with 43%. The remaining 7% could not choose. The giant meteorite found support across ideological lines, gaining approval from 21% of conservative voters, 16% of moderate voters and 23% of liberal voters.

Men proved to be more in favor of the meteorite than women, and Democrats and Republicans support a flying space rock slamming into the Earth equally. Interestingly, 27% of independent voters supported the meteorite, as opposed to 35% supporting Clinton and 31% supporting Trump.
A combination photo shows Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump (L) and Democratic US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton (R)
© REUTERS/ Scott Audette (L), Javier Galeano (R)
Trump, Clinton Tie as Most Unpopular US Presidential Candidates Ever - Poll

Among the non-space-death-kill-rock options, Clinton leads Trump by a mere four points, 45% to 41%, with 5% opting for Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party candidate, 2% for the Green Party’s Jill Stein and 7% were undecided.

The poll company surveyed 853 registered voters during a period from June 27–28, via internet and landline telephone calls. The poll’s margin of error was 3.4 percentage points.

RT
Trump’s primary strategy not fit for general elections – Game theorist to FishTank
Published on Jun 29, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyWgPg3v81I

 

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How to Stop Trump (Part 1): Guest Lecture by Al Giordano 6 Parts
Published on May 30, 2016

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On April 6th, 2016, Al Giordano gave a guest lecture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison titled "How to Stop Trump"

Added Bio:
Al Giordano
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Giordano
Al Giordano is an American journalist, political commentator, and former anti-nuclear and environmental activist and organizer. Several news sources report that Giordano plans to run in Vermont in 2018 for the US Senate seat currently held by Bernie Sanders.[1][2][3]
Career
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Giordano#Career
From 1989 to 1993, Giordano was a staff reporter on the Franklin County, MA, Valley Advocate, based in their Springfield, MA, office.[16] From 1993 to 1996, he worked as a political reporter on the Boston Phoenix[17] and The Nation.[18][19] In 1997, Giordano left the U.S. for Chiapas, Mexico, intending to join the Zapatista Army of National Liberation.[20] The rebels, however, insisted that Giordano could serve them best as a journalist.[20] As a result, Giordano started his own online periodical, The Narco News Bulletin,[20] which he launched in spring of 2000.[21] The Narco News Bulletin's coverage of the War on Drugs included a "string of scoops"[22] and led to the resignation of the Associated Press's Bolivia correspondent.[22] Giordano manages the site from Mexico, where he currently lives.[23]
Giordano has been credited by James Wolcott as the first journalist to predict that the presidential campaign of Barack Obama would be successful.[24]

Mexico Map.
http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/map/google_map_mexico.htm

 

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C-SPAN Callers "VERY DISAPPOINTED" In The FBI Decision Not To Charge Hillary Clinton ........ Voices of Sanity
Published on Jul 5, 2016
wwwMOXNEWScom

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[JEEP]

In case anyone still has any doubt:

‘I Feel a Deep Sense of Remorse,’ Donald Trump’s Ghostwriter Says

Donald J. Trump has regularly boasted about “The Art of the Deal,” his best-selling autobiography, as a business bible that demonstrates the sharp negotiating prowess he would bring to the presidency. The book, released in 1987, details his rise to the top of New York’s real estate world; it helped spawn his career as a reality television star and cemented his image as a winner with a golden touch.

But Tony Schwartz, the book’s ghostwriter, who spent 18 months in the 1980s interviewing and shadowing Mr. Trump, says that it is really a work of fiction.

In an interview with The New Yorker magazine for its July 25 issue, Mr. Schwartz explained publicly, and for the first time, what he learned from living in Mr. Trump’s world. Here are some highlights.

The Art of Regret

Mr. Schwartz, a former magazine writer who said he worked on the book because he needed the money, told the writer Jane Mayer that he painted Mr. Trump in the most positive light that he could, thinking that a sympathetic character would be better for the book’s sales than a story about a cruel tycoon. If he could do it over again, however, Mr. Schwartz said the book would be titled “The Sociopath.”

“I feel a deep sense of remorse that I contributed to presenting Trump in a way that brought him wider attention and made him more appealing than he is,” Mr. Schwartz said. “I genuinely believe that if Trump wins and gets the nuclear codes, there is an excellent possibility it will lead to the end of civilization.”

The Mind of Mr. Trump

“He’s a living black hole!” Mr. Schwartz said he used to tell his wife after long days with Mr. Trump. He described Mr. Trump as a painful interview subject who could not handle questions that required any depth to answer and who had little recollection of his youth. When pressed, Mr. Schwartz said, Mr. Trump would grow fidgety, angry and sometimes quit despite the fact that they were ostensibly working together on the book. He had no attention span, Mr. Schwartz said.

“If he had to be briefed on a crisis in the Situation Room, it’s impossible to imagine him paying attention over a long period of time,” Mr. Schwartz said of Mr. Trump’s inability to focus.

A Thirst for Attention

People often ask Mr. Trump why he is really running for president, and he has always responded by saying that he wants to make America great. Mr. Schwartz has a different theory, explaining the bid as part of a continuum of Mr. Trump’s need for attention. He recalled that as a young man, Mr. Trump was happy to receive publicity of any kind, luring the tabloids to chronicle his life. His turn as the host of “The Apprentice,” the NBC reality show, solidified him as a media star, and running for president was the next logical step, Mr. Schwartz said.

“If he could run for emperor of the world, he would,” Mr. Schwartz said.

A Kernel of Truth

Mr. Trump has driven many fact checkers to near madness in the last year, and Mr. Schwartz was not surprised. During the time he spent with Mr. Trump, he said, the businessman would regularly exaggerate or outright lie to get the upper hand.

“Lying is second nature to him,” Mr. Schwartz told The New Yorker. “More than anyone else I have ever met, Trump has the ability to convince himself that whatever he is saying at any given moment is true, or sort of true, or at least ought to be true.”

It was Mr. Schwartz who coined the phrase “truthful hyperbole,” referring to Mr. Trump’s notion of harmless lies, in “The Art of the Deal.” He said that Mr. Trump loved the phrase.

A Hands-Off Author

Many celebrities have ghost writers who do the bulk of the work on a book, but Mr. Schwartz said he was struck by how Mr. Trump took all of the credit but did practically none of the work. After reviewing the manuscript on which Mr. Schwartz had spent more than a year, Mr. Trump returned it with a few scribbles of a red marker, removing the names of some people he decided he did not want to criticize publicly.

Although Mr. Trump claims to be the author of the best business book of all time, Howard Kaminsky, the former head of Random House, which published “The Art of the Deal,” begged to differ.

“Trump didn’t write a postcard for us!” he told The New Yorker.

Mr. Trump pushed back against the accusation that he had little role in the production of the book, telling the magazine, “I wrote the book. It was my book.”

As for Mr. Schwartz, Mr. Trump called him and expressed disappointment at how disloyal he had been. “Have a nice life,” Mr. Trump said, according to Mr. Schwartz, before hanging up.

_http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/19/us/politics/trump-book-tony-schwartz.html?_r=0

And here's the 'why' of those who are for him:

Divided America: To some, Trump is a desperate survival bid

This story is part of Divided America, AP's ongoing exploration of the economic, social and political divisions in American society.

LOGAN, W.Va. — Mike Kirk leans across the counter of the pawnshop where he works for $11 an hour. It's less than half what he made in the mines, but the best he can do these days.

He and two customers ponder what this city might look like in 10 years if nothing changes. Many of the storefronts on the narrow downtown streets are empty. Some of the buildings burned. Their blackened shells, "condemned" signs taped to the doors, stand as a symbol of how far they've fallen.

In 10 years? A ghost town, one customer offers. The other wonders if it might simply cease to exist.

There are places like this across America — poor and getting poorer, feeling left behind while the rest got richer. But nowhere has the plummet of the white working class been as merciless as here in central Appalachia. And nowhere have the cross-currents of desperation and boiling resentment that have devoured a presidential race been on such glaring display.

It used to be that young people could finish high school and get a job in the mines that paid enough to feed their families. Now the mines are idle. The railroad tracks that used to back up traffic as coal trains barreled through town sit mostly silent, weeds growing up around the ties.

Families are fleeing. The population of Logan County is 35,000, half what it was 50 years ago. More than 96 percent of residents are white; one in five lives in poverty; few have college degrees. Drug abuse is rampant. The life expectancy for men is 68 years old; they die eight years younger than the average American man.

Even cremations are up at the funeral home down the street. People can't afford caskets anymore.

"Look around, this town went to hell," said Kirk, who lost his $28-an-hour job on a strip mine and his three-bedroom house with a two-car garage. He and his wife and children moved in with his mother. He took this pawn shop job because it paid a little more than the used car dealership, his only other option. His town has grown full of for-sale signs as family after family says goodbye and moves to one of those places that fared far better as Appalachia fell apart.

The unemployment rate is 11 percent, compared to less than 5 percent nationwide. Many have given up working altogether: West Virginia is the only state in America where less than half of working-aged people work. More than 12 percent of Logan County residents collect Social Security disability checks, three times the national average.

They gave up on their politicians — they elected both Republicans and Democrats and believe both failed them in favor of chasing campaign contributions from the class above them and votes from the one below, the neighbors they suspect would rather collect government welfare than get a job.

Anxiety turned to despair, said James Branscome, a retired managing director of Standard & Poor's and a former staff member at the Appalachian Regional Commission. And desperate people, throughout history, have turned to tough-talking populists.

And that is how, in one of America's forgotten corners, the road was perfectly paved for the ascent of Donald Trump. He won by spectacular margins all across the coalfields. From Appalachia to the Rust Belt to the hollowing manufacturing towns in the Midwest, Trump collected his most ardent supporters in places like this.

"He offers us hope," Kirk said, "and hope's the one thing we have left."

Peter Atwater, a consultant who studies the tides of consumer confidence, describes the collapse of the coalfields as a microcosm of the indignation burning across America that has come to define the 2016 campaign. Its power may determine the next president of the United States.

The average Republican is as pessimistic about the economy today as the day Lehman Brothers collapsed, eight years ago, Atwater said. That perception of decline — that the country is careening in the wrong direction — can be as politically potent as watching your hometown wither, he said.

The non-profit Public Religion Research Institute calls such people "nostalgia voters." Daniel Cox, the organization's research director, said an uneven recovery from the recession lined up with societal shifts — the election of the first non-white president, a rising minority population, the decreasing influence of Christian values. It left many in struggling, blue-collar communities across the country feeling deserted for the sake of progress someplace else.

"Today, we're not interested in the plan, we're interested in the slogan," Atwater said. "When confidence falls, it's all too complicated to understand an elaborate plan or an articulated policy. We don't want to wait for the details; we don't want to read the footnotes. Just give me a powerful headline."

Trump promised to build the wall. Create jobs. Destroy ISIS. He blamed immigrants and China and Muslims for America's woes.

He stood on a stage in West Virginia, put on a hard hat and pantomimed shoveling coal. He promised to make them win again.

His critics warn that his red-blooded, racially tinged rants threaten to unravel the very fabric of the nation. Here, the same words translate as truth-telling.

His call caught fire so fervently that some are staking their families' futures on whether he wins in November.

Like Ashley Kominar, a 33-year-old mother of three whose husband lost his job in the mines in Mingo County. She now knows what it means to choose whether to buy food or pay the electric bill.

Kominar is a registered Democrat, like almost everybody else here. This region was reliably Democratic for generations. Then the once-mighty United Mine Workers of America crumbled in the 1990s, and Democrats lost their grip. Last month, in a place where President Bill Clinton had been greeted like a rock star, Hillary Clinton was heckled and flipped the bird.

Kominar considers Trump a businessman: tough, a little too combative, but so different from any politician she's seen that he just might be able to save this place. If he wins, she will stay in West Virginia. If he loses, she said, she will flee.

"I don't know exactly what's in his head, what his vision is for us," she said. "But I know he has one and that's what counts."

The phone in Truman Chafin's office in Mingo County rang three times before noon on a recent Thursday, and each time the friend on the line detailed their economic plight: lost jobs, missed mortgage payments, hungry children.

Chafin, a Democrat who represented this district in the state Senate for 32 years before voters ousted him in a Republican sweep of the statehouse in 2014, mocks Trump and his promise to fix it all; he even dressed up like him for a Halloween party. But he understands the drumbeat of disappointment that has led so many of his neighbors to plunk signs in their yards that read "Make America Great Again."

"They're looking for somebody to give them some hope and here comes this elixir salesman who says, 'Drink this and all will be good,'" Chafin said. "He's playing to the short-term sound bites and that's what people want to hear."

Chafin's own daughter relocated to South Carolina and told him she'll never move back. There's nothing left for her here, she told him.

There are pockets like this across America. A think tank called the Economic Innovation Group created the Distressed Communities Index , which combines several factors for every county — poverty rate, the percentage of people without a college degree, the number of abandoned homes.

The most distressed patches stretch through Appalachia and across the deep South, cutting across swing states like North Carolina, Ohio, Virginia and Florida. Trump won in rich places and poor places and places in between. But an analysis shows that Trump's strongest support among early primary Republican voters increased along with the level of economic hardship in their communities.

In Hamilton County, Florida, 29 percent of the population lives in poverty, two-thirds of adults don't work and the median household income stands at $35,629, nearly $20,000 less than the American average. Trump collected 57 percent of the primary vote. In Columbus County, North Carolina, which suffers similar statistics, Trump won 61 percent.

Buchanan County, Virginia, is much like its West Virginia neighbors. The unemployment rate hovers higher than 10 percent. Young people are fleeing in droves. A quarter of people live in poverty and one in five rely on disability. In March, 70 percent of primary voters cast their ballot for Trump, with four other candidates still in the race.

"Americans are becoming fed up with politicians promising them the moon and delivering them far less," said Gerald Arrington, Buchanan County's elected county prosecutor, a 37-year-old Democrat who cast his first ballot for Bill Clinton in 1996. This time he voted for Trump.

"Everyone is so used to politician-speak. He's refreshing," he said. "Maybe part of it is his ego. His ego is going to make him want to be the greatest president ever. He's a winner."

After a recent Trump rally in West Virginia, countless news articles and academics dismissed Trump's pledge to bring back coal as impossible, tied to market forces and geology. Chuck Keeney, a professor of political science and history at Southern Community College in Logan, often hears his students dismiss the criticism as the establishment, the very machine that ignored them for so long, beating up on Trump now, too.

"What they see in their minds is the elite that looks down on them, mocks them, makes fun of them, thinks they're stupid," Keeney said. "They see all those establishment groups ganging up on Donald Trump and that makes them root for him more."

Albert Adams worked at a mine for 27 years until every day started to bring more bad news. Layoffs. Slashed hours. Cut pay. He and a friend saved their money for a year, quit their jobs and opened up Big Al's Auto and Small Engine Repair to try to build a life after coal.

They hung a "Make America Great Again" sign over the coffee maker.

Adams doesn't like everything Trump has to say, particularly about immigration. He imagines immigrants are a lot like West Virginians: hard workers, doomed by the place of their birth to be down on their luck, looking for a better life.

His conundrum is echoed all over these mountains. People like Trump's delivery, the rat-a-tat-tat of promises and insults so unscripted they figure he couldn't have given it enough forethought to be pandering. Yet they're occasionally disturbed by the contents.

Adams' business partner, Leslie Arthur, isn't quite sure Trump should be trusted with the nuclear codes. Mike Honaker, who runs the local funeral home, doesn't appreciate how he talks about women. Mike Kirk in the pawn shop cringes when he hurls schoolyard taunts.

But they agree with him more often than not and they're willing to forgive because they believe the political machine has left them with no other option.

Coalfield communities have always been poor. But life here has never felt this hopeless, Adams said. People can no longer imagine what a future might look like. Coal will never completely bounce back. There are no factories, no infrastructure to build any and no companies that want to relocate to a place cut off from the rest of America by mountains.

So piles of lawnmowers and weed-eaters grow outside Adams' new shop. People he's known his whole life come by often trying to sell whatever they have left to pay their rent, keep their cars running, feed their kids.

"If this town does come back, I'll be dead and gone before we see it," Adams said.

He and Arthur hammered a new wheel onto a Ford, a $300 job they did on credit because the out-of-work miner can't afford it right now.

They knew opening this shop was a gamble. Maybe they'll win and stay afloat, maybe they won't. Maybe Trump can fix it. Maybe it can't be fixed.

Adams doesn't fault his friends and neighbors who left it behind.

Sometimes he thinks of packing it all up and moving himself. He figures he'd head west, where the coal seams still run thick.

A very sad & tragic state of affairs.

 

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Alex Jones Rams Trump Protesters, Provoking Scuffle Near GOP Convention
http://sputniknews.com/us/20160720/1043307469/alex-jones-scuffle.html

When Jones get's on his level he looks completely possessed, ready to go, wrestle a 500 pound mutant alligator. I mean, just look at his face expression.


Muslims, militant blacks, militant conspiracy theorists. Fabricated reasons enough for permanent martial law. We can thank Jones for the last one.

I checked his youtube feed. These days he is selling demented arcane BS about the Muslim problem, yet he is no stranger of calling all terror attacks false flags.

His main conspiracy theory is all about how the MSM is hiding the Muslim problem. And he has made Trump the Messiah who will save us all from it.


We all knew that Jones was heading his herd to some dead end. Seems we finally got to the plot.