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#31
Quote:I’m worried,” Bush told them, “that I will be the last Republican president.” Donald Trump, who will officially become the Republican nominee on Tuesday, has done little to inspire renewed confidence since. Instead, he has solidified himself as an erratic, underfunded and scattershot candidate, plagued by staff turmoil and missed opportunities. In the run-up to the convention, he sued a former aide for $10 million. He canceled his vice-presidential announcement citing a terror attack in France, went on cable news and declared America to be in a world war and then announced his pick at the original time slot anyway on Twitter. Within hours, Trump was rocked by leaks from within his inner circle about his own late-night waffling on the single most significant decision a presidential candidate can make.
Inside the GOP’s Shadow Convention - POLITICO Magazine
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#32
Quote:The founder of the American Muslims for Trump group, has made a speech and said a prayer at the Republican National Convention - angering some GOP delegates and baffling others. The convention hall fell largely silent as Sajid Tarar made his speech late into the night, with scores of delegates walking out. Chants of "No Islam!" could be heard as Mr Tarar said a prayer for Mr Trump.
American Muslims for Trump leader says a prayer at Republican convention with delegates shouting 'No Islam!'

Quote:President Obama held his first prime-time press briefing — designed to build support for the economic stimulus package that was his top priority upon taking office — on Feb. 9, 2009. Later that same night, real estate mogul Donald Trump took to the airwaves to sing the plan’s — and the president’s — praises. “I thought he did a terrific job,” Trump told Fox News’s Greta Van Susteren. “This is a strong guy knows what he wants, and this is what we need.”
That Time Donald Trump Praised The Stimulus Package On Fox News - BuzzFeed News
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#33
Quote:Former President George W. Bush told aides he's worried he may be the last Republican to live in the White House, according to Politico. He made remarks at an April reunion for staff of his administration that included former Vice President Dick Cheney, Politico reported. "I'm worried," Bush told the group, according to Politico, "that I will be the last Republican president."
George W. Bush worried he'll be 'the last Republican president'

Quote:While he was working on the book, Trump gave Schwartz unprecedented access to his business dealings, letting him listen in on dozens of calls. As a result, Schwartz says, he got to know Trump better than anyone outside his family. In a new interview with the New Yorker, Schwartz says he "genuinely" believes that if Trump were the president of the United States, "there is an excelled possibility it will lead to the end of civilization":
Trump’s ghostwriter: he's a sociopath who, if elected president, could end civilization - Vox
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#35
Quote:On Monday night, South Carolina pastor Rev. Mark Burns took the stage to deliver the benediction for the convention’s first afternoon session. Although a relatively unknown Trump campaign surrogate, his scheduled prayer had created some buzz: Burns is a preacher of the so-called “prosperity gospel,” a deeply capitalist — and highly controversial — form of Christianity that has traditionally championed money and wealth but shied away from politics. Last night, however, Burns shattered any misconception that prosperity preachers cannot be political. Instead, he delivered a prayer that unapologetically asked God to side with Republicans over Democrats, a move that sharply broke from the long legacy of relatively non-partisan prayers at conventions.
Trump’s Top Pastor Delivers What May Be The Most Partisan Prayer In Convention History | ThinkProgress

Quote:Mark Halperin is reporting for Bloomberg Politics that "a source familiar with Trump's thinking" says that Donald Trump intends to create and fund Super PACs that would aim to derail the political careers of Ted Cruz and John Kasich, primary opponents who have refused to endorse him. According to the Bloomberg report, this plan would entail Trump investing as much as $20 million of his own money in the super PACs, which would spend against Cruz and Kasich in future elections. This comes after Trump lashed out at Cruz and Kasich at a press conference earlier on Friday, including resurfacing allegations that Cruz's father was involved in the Kennedy assassination.
Trump's made apparent threats to fund Super PACs against Cruz and Kasich - Business Insider

Quote:There’s also the decimation of collective bargaining, which is the single largest reason that middle class wages have faltered. Meanwhile, the minimum wage is now more than 25 percent below its 1968 level, even though productivity since then has more than doubled. Phasing in a $15 minimum wage would lift wages for at least a third of the workforce. The most recent example is the effort to overturn the recent raising of the overtime threshold that would help more than 12 million middle-wage salaried workers obtain overtime protections.
The Trump trade scam | Economic Policy Institute
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#36
This is rather disturbing, the whole article is worth a read:

Quote:If the Russian president could design a candidate to undermine American interests—and advance his own—he’d look a lot like Donald Trump. Yesterday, Donald Trump told the New York Times that he would not necessarily come to the aid of NATO states threatened by Russia and would make his decision to defend them from an attack after reviewing whether they “have fulfilled their obligations to us.” It was the latest statement from Trump that was likely greeted with delight in the Kremlin. Earlier this month, Franklin Foer wrote on the frightening ways in which Trump seems to be playing right into Vladimir Putin's plans for destabilizing the West.

Donald Trump is like the Kremlin’s favored candidates, only more so. He celebrated the United Kingdom’s exit from the EU. He denounces NATO with feeling. He is also a great admirer of Vladimir Putin. Trump’s devotion to the Russian president has been portrayed as buffoonish enthusiasm for a fellow macho strongman. But Trump’s statements of praise amount to something closer to slavish devotion. In 2007, he praised Putin for “rebuilding Russia.” A year later he added, “He does his work well. Much better than our Bush.” When Putin ripped American exceptionalism in a New York Times op-ed in 2013, Trump called it “a masterpiece.” Despite ample evidence, Trump denies that Putin has assassinated his opponents: “In all fairness to Putin, you’re saying he killed people. I haven’t seen that.” In the event that such killings have transpired, they can be forgiven: “At least he’s a leader.” And not just any old head of state: “I will tell you that, in terms of leadership, he’s getting an A.”
Vladimir Putin has a plan for destroying the West, and it looks a lot like Donald Trump.
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#37
Quote:But Mr. Trump’s framing is in direct conflict with the view even of many economists who are sympathetic to the idea that current trade arrangements work to the detriment of American workers and want to see change. In the more widespread view among economists, trade deficits are not inherently good or bad; they can be either, depending on circumstances. The trade deficit is not a scorecard. What’s more, eliminating the trade deficit would not, on its own, make America great again, as Mr. Trump promises. In fact, trying to eliminate the trade deficit could mean giving up some of the key levers of power that allow the United States to get its way in international politics. Getting rid of the trade deficit could very well make America less great. The reasons have to do with the global reserve currency, economic diplomacy and something called the Triffin dilemma.
What Donald Trump Doesn’t Understand About the Trade Deficit - The New York Times

Quote:Donald Trump has threatened to pull the US out of the World Trade Organisation if he enters the White House, as the Republican presidential nominee branded the body a "disaster". In an escalation of the protectionist rhetoric used so far throughout his campaign, Mr Trump vowed to "renegotiate" its relationship with the international trade body if it tried to block his policies. Mr Trump said in an interview with NBC that he wanted to levy a tax of between 15pc and 35pc on the goods of US companies that move activity outside of the country. When asked how he would implement the policy, which might be challenged by the WTO, Mr Trump said: "Then we’re going to renegotiate or we’re going to pull out. These trade deals are a disaster. The World Trade Organisation is a disaster."
Donald Trump threatens to pull US out of the World Trade Organisation
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#38
Quote:Since 1980, though, every party nominee has produced a tax return, and all but three have released their returns well before the balloons descended at the convention. An early exception was Ronald Reagan, who didn’t comply until after winning the nomination that year. Subsequently, it became standard practice to act much earlier.
Here's Why Donald Trump 'Not Releasing His Taxes' Could Be Disastrous for his Candidacy - Fortune

Quote:The two of us have studied negotiation for a combined 40 years, have taught tens of thousands of students and executives, and advised on countless corporate and government negotiations. Because we would welcome a great negotiator as president, we were keenly interested in examining the evidence of Trump’s alleged negotiation prowess. We evaluated his wealth, his deals, and his approach to negotiation. The evidence is damning.
Trump says he’s a great negotiator, but the evidence says otherwise • The Berkeley Blog

Quote:"If we had people, where the bullets were going in the opposite direction, right smack between the eyes of this maniac," Trump said. "If some of those wonderful people had guns strapped to their waist, strapped to their ankle, and this son of a b---- comes out and starts shooting, and one of the people in that room happened to have [a gun] and goes 'boom.' You know what folks, that would have been a beautiful, beautiful sight." Trump made similar comments after the deadly terrorist attacks in Paris in November. Trump's tweet on Monday came a day after even some of the nation's top gun-rights advocates distanced themselves from the real-estate mogul.
Donald Trump walks back armed clubgoer support - Business Insider
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#39
Hmm, the writer of the Art of the Deal doesn't seem to be a Trump supporter

Quote:I’m one of the very few people who really saw this man up close and isn’t constrained by a NDA [non-disclosure agreement],” he said in an interview with Fortune this week. “The reason I’ve chosen to come forward is I believe Trump is deeply unqualified and would be extremely dangerous as President by virtue of his easily aroused anger and thin skin.” Below is a transcript of the interview, edited for length and clarity.

What do you think Trump’s Achilles’ heel is? When you needle him and when you make him feel either not valuable or important or smart or even good looking, he gets very, very reactive, and he doesn’t operate on rational terms. We’ve seen this in the presidential campaign. Donald Trump’s vanity was basically all I saw of him. He was about Donald Trump all the time. And his interest was in knowing how you felt about him and whether you recognized that the last thing he said he did was even greater than the last thing he told you about.

I do not think Trump has friends. I had seen no evidence of that. He had business acquaintances and relationships with people who worked with him. Trump’s acquaintances were almost exclusively with wealthy people. This is not a guy who spent a moment thinking about the “people.” He wants to hang out with people he thinks are “winners”—people who have a lot of money and will tell him he’s the greatest.
Tony Schwartz, 'Art of the Deal' Ghostwriter, on Trump's Weakness - Fortune
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#40
Sacrifices, sacrifices..

Quote:Trump responded by claiming that he has, in fact, made sacrifices. "I think I've made a lot of sacrifices," Trump told ABC's George Stephanopoulos on Saturday. "I work very, very hard." When Stephanopoulos asked Trump exactly what sacrifices he's made, Trump said that he's had "tremendous success" and has created "tens of thousands of jobs" and "built great structures."
Donald Trump responds to DNC speaker Khizr Khan - Business Insider

He worked very hard. Did anybody force him to do that? Did anyone robbed him of the spoils of his success?
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