PoliticusUSA
May 28, 2016
When Donald J. Trump told Republicans that his campaign had money, it was a lie.
In meetings with Senate Republicans, Trump's campaign privately admitted that they have no money and will not be able to run television ads until after the Republican convention in July.
When Republicans nominated Trump, they thought that they were getting a billionaire who could help the party raise money while throwing his own cash into the pot for his White House bid.
What the GOP is stuck with is a deadbeat who talks a good game that they are going to have to fund in the general election because he is either unwilling or unable to pull his own weight.
Donald Trump's wealth appears to be a myth; and it's obvious that Trump is using the Republican Party to build his cult of personality.
Trump's inability to run ads in June and July is a gift to Democrats, who should be blanketing the airwaves over the next two months.
Democrats have a chance to define Trump, and he can't fight back.
Donald Trump's "business sense" has struck again.
This time Trump has bankrupted his presidential campaign, and is expecting Republicans to pick up the tab.
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Tuesday, May 31, 2016
Monday, May 30, 2016
Vince Foster's Sister Pens Blistering Op-Ed Shaming Trump For His Insane Conspiracy Theories
Source:
Raw Story
Although many pundits have thoroughly debunked this conspiracy theory, no one has done so more powerfully than Vince Foster's own sister, who has written a blistering op-ed for the Washington Post that shames Trump for using her brother's death for political gain.
"It is beyond contempt that a politician would use a family tragedy to further his candidacy, but such is the character of Donald Trump displayed in his recent comments to the Washington Post," writes Sheila Foster Anthony.
"In this interview, Trump cynically, crassly and recklessly insinuated that my brother,
Vincent W. Foster Jr. , may have been murdered because he had intimate knowledge of what was going on and that Hillary Clinton may have somehow played a role in Vince's death.
How wrong...How irresponsible...How cruel."
Anthony goes on to note that "five investigations, including by independent counsels
Robert. B. Fixke Jr, and Kenneth Starr, concluded that Vince suffered from severe depression that caused him to be unable to sleep, unable to work, unable to think straight,
and finally to take his own life."
She also recounts her own personal history of seeing her brother struggle with his personal demons and the intense demands of his job.
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Although many pundits have thoroughly debunked this conspiracy theory, no one has done so more powerfully than Vince Foster's own sister, who has written a blistering op-ed for the Washington Post that shames Trump for using her brother's death for political gain.
"It is beyond contempt that a politician would use a family tragedy to further his candidacy, but such is the character of Donald Trump displayed in his recent comments to the Washington Post," writes Sheila Foster Anthony.
"In this interview, Trump cynically, crassly and recklessly insinuated that my brother,
Vincent W. Foster Jr. , may have been murdered because he had intimate knowledge of what was going on and that Hillary Clinton may have somehow played a role in Vince's death.
How wrong...How irresponsible...How cruel."
Anthony goes on to note that "five investigations, including by independent counsels
Robert. B. Fixke Jr, and Kenneth Starr, concluded that Vince suffered from severe depression that caused him to be unable to sleep, unable to work, unable to think straight,
and finally to take his own life."
She also recounts her own personal history of seeing her brother struggle with his personal demons and the intense demands of his job.
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Saturday, May 28, 2016
Trump Tells Californians: "There Is No Drought"
Huffington Post
May 28, 2016
TRUMP TELLS DROUGHT-PLAGUED CALIFORNIANS:"THERE IS NO DROUGHT"
Donald Trump told voters in drought-plagued California on Friday that he had a solution to the water crisis: "Open up the water for farmers because there is no drought."
"We're going to solve your water problem..You have a water problem that is so insane," the presumptive republican presidential nominee told a crowd filled with farmers in Fresno.
"It's so ridiculous where they're taking the water and shoving it out to sea."
California is now in it's fifth year of drought, which has taken a heavy toll on agriculture in particular.
Despite an El Nino event that saw an increase last year in snow-packs that supply about one-third of California's water, 86 percent of the state is still considered to be in drought.
Trump insinuated that state officials are mismanaging water policy, at the cost of farmers and their crops.
Farmers have sharply criticized the state's irrigation policies, after cuts to water allotments forced them to leave over a million acres of farmland uncultivated last year.
Water in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, which flows into the San Francisco Bay and onto the ocean has been a particularly contentious issue.
The Delta is a key source of water to cities and farms in California's fertile Central Valley region.
Some farmers there claim politicians are bending to environmental interests and are prioritizing the habitat of fish and wetlands over farmland creating a "man-made drought."
Trump aligned with those concerns Friday when he said state officials and environmentalists are trying "to protect a three-inch fish," presumably referring to the threatened Delta smelt.
"If I win, believe me, we're going to start opening up the water, so that you can have your farmers survive so that your job market will get better," the reality TV personality told the cheering crowd.
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May 28, 2016
TRUMP TELLS DROUGHT-PLAGUED CALIFORNIANS:"THERE IS NO DROUGHT"
Donald Trump told voters in drought-plagued California on Friday that he had a solution to the water crisis: "Open up the water for farmers because there is no drought."
"We're going to solve your water problem..You have a water problem that is so insane," the presumptive republican presidential nominee told a crowd filled with farmers in Fresno.
"It's so ridiculous where they're taking the water and shoving it out to sea."
California is now in it's fifth year of drought, which has taken a heavy toll on agriculture in particular.
Despite an El Nino event that saw an increase last year in snow-packs that supply about one-third of California's water, 86 percent of the state is still considered to be in drought.
Trump insinuated that state officials are mismanaging water policy, at the cost of farmers and their crops.
Farmers have sharply criticized the state's irrigation policies, after cuts to water allotments forced them to leave over a million acres of farmland uncultivated last year.
Water in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, which flows into the San Francisco Bay and onto the ocean has been a particularly contentious issue.
The Delta is a key source of water to cities and farms in California's fertile Central Valley region.
Some farmers there claim politicians are bending to environmental interests and are prioritizing the habitat of fish and wetlands over farmland creating a "man-made drought."
Trump aligned with those concerns Friday when he said state officials and environmentalists are trying "to protect a three-inch fish," presumably referring to the threatened Delta smelt.
"If I win, believe me, we're going to start opening up the water, so that you can have your farmers survive so that your job market will get better," the reality TV personality told the cheering crowd.
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Friday, May 27, 2016
The Unbelievable Story Of Why Woody Guthrie Hated Donald Trump's Father
Source:
The Washington Post
Woody Guthrie, folk singer supreme, is known for the magisterial portraits he painted of
Dust Bowl America and his sweeping indictments of social injustice.
What's not there in the beautiful imagery of his song, "This Land Is Your Land" -- the ribbon of highway, the endless skyway, the diamond deserts -- is right there in the slogan often affixed to his guitar: "This machine kills fascists."
But artists who traffic in grand dreams are also allowed to get specific.
In one of the strangest stories yet to emerge from Donald Trump's presidential campaign, it appears that, more than half a century ago, Woody Guthrie penned lyrics condemning the candidate's father, Fred Trump, for racism.
"Donald did inherit his father's racism, and was probably actively coached in his father's racism, and worked with his father to perpetuate it," argued Will Kaufman, the professor of American Literature and Culture at Britain's University of Central Lancashire who unearthed the scoop, said in a telephone interview with the Washington Post.
"He picked up the mantle and ran with it with his father at his side..That's why people are interested in this I think."
Trump has been repeatedly accused of racism after his comments about Mexicans and has repeatedly denied such charges.
"I don't have a racist bone in my body," he has said.
The story begins with Kaufman, the author already of one book about Guthrie already at work on another and a performer of the folk hero's music, sifting through the Guthrie archives in Tulsa last year.
There, in one of Guthrie's notebooks -- which contain pages upon pages of lyrics never set to music -- he found these lines, written in the early 1950s:
"I suppose
Old man Trump knows
Just how much
Racial Hate
He stirred up
In the bloodpot of human hearts
When he drawed\That color line
Here at his
Eighteen hundred family project."
There was also this:
Beach Haven ain't my home
I just can't pay this rent!
My money's down the drain
And my soul is badly bent!
Beach Haven looks like heaven
Where no black ones come to roam!
No, no, no! Old Man Trump!
Old Beach Haven ain't my home!"
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Woody Guthrie, folk singer supreme, is known for the magisterial portraits he painted of
Dust Bowl America and his sweeping indictments of social injustice.
What's not there in the beautiful imagery of his song, "This Land Is Your Land" -- the ribbon of highway, the endless skyway, the diamond deserts -- is right there in the slogan often affixed to his guitar: "This machine kills fascists."
But artists who traffic in grand dreams are also allowed to get specific.
In one of the strangest stories yet to emerge from Donald Trump's presidential campaign, it appears that, more than half a century ago, Woody Guthrie penned lyrics condemning the candidate's father, Fred Trump, for racism.
"Donald did inherit his father's racism, and was probably actively coached in his father's racism, and worked with his father to perpetuate it," argued Will Kaufman, the professor of American Literature and Culture at Britain's University of Central Lancashire who unearthed the scoop, said in a telephone interview with the Washington Post.
"He picked up the mantle and ran with it with his father at his side..That's why people are interested in this I think."
Trump has been repeatedly accused of racism after his comments about Mexicans and has repeatedly denied such charges.
"I don't have a racist bone in my body," he has said.
The story begins with Kaufman, the author already of one book about Guthrie already at work on another and a performer of the folk hero's music, sifting through the Guthrie archives in Tulsa last year.
There, in one of Guthrie's notebooks -- which contain pages upon pages of lyrics never set to music -- he found these lines, written in the early 1950s:
"I suppose
Old man Trump knows
Just how much
Racial Hate
He stirred up
In the bloodpot of human hearts
When he drawed\That color line
Here at his
Eighteen hundred family project."
There was also this:
Beach Haven ain't my home
I just can't pay this rent!
My money's down the drain
And my soul is badly bent!
Beach Haven looks like heaven
Where no black ones come to roam!
No, no, no! Old Man Trump!
Old Beach Haven ain't my home!"
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Thursday, May 26, 2016
Sen. Elizabeth Warren Slams Trump
Source;
Yahoo Finance
May 25, 2016
Elizabeth Warren took on Donald Trump Tuesday night in a fiery speech that centered on Trump's past openness to a downturn in the real estate market.
In a speech at the Center for Popular Democracy's annual gala in Washington, D.C., Warren slammed the Republican nominee over comments from 2006, when Trump said he was "excited" for a potential market downturn so he could buy real estate at a lower cost.
"What kind of a man roots for people to get thrown out of their house?' the Democratic senator from Massachusetts said...."What kind of a man roots for people to get thrown out of their jobs?"
She continued:
"To root for people to lose their pensions, to root for two little girls in Clark County, Nevada to end up living out of a van -- What kind of man does that?....I'll tell you exactly what kind of a man does that...It's a man who cares only about himself....A small, insecure money-grubber who doesn't care who gets hurt as long as he makes a profit."
Warren also criticized Trump's promise to repeal the financial regulations implemented under the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Bill, questioning whether the real estate magnate
'could even name three things about Dodd-Frank."
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May 25, 2016
Elizabeth Warren took on Donald Trump Tuesday night in a fiery speech that centered on Trump's past openness to a downturn in the real estate market.
In a speech at the Center for Popular Democracy's annual gala in Washington, D.C., Warren slammed the Republican nominee over comments from 2006, when Trump said he was "excited" for a potential market downturn so he could buy real estate at a lower cost.
"What kind of a man roots for people to get thrown out of their house?' the Democratic senator from Massachusetts said...."What kind of a man roots for people to get thrown out of their jobs?"
She continued:
"To root for people to lose their pensions, to root for two little girls in Clark County, Nevada to end up living out of a van -- What kind of man does that?....I'll tell you exactly what kind of a man does that...It's a man who cares only about himself....A small, insecure money-grubber who doesn't care who gets hurt as long as he makes a profit."
Warren also criticized Trump's promise to repeal the financial regulations implemented under the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Bill, questioning whether the real estate magnate
'could even name three things about Dodd-Frank."
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Wednesday, May 25, 2016
As Trump Pushes Conspiracy Theories, Right-Wing Media Gets It's Wish
New York Times
May 25, 2016
WASHINGTON -- Ever since talk radio, cable news and the Internet emerged in the 1990s as potent political forces on the right, Republicans have used those media to attack their opponents through a now-familiar two-step.
Political operatives would secretly place damaging information with friendly outlets like
The Drudge Report and Fox news and radio hosts like Rush Limbaugh -- and then they would work to get the same information absorbed into the mainstream media.
Candidates themselves would avoid being seen slinging mud, if possible, so as to avoid coming across as undignified or desperate.
Yet by personally breaching topics like Bill Clinton's marital indiscretions and the conspiracy theories surrounding the suicide of Vincent W. Foster Jr., a Clinton White house aide, Donald J. Trump is again defying the norms of presidential politics and fashioning his own outrageous style -- one that has little use for a middleman, let alone usual ideas about dignity.
"They've reverse-engineered the way it has always worked because they now have a candidate willing to say it himself," said Danny Diaz, who was a top aide in Jeb Bush's presidential campaign, speaking with a measure of wonder about the spectacle of the party's presumptive nominee discussing Mr. Clinton's sexual escapades.
With Mr. Trump as the republican standard-bearer, the line separating the conservative mischief makers and the party's more buttoned-up cadre of elected officials and aides has been obliterated.
Fusing what had been two separate but symbolic forces, Mr. Trump has begun a real-life political science experiment.
What happens when a major party's nominee is more provocateur than politician?
That the republican Party has embraced someone willing to traffic in the most inflammatory of accusations comes as wish fulfillment for an element of the right that is convinced that the party lost the past two elections because it's candidates were unwilling to attack President Obama forcefully enough.
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May 25, 2016
WASHINGTON -- Ever since talk radio, cable news and the Internet emerged in the 1990s as potent political forces on the right, Republicans have used those media to attack their opponents through a now-familiar two-step.
Political operatives would secretly place damaging information with friendly outlets like
The Drudge Report and Fox news and radio hosts like Rush Limbaugh -- and then they would work to get the same information absorbed into the mainstream media.
Candidates themselves would avoid being seen slinging mud, if possible, so as to avoid coming across as undignified or desperate.
Yet by personally breaching topics like Bill Clinton's marital indiscretions and the conspiracy theories surrounding the suicide of Vincent W. Foster Jr., a Clinton White house aide, Donald J. Trump is again defying the norms of presidential politics and fashioning his own outrageous style -- one that has little use for a middleman, let alone usual ideas about dignity.
"They've reverse-engineered the way it has always worked because they now have a candidate willing to say it himself," said Danny Diaz, who was a top aide in Jeb Bush's presidential campaign, speaking with a measure of wonder about the spectacle of the party's presumptive nominee discussing Mr. Clinton's sexual escapades.
With Mr. Trump as the republican standard-bearer, the line separating the conservative mischief makers and the party's more buttoned-up cadre of elected officials and aides has been obliterated.
Fusing what had been two separate but symbolic forces, Mr. Trump has begun a real-life political science experiment.
What happens when a major party's nominee is more provocateur than politician?
That the republican Party has embraced someone willing to traffic in the most inflammatory of accusations comes as wish fulfillment for an element of the right that is convinced that the party lost the past two elections because it's candidates were unwilling to attack President Obama forcefully enough.
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Tuesday, May 24, 2016
Has Anyone Ever Disagreed With Donald Trump More Than Donald Trump?
Source:
POLITICO
DONALD TRUMP'S GREATEST CONTRADICTIONS
Donald Trump likes to say that he "tells it like it is,' and his blunt style has won him the Republican nomination, buoyed by voters who like feeling they know just where a candidate stands on the issues.
So where DOES he stand?
Over the past four decades Trump has talked about every imaginable subject: gun rights to germs, the nature of competition to pre-nuptial agreements, love and sex, self-promotion and politics.
And on every one of those topics, he has taken positions that directly contradict exactly what he has previously said.
In a world where candidates have lost elections over a single flip-flop, Trump has turned the
self-contradiction into an art form.
To create the definitive of Trump's long argument with himself, POLITICO mined an almost limitless seam of his radio and TV interviews, newspaper and magazine profiles, books written about him and books written by him, rambling campaign speeches and late-night Tweets.
Read them together and they reveal a person who may be amazingly good at gaging the moment,
but whose principles, beyond simply winning, remain elusive -- perhaps even to himself.
Has anyone ever disagreed with Donald Trump more than Donald Trump?
"I have no intention of running for president.
(Time Magazine, September 14, 1987)
"I am officially running for president."
(New York Magazine, June 16, 2015)
"I don't want it for myself. I don't need it for myself."
(ABC News, November 20, 2015)
"I wanted to do this for myself....I had to do this for myself."
(Time Magazine, August 18, 2015)
"Politicians are all talk and no action."
(Twitter, May 27, 2015)
"I'm not a politician."
(CNN, August 11, 2015)
"I'm no different than a politician running for office."
(New York Times, July 28, 2015)
"If I ever ran for office, I'd do better as a Democrat than as a Republican -- and that's not because I'd be more liberal, because I'm conservative."
(Playboy, March 1990)
"I'm a registered Republican. I'm a pretty conservative guy. I'm somewhat liberal, especially on social issues, especially health care."
(CNN, October 8, 1999)
"You'd be shocked if I said that in many cases I probably identify more as a Democrat."
(CNN, March 21, 2004)
"Look, I'm a Republican. I'm a very conservative guy in many respects-- I guess in most respects."
(The Hugh Hewitt Show, February 25, 2015)
"I've actually been an activist Democrat and Republican."
(CNN, October 8, 1999)
"Folks, I'm a conservative, but at this point, who cares? We got to straighten out the country."
(Burlingame, California, April 29, 2016)
"I'm totally pro-choice."
(Fox News, October 31, 1999)
"I'm pro-life."
(CPAC, February 10, 2011)
"Look, I'm very pro-choice. I hate the concept of abortion. I hate it. I hate everything it stands for.
I cringe when I listen to people debating the subject, but you still -- I just believe in choice....
I am strongly for choice, and yet I hate the concept of abortion...I am pro-choice in every respect..
but I just hate it."
(NBC News, October 24, 1999)
"I am very, very proud to say that I'm pro-life."
(Cleveland, Ohio, August 6, 2015)
" I think the institution of marriage should be between a man and a woman."
(The Advocate, February 15, 2000)
"If two people dig each other, they dig each other."
(Trump University "Trump Blog," December 22, 2005)
"I'm against gay marriage."
(Fox News, April 14, 2011)
"I am a traditionalist. I have so many fabulous friends who happen to be gay, but I am a traditionalist."
(New York Times, May 1, 2011)
"It's always good to do things nice and complicated so that nobody can figure it out."
(The New Yorker, May 19, 1997)
"The simplest approach is often the most effective."
(Trump: "The Art of the Deal", 1987)
"My attention span is short."
(Trump: "Surviving at the Top", 1990)
"I have an attention span that is as long as it has to be."
(Time Magazine, August 18, 2015)
"I prefer to come to work each day and just see what develops."
(Trump: The Art of the Deal, 1987)
"You can't just sit around waiting for deals, opportunities, or a lucky break."
(Trump: "Think Big", 2007)
"I do listen to people. I hire experts. I hire top, top people. And I do listen."
(Greenville, South Carolina, February 13, 2016)
"I'm speaking with myself, No. 1, because I have a very good brain and I've said a lot of things..
My primary consultant is myself."
(MSNBC, March 16, 2016)
"Don't think you're so smart that you can go it alone."
(Trump: "Surviving at the Top", 1995)
"You must plan and execute your plan alone."
(Trump: "Think Like a Billionaire,' 2004)
"I couldn't be a one-man show."
(Trump: "Surviving at the Top," 1990)
"Think of yourself as a one-man army."
(Trump: "Think Like a Billionaire," 2004)
"I surround myself with good people, and then I give myself the luxury of trusting them."
(Trump: "Surviving at the TOP," 1990)
"My motto is: 'Hire the best people, and don't trust them'"
(Trump: "Think Big," 2007)
"Surround yourself with people you can trust."
(Trump "How To Get Rich," 2004)
"People are too trusting..I'm a very untrusting guy."
(Playboy, March 1990)
"Expect the best from people."
(Trump "Think Big" 2007)
"The world is a viscous and brutal place..We think we're civilized...In truth, it's a cruel world and people are ruthless...They act nice to your face, but underneath they're out to kill you...
Even your friends are out to get you: they want your job, they want your house, they want your money, they want your wife, and they even want your dog...Those are your friends, your enemies are even worse."
(Trump "Think Big," 2007)
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POLITICO
DONALD TRUMP'S GREATEST CONTRADICTIONS
Donald Trump likes to say that he "tells it like it is,' and his blunt style has won him the Republican nomination, buoyed by voters who like feeling they know just where a candidate stands on the issues.
So where DOES he stand?
Over the past four decades Trump has talked about every imaginable subject: gun rights to germs, the nature of competition to pre-nuptial agreements, love and sex, self-promotion and politics.
And on every one of those topics, he has taken positions that directly contradict exactly what he has previously said.
In a world where candidates have lost elections over a single flip-flop, Trump has turned the
self-contradiction into an art form.
To create the definitive of Trump's long argument with himself, POLITICO mined an almost limitless seam of his radio and TV interviews, newspaper and magazine profiles, books written about him and books written by him, rambling campaign speeches and late-night Tweets.
Read them together and they reveal a person who may be amazingly good at gaging the moment,
but whose principles, beyond simply winning, remain elusive -- perhaps even to himself.
Has anyone ever disagreed with Donald Trump more than Donald Trump?
"I have no intention of running for president.
(Time Magazine, September 14, 1987)
"I am officially running for president."
(New York Magazine, June 16, 2015)
"I don't want it for myself. I don't need it for myself."
(ABC News, November 20, 2015)
"I wanted to do this for myself....I had to do this for myself."
(Time Magazine, August 18, 2015)
"Politicians are all talk and no action."
(Twitter, May 27, 2015)
"I'm not a politician."
(CNN, August 11, 2015)
"I'm no different than a politician running for office."
(New York Times, July 28, 2015)
"If I ever ran for office, I'd do better as a Democrat than as a Republican -- and that's not because I'd be more liberal, because I'm conservative."
(Playboy, March 1990)
"I'm a registered Republican. I'm a pretty conservative guy. I'm somewhat liberal, especially on social issues, especially health care."
(CNN, October 8, 1999)
"You'd be shocked if I said that in many cases I probably identify more as a Democrat."
(CNN, March 21, 2004)
"Look, I'm a Republican. I'm a very conservative guy in many respects-- I guess in most respects."
(The Hugh Hewitt Show, February 25, 2015)
"I've actually been an activist Democrat and Republican."
(CNN, October 8, 1999)
"Folks, I'm a conservative, but at this point, who cares? We got to straighten out the country."
(Burlingame, California, April 29, 2016)
"I'm totally pro-choice."
(Fox News, October 31, 1999)
"I'm pro-life."
(CPAC, February 10, 2011)
"Look, I'm very pro-choice. I hate the concept of abortion. I hate it. I hate everything it stands for.
I cringe when I listen to people debating the subject, but you still -- I just believe in choice....
I am strongly for choice, and yet I hate the concept of abortion...I am pro-choice in every respect..
but I just hate it."
(NBC News, October 24, 1999)
"I am very, very proud to say that I'm pro-life."
(Cleveland, Ohio, August 6, 2015)
" I think the institution of marriage should be between a man and a woman."
(The Advocate, February 15, 2000)
"If two people dig each other, they dig each other."
(Trump University "Trump Blog," December 22, 2005)
"I'm against gay marriage."
(Fox News, April 14, 2011)
"I am a traditionalist. I have so many fabulous friends who happen to be gay, but I am a traditionalist."
(New York Times, May 1, 2011)
"It's always good to do things nice and complicated so that nobody can figure it out."
(The New Yorker, May 19, 1997)
"The simplest approach is often the most effective."
(Trump: "The Art of the Deal", 1987)
"My attention span is short."
(Trump: "Surviving at the Top", 1990)
"I have an attention span that is as long as it has to be."
(Time Magazine, August 18, 2015)
"I prefer to come to work each day and just see what develops."
(Trump: The Art of the Deal, 1987)
"You can't just sit around waiting for deals, opportunities, or a lucky break."
(Trump: "Think Big", 2007)
"I do listen to people. I hire experts. I hire top, top people. And I do listen."
(Greenville, South Carolina, February 13, 2016)
"I'm speaking with myself, No. 1, because I have a very good brain and I've said a lot of things..
My primary consultant is myself."
(MSNBC, March 16, 2016)
"Don't think you're so smart that you can go it alone."
(Trump: "Surviving at the Top", 1995)
"You must plan and execute your plan alone."
(Trump: "Think Like a Billionaire,' 2004)
"I couldn't be a one-man show."
(Trump: "Surviving at the Top," 1990)
"Think of yourself as a one-man army."
(Trump: "Think Like a Billionaire," 2004)
"I surround myself with good people, and then I give myself the luxury of trusting them."
(Trump: "Surviving at the TOP," 1990)
"My motto is: 'Hire the best people, and don't trust them'"
(Trump: "Think Big," 2007)
"Surround yourself with people you can trust."
(Trump "How To Get Rich," 2004)
"People are too trusting..I'm a very untrusting guy."
(Playboy, March 1990)
"Expect the best from people."
(Trump "Think Big" 2007)
"The world is a viscous and brutal place..We think we're civilized...In truth, it's a cruel world and people are ruthless...They act nice to your face, but underneath they're out to kill you...
Even your friends are out to get you: they want your job, they want your house, they want your money, they want your wife, and they even want your dog...Those are your friends, your enemies are even worse."
(Trump "Think Big," 2007)
Read more:
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/05/donald-trump-2016-contradictions-213869
Or Google: "Donald Trump's Greatest Self-Contradictions" (Politico)
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