Donald Trump: The Art of Losing the Deal

New Yorker | January 29, 2016 | Ryan Lizza

[huldah1776]

seems the “why” are negative comments given off record just might be answered in the source article “hit piece” of the thread. Imagine him with the FBI, IRS, NSA, and DOinJ at his fingertips. Think the only ones upset about this is the guys who are now doing the threats. I think I’ll do a little more research.

[huldah1776]

Doing a little open minded research...

http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2015/07/donald-trump-rape-allegations

This thread is dead, right? wouldn’t want to upset anyone.

“In 1990, the couple finalized their divorce, under the condition that Ivana not talk about their marriage without Donald’s permission.”

I think the man is a complete control freak?

[windsorknot]

Imagine him with the FBI, IRS, NSA, and DOinJ at his fingertips

It's one thing to attack his detractors with a Twitter account. This would be a whole new ball game.

[huldah1776]

And we thought Jarrett was bad.

[MarchonDC09122009]

Agreed.
Cruz’s campaign committed a disgusting Big Brother invasion of privacy against voters.
What the hell were they thinking?
I’ve got to believe he knew about it and approved it.
For a well educated man who’s resume makes him look like he’s the smartest guy in the room, this stunt shows terrible judgement.

[JohnBovenmyer]

Anyone want to bet Obama couldn’t get those divorce records released if he though it would help. He’s done it before.

[JimRed]

An why is Trump so afraid dismissive of Megyn Kelly?

[huldah1776]

deposition maybe if it helped a communist.

[CodeToad]

“Only at a distance, up close, the knife wins.”

You must be lousy with guns.

[CodeToad]

“I have found no substantive arguments,”

Then you reading comprehension sucks because plenty of Trump substance has been posted. You might choose to ignore it because you don’t want to hear it, but sticking your fingers in your ears and screaming doesn’t change the facts.

[CodeToad]

All Trump has to do is stand aside and let Cruz continue to implode.

Ted Cruz, by sending these "Voting Violation" mailers, in my opinion, violated the following federal election laws. Many States have similar laws.

The following is an image of a mailer Senator Ted Cruz sent out intimidating and threatening voters. It contains voter information and the information of the voter's neighbors.

It threatens "follow up notices" with no doubt information about if the voter voted in the caucus.

It attempts to intimidate voters by threatening public disclosure to neighbors of a person's voting record.

One must ask what does Senator Ted Cruz expect the person receiving this notice should do to their neighbors for not voting as Senator Ted Cruz demands, and what might happen to the voter if the neighbors are informed they have not voted as Senator Ted Cruz expects?

These are direct threats and intimidations in violation of federal election, civil rights, and postal laws.

The following PDF document link outlines the federal election laws and the government's position on such matters for the purposes of prosecution.

Federal Prosecution of Election Offenses Seventh Edition, May 2007

The following sections are from the above document. I've condensed and paraphrased the document to the important words.

42 U.S. Code § 1973gg-10 - Criminal penalties (violation of election law)
A person in any election for Federal office knowingly and willfully intimidates, threatens, or coerces, or attempts to intimidate, threaten, or coerce, any person for registering to vote, or voting, or attempting to register or vote; urging or aiding any person to register to vote, to vote, or to attempt to register or vote; shall be fined or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.

18 U.S. Code § 594 - Intimidation of voters
Whoever intimidates, threatens, coerces, or attempts to intimidate, threaten, or coerce, any other person for the purpose of interfering with the right of such other person to vote or to vote as he may choose, or of causing such other person to vote for, or not to vote for, any candidate for the office of President or Vice President shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

[txnativegop]

Nope.

[Cannoneer]

Oh, I read the posts. Wonderful stuff. But he personally does a poor job defending them. He chooses not to make the case to defend his positions and convince me that he will actually walk the talk. Just listen to him. Wasting his time disparaging his detractors instead of making his case makes me wonder. It seems to me to be more important for him to be the victor by annihilation. I may be proven wrong but I am not feeling it.