Donald Trump

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yankeedoodle

Thanks for the video, Robert.

In one of the "debates," Jebbie told Trump "you're not going to insult your way into the White House," which, knowing the Bushes history, sounded like a big threat then, and sounds like  a much bigger threat now. 

rmstock

#151

"The GOP Is On The Verge Of A Meltdown": Senior Republicans Threaten To Vote For Hillary
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/29/2016 - 20:31
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-02-29/gop-verge-meltdown-senior-republicans-threaten-vote-hillary

``I hope that the fair, and, I may say certain prospects of success will not induce us to relax.''
-- Lieutenant General George Washington, commander-in-chief to
   Major General Israel Putnam,
   Head-Quarters, Valley Forge, 5 May, 1778

yankeedoodle

#152
A mutiny might be considered better than an assassination, but, knowing what the CIA and the US military has done, as well as what it is accused to have done - including the assassination of JFK because they didn't like what he was doing - this statement from former CIA Director Michael Hayden is very disturbing. 

Clearly, the CIA and US military have never had any problems about doing any fucking thing they want to do - orders or no orders - so this statement isn't about a sudden desire for lawful and moral conduct, but, rather, a threat of a mutiny, and, quite possibly, a military coup.

After decades - over a century now - of the US government causing the military overthrow of popular democratically-elected leaders around the world, will Americans finally learn what their government is capable of?   

Quote...a former CIA chief has claimed that the U.S. military could refuse to follow Trump's orders... 

Ex-CIA Chief: US Military Could Refuse To Obey Trump's Military Orders
http://www.mintpressnews.com/214378-2/214378/

In case U.S. Republican candidate Donald Trump's extreme rhetoric alone wasn't enough to stir up fears about what would happen if he actually became president, a former CIA chief has claimed that the U.S. military could refuse to follow Trump's orders if he tried to put his far-right ideas into practice as Commander and Chief, the Washington Post reported Sunday.

"I would be incredibly concerned if a President Trump governed in a way that was consistent with the language that candidate Trump expressed during the campaign," former CIA Director Michael Hayden said in an interview with Bill Maher on HBO aired on Friday.

Aside from Trump's blatantly racist campaign promises to build a massive border wall, deport all undocumented immigrants, and ban Muslims from entering the country, the GOP billionaire has also pledged to be the United States' torturer in chief if he becomes president.

Trump has spoken in support of waterboarding, deemed torture by the Obama administration but routinely defended by right-wing supporters as a form of "enhanced interrogation" that does not qualify as torture.

"I'd bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding," said Trump during a Republican debate in New Hampshire on Feb. 6. The GOP candidate has insisted that waterboarding "works," and that even if it doesn't, the torture victims "deserve it."

On the issue of Trump's stance on waterboarding and calls for family members of terrorists to be killed, Hayden, who was also chief of the National Security Agency for six years, presented Maher with a scenario.

"If (Trump) were to order that once in government, the American armed forces would refuse to act," said Hayden. "You are required not to follow an unlawful order. That would be in violation of all the international laws of armed conflict."

Hayden clarified that he did not mean to suggest that there could be a coup against Trump if he became president, but Maher added that it was "a coup" that the former CIA chief had even made the comments.

Among Republicans running for president, Trump's poll national average is about 36 percent according to various surveys of likely Republican voters.



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Quote from: yankeedoodle on March 02, 2016, 12:32:58 AM
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Quote...a former CIA chief has claimed that the U.S. military could refuse to follow Trump's orders... 

Ex-CIA Chief: US Military Could Refuse To Obey Trump's Military Orders
http://www.mintpressnews.com/214378-2/214378/

In case U.S. Republican candidate Donald Trump's extreme rhetoric alone wasn't enough to stir up fears about what would happen if he actually became president, a former CIA chief has claimed that the U.S. military could refuse to follow Trump's orders if he tried to put his far-right ideas into practice as Commander and Chief, the Washington Post reported Sunday.

"I would be incredibly concerned if a President Trump governed in a way that was consistent with the language that candidate Trump expressed during the campaign," former CIA Director Michael Hayden said in an interview with Bill Maher on HBO aired on Friday.

Aside from Trump's blatantly racist campaign promises to build a massive border wall, deport all undocumented immigrants, and ban Muslims from entering the country, the GOP billionaire has also pledged to be the United States' torturer in chief if he becomes president.
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Have you any idea how many generals, colonels and other army brass has been fired
by Obama over these last 8 years ?

The only dude who has left a calling card is this guy :

https://twitter.com/georgelopez/status/703826891354968069

but Trump swiftly tweeted back :

https://twitter.com/georgelopez/status/704755640007311361

``I hope that the fair, and, I may say certain prospects of success will not induce us to relax.''
-- Lieutenant General George Washington, commander-in-chief to
   Major General Israel Putnam,
   Head-Quarters, Valley Forge, 5 May, 1778

yankeedoodle




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rmstock

no street address , phone or fax though

``I hope that the fair, and, I may say certain prospects of success will not induce us to relax.''
-- Lieutenant General George Washington, commander-in-chief to
   Major General Israel Putnam,
   Head-Quarters, Valley Forge, 5 May, 1778

yankeedoodle

#156
Quote from: rmstock on March 02, 2016, 01:24:33 AM
no street address , phone or fax though

Here's a link showing staff members, with twitter addresses.  No  brick-and-mortar office, probably.  Just people working together electronically. 
http://www.mintpressnews.com/mintpress-staff/


QuoteBecome a MintPress partner! If you'd like to become a syndication or news partner or are simply interested in collaborating on an investigation with MintPress, contact our editor Mnar Muhawesh: mnar@mintpressnews.com.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faGQRKj1CgI&feature=youtu.be

yankeedoodle

Irish bookmaker Paddy Power declares Trump the Republican nominee, and has made payouts to lucky punters.




Bookmaker Pays Out Early on Trump Winning Nomination
http://www.teaparty.org/bookmaker-pays-early-trump-winning-nomination-146913/#sthash.7YWTlZ6q.dpuf

(Bloomberg) – Paddy Power Betfair Plc, Ireland's largest bookmaker, is paying out 120,000 euros ($130,000) on Donald Trump winning the U.S. Republican presidential nomination.

Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton each won seven states on their way to commanding victories in Super Tuesday contests.

"Since 1988, the candidate to clean up on Super Tuesday has always gone onto win their party's nomination," the Dublin-based bookmaker said in e-mailed statement on Wednesday.

Gambling companies pay out early when they regard the result as a foregone conclusion, in part because it draws publicity and in part because gamblers often recycle winnings into other wagers. For example, Paddy Power paid out early on David Cameron's 2010 election victory and the 2014 Scottish referendum result.

Trump's odds indicate he has a 33 pecent chance of winning the White House, while Clinton has a 65 percent shot, Paddy Power Betfair said.


abduLMaria

I don't like Trump's verbal militarism.

But Romney would not be coming out with an (attempted) Full Body Block on Trump,
if Israel liked Trump.

Therefore I conclude, Trump has an independence that scares the Zio-GOP, perhaps
similar to how Ron Paul scared them.

Obviously, Romney was deeply involved in that attempt to keep RP out of the White House too.

Since Romney is a Mormon, I can only conclude that modern Mormons are also water-carriers for IsraHell.
Planet of the SWEJ - It's a Horror Movie.

http://www.PalestineRemembered.com/!

rmstock


"He didn't belong to the secret society" - Newt Gingrich on why GOP establishment hates Trump
by NoWorldOrder.com , Published on Mar 3, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO-NA73FsW8

see also

Gingrich: Establishment Scared of Trump Because He "Didn't Belong to the Secret Society"
"He hasn't been through the initiation rites"
Paul Joseph Watson - March 4, 2016
http://www.infowars.com/gingrich-establishment-scared-of-trump-because-he-didnt-belong-to-secret-society/

``I hope that the fair, and, I may say certain prospects of success will not induce us to relax.''
-- Lieutenant General George Washington, commander-in-chief to
   Major General Israel Putnam,
   Head-Quarters, Valley Forge, 5 May, 1778

yankeedoodle


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rmstock

#162
Beck's Balls just got busted ... Beck During Trump Segment -The Stabbing Just Wouldn't Stop - The Daily Caller


Would the GOP candidates support Trump? | Glenn Beck Radio Program
by TheBlaze , Published on Mar 4, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXsMjxcIR34
"GOP candidates confirm they'll uphold their pledge to support the GOP nominee,
   even if it's Donald Trump.

    Glenn Beck: If i got close enough to trump the stabbing just wouldnt stop"

Elections
Glenn Beck's Trump Riff: 'The Stabbing Just Wouldn't Stop' [AUDIO]
CHRISTIAN DATOC   Reporter    12:11 PM 03/04/2016
http://dailycaller.com/2016/03/04/glenn-beck-if-i-got-close-enough-to-trump-the-stabbing-just-wouldnt-stop-audio/

``I hope that the fair, and, I may say certain prospects of success will not induce us to relax.''
-- Lieutenant General George Washington, commander-in-chief to
   Major General Israel Putnam,
   Head-Quarters, Valley Forge, 5 May, 1778

rmstock

https://twitter.com/Partisangirl/status/704856347347542017

Donald Trump Is The Only Candidate Not Calling For WW3
Syrian Girl points out that Trump is the least war-hungry candidate.
Kit Daniels, David Knight & Lee Ann McAdoo | Infowars.com - March 2, 2016
http://www.infowars.com/donald-trump-is-the-only-candidate-not-calling-for-ww3/

``I hope that the fair, and, I may say certain prospects of success will not induce us to relax.''
-- Lieutenant General George Washington, commander-in-chief to
   Major General Israel Putnam,
   Head-Quarters, Valley Forge, 5 May, 1778

Donald monroe

If the Jews want war the Jews get war.....THE JEWS PROFIT OFF OF CONFLICT.....THE JEWS OWN THE DEMOCRATIC AND REPUBLICAN PARTIES....THE JEWS HAVE CORRUPTED IT ALL

yankeedoodle


rmstock


The Establishment should be called for what it is: The Criminal Crony Class
Trump wants to unwind the TPP.  On Feb 28 the G20 was in session in China. Sadly the
Federal Reserve Chair Woman Janet Yellen was observed to have stopped laughing.



From left, Germany's Federal Bundesbank Jens Weidmann, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Secretary General Jose Angel Gurria and U.S. Federal Reserve Board Chair Janet Yellen take their seats for a family photo of G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting at the Pudong Shangri-la Hotel in Shanghai on Feb. 27. (Rolex Dela Pena/Pool Photo via AP)
At China Meeting, G20 Calls For Structural Reforms--But Will Countries Follow Through?
Alejandro Reyes , Contributor , Feb 29, 2016 @ 01:16 AM 1,822 views
http://www.forbes.com/sites/alreyes/2016/02/29/at-china-meeting-g20-calls-for-structural-reforms-but-will-countries-follow-through/

``I hope that the fair, and, I may say certain prospects of success will not induce us to relax.''
-- Lieutenant General George Washington, commander-in-chief to
   Major General Israel Putnam,
   Head-Quarters, Valley Forge, 5 May, 1778

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yankeedoodle


MikeWB

Jews/neocons are going absolutely bonkers over Trump! I heard some neocon jеw on radio yesterday and I think he was frothing at the mouth from his anger at Trump's policies. Hope Trump is well protected! These people took out two Kennedys already... an thousands of people on 9/11.
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Latest from Pat Buchanan... god bless him... hope his health is OK.






The oligarchs' super-PAC anti-Trump savagery
Pat Buchanan: 'Not in memory has the leadership of a party been so out of touch'
Published: 3 hours ago

Narrow victories in the Kentucky caucuses and the Louisiana primary, the largest states decided on Saturday, have moved Donald Trump one step nearer to the nomination.

Primaries in Michigan, Mississippi and Idaho on March 8, and in Florida, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri and North Carolina on March 15, may prove decisive. If Marco Rubio does not win his home state of Florida, he is cooked, as is Gov. John Kasich if he does not win Ohio.

Ted Cruz already looks to be the last man between Trump and a GOP nomination that has gone, in the last seven elections, to George H. W. Bush, Bob Dole, George W. Bush, John McCain and Mitt Romney.

All five of those nominees since 1988 seem appalled by Trump's triumphs, and only slightly less so by the Cruz alternative.

The 'Stop Hillary' campaign is on fire! Join the surging response to this theme: 'Clinton for prosecution, not president'

Not in memory has the leadership of a party been so out of touch. The Republican rank and file are in revolt, not only against the failures of their fathers but the policies of their present rulers.

Some among the GOP elites, who have waited patiently through the Obama era to recapture control of U.S. foreign policy, are now beside themselves with despair over Trump's success.

Fully 116 members of the GOP's national security community, many of them veterans of Bush administrations, have signed an open letter threatening that, if Trump is nominated, they will all desert, and some will defect – to Hillary Clinton!

"Hillary is the lesser evil, by a large margin," says Eliot Cohen of the Bush II State Department. According to Politico's Michael Crowley, Cohen helped line up neocons to sign the "Dump-Trump" manifesto.

Another signer, Robert Kagan, wailed in the Washington Post, "The only choice will be to vote for Hillary Clinton."

Are they serious?

Victory for Clinton would mean her remaking the Supreme Court, killing all chances that Roe v. Wade could be overturned, or that we could get another justice like Antonin Scalia before 2021.

What are these renegades and turncoats so anguished about?

Trump calls the Iraq War many of them championed an historic blunder. Trump says that, while a supporter of Israel, he would be a "neutral" honest broker between Israel and the Palestinians in peace negotiations, as was Jimmy Carter at Camp David.

Trump says he would "get along very well" with Vladimir Putin, as Richard Nixon got along with Leonid Brezhnev and Mao Zedong.

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Trump would launch no new crusades for democracy. He would not oppose Russia bombing ISIS. He would build that wall on the border. He would transfer from U.S. taxpayers to rich allies more of the cost of defending themselves.

Do not most Americans agree with much of this?

Yet this neocon ultimatum about deserting should the voters nominate Trump testifies eloquently to their loyalty.

With every ex-president and ex-nominee repudiating Trump, and foreign policy elites going rogue, the GOP hierarchy is saying: We will cut Trump dead, just as the Rockefeller-Romney crowd cut Barry Goldwater dead.

This is pure my-way-or-the-highway politics.

But it raises anew the question: Can the establishment stop Trump?

What do YOU think? Who would be the most formidable Republican nominee? Sound off in today's WND poll

Answer: It is possible, and we shall know by midnight, March 15. If Trump loses Florida and Ohio, winner-take-all primaries, he would likely fall short of the 1,237 delegates needed for nomination on the first ballot.

How could the anti-Trump forces defeat him in Ohio, Florida and Illinois? With the same tactics used to shrink Trump's victory margins in Virginia, Louisiana and Kentucky to well below what polls had predicted.

In every primary upcoming, Trump is under a ceaseless barrage of attack ads on radio, TV, cable and social media, paid for by super PACs with hoards of cash funneled in by oligarchs.

But Trump, who is self-funding his campaign, has spent next to nothing on ads answering these attacks, or promoting himself or his issues. He has relied almost exclusively on free media.

Yet no amount of free media can match the shellfire falling on him every hour of every day in every primary state.

Our Principles PAC, backed by Nebraska's billionaire Ricketts family, has poured millions into trashing Trump. American Future Fund is dumping $1.75 million in Florida this week; Club for Growth $1.5 million.

Hedge-fund billionaire Paul Singer is backing the Conservative Solutions PAC, which has dumped millions into anti-Trump ads and plans to spend more than $7 million between March 1 and 15, with $4 million of that going into Florida. The super PAC pile-on is unprecedented.

How well Trump fares in Michigan and Mississippi, measured against how well he was doing in polls last week, will reveal just how successful super PAC savagery has been in changing hearts and minds.

Can millionaires and billionaires who back open borders, mass immigration, globalization and the disappearance of nation states into transnational collectives overwhelm with their millions spent in ads the patriotic movements that arose this year to the wonderment of America and the world?

Has that proud 18th century boast of Americans, "Here, sir, the people rule!" given way to the rule of the oligarchs?
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#171

Mitt Romney speaks out against Donald Trump (full speech)
by CNN ,  Published on Mar 3, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYp_66Bdjp4
  "Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney speaks out against
   Donald Trump's bid for the White House."



Donald Trump's Full Response to Mitt Romney Speech (3-3-16)
by Right Side Broadcasting , Published on Mar 3, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnzxJ2TZnBE
  "Thursday, March 3, 2016: GOP Presidential candidate Donald Trump held a
   campaign rally in Portland, ME at The Westin Portland Harborview Hotel.
   Mr. Trump responded to attacks on him by Mitt Romney at a speech today
   in Utah."



Mitt Romney praises donald trump in 2012
by Trump 2016!!! , Published on Mar 2, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGUlHidiJt8
  "So @MittRomney Praised @realDonaldTrump in 2012 when he needed his help
   but now he has turned on him? What a dishonest donor owned #RINO Hypocrite!
   #MakeAmericaGreatAgain & Share This!
   Follow us on Twitter @Trump2016Donald follow us on Instagram
   @TRUMPFORWHITEHOUSE "

``I hope that the fair, and, I may say certain prospects of success will not induce us to relax.''
-- Lieutenant General George Washington, commander-in-chief to
   Major General Israel Putnam,
   Head-Quarters, Valley Forge, 5 May, 1778

yankeedoodle

Just listened to this 16+ minute video:  Donald Trump's Full Response to Mitt Romney Speech (3-3-16)

NEVER AGAIN!!!  Damned near as bad as listening to All-excrement Jones.   Both fuckers never saw a microphone - or mirror - they didn't love.

When he gets to be President, he can park his ass in one of his "super luxury resorts" and maybe we can get a break for a while, until, of course, he has to explain what went wrong.   Oh my God, shoot me now!   

rmstock


OHIO (Winner Takes All State) has a very strange GOP Ballot, Ohio Trump voters go bonkers
You Won't Believe What They Did To The Ohio Ballot To Stop Trump
By MyDailyInformer , Wednesday, March 9, 2016 8:20
http://beforeitsnews.com/self-sufficiency/2016/03/you-wont-believe-what-they-did-to-the-ohio-ballot-to-stop-trump-2501483.html

  "We all know the elite are on the warpath against Donald Trump, with
   everyone from pundits, to major world leaders, to the Pope speaking out
   against him. Newt Gingrich recently said it's because Trump isn't part
   of the secret societies and hasn't taken the initiation rites.
   
   Regardless, Trump has received a groundswell of support from the
   average conservative American, winning state primaries left and right.
   Ohio's primary is coming up on March 15, and it's a big one because
   it's a "winner takes all" state.
   
   Well now it's being alleged that Ohio's GOP has intentionally set up a
   confusing ballot in a bid to try to make sure Donald Trump does not win.
   
   The Dem ballot has one place for voters to mark their choice for
   president. Period.
   
   The Republican ballot in Ohio this year apparently has two, leaving a
   lot more questions than answers about whether or not voters will
   understand how it works.
   
   Take a look, (via the Conservative Treehouse):
   
   
   
   Is the ballot intentionally confusing by design?
   
   Given the previous discussions on State Party shenanigans, and the
   intent of state republican party leadership to hold complete influence
   over their delegate's decision-making, many believe the answer is
   "probably".
   
   Look at that ballot. It definitely raises a lot of questions... that
   aren't answered on the ballot.
   
   Do the majority of voters know the difference between
   "Delegates-at-Large" and "District Delegates"? Does a person need to
   choose their candidate twice, or are they only supposed to chose once?
   Which is right? What if they pick a different candidate in each box, do
   they cancel each other out? What if they pick someone in the first box
   and not the second, or vice versa?
   
   Why the confusing GOP ballot, Ohio?
   
   

   

``I hope that the fair, and, I may say certain prospects of success will not induce us to relax.''
-- Lieutenant General George Washington, commander-in-chief to
   Major General Israel Putnam,
   Head-Quarters, Valley Forge, 5 May, 1778

yankeedoodle

   Trump outsourcing includes home goods, daughter's clothing line
https://www.yahoo.com/politics/trump-outsourcing-includes-home-goods-daughters-190543492.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw

It isn't just the ties.

Donald Trump has taken some grief for the fact that his signature neckties are made in China. But the scope of Trump-branded products made outside America is larger than has previously been reported — especially when that includes the clothing line named after Trump's daughter, Ivanka, which is listed on the Trump Organization website as part of the Trump empire.

Thousands of items with the Trump name on them — furniture, shirts, shoes, salad bowls, even "Trump body soap," and much of Ivanka's growing jewelry and clothing line — have been made by companies, often paying Trump simply for the use of his name on their goods, that employ foreign workers.

Clothing and home goods are a small part of Trump's fortune. His total income from licensed home goods was between $2.5 million and $13.1 million, according to his personal financial disclosure.

These Trump company business decisions are directly at odds with the central message of his presidential campaign: a promise to bring back jobs that have been sent abroad.
"I am going to bring jobs back to the United States like nobody else can," Trump said in his closing statement at last week's debate in Detroit, ahead of the Republican primary in Michigan on Tuesday.

"I'm going to bring jobs back from China. I'm going to bring jobs back from Mexico and from Japan," Trump said during the Feb. 13 GOP debate in South Carolina.
In Detroit, Trump admitted he had his clothing line manufactured in China and Mexico. But he claimed that it is "impossible for clothing makers in this country to do clothing in this country." Trump blamed the Chinese government's devaluation of the yuan, which helps to make Chinese-made goods cheaper for American consumers than those made in the U.S.

Though many clothing, footwear and home goods companies make their goods in the United States — and there's even been a small upsurge in higher-priced specialty brands locating manufacturing in Los Angeles, the current center of American garment manufacturing — the U.S. textile and apparel industry has been decimated since the 1990s, thanks to a combination of global trade deals and the North American Free Trade Agreement. The industry lost more than 900,000 jobs between 1994 and 2005, and even when companies do want to locate textile industry jobs in America, it can be hard to find skilled garment workers.

Manufacturing outside the U.S. may be good business for a billionaire like Trump. But in the political arena — where campaigns go to absurd lengths to secure and sell only made-in-America goods and drive only made-in-America cars — Trump's business deals stand out for being as impolitic as his speech.

It turns out that a huge array of Trump brand products are made in Asia or South America, countries where — as he told CNN this past summer — "the laborers are paid a lot less, and the standards are worse when it comes to the environment and health care and worker safety."

Trump, like most celebrities who monetize their fame, does not always manage the day-to-day operations of the companies that make goods with his name on them, instead making licensing deals and receiving payments simply for the use of his name as a brand. It's the same approach he has taken to real estate: There are 17 properties in Manhattan with the Trump name on them, but Trump owns only five of the buildings.

Nonetheless, public data collected by a private company, ImportGenius, which gathers export and import information, shows Trump products outsourcing jobs back to 2006. And the trend has intensified over the past few years. Since 2011, around 1,200 shipments of goods with the Trump name on them have come to the U.S. from other countries. Our Principles PAC, a super-PAC opposing Trump, compiled the data from ImportGenius into an Excel spreadsheet (viewable here) with 1,356 shipments going back to 2006.

And this is a conservative estimate, since the ImportGenius data compiled by Our Principles only listed items that included Trump's name on the "bill of lading," a certificate issued by carriers to ensure that exporters receive payment and importers get the goods they've paid for. Sometimes, product marks or labels are not included in shipping records.

A large portion of the increase in outsourcing has come from the Ivanka Trump clothing line. The Trump outsourcing data includes shipments received as recently as last month. In fact, there were 50 shipments in February, almost all of them of women's clothes and shoes for Ivanka Trump's fashion line.
Trump is seeking to win the White House by appealing to resentment among working class voters in parts of the country that have been hurt by outsourcing. But he has not always been a critic of the practice.

"We hear terrible things about outsourcing jobs — how sending work outside of our companies is contributing to the demise of American businesses. But in this instance I have to take the unpopular stance that it is not always a terrible thing," Trump wrote in a Trump University blog item in 2005.
The Economic Policy Institute, a D.C. think tank affiliated with organized labor, estimated in 2014 that since 2001 Chinese workers had taken more than 3 million jobs from Americans. Those in favor of free trade argue that commerce between countries ultimately increases economic growth and helps lift the country as a whole, but few dispute that free trade has also negatively impacted parts of the country that relied heavily on manufacturing jobs.

And while Trump has also railed against immigrants taking jobs in the U.S. from American workers, there are some inconsistencies in his own record on that count as well. His Florida resort, Mar-a-Lago, hired only 17 American workers out of 300 who applied, and instead employed hundreds of foreign-born workers for seasonal jobs.

yankeedoodle

The movement to stop Trump has descended into street violence.  Does anybody doubt that the "establishment," to include the Bush family, of course, is behind it?




Chicago Trump rally cancelled amid protests, chaos
Go to link for report and videos:  https://www.rt.com/usa/335316-trump-rally-cancel-violence/

maz

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rmstock

#177
Quote from: yankeedoodle on March 11, 2016, 10:16:33 PM
The movement to stop Trump has descended into street violence.  Does anybody doubt that the "establishment," to include the Bush family, of course, is behind it?




Chicago Trump rally cancelled amid protests, chaos
Go to link for report and videos:  https://www.rt.com/usa/335316-trump-rally-cancel-violence/
Chicago the City of Mayor Rahm Emanuel ... hmm  something smells rotten here ... ahh
this guy knows what happened, it looks this one has been staged from A to Z folks :

https://twitter.com/DaddyBUDsDooRag/status/708475895736958976


Of Republican front-runner Donald Trump, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said "playing with dark forces come's back to haunt you. And this is not a joke." | AP Photo
Rahm Emanuel: Trump playing with 'dark forces'
By Daniel Strauss  | 02/29/16 12:43 PM EST
http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-dem-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/02/rahm-emanuel-donald-trump-2016-219972

the Entire footage and coverage of the Chicago Trump Rally is fake.
There never was a Trump Rally in Chicago, because Mayor Rahm Emanuel
never gave permission, instead he organized a fake event with
the desired outcome.

``I hope that the fair, and, I may say certain prospects of success will not induce us to relax.''
-- Lieutenant General George Washington, commander-in-chief to
   Major General Israel Putnam,
   Head-Quarters, Valley Forge, 5 May, 1778

maz

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