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To: Pinkbell

Three points for FReepers to help me address:

The Washington Post attacks Trump’s business record has some real estate success and some failures. They make it sound like it’s a split. Does anyone know Trump’s record of success? He currently has 515 businesses I have read.

Second The Washington Post says Trump was supported the Iraq war until after it started. Anyone have an info on that? That is one thing the liberal reporters keep posting about Trump is that about Iraq. I’m sure that will be a debate point of Hillary.

Finally, the Washington Post says that Trump will raise the deficit, and they are using this:

http://fortune.com/2016/03/08/donald-trumps-tax-plan-primary/

Finance is not my thing at all, so if any Freepers could address that one, it would be great.

As you can see, I addressed most of the claims in the article. I could use a little help with these. Thanks.


2 posted on 07/23/2016 5:11:05 PM PDT by Pinkbell (Liberal tolerance only extends to people they agree with.)
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To: Pinkbell

Because WAPO is known for it’s truthfullness and integrity


17 posted on 07/23/2016 5:20:29 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Pinkbell

>The Washington Post attacks Trump’s business record has some real estate success and some failures. They make it sound like it’s a split. Does anyone know Trump’s record of success? He currently has 515 businesses I have read.

His initial capital from his father was 1m. He turned that into 2bil. I’d call that a big successes. The only type of businessmen who never fail are those who get hooked up with the federal government for protection. People will claim that Trump got 300 Mil from his fathers estate, but his father died after Trump was already a billionaire and his net total from the 300mil estate was 30mil(The others kids got the rest).

>Second The Washington Post says Trump was supported the Iraq war until after it started. Anyone have an info on that? That is one thing the liberal reporters keep posting about Trump is that about Iraq. I’m sure that will be a debate point of Hillary.

There’s nothing about Trump against the war in Iraq until about a year in. However, there’s nothing about him in support of the war either. He may have opposed it quietly or the media deleted the tapes of him publicly opposing it to help Hillary. The media works for her after all.

>Finally, the Washington Post says that Trump will raise the deficit, and they are using this:

Trump’s biggest plan for Washington DC is to Axe about 1/4 of the public sector workers who do nothing but are not fired. The cost savings from that alone will pay for most of his programs. If he’s able to disentangle the regulator system that’s killing us then GDP will jump by 8-15% a year for quite a while.


18 posted on 07/23/2016 5:20:43 PM PDT by RedWulf (End Free trade.)
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To: Pinkbell

He’s a threat alright....to the Globalist Establishment. When they hear a popular figure suggest that the US should be run for the benefit of American citizens, they poop their pants.


26 posted on 07/23/2016 5:24:27 PM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: Pinkbell

Good job on this post. It’s obvious you put in a significant amount of time and effort into making it.

As far as I know, Mr. Trump has had 4 bankruptcies out of his business interests, all of which were chapter 11 reorganizations. We all know his detractors will try to claim that he abused the statute to stiff his creditors but these allegations are easy to prove false.

The closest I can come to disproving that he was against Iraq all along was on a Howard Stern show when, IIRC, Howard asked him what could be done with Iraq, after 9-11 but before the invasion. As I recall, he said something like, “well, we have to do something”. Listening to the youtube clip of the interview that I just found, Howard asked if he was in favor of invading Iraq and he replied, “yeah, I guess so, I just wish we had done it correctly the first time”. (start at about 1:30 in for question)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77P6fxa2KOs

As for the deficit, I don’t see how Donald Trump could waste money like our current rulers (yes, I meant to call them that) if he tried so I don’t see how he could do anything but reduce the deficit spending.

Anyway, thanks for submitting such a well thought out and comprehensive post.


38 posted on 07/23/2016 5:40:35 PM PDT by Nacho Bidnith (America is a country founded by geniuses and run by idiots. Trump 2016)
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To: Pinkbell

The Washington Post is a unique threat to American democracy.


39 posted on 07/23/2016 5:40:47 PM PDT by pb929
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To: Pinkbell

47 posted on 07/23/2016 6:06:37 PM PDT by Byron_the_Aussie (Globalism = Terrorism)
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