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ivana https://www.dailykos.com/news/ivana News Community Action Copyright 2005 - Steal what you want Sun, 26 Jan 2020 05:42:47 +0000 Sun, 26 Jan 2020 05:42:47 +0000 Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) He did not need an interpreter for his private meeting..He has/had wives who speaks many languages https://www.dailykos.com/story/2019/1/31/1831136/-He-did-not-need-an-interpreter-for-his-private-meeting-He-has-a-wife-who-speaks-Russian I posted an article several years back called Boots, Thong and Gun. She looked like a poster child for James Bond and I found the original info published in GQ magazine. It is conspiracy to call out Melania as a spy, however, it raises eyebrows to read of her parent’s past in a poor little town and all of the Father’s connections. His connections are almost parallel to her husband’s. Businessman, political, wealthy and womanizer. Ivana’s ( wife #1) has some very simililar eyebrow raising upbringing as well. The littleCommunist town was poor but not Melania and her family. The same is said about Ivana. Very connected and very well to do. Both have connections that raise eyebrows. Melania : <div> <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-putin-meeting-g20-summit-melania-russia-mueller-investigation-buenos-aires-a8753701.html" target="_blank">www.independent.co.uk/...</a> <blockquote> <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/DonaldTrump" target="_blank">Donald Trump</a> reportedly sat down for a meeting with <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/VladimirPutin" target="_blank">Vladimir Putin</a> in November accompanied only by his wife Melania. <div style="text-align:center"></div> The meeting allegedly occurred at the end of an evening event at the Colon Theatre. As other world leaders and guests left the building, Mr Trump and Melania sat down at a table with Mr Putin and one of his translators. <div></div> <div> <div> <div></div> </div> </div> <div><a> </a></div> <div></div> According to a Russian government official quoted by the newspaper, the leaders spoke for around 15 minutes on a range of foreign policy issues, including the Syrian conflict and an incident in the Azov Sea earlier in November in which <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-navy-russia-ship-fire-attack-crimea-artillery-war-kerch-strait-a8651321.html" target="_blank">Ukrainian sailors were fired on and detained by Russia</a> </blockquote> <div style="text-align:center"></div> <figure> <div> <h2></h2> <div>We then move on to this write up.</div> </div> </figure> </div> <div> <div style="text-align:left"> <div> <div> <div> <div></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <blockquote> Even in those days, when Slovenia was part of Communist Yugoslavia and times were lean, Amalija was always impeccably dressed and perfectly coiffed. “She was very pretty,” says Tomšič, who now runs a local hospital to which Melania donated $25,000 after marrying Donald. “She was always very fancy.” Amalija spent evenings after work sewing clothing for herself and her two daughters, Ines and Melania. Once she learned to draw, Melania sketched her own designs, and her mother or sister sewed them. Melania also made her own jewelry. “Melania never wore anything from the store,” recalls one friend. </blockquote> <figure class="image-captioned align-left"><img alt="Trump_Putin_Fist-Pump_G20-Dinner.gif" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/633067/large/Trump_Putin_Fist-Pump_G20-Dinner.gif?1547673125" title="Trump_Putin_Fist-Pump_G20-Dinner.gif"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> <blockquote> The family struck a worldly image, too, vacationing in France, Italy, and Germany. Every room of their apartment in Sevnica was painted a deep, lush color—blue in the living room, red in the kitchen, yellow in Melania’s room. Amalija, who got to travel to France and Germany for work, returned with colorful paints for the home, a rarity in Yugoslavia. She also came back from business trips with Western fashion magazines, which Melania’s friends watched her flip through constantly. “They had more than the others,” </blockquote> I find it pretty strange that two of his three wives have connections to Russian wealth. Of course DJT did not have or need an interpreter at his private meeting with Putin recently. Why drag an outsider to only conviscate the notes when your wife speaks fluently, and coherently. Who was seated next to Putin at the G20 meeting? Who was in charge of the seating is what I want to know. Coincidence? There are no coincidences in that kind of planning. Who was with Putin and Trump at the private meeting? Yes, we know Putin speaks English, but why should he get out of his comfort zone when wifey speaks fluent English without a single bigly in a sentence? I hope Mueller is looking at these women as possible suspect women. They may not be spies, but they are definately well connected and an asset to the Former Soviet Union. Donald Trump is not Thor. He isn’t good looking and probably not even that rich. So why is he marrying these beautiful women with ties to adversaries? Language is definately a plus. HE cannot even fluently speak english so Russian is certainly out of the question. How would you interepret hamberder? Is this conspiracy? NO it is not. It is suspicion with red and I mean red flags sticking up everywhere. Check out the history of these women, their families and dirty dealings. Birds of a feather you know ! <blockquote> Ivana Trump never forgot her hometown. She returned repeatedly while the Soviet-backed communist regime was still in power, bringing her kids to see their grandparents. She even introduced the Donald to Slavic culture: In 1987, two years before Czechoslovakia broke away from the former Soviet Union, Russian-speaking Trump, a now glamorous, Westernized New York demi-celebrity, accompanied her husband on <a href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/19/trump-first-moscow-trip-215842" target="_blank">his first trip to Moscow</a>. </blockquote> <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-ivana-donald-ivanka-trump-russia-communism-czech-republic-721669" target="_blank">www.newsweek.com/…</a> Then this: It has been debated whether Ivana’s Father was actually an agent although he was an StB confidant. From the Guardian… <blockquote> A Czech historian said the fact that Ivana’s father was registered as an “StB confidant” did not mean he worked as an agent for them. “Rather the CSSR authorities forced him to talk to them because of his journeys to the US to see his daughter. If he hadn’t spoken to them he would not have been given permission to fly,” Tomáš Vilímek told Bild. Donald and Ivana Trump were married in 1977 and divorced in 1992. They have three children. </blockquote> The StB was dissolved following the collapse of communism in 1990 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/15/czechoslovakia-spied-on-donald-trump-ivana-files" target="_blank">www.theguardian.com/…</a> Moving back to Melania’s family ties…( Regarding her Father) <blockquote> Washing his antique Mercedes, another rarity. “It was like a ritual,” Jelančič tells me. After leaving his job working for the mayor of Hrastnik, Viktor, then a member of the Slovenian Communist Party, became a salesman at a state-owned car company. Police files from the time indicate Viktor aroused suspicion for illicit trade and tax evasion in 1976. (He was charged with a tax offense, though his record was later cleared on account of Slovenia’s statute of limitations, a process the courts described to me as “legal rehabilitations.”) Melania blocked my efforts to speak to Viktor, and she denies that any such investigation took place. “He was never under any investigation, he was never in trouble,” she snaps. “We have a clean past. I don’t have nothing to hide. </blockquote> Daddy dearest was or is very much like DJT. He denied a child he fathered but eventually had to pay child support after blood tests proved he was the Father and wanted the biological mother to get an abortion. (He did not need the bad press) but she refused to do so. Too bad he did not have a Cohen or Cohn around.(snark) <blockquote> While working for the car company in Ljubljana, Viktor had an apartment there, in one of the city’s first residential high-rises. It was a prestigious address and provided the girls a place to stay in the capital so that they could attend design school—another luxury. </blockquote> Did this man make all of this wealth, honestly, in a poor communist town? Not likely, in my opinion. He did after all do some income tax evasion. Also, I kept thinking while DJT is so good at projection and begging people to look at Michael Cohen’s father in law, maybe someone should be looking at his Father in Law. Maybe he forgot GQ looked some time back. How deep? I hope Mueller knows. <a href="https://www.gq.com/story/melania-trump-gq-interview" target="_blank">www.gq.com/…</a> It is also reported that the child of Melania’s speaks fluent Slovenian and this is his language with his Mother and Grandparents. I hope people remind the Trump followers of this when they gripe to Hispanics and say. “ Speak English or go back to where you came from.” They say it a lot when speaking of the Hispanic community. <blockquote> “Trump reminds me of Viktor,” Viktor’s friend and neighbor Tomaž Jeraj tells me. “He’s a salesman. He has business in his veins.” It’s a sentiment unanimous in Sevnica, where Viktor and Amalija still own their house and visit two or three times a year. </blockquote> I don’t find the following unusual with the exception of the hypocritical mindset of speak English if you are American but it does not apply to Hispanics. One might as well hang a sign around their necks that says, “Speaking other languages in America is for WHITES ONLY.” <blockquote> Barron is very close to grandparents, with whom he reportedly speaks Slovenian, and Politico <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/07/melania-trump-donald-white-house-239264" target="_blank">described them as "hyperinvolved" in his life</a> </blockquote> On Melania’s Dad and woman problems.. <blockquote> When Knavs realized his former girlfriend would not abort the baby, he decided that he would pretend it was not his. He refused to pay child support, and the issue landed him in court. He exploited the details of his sexual relationship with Marija Cigelnjak as a means of justifying why <a href="https://www.gq.com/story/melania-trump-gq-interview" target="_blank">he could not be the father</a>. Eventually, the court ordered that a blood test be done to determine paternity. It proved that Knavs was Cigelnjak’s father. Knavs was ordered to pay child support, and he fought it but was unsuccessful. <a href="https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/interesting-facts-you-never-knew-about-melania-trumps-parents-viktor-and-amalija-knavs.html/" target="_blank">www.cheatsheet.com/…</a> <a href="https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/politics/g9968592/melania-trump-parents-amalija-knavs-viktor-knavs/" target="_blank">www.townandcountrymag.com/…</a> <a href="https://www.cheatsheet.com/health-fitness/scandalous-secrets-surrounding-melania-trumps-estranged-half-brother.html/" target="_blank">www.cheatsheet.com/...</a> </blockquote> Sounds like a real gem huh? Melania has never met her brother nor has her sister met him. When you get a chance, read up on Melania’s and Ivana’s folks. They have some real interesting political ties. Should we be concerned? nnnnnnnnnnnnaaaaah..just move along, it is all coincidence. <figure class="image-captioned align-right"><img alt="Moscow.jpg" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/638609/large/Moscow.jpg?1548945814" title="Moscow.jpg"> <figcaption>Trump and the Mrs. in Moscow <a href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/19/trump-first-moscow-trip-215842">www.politico.com/...</a> </figcaption> </figure> <blockquote> By January 1987, Trump was closer to the “prominent person” status of Kryuchkov’s note. Dubinin deemed Trump interesting enough to arrange his trip to Moscow. Another thirtysomething U.S.-based Soviet diplomat, Vitaly Churkin—the future U.N. ambassador—helped put it together. On July 4, 1987, Trump flew to Moscow for the first time, together with Ivana and Lisa Calandra, Ivana’s Italian-American assistant. Moscow was, Trump wrote, “an extraordinary experience.” The Trumps stayed in Lenin’s suite at the National Hotel, at the bottom of Tverskaya Street, near Red Square. Seventy years earlier, in October 1917, Lenin and his wife, Nadezhda Krupskaya, had spent a week in room 107. The hotel was linked to the glass-and-concrete Intourist complex next door and was— in effect—under KGB control. </blockquote> <a href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/19/trump-first-moscow-trip-215842" target="_blank">www.politico.com/…</a> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content"><a class="new_iframe_placeholder" href="#">x</a></div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=0IuZCUXujsk" data-frameborder="0" data-height="281" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/0IuZCUXujsk" data-width="500">YouTube Video</a></div> </div> Well ...what we have now is The worst President or something in history but thanks Carly for lending the American people this ad. Too bad he got into 1600 anyway… <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content"><a class="new_iframe_placeholder" href="#">x</a></div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=0lQFLBhRwds" data-frameborder="0" data-height="281" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/0lQFLBhRwds" data-width="500">YouTube Video</a></div> </div> NEVER FORGET <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content"><a class="new_iframe_placeholder" href="#">x</a></div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=LEmqriDUIQM" data-frameborder="0" data-height="281" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/LEmqriDUIQM" data-width="500">YouTube Video</a></div> </div> rss@dailykos.com (Vetwife) Agents Collusion connections ivana MelaniaTrump Russia trump _1831136 Thu, 31 Jan 2019 16:22:18 +0000 Melania Trump snaps back after Ivana jokingly calls herself 'first lady' https://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/10/9/1705560/-Melania-Trump-snaps-back-after-Ivana-jokingly-calls-herself-first-lady The president’s first wife Ivana seems to have ruffled some of the first lady’s feathers in response to a joke she made on a recent interview with ABC News. The Hill <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/354545-ivana-trump-jokes-that-shes-first-lady" target="_blank" title="">reports</a>: <blockquote> Trump told "Good Morning America" that she has a direct phone line to the White House, but avoids calling too often because she doesn’t want to make first lady Melania Trump jealous. "I have the direct number to White House, but I no really want to call him there because Melania is there,” Trump said. "I don't want to cause any kind of jealousy or something like that because I'm basically first Trump wife.” “I’m first lady, OK?" she said, laughing. </blockquote> Melania and her people didn’t find the joke very funny and issued a public statement in response, <a href="https://twitter.com/NBCNightlyNews/status/917450748966957056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailykos.com%2Fstories%2F1705560%2Fedit" target="_blank" title="">according</a> to NBC: <blockquote> <div>Mrs. Trump has made the White House a home for Barron and the President. She loves living in Washington, DC, and is honored by her role as first lady of the United States. She plans to use her title and role to help children, not sell books. There is clearly no substance to this statement from an ex, this is unfortunately only attention-seeking and self-serving noise.</div> </blockquote> I’m not sure how issuing an official statement in response to your husband’s ex-wife’s remarks is an effective way to prove how not jealous you are, but maybe someone bought it. rss@dailykos.com (Wagatwe Wanjuki) ivana Joke Media Melania Recommended trump TV _1705560 Mon, 09 Oct 2017 19:36:45 +0000 The Trmp Conspiracies: A Few Political Fantasies https://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/5/28/1666832/-The-Trmp-Conspiracies-A-Few-Political-Fantasies In my political fantasy life (no resemblance to persons living or dead), I like to play with the idea of deep conspiracies wondering, “What if?” from different directions, a variation of umpteeump dimensional chess. I don’t believe any of it but just like to consider the possibilities. What if Ivana Zelníčková Trmp was the original Russian/Soviet/espionage honeypot? What if the Trmp’s are actually “The Americans,” deep cover sleeper agents like the ones in that show? What if Ivanka and her siblings are the second generation of the operation? (Hello, Jared.) That’s one thread. What if Fred Kch, father of the Kch Bros, who made his first millions with Stalin back in the 1930s, cooked up a long-term Fifth Column operation from the Right at some desk in the Kremlin back in those bad old days? What if the Jhn Brch Socity was funded to destabilize American democracy (such as it is) as much as the Communist Party USA, a Rightwing/Leftwing combination? Fact of the matter is, with the 2016 Rpblcn Party, the “Eisenhower is a Commie” and “Impeach Earl Warren” Jhn Brch Socity of the 1950s won. It is the Rpblcn Party today, with a healthy helping of Christianist Dominionism added, all those preaching theocrats who are happy to ignore President Trmp’s public behavior. This religious strain (take that any way you want) hearkens back and forward to Sinclair Lewis' It Can’t Happen Here and Robert Heinlein’s Revolt in 2100 as well as Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale. And that’s a whole nother group of conspiracies to play. Lotsa conspiracies and dystopias to go around. Here’s another: The Trmp organization has a $950 million deal with the state-owned Bank of China, brokered by Goldman Sachs, another possible violation of the Constitution's emolument clause. What about the Chinese influence on Trmp? I haven’t seen that mentioned nearly as often as the Russian trail. Wendy Dng, Rupert Mrdch’s former wife, and Ivanka Trmp are old friends. Wendy Dng has been linked to Vladimir Putin, somewhat romantically, if you can imagine such people ever to be romantic. What if there’s a Chinese/Russian/American/global kleptocrat conspiracy? I mean, besides all the other financialized economic and social violence the kleptocrats already conspire around. And then there’s the Mob, which David Cay Johnston and Wayne Barrett report has always had a special relationship with the Trmp family. What if the Mob is running the whole thing, up to and including the Russian connection? I don’t know enough to speculate on the Tongs, Triads, and the Chinese government but I do know the Japanese Yakuza firmly line up with the Rightwing in that country and that the Abe government is trying to change the post-WWII Constitution to build an offensive military force. In fact, I consider the American Trmp phenomenon in line with a global rise in nationalist authoritarianism that I first noticed with Órban and Hungary, scapegoating Romany people, and persistently hollowing out democratic institutions wherever possible (hat tip to Paul Krugman who would pass on reports by a Princeton colleague a few years ago). Another example is Duterte in the Philippines who has added his own twist of the garrote and the situation in Brazil with President Temer (“fear” in Spanish but Brazilians speak Portuguese) bears more than a passing resemblance to what’s happening with the Federal government in the USA. And there’s a whole history of possible USA subversion, back and forth, with Turkey and Erdoğan for at least the last decade. I wonder if Sibel Edmonds is working on that. Who knows if any of these speculations approach anything that actually happened? I certainly don’t, as I disavow any and all direct knowledge of these people and events. However, I’ve known two confirmed spies in my life. One was an Italian-American CIA man who did advance work for many of the coups in Latin America from WWII on under the cover of working with the AFL-CIO and the other was a Czech who worked for both the Czechs and the Russians before defecting from his country and was teaching at Boston University when I met him. The distinguishing characteristic for both gentlemen was that they were utterly charming. Since meeting them, I’ve always been suspicious of utterly charming people. Not to say that any of the individuals, bearing no relation to any real persons living or dead, mentioned above are utterly charming or spies. I haven’t met any of those names in the news, to my recollection. This is my political fantasy life. It’s something I do instead of chewing gum. rss@dailykos.com (gmoke) ConspiracyTheory duterte ivana Ivanka kleptocrats rban Temer Trum VladimirPutin _1666832 Sun, 28 May 2017 22:48:43 +0000 Its Either Senator Chao or Secretary McConnell...fighting with words https://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/2/8/1631306/-Its-Either-Senator-Chao-or-Secretary-McConnell-fighting-with-words Remember when Republicans started their little word war by refusing to use “Democratic party”? It was a simple thing but it was effective in giving like minded people a verbal signal of what they stood for. And it bugged the hell out of a lot of Democrats. Time to return the favor. First, let me say I dont have any issue with how people choose to change their names based on marriage or for that matter any other reason. But conservatives have long mocked women who dont adopt their husbands name or like Hillary, reassert their former last name in their identity. In light of this, Elaine Chao and her husband Mitch McConnell seem to be getting a free pass. No more. We need reporters to start asking questions of “Senator Mitch Chao” and “Secretary McConnell.” Eventually one of them will get mad about it and then you have the nice line of attack of “why do you hate traditional marriage so much?” Plus, it opens up the nice speculation on why so many Republicans who are anti immigration seem to be married to immigrants. And if you are REALLY evil, it opens a whole nasty line of questioning into “Senator Chao’s” sexuality. Its worth it just to see the Fox talking heads explode because they WANT to agree but can’t. Next up — Ted Cruz. Cruz was born in Canada and was a Canadian citizen. He renounced his Canadian citizenship only when it became impossible for him to not do so. Cruz is currently knee deep int he fight to dismantle the ACA. Opportunity! “Senator Cruz, compared to the system in your native Canada, how is the ACA worse?” “Senator Cruz, having been born under the Canadian universal health system, how do you think your plan will be better for new mothers?” “Senator Cruz, in inflation adjusted dollars, how much did your mother pay for your birth in Canada compared to the average American today under the ACA?” “Why cant we simply implement the system in your native Canada here?” “As a natural born Canadian, do you think you have a better relationship with Canadians law makers than Donald Trump?” Speaking of the President, time to go after his many ladies. “President Trump, given Melania’s limited command of English, do you think your second wife, Marla Maples, would have been a more effective First Lady? How does Melania compare to Ivana? Sir, I meant as a first lady, not that other thing….” “How will your new Education Secretary help immigrants like your first and third wife learn English so the rest of us don’t have to press 1?” “President Trump, two of your three wives grew up in Communist education systems while your second wife grew up as an American. What can Melania tell Betsy DeVos about Communist education that can help her reform the American Education system she thinks is so broken?” “President Trump, two of your three wives were immigrants. Do you think that gives you an advantage in connecting with the plight of people wanting to come to the United States for a job?” “President Trump, two of your three wives came from countries that were enemies of America during the Cold War. How do you think their experiences growing up hating America shaped their view of the American people?” “In all of your marriages, you have only married one American. Why is that?” (Bonus points for a “buy American” jab here) And just to tie things together, “Like Mitch McConnells wife Elaine Chao, your second wife Marla kept her last name. Did you ever consider going by Donald Maples? Would you have an issue if the Majority Leader became Senator Mitch Chao?” One more — Marco Rubio. Rubio famously pledged to be a private citizen by now but revered his decision because of the Orlando night club shooting. His craven exploitation of other peoples suffering deserves scorn. “Senator, as a Cuban who was deeply impacted by the Orlando night club shooting, how do you think Donald Trump should have banned travelers from Cuba considering the last Americans killed by refugees were Cuban?” “Senator, the Orlando night cub shooting that impacted you so much was carried out by a Native New Yorker. Timothy McVeigh, who murdered 168 Americans was also from New York. Given that no citizens from the 7 Muslim Ban countries have killed any Americans in terrorist attacks while New Yorkers are responsible for two of the largest terror attacks, would you be in favor of a travel ban on New Yorkers?” I love Democrats but at times I dont like them. Why? Because they are too nice. Respecting Elaine Chao’s choice to keep her name is wonderful but when in comes from people who dont even respect the privacy of other peoples marriages, they deserve all the verbal pain we can heap on them. And for someone like Rubio to exploit the suffering of people for his political goals is disgusting, Hit them hard and make them uncomfortable. Sick the crazies they created on them. Make Cruz have to explain to someone in rual West Virginia that he is a “real” American. Make McConnell explain to a bible clutching Iowan that his wife is different. Make Rubio yell “Im not Cuban!” while “explaining” how actual murderers shouldn't face a travel ban. And PLEASE give “Little Marco” the opportunity to ban “Der Orange” from traveling. And I shouldn't have to explain the goodness of reminding people that their “family values” President doesnt value anything but money. Get MEAN people!! rss@dailykos.com (ksuwildkat) AffordableCareAct Canada Chao DeVos Elaine ivana marco Marla mcConnell Melania MitchChao MitchMcConnell Oklahoma Orlando Rubio SenatorChao Ted TedCruz Words _1631306 Wed, 08 Feb 2017 13:44:58 +0000 Trump 25 Years Later. Vanity Fair article 1990. Nothing's Changed https://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/1/3/1616837/-Trump-25-Year-s-Later-Vanity-Fair-article-1990-Nothing-s-Changed I happened to see the lead page in an old old Vanity Fair article, circa 1990 on Trump and his life at the time. It’s incredibly insightful and the insights are still true, if not stronger 25 years later. Who here hasn’t learned and changed a ton since 1990 (I was 20, basically learned all I know). I suspect everyone reading is secure enough in themselves to proudly state they know of many of their weaknesses and have made progress and intend to evolve more. Trump hasn’t changed the slightest bit, at least not with respect to all his priorities and character. He’s never seen any fault in himself and seems to have built a life structured to ensure he never hears from others regarding his faults. **** <a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2015/07/donald-ivana-trump-divorce-prenup-marie-brenner" target="_blank">The article</a> blew me away at 20 years old, reading about a guy 25 years older than me, who sounded like someone who’d be mocked back at my high school as an immature, “stuck-up” (as we called it back then), spoiled brat. I’m only setting out some tidbits from various sections, don’t want to go beyond fair use. I’ll just use a half dozen or so sentences or pieces of paragraphs on various subjects. It’s shocking how it sounds like it could have been written last week. **** CONTEXT In 1990, Trump was deep in debt, while also acquiring even more high-risk property, all with borrowed money. He was in the beginning stages of his divorce with Ivana. Ivana was tougher and smarter than him, but not necessarily a better person. Trump being Trump, he publicly started his affair with Marla Maples while still married to Ivana. I suspect it was mostly because he dearly wanted the world to know he was “banging” such a trophy (as he might put it). He was also teetering on personal bankruptcy — imagine him pondering that. Additionally, Ivana was after 50% of the marital community. Can’t blame her, really. So, just a taste: Donald Jr.’s observations at 12 years old, as his father humiliated his mother by dating someone openly. <blockquote> “How can you say you love us? You don’t love us! You don’t even love yourself. You just love your money,” </blockquote> As much as I loathe Jr. now in 2017, this is heartbreaking. A 12 year old lives an environment so emotionally abusive that he recognizes and confronts this truth? Obviously, something in Don Jr moves him to be so loyal to his father now. Perhaps Jr. simply learned to love money above all else, too. In an honest moment with himself, does he still know this to be true? Trump on why Ivana became favored by the public in her battle for half of the assets <blockquote> “When a man leaves a woman, especially when it was perceived that he has left for a piece of ass—a good one!—there are 50 percent of the population who will love the woman who was left,” </blockquote> Even the woman who is the new “interest” in his life — one can’t say “love” in his life — she’s a piece of meat, the sexualized ass, to be precise. And, as meat goes, if a better piece comes along, one might as well trade it. I’m the father of a 9 year old daughter. This makes me sick. I don’t expect the 14 year old boys she’ll eventually spend time with to have this kind of attitude about girls/women. Donald on the importance of family: (He stated this earlier in his marriage to Ivana) <blockquote> “I want five children, like in my own family, because with five, then I will know that one will be guaranteed to turn out like me,” Donald told a close friend. He was willing to be generous with Ivana, and a story went around that he was giving her a cash bonus of $250,000 for each child. </blockquote> The cash bonus reflected his “love” over and above the $20,000 he paid her annually. Yes, he paid his wife a salary. Guess that made him the boss? Sounds like if he could have picked up a technological human incubator at $200,000 he’d have preferred that “purchase.” Oh, and the fulfillment in having children is the chance to “get one” who is good enough to be like you, not to watch them make their own way in life. My god, I hope that my daughter is not like me in quite a few respects. Donald lies bigly according to his lawyer. <blockquote> Donald is a believer in the big-lie theory,” his lawyer had told me. “If you say something again and again, people will believe you.” </blockquote> Interesting to note that his primary lawyer at the time was Roy Cohn, best known as the lawyer for the most powerful mafia don in NYC in his time; Anthony Solerno, a.k.a “Fat Tony.” Queer choice. Trump wanted to “beat” the NYC society elites. But he doesn’t get one of the world’s elite attorneys, he gets one of the most notorious, criminal. Even mob ties are nothing at all new. Don loves debt; Risk is for the others to bear (I believe this was the debt his father later bailed him out of to stave off personal bankruptcy, though I don’t see it in the article). Don doesn’t mention that his father gave him a lot more than $1 million, he got a windfall from dad so he didn’t lose it all. <blockquote> Trump had millions of dollars signed away in personal guarantees. The personal debt on the Trump Shuttle alone was $135 million. Bear Stearns had been guaranteed $56 million for Trump’s Alexander’s and American Airlines positions. The Taj Mahal casino had a complicated set of provisions which made Trump responsible for $35 million. Trump had personally guaranteed $125 million for the Plaza hotel. In West Palm Beach, Trump Plaza was so empty it was nicknamed “the Trump See-Through.” That building alone carried $14 million worth of personal debt. Trump’s mansions in Greenwich and Palm Beach, as well as the yacht, had been promised to the banks for $40 million in outstanding loans. The Wall Street Journal estimated that Trump’s guarantees could exceed $600 million </blockquote> Trump Will not tolerate being told he’s wrong, even if it’s from an expert trying to help him. <blockquote> Before the opening of the Taj Mahal, Marvin Roffman, a financial analyst from Philadelphia, correctly stated that the Taj was in for a rough ride. For that, Roffman believes, Trump had him fired. “Is that why you attacked him?” I asked Trump. “I’d do it again.” </blockquote> In my mind, this is his scariest characteristic as he enters the White House. He still cannot be told he’s wrong. It’s why Kellyanne Conway lasted until the end of the campaign. She couched her ideas as actually originating with him. Most of the analysts and agents in the intelligence community are decent people who do nothing but work hard to help their country in a complex world. What happens when, for example, a woman who’s studied China for 25 years, worked in and among the Chinese for much of the period, tells Trump that his plan is wrong and maybe dangerous? I think such an opinion would make him more likely to go with it. **** It’s all been there all along; Abuse of women as “things” and not people deserving respect and dignity. Money over family because family is meant to make more money. The easily proven lies thrown out with total confidence that he deserves to do it to further himself. The mob/criminal ties; laws/rules are for other people. The use of debt to others to enrich himself. Little people can take the loss of money. He deserves the advantage of using them. Intolerance of expert/aid if Trump doesn't like what he hears. What happens if one of the many (not all) good-hearted, hard-working agents — say a woman who has studied China and worked with the Chinese for 25 years — tells him that his proposed plan will not work and is dangerous. Trump is probably more likely to do it, while firing the agent. Ensuring that no one wants to give Trump real advice. THE BIG TAKEAWAY Put it all together and it all can be summed up as an inability to deal with the world as it is and thus never evolving his approach. They say that a president “learns” on the job, all of them. Terrifying when applied to the person who’s never served in any office and refuses to learn, knows it all already. <a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2015/07/donald-ivana-trump-divorce-prenup-marie-brenner" target="_blank">The article is worth a read</a> rss@dailykos.com (4CasandChlo) ivana trump trumpcharacter VanityFair _1616837 Wed, 04 Jan 2017 04:54:54 +0000 Trump Might Be a Rapist https://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/10/9/1579916/-Trump-Might-Be-a-Rapist Donald J. Trump is not just a misogynist with a big, dirty mouth. The 2005 clip sounds worse than it reads. What made the video so powerful was that you could hear how sleazy he was, and then see him act the gentleman in front of the camera. Only thing is, in Donald’s case it isn’t just male posing. He has been credibly accused of rape at least twice, and of sexual assault many times. The first rape case was an accusation, in detail, of Trump raping his wife, not long before their divorce: the settlement included a gag order on Ivana, preventing her from speaking out about what he had done to her. She had previously accused him of “forcibly penetrating” her without her consent—and ripping out her hair. A case of sexual assault was filed by a “business associate,” who, with her husband, was negotiating with Trump for a business deal. The assault claim, also was wiped away, when the couple came to an agreement on another suit brought by her husband. What makes both these and other assault stories credible, is not only Trump’s overall attitude and language about women, but a third case, brought in April, 2016, and refiled recently, anonymously, a Federal case. A 13-year old girl, was recruited from Port Authority for parties put on by Jeffrey Epstein, a billionaire, now a registered sex offender: class 3 pedophile—and a great friend of Donald’s at the time. She details four incidents in 1994 involving Trump’s assaults. In the fourth she claims, Trump tied her down, raped her and then threatened her and her family with harm or death if she told anyone. And he threatened that she would “disappear like Maria,” a 12-year old that the girl said had disappeared after the third incident. It’s those threats that make the court more likely to take on the case, even though it’s way past the statute of limitations. The complaint, now a Federal lawsuit, with a lawyer, Thomas Meagher, also includes two corroborating statements, one, unusually, by a witness to the rape! The witness was the party planner for Epstein (and the girl’s procurer) and her testimony could be devastating. Epstein was also accused of raping the girl, and beating her, because, he complained, he should have been the one to take her virginity, not Donald Trump! Abusers always say, after the abuse: “I’m better now. I’ve changed. I’ll be a better man tomorrow.” That’s the gist of what Trump just said in his “apology” for his crude language about women. Trump would be a disaster for many of the reasons that Republicans support him: promising to cut taxes for the wealthy and corporations, rescinding regulations, rejecting attempts at reducing climate change and repealing the health care law. Republicans accepted his wall, massive detention and expulsion of immigrants, his nuclear illiteracy and idiocy, his instability and on and on. And while he is still innocent until proven guilty, I can’t imagine why any woman or any decent human being would ever vote for him—or vote for a third party candidate who can only take enough votes away from his major opponent to snatch a victory for Trump. The major media should wake up, look into this rape case and publicize it all over this nation: if Trump were elected, he could well be convicted of sexual assault and rape of a minor during his elected term. You also have to wonder: whatever happened to “Maria?” Trump could be responsible for her murder as well. We’ll probably never know. <div></div> rss@dailykos.com (douglassmyth) ivana janedoecase Rape SexualAssault trump _1579916 Sun, 09 Oct 2016 19:10:56 +0000 Trump, the mind of a rapist? https://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/10/8/1579593/-Trump-the-mind-of-a-rapist <h3></h3> "And when you're a star they let you do it," Trump continued. "You can do anything. ... Grab them by the p---y. <a href="https://amp.businessinsider.com/reince-priebus-statement-trump-2005-video-women-2016-10">You can do anything</a>." <h3>Not much attention has been given to the ominous rape accusations against Donald Trump. His former wife Ivana claimed to have been brutalized and raped (<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-bloom/why-the-new-child-rape-ca_b_10619944.html">the word was later changed for legal reasons</a>) by Donald Trump. The brutalization alone is reason to keep such a violent man out of the White House. And for the "rape"? These accusations took place in 1992 long before any political motivation.</h3> <h2>In a child rape case against Trump, there is an eye witness to back up the alleged victim's accusations. </h2> <h3>The circumstances around the alleged rape fit the accusation. The recent video adds to the suspicion that he at least had the mentality to lose control or just do it willfully. This accusation started in 1994 also long before any political motivation. </h3> <h3>We cannot try him in court until after the election. Media and voters should put him on trial now. He said he can get away with anything. Let’s find what the truth is before the election. </h3> <h3>Here is an <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-bloom/why-the-new-child-rape-ca_b_10619944.html" title="">in depth analysis</a> in the Huffington Post of the two rape and one near rape accusations.</h3> <h3> For things about Trump we should not forget: <a href="http://Http://spotlightontrump.com" target="_blank" title="">Http://spotlightontrump.com</a></h3> rss@dailykos.com (RonAnthony) ivana Rape trump Video _1579593 Sat, 08 Oct 2016 23:55:32 +0000 Till death do us part? https://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/6/12/1537619/-Till-death-do-us-part I’m wondering how the right-wing, liberal-fearing, fundamentalists—who don’t believe in divorce—work it out in their little minds that trump is honest, straight-forward (for about 5 minutes), and cares about everyone except himself? How are they able to see honesty in a guy who has committed adultery on each and every wife….wives, by the way, who are not Americans? How does that work?? rss@dailykos.com (WatchfulEye) Adultery Beauty cheater Cheating ivana Marla Marriage Melania object trump Wife _1537619 Mon, 13 Jun 2016 01:47:48 +0000 Once again, the Donald plays the media for fools https://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/7/28/1406647/-Once-again-the-Donald-plays-the-media-for-fools <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ivana-trump-rejects-rape-allegations-article-1.2306290">Ivana Trump rejects rape allegations, says she and Donald Trump are ‘the best of friends’</a> <blockquote>"I have recently read some comments attributed to me from nearly 30 years ago at a time of very high tension during my divorce from Donald. The story is totally without merit,” Ivana Trump told CNN, referring to a Daily Beast report published Monday night in which Michael Cohen, a lawyer for the Republican candidate, defended his boss from a decades-old allegation that he once forced himself on his ex-wife. “Donald and I are the best of friends and together have raised three children that we love and are very proud of. I have nothing but fondness for Donald and wish him the best of luck on his campaign,” she said. “Incidentally, I think he would make an incredible President,” Ivana Trump, who divorced her husband in 1992, added. </blockquote> rss@dailykos.com (riottapes) 2016 ivana Media Rape Suckers trump _1406647 Tue, 28 Jul 2015 23:09:20 +0000