Whoa now! Say it ain't so. The megalomaniac Donald Trump seriously believes he has what it takes to fill the office of President of the United States?
DONALD TRUMP AND THE PLANETS By CHAOS VS COSMOS
The Donald? The bloviator extraordinaire whose name egomaniacly adorns casinos, condos and skyscrapers around the world? The arrogant asshole who left his aging wife Ivana for the baby-faced Marla Maples and then left Marla for an even younger version, current amoureuse de la décennie, Melania Knauss? Whose various companies has been in and out of bankruptcy numerous times, engaged in numerous legal maneuverings, and who was almost creamin' in his pants over the idea of hiring the Spitzer prostituée Ashley Dupre to appear on The Apprentice. The man who so craves the company of beautiful women he owns the friggin' the Miss Universe Pageant! (Turns out The Donald met Maples while attending David Koch's annual New Years Eve Party. Said Koch: "I wanted to take her out, but I'd heard Donald was friendly with her. Marla's a babe. I wish I'd gotten there first." Source: New York Magazine, October 15, 1990, Page 48)
Real classy guy, huh?
Gulp. The Donald, as some may recall, is another one of those misinformed or dis-informed or just plain damn stupid climate deniers. Turns out he suggested stripping former Vice President Al Gore of the Nobel Peace prize he was awarded for campaigning on climate change after extreme snow storms pummeled the east coast last year. Tacking carbon emissions, Trump claimed, was harming America's economy! Link
Just today, we find out he recently dished out $100 million for Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's Boeing 757. Not worried at all about his carbon footprint. Smells like campaign time to me. Particularly when the news come fast on the heels of his annointing himself the right man for the nation's top job at last week's conservative convention.
Ugh. And what does he say when polls reveal he's within 2 points of the incumbent? "I'm not surpirised!". But who can believe polls anymore, right? Considering all the incestuous inbreeding between megalithic media empires and cross-consolidation of so many once trustworthy quasi reputable indies under the yougov umbrella.
Damn. Remember Roger Stone folks? That sleazebag associated with the storming of the recount in Florida in 2000, the guy suspected of working with Whitehouse insiders forging the documents which brought down Dan Rather? The DC swinger who was fired by Bob Dole for his sexual exploits? Whose familiar rancid stink emanates from the shenanigans of Plamegate like decaying buzzard brains?
HFS. Turns out he's been doing "The Donald's 'dirty work for 11 years now. And I've been tracking it since 2006. Yup, the ultimate dirty trickster, mentor to Karl Rove, is making another bid to get a gangsta in the White House.
Bingo. Just how close is the sleezebag Stone to Trump? Check out this muckety map!
To the moon, Alice! Let's fire this guy before he gets anywhere near 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Hell, let's make sure his name is dirt before he can pluck down enough billions to buy his way into ANY primary.
Earlier this week, that tabloid-rag Murdock-operated NY Post ran a story on "President Donald Trump? Conservatives are backing the comb-over candidate for 2012 in which they note that "legendary GOP dirty trickster Roger Stone has been fanning the flames for a Trump bid.
"No one understands the power of television like Trump," Stone crowed on his website. "Trump could dominate 2011 debates and emerge as a real candidate."
Turns out that Stone, the legendary Republican political 'hitman' who's been sloshing scum around America's electoral politics for over 30 years, a member of every GOP presidency since Richard Nixon, has been working black magic for Trump since 2000, when he was hired as a lobbyist for Trump Hotel & Casino Resorts. The billionaire, with a huge gambling empire in New Jersey, wanted to ensure the NY State legislature passed a bill preventing casino expansion.
Both Stone and Trump acknowledged contributing at least $118,000 (filing no paperwork) to the New York Institute for Law and Society, which funded advertising campaigns against Gov. George Pataki and the St. Regis Mohawk Indians. The ads portrayed the indigenous Mohawks as "drug-dealing criminals."
According to the Albany Times Union, Stone’s attorney, Judd Burstein, said his client was "intimately involved" in designing the ads, but had tried to keep his involvement secret because "we had a good faith belief that it wasn't lobbying." Buzzflash, 2003. Link
Stone ... prepared a series of ads for Atlantic City casino mogul Donald Trump that tried to forestall a New York state gaming compact with the St. Regis (Akwesasne) Mohawks for a casino in the Catskills that would have competed with Trump's financially troubled interests. The ads accused the St. Regis Mohawks of a variety of illegal activities, without mentioning that the tribal government was instrumental in breaking them up. A tribal spokesman called the ads, issued under the name of the New York Institute for Law and Society, a "racist" attack. Link
Remember, Stone's the guy who flew into Florida with a band of right wing zealots to stage The Brook Brothers Riot that shut down the Miami-Dade 2000 Presidential recount as thousands of Cuban-Americans were bussed in to march outside the courthouse. Link.
Stone & Eliot Spitzer
Then came Stone's supposed involvement in the leaking of the forged GWB Air National Guard records which ended the career of TV anchorman Dan Rather. And his involvement in bringing down Eliot Spitzer, which began during his work for NY State Senator Joe Bruno.
The bizarre hi-jinks coming out of the upper echelons of New York State politics continues to get stranger and stranger each day. First there was Troopergate, a story broken by NY Post Editor Fredric Dicker
This involved Governor Eliot . In turn, Bruno cried fowl and a bizarre flurry of accusations followed from both sides. Critics quickly condemned behavior of both, saying that the on-going feud was interfering with the unfinished work in Albany.
Some say that the man behind the on-going feud was none other than Roger Stone, a well known political strategist and GOP operative who worked in the administrations of Presidents Nixon and Reagan. Bruno hired him to create a political strategy for the Republicans going into 2008. Stone is well known as a trickster, and for his ability to spin magic out of nothing, even an ordinary phone call.
Roger is now accused of making a threatening phone call to Bernard Spitzer, the ailing 83-year-old father of New York's governor. A not-so-friendly answering machine message was left that made several accusations relating to an investigation of improper loans by the elderly Spitzer to his son. He was quickly asked by Bruno to resign his position with the senate. Roger Stone denies the accusation in a Washington Post story, and he now insists that the call was made by political comedian and famed mimic Randy Credico. Link
An Atlantic article last year Meet the Leader of Eliot Spitzer's Smear Campaign reveals that stories floating around about the FBI receiving reports about Spitzer's involvement with prostitutes and his proclivities towards keeping his knee-high red socks on during sex were written and planted by Stone: the FBI received NO memo.
When Bruno was forced to fire Stone over the incident, Stone found other sponsors to pay him to stay on the Spitzer attack detail. According to Stone, his paymasters were "wealthy Republicans." Fortune's Peter Elkind, who contributed critical reporting to the film and is the author of the book Client 9, found evidence that Stone had bragged to a South Florida blogger that the "wealthy Republicans" -- called "The Group" -- were organized around a coordinating operative, Republican lobbyist Wayne Berman, and financiers including former AIG Chairman Hank Greenberg and Home Depot financier Ken Langone -- all major-league Spitzer haters. (Stone denies this.)
Mysteriously, before anyone could even imagine Spitzer's spectacular fall, Stone was predicting it in cryptic emails and telegrams. "Eliot's going down," he told Rich Baum, the secretary to then Gov. Spitzer, in an email. While there is no doubt that Spitzer provided the weapon and the ammunition for his own political demise, did Stone play the role of the hit man?
Trump has been considering running for the NY governor's race in 2006 but stood no chance against the popular Spitzer.
Trump And Rove
Trump Among Donors to Rove-Linked Group
At the center of attention has been American Crossroads, one of two third-party groups tied to Karl Rove. The group’s reports, filed on Wednesday with the commission and covering the period from Sept. 1 to Oct. 13, did not disappoint.
Among the highlights were a $50,000 contribution in September from Donald J. Trump, the larger-than-life real estate developer who had not had much of a reputation previously as a major backer of Republican politics; and an astonishing $7 million from Bob Perry, a longtime Democratic nemesis who was one of the major financiers of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, which attacked Senator John Kerry’s Vietnam War record in the 2004 presidential race.
Bankruptcy
Typically convicted felons and debtors have little to no credibility or/and credit power. However, people with such dubious backgrounds overcome these hurdles all the time.
Donald Trump has filed corporate bankruptcy multiple times. He had, at one time, over 900 million dollars in personal debt. Yet today droves of people pay their hard-earned money to attend business seminars hosted by him. Why? Because America allowed Trump the opportunity to reestablish his good business record and fiscal credibility.
Dare I ask whether some might suspect that Trump’s sister, U.S. District Judge Maryanne Trump Barry, could have used her power to help her brother avoid a possible federal criminal indictment relating to the Trump Taj Mahal/junk bond disaster in the 1990s (personally, I am not suggesting that either Trump committed a crime)? During the time Donald Trump was dealing with those financial debacles his sister held a seat on the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. Before that she spent many years in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Newark, New Jersey. Link
Special Report: Organized Crime: Trump and Organized Crime (from Time Magazine, June, 2001)
Even the currently troubled Donald Trump has allegedly paid his Genovese dues, perhaps unwittingly. Last month Trump took the stand in Manhattan's federal court to deny that he knowingly hired 200 illegal Polish aliens to demolish a building in Manhattan in 1980 to make way for his glittering Trump Tower. Members of Housewreckers Local 95, who also accuse their own president in the scheme, allege that Trump was able to avoid making payments that would now total $1 million (including interest) into the union's pension funds. % "You can bet there was a wise guy somewhere in the background," says an FBI specialist on the Genovese family. Says labor consultant Daniel Sullivan, an FBI source on the Mob who has testified in the case: "It's a classic Mob relationship. Trump or his people had to have a deal to get such a sweetheart contract."
A Trump spokeswoman calls this speculation "preposterous." Maybe so, but Housewreckers Local 95 was identified in a 1987 government report as being controlled by the Genovese gang. In 1984 the union's three highest officials were convicted of racketeering in an unrelated case.
Donald Trumps the Law
Case Number: BC404048
VH PROPERTY CORP ET AL VS CITY OF RANCHO PALOS VERDES ET AL
Friday, December 19, 2008 "We have nothing but trouble with this town," said [Donald] Trump. That's an excerpt from a Daily Breeze story about Trump's latest lawsuit against Rancho Palos Verdes, a $100 million suit that alleges "the city and its geologic advisers engaged in 'willful, wanton, malicious, oppressive and outrageous' acts that prompted him to 'spend millions of dollars on unnecessary, repetitive, unreasonable and unlawful geologic and geotechnical studies and reviews.'" The suit is just the latest in a very long series of legal battles between the Donald and the city--this latest suit has to do with the construction of 20 homes and amenities at Trump National Golf Club. (Yesterday, Trump also sued the NJ state Gaming Control Board yesterday over a denied casino license.) It sounds everyone is yawning at this latest suit. Via KTLA: "City officials say Trump has sued before, and that they're not taking this latest suit too seriously." According to the Palos Verdes Pennisula News, the case is VH Property Corp. v. City of Rancho Palos Verdes
Donald Trump on Wikipedia (as much as I abhor using this source, nowhere else can one find a one shot look at this man's empire!
Part 1 in an ongoing series FIRE TRUMP NOW! Next up: Seeking connections between Trump, Fox News, Koch Brothers and AFP ...
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