This is Your Republican Nominee for President of the United States ...

And here is the equally ridiculous Dem nominee

That outta shore up the latino vote!

That cover of TIME is a fake, photoshopped April Fool's Day prank.

ZVUGKTUBM wrote:Trump's office looks a little cluttered and disorganized.

I could handle the taco bowl, but without the dollop of sour cream. I have never understood how sour cream goes with Mexican food. It is a Tex-Mex thing that started in the early 1980s down in Texas.

What makes you think it started in the '80's? It was common in the '50's.

From Elizabeth Warren's FB page:

"Donald Trump is now the leader of the Republican Party. It's real – he is one step away from the White House. Here's what else is real:

Trump has built his campaign on racism, sexism, and xenophobia. There's more enthusiasm for him among leaders of the KKK than leaders of the political party he now controls.

He incites supporters to violence, praises Putin, and, according to a columnist who recently interviewed him, is "cool with being called an authoritarian" and doesn't mind associations with history's worst dictators.

He attacks veterans like John McCain who were captured and puts our servicemembers at risk by cheerleading illegal torture. In a world with ISIS militants and leaders like North Korean strongman Kim Jong-Un conducting nuclear tests, he surrounds himself with a foreign policy team that has been called a "collection of charlatans," and puts out contradictory and nonsensical national security ideas one expert recently called "incoherent" and "truly bizarre."

What happens next will test the character for all of us – Republican, Democrat, and Independent. It will determine whether we move forward as one nation or splinter at the hands of one man's narcissism and divisiveness. I know which side I'm on, and I’m going to fight my heart out to make sure Donald Trump’s toxic stew of hatred and insecurity never reaches the White House."

Not to mention his new head of campaign worked for the Russians in Ukraine and has close ties to Putin. To think  he may sit in a security briefing.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/manafort-russia?utm_term=.etPE9ErWk#.tnaJAJxWl

Trump University is being sued.

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/36740-president-elect-or-not-trump-is-going-to-trial-this-year-in-trump-university-fraud-case

A federal judge in San Diego set the stage on Friday for what could be one of the strangest presidential transitions in history: He ordered that Donald Trump must go to trial starting Nov. 28 in a civil case in which he is accused of defrauding students who attended Trump University.

“No doubt this will be a challenge … we’re in unchartered waters,” said Daniel Petrocelli, Trump’s lead lawyer in the case, when asked later how his client — if elected in November — would be able to balance preparing to take over the presidency with taking the witness stand in a trial that could run almost until the eve of the following January’s inauguration.

But Petrocelli said Trump was fully prepared to testify and would even attend “most, if not all” of the trial in order to vindicate himself. “His preference would be to be here for the entirety of the trial,” Petrocelli said. “He believes this case is unwarranted and he wants to defend himself fully.”

The ruling today by U.S. Judge Gonzalo Curiel, during a pretrial conference on the six-year-old lawsuit, actually represented a small victory for Trump. The lawyers for the plaintiffs, arguing that “justice delayed is justice denied,” had asked for a trial to start as early as this summer — immediately after the Republican convention in Cleveland. “There are people who are still paying off their debts for the money they paid to Trump University,” said Jason Forge, a lead lawyer for the plaintiffs suing Trump.

Petrocelli, for his part, pushed back, contending that a trial over Trump University would end up becoming a media spectacle that would amount to an “unwarranted intrusion” on the November elections. He had asked that Curiel put the whole matter off until next February, after the inauguration, arguing that Trump, if elected, would be working “around the clock” during the transition to form a Cabinet. He acknowledged to Curiel that he was “fully aware” that a President Trump would not be able to postpone the case indefinitely, consistent with the Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling that President Bill Clinton was not immune to a civil suit by Paula Jones, alleging sexual harassment.

Curiel decided to split the difference: In an effort to “accommodate” Trump’s political campaign, he agreed to put the trial off until after the election — but scheduled it right afterward, rather than “waiting for [a] President Trump to begin his first term,” thereby “placing him a situation where, as a sitting president, he is taking up time as leader of the free world” to sit through trial. (Anticipating difficulty in finding unbiased jurors, the judge said he may want to start jury selection even earlier than Nov. 28.)

But Trump may still find his legal troubles impinging on his campaign; he is facing a separate trial in New York state courts in a civil fraud suit, also stemming from the ill-fated Trump University, brought by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. (No trial date has been set on that case yet, but a spokesman for Schneiderman told Yahoo News that his office believes it could begin as early as this fall.)

The hearing today is the latest development in a case that has already erupted as a campaign issue and has threatened to shine a spotlight on Trump’s business practices — including his penchant for making hyperbolic claims to consumers — at the very moment he is trying to persuade voters he can deliver on his campaign pledges to end illegal immigration, destroy the Islamic State and balance the federal budget without touching entitlements like Social Security and Medicare.

The core case revolves around the operations of a school Trump launched in 2005 with a promotional YouTube video and ads that proclaimed, “I can turn anyone into a successful real estate investor, including you,” “Are you My Next Apprentice?” and “Learn from my handpicked experts how you can profit from the largest real estate liquidation in history.”

In fact, Trump University was never an accredited educational institution, and he was later forced by state attorneys general to change its name to the “Trump Entrepreneurial Initiative.” The plaintiffs, former students at Trump University, allege that Trump used “misleading, fraudulent and predatory practices,” conning them into maxing out their credit cards and in some cases paying more than $35,000 in fees for seminars and “mentoring” by Trump’s “handpicked” real estate experts. The lawsuit against the school, which is no longer in business, alleges that the seminars were little more than an “infomercial” and that the Trump mentors offered “no practical advice” and “mostly disappeared.”

One key issue in the case has been Trump’s boasts that the “courses” and “mentoring” would be conducted by the “best of the best” — real estate experts he personally chose. During a deposition last December, Forge hammered away at Trump on the issue, showing the businessman a photo lineup and playing videos of some of the instructors and asking him if he could identify any of them. Trump could not, at first saying it was “too many years” ago for him to recognize them and then finally admitting he didn’t actually know any of them. “I looked at résumés and things, but I didn’t pick the speakers,” Trump said at one point.

Trump’s lawyers have adamantly denied the charges and insisted that most students who took the courses were satisfied. On the campaign trial, Trump has vowed to never settle the case, claiming it was brought by a “sleazebag law firm” — a reference to Forge’s firm, Robbins Geller — and confidently predicted, “I will win the case at the end.” He has even criticized Judge Curiel, claiming he was biased against him because of his Hispanic origin. “If I didn’t have a hostile judge in California, this case would have ended years ago,” he said during a campaign rally in Arkansas last Feb. 26. (Trump had even suggested he might move for Curiel’s recusal, based on his Hispanic origin, but Petrocelli told reporters today he had no plans to file such a motion.)

The case has already eaten up Trump’s time on the campaign trail, forcing him to sit for two contentious last December and January in which he was grilled by Forge, prompting him to complaint at one point about “harassment” by the lawyer and to shoot back at another point, “Let’s just go to court and get this case — I’m dying to go to court in this case.”

It looks like he might be getting his wish.

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No lawsuit in Florida...Bondi received $25,000 campaign donation from Trump:

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/opinion/os-pam-bondi-donald-trump-scott-maxwell-20160402-column.html

"Imagine you were mugged.

You think you know who did it. So you tell your local prosecutor.

But then something weird happens.

Three days after the prosecutor vows to get to the bottom of things, the accused mugger gives that prosecutor $25,000 in campaign donations.

Suddenly, the prosecutor has no interest in your case.

If such a thing happened, there would be universal outrage.

Well, you should be furious. Because that's pretty much happened with your attorney general.

Three years ago, Pam Bondi's office was looking into claims from Floridians who claimed the Trump Institute — a Florida affiliate of Donald Trump's now-infamous-and-shuttered "Trump University" — had scammed them out of thousands of dollars.

Similar complaints in New York prompted its attorney general, Eric Schneiderman, to file a lawsuit, calling Trump's get-rich seminars a "bait and switch scheme."

Yet in Florida, there was no action. So the Orlando Sentinel made an inquiry, and Bondi's office vowed to look into the matter in a story that ran on Sept. 14, 2013.

Three days later, Trump's charitable foundation cut a check to a committee supporting Bondi's re-election campaign — for $25,000.

Trump's campaign now says Bondi asked for the donation.

It all stinks worse than week-old fish guts..."

If I were ya'll I wouldn't be obsessing on Trump himself. I'd be more worried about all those millions of Americans who are still supporting him and voting for him in polls and elections. Especially after it's now so obvious who and what he is.

Bob wrote:If I were ya'll I wouldn't be obsessing on Trump himself.  I'd be more worried about all those millions of Americans who are still supporting him and voting for him in polls and elections.  Especially after it's now so obvious who and what he is.  

Not at all worried.

Hillary will mop the floor with the ignoramus.

All she has to do is carry Florida (where the latest polls have her ahead by 15), and it ... is ... over.

And, she'll do better than that.

Trump is a gift that will deliver the Senate, and miraculously maybe even the House.

You are witnessing the implosion of movement conservatism in America, and I feel fine.

Salinsky wrote:

Bob wrote:If I were ya'll I wouldn't be obsessing on Trump himself.  I'd be more worried about all those millions of Americans who are still supporting him and voting for him in polls and elections.  Especially after it's now so obvious who and what he is.  

Not at all worried.

Hillary will mop the floor with the ignoramus.

All she has to do is carry Florida (where the latest polls have her ahead by 15), and it ... is ... over.

And, she'll do better than that.

Trump is a gift that will deliver the Senate, and miraculously maybe even the House.

You are witnessing the implosion of movement conservatism in America, and I feel fine.

A movement of conservatism - led by the Christian right - that needs to implode. We also need to see a few other things implode and for a balance to come to the way America is seen in world view. It's not so small as to say American needs to be great again. The human race needs to be great again. Hillary will beat Trump. 10 years ago I would have balked at that but even at that time I would never have voted for Trump. He's a fake. Hillary has always made her desire to lead this nation known. She has led in other capacities and now will be President. That she is a woman is just icing on the cake. The good ol' boys could not bring her down. They will still make every gnat a T-Rex. It's what they do when the girls are in charge.

Floridatexan wrote:
That cover of TIME is a fake, photoshopped April Fool's Day prank.

REALLY??? Wow! Where did you park your car Dick Tracy? Or should I say "Captain Obvious"?

Sal's great great grandaddy in 1860...  

"Not at all worried.
Lincoln will mop the floor with the ignoramus.
You are witnessing the implosion of a movement and I feel fine".

I guess you're right.  Once your hero is elected,  your opposition will disappear into the woodwork never to be heard from again just like in 1860.  lol

gatorfan wrote:

Floridatexan wrote:
That cover of TIME is a fake, photoshopped April Fool's Day prank.

REALLY??? Wow! Where did you park your car Dick Tracy? Or should I say "Captain Obvious"?

What he said. lol

gatorfan wrote:

Floridatexan wrote:
That cover of TIME is a fake, photoshopped April Fool's Day prank.

REALLY??? Wow! Where did you park your car Dick Tracy? Or should I say "Captain Obvious"?

Maybe you can come up with a better response next time, instead of some fake crap.

Floridatexan wrote:

gatorfan wrote:

Floridatexan wrote:
That cover of TIME is a fake, photoshopped April Fool's Day prank.

REALLY??? Wow! Where did you park your car Dick Tracy? Or should I say "Captain Obvious"?

Maybe you can come up with a better response next time, instead of some fake crap.

Uh Huh.

"She said when she arrived in Bosnia on March 25, 1996, "I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base."

But news video footage of her arrival at Tuzla shows Clinton, then the first lady, calmly walking from the rear ramp of a U.S. Air Force plane with her daughter, Chelsea, then 16, at her side. Both Clintons held their heads up and did not appear rushed.

The video shows Clinton spending several minutes talking with the group, including an 8-year-old Bosnian girl who presented her with a poem, and later greeting U.S. troops."

Real enough?

Amazing......

gatorfan wrote:

Floridatexan wrote:

gatorfan wrote:

Floridatexan wrote:
That cover of TIME is a fake, photoshopped April Fool's Day prank.

REALLY??? Wow! Where did you park your car Dick Tracy? Or should I say "Captain Obvious"?

Maybe you can come up with a better response next time, instead of some fake crap.

Uh Huh.

"She said when she arrived in Bosnia on March 25, 1996, "I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base."

But news video footage of her arrival at Tuzla shows Clinton, then the first lady, calmly walking from the rear ramp of a U.S. Air Force plane with her daughter, Chelsea, then 16, at her side. Both Clintons held their heads up and did not appear rushed.

The video shows Clinton spending several minutes talking with the group, including an 8-year-old Bosnian girl who presented her with a poem, and later greeting U.S. troops."

Real enough?

Amazing......

That whole Bosnian "misremember" or "misspeak" (can't recall which was her excuse) is one of the real problems I have with Clinton, even though I still think she's the best choice we have at present. Helluva note.

polecat wrote:

How'd you get hold of that? Someone have age advancing software? Pretty amazing.

Wordslinger wrote:These people remind me of the old cliche:  "In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king."

Sad but true in this case.

yes.....Hillary was at risk......she just does what she does.....slant something to create her own reality, but the best part she understands where Bosnia is and the issues which faced the country.....in a debate Trump would know none of the same and understand the issues and if the moderator tried to get him to expose his knowledge of the same....he would run.....deflect.....and then attack the moderator.......therein lies the choice for the American people.....a person who understands and has spent a lifetime of unbridled ambition, and a moron.....the choice is clear. We need intelligent and informed leaders......we do not need the antithesis to American informed leadership.

The one thing I don't want to hear about now is that stupid bothsideserism and fence sitting. Either you get fully behind Tramp or get fully behind Clanton. If you can't do that then you're a racist who listens to elevator music.