PRESIDENTIAL Did Trump really mock reporter's disability? Videos could back him up Published September 14, 2016 FoxNews.com Donald Trump, it turns out, is not very good at impressions -- but that could be his alibi against persistent accusations that he mocked a reporter's disability last fall. Trump’s spastic arm waving at a rally last November while mimicking New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski drew swift condemnation from opponents who claimed Trump was making light of a disability. It's followed him ever since. The Washington Post gave Trump four Pinocchio’s for his denials, and Hillary Clinton used a clip of the impression in a video released Tuesday slamming Trump. But a pro-Trump, Catholic website has compiled footage appearing to show Trump has a very limited repertoire of impressions -- which the site points to as "evidence" he wasn't mocking the reporter's disability. View the video above to see a compilation of Trump's impressions. Catholics 4 Trump posted four videos – one of which dates back to 2005 – in which Trump impersonates everyone from Sen. Ted Cruz to The Donald himself with the same, flailing mannerisms and goofy speech. At a February rally in South Carolina, Trump deployed the impression style to mock Cruz's answer to a question about waterboarding that was posed during an earlier debate. With a panicked look on his face and his hands flapping about, Trump stammered "Oh, I don't wanna talk about it!" 2016 Election Headquarters The latest headlines on the 2016 elections from the biggest name in politics.See Latest Coverage → Trump also used the arm-thrashing act when making fun of himself during an interview with Larry King in 2005; when imitating a bank president in October; and when mocking an Army general at the same November speech in which he made the original Kovaleski comments. Kovaleski suffers from a joint abnormality. Trump immediately denied making fun of Kovaleski’s handicap after he was called out for it. "I have no idea who this reporter, Serge Kovalski [sic] is, what he looks like or his level of intelligence," Trump said in a November statement. Kovaleski countered that he and Trump had met at least a dozen times and the two were on a first-name basis when Kovaleski was a reporter at The New York Daily News covering Trump in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Trump disputes this. Few pundits and political analysts bought the explanation about his November comments, especially when Trump in July claimed he was only imitating the reporter groveling. “Trump now suggests he was just imitating a grovel, but that’s not what he was actually doing,” Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler wrote in August. Trump had started talking about Kovaleski at the 2015 rally because he was defending himself from another controversial statement – that he had seen “thousands” of Muslims celebrating the 9/11 attacks. Trump’s supporters had cited an article Kovaleski wrote around the time as evidence that Trump was correct. That article said “a number of people” had been seen celebrating. So when Kovaleski rebutted Trump, saying he never saw “thousands” or “hundreds” celebrating, Trump railed against the reporter – and one controversy begat another. “All of a sudden, I get reports that I was imitating a reporter who was handicapped,” Trump said in July. “I would never do that.”
How the Trump Organization’s Foreign Business Ties Could Upend U.S. National Security If Donald Trump is elected president, will he and his family permanently sever all connections to the Trump Organization, a sprawling business empire that has spread a secretive financial web across the world? Or will Trump instead choose to be the most conflicted president in American history, one whose business interests will constantly jeopardize the security of the United States? Throughout this campaign, the Trump Organization, which pumps potentially hundreds of millions of dollars into the Trump family’s bank accounts each year, has been largely ignored. As a private enterprise, its businesses, partners and investors are hidden from public view, even though they are the very people who could be enriched by—or will further enrich—Trump and his family if he wins the presidency. A close examination by Newsweek of the Trump Organization, including confidential interviews with business executives and some of its international partners, reveals an enterprise with deep ties to global financiers, foreign politicians and even criminals, although there is no evidence the Trump Organization has engaged in any illegal activities. It also reveals a web of contractual entanglements that could not be just canceled. If Trump moves into the White House and his family continues to receive any benefit from the company, during or even after his presidency, almost every foreign policy decision he makes will raise serious conflicts of interest and ethical quagmires. The Mumbai Shuffle ... http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/how-the-trump-organization’s-foreign-business-ties-could-upend-us-national-security/ar-BBw8kSJ?li=BBnbcA1
New Records Shed Light on Donald Trump’s $25,000 Gift to Florida Official TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — It was Aug. 29, 2013, an unremarkable day inside Florida’s whitewashed Capitol, and a typically sweltering one outside among the moss-bearded oaks and sabal palms. Around 3:45 p.m., Jennifer Meale, the communications director for Attorney General Pam Bondi, fielded a seemingly routine call from a financial reporter for The Orlando Sentinel. The attorney general of New York had recently filed a lawsuit against Donald J. Trump alleging fraud in the marketing of Trump University’s real estate and wealth-building seminars. Had Florida ever conducted its own investigation, the reporter asked. The call set off an exchange of emails between Ms. Meale and top lawyers in the office. She learned that 23 complaints about Trump-related education enterprises had been filed before Ms. Bondi became attorney general in 2011, and one since. They had never generated a formal investigation, she wrote the reporter, but added, “We are currently reviewing the allegations in the New York complaint.” The Sentinel’s report, which was published on Sept. 13, 2013, paraphrased Ms. Meale’s response and took it a step further, saying that Ms. Bondi’s office would “determine whether Florida should join the multi-state case.” Four days later, a check for $25,000 from the Donald J. Trump Foundation landed in the Tampa office of a political action committee that had been formed to support Ms. Bondi’s 2014 re-election. In mid-October, her office announced that it would not be acting on the Trump University complaints.... http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...ift-to-florida-official/ar-BBwaxUi?li=BBnb7Kz
19 pages long The Many Scandals of Donald Trump: A Cheat Sheet http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-many-scandals-of-donald-trump-a-cheat-sheet/ar-AAiOZuO
This is an old story with Trump. I was in Atlantic City when Trump was fleecing investors there and his crooked dealing was an almost daily feature in the local newspaper. He didn't get arrested as he should have because he shared the wealth with local politicians and made himself flameproof. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/nyregion/donald-trump-atlantic-city.html At that time Atlantic City was controlled by the mob... and so was Trump. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ave-buyers-high-dry-new-biography-claims.html
Ivanka Trump cut short an interview with Cosmopolitan published Wednesday after being asked about some of Donald Trump's past comments about childcare and maternity leave. Trump criticized the interviewer for having "a lot of negativity" in her questions. Trump had hoped to highlight the Republican presidential nominee's new childcare policy, which she helped craft and introduce this week. But the candidate's daughter bristled when interviewer Prachi Gupta asked, "In 2004, Donald Trump said that pregnancy is an inconvenient thing for a business. It's surprising to see this policy from him today. Can you talk a little about those comments, and perhaps what has changed?" "So I think that you have a lot of negativity in these questions," Ivanka Trump said, according to Cosmopolitan's transcript. "So I don't know how useful it is to spend too much time with you on this, if you're going to make a comment like that." Read More She said the question was "an unfair characterization of his track record and his support of professional women." Gupta pressed on: "I would like to say that I'm sorry the questions -- you're finding them negative, but it is relevant that a presidential candidate made those comments. So I'm just following up." "Well, you said he made those comments. I don't know that he said those comments," Trump said. Presented with the source of her father's quote -- an NBC interview in 2004 -- Trump shot back that "there's plenty of time for you to editorialize around this," and again pitched the campaign's new childcare policy. "I hope that regardless of what your political viewpoint is, this should be celebrated," she added. Trump also clashed with Gupta when asked why the campaign's paid leave proposal didn't apply to gay couples or include paternity leave. She said that the reason the proposal wouldn't include to those groups is that "the original intention of the plan is to help mothers in recovery in the immediate aftermath of childbirth." "So I just want to be clear that, for same-sex adoption, where the two parents are both men, they would not be receiving special leave for that because they don't need to recover or anything?" Gupta asked. Trump said: "Well, those are your words, not mine. Those are your words. The plan, right now, is focusing on mothers, whether they be in same-sex marriages or not." She said child-bearing mothers in lesbian couples would be eligible under the plan. When Gupta pivoted to asking Trump about how Donald Trump proposed to pay for some of his most expensive policy proposals -- such as the border wall with Mexico, infrastructure investment, and increased defense spending -- Trump said that the policies would all be paid for as a result of the Trump campaign's forthcoming tax reform plan. http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/15/politics/ivanka-trump-cosmo-interview/index.html Shortly thereafter, she cut the interview off. Trump's efforts to help roll out her father's maternity leave policy proposal and to make his candidacy more palatable to young women were also complicated Wednesday when The Huffington Post reported that she misstated the Trump Organization's own maternity leave policy. Trump told reporters and "Good Morning America" that the Trump Organization offers employees eight weeks of paid leave. But The Huffington Post found hotels and casinos run by subsidiaries of the Trump Organization offer no paid family leave, but rather adhere to federal law that requires only businesses allow women to take sick leave and vacation. Hillary Clinton's campaign has criticized Trump's maternity proposal for focusing only on women and not fathers. That issue was also raised during the Cosmopolitan interview. "The original intention of the plan is to help mothers in recovery in the immediate aftermath of childbirth," said Ivanka Trump. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-paid-maternity-leave-ivanka_us_57d99be6e4b04a1497b20a6d
Donald J. Trump ✔@realDonaldTrump Attention all hackers: You are hacking everything else so please hack Obama's college records (destroyed?) and check "place of birth" Follow Donald J. Trump ✔@realDonaldTrump An 'extremely credible source' has called my office and told me that @BarackObama's birth certificate is a fraud. 3:23 PM - 6 Aug 2012