And people wonder why Joe Biden wants to take this guy behind the gym:
In the fall of 1996, a charity called the Association to Benefit Children held a ribbon-cutting in Manhattan for a new nursery school serving children with AIDS. The bold-faced names took seats up front.
There was then-Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani (R) and former mayor David Dinkins (D). TV stars Frank and Kathie Lee Gifford, who were major donors. And there was a seat saved for Steven Fisher, a developer who had given generously to build the nursery.
Then, all of a sudden, there was Donald Trump.
“Nobody knew he was coming,” said Abigail Disney, another donor sitting on the dais. “There’s this kind of ruckus at the door, and I don’t know what was going on, and in comes Donald Trump. [He] just gets up on the podium and sits down.”
Trump was not a major donor. He was not a donor, period. He’d never given a dollar to the nursery or the Association to Benefit Children, according to Gretchen Buchenholz, the charity’s executive director then and now.
But now he was sitting in Fisher’s seat, next to Giuliani.
“Frank Gifford turned to me and said, ‘Why is he here?’ ” Buchenholz recalled recently. By then, the ceremony had begun. There was nothing to do.
“Just sing past it,” she recalled Gifford telling her.
So they warbled into the first song on the program, “This Little Light of Mine,” alongside Trump and a chorus of children — with a photographer snapping photos, and Trump looking for all the world like an honored donor to the cause.
Afterward, Disney and Buchenholz recalled, Trump left without offering an explanation. Or a donation. Fisher was stuck in the audience. The charity spent months trying to repair its relationship with him.
“I mean, what’s wrong with you, man?” Disney recalled thinking of Trump, when it was over.
For as long as he has been rich and famous, Donald Trump has also wanted people to believe he is generous. He spent years constructing an image as a philanthropist by appearing at charity events and by making very public — even nationally televised — promises to give his own money away.
It was, in large part, a facade.
Maybe the most damning thing about Trump is that he’s cheap.
among all the damning things about Trump for which deserves the title “most damning” is intense, fierce even.
Compare the intense scrutiny of every word and action by Hillary Clinton to the relatively hands-off treatment of Trump. Nobody believed he’d get this far, perhaps, or maybe journalists didn’t care to dig into Trump’s past. The testimonies, the tapes, the witnesses coming forward should all have been discovered a year ago. He should have disclosed his taxes at the start of the race; it should have been demanded of him. He should have been investigated on all of his shady construction practices and treatment of his workers. During the debates he smugly dismissed any accusations made by Hillary about using foreign steel…but no serious follow-ups were made.
It still is appalling to me that this phony, hate-filled, misogynist bully got this far. Surely even the least educated can see that he is a crook and a fraud, and that the office of the President would be damaged beyond repair in his incapable hands.
But he continues to move forward, unhinged and unfettered. It’s just unbelievable.
I hear from the so called ‘progressives’ on this site that it’s just boring constantly going after Trump. It’s all so mundane….easy, even.
They say going after Clinton is where the excitement is. Anybody can find polls showing Clinton winning, it takes a real ‘artist’ (hack) to cherry pick polls on Clinton’s likability and problems with millennials.
Critizing Clinton is where the action is.
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Yep. She’s part of the oligarchy and wants to start WW3. Plus, if you strain hard enough, she rigged the Democratic primaries and set up Trump to win the Republican primaries. Never mind her campaign’s been hacked, we have more of her emails than any candidate in history, and she’s been dragged through the mud relentlessly for stuff that other politicians do in spades. I mean, remember when the press went nuts on Paul Ryan over his speech transcripts after the high dollar donor events he attended this year in Aspen? Or, remember the shellacking Condi Rice got for not saving any emails from her tenure in office? Yah, Clinton’s evil.
Don’t be so dismissive and disrespectful of the Clinton panty sniffers! After all, they claim they are voting for her…they said so on the Internet!
Now let’s go discuss how Clinton has MS. Just putting it out there!
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How dismissive can you be?
“so called ‘progressives'”
“they say”
“a real ‘artist’ (hack)”
Right now Hillary Clinton needs all the votes she can get. I submit this is no way to convince anyone, unless your motive isn’t to convince. I go with the latter.
Nalbar and KC2269 are not being dismissive. They’re cute and witty. Don’t you get it? It’s all a boys-and-girls game to frolic and roll.
the endless trashing and cuteness and “irony” re: those of us who say anything critical of Hillary, – despite the fact that EVERYONE posting on this site says they plan to vote for her (with possible exception of ppl in safely blue states, I don’t know about that) is tiresome and betrays a deep insecurity and imo an underlying uneasiness about electing a woman prez that they project on others. The Trump posts are boring – he’s a misogynist light weight. no one who reads this blog takes him seriously as a candidate or possible prez. Can’t believe the person quoted above says “largely” a facade. is there any record of his giving any $ to anyone besides himself or ppl he considers himself to own, i.e. his wife
I’ve made this point before (so of course I have no expectation of any salutary effect in making it again, but I’m doing it anyway): such a comment in direct response to someone you consider a “so called progressive on this site” from whom you’re “hear[ing] . . . that it’s just boring constantly going after Trump” would be one thing. It could even be a good, valid, useful, reasonable thing.
This (i.e., generalized criticism addressing no one in particular) is just trolling.
Cheap.
Cowardly, even.
You have a lot that’s worthwhile to say.
So say it! When and where it’s appropriate, instead of trolling the whole board.
Really not rocket surgery, imho.
Trump is a fraud – that’s the most damaging thing about him.
Being cheap while pretending to be generous is just one variation on that theme.
Can’t help but wonder if this story is one that the Clinton campaign’s been sitting on, released to try to change the subject from the latest Comey-induced e-mail BS. Hopefully they have more. This alone is likely to get lost because, well, Trump is Trump and somehow that’s boring whereas Clinton stories are always newsworthy.
It’s been quite clear that Der Trumper is a despicable human being for quite some time now. He is obviously temperamentally unfit for the office of the prez and is the most unqualified major party prez candidate in American history. He has observable psychological problems, lacks empathy and impulse control, and is amoral. To say public service is an alien concept to him is a grotesque understatement.
But we can now see that none of this matters to a huge section of the electorate, apparently 45% at least. The endless details of Trump’s nauseating failings don’t matter. Trump the man is not really the candidate.
Instead, Der Trumper has become a symbol; a talisman whose victory will prove that the “victimized” white(male) majority still controls the country. A symbol that pluralism, feminism and multiculturalism can be defeated and that America hasn’t really changed. And that passionate desire trumps all Trump’s monumental failings as a candidate. I doubt the vast majority of his supporters believe that Trump’s blather on the economic policy can possibly make a difference, or is anything other than the usual Old Time Tax-Cutting religion. They are nothing but window-dressing for the desire.
He is once again closing the gap, and it’s hard to see how HRC regains the seeming momentum that she had “won the argument”. His hope (like all Repub prez candidates from now on) is Dem vote suppression and the electoral college. So it will be up to the Dem ground game and poll watching lawyers (as usual). And without a Dem senate, HRC’s four years are chaos and hopeless paralysis.
Great, thanks for sharing
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A Hatch Act violation is being filed on Comey by former Bushie Richard Painter:
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/10/30/opinion/on-clinton-emails-did-the-fbi-director-abuse-his-power.
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This is interesting, to say the least.
He’s cheap and all the other things too… but he still came this close to winning. A country the flirts with a freak like trump is truly on the edge of something bad.
Thank you for posting this.
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THis looks dodgy. Can someone else please troll-rate this to get it suppressed?