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Hillary has a less austere

Sep 5, 2016 1:15PM PDT

looking plane than TheRUMP.

When he went to visit Mexico he didn't take HIS personal 757 with all the markings....He didn't want to risk appearing too ostentatious

austere.....having no comforts or luxuries; harsh or ascetic.

ostentatious......characterized by vulgar or pretentious display; designed to impress or attract notice.

Hillary has news people on her plane...TheRUMP does the same...even if it's only to see how the other half live?

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I'll correct myself
Sep 5, 2016 1:27PM PDT

Hillary has a "more austere" plane

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Less 'ostentatious'?
Sep 5, 2016 1:38PM PDT

His has name on it....hers has her campaign logo on it with her "H" on the tail

As for 'austere'.......who cares? Trump paid for all of what's inside and not many in his campaign ride in it anyhow. hilLIARy ONLY let her closest, most reliable liars on her smaller plane and since it's chartered and not owned by her, she hasn't got much to show off and travels for comfort and being able to hide only. The new one is being paid for by donors and the DNC so I'm sure they have a lot of say so over what's installed on it.......BUT she does have a list of requirements, including the fact that she wouldn't travel on anything smaller than a 350 according to news reports that have been around for years, even back to when she was a NY Senator. She's 'spent' many, many millions over those years and as long as it's coming out of somebody else's pocket or can be charge back to her foundation, she gets what she wants.

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Speaking of "foundations"
Sep 5, 2016 7:31PM PDT
Trump pays IRS a penalty for his foundation violating rules with gift to aid Florida attorney general

Donald Trump paid the IRS a $2,500 penalty this year, an official at Trump's company said, after it was revealed that Trump's charitable foundation had violated tax laws by giving a political contribution to a campaign group connected to Florida's attorney general.


The improper donation, a $25,000 gift from the Donald J. Trump Foundation, was made in 2013. At the time, Attorney General Pam Bondi was considering whether to investigate fraud allegations against Trump University. She decided not to pursue the case.

In this case, Trump staffers said that a series of unusual — and unrelated — errors by people working for Trump had led to both the improper donation and to the omission of that donation from the foundation's tax filings.


TheRUMP hired a bunch of klutzes?

BUT she does have a list of requirements, including the fact that she wouldn't travel on anything smaller than a 350 according to news reports that have been around for years

So YEARS AGO Hillary didn't want anything smaller than a 350(whatever that is) Do they even make a "350" now a days? I had a 650 in 1967...a 650 BSA motorcycle.

The new one is being paid for by donors and the DNC

And YOU think TheRUMP isn't charging RNC and taking money from "donations" to pay for the "rental" of his personal jet?

Donald Trump’s Campaign Has Spent Over $6 Million at Trump Companies
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Article dated June 21, 2016
Sep 6, 2016 12:29PM PDT

BEFORE he was the nominee........all campaign funding was coming from him personally not the RNC, JP...........

He's still spending a lot of his own money for his campaign and doing nothing illegal, but the RNC isn't paying for his plane expenses. You can't say the same for hilLIARy and her extravagant demands, which have been going on since her Arkansas days and continues to this day.

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RE: He's still spending a lot of his own money
Sep 6, 2016 1:54PM PDT
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At about $25 per book average retail
Sep 6, 2016 3:18PM PDT

that comes to 2200 books total .... peanuts to him, and since he also contributes to his own campaign, giving away the books in a 'swag' bag won't amount to much in the way of spending, JP......... as long as he doesn't take the royalties, he's not done anything illegal as far as anybody can tell.

What fish are you talking about? When you have some real ammunition in that gun, let me know...... btw, did you know that using a gun to 'fish' with is illegal in many states?

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RE:peanuts to him,
Sep 6, 2016 7:11PM PDT

You feed an elephant enough "peanuts' and they can stay alive. Drip, drip, drip....after while the swimming pool is full....How did you make your fortune?...One Dollar at a time.

5 Ways Donald Trump Is Making Money Off His Own Campaign

A number of Trump’s businesses have been recipients of campaign expenditures from the GOP nominee, which has the look of Trump essentially putting donors money into his own pockets.

Like a lot of people who run for president, Trump released a book where he detailed why he was running and what his plans were. Trump, according to the Daily Beast, spent more than $55,000 at Barnes and Noble buying copies of the book, which not only funnels money to the candidate but also pumps up the books sales totals.

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But if he's spending his own money
Sep 7, 2016 5:51AM PDT

he's doing nothing illegal. hilLIARy put more than $5M into her own campaign (funneled from the foundation) during the 2008 campaign that she lost to BO and the deal made with BO was that not only would she drop out, support him, take the job as SoS with the promise that she wouldn't run again in 2012 against him, BO would support her run in 2016, but BO's campaign would pay her back the $5M and pay off her entire DNC debt.

I still don't know what your point is.......

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RE:But if he's spending his own money
Sep 7, 2016 6:22AM PDT

HIS own money?

Instead of "spreading the money"(the money he's collected/donations from the po' folk) to other people/businesses...he's spending it in businesses that HE has a financial interest in.

He's probably figured out a way to write it off as "campaign expenses" and the businesses have figured out a way to NOT claim it as income.

ONE of HIS claims to fame is...He knows how to work the system.

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HIS money that HE donated to HIS campaign
Sep 7, 2016 6:32AM PDT

and used to buy books that are put into typical 'swag' bags. EVERY campaign hands out 'goodies' that DONATIONS are used for with NO differential regarding the monies donated. It's all put into one fund and spent. HOWEVER....those bags were given out during the Republican Convention, so it was ALL his own money being spent at that time....he wasn't getting ANY RNC funding until AFTER the convention was over (by law, btw), so HE can spend HIS own money ANY way he wants to at that point.

I still don't see YOUR point.........make one or give up.

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RE:did you know that using a gun to 'fish' with is illegal
Sep 6, 2016 8:24PM PDT
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If you eat the fish you kill in that barrel, yes
Sep 7, 2016 5:52AM PDT

If you don't then you are killing just for the sport of killing something. Which is your agenda?

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RE: If you eat the fish you kill in that barrel, yes
Sep 7, 2016 6:34AM PDT

"fishing"....Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish.

No mention of having to "eat the fish"....I know some people that "catch and release" any/all fish they catch.

When they say they are going "fishing"...they're lying?

I've tasted Tuna...but they are too big to put in any barrel I have access to.

How large a barrel would I need for a TONI?