USA Today editorial board declares Trump unfit for Presidency

[easyt65]

Your belief that terrorist-aiding political whore and 'access/pay-to-play 'pimp' will make a good President is the fantasy.

 

[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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OMG.....WHAT A SURPRISE!!!

USA TODAY has never endorsed a President......EVER

They just don't claim to prefer someone else......They declare him UNFIT to be president

 

[NotfooledbyW]

Trumps probably only fit for a nut house or a padded room. The national disgrace need to seek help.

Anyone that would consider Trump for president is sick in the head.

There is no way to reasonably, factually, and intelligently discuss the presidential race with a Trump supporter, so when they call me nothing but a brainwashed criminal-Clinton-dupe, there is one very effective response.

I tell them Clinton led the way to create the 1975 law called the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, which would later become the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.

Your choice is:

And then begin a full blown mimic of Trump by waving my arms in an uncontrollable manner from the video where Trump mocked and ridiculed on live cameras for all to see a journalist who has a muscle control disability.

Trump cannot be President just for that. Do you agree or disagree?

They are silent. They shut up. They appear to be stunned and instantly ashamed of themselves.

They never pretend to not know what I'm talking about.

 

[easyt65]

Wonder how much money she paid the Fish Wrap to endorse one now...how much access?

'Political Whore Scores Fish Wrap Endorsement': Great Headline

 

[Tom Horn]

Gannet (USA Today) now owns the Arizona Repugnant so it's no surprise they also endorsed the diaper-wearing, epileptic criminal Clinton. The only difference is that the editorial board now matches the news room which is full of leftist pinheads. The cartoonist, Steve Benson, has had so many death-threats over his vile cartoons he had to join the Chandler police reserve so he could carry a pistol and try to arrest his tormentors. Ed Montini is a columnist who is so despised he never appears in public. And the rest of them are just relics in a dying profession. Without Gannet, the Repugnant, the Detroit Free Press and a couple others would no longer have print editions.

 

[easyt65]

Trumps probably only fit for a nut house or a padded room. The national disgrace need to seek help.

Anyone that would consider Trump for president is sick in the head.

There is no way to reasonably, factually, and intelligently discuss the presidential race with a Trump supporter, so when they call me brainwashed Criminal Clinton dupe, there is one very effective response.

I tell them Clinton led the way to create the 1975 law called the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, which would later become the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.

Your choice is:

And then begin a full blown mimic of Trump by waving my arms in an uncontrollable manner from the video where Trump mocked and ridiculed on live cameras for all to see a journalist who has a muscle control disability.

Trump cannot be President just for that. Do you agree or disagree?

They are silent. They shut up. They appear to be stunned and instantly ashamed of themselves.

They never pretend to not know what I'm talking about.

Clinton is a pathelogical lying, corrupt career, scandal-plagued, sexual deviant victim-demonizing, terrorist-aiding, law-breaking, national security-endangering, completely failed record-running, treasonous, political whore and access/favor-selling pimp...

Proven...

Documented..

'Nuff Said.

 

[rightwinger]

From USA TODAY

This year, the choice isn’t between two capable major party nominees who happen to have significant ideological differences. This year, one of the candidates — Republican nominee Donald Trump — is, by unanimous consensus of the Editorial Board, unfit for the presidency.

From the day he declared his candidacy 15 months ago through this week’s first presidential debate, Trump has demonstrated repeatedly that he lacks the temperament, knowledge, steadiness and honesty that America needs from its presidents.

 

[whitehall]

A smarmy bunch of (20-30 something) liberals employed by the Gannet newspaper chain gets together and the left wing media calls them "the USA Editorial Board" and low information lefties think it's the freaking word of God. You almost gotta laugh

 

[easyt65]

From USA TODAY

This year, the choice isn’t between two capable major party nominees who happen to have significant ideological differences. This year, one of the candidates — Republican nominee Donald Trump — is, by unanimous consensus of the Editorial Board, unfit for the presidency.

From the day he declared his candidacy 15 months ago through this week’s first presidential debate, Trump has demonstrated repeatedly that he lacks the temperament, knowledge, steadiness and honesty that America needs from its presidents.

Quoting the Fish Wrap does NOT prove anything...

 

[NotfooledbyW]

Hillary's incompetent handling of security dates back to her husband's two terms as president, its clear she's a danger to herself and the nation now that is unfit.

What specific danger to our nation are you crediting Secretary Clinton of committing?

She pushed for capturing or killing OBL. Mission Accomplished.

 

[BluesLegend]

Hillary's incompetent handling of security dates back to her husband's two terms as president, its clear she's a danger to herself and the nation now that is unfit.

What specific danger to our nation are you crediting Secretary Clinton of committing?

She pushed for capturing or killing OBL. Mission Accomplished.

Linda Tripp a holdover from the Bush administration was horrified at how Bill and Hillary ignored security protocols in the White House, in particular their who gives a shit attitude regarding classified material. Decades later Hillary is still at it, her incompetence putting the nation at risk.

 

[Tom Horn]

From USA TODAY

This year, the choice isn’t between two capable major party nominees who happen to have significant ideological differences. This year, one of the candidates — Republican nominee Donald Trump — is, by unanimous consensus of the Editorial Board, unfit for the presidency.

From the day he declared his candidacy 15 months ago through this week’s first presidential debate, Trump has demonstrated repeatedly that he lacks the temperament, knowledge, steadiness and honesty that America needs from its presidents.

USA Today is a comic book that rarely if ever makes a profit. No idea how they stay in business other than buying regional papers to do their printing. Their editorial board are now hard-core leftist shitheads who would rather chose a career criminal like Clinton over a mega-successful businessman.....nobody is surprised.

 

[NotfooledbyW]

A smarmy bunch of (20-30 something) liberals employed by the Gannet newspaper chain gets together and the left wing media calls them "the USA Editorial Board" and low information lefties think it's the freaking word of God. You almost gotta laugh

Trump has zero endorsements from any major newspaper. There is a reason for that.

 

[Tom Horn]

Hillary's incompetent handling of security dates back to her husband's two terms as president, its clear she's a danger to herself and the nation now that is unfit.

What specific danger to our nation are you crediting Secretary Clinton of committing?

She pushed for capturing or killing OBL. Mission Accomplished.

Linda Tripp a holdover from the Bush administration was horrified at how Bill and Hillary ignored security protocols in the White House, in particular their who gives a shit attitude regarding classified material. Decades later Hillary is still at it, her incompetence putting the nation at risk.

I read somewhere that under Clinton, only about a third of the State Dept. were trained on how to handle classified information. She may be glib and a good liar if you never check what she says...but the truth is the old hag is senile and was never very bright in the first place.

 

[easyt65]

Hillary's incompetent handling of security dates back to her husband's two terms as president, its clear she's a danger to herself and the nation now that is unfit.

What specific danger to our nation are you crediting Secretary Clinton of committing?

She pushed for capturing or killing OBL. Mission Accomplished.

According to the WH, Hillary's ILLEGAL, UNAUTHORIZED, UNENCRYPTED servers ILLEGALLY contained information SO classified 'it could not be released in any format due to potentially causing grave danger to US national security'.

One FACT liberals ignore like the plague is that once Hillary left the State Department she was NOT legally allowed to personally possess ANY classified material because she was norhing more than a CITIZEN with NO NEED TO KNOW.

Her servers contained THOUSANDS of documents - MUCH classified...a CRIME.

Libs lie, deny, & justify, but the FACT is - even according to the WH - Hillary broke the law and endangered National Security.

 

[Tom Horn]

A smarmy bunch of (20-30 something) liberals employed by the Gannet newspaper chain gets together and the left wing media calls them "the USA Editorial Board" and low information lefties think it's the freaking word of God. You almost gotta laugh

Trump has zero endorsements from any major newspaper. There is a reason for that.

Uh, because it's 2016 and nobody reads newspapers anymore?

 

[rightwinger]

I've been following Presidential elections since LBJ/Goldwater in 1964

I have seen candidates endorsed and not endorsed and the reasons why. I never recall seeing a Presidential candidate who not only is not being endorsed but is being declared UNFIT to be president

Until Trump

 

[BluesLegend]

Hillary's incompetent handling of security dates back to her husband's two terms as president, its clear she's a danger to herself and the nation now that is unfit.

What specific danger to our nation are you crediting Secretary Clinton of committing?

She pushed for capturing or killing OBL. Mission Accomplished.

Linda Tripp a holdover from the Bush administration was horrified at how Bill and Hillary ignored security protocols in the White House, in particular their who gives a shit attitude regarding classified material. Decades later Hillary is still at it, her incompetence putting the nation at risk.

I read somewhere that under Clinton, only about a third of the State Dept. were trained on how to handle classified information. She may be glib and a good liar if you never check what she says...but the truth is the old hag is senile and was never very bright in the first place.

95% of the staff in the White House never underwent the required 90 day security clearance process they just threw the doors open. Tripp herself wasn't allowed to step foot in the West Wing until she had her security clearance under Bush.

 

[NotfooledbyW]

a career criminal like Clinton over a mega-successful

What crime has Clinton committed? Seriously. Can you be specific and name one?

 

[BluesLegend]

Hillary's incompetent handling of security dates back to her husband's two terms as president, its clear she's a danger to herself and the nation now that is unfit.

What specific danger to our nation are you crediting Secretary Clinton of committing?

She pushed for capturing or killing OBL. Mission Accomplished.

According to the WH, Hillary's ILLEGAL, UNAUTHORIZED, UNENCRYPTED servers ILLEGALLY contained information SO classified 'it could not be released in any format due to potentially causing grave danger to US national security'.

One FACT liberals ignore like the plague is that once Hillary left the State Department she was NOT legally allowed to personally possess ANY classified material because she was norhing more than a CITIZEN with NO NEED TO KNOW.

Her servers contained THOUSANDS of documents - MUCH classified...a CRIME.

Libs lie, deny, & justify, but the FACT is - even according to the WH - Hillary broke the law and endangered National Security.

Its okay, the Clintons are allowed to break the law.