It's All A Con: Trump's Presidential Campaign is as big a scam as Trump University

[applegrove]

It's All A Con: Trump's Presidential Campaign is as big a scam as Trump University

by Conor Lynch at Salon

http://www.salon.com/2016/06/08/its_all_a_con_trumps_presidential_campaign_is_as_big_a_scam_as_trump_university/


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The policies that the Trump campaign has put forward are shockingly impractical and dangerous — from his proposal to deport 11 million people (which would cost hundreds of billions of dollars) to his tax plan, which would add an estimated $10 trillion to the debt over the next decade. Most economists agree that if Trump accomplished his most notable policies — mass deportations, getting into aggressive trade wars, slashing taxes for the wealthiest — he would quickly send the economy spiraling into another recession.

Meanwhile, the billionaire has made erroneous claim after erroneous claim, all to fire up uninformed Americans and stir up resentment (one can never be sure whether Trump is ignorant himself or he is simply lying because he knows he can get away with it). He has said that Muslims were cheering in New Jersey on 9/11; he has falsely claimed that President Obama wants to take in 250,000 Syrian refugees; he has insisted that unemployment may be as high as 42 percent; he has stated the GDP growth is at zero percent; he has declared that the Mexican government deliberately sends “the bad ones over”; he has said America is the highest taxed nation in the world; it goes on and on. The lies are endless, and of his statements checked by PolitiFact, only two percent have been ruled true, while sixty percent have been utterly false.

How can a presidential candidate lie so frequently without being held accountable by the public? How can a presidential candidate declare that he will be the “best jobs president of all time” when most impartial economists agree that his policies would in fact destroy the economy? Do his supporters even care about facts?

One of his most vocal advocates, Breitbart writer (and full-time troll) Milo Yiannopoulos, provided an insight on Twitter when he was asked what Trump policies he actually supports, and replied that Trumpists just want to “burn everything down.” In other words, the policies (or lack thereof) don’t matter, they just want to watch the establishment squirm. This may be accurate for his most dedicated (and privileged) supporters, but surely there are voters who believe that he will somehow bring back jobs, deport 11 million people, and so on — they don’t know how, and they don’t really care how, but they have faith (just like the students at Trump University).



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[world wide wally]

1. The ironic part is that most of his scams lose money...

Then he uses collateral to make a bigger loan.
Hence his phony net worth of $10 Billion. But little in his pocket (or brain for that matter). And his soul is completely empty.

[applegrove]

2. His soul is empty. Donald is the type of person who can feel empathy. He has

chosen to be a narcissist, a liar and a racist.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

8. He "can't" feel empathy. Also, I'm not sure but I don't think one chooses to be...

...a narcissist. I think it's just who you are.

[applegrove]

10. Some celebrities fall into thinking only of their own dam selves. I think Trump is one of those.

He's not a psychopath. I had one in my life from 23 +, decades really. Trump is nowhere near as awful. A real psychopath makes you weep just for having seen through them. Trump is a bafoon. A dyslexic. A sales guy. Sleezy. Obviously a fraudster. Liar. But he does have empathy. He does get along with people. He's not a malignant narcissist. Just a narcissist. He's knows better about race. Van Jones even says he doesn't think Trump is a racist just a user of racism. With Trump it is all learned and studied (at the feet of Roy Cohn and others). It was a choice for him to be this way. He followed the path of believing his own press. He's addicted to it. What a sorry reason to want to be President.

[Doctor Jack]

3. That is kind of funny

Its like he has been trying to play 3 card monte but the little old lady took him for $800

[spanone]

4. he's a joke and his followers will be pissed if they ever allow themselves to realize it

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. It seems that the wall is at the core of his support.

If he built his wall, even at taxpayer expense, his core would forgive everything else, broken promises & stupid kept promises, at least for a year or two until the chickens came home to roost.

Then they'd turn on him, as they have turned on everybody, like Beck, Ryan, Limbaugh, McConnell, McCain, Romney, .... All except perhaps Palin and Cruz.

[pampango]

6. "... if Trump accomplished his most notable policies ... he would quickly send the economy spiraling

into another recession." Or worse!

Most economists agree that if Trump accomplished his most notable policies — mass deportations, getting into aggressive trade wars, slashing taxes for the wealthiest — he would quickly send the economy spiraling into another recession.

For a populist candidate who has sold himself as a common man fighting for Joe Average, preying on vulnerable, average Americans is certainly not a good look — which is why Donald is so furious that Judge Gonzalo Curiel ordered the public release of company records. This fiasco affirms what many people already knew: Trump is a snake-oil peddling charlatan for the 21st century; the lovechild of P.T. Barnum and George Wallace.

One of his most vocal advocates, Breitbart writer (and full-time troll) Milo Yiannopoulos, provided an insight on Twitter when he was asked what Trump policies he actually supports, and replied that Trumpists just want to “burn everything down.” In other words, the policies (or lack thereof) don’t matter, they just want to watch the establishment squirm. This may be accurate for his most dedicated (and privileged) supporters, but surely there are voters who believe that he will somehow bring back jobs, deport 11 million people, and so on — they don’t know how, and they don’t really care how, but they have faith (just like the students at Trump University).

One underlying theme of Trump’s presidential campaign has been his hostile, anti-intellectual attitude — he is almost disdainful towards facts and expert opinion. The billionaire seems to pride himself on his ignorance, and has no desire to learn or familiarize himself with the issues — even now that he is the presumptive GOP nominee. In many ways, he is a reflection of much of America. Proud, prejudiced, patriotic, ignorant, materialistic, belligerent.

"Trumpists just want to “burn everything down.”
"... he policies (or lack thereof) don’t matter, they just want to watch the establishment squirm."

That's a great explanation of the attitude of Trump supporters.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

9. "Trumpists just want to 'burn everything down'" ... yep, they fantasize about it - about chaos and..

...anarchy and a maybe even a chance to use their guns for something other than target practice and the gun range.

[napkinz]

7. K&R