Obama bribed NY Attorney General To Sue Trump University: Trump

[Stuart G]

Source: Huffington Post

6:28 pm 8/15/16

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama arranged for New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to receive a $15,000 donation in exchange for investigating Trump University, Donald Trump alleged in February in comments that were overlooked, likely due to the even more ridiculous and offensive remarks that he was making at the time.

Trump didn’t quite accuse Obama of handing Schneiderman an envelope with $15,000 stuffed in it. Instead, Trump said, Obama appears to have arranged a campaign contribution to Schneiderman from a law firm representing victims of Trump’s scam. (Like Trump’s usual claims, there’s no evidence to support this one.)

“The attorney general of New York meets with Barack Obama in Syracuse,” Trump said at a rally in Bentonville, Arkansas. “The following day he sues me. What they don’t say is, I believe, fifteen thousand or a lot of money was paid to the attorney general by the law firm in California that is suing me.”

While relaying his theory about Schneiderman and Obama, Trump told the crowd the judge in the case had “tremendous hostility, beyond belief ― I believe he happens to be Spanish, which is fine, he’s Hispanic, which is fine,” adding that he was considering asking the judge to recuse himself. (The media largely missed his comments, but Trump helpfully went to war with Judge Gonzalo Curiel again in June, and it made national news.)

Trump repeated his charge against Obama just moments later. “All of a sudden the attorney general ― his name is Eric Schneiderman, not respected in New York, doing a terrible job, probably is not electable in New York, but who knows ― and he meets with Obama, gets a campaign contribution, I think, I think it’s fifteen thousand dollars, and all of a sudden, he meets with Obama in, I believe, Syracuse, and the following day or two he brings a lawsuit against me.”



Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-eric-schneiderman-trump-university_us_57b2340ae4b0a8e15024e470?section=&

[titaniumsalute]

1. This is breaking news?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

6. Well, yes. In a way

In the way that every day brings a new outrage from him, it is news, it is certainly broken, into little shards actually, so in a sense it is breaking news

Speaking of breaking, The Trump Show running a serious campaign is almost like Breaking Bad being intended to be a comedy.

[forest444]

39. I agree - but why is the 'Trump:' qualifier put at the end, when in the link it's at the beginning?

You know how a lot of people are: they just read the headline - and often just the first few words. The way this thread was posted almost makes it sound as though Obama did in fact bribe somebody.

I'm surprised Stuart G wasn't called out for that, even if it was an honest mistake (and I have no doubt it was; but nevertheless).

[ChairmanAgnostic]

41. Right on with your observation.

[Angry Dragon]

2. How can one know when Trump lies??

When his lips move

[Xipe Totec]

3. Technically, those are called stupidity waves

Generated by the rapid oscillation of lips.

[sakabatou]

4. So how many more conspiracy theories will he throw around

[Stuart G]

5. As many as he can think of ...nt

[bucolic_frolic]

7. Oh Yes

Judge Curiel wasn't enough, so now it's the New York State AG

Trump is CERTIFIABLE

[MidwestTransplant]

8. Obama's response should be:

I wouldn't do that and in any event we didn't want to trip you up, we wanted you to win the nomination.

[Yallow]

9. Donald, Where's Your Wife?

Shacked up with the Attorney General of Dumfukistan?

[Maeve]

10. First, that is a really badly written first paragraph from Huff Post

It makes the accusation look "truthier" than it is by back-loading the "alleged" after the allegation.
Second...that they only saw the line from a rally last February and are digging it up now is....weak. It looks like they were desperate for a new Drumpf story.

[7962]

11. Why would he have to be bribed? It was a scam from the start nt

[meow2u3]

12. This coming from a guy who paid off 2 Attorneys General

in the form of campaign contributions and wound up having his lawsuit against him dismissed. Projection, anyone?

[SunSeeker]

26. ^^^THIS^^^

[Mc Mike]

36. That's the key point.

Just like Christie leading the chant 'lock her up'.

[annabanana]

44. He ALWAYS accuses other of his own deeds. . . . n/t

[jtuck004]

13. The real estate swindler reminds me...

My dog Jones used to do the most curious thing whenever my friend Burk visited my house. Jones was a mutt from the pound, so before we adopted him he might have picked up some unsavory habits. But he'd sidle over to Burk, rub up against him, and start to lift his leg on him.

Jones, a greyhound-black lab mix who, bless his big heart, passed on at age 15 a few years ago, never did that with any other visitor. Burk didn't smell or wear stinky clothes, and he didn't antagonize or otherwise provoke Jones. Burk did have a dog of his own, a redbone coonhound named Hattie, but other visitors had dogs. In short, he shouldn't have stood out in any way from anyone else. But to Jones, Burk was like a fresh wall to a graffiti artist.

Why? For me, Jones's behavior—which even a dog-cognition expert acknowledged was unusual—epitomizes the mystery that is dogs' sense of smell. What lies behind this astonishing capability of theirs, one that makes the world not a visual one as it is to us but a richly odoriferous one? How do their noses differ from ours, and what do their brains do differently? Finally, is there an answer to why Jones tried to pee on Burk every time he set foot in my place?
...
Dogs' sense of smell overpowers our own by orders of magnitude—it's 10,000 to 100,000 times as acute, scientists say. "Let's suppose they're just 10,000 times better," says James Walker, former director of the Sensory Research Institute at Florida State University, who, with several colleagues, came up with that jaw-dropping estimate during a rigorously designed, oft-cited study. "If you make the analogy to vision, what you and I can see at a third of a mile, a dog could see more than 3,000 miles away and still see as well."

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/nature/dogs-sense-of-smell.html

...the point being that the dog lives in a world we cannot see because of how the dog is built. It is a world built of odor, and no matter our best efforts, we have never been able to do more than rudimentary interpretations and guesses as to what it might be like. It also defines the dog, They approach everything and cannot conceive of any other.

Like the dog that pees on someone, it seems likely to me that the swindler cannot conceive of a world in which anyone does anything without a bribe, for any moral conviction, or for any reason other than personal profit.

I am not sure he can even imagine anything else. Too bad, 'cause when he is gone, his name up there is just a dab of paint from never having existed at all.

[Bill USA]

14. ROFL!!!! IT's impossible to mock Trump's pronouncements. THey're already so hyperbolic there's no

room left to burlesque them!

[caraher]

15. Trump has been sued something like 3500 times

I wonder how deep Obama's pockets are, to have bribed so many people to take Trump to court?

[SummerSnow]

16. he saw Obama give Schneiderman a sack of money in Central Park.roflmao

Trump: " I will not lie to you, I saw Ba-rack-Hu-ssein-O-ba-ma give Schneideman a envelope of money in Syracuse"


Dear Trump children: " If you love your daddy, get him some help. At least suggest it"

[PSPS]

17. Dogwhistle: He's really saying ((Schneiderman))

[Bernardo de La Paz]

18. Trump bribed FL AG $25,000 to NOT sue Trump University. . . nt

[Tempest]

30. Drumpf gave Abbott in Texas $35,000 to drop his investigation. n/t

[Bernardo de La Paz]

32. Either that is what I am thinking of or that is another one! Thx. . . . nt

[Tempest]

38. It's another one. Bondi in FL and Abbott in TX. n/t

[jpak]

19. Poor Baby

Cry baby cry

Cry baby cry

[LuckyLib]

20. It just never ends. He is full-blown whack-a-doodle bat-shit crazy.

[Stuart G]

21. Your one line..says it all.."....whack-a-doodle bat-shit crazy." nt

[ailsagirl]

22. And we still have a little less than three months...

[leftyladyfrommo]

42. He really isn't right in the head.

And I think the pressure he is under is making it worse. His claims just get more and more outlandish.

[allan01]

23. ever since mr O took office the Rs have been diging into him unmercifuly

in the Rs mind mr. Obama causes evrything .

[SummerSnow]

24. More conspiracy theories from Trump...

1. I saw Obama get a tattoo and it said, I luv ISIS.

[paleotn]

25. Just when you thought the Chump campaign

...couldn't get anymore f'd up. Clinton doesn't need to spend big bucks on slick, negative ads. Just replay these incredible nuggets of "wisdom" from Chump's speeches.

[RKP5637]

27. Trump, doesn't know which reality he's in. He is unhinged and also shows signs of early dementia. nt

[Jarqui]

28. The lawsuit doesn't matter if it's frivolous and doesn't have merit

But that is not how the court sees it

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-22/trump-university-judge-says-he-plans-to-let-lawsuit-go-ahead

It's just another (paraphrased)

"I take no responsibility for my fraudulent actions (or lies or whatever). Everyone else is to blame for my students feeling like they got ripped off"

[djg21]

34. Schneiderman got very lucky.

The investigation of Trump University started before the election cycle, and there is no way that Schneiderman was prescient enough to think that Trump stood any chance of even making it through Iowa and New Hampshire, nevermind actually becoming the GOP nominee. And, even if Schneiderman had been bribed, if Trump hadn't perpetrated a fraud on consumers, there would be nothing for him to investigate. But you can't fix stupid, and his supporters will continue to buy his bullshit.

[Tempest]

29. Drumpf bribed Texas and Florida AGs into dropping investigation

Bondi got $25,000 and Abbott got $35,000 from Drumpf.

Bondi probably felt cheated when she found out Abbott got more.

[catbyte]

31. Oh, dear God.

How pathetic can you get? Don the Con: The Greatest Victim in the History of the World! The YUUUUUGEST VICTIM SINCE THE DAWN OF TIME!!! Everybody is persecuting poor little Donald. Being nailed to the cross and pierced through the side was like a day at the beach for Jesus compared to what the evil liberals and corrupt press are doing to poor Candidate Orange Shitgibbon. The evil Democrats and corrupt media are conspiring to deny him of his rightful coronation as Donald I, the first American Emperor. That's what he wants. That's what he expects, and goddamnit, if he doesn't get his way, "his people" will burn the whole country down. He is the most un-American, most vile piece of shit to have afflicted America, ever. Joe McCarthy was Bush league compared to this criminal.

Donald J Trump is nothing but political pornography--no redeeming social value, whatsoever.unless-

[Still In Wisconsin]

33. The President should sue the mofo for slander. n/t

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[Ford_Prefect]

35. I'd sooner he was simply arrested for impersonating a Human Being.

[bucolic_frolic]

37. The illegitimate birthee was smart enough to do this?

Trump's trying to have it both ways

[Sunlei]

40. People who were ripped off by TU bring the case to their state AG & they're supposed to file suit!

[2banon]

43. I strongly suggest editing the subject line as well as

presentation of the piece. HuffPo traffics in sensationalism as a rule, something of that nature should be mentioned above the lead.

Seriously.. please reconsider.

[Tempest]

45. I strongly suggest you read the LBN rules. Seriously... please consider

"Use the published title of the story as the title of the discussion thread"

' HuffPo traffics in sensationalism as a rule'

And yet the title of the article correctly describes what Trump was implying. No sensationalism. And your belief they traffic in sensationalism as a rule isn't backed up with the evidence.

[2banon]

47. Ok. So you're going with as the headlines reads, that Obama Bribed Atty General?

which means IF that were TRUE, at the minimum he committed a Felony and could be brought in on RICO charges IF that were TRUE..

sure, ok. whatever.. but you're saying, it's legitimate breaking news. oky doky.

[Tempest]

48. You missed the point and engaged in deflection.

No sense wasting any more time with you.

[sofa king]

46. Love this headline!

":Trump," meaning, &quot cough) BULLSHIT."