The Trump Files

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  1. nitro

    nitro

    DONALD TRUMP'S MANY BUSINESS FAILURES, EXPLAINED

    Donald Trump was thundering about a minority group, linking its members to murderers and what he predicted would be an epic crime wave in America. His opponents raged in response—some slamming him as a racist—but Trump dismissed them as blind, ignorant of the real world.

    No, this is not a scene from a recent rally in which the Republican nominee for president stoked fears of violence from immigrants or Muslims. The year was 1993, and his target was Native Americans, particularly those running casinos who, Trump was telling a congressional hearing, were sucking up to criminals.

    Trump, who at the time was a major casino operator, appeared before a panel on Indian gaming with a prepared statement that was level-headed and raised regulatory concerns in a mature way. But, in his opening words, Trump announced that his written speech was boring, so he went off-script, even questioning the heritage of some Native American casino operators, saying they “don't look like Indians” and launching into a tirade about “rampant” criminal activities on reservations.

    “If [Indian gaming] continues as a threat, it is my opinion that it will blow. It will blow sky high. It will be the biggest scandal ever or one of the biggest scandals since Al Capone,” Trump said. “That an Indian chief is going to tell [mobster] Joey Killer to please get off his reservation is almost unbelievable to me.”

    His words were, as is so often the case, incendiary. Lawmakers, latching onto his claim to know more than law enforcement about ongoing criminal activity at Indian casinos, challenged Trump to bring his information to the FBI. One attacked Trump’s argument as the most “irresponsible testimony” he had ever heard. Connecticut Governor Lowell Weicker Jr., whom Trump had praised in his testimony, responded by calling him a “dirtbag” and a bigot; Trump immediately changed his mind about the governor, proclaiming Weicker to be a “fat slob who couldn't get elected dog catcher in Connecticut.”

    For opponents of Trump’s presidential run, this contretemps about American Indians might seem like a distant but familiar echo of the racism charges that have dogged his campaign, including his repeated taunting of Senator Elizabeth Warren as “Pocahontas” because she claims native ancestry. But, in this case, there was more to it than that: Trump, through his offensive tantrum, was throwing away financial opportunities, yet another reminder that, for all his boasting of his acumen and flaunting of his wealth, the self-proclaimed billionaire has often been a lousy businessman...

    http://www.newsweek.com/2016/08/12/donald-trumps-business-failures-election-2016-486091.html
     
    #71     Aug 8, 2016
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  2. Frederick Foresight

    Frederick Foresight

    Link?
     
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  3. OddTrader

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  4. fhl

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    Can do better. Pic.

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  5. Scataphagos

    Scataphagos

    The muslim jihadists have made it clear that they intend to establish a world-wide caliphate and to kill everyone who does not convert to islam. (They've tried this before. The responses then have been to go to war and kill enough of them to make them stop.)

    What exactly, should be our response this time??

    (Welcoming them into our countries, paying for their support, then tolerating their rapes, murders and other crimes... tolerating the fact they "trash the houses they're given while shitting on the sidewalks"... doesn't seem to be working just right.)
     
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  6. OddTrader

    OddTrader

    Google: christians living in muslim countries


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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_the_Middle_East

    In 2011, it was estimated that at the present rate, the Middle East's 12 million Christians would likely drop to 6 million by the year 2020.[22]

    Lebanon has the highest rate of Christians in the Middle East, where the percentage ranges between 39% and 40.5% of its population. (no official census has been made in Lebanon since 1932)

    The largest Christian group in the Middle East is the Arabic-speaking Copts, who number 6–11 million people,[3] although Coptic sources claim the figure is closer to 12–16 million.[23][24] Copts reside mainly in Egypt, but also in Sudan and Libya, with tiny communities in Israel, Cyprus, Jordan, Lebanon, and Tunisia.

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copts

    https://www.quora.com/Christianity-What-is-it-like-to-be-a-Christian-in-a-Muslim-country

    http://www.catholic.com/magazine/articles/christians-in-islamic-lands-part-1

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    http://www.soundvision.com/article/christians-minorities-in-muslim-countries

    The American bombing of mosques in Iraq and Afghanistan will not help contain Muslim extremists who want to use these images as an opportunity to attack their innocent Christian neighbors. Revenge is unIslamic (please see Quran 22:40). Attacking a house of worship is a sin in Islam and a crime in the eyes of humanity. A Muslim must be just even if in conflict with an enemy. Iraqi Christians are neighbors who have nothing to do with the US military's attacks.

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    While freedom of religion is guaranteed by the Egyptian constitution, according to Human Rights Watch, "Egyptians are able to convert to Islam generally without difficulty, but Muslims who convert to Christianity face difficulties in getting new identity papers and some have been arrested for allegedly forging such documents."[73] The Coptic community, however, takes pains to prevent conversions from Christianity to Islam due to the ease with which Christians can often become Muslim.[74] Public officials, being conservative themselves, intensify the complexity of the legal procedures required to recognize the religion change as required by law. Security agencies will sometimes claim that such conversions from Islam to Christianity (or occasionally vice versa) may stir social unrest, and thereby justify themselves in wrongfully detaining the subjects, insisting that they are simply taking steps to prevent likely social troubles from happening.[75] In 2007, a Cairo administrative court denied 45 citizens the right to obtain identity papers documenting their reversion to Christianity after converting to Islam.[76] However, in February 2008 the Supreme Administrative Court overturned the decision, allowing 12 citizens who had reverted to Christianity to re-list their religion on identity cards,[77][78] but they will specify that they had adopted Islam for a brief period of time.[79] "
     
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  8. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    The Trump Files: The Time Donald Burned a Widow's Mortgage
    http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/06/trump-files-time-donald-burned-widows-mortgage

    Read the rest of "The Trump Files":

     
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    OddTrader

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  10. Ricter

    Ricter

    #80     Aug 10, 2016
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