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Did Trump write a sequel to "the Art of the Deal"?

Feb 24, 2016 1:07PM PST

The Art of the Shady Deal?

Trump May Have To Take A Break From Campaigning To Handle Fraud Case Against Trump University

GOP frontrunner Donald Trump might have to take a break from the campaign trail to deal with a civil case alleging that Trump University committed fraud against its students. The case may require Donald Trump’s presence as a witness this spring, though a trial date has not yet been scheduled, Yahoo Politics first reported.

If the trial happens in May, it could gum up Trump’s schedule, Yahoo explained — that’s the same month that primaries are held in Nebraska, West Virginia, Oregon, Washington, and there are many important primary dates in early June.

The “university,” which first began operating in 2005 and no longer exists, was not accredited and did not have a campus. It also did not give students degrees. Instead, students went to the website and bought expensive CDs and DVDs; some of them paid as much as $35,000 for their Trump University education.

Trump hasn’t waded into the subject on the campaign trail and has been more vocal on other education subjects such as Common Core state standards, which he opposes, and the U.S. Department of Education, which he intends to cut heavily. The real estate mogul said in his Nevada caucus victory speech on Tuesday that he loves the “poorly educated.” If Trump advocates cutting the Department of Education and discourages oversight of for-profit colleges as president, perhaps there will be more poorly educated voters to love.


The “university,” which first began operating in 2005 and no longer exists,

Another "success" story?

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Rather than start a NEW thread
Feb 26, 2016 7:32AM PST

I'll trash The Donald in this thread... Devil

Tweets by The Donald...

Leightweight chocker Marco Rubio looks like a little boy on stage. Not presidential material!

Lying Ted Cruz and leightweight chocker Marco Rubio teamed up last night in a last ditch effort to stop our great movement. They failed!


Being a "lightweight choker" is not as undesirable as being a "heavyweight choker"...IF Trump was trying to insult Rubio, I don't think he meant it as a compliment.....perhaps Trump thinks Rubio needs more practice to become a "heavyweight choker".

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I'm glad to have missed the show and most of the
Feb 26, 2016 7:56AM PST

media circus afterward. It is the media that will likely determine who will be chosen to run. I see Trump as possibly being the boisterous gladiator that the emperor and empress could have killed at any time but want to reserve until the last battle and be defeated there. He's being played right now because he provides good entertainment but he'll be stripped to his loin cloth if he makes it to the championship finals.

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Not the first time The Donald used this Modus operandi
Feb 26, 2016 12:18PM PST
'I love the poorly educated': How Donald Trump learned from WWE to break the fourth wall

It should therefore surprise no one to learn that Trump, who has never met a piece of kitsch he didn't like, was once upon a time a part-time star in professional wrestling. This doesn't mean that Trump rolled around in a pair of tights. Instead, he played the role of alpha-male executive (sound familiar?), offering his support to the company's leading heroic wrestlers in their scripted struggles against the villainous Vince McMahon, who, both on-screen and in real life, is the majority owner and chairman of the board of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE).

So successful was Trump in this role that he is actually a member of WWE's Hall of Fame.


I waiting for a Cage Match or maybe even a Ladder Match to determine the Republican candidate.
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Maybe you missed what I was trying to say
Feb 26, 2016 1:21PM PST

I see Hillary as being the person most media outlets are rooting for. While polls are all over the place and ever changing, Trump has often been cited as the only Republican she's almost certain to beat.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/2016_presidential_race.html

Those media outlets would want to hold back until the match they desired came to reality. I'm saying they'll unload their nukes on Trump when and if that happens.

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Looks like The Donald does pay attention to some things
Feb 27, 2016 7:23AM PST

Someone hit a sore spot...I wonder if someone will be FIRED over the misspelled tweet.

The misspelled words "lEightweight & choCker" are no longer on his tweet page.

You can "edit" posts made in the twitterverse?

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Not his fault. He's just another victim
Feb 27, 2016 9:46AM PST

of our failed educational system. Blame Ike and his 77 billion dollar budget.

Actually, lots of interesting stuff in this edition of the Tribune.

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Chicago has a newspaper?
Feb 27, 2016 10:51AM PST

I didn't know anyone was left there who could read, other than digger and his dad.

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RE:Not his fault.
Feb 27, 2016 11:34AM PST

Just ask him?

He can't even write his own tweets?

I hate to think of what else he can't do for himself.

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RE:You can "edit" posts made in the twitterverse?
Feb 27, 2016 7:38PM PST
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chocker, chocker, get it right!
Feb 27, 2016 10:49AM PST
Cool
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RE: Rather than start a NEW thread
Feb 28, 2016 12:38PM PST

Michael Hayden: Former CIA Director Says Some of Donald Trump's Campaign Promises Are Unlawful
Hayden said on "Real Time with Bill Maher" the military would "refuse to act" on commands such as torturing terrorists if Trump ordered them to as president, as they violate laws of conflict.

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Trump on Sunday retweeted an account that attributed Mussolini's quote, "It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep," to the GOP candidate. Gawker said they created the account.

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(NT) David Duke who?
Feb 29, 2016 4:14AM PST
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Expect stupid stunts
Feb 29, 2016 5:45AM PST

by fake supporters whose design is the opposite of what is projected.

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LOL, have Hitler Youth 4th Reich endorse Hillary
Mar 1, 2016 7:47AM PST

and the Communist Youth League and Red Pioneers endorse Bernie Sanders.

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RE: David Duke who?
Mar 1, 2016 3:23AM PST

A bad hairpiece AND a bad earpiece?

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he was on that TV show
Mar 1, 2016 7:48AM PST

Dukes of Hazard.

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Our MSM thinks too much of itself
Mar 1, 2016 9:34AM PST

It seems to think that their reporting is all one needs to know in order to accept or condemn a person. I don't know David Duke either. I've heard the name and with whom the name has been associated but that doesn't mean I know him. If he and I were the only two people in an elevator, I suspect neither of us would know who with whom we were riding.

I do think Trump's answers about Duke and the KKK sounded awkward but they also added something important to such conversations. The reporters who bring up such subjects do so for a reason and that reason is often to set traps. They love it when they can make a person squirm and they hate it when they cannot be in full control of an interview or elicit the responses they were hoping for.

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Duke
Mar 1, 2016 11:23AM PST

has been living exclusively in Sweden or Switzerland for the last three or four years and isn't even registered to vote by absentee ballot here in the States.....why he was brought into the equation is beyond me.

And unless you are old enough to actually KNOW about the KKK and Duke being its Supreme Wizard or whatever from years ago and his stupid attempts at a political career, he's a virtual nobody. People in my kids' age brackets (30's and 40's) know some vague things about the KKK but Duke's name would never ring a bell with them. They all had to look both up on the internet.....but at least they were willing to research; most won't and will just take the word of whoever is saying whatever and that's how we end up with people like HC and Sanders..

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RE: People in my kids' age bracket
Mar 1, 2016 12:04PM PST
People in my kids' age bracket Duke's name would never ring a bell with them.

And The Donald is in that age bracket?

You have kids almost 70 years old?

he's a virtual nobody. most won't and will just take the word of whoever is saying whatever and that's how we end up with people like HC and Sanders..

AND Trump?...the guy that is NOT your kids' age and SHOULD/DID know who Duke and the KKK are.

He thought he could deny any knowledge and the reporter would not press him any more than one question on the subject.

That didn't work.
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Maybe this will work. Meet the "monster", LOL.
Mar 1, 2016 1:38PM PST

I hope he's not too mild mannered for your supposed image of him. Oh, he served in the House in Congress for Louisianna in past too. There's other links to videos of or with him in the right column.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XUvSzaxMic

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Take a hard read of Duke's Wikipedia page LOL
Mar 1, 2016 1:51PM PST

Monster doesn't even begin to describe this nutcase.

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far as I know
Mar 1, 2016 2:59PM PST

He's been more the victim of violence than perpetrator thereof. I don't think he's ever been involved in violence, but notice he was arrested in New Orleans for "inciting a riot" for standing in front of Robert E Lee statue with a confederate flag, which make me wonder what they charged the blacks with who threw bricks at him and others, injuring them. So much for "free speech" in NOLA.

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Trump already had
Mar 1, 2016 1:50PM PST

disavowed the KKK a number of times in the past......the fact that Duke wasn't a New York person (he stayed mainly in the South in LA) would reflect that Trump wouldn't have immediately recognized the name and associated him with the KKK. I'm talking about Rubio and Cruz and HC and Sanders supporters, people under 50 would NOT recognize the name and have to look him up, if they even bother to since they are usually too lazy to keep themselves informed and take a person's word for the 'outrage' and take it on themselves by osmosis.

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RE:the fact that Duke wasn't a New York person
Mar 1, 2016 7:41PM PST
the fact that Duke wasn't a New York person (he stayed mainly in the South in LA) would reflect that Trump wouldn't have immediately recognized the name and associated him with the KKK.

South LA?...He be rollin' with the Bloods and the Crips then?

You will now explain how a person that lives in Canada knows more about David Duke and the KKK, than Donald Jesse Trump.

I hear "David Duke"...I think KKK.....they are synonymous (closely associated with or suggestive of something.)
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"You will now explain".....
Mar 2, 2016 2:42AM PST

No, I won't.......I'm not a dog and you're not my master, nor am I a child and you're not my parent. Pretty demanding from someone who is obsessed with the US....why haven't you moved here since you fancy yourself so well informed and an expert on us? Is your obsession with us why you fancy yourself as an expert regarding our history, including its people now and not just policy? I can't think of even one Canadian that I would recognize by name from your history.....unless you want to count RECENT history because then I would have to think of the junkie joker who danced in your government halls (and I would only recognize his name if it was in print or spoken because I honestly can't think of it right now and have no interest in looking it up......because Canada doesn't mean that much to me to keep it in mind like you do with the US.) You're kind of like a stalker now that I consider your obsession...........

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RE: why haven't you moved here
Mar 2, 2016 4:32AM PST
why haven't you moved here since you fancy yourself so well informed and an expert on us?

No thank you.

Americans have to be "well informed" to realize there are groups of individuals that endorse the KKK?

RE: I can't think of even one Canadian that I would recognize by name from your history.

AND you think THAT shocks me?

RE: junkie joker who danced in your government halls

Now that you mention it....Is it possible The Donald has taken a page from Trudeau's playbook? Of course Trudeau waited until he was elected before he pulled that stunt off....The Donald isn't waiting.

RE: the initials used to designate States via the postal service.....LA equals Louisiana

"Between 1970 and 1990 the South LA area went from 80% black and 9% Latino to 50.3% black and 44% Latino."[13] This massive and rapid residential demographic change occurred as resources in the area were shrinking due to global economic restructuring described above and due to the federal government's decrease in funding of urban anti-poverty and jobs programs, and other vital social services like healthcare. The socio-economic context described here increased the perception and the reality of competition amongst Asians, blacks, and Latinos in South LA. The results from the 2000 census which show continuing demographic change coupled with recent economic trends indicating a deterioration of conditions in South LA suggest that such competition will not soon ease."
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YOU are the only one
Mar 2, 2016 8:03AM PST

saying SOUTH LA.......what I said is "he stayed mainly in the South in LA"

And, yes, Americans have to be well-informed to associate actual members of groups like the KKK, and they aren't. They mostly only know of the group itself. How many do you think can name members of Black Lives Matter or the Black Panthers (new and old) or OWS? Those are NEW groups recently in the news and not from 50 years ago.

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RE:And, yes, Americans have to be well-informed
Mar 2, 2016 11:14AM PST
And, yes, Americans have to be well-informed to associate actual members of groups like the KKK, and they aren't.

Trumps base?

Then a "foreigner"' would have to very well informed/intelligent to know that? Thank you very much.

YOU are the only one saying SOUTH LA

AND you're the only one that felt it was necessary to tell people it was in the South. I know/knew where Louisiana is.

Was Duke in the South of the United States in Louisiana, OR in the South of LA?
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IF you would look at his biography
Mar 2, 2016 1:35PM PST

you would also know that he spent most of his life in the South, and not JUST in LA.....so I guess you aren't as well informed as a foreigner as you think you are.

Have a nice day....your babble has returned full force.