OUCH! Newsweek exposes Trump as the business fraud he is.

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Trump is a babbling fool.

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Trump’s big line is he should be president because he is a successful businessman. After reading this devastating Newsweek story, no Trump apologist can ever say that again.

The story goes through the bankruptcies of course, but there are defaults, people ripped off, and lie upon lie upon lie upon lie.

My favorite stuff from the article:

  • Trump lied to Congress.
  • Trump was publicly insulting Native Americans while other real business people were making deals to help manage their casinos.
  • Trump signed a deal with one Native American casino, and they paid him $6 million to go away.
  • Trump punched his second grade teacher
  • Trump lied in his books, then blamed the same woman he blamed for Melania Trump’s plagiarized speech.
  • Trump lied in a filing with a bank where he was trying to get a loan about how much he was worth.
  • Trump lied about how…

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Arizona Secretary Of State Confirms Election Fraud Did Happen (VIDEO)

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Very up setting. republicans doing what they do best; lie, cheat and steel.

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ADDICTING INFO

Monday’s hearing on voter suppression and election fraud in Arizona’s Presidential Preference Election revealed a slew of failures, which took place at virtually every level of government, all of which contributed to the state’s May 22 election fiasco .

At the top of the list of people to blame is the state’s legislature, which failed to provide funding for Arizona’s Presidential Preference Election in the state’s 2015 budget. Although the legislature made promises to fix the budget, that fix never happened.

In Maricopa County, where voter suppression issues were the most obvious on election night, the number of polling places was slashed from 400 in 2008, to 200 in 2012. But in 2016, Maricopa County Recorder Helen Purcell slashed that number again, leaving just 60 polling sites open for an area that has a population of more than four million people.

But it wasn’t just the lack of…

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Van Jones: ‘The Republican establishment has been completely destroyed tonight’

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Van Jones speaks to ABC News

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THE RAW STORY

CNN Democratic strategist Van Jones declared that Donald Trump had “completely destroyed” the Republican establishment following his Tuesday night wins in Florida, Illinois and North Carolina.

Noting that Sen. Marco Rubio had dropped out on Tuesday, Jones pointed out that Gov. John Kasich (R-OH) was the final “establishment” candidate in the race.

“The Republican establishment has been completely destroyed tonight,” Jones explained. “You literally have the only establishment candidate left is Kasich with one state! His own state that he camped out in for two months!”

“It doesn’t make any sense,” the CNN analyst added. “You cannot describe the devastation this guy [Donald Trump] has wreaked on the Republican Party. The Republican establishment has been destroyed tonight. And you now have Ted Cruz, who is the ultimate outsider, against Trump. And those are the only options left that are viable.”

Republican strategist S.E. Cupp agreed that…

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Veteran Who Pushed Black Student At Trump Rally Says He’s ‘Not A Racist’

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How convenient, these people inject their 10 cents into the Republican southern strategy, which embolden their ilk, then play dumb and give ensencer apologies,when called out.

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There’s a familiar old adage that says: If it walks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck”…(ks)

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He says he was “caught up in the frenzy” after being pushed himself.

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A 75-year-old Korean War veteran has apologized after he was videotaped aggressively pushing and yelling at a black student during a rally for GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump.

The man, identified as Al Bamberger, sent a letter to the Korean War Veterans Association this week, saying his “emotions got the best of” him and he was “caught up in the frenzy” after being pushed to the ground during the commotion. Bamberger was involved in the intense confrontation, which also included notable white supremacists, earlier this month when a student named Shiya Nwanguma attempted to protest at the rally.

“I need everyone to know that I…

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ANOTHER CODDLED WHITE KILLER

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Good read…well said…serious topic, that needs to be recognized, and discussed.

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"He was your average Joe": The police and the media coddle another white killer

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A lone wolf, a “regular Joe.” Maybe mentally disturbed. Again, we talk differently about white killers and Muslims

On Saturday, a 45-year-old white man named Jason Brian Dalton allegedly went on a shooting spree in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The Uber driver has been charged with six counts of murder and two counts of assault with intent to commit murder. In too many ways, this is the new normal in America.

CNN framed the reactions to the Kalamazoo murder spree in the following way:

“This is your worst nightmare,” Kalamazoo County Undersheriff Paul Matyas told CNN affiliate WOOD-TV. “When you have somebody just driving around randomly killing people.”

“We just can’t figure out the motive,” said Hadley. “There’s nothing that gives us any indication as to why he would do this or what would have triggered this. The victims did not know him, he did not know…

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Trump Campaign Manager Responds to “White Power” Shouts at Rally: “People Like Our Message”

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Trump is a bigot, plan and simple!

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LITTLE GREEN FOOTBALLS

What? White supremacists? Where? I don’t see any white supremacists.

By now it’s very clear that Donald Trump is consciously tailoring his campaign rhetoric to appeal to the disconcertingly large number of far right xenophobic nationalists among the Republican voting base.

It’s telling that when asked on CNN about shouts of “white power” at Trump’s rally in Alabama, his campaign manager couldn’t muster up a single word of disapproval for the white supremacists; he just ignored the whole issue and praised Trump’s supporters as people who “want to be proud of being Americans.”

White Americans, he didn’t add. Because he didn’t have to; it’s obvious.

Self-styled “white nationalists” from all over the far-right spectrum have been drawn to Trump’s hardline immigration stance this election cycle. CNN’s Jim Acosta asked Trump’s campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, about reports that a man yelled “white power” multiple times Friday at the…

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Thanks, Obama! Jobless Claims Drop to 42-Year Low

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Thank you Mr. President! I wonder how long it will take the republicans to distort this into some sort of socialist ploy to destroy America.

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Oops, he did it again!

“Initial claims for state unemployment benefits declined 26,000 to a seasonally adjusted 255,000 for the week ended July 18, the lowest level since November 1973,the Labor Department said on Thursday.”

Now keep in mind that the unemployment benefit claims in number of applicants is at the lowest level in 41-and-a-half years, which, given the fact that the labor force has grown considerably in that time, is phenomenally impressive. The 4-week moving average (a key marker since it tends to eliminate the week-to-week spikes and lows) has stayed under 300,000 for 17 straight weeks, indicating more good jobs news is coming when the July jobs report is released.

Here is how jobless claims have dropped since the Bush great recession was handed over to President Obama to manage, end, and pull the country back from.

Bloomberg provides the big…

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