Donald Trump denies poor voting record--US tycoon reacts with fury

[Snoutport]

Source: Guardian UK

Records unearthed by NY1, Trump's hometown news station, show he has not voted in primary elections for 21 years. City election board spokeswoman Valerie Vazquez confirmed NY1's story at the weekend.

The news prompted a furious denial from Trump. "I voted in every general election … You're going to pay a big price because you're wrong ... I have records that I voted and so does the board of elections … I signed in at every election," he told NY1.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/24/donald-trump-election-voting-record

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How can Trump run for president if he blows his top all the time? He is trying to get ratings for his show and up his name value...this guy wouldn't make it on the campaign trail for a month with his attitude.

[katanalori]

1. "You're going to pay a big price because you're wrong "

He is a bully. A hot-headed BULLY. He does not understand government either - he made a fool of himself going on the defensive about "right to privacy."

[monmouth]

8. It's as if John McPain had an illegitimate child or something. See the

similarities?

[jpak]

26. He sounds like the Gov. of Maine or New Jersey or any other GOP bully

nothing new here

yup

[calimary]

27. No kidding - who the hell does he think he is? "You're going to pay a big price..." EXCUSE ME???

Who the hell does he think he is? Well, I think we all know. And I'd also say NONE of us agree.

[Joe Bacon]

65. Trump can lie just like any other Republic Party stooge

Fox News will defend him. So will Pigboy and the Right Wing apologists on talk radio.

Trump could say that 2+2=5, and Fox News would lead the Corporate Controlled Conservative Press onslaught defending that. And millions of Americans would get in the Republican line and march off the cliff singing ¢hri$tian hymms like the lemmings the Koch Brothers want them to be.

[Snoutport]

71. Who is pigboy?

[Joe Bacon]

75. Rush

I picked that up from Bartcop....

[Snoutport]

80. ah.... since you are a Bacon I was confused.

[Kurmudgeon]

68. The GOP is always about someone paying a big price, except themselves.

Trump will fit right in, he IS the perfect GOP candidate.

[sakabatou]

2. Call the WAAAAAAAHmbulence for him

[Garbo 2004]

3. The contention is that he didn't vote in primaries. So he responds re: general elections.

No one said he didn't vote in general elections, did they?

Blowhard asshole.

[farmbo]

35. Probably doesn't know the difference between the two...

eom

[Garbo 2004]

50. No, I think it's deliberate strategy & spin. nt

[Snoutport]

51. But it is obvious and shows he doesn't think we are intelligent...

[Ian David]

4. Show us the voting certificates! n/t

[DeSwiss]

36. LULZ

[Old and In the Way]

5. He's not denying the fact.

NY1 says he didn't vote in the primaries. Trump says he never missed a general election vote. Way to go, The Donald...fake outrage at a point you aren't trying to refute.

[JDPriestly]

14. Maybe he is registered as an independent and only now thinking of

being Republican. Meg Whitman had a terrible voting record. That was one of the strikes against her for a lot of people.

[sharp_stick]

6. Is there anybody else

that would like to just punch this prick in the face? I mean just cold cock the asshole while he's walking down the street.... Bam fuck you asshole!

Not that I would do it, I was alone in an elevator with the very small Newt Gingrich once and managed to restrain the incredible urge to kick him in the nuts. I'll admit, there was a fraction of a second when I thought... shit I may just get away with this then visions of Rikers island floated in my head and I chickened out.

Donald Trump though, I may be able to pull off a weekend at Rikers to be a hero to pretty much every New Yorker that ever walked South of Midtown.

[monmouth]

9. Are you kidding???? You'd be the new Mayor....n/t

[xxqqqzme]

38. I'd like to dump a gallon

of water on his head to see what would happen to that mystery riding on his forehead.

[Snoutport]

42. It might squeal and run away!

[Snoutport]

84. we should name it.

[plumbob]

7. I want a DNA test that would indicate that this fucker is a member of

homo sapiens.

He's beyond a combover - no human being would fix their hair like that!


No, I'm not kidding.

[Garbo 2004]

11. How do we know he isn't an alien sleeper mole? Show us the DNA, Donald! nt

[Frank Cannon]

63. The Constitution does not say you have to be human to be President.

Space aliens and cousins to the Addams Family may still apply, assuming they meet the age, citizenship, and residency requirements.

[freshwest]

73. Wow, I'd never seen a real live troll doll, only cartoons. Thanks.

[onehandle]

10. The MSM needs to start calling him out on his show tour.

No rational human being believes he is really running for President.

He's a hairless joke and is disrespecting the United States of America.

[dhill926]

19. agreed.....

He was a moderately entertaining sideshow for a while, but I think his overall douchebaggery is debasing the public discourse.

[marasinghe]

52. don't underrate the repukes & their MSM carrion-eaters.

i wouldn't be the least bit surprised, if all this coverage of the trump asshole is just a feint, that'll make the US public heave a sigh of relief when he comes in last at the primaries, with the bachman-palin overdrive fringe. so the real candidate gets his shot of legitimacy, by sheer contrast.

and going by trump's history, i wouldn't be surprised if he's paid for selling his ass & making himself a buffoon & a distraction, from the real agenda.

more on the clownish crook, from the NY daily news:

the great businessman's 3 bankruptcies

[Frank Cannon]

59. I've got a suspicion that is the case, as well.

This is all just too fucking ridiculous. It is like every one of Batman's more colorful enemies escaped from Arkham Asylum and immediately began racing for the White House. I have to wonder whether this whole thing is orchestrated in the long run to make a President Mitt seem reasonable.

[semillama]

77. That's the best characterization of the Republican field I've read to date.

May I use it repeatedly?

[Frank Cannon]

86. Please do.

I'm afraid that in this case, truth is even stranger than fiction.

[Snoutport]

81. That is what I am thinking. This current group makes Mitt look good even to me!!

[Snoutport]

79. he is getting paid...he had a ratings jump on his show which increases the show's value

WHoring himself out to the media has long been Mr. Trump's way of making more money for himself.

[marasinghe]

85. you're right on the mark. didn't think of that angle, myself.

and the coxcombed turkey ain't shutting up; spouted his latest lunacy on CNN.
why the hell Anderson Cooper would give this jackass any kind of legitimacy, is beyond me.

[Snoutport]

88. we're sure not talking about union busting and the crap in MI and WI...so it is working

[MasonJar]

12. Are all GOPers ignoramuses? Or does it just seem that way?

[freshwest]

74. They idolize the rich and pray for them to release manna from heaven upon them.

[JDPriestly]

13. He needs to produce those little voting receipts you get after you vote.

Years of them. I hope he put them somewhere safe.

[Snoutport]

32. Me thinketh the Donald is not used to being criticized. I'd like to see the receipts too.

[freshwest]

45. People at his level surround themselves with yes men. Not presidential timber. Dictator, maybe.

[SkyDaddy7]

15. Trump is not use to being questioned! He is use to...

what he says goes & no one dare question him! I honestly think his EGO thinks he could say 7 do what he wants as a potential candidate & no one would even question him because after all he is DONALD TRUMP!

[calimary]

29. Exactly. That's precisely why he's not up to being president. Nowhere near.

NO CEO - not ONE - is up to it. CEOs are used to being gods. Their word is law, theirs is the LAST and ONLY word, besides. They're not used to having to share power with a whole bunch of contrarians (maybe as many as 435) down the street. That's why it's sheer folly to assume government can be run like a business - it just doesn't work that way!!! You need a whole different mentality than that, to do government work well. Or you need to be able to adapt and thoroughly shift gears. Not many CEOs could do that - or would care to.

cheney didn't like having to answer questions either. Typical CEO I-am-thy-lord-and-master disease.

romney would be the same way. Besides, my dog won't let me vote for romney, but then again, that's a whole 'nother story.

[Snoutport]

34. I like your dog.

[freshwest]

46. Wow, you said that so well. It's a keeper.

[calimary]

87. Thanks!

mitt romney showed himself to be someone who values inanimate things over living creatures (SELECT humans exempted).

The THINGS, luggage and shit, get stowed safely INSIDE the car with mitt and the family for the long road trip to the summer vacation spot. The poor family dog gets stuck in a dog crate, strapped TO THE TOP OF THE CAR - OUTSIDE, blown all over the place by the fierce rushing of air to which it was exposed as the car sped down the highway, scared shitless (literally - it crapped all over itself AND the roof AND down the sides of the car while the family and all the vacation luggage was safe and warm and secure inside the car). mitt recalled having to hose the car down when they stopped for gas, oh yeah - and hose the dog down too, whereupon the dog was locked back up in the crate and strapped back up on top of the car for the rest of the journey, only now the dog was also WET. I think I recall mitt saying, reassuringly, that they'd configured a wind-screen up there for the dog crate, but it obviously didn't offer much comfort or shelter if the dog shat all over itself and the outside of the car during the first half of the drive. Schmuck should have strapped THE LUGGAGE up there on the roof of the car and kept the dog inside the car with the rest of the family.

Despicable man. Cruel cavalier cold heartless thoughtless bastard. He doesn't fool me for an instant. Also, he founded this fucking PIRATE "private equity firm" Bain Capital. Bain Capital owns Guitar Center. They recently built a new Guitar Center in West L.A. to go after - and run out of business - this little family-owned, highly-respected small business, West LA Music, that's been there for decades and served musicians major and minor, celebrated and unknown, all over L.A. The little store is struggling to stay afloat against the big box behemoth up the street that can ruthlessly underprice its stuff lower than what the little store can offer and still stay in business.

I hope in his next life he has to come back as mitt romney's dog.

[Snoutport]

33. Have you seen how pissy he gets when reporters talk over him?

"DON'T interrupt me!" That will get old real fast.

[marasinghe]

53. absolutely, he's just another elitist scumbag, thinking he's a master of the universe.

in his frigging wet dreams; like the rest of the repuke swine.

[rasputin1952]

16. Trum is now, and always was...

nothing except a self-promoting moron...and he's bad at even that.

I can't think of anyone that could actually bankrupt a casino...and then brag about it?

[Frank Cannon]

60. He's 300 pounds of horseshit in a 200-pound bag.

His flamboyant antics are the only thing keeping his name in the newspapers. The guy has never had the brains or talent to run a corner lemonade stand.

[rasputin1952]

64. The Nation has a small shot fron KvH at Trumps finances/lack of clothes...

w/links to various things. At one point, after Trump bragged about having a net worth of $1.4 billion, his banker's financial sheets actually had him -$600 million...In all actuality, I'm worth more than Trump...and I don't have anything...:D

[Kingofalldems]

17. I demand the long form of his voting record

[47of74]

22. As do I

[DRoseDARs]

18. Hi, Common Sense here. Primary Elections /= General Elections. Vapid and irrelevant as it was...

...the story wasn't about your General Election voting record, but more about your Primary Election voting record. Thank you though for NOW making the story about how thin-skinned you are.

[spooky3]

20. does he understand that, if elected, he doesn't get to dictate anything except which dishes to use

in the White House?

Politics involves working with members of your own and other parties without trying to boss them around, and having to concern yourself with what the people want you to do.

I can't imagine his being capable of doing either.

[KT2000]

21. Gary Busey

and Meatloaf are pussy cast compared to Trump's temper. He would not last even one episode of his own show if he was a team member.

[Aviation Pro]

23. And so the descent starts....

....Chump became a rising political star in a two-week period, he's arced, and now the fucking son of a millionaire is on the descent course.

Buh-buh and take that fucking rat's nest with you.

[WheelWalker]

30. He's on the glide path to oblivion. nt

[Aviation Pro]

44. Yep, I predict a stall before the FAF....

....followed by an uncommanded roll then a spin into the ground.

[Frank Cannon]

61. The Charlie Sheen of Presidential candidates

I've never believed for a minute that he actually intended to follow through with this candidacy, but hopefully his flameout will make the American public tire of him such that I don't have to see his ugly mug and the "hairicane" on his head ever again.

Keep at it, Donald. Like Def Leppard and The Kurgan said, "It's better to burn out than fade away."

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[DBoon]

25. Trump is starting to remind me of Ross Perot

though Perot, to his credit, seemed to understand public policy and had a genuine (though misguided) desire to be president.

Trump is just pure blowhard.

[freshwest]

47. In what way does he remind you of him? Perot was respectful, not a megalomaniac.

[trud]

28. what are the odds

he doesn't know what a primary election is? Pretty good, I'd say. With a nod to Mencken, no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of Republican office seekers.

[tclambert]

31. Look what running for VP did for Palin's celebrity value.

If Trump cashes in that well, he can make a profit on the enterprise. What he's forgetting is the H. Ross Perot example.

[DeSwiss]

37. K&R

[rgbecker]

39. At least he should show his "I Voted" stickers.

[liberal N proud]

40. I want to see the books where he signed to vote

He wants to see Obama's birth certificate? I want to see his signature in voting record books.

I mean there must be something to the story or he would show it to us.

Arrogant bastard!

[Vinee]

41. New York is a closed primary state. Not voting in the primaries was a smart business move actually.

[Frank Cannon]

62. Well, if that's the case, running for President is probably the worst move you can make.

Not that the Donald is a stranger to bad business moves.

[Imagevision]

43. Just what the GOP needs, another Ross Perot (ha!)

[Skittles]

48. I AM HAVING A FLASHBACK

[marasinghe]

54. nicely done. :D

:toast:

[joshcryer]

49. Gore didn't win (an uber landslide) because he got up in Bush's face. Dean lost the primaries...

...because he yelled at a fucking rally.

Trump would never in a million years win.

[No Elephants]

57. Gore won. Dean lost the primaries because the fix was in.

[chelsea0011]

55. VIP's don't vote in the lowly primary process

That's why he is running for President. No sense starting at some lower position.

[Snoutport]

82. If Your Money is buying the Primary winner his spot...why vote? your money already voted

[deacon]

56. Mr. Know it all will probably ditch this presidentin' idea within 6 weeks. n/t

[SomeGuyInEagan]

76. Or when NBC's lineup for Fall 2011 is announced ...

... whichever is sooner. The lineup is typically announced mid-May.

[Snoutport]

83. LOL...is it sweeps week? That would explain EVERYTHING!

[No Elephants]

58. He voted as much as he feels he voted, much as he is as rich as he feels he is.

[tanyev]

66. And he'll be able to prove it just as soon as his private investigators are done in Hawaii.

[LibertyLover]

67. The Donald is well-known for having a very thin skin

and being highly allergic to any criticism leveled against him. He is equally well-known for furiously lashing out against who or what proffered the criticism. It is for these two reasons that I believe that he will ultimately be forced to withdraw from contention for the GOP nomination. Trump is used to being kowtowed and deferred to and the rough and tumble of politics and the scrutiny of the press, lax as MSM media is these days, are things he is not able to face. Even if the GOP wanted to give him the nomination, his over-the-top reactions to negative stories in the press would prove too embarrassing for them.

[PATRICK]

69. A real small question

How about campaign contributions to primary campaigns? Maybe it is part of his whole strategy but it makes you wonder what he thinks of primaries in the first place. No sense having too many losers spread out the odds and hedging. Now that he is in a primary of course...Then he may just be the very type to have the savvy to bolt the GOP system which would likely stack the deck against him.

I am guessing this is is an obtuse indicator that Trump, once he has started an idiotic brawl among the other GOP clowns will stand smirking to the side as an independent candidate if he can figure some way to keep in the publicity limelight.

Then again everything about him as well as the other GOP ham sandwiches militates against wasting speculations on how ludicrous candidacies strategize.

[Javaman]

70. Since he has vowed not to release his tax records, he's basically full of shit. nt

[K8-EEE]

72. LOL! They accuse him of never voting in the PRIMARIES, so

So he reacts "with fury" that he voted in THE GENERAL ELECTIONS?

LOL, he knows his "fury" is staged for the benefit of those too stupid to know the difference.

[tblue37]

78. Does he not understand that voting in general elections is not the same as voting in primaries? nt