USA Today editorial board declares Trump unfit for Presidency

[Meathead]

Hillary is no more corrupt than the rest of the politicians.

FAIL FFS! FAIL!!!

 

[Oldstyle]

And every single one of these newspaper editorial boards that are holding their noses and pushing a Hillary Clinton as President will have to live with what they have done.

They realize that it's far better to have a corrupt politician in the White House than a mentally unbalanced demigod. Corrupt politicians are nothing new. The country will certainly survive a Clinton. Trump is a big gamble. His temper, lack of control, and tenancy to exaggerate can create problems far worst than anything we have seen in the past.

You have to portray Trump as mentally unbalanced because it's the only way you can scare people into voting for Hillary. You admit that Hillary is corrupt but we should vote for her because we'll "survive"? How pathetic is THAT!

Hillary is no more corrupt than the rest of the politicians. She just has a lot more knowledge and experience.

The first question a voter should ask is whether the candidate is likely to do more harm that good. The country is in far better hands with a season politician who actually has real domestic and foreign policy experience, rather than a novice with a temperament that scares his own supporters. Trump if elected, will do just exactly what he has being doing since his campaign began, creating division, and dissension and blaming others for his failures. This not the mark of a good leader, but rather a weak insecure person that will break under real pressure.

So what you're saying is that nobody should be like Barack Obama? Got it...

 

[rightwinger]

Sometimes you have to just do what's right

USA TODAY's Editorial Board: Trump is 'unfit for the presidency'

He is erratic. Trump has been on so many sides of so many issues that attempting to assess his policy positions is like shooting at a moving target. A list prepared by NBC details 124 shifts by Trump on 20 major issues since shortly before he entered the race. He simply spouts slogans and outcomes (he’d replace Obamacare with “something terrific”) without any credible explanations of how he’d achieve them.

He is ill-equipped to be commander in chief. Trump’s foreign policy pronouncements typically range from uninformed to incoherent. It’s not just Democrats who say this. Scores of Republican national security leaders have signed an extraordinary open letter calling Trump’s foreign policy vision “wildly inconsistent and unmoored in principle.” In a Wall Street Journal column this month, Robert Gates, the highly respected former Defense secretary who served presidents of both parties over a half-century, described Trump as “beyond repair.”

He traffics in prejudice. From the very beginning, Trump has built his campaign on appeals to bigotry and xenophobia, whipping up resentment against Mexicans, Muslims and migrants. His proposals for mass deportations and religious tests are unworkable and contrary to America’s ideals.

Trump has stirred racist sentiments in ways that can’t be erased by his belated and clumsy outreach to African Americans. His attacks on an Indiana-born federal judge of Mexican heritage fit “the textbook definition of a racist comment,” according to House Speaker Paul Ryan, the highest-ranking elected official in the Republican Party. And for five years, Trump fanned the absurd “birther” movement that falsely questioned the legitimacy of the nation’s first black president.

His business career is checkered. Trump has built his candidacy on his achievements as a real estate developer and entrepreneur. It’s a shaky scaffold, starting with a 1973 Justice Department suit against Trump and his father for systematically discriminating against blacks in housing rentals. (The Trumps fought the suit but later settled on terms that were viewed as a government victory.) Trump’s companies have had some spectacular financial successes, but this track record is marred by six bankruptcy filings, apparent misuse of the family’s charitable foundation, and allegations by Trump University customers of fraud. A series of investigative articles published by the USA TODAY Network found that Trump has been involved in thousands of lawsuits over the past three decades, including at least 60 that involved small businesses and contract employees who said they were stiffed. So much for being a champion of the little guy.

He isn’t leveling with the American people. Is Trump as rich as he says? No one knows, in part because, alone among major party presidential candidates for the past four decades, he refuses to release his tax returns. Nor do we know whether he has paid his fair share of taxes, or the extent of his foreign financial entanglements.

He speaks recklessly. In the days after the Republican convention, Trump invited Russian hackers to interfere with an American election by releasing Hillary Clinton’s emails, and he raised the prospect of “Second Amendment people” preventing the Democratic nominee from appointing liberal justices. It’s hard to imagine two more irresponsible statements from one presidential candidate.

He has coarsened the national dialogue. Did you ever imagine that a presidential candidate would discuss the size of his genitalia during a nationally televised Republican debate? Neither did we. Did you ever imagine a presidential candidate, one who avoided service in the military, would criticize Gold Star parents who lost a son in Iraq? Neither did we. Did you ever imagine you’d see a presidential candidate mock a disabled reporter? Neither did we. Trump’s inability or unwillingness to ignore criticism raises the specter of a president who, like Richard Nixon, would create enemies’ lists and be consumed with getting even with his critics.

He’s a serial liar. Although polls show that Clinton is considered less honest and trustworthy than Trump, it’s not even a close contest. Trump is in a league of his own when it comes to the quality and quantity of his misstatements. When confronted with a falsehood, such as his assertion that he was always against the Iraq War, Trump’s reaction is to use the Big Lie technique of repeating it so often that people begin to believe it.

We are not unmindful of the issues that Trump’s campaign has exploited: the disappearance of working-class jobs; excessive political correctness; the direction of the Supreme Court; urban unrest and street violence; the rise of the Islamic State terrorist group; gridlock in Washington and the influence of moneyed interests. All are legitimate sources of concern.








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Let's forget the opinions of journalist hacks. clinton's compromising America's security on the email system should render her unfit for office, if not for jail. You can find some military men who say Trump's unfit. I can counter with military men on Trump's side.

Investigated and charges were found unwarranted

They said they wouldn't be bringing charges, not that the evidence proved they were unwarranted. He said she did plenty wrong, but he also admitted he wasn't looking very hard either.

No harm, no foul

 

[Flopper]

They realize that it's far better to have a corrupt politician in the White House than a mentally unbalanced demigod. Corrupt politicians are nothing new. The country will certainly survive a Clinton. Trump is a big gamble. His temper, lack of control, and tenancy to exaggerate can create problems far worst than anything we have seen in the past.

We can assume that Hillary's corruption is a given. What we cannot assume is that Trump is mentally unbalanced, unless we accept your analysis.

And yet we know nothing about you other than being a hack.

Thank you

A man that lacks self control, holds his beliefs is spite of overwhelming evidence, that can't accept responsibility for his failures and blames others, requires constant admiration, and lacks all empathy for others is one sick puppy whose's a ticking time bomb.

 

[rightwinger]

Trump raped a 13 year old

 

[rightwinger]

They realize that it's far better to have a corrupt politician in the White House than a mentally unbalanced demigod. Corrupt politicians are nothing new. The country will certainly survive a Clinton. Trump is a big gamble. His temper, lack of control, and tenancy to exaggerate can create problems far worst than anything we have seen in the past.

We can assume that Hillary's corruption is a given. What we cannot assume is that Trump is mentally unbalanced, unless we accept your analysis.

And yet we know nothing about you other than being a hack.

Thank you

A man that lacks self control, holds his beliefs is spite of overwhelming evidence, that can't accept responsibility for his failures and blames others, requires constant admiration, and lacks all empathy for others is one sick puppy whose's a ticking time bomb.

Trump is a man child

 

[mudwhistle]

Sometimes you have to just do what's right

USA TODAY's Editorial Board: Trump is 'unfit for the presidency'

He is erratic. Trump has been on so many sides of so many issues that attempting to assess his policy positions is like shooting at a moving target. A list prepared by NBC details 124 shifts by Trump on 20 major issues since shortly before he entered the race. He simply spouts slogans and outcomes (he’d replace Obamacare with “something terrific”) without any credible explanations of how he’d achieve them.

He is ill-equipped to be commander in chief. Trump’s foreign policy pronouncements typically range from uninformed to incoherent. It’s not just Democrats who say this. Scores of Republican national security leaders have signed an extraordinary open letter calling Trump’s foreign policy vision “wildly inconsistent and unmoored in principle.” In a Wall Street Journal column this month, Robert Gates, the highly respected former Defense secretary who served presidents of both parties over a half-century, described Trump as “beyond repair.”

He traffics in prejudice. From the very beginning, Trump has built his campaign on appeals to bigotry and xenophobia, whipping up resentment against Mexicans, Muslims and migrants. His proposals for mass deportations and religious tests are unworkable and contrary to America’s ideals.

Trump has stirred racist sentiments in ways that can’t be erased by his belated and clumsy outreach to African Americans. His attacks on an Indiana-born federal judge of Mexican heritage fit “the textbook definition of a racist comment,” according to House Speaker Paul Ryan, the highest-ranking elected official in the Republican Party. And for five years, Trump fanned the absurd “birther” movement that falsely questioned the legitimacy of the nation’s first black president.

His business career is checkered. Trump has built his candidacy on his achievements as a real estate developer and entrepreneur. It’s a shaky scaffold, starting with a 1973 Justice Department suit against Trump and his father for systematically discriminating against blacks in housing rentals. (The Trumps fought the suit but later settled on terms that were viewed as a government victory.) Trump’s companies have had some spectacular financial successes, but this track record is marred by six bankruptcy filings, apparent misuse of the family’s charitable foundation, and allegations by Trump University customers of fraud. A series of investigative articles published by the USA TODAY Network found that Trump has been involved in thousands of lawsuits over the past three decades, including at least 60 that involved small businesses and contract employees who said they were stiffed. So much for being a champion of the little guy.

He isn’t leveling with the American people. Is Trump as rich as he says? No one knows, in part because, alone among major party presidential candidates for the past four decades, he refuses to release his tax returns. Nor do we know whether he has paid his fair share of taxes, or the extent of his foreign financial entanglements.

He speaks recklessly. In the days after the Republican convention, Trump invited Russian hackers to interfere with an American election by releasing Hillary Clinton’s emails, and he raised the prospect of “Second Amendment people” preventing the Democratic nominee from appointing liberal justices. It’s hard to imagine two more irresponsible statements from one presidential candidate.

He has coarsened the national dialogue. Did you ever imagine that a presidential candidate would discuss the size of his genitalia during a nationally televised Republican debate? Neither did we. Did you ever imagine a presidential candidate, one who avoided service in the military, would criticize Gold Star parents who lost a son in Iraq? Neither did we. Did you ever imagine you’d see a presidential candidate mock a disabled reporter? Neither did we. Trump’s inability or unwillingness to ignore criticism raises the specter of a president who, like Richard Nixon, would create enemies’ lists and be consumed with getting even with his critics.

He’s a serial liar. Although polls show that Clinton is considered less honest and trustworthy than Trump, it’s not even a close contest. Trump is in a league of his own when it comes to the quality and quantity of his misstatements. When confronted with a falsehood, such as his assertion that he was always against the Iraq War, Trump’s reaction is to use the Big Lie technique of repeating it so often that people begin to believe it.

We are not unmindful of the issues that Trump’s campaign has exploited: the disappearance of working-class jobs; excessive political correctness; the direction of the Supreme Court; urban unrest and street violence; the rise of the Islamic State terrorist group; gridlock in Washington and the influence of moneyed interests. All are legitimate sources of concern.








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Let's forget the opinions of journalist hacks. clinton's compromising America's security on the email system should render her unfit for office, if not for jail. You can find some military men who say Trump's unfit. I can counter with military men on Trump's side.

Investigated and charges were found unwarranted

They said they wouldn't be bringing charges, not that the evidence proved they were unwarranted. He said she did plenty wrong, but he also admitted he wasn't looking very hard either.

No harm, no foul

Sorry, but when it comes you OPSEC, it just doesn't work that way. The problem seems to be all of the evidence that has been found since the announcement and they refuse to even look at it, much less refer it to a Grand Jury like they're supposed to.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Someone from the editorial board at USA Today was interviewed on MSNBC today and he said something very interesting...

He said that if the Republicans had nominated a normal, decent candidate, the editorial board at USA Today may very well have been discussing and debating whether or not Hillary Clinton was qualified to be president.

My point? You Trumpbot, RWnut, irrational, extremist fools who finally got your way on what sort of candidate YOU wanted for president may in fact be wholly responsible for putting a Democrat in the whitehouse for the next 4 years.

Good job!

 

[NotfooledbyW]

You have to be terribly ignorant or a crazed Dem partisan to believe that.

Which is it?

The Clintons have been investigated at least 16 times by Special Prosecutors, Congressional Committees, and the FBI. Republicans have spent $100 million investigating the Clintons for the sole purpose of destroying them. 16 investigations, $100 million, one special prosecutor, and what have the Republicans found. NOTHING. Because their lies about the Clintons aren't true.

You chose to ignore the investigations, and believe the lies. No one has been under as much scrutiny as the Clintons. EVER. Either they are the smartest criminals ever, or they haven't done anything illegal. Trump is a criminal but he keeps getting caught. I'd rather have the smarter criminals, please.

What's laughable about that claim, Dragonlady is that Hillary Clinton just destroyed more evidence of illegal activities than probably any potential defendant in the history of American justice..."losing" two lap tops, wiping two others clean with "BleachBit", losing or destroying with hammers 15 different cell phones, deleting 33,000 emails again with "BleachBit, and then manually deleting all of the backup files to her servers. Tom Brady of the New England Patriots got suspended four games and lost three million dollars because he destroyed one cell phone that the NFL wanted to look at!

Hillary Clinton is so dirty it's a joke when her supporters claim her "innocence"! You want smart criminals? Then put the Clinton's back in the Oval Office.

How's come you can't provide a simple link to the source of all your complaints?

 

[hjmick]

And yet they still endorse Hilliary...

 

[NotfooledbyW]

Oldstyle, post: 15417433

Hillary Clinton is so dirty it's a joke when her supporters claim her "innocence"! You want smart criminals? Then put the Clinton's back in the Oval Office.

Hillary's supporters have absolutely no need to claim her "innocence". You on the other hand, hater, do need to prove your filthy rotten constant claims of "guilt". Innocent until "proven" guilty. You have no respect for the law.

 

[NotfooledbyW]

blackhawk, post: 15417719

Should I show you one from the same years when McCain and Romney got dozens of the newspaper endorsements the ones you guys suddenly find so relevant now but didn't then and how those elections turned out?

Big difference now. It's Conservative newspapers declaring the Republican nominee unfit and dangerous. Retired Republican Senator from Virginia John Warner endorsed Clinton at a campaign rally with Kaine. That's huge. Not one endorsement is one nail in the coffin for Trump, but lots of conservative nails are really adding up.

 

[320 Years of History]

About all I have to say is "better late than never."

The traits USA Today described were apparent to a lot of folks a long time ago. Why it took USA Today so long to figure it out and say so is beyond me. The paper's editors could have said all that stuff ages ago because even having said it, they have not endorsed anyone, which is their long standing practice. They've merely said "don't vote for Trump."

"Whatever you do, however, resist the siren song of a dangerous demagogue. By all means vote, just not for Donald Trump."
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[Oldstyle]

blackhawk, post: 15417719

Should I show you one from the same years when McCain and Romney got dozens of the newspaper endorsements the ones you guys suddenly find so relevant now but didn't then and how those elections turned out?

Big difference now. It's Conservative newspapers declaring the Republican nominee unfit and dangerous. Retired Republican Senator from Virginia John Warner endorsed Clinton at a campaign rally with Kaine. That's huge. Not one endorsement is one nail in the coffin for Trump, but lots of conservative nails are really adding up.

The Republicans that aren't endorsing Trump are part of the GOP Establishment, Notfooled. They don't want Trump because he's not one of them. He's not a politician. He's not a Washington insider. He doesn't kiss their asses. He makes no bones about disliking most of the main stream media. That isn't a negative in this election...it's a positive because the electorate is sick of politicians and the status quo.

 

[Oldstyle]

About all I have to say is "better late than never."

The traits USA Today described were apparent to a lot of folks a long time ago. Why it took USA Today so long to figure it out and say so is beyond me. The paper's editors could have said all that stuff ages ago because even having said it, they have not endorsed anyone, which is their long standing practice. They've merely said "don't vote for Trump."

"Whatever you do, however, resist the siren song of a dangerous demagogue. By all means vote, just not for Donald Trump."
​

That's laughable. They don't endorse anyone...but they tell people not to vote for one person in what's essentially a two person race? They've endorsed Hillary without having the integrity to admit it!

 

[thereisnospoon]

Sometimes you have to just do what's right

USA TODAY's Editorial Board: Trump is 'unfit for the presidency'

He is erratic. Trump has been on so many sides of so many issues that attempting to assess his policy positions is like shooting at a moving target. A list prepared by NBC details 124 shifts by Trump on 20 major issues since shortly before he entered the race. He simply spouts slogans and outcomes (he’d replace Obamacare with “something terrific”) without any credible explanations of how he’d achieve them.

He is ill-equipped to be commander in chief. Trump’s foreign policy pronouncements typically range from uninformed to incoherent. It’s not just Democrats who say this. Scores of Republican national security leaders have signed an extraordinary open letter calling Trump’s foreign policy vision “wildly inconsistent and unmoored in principle.” In a Wall Street Journal column this month, Robert Gates, the highly respected former Defense secretary who served presidents of both parties over a half-century, described Trump as “beyond repair.”

He traffics in prejudice. From the very beginning, Trump has built his campaign on appeals to bigotry and xenophobia, whipping up resentment against Mexicans, Muslims and migrants. His proposals for mass deportations and religious tests are unworkable and contrary to America’s ideals.

Trump has stirred racist sentiments in ways that can’t be erased by his belated and clumsy outreach to African Americans. His attacks on an Indiana-born federal judge of Mexican heritage fit “the textbook definition of a racist comment,” according to House Speaker Paul Ryan, the highest-ranking elected official in the Republican Party. And for five years, Trump fanned the absurd “birther” movement that falsely questioned the legitimacy of the nation’s first black president.

His business career is checkered. Trump has built his candidacy on his achievements as a real estate developer and entrepreneur. It’s a shaky scaffold, starting with a 1973 Justice Department suit against Trump and his father for systematically discriminating against blacks in housing rentals. (The Trumps fought the suit but later settled on terms that were viewed as a government victory.) Trump’s companies have had some spectacular financial successes, but this track record is marred by six bankruptcy filings, apparent misuse of the family’s charitable foundation, and allegations by Trump University customers of fraud. A series of investigative articles published by the USA TODAY Network found that Trump has been involved in thousands of lawsuits over the past three decades, including at least 60 that involved small businesses and contract employees who said they were stiffed. So much for being a champion of the little guy.

He isn’t leveling with the American people. Is Trump as rich as he says? No one knows, in part because, alone among major party presidential candidates for the past four decades, he refuses to release his tax returns. Nor do we know whether he has paid his fair share of taxes, or the extent of his foreign financial entanglements.

He speaks recklessly. In the days after the Republican convention, Trump invited Russian hackers to interfere with an American election by releasing Hillary Clinton’s emails, and he raised the prospect of “Second Amendment people” preventing the Democratic nominee from appointing liberal justices. It’s hard to imagine two more irresponsible statements from one presidential candidate.

He has coarsened the national dialogue. Did you ever imagine that a presidential candidate would discuss the size of his genitalia during a nationally televised Republican debate? Neither did we. Did you ever imagine a presidential candidate, one who avoided service in the military, would criticize Gold Star parents who lost a son in Iraq? Neither did we. Did you ever imagine you’d see a presidential candidate mock a disabled reporter? Neither did we. Trump’s inability or unwillingness to ignore criticism raises the specter of a president who, like Richard Nixon, would create enemies’ lists and be consumed with getting even with his critics.

He’s a serial liar. Although polls show that Clinton is considered less honest and trustworthy than Trump, it’s not even a close contest. Trump is in a league of his own when it comes to the quality and quantity of his misstatements. When confronted with a falsehood, such as his assertion that he was always against the Iraq War, Trump’s reaction is to use the Big Lie technique of repeating it so often that people begin to believe it.

We are not unmindful of the issues that Trump’s campaign has exploited: the disappearance of working-class jobs; excessive political correctness; the direction of the Supreme Court; urban unrest and street violence; the rise of the Islamic State terrorist group; gridlock in Washington and the influence of moneyed interests. All are legitimate sources of concern.








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to a mere 20% of the population USA Today is credible. That leaves the rest of us, who dismiss that liberal rag.

 

[NotfooledbyW]

Oldstyle, post: 15423815

He's not a Washington insider.

And you want to make him the ultimate Washington insider with nothing but his and his family's financial interests to be unlimited and gainful. You think this ego-maniac billionaire has his cult like followers interests on the top of his agenda.

About 34 percent of likely voters were born suckers and The Donald knows it.

Clinton voters will save your suckered butts. Thank god.

 

[Sun Devil 92]

Oldstyle, post: 15423815

He's not a Washington insider.

And you want to make him the ultimate Washington insider with nothing but his and his family's financial interests to be unlimited and gainful. You think this ego-maniac billionaire has his cult like followers interests on the top of his agenda.

About 34 percent of likely voters were born suckers and The Donald knows it.

Clinton voters will save your suckered butts. Thank god.

Not at the moment they won't.

The 34 percent that will vote for HIllary were dropped on their heads at birth.

Donald's voters simply have sniffed to much glue.

 

[NotfooledbyW]

Oldstyle, post: 15423815

That isn't a negative in this election...it's a positive because the electorate is sick of politicians and the status quo.

Putin is an outsider too, and he is a politician. Trump is not 'sick' of the Russian politician.

I'd rather have American politicians running the country than Trump's hidden foreign entanglements and connections being run by and for the Trump progeny as heirs to gramps and daddy's empire.

Then there's this, the Outsider business person ultimate dream:

Donald Trump in 2006: I 'sort of hope' real estate market tanks - CNNPolitics.com
CNN.com › 2016/05/19 › politics › dona...
AMP - May 19, 2016 - (CNN)Two years before the housing market collapsed in 2008 and millions of Americans lost their homes, Donald Trump said he was hoping for a crash. "I sort of hope that happens because then people like me would go in and buy," Trump said in a 2006 audiobook from Trump University ...

The Trump kids will have an orgy of buying depressed real estate when daddy becomes an insider.

What did Trump call it in the debate? Oh yeah - "That's Business"

 

[owebo]

Oldstyle, post: 15423815

That isn't a negative in this election...it's a positive because the electorate is sick of politicians and the status quo.

Putin is an outsider too, and he is a politician. Trump is not 'sick' of the Russian politician.

I'd rather have American politicians running the country than Trump's hidden foreign entanglements and connections being run by and for the Trump progeny as heirs to gramps and daddy's empire.

Then there's this, the Outsider business person ultimate dream:

Donald Trump in 2006: I 'sort of hope' real estate market tanks - CNNPolitics.com
CNN.com › 2016/05/19 › politics › dona...
AMP - May 19, 2016 - (CNN)Two years before the housing market collapsed in 2008 and millions of Americans lost their homes, Donald Trump said he was hoping for a crash. "I sort of hope that happens because then people like me would go in and buy," Trump said in a 2006 audiobook from Trump University ...

The Trump kids will have an orgy of buying depressed real estate when daddy becomes an insider.

What did Trump call it in the debate? Oh yeah - "That's Business"