NoTeaPartyPleez
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I don't know about whether Trump's done. Hillary rightfully has horrible "truth" numbers, but Trump's are rightfully worse.
Mitt was not truly done until Clint came out with the empty chair, which was funnier than most parodies, and it wasn't a parody. Old, out of touch, wayyyy too white.
The main attack against Hillary was her odious fund raising for the Foundations and use of emails. Benghazi is red meat for the faithful, but Hillary's also weak in being blamed for the ME, which frankly was handed to Obama by W, but it was a festering would even before W. So blaming her is really blaming Tues morning for the sun being so bright in the east, but hey .... somebody always gets blamed.
Trump would not be toast if he could get back on message. But his "big speech" for Monday appears to be telling us how bad the Clintons were 20 years ago. Wow.
And therein lays the gop problem. Trump''s message is a wall Mexico will pay for (not happening). He's going to bring back jobs by renogiating trade deals (Ford is not closing Mexico plants and GM is not closing china plants.) All illegals will be deported, even those with kids who are citizens (nah) Trump's gonna make the rich pay more taxes. (put down the bong)
There are legit issues on immigration, trade and wealth inequality. But Trump never bothered to create any actual policy to deal with them. So getting BACK on track is hard when you have no track to get back to.
The gop was hoping for Hillary and the emails. And they are damning, esp in terms of her truthfulness. But the Trump U suit is bad, and the NY AG action is much worse, because it involves Rico (racketeering). That and it's been know for a decade that Trump has left contractors and suppliers stuck with unpaid bills for work done that he accepted.
He's a horrible candidate. I have no sympathy for the gop elite that seems to say "people voted for him, so we have to support him, even if he is a racist crook." They didn't have to. Less than half were voting for him. The charges against him are not new, the gop just chose to let him bitch slap the other candidates while for some reason it was wrong to speak ill of Trump.
As to whether he's done ... I suppose it is more of whether Hillary will finish him off with a clean kill. It seems to me that her biggest news (propaganda) weakness is for policy, which is pretty funny since we're not at war with Iran and they have no nuke. And ISIS is losing. But like Trump the racist and Trump U, what the reality appears to be is often less real than merely a kernel of truth. Maybe she should let Warren and Bernie and Obama work the base, and maybe she needs a guy like Gates, whom Trump can claim is the problem, but when push comes to shove everyone going back to HW Bush will got to the mat over.
Excellent, I read every word of your post. You are 100% spot on.
I first read about the Trump U charges in February, when the BBB's website laid out the whole story after Trump got into a pissing contest with Megyn Kelly about Trump U's BBB rating. There is no rating because it's been out of business since 2013. I was wondering then why the press wasn't talking about the NY Supreme Court's decision to turn it back to the AG with suggested charges of fraud. Wow.
Now USA Today is reporting about contractor's who got stiffed and gypped by Trump. Yeah, that's how you get to be a billionaire. Don't pay your bills and then file bankruptcy. He's a fucking asshole. Bottom line.