To be posted the evening of November 8 2016 after Trump Loses… (Guest Post)

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As an eyewitness to history, I can see how things are currently trending and how the current path should be clear to all.. but isn’t…But no matter, I will just leave this here for you to carefully consider since I see no point in waiting for the inevitable to play out.

Donald J. Trump conceded the race to Hillary Clinton tonight

With almost an air of relief Donald thanked his supporters and begrudgingly congratulated Ms Clinton on her win. But in a final twist of fate, the erstwhile target of his wrath and persecution turned the tables on him in her victory speech. Donald had threatened to prosecute Clinton, now it was Hillary making the threats.. and now she has the power of the Federal government to carry them out.

In recent weeks indications of the resulting landslide result was shaping up in the polls, so despite rumblings and rumors of lawsuits over tonight’s return, it became obvious that the victory was so slanted as to make these actions seem superfluous at best.

While Trump’s style of bluster won him many acolytes in the primaries, these same mannerisms only served to drive most people away in the general contest. His once successful tactics of lawsuit threats and shutting down opponents with shouts of Liar had the opposite effect outside his cloistered rallies..

And while Hillary still has to clean up the lose ends of her legal troubles, it’s a fair bet that future supreme court justice Obama will serve to be the deciding factor in any legal case brought before the court.

Many are looking back wondered why they did not see the danger earlier, and still many more nodded their heads at the phrase ‘we told you so.’

While a formal postmortem on the failed Trump candidacy is still to be conducted, many have already began piecing together the early signs of his ultimate defeat tonight.

After the Convention.

The enthusiasm in the first few events after the Trump Convention were palpable as excitement ran high. His expected after convention bounce put him in the lead over Hillary Clinton and the recurring theme of Trumpmentum seemed to be manifest and expectations mounted that he would run away with the race.

But then the stories of his past began flooding the airwaves. The accusations of fraud many ignored in the spring bubbled to the surface, and Trump’s only passing flirtation with the truth started to plague him on the trail.

For many it was a very new experience enduring the phenomena for Trump of ever falling poll numbers. Still Many more were dumbfounded that Trump’s usual approach of bombastic bullying only made the numbers drop even faster.

The Debate debacle

Towards the end the series of presidential candidate debates sealed the fate of Trumpmentum. Tactics that has served him well in the spring began backfiring in a spectacular fashion.

Instead of seeing a candidate ‘standing up for himself’, the general electorate saw a bully trying to shout down his opponent. While in the past his vague policy proposals protected him, this time around they became a liability. It became painfully obvious to all but his most ardent supporters that he would lose and lose big.

Worse yet, he had nothing in his bag of tricks to stop the slide – they only served to accelerate it further. Trump’s attempts at intimation only served boost Hillary’s sympathy vote. His accusations that she is a liar redounded badly as she pointed out all of his lies and flip flops.

In a final twist of the rhetorical knife that brought down the house, Hillary ended her victory speech with ‘Donald J, Trump.. You’re Fired!’

One final note… Please dispense with wasting your time responding with any manner of strident invective that seems to becoming increasingly endemic to those who support the subject matter of this predictive exposition.

Suffice it to say that If you can reply with forthright and intellectual arguments they will be well received and responded to, but not if your mannerism are that of the 3rd grade schoolyard.

 

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That’s strange. Clinton’s comments sounded to me like a rapid series of direct hits.

I don’t think Trump will ever agree to a one-on-one debate. There will be some lame excuse found for avoiding it.

@retire05:

Redteam has metioned a number of times he did not vote for Trump in his state’s primary. Perhaps you can get him to tell you who he did vote for.

Very interesting but not surprising that no one has asked who I voted for in the primary.

The big deal of asking Troll On Retainer who ‘the one’ is, is because he made such a big deal about there being this one super special guy that can enter the contest and blow Trump out of the water. I asked who that super special guy is and all he would do is list the 16 other primary candidates. It would do no good to point out to him that those guys already jumped into it and got blown out by Trump. So now he’s taken to just publishing clips from the TNS, all of which are months or years old. He should at least take the old dates off them, but I think he’s too lazy to read all that stuff and likely he’s just getting paid by volume, not content.
Look at the date of his post in 145, it’s about 6 months old and says Trump will have to go to court on May 6th. See how good his info is. He’s not even taking the time to read his drivel.

@Greg:

sounded to me

Do you need a referral to a hearing doctor?

Nope. I’ve had no trouble at all hearing what Trump has been saying. Neither has Hillary Clinton.

@Greg:

I don’t think Trump will ever agree to a one-on-one debate

Well, except for the fact that Trump has challenged her several times and she won’t even answer.

@retire05:

Why are you so concerned who I supported in the primary?

I know you’re responding to Ditto, but I’m surprised he didn’t know you supported Cruz throughout until he dropped out.

and I picked the one who I thought would most strictly adhere to the Constitution.

except for that ‘natural born citizen’ bit.

Donald Trump may be a self-starter, but he’s not self-funded
Update 2/24/16: The story below is based on campaign finance information that is now outdated. Read our newest analysis of Donald Trump’s presidential fundraising here, which covers the latest available fundraising numbers (through Jan. 31, 2016).
Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio mostly traded barbs last Tuesday night during the GOP Debate, but they created a moment of levity when the two issued the same call to action back to back. The message was simple — not for voters to check out their tax plans or immigration reform or economic policies, but to join their cause and, most importantly, donate money.

“I want you to go to TedCruz.org,” the Texan said. “I also want you to go to my website, MarcoRubio.com,” proclaimed the Floridian.

But one candidate says he doesn’t need your money: Donald Trump. “I don’t have to give you a website because I’m self-funding my campaign. I’m putting up my own money,” said Trump.

While Trump has spent about $2 million of his own money since the start of his bid for the White House, he has also accepted nearly $4 million in “unsolicited donations,” according to the campaign’s latest financial filing. That means that more than 67 percent of Trump’s campaign cash has come from outside donors so far — vastly outpacing his own contributions.

What is he doing with his cache cow? He’s burning through his stacks faster than any other candidate. While Trump has raised $5.8 million through June 30 (including the loans to his campaign), he’s spent $5.6 million, and not on the typical expenditures. Most of the establishment candidates focus their revenue on traditional means such as field organizing and ad buying; Trump sells merchandise, such as hats and shirts.

And unlike other candidates, media exposure is the least of Trump’s concerns. Instead of paying for airtime and crossing his fingers for interviews, the Trump Effect has media outlets vying to cover him as much as possible.

Yes, Donald Trump is putting more of his own money into his campaign than any other candidate — but the claim that he is purely self-funded is certainly misleading.
https://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2015/11/13/donald-trump-may-be-a-self-starter-but-hes-not-self-funded/

@Troll On Retainer:

Given that ‘Redteam’ doesn’t know the meaning of the word Projection

Gee, I didn’t even know that someone needed to know that definition.

Trump is a closet leftist

Is that better, or worse than being an outed Troll On Retainer?

Bottom line: The likelihood is that leftists would tend to support the man.

Soooo, you’re solidly on board……..

@Greg: Okay Greg, I went back and listened again. Notice when she said she had ‘foreign’ experience and she quickly got away from Benghazi? Wonder why? Why didn’t she go into how good she was in putting classified emails out to the public. Talking about the nuclear codes, she would likely store them on the Clinton private server in Chappaqua so the whole world would have them in 15 minutes. I notice she didn’t wear her traditional Kim Jung Un pant suit today, I guess that was because she was trying to distance herself from him for the day. She didn’t leave her screechy gravelly yelling voice behind though. I guess she sent Bill off for another pedophile express flight today to keep him from showing up.
But at least it’s revealing that you aren’t interested in quality, only quantity.

@Redteam:

I know you’re responding to Ditto, but I’m surprised he didn’t know you supported Cruz throughout until he dropped out.

Oh, I did know that she did Redteam. But, as you probably remember, on a different FA thread she denied ever supporting Cruz. Then in a strawman argument, she demanded that I prove that something I wrote, (that I never said was in Robert’s Rule of Order,) was in Roberts Rules. Since I knew it wasn’t, and I never said that it was, I informed her of that, yet she continued to demand that I prove it was. I don’t argue with crazy people.

@Redteam:

I know you’re responding to Ditto, but I’m surprised he didn’t know you supported Cruz throughout until he dropped out.

OK, provide a link to my post where I was supporting Cruz. Put your money where your [big] mouth is.

and I picked the one who I thought would most strictly adhere to the Constitution.

except for that ‘natural born citizen’ bit.

Give it up, Redteam. You wore that crap out long ago over Obama. Now you’ve just become boring and repetitious.

@Ditto:

Oh, I did know that she did Redteam. But, as you probably remember, on a different FA thread she denied ever supporting Cruz.

Prove your claims.

Then in a strawman argument, she demanded that I prove that something I wrote, (that I never said was in Robert’s Rule of Order,) was in Roberts Rules. Since I knew it wasn’t, and I never said that it was, I informed her of that, yet she continued to demand that I prove it was. I don’t argue with crazy people.

I said I know more about Robert’s Rules than you do. You whine something about being a President, VP, et al for some [unknown] charity that adhered to Robert’s Rules. IOW, you don’t know jack.

You and Redteam need to get a room. Or a shrink.

@Redteam:

See what I mean? Retire05 thinks being childish is a form of argument. I’m done with her BS.

Trump Continues To Win Support From Union Members — Labor Leadership Isn’t Happy

The business mogul’s views on trade and immigration, alongside his decisive tone, has gained him significant support among workers. Union leaders are now concerned that they have lost their members to the outspoken candidate.

(Snip)

Trump has expressed support for right-to-work while also noting the minimum wage should be left to the states. The union has already mobilized members and supporters on the grassroots level to oppose Trump, but thus far the attacks have not had a huge impact.

Trump has also opposed the Trans-Pacific Partnership and illegal immigration, which many worry will cost workers their jobs. He has made illegal immigration a defining attribute of his campaign, calling for tougher immigration policies and even proposing a temporary ban on Muslims after a surge in Islamic terrorist attacks.

I think it’s about time Republicans stopped being hostile to workers.

@Ditto:

See what I mean? Retire05 thinks being childish is a form of argument. I’m done with her BS.

yeah, I know. If I knew her I’d be concerned. She knows there is no search feature on this blog and to go back and find a specific quote would be difficult and time consuming and then she would still deny that was what she meant. If I say that someone said something, they said it. I don’t intend to prove anything about something said, I’ll just let them prove that they did or didn’t.
I can’t believe she is actually denying that she was/is a Cruz supporter. Weird.

I will agree that the ‘natural born’ is getting old, seems as if he should have been able to prove his citizenship by now, but apparently not. His problem, not mine.

Google Advanced Search does a pretty decent job of searching a particular website for something specific. It can be a useful research tool. To search for something on Flopping Aces, you’d enter floppingaces.net in the “site or domain” block.

@Ditto:

I think it’s about time Republicans stopped being hostile to workers.

This has got to be the dumbest thing you have ever said as it has been Republicans that have fought for “right to work” in states all across the land. But then, there’s nothing like having your union order you on strike only to learn that your strike fund is broke but the union big wigs are still drawing their quarter million a year, plus “benefits”.

Unions have been falling out of favor with workers for decades now. I guess we should consider Trump a genius for finally seeing what the rest of the nation has been seeing for years. Perhaps you can point us to where he took the unions on years ago and not just recently formed an opinion on them?

@Redteam:

she would still deny that was what she meant

So now you’re calling me a liar? You shouldn’t let your mouth write checks your arse can’t cash, RT.

Trump doing better in ‘open’ primaries; Cruz sees success in GOP-only contests
A pattern is starting to emerge that holds both promise and peril for Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump:

Trump does better in “open” primary contests where members of either party can vote, while Texas Sen. Ted Cruz tends to do better in “closed” contests limited only to registered Republicans.

The pattern could lend credence to Cruz’s claim that he’s the “consistent conservative” in the race, and continue to pose challenges for Trump as more closed contests – including the critical Florida primary – loom on the election calendar.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/03/07/trump-doing-better-in-open-primaries-cruz-sees-success-in-gop-only-contests.html?intcmp=hpbt1

Trump Pals Around with George Soros
Not only has Trump funded open borders politicians like Schumer, Durbin, McCain, Graham and Menendez, but he’s also been bailed out by George Soros.

Trump actually spent Christmas Eve with George Soros in 2009, according to the New York Post. But hey, billionaires gotta stick together, you know? Nevermind that Soros is for a One World Order, an anti-Zionist and an anti-constitutional funder of all things unholy.

The funder of all things unholy also funded the Trump Tower in Chicago. According to the Chicago Tribune:

Donald Trump has lined up three New York hedge funds, including money from billionaire George Soros, to invest $160 million in his Chicago skyscraper, a key piece in perhaps the largest construction financing in the city’s history, according to real estate sources and public documents.

Soros gave Donald Trump a mezzanine loan, which is basically a bailout, because Trump didn’t want to, or couldn’t, front his own money to build the Chicago Trump Tower. Mezzanine loans are loans offered with outrageous interest that help the developer on the front end of finance, and which often offer a stake in the building.

Trump was also named in a lawsuit along with Soros in New York surrounding the sale of the GM Building, so it’s not as if Trump only dealt with Soros in Chicago.

Many Trump supporters might think this is no big deal—that businessmen have to do business with people they may personally not like. However, in 2011, when considering a White House bid, Trump attended a Tea Party rally and told people to, “Leave George Soros alone, he has enough problems,” giving the distinct impression that Trump might just owe the global manipulator money. The magnitude of the George Soros identity is not known universally.

George Soros has a messianic complex, the likes of which he has said he needs to keep in check because otherwise he’d be in a loony bin.
– See more at: https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2016/02/trump-pals-around-with-george-soros

One Hundred Days of Trump: Trade War Implications for Mexico and the U.S.
The first 100 days of a president are often used as a measure of accomplishment. They are also supposed to be a honeymoon, or a period in which the newly appointed president has a high political capital to implement policies. Trump is still far from becoming president and his volatile character makes it hard to know what he would do should he ever make it to the White House; however, some of his pledged policies towards Mexico provide a motive to analyze the implications for the U.S.-Mexico economic relation.

More than trying to make any prediction (actually, most of Trump policies are not legally possible), this article intends to show several facts on the strength of the relationship between Mexico and the U.S. The close ties that these countries share make impossible to imagine the consequences of Trump’s policies. More than a honeymoon, Trump’s 100 first days would be a nightmare. It will take less than that for both countries to witness sharp declines in economic growth.

Mexico is not paying for the wall. It simply will not. Trump has affirmed that if the country denies, he will increase tariffs on Mexican exports and charge fees on remittances sent by Mexican workers. If that ever happens, it is not hard to assume retaliatory tariffs from Mexico. Then, trade would be the immediate mechanism that would affect both countries in a considerable way.

The border between Mexico and the U.S. is one of the busiest in the world, where $1.3 billion in goods where exchanged every day in January 2016 ($40.5 billion in the month). In 2015, Mexico and U.S. traded $531 billion, similar to the size of Argentina’s GDP. That means that every year, the two countries trade an amount of goods worth the value of all final goods and services produced in Argentina.

The effect of a sudden and sharp increase in tariffs for Mexican products is more intuitive. This would probably immerse Mexico in the deepest recession ever seen. International commerce would simply implode. In its open economy, trade flow represented 70% of its GDP in 2015. Only exports to the U.S. constituted 71% of total exports and 24.7% of Mexico’s GDP the same year.
http://latampm.com/2016/03/07/one-hundred-days-of-trump-trade-war-implications-for-mexico-and-the-u-s/

@Troll On Retainer: I see the TNS is getting your volume up. If you find anything interesting, you might want to notify us that it’s worth reading. I didn’t read past the headline on any of that trash above. (I’m assuming it trash because it is published under the name Troll On Retainer.)

@retire05:

checks your arse

I’m not British

@Redteam:

I used “arse” because the correct spelling of “a$$” cannot be typed on FA, but perhaps FA makes an exception for you since it seems to be aptly descriptive of you since you jumped on the Trump Train.

But you got the point, didn’t you?.

Now, care to tell us who you voted for in the Louisiana presidential primary?

@retire05:

Now, care to tell us who you voted for in the Louisiana presidential primary?

No one. I didn’t vote. there were no local issues on the ballot and Trump got about 80% of the votes from my precinct and didn’t need my vote.

@Redteam:
On your previous comment on the age of the earlier items I’ve posted – do you understand that you should have known of ALL of those issues, had you been informed?

Question for you:

Do you follow the precepts of the commandment:

“Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.”

Yes or No?

@Troll On Retainer: Do you follow the precepts of the commandment:“Thou shalt not laugh at amateur comedians”That’s a quote from an old hymnal.

Absolutely. Posting old material is not worth laughing at. You should subscribe to a new TNS that supplies recent materials. We’re not interested in ancient history.

@Troll On Retainer:

On your previous comment on the age of the earlier items I’ve posted – do you understand that you should have known of ALL of those issues, had you been informed?

I disagree. I don’t usually read far leftie sites, especially those that subscribe to the TNS for their clippings. I can’t argue with anything in any of the clippings you posted because I didn’t read past the headlines of any of them.
If you want to increase your readership, you should go with someone not specializing in ancient lefty History.
How about an article on “life as a Leftie Troll based on personal experience” I might actually read that.

@Redteam:

I see Retire05 is continuing with hypocritical ad hominen hits.

Troll Tor has gone full blown #NeverTrump sock-puppet and is only copy and pasting their propaganda. As we all know, Curt and the other moderators detest sock-puppets, so I imagine it’s only a matter of time before they slap him down.

I also see that rather than answer whom she supported, she simply want’s to mirror it back to avoid answering. I have no qualms about discussing whom I wanted. I would have preferred Senator Sessions would have run. Since he didn’t, I had to consider those who did run. Of course all the GOPe candidates were unacceptable to me. Scott Walker, Rick Santorum, Rick Perry and media whore Mike Huckabee were out of the running before it even came to my state. That left Ted Cruz, but his over-the-top proselytizing on the campaign and his refusal to legally renounce both his Cuban and Canadian citizenship’s completely turned me off. While I very much support Trump’s stated conservative platform positions, his demeanor is offsetting.

Having no more skin in the game and no other conservatives to pick from, I decided not to attend the caucus, because I didn’t feel strong enough about any of the others to pick. “Meh.” Now that Trump pretty much has it wrapped up, and as he does seem to be firm on his conservative platform, I will support him.

Redteam

Do you follow the precepts of the commandment:

“Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.”

Yes or No?

@Redteam:

Absolutely.

So you have no qualms about Violating that Commandment with you continues use of a Lie such as you repeated when you replied to me?

Do you have any children?
Is it okay for them to make things up and repeat them incessantly? Yes or NO?

@Ditto: What are you referring to?

What is TNS?

The Links of all those items are listed at the bottom, and one can easily follow them to the original source.

@Ditto: So you didn’t ‘vote’ in the primary either. I believe that way back before the campaign even started ’14, etc, I might have said I would like to see Scott Walker as the candidate. I’m still not sure that he wouldn’t be a winner had he stayed in. He’s certainly popular in his state. I believed Kasich would be a good candidate until I really started looking at his positions. Now I know he’s just an establishment candidate and certainly has some positions I don’t agree with. Rick Perry was certainly good for the economy of Texas, but seems to not have been well liked, even serving 3 terms in Texas.
Non starters are those not eligible, in this race; Cruz, Rubio, Jindal. I’ve already stated the case against them and anyone overlooking their lack of qualifications do not know enough about American government to be allowed to vote.
There are certainly things Trump says or does that I don’t like. But notice I said “things”. In the case of Obama or Hillary, there is absolutely nothing about either one of them that the average American citizen can like. Hillary is an out and out crook, and totally incompetent as a politician. It might be okay if she were as incompetent as a crook as she is at government, but apparently ‘crooked’ comes naturally.
The choice in this election is clear. We either vote to maintain our system of government, or we vote to go to socialism. No country has ever survived under socialism, so that path doesn’t seem desirable. I will vote for the Republican candidate because there is no viable alternative. I’m not going to show my *ss and vote for Hillary just to protest some other Republican getting the nomination.

@Tor:

What are you referring to?

What part of sock-puppetry don’t you understand? Like a typical troll does, you have been flooding this thread with links to #NeverTrump propaganda. The moderators frown on sock-puppets.

What is TNS?

Why are you asking me?

@Troll On Retainer: TNS? that’s the supplier of material for your blitz of this blog. Troll News Service I explained that above, but you likely didn’t read it as you’re not hear to read but only to blitz the blog. Geez, what kind of Troll are you?

@Troll On Retainer:

Do you follow the precepts of the commandment:

“Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.”

Yes or No?

:

Absolutely.

You made all of that up, I did not give that answer to that question. So you are the one ‘bearing false witness’.

Do you have any children?
Is it okay for them to make things up and repeat them incessantly? Yes or NO?

It is up to them to do as they choose.

@Ditto:

I also see that rather than answer whom she supported, she simply want’s to mirror it back to avoid answering.

If you think you can find a post where I said I supported Cruz, have at it, bubba, and prove it.

Instead you will continue to present falsehoods as facts that you can’t back up. No surprise.

@Redteam: I asked you a direct question: Do you follow the precepts of the commandment:

“Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.”


Yes or No?

What is your response?

@retire05: Retire 05 Are you publicly denying that you supported Cruz for the Republican nomination?

@Redteam: So you’re just piling falsehood upon falsehood aren’t you?

Do you have any moral underpinnings?

@Troll On Retainer:

I asked you a direct question: Do you follow the precepts of the commandment:

Well, gee, yes sir, I’ll get right on that.

When you give me the answer to my question, then, I will answer yours. Who is your special candidate, waiting in the wings, that is going to swoop in and save the Republican Party? A list will not suffice. Only one name.

@Ditto: Where did you get the ‘sock puppet’ falsehood?

Can you prove your false accusations with something OTHER than circular logic?

@Redteam: No, stop dodging the question.

@Troll ON Retainer:

So you’re just piling falsehood upon falsehood aren’t you?

Do you have any moral underpinnings?

Well, I’d say I did til I started hanging out where too much rubbed off from people such as you.

Have you got your quota posted for the day already, or do you still have more clips to post? Why don’t you post some from your moral underpinnings and ignore the TNS for a while.

@Troll On Retainer:

No, stop dodging the question.

Question? You think you published a question? You should stop relying on TNS, they let you down on that one.

Redteam

I see you’re denigrating even further – now you’re denying that a question was even asked.

Most people wouldn’t have a problem with answering that since they are honest.

But you have aptly demonstrated that isn’t the case with you.

Latest Reuters Poll Foreshadows Epic Failure in November
According to the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll:

“Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton has opened up a double-digit lead over Republican rival Donald Trump, regaining ground after the New York billionaire briefly tied her last month, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Friday.

Some 46 percent of likely voters said they supported Clinton, while 35 percent said they supported Trump, and another 19 percent said they would not support either, according to the survey of 1,421 people conducted between May 30 and June 3.”

That’s 11 points, and the Clinton Machine has yet to fully focus their efforts on Trump, as Hillary ties up the loose ends of her primary opponent, Bernie Sanders.

It will be interesting to see if Trump reaches the same level of nastiness against his old friend during the run up to the general election as he has against Republicans, and if so, will it be as effective?

While Clinton has a polished and ready team, with millions set aside just for the purpose of skewering Trump. Trump’s team is unorganized, unsteady, and if reports are to be believed, already running out of money, but relying on the RNC to divert money and attention from other races down ballot, in order to try and cobble together some sort of ground game offensive for the toad.
http://www.redstate.com/sweetie15/2016/06/03/latest-reuters-poll-foreshadows-epic-failure-november/

CBS News just caught Donald Trump in a BOLD FACED LIE
Trump will apparently say anything and take credit for anything, even if he has absolutely nothing to do with it.

Here’s what he said yesterday on Twitter as he was trying to convince Hawaii voters to vote for him:

Donald J. Trump@realDonaldTrump
I employ many people in Hawaii at my great hotel in Honolulu. I’ll be there very soon. Vote for me, Hawaii!

But CBS News says this is absolutely not true
Trump doesn’t even own it, he just licenses his name. Somebody else does all the hiring and firing and yet Trump takes credit for it.

Read more: http://therightscoop.com/cbs-news-just-caught-donald-trump-in-a-bold-faced-lie/

REPORT: Trump University instructed teachers to LIE to students
Time Magazine has investigated Trump University and found a few troubling details. Turns out the teachers were instructed to lie to students, to pretend they were all in tight with Trump:

1. Trump is misleading voters about the program’s approval ratings.
Donald Trump maintains that the program had a 98% approval rating. In a sworn affidavit with a San Diego court filed in 2013, Trump’s director of operations Mark Covais said the company had issued 2,144 refunds to 6,698 attendees of the $1,495 three-day program, or 32%. The refund rate for a $34,995 program, Brill reports, was 16% percent.

2. Trump promised students he handpicked his teachers. He did not.
3. Teachers were instructed to pretend they knew Trump even when they didn’t.

http://therightscoop.com/report-trump-university-instructed-teachers-to-lie-to-students/

Add Another Yuuge Failure to Trump’s Pile: The Trump Network
In 2009, lots of people were feeling vulnerable. The housing bubble had burst, taking with it millions of jobs. Pensions had vanished. Stocks were slumping. For a shrewd businessman, it was the perfect time for a get-rich-quick scheme.
Enter Donald Trump.
In November 2009, Trump, boasting a Midas-gold tie, took the stage in front of several thousand fans at Miami’s Hyatt Regency to debut his latest venture: The Trump Network™, a multi-level marketing operation focused on nutritional supplements. Trump was, as ever, ebullient: “When I did The Apprentice, it was a long shot. This is not a long shot. . . . We are going to be the biggest in the industry.” The Trump Network’s motto was ubiquitous at the event: Discover the Difference between Opportunity and Success.

In reality, people were about to discover the fine line between a multi-level marketing strategy and a pyramid scheme.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/432468/donald-trump-networks-failure-harmed-small-investors

Better Business Bureau: Trump University had D-minus rating in final year
The Better Business Bureau (BBB) says it received “multiple customer complaints” about Trump University and that the school had a D-minus rating in its last year in operation.

In a lengthy statement on Tuesday, the Council of Better Business Bureaus and the local BBB in metro New York sought to correct the record regarding several of GOP front-runner Donald Trump’s claims about the controversial business venture.

Officials said the venture had a D-minus rating, the second-lowest possible, in 2010, around the time it closed.

“As the company appeared to be winding down, after 2013, no new complaints were reported,” the BBB said in a statement. Complaints over three years old “automatically rolled off” the review, allowing the rating to rise when it was no longer in operation.

[..]
A video surfaced on social media of Trump handing a piece of paper to the debate moderators at the event, claiming that the document “just came in” from the BBB, which the group disputes.

“BBB did not send a document of any kind to the Republican debate site last Thursday evening,” the bureau said in its statement Tuesday, adding the document “did not come from BBB that night.” It said a document posted online Thursday night appeared to be from 2014.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/272227-better-business-bureau-trump-university-receive-multiple

Trump Has The Lowest Favorability Ratings EVER For a Frontrunner
Real estate mogul Donald Trump has the lowest favorability ratings ever for a presidential frontrunner.

The latest NBC/Wall Street Journal poll shows Trump with a net favorability rating of -39, followed by 2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney at -22, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) at -18, and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at -13. Trump’s -39 net favorability is the lowest of any presidential candidate ever recorded in the NBC/Wall Street Journal poll.

“To me, this is the low point,” co-pollster Peter Hart told NBC News. “I’ve seen the disgust and the polarization. Never, never seen anything like this. They’re not going up; they’re going down.”

The polling data consistently puts Trump with the lowest favorability ratings for a presidential candidate. This week’s ABC/Washington Post poll showed Trump with a net favorability of of -37 and an honesty metric of -42, which is “nearly twice as bad as Hillary Rodham Clinton,” according to Townhall’s Guy Benson. To put that in perspective, Clinton’s narrow loss in Michigan to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) was largely due to voters viewing her as too dishonest. Clinton is also facing a possible indictment for her email scandal. Yet, Trump’s honesty metric is almost twice as worse as Clinton’s.

The numbers do not bode well for Republicans in a general election if Trump is in fact the nominee.
http://www.dailywire.com/news/4037/trump-has-lowest-favorability-ratings-ever-aaron-bandler