It is clear now why Trump wanted Ben Carson on Team Trump. Carson supporters are among the easily fooled. Carson has been raking in the bucks off of them for years. Trump couldn’t leave a basketful of dupes out there for someone else to con, so he tapped Carson. Trump probably hired Huck’s daughter for the same reason. All of the homeschooling parents buying her daddy’s distorted history books are pretty gullible. They all think the Donald is gonna appoint a Supreme Court justice from that list KellyAnne had somebody make. Trump couldn’t be bothered to read the names on the list or to ask any questions about who the hell was the list. He wouldn’t have appointed one of those people anyway. He doesn’t want to overturn Roe v Wade. Trump wants someone on the court who will let him access and use government resources for his own personal benefit.
Trump did not sign those books.
like me with Costco samples
Classic Trump. Steal from the poor, give to himself and tell the victims how he is on their side.
I have to be honest—I fear him as a demagogue, and despise him as a hurtful person, but the thing I really, really look down on him for is his absolutely awful taste. You could say “all his taste is in his mouth” but he’s a total vulgarian even there. Fast food and overdone steaks. He’s just an absolute waste of space. I’ve worked for magazines based in a wealthy area long enough to have met plenty of rich folks who spend their money well. Him—yeesh. A thoroughly, profoundly awful excuse for a human.
Think of all the poor nitwits who donated 25 bucks because they really believe Trump wants to “drain the swamp. “ Seems to me loves the swamp, and thrives off it.
Why isn’t he being charged with fraud by the FEC?
Continues? Hell, it ramps up as they realize they’ve only got two weeks left on the gravy train.
For his next move after the election, Donald can star in a rip-off of “Punked” where his supporters get conned on a candid camera and the Drumpf-meister jumps out at the end with the punchline, "You’re been Trumped!"
Quelle surprise! “Grifting scam artists gonn’a grift and scam.” It’s what they do.
And after the election?
vvvvvv THIS…Big Time! vvvvvv
"Donald Trump is a rich guy who has convinced many poor people to vote for a rich guy because other poor people are the real reason they are poor. ~facepalm~ " ___ Bill Maher
You are absolutely right. Stealing is a good in itself–it’s morality turned on its head. And the Christian right is totally on board with it.
OK…when this is all over and The Donald proclaims that he spent $100 million of his ‘own’ money on this election, will the media ALSO report how $98 million purchased time or goods from his companies? Inquiring minds and all that.
Classy.
What a pathetic creature.
I wonder if most of them do believe it…and approve it. They’re in a nihilistic mood of burning everything to the ground, and based on all the interviews with crazed Trump supporters, they see themselves running like wolves in Trump’s wolf pack should he win. If Trump’s a looter amid the ruins, they may well imagine themselves also making off with some of that loot. Trickle down looting. Or something like that.
I have no pity for the rubes Trump fleeces. They are willing dupes; willfully blind and willfully stupid. Fine, then, let the grifting proceed.
It worked exceedingly well. He even increased the size of the basket of rubes to fleece. Not only have they become slavish fans of every ridiculous fart that passes his lips, they continually throw money at him! Great grift!
The reality is that they have been told repeatedly that Trump has been shoveling money into his own pockets from the campaign.
I’m skeptical that’s the case, because that information has only been carried by media outlets that aren’t pro-Trump. Breitbart and Fox certainly haven’t publicized that info, nor have any of the other rightwing sources these Trump numbskulls get their “information” from.
Which is not say that all of them even would have believed it even then, to be sure. It would have probably peeled away a small percentage, but Trump’s most perceptive statement during his entire campaign was when he observed he could shoot somebody on Fifth Ave. without repercussions. He’s a man completely bereft of any talent or skill but one: he has a preternatural ability to sniff out gullible marks and rubes for his grifting.
they see themselves running like wolves in Trump’s wolf pack should he win.
100% dead on. Their whole belief in Trump is based on his entirely mythological status of being an Alpha male “winner,” and white male Trumpers have such damaged and warped psyches that they’re desperate to attach themselves to Trump to prove they’re not Beta male “cucks” themselves. If you think I’m exaggerating the psychosexual component here, you should go on twitter. The typical Alt-Right Trumper simply radiates a tortured fear of sexual inadequacy, judging from their constant references to the notion of white women having sex with black men or other minorities.
Not to mention the fact that he gets royalties on every sale.
It will last well beyond the election. This was just the setup - building the audience. Now with Bannon (and maybe Ailes?) on board, he’ll build a propaganda outlet that will put FOX to shame.