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Some Might Take Trump’s Candidacy Seriously, But Now That The Media Does, He Could Be In Trouble

by Jon Bershad | 1:14 pm, April 19th, 2011

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I’m not making a judgement call on Trump the man, just Trump as a candidate. The fact of the matter is, you can become super rich by one of two ways. Either you can have the money given to you or you can work hard and make it all yourself. Unfortunately, the second option almost always requires you to screw over a whole lot of people on your way to the top. It’s just a fact of life. Since Trump lost most of the money he got from his family and then made it back, he’s gotten rich both ways. While that’s impressive, it also means that there are a metric ton of stories out there that make Donald Trump seem like a royal ass. Same thing goes for any super rich person (seen The Social Network lately?).

But Trump isn’t just a rich businessman. He’s also a celebrity businessman. So not only are there bad stories about him out there in the boardroom, there’s also bad stories from the gossip pages. Cohen’s piece opens with a quote from a 1990 Vanity Fair profile which repeated Ivana Trump’s claim that Trump likes to read a book of Adolf Hitler’s speeches that he keeps by his bed. There’s a huge chance this tid bit is entirely false. However, this is what Trump gets for being the only candidate that had huge magazine profiles quoting from his divorce proceedings.

At least I think he is. I haven’t read every profile ever written of Newt Gingrich.

The point is, In America, we expect our politicians to basically be spotless. It’s pretty dumb considering no human being is spotless but that’s the way it is. And, while George W. Bush may have partied a lot and Bill Clinton had some sex scandals bubbling up, no candidate in modern times has ever been a serious presidential candidate with as much skeletons free of the closet and in the public record as Trump has. This means one of two things. That he has balls the size of his bank account and just doesn’t care or, like people have been guessing this whole time, this is not a real candidacy.

Either way, it does make it ironic that Trump is spending so much time investigating the past of President Obama. Or maybe it doesn’t. Maybe Trump is only sending investigators down to Hawaii so that, when the Obama campaign finds his dirt by merely using a simple Google search, he can proudly exclaim that at least his team put some damn effort in.

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Barack Must Go

Trump hatchet job by Richard Cohen of the Washington Post assisted by coconspirators MEDIAite.And NO that lame disclaimer blurb, Cohen clearly isn’t a fan of Trump’s does not excuss you, not by any stretch of even the left wing bomb throwers morally bankrupt imagination.

Your smoking gun case in point. You know the one where The Donald tried ( apparently unsuccessfully ) to evict poor old Vera to run a private limo parking lot for his own personal gain, hardly a public purpose.

Trumps parking lot, as opposed to Vera’s home in a ______ hole neighborhood in Atlantic City N.J., obviously you’ve never been, would bring well over an additional 1’000 plus high rollers to the strip, who in turn will spend 10′s of millions, possibly billions on gambling and related, food, beverage, entertainment and lodging, all of which generate millions to 10′s of millions in tax revenue for the Treasury of the State of New Jersey.

Hardly a public purpose MY ASS.

You guys really ought to think these bogus hit pieces through before you go out on a limb……again…..then saw it off causing you to crash and burn. But hey you guys seem to thrive on this _____, so by all means keep up the great work………NOT!
MrTPar_taY

Gotta admit it, Trump does have a track record of having some of the Hottest women. Sure would do alot to make the nation’s capital much more attractive if his wife/wives or daughter Ivanka showed up there.
Ardiva

I guess these days, people are interested in how good-looking the celebrity/political person is, not whether they are smart and make any sense. *shakes head and sighs*
ProObamaAgenda

MrTPar_taY said:
Gotta admit it, Trump does have a track record of having some of the Hottest women. Sure would do alot to make the nation’s capital much more attractive if his wife/wives or daughter Ivanka showed up there.

whats wrong??….u tired of beating off to pics of sarah and bristol and need an upgrade?????
ProObamaAgenda

Barack Must Go said:
Trump hatchet job by Richard Cohen of the Washington Post assisted by coconspirators MEDIAite.And NO that lame disclaimer blurb, Cohen clearly isn’t a fan of Trump’s does not excuss you, not by any stretch of even the left wing bomb throwers morally bankrupt imagination.

Your smoking gun case in point. You know the one where The Donald tried ( apparently unsuccessfully ) to evict poor old Vera to run a private limo parking lot for his own personal gain, hardly a public purpose.

Trumps parking lot, as opposed to Vera’s home in a ______ hole neighborhood in Atlantic City N.J., obviously you’ve never been, would bring well over an additional 1′000 plus high rollers to the strip, who in turn will spend 10’s of millions, possibly billions on gambling and related, food, beverage, entertainment and lodging, all of which generate millions to 10’s of millions in tax revenue for the Treasury of the State of New Jersey.

Hardly a public purpose MY ASS.

You guys really ought to think these bogus hit pieces through before you go out on a limb……again…..then saw it off causing you to crash and burn. But hey you guys seem to thrive on this _____, so by all means keep up the great work………NOT!

clearly the judge disagreed with you……KEEP HOPE ALIVE THO……………….dumbass
kvon

Barack Must Go said:
Trump hatchet job by Richard Cohen of the Washington Post assisted by coconspirators MEDIAite.And NO that lame disclaimer blurb, Cohen clearly isn’t a fan of Trump’s does not excuss you, not by any stretch of even the left wing bomb throwers morally bankrupt imagination.

Your smoking gun case in point. You know the one where The Donald tried ( apparently unsuccessfully ) to evict poor old Vera to run a private limo parking lot for his own personal gain, hardly a public purpose.

Trumps parking lot, as opposed to Vera’s home in a ______ hole neighborhood in Atlantic City N.J., obviously you’ve never been, would bring well over an additional 1′000 plus high rollers to the strip, who in turn will spend 10’s of millions, possibly billions on gambling and related, food, beverage, entertainment and lodging, all of which generate millions to 10’s of millions in tax revenue for the Treasury of the State of New Jersey.

Hardly a public purpose MY ASS.

You guys really ought to think these bogus hit pieces through before you go out on a limb……again…..then saw it off causing you to crash and burn. But hey you guys seem to thrive on this _____, so by all means keep up the great work………NOT!

You are really stretching here buddy, your view of imminent domain is not even remotely consistent.
MrTPar_taY

ProObamaAgenda said:
whats wrong??….u tired of beating off to pics of sarah and bristol and need an upgrade?????

Actually that picture of your mother and the 10 guys you call daddy is quite a sight!
Barack Must Go

kvon said:
You are really stretching here buddy, your view of imminent domain is not even remotely consistent.

With what?
Barack Must Go

ProObamaAgenda said:
clearly the judge disagreed with you……KEEP HOPE ALIVE THO……………….dumbass

Trump just wouldn’t pay him off so he said no. I’m sure Trump had other sutable options nearby and he got his parking lot in the end.

I live in New Jersey and it isn’t safe to walk anywhere away from the entrances to the Casinos, not even on most of the additional boardwalk after dark, so Trumps parking lot would be an improvement and reliable tax producer for the state much more so than old Vera’s bungalow, which is the exact situation the eminent domain laws were made for.
Color Me Badd

I think Donald is about to get fired. Tee Hee.
Barack Must Go

Color Me Badd said:
I think Donald is about to get fired. Tee Hee.

Up maybe…..
http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek

““We don’t know anything about Obama!”

That has been the rallying cry of some of the President’s detractors ever since he became a serious candidate”

Not just his critics, but his lap dogs in the media have said the same thing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzMas1bVidw

This is because the media puts a microscope opn Republicans, while they runs distraction for Democrats. Th e media was too busy battling the claims made against Obama to actually be critical of him or find out about who he is.
TampopoLoco

The Donald cut off an interview from the fluff show Inside Edition. How in the hell is he ever going to last more than a week on the campaign trail? You think he’s going to get away with just speaking to Fox News? People are so freakin’ delusional.
Barack Must Go

TampopoLoco said:
The Donald cut off an interview from the fluff show Inside Edition. How in the hell is he ever going to last more than a week on the campaign trail? You think he’s going to get away with just speaking to Fox News? People are so freakin’ delusional.

He’s been on every network across the spectrum non stop for three weeks now, speaking of freakin dilusional.Sheesh
TampopoLoco

Barack Must Go said:
He’s been on every network across the spectrum non stop for three weeks now, speaking of freakin dilusional.Sheesh

Yea, that will change real quick if he’s stupid enough to run. He’s just like the rest of the GOP lightweights with their maybe i’ll run maybe i wont run crap. Obama is the Kenyan born Muslim Socialist that should have republicans tripping over themselves trying to run against him and how many have come forward? Yea that’s right, squaduch! Try again in 2016.
Barack Must Go

TampopoLoco said:
Yea, that will change real quick if he’s stupid enough to run. He’s just like the rest of the GOP lightweights with their maybe i’ll run maybe i wont run crap. Obama is the Kenyan born Muslim Socialist that should have republicans tripping over themselves trying to run against him and how many have come forward? Yea that’s right, squaduch! Try again in 2016.

So in that typical left wing zealot way, you’re just going to totally disavow your previous statement. You know the one I’ve responded to. You know you’re only fooling yourself really.
identify

Hey BarackMustGo- You seem awfully eager to defend this joke candidate. All he’s done on all the networks is repeat the same stuff like a parrot over and over again, and wanting us to know how rich he is. I’m sorry but sounds too much like the GOP chumps already up on the Hill. That must be what you want. Chump-talk over and over again. LOL!
identify

and no, nothing you say, however cleverly worded is going to change that fact. it’s pretty self-evident.
identify

goodbye! :)
GIVEMEFREEDOM

Whether or not the media likes Trump, does not decide who will become political candidates. The “media” is not the final arbiter of who gains office . . . . We the People are.
george L

Trump is not really running. He must have gotten bored.