I've had people say it's a hardening, actually ~ US presidential election 2016 part 9/11 never forget

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-directed-23-million-owed-to-him-to-his-charity-instead/2016/09/26/7a9e9fac-8352-11e6-ac72-a29979381495_story.html

I don't think anyone says or thinks that exactly, but there are uncommitted voters who are gonna be nudged in one direction or another by this week's bad press when they're responding to a poll.

It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Chatter about Clinton's poll numbers leads to voters saying she has declining poll numbers.

lol one of trump's lawyers just had to bill them the .1 hours this $ value represents.

The Trump Foundation has no paid staff. The last time it reported spending any money on legal fees was in 2010, when it spent $53 total for the year.

Trump Foundation for furthering the knowledge of and publication of materials related to Donald Trump

employees: Donald Trump

okay so this is exactly what everyone's been accusing the Clinton Foundation of doing isn't it?

not really

this is just standard tax evasion

No, they claim the Clinton Foundation actually trades money in return for services with crooked foreign governments they shouldn't be dealing with

The Trump Foundation doesn't do anything other than pay for and receive money for Trump himself, iirc

without showing his tax returns though trump can easily spin this into "what, i didn't need the money so i just gave it to charity!"

got it. I thought the big Clinton Foundation thing is that they were making themselves "personally rich" through it. Maybe I read too much Breetbart

apparently Bloomberg News is doing pretty much exactly what I suggested during the debate:

http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2016/09/bloomberg-to-fact-check-debate-on-screen-228670

without showing his tax returns though trump can easily spin this into "what, i didn't need the money so i just gave it to charity!"

― marcos, Monday, September 26, 2016 9:13 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

except his foundation doesnt give anything to charity as fahrenthold has been showing us

wait no I thought the foundation gives, just not any of Trump's own money

it launders money, as Mordy says

lol no

it receives donations

that's it

did we know that bobby knight was apparently involved in trump's debate prep?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/21/trump-foundation-charity-settle-legal-disputes-reporting

I take it back, they gave $100k to Citizens United!

You can look up its disbursements. It does pay to charities.

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/133404773

what? knight taught trump his chair-throwing technique?

xp i thought journalists are unable to account for like 99% of the money by asking charities? where is the evidence that it ends up with a charity?

hillary should have someone wheel her out in a closed coffin, let's just completely WWE this shit out

jmm's link is pretty good, either these groups received money or they committed direct tax fraud w/the IRS

hillary should have someone wheel her out in a closed coffin

I was thinking Snoop at '94 MTV awards

Trump sends some of his income that way, to illegally avoid paying taxes. He then uses the money either for influence peddling - donating to Pam Bondi, who then dropped an investigation into Trump practices - he donates and gets things in return - donated to a police organization, that then spent almost twice the amount on meeting at Mar-a-Lago - or he just uses it on personal shit like paintings of himself and a helmet autographed by Tim Tebow. It's a bit of this, a bit of that.

Also, several times the foundation faked the forms jmm linked to, for instance the Pam Bondi donation was hid as a donation to a different group, that never got any money.

it would kinda be great if trump really did think he had given to all those charities but the reason none of them have records is because his accountants were embezzling funds

I can see at least a half dozen of the 2015 ones where I know he gave money to an organization in Iowa in order to speak to them pre-caucus

Some of them are situations where they were fundraisers for the campaign, and I'm sure he made a show of saying he gave them money.

Given what people have dug up without him releasing his tax returns, I can only imagine what releasing his tax returns would accomplish. Are these conflicts and irregularities things the IRS would have caught on their own, or does it really take an investigative journalist?

he seems to have one accountant on record? the thing that blows my mind with Trump is that he doesn't actually hire people with skills, he just lowballs everything

if he had actual good legal representation and someone to do the paperwork with speaking fees, etc, I think he'd actually come out with a net profit after paying the lawyer

hillary should have someone wheel her out in a closed coffin, let's just completely WWE this shit out

― nomar, Monday, 26 September 2016 21:31 (twenty-six minutes ago) Permalink

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yOK074MPMI

Should go full Alice, or Gwar, and chop off someone's head with a guillotine and spew the first few row with fluids.

You know, I've been listening to these pre-debate accounts of the two Trumps, one crass and insulting, the other more controlled and "Presidential." But none of these reports have pointed out that when Trump was trying to be "presidential" he came off extremely bored, even a little irritable, which doesn't go over as well as his carny mode.

Josh, did you see this? http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/how-donald-trump-lost-his-mojo-w438162

who r we rooting for

'Presidential' Trump comes off like a third grader reading a book report. Which isn't so much a comparison as a fairly accurate description.

I was thinking Snoop at '94 MTV awards

― Οὖτις, Monday, September 26, 2016 5:39 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Or Howard Stern at the 92 awards.

i'm going to watch great british bake off

i hate the discussion of whether trump can "learn to be presidential," like he is miss congeniality or something. dude is not rough around the edges he is human scum

ooof

http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/what-will-white-people-say-about-how-trump-does-in-the-1787095019

that is great

Should we wager on the audience reaction(if any) will be tonight? Are we gunna get any "you lie!" ejaculations from the crowd?

can random schmoes get tickets for this thing or what?

I made a jokey post on FB about how if Actual Zombie Hitler ran for president, at least 30% of America would say, "Hey, wait, let's hear this re-animated Nazi corpse out, it has some solid ideas." My right wing aunt, who I've talked about here before, replied, "We have a Congress in this country, which is suppose to provide checks and balances. Germany did not have that. Hitler rose to dictatorship. Hopefully our system could stop something like that from happening."

People like her should maybe not be permitted to vote. Like, I don't expect you to know the ins and outs of German politics in the 1920s, but I do expect you to know that there was a German parliament that the Nazi party captured a bunch of seats in and pressured the German president to make Hitler Chancellor of Germany.

"We have a Congress in this country, which is suppose to provide checks and balances. Germany did not have that. Hitler rose to dictatorship. Hopefully our system could stop something like that from happening."

i like the way she sees her role as a voter as providing a stress test for congress

there's good stuff in that Tom Scocca article, but this last line is such obnoxious, self-satisfied garbage

If white Americans’ lives were truly desperate and hanging in the balance, they would never take the risk of electing an incompetent blowhard.

because people never vote against their own interests? because it's impossible for people to be both "truly desperate" and racist? I get that ppl want to push back against this Jacobin mag view that downplays racism as the heart of Trump's appeal and tried to make it all about class, but spare me Scocca pontificating on who is and who isn't "desperate"

dunno how i can stand this without Valium.

I bought a new bottle of Aperol.

something i learned from that article is that trump is winning the college educated white male vote. i think we can all agree that particular slice of the electorate is unredeemable

soref otm

because people never vote against their own interests? because it's impossible for people to be both "truly desperate" and racist? I get that ppl want to push back against this Jacobin mag view that downplays racism as the heart of Trump's appeal and tried to make it all about class, but spare me Scocca pontificating on who is and who isn't "desperate"

― soref, Tuesday, September 27, 2016 12:20 AM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

spare me trying to redefine the word 'desperate'

xp no he isn't