The Future President, Donald Trump

I just looked in Powerpoint. Stars with points four through seven are standard graphics. It's not like you have to look hard to see Trump posting racist stuff. You don't have to make up stuff.

Oh CI, you cant do that! Brandon is infallible. If he says it it must be true.

As far as I can tell, the real issue is that people tweet stuff to Trump and if he likes it he just retweets it without verifying it or looking at the source.

I guess I'll point out the obvious. (1) It wasn't a star of David. (2) Not everybody uses Powerpoint.

I don't really care to hear your speculations of what he might do. I'm only interested in what the candidates actually do.

Trump didn't post a star of David. Not interested in your fantasies about what shapes might mean.

Mr. Trump’s fake charity

DONALD TRUMP, perhaps the greatest braggart ever to aspire to national office, is hardly shy about flaunting — or rather hyping — his good works. So it has been with his charitable giving, which, for the better part of 30 years, he has regularly exaggerated to the point of plain mendacity.

That Mr. Trump in his public utterances is a serial embellisher is no surprise. Still, the shamelessness by which his actual giving to worthy causes has trailed his public claims of generosity is stunning. And given the relish with which he boasted of his giving, his campaign’s assertion that he has made private, quiet charitable gifts strains credulity.

A painstaking review by The Post’s David A. Fahrenthold, comparing Mr. Trump’s public statements with available records of his giving, found a pattern of exaggeration and unfulfilled pledges.

Speaking of his royalties from the reality television show “The Apprentice,” which had recently debuted in 2004, Mr. Trump told the radio personality Howard Stern that “I’m giving the money to charity,” mentioning that as the show’s host he had been paid “a lot more than” $1 million. The money, Mr. Trump said, would go to AIDS research and the Police Athletic League. Yet that year Mr. Trump’s foundation — the entity he established to bestow charitable gifts — gave just $1,000 for AIDS research and $106,000 to the Police Athletic League.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mr-trumps-fake-charity/2016/07/03/fbcd52e2-3e44-11e6-84e8-1580c7db5275_story.html

Trump Praises Elie Wiesel After Using Neo-Nazi Image To Attack Hillary

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-elie-wiesel_us_57799f20e4b0416464105bf8

Wiesel, who spent his life exposing the horrors of intolerance, would not be impressed.
07/03/2016 08:25 pm ET | Updated 2 hours ago

Nick Visser Reporter, The Huffington Post
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Just a day after Donald Trump tweeted out a blatantly anti-Semitic image attacking Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee praised the work of author and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, who died on Saturday.

“The world is a better place because of him and his belief that good can triumph over evil!” Trump tweeted Sunday evening.

He was roundly lambasted the day before after tweeting an image of a smiling Clinton on top of $100 bills and next to a Star of David reading “Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!” He later tweeted a new image that replaced the star with a circle and deleted the first tweet.

The anti-Semitic imagery was previously used on a website frequented by neo-Nazis and white supremacists, Mic News reported.

Trump has come under fire in past months for retweeting white supremacists. Earlier this year he drew ire after refusing several times to disavow the endorsement of former KKK leader David Duke before finally doing so during a debate in Detroit.
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Wiesel, who survived the Auschwitz concentration camp and went on to win the Nobel Peace Prize, authored more than 50 books, including “Night,” based on his experiences during the Holocaust. He was an “eloquent witness for the six million Jews slaughtered in World War II,” The New York Times wrote in an obituary. The Nobel committee dubbed him “a messenger to mankind.”

President Barack Obama wrote a touching letter about Wiesel after his death.

“He raised his voice, not just against anti-Semitism, but against hatred, bigotry and intolerance in all its forms,” the president wrote. “As a writer, a speaker, an activist, and a thinker, he was one of those people who changed the world more as a citizen of the world than those who hold office or traditional positions of power. His life, and the power of his example, urges us to be better.”

It’s unlikely Wiesel would have had kind words for Trump. He had met the businessman, Tablet reported, and “was repulsed by his xenophobic rhetoric.”

On Sunday, the Anti-Defamation League called on Trump to disavow the anti-Semitic acts by some of his supporters.

“It’s been concerning that [Donald Trump] hasn’t spoken our forcefully against these people. It is outrageous to think that the candidate is sourcing material from some of the worst elements in our society,” Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO and national director of the league, told The Hill.

“We would like to see [Trump] speak out consistently and clearly and reject not only this kind of prejudice, but the people behind it. And make it clear that they have no please [sic] in the public conversation, and no place in a political campaign, and that they have nothing to do with making America great again.”

The Trump campaign could not immediately be reached for comment.

Editor’s note: Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims — 1.6 billion members of an entire religion — from entering the U.S.

Trump is a liar and narcissist. He talks big because he wants the media attention, but in real life he is small. It's been shown by research of his wealth, that his performance is below average.
As shown by bobsal's post, Trump just love to exaggerate everything.

Donald Trump's "Star of David" Hillary Clinton Meme Was Created by White Supremacists
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https://mic.com/articles/147711/donald-trump-s-star-of-david-hillary-clinton-meme-was-created-by-white-supremacists#.E8ePomKfM

Donald Trump tweeted a meme Saturday that used dog-whistle anti-Semitism to announce that his political rival, "Crooked Hillary," had "made history." The meme Trump tweeted prominently featured the Star of David — a holy symbol of the Jewish religion that Nazis attempted to pervert by forcing Jews over the age of 6 to sew it onto their clothing during Hitler's reign.

Emblazoned onto the Star of David in Trump's meme are the words "Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!"

The star lies atop a giant pile of money.
Donald Trump's "Star of David" Hillary Clinton Meme Was Created by White Supremacists
Source: Donald Trump's Twitter (since deleted)

Mic discovered Sunday that Donald Trump's Twitter account wasn't the first place the meme appeared. The image was previously featured on /pol/ — an Internet message board for the alt-right, a digital movement of neo-Nazis, anti-Semites and white supremacists newly emboldened by the success of Trump's rhetoric — as early as June 22, over a week before Trump's team tweeted it.
Donald Trump's "Star of David" Hillary Clinton Meme Was Created by White Supremacists

Though the thread where the meme was featured no longer exists, you can find it by searching the URL in Archive.is, a "time capsule of the internet" that saves unalterable text and graphic of webpages. Doing so allows you to see the thread on /pol/ as it originally existed.

Of note is the file name of the photo, HillHistory.jpg, potentially a nod to the Neo-Nazi code for "HH," or "Heil Hitler," which the alt-right is fond of hiding in plain sight.

The watermark on the lower-left corner of the image leads to a Twitter account that regularly tweets violent, racist memes commenting on the state of geopolitical politics.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/02/donald-trump-net-worth-campaign-finances-us-election

SEC document shows Trump was worth less than half of $10bn claim in 2012

Statement filed by Wells Fargo Securities describes far lower worth
Claim to self-fund presidential campaign is central to image as outsider
Trump deletes tweet with image of star of David, Clinton and money

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On the 2016 campaign trail, Donald Trump has insisted that he is worth more than $10bn. However, a statement filed to the Securities and Exchange Commission by Wells Fargo Securities on Trump’s behalf in 2012 indicated that the real estate developer was then worth less than half that, with comparatively few of the liquid assets that may now finance his campaign for president.
Trump deletes tweet with image of the star of David, Hillary Clinton and money
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In the document, which concerned the securitization of commercial mortgages on properties including Trump Tower in New York City, Trump was described as being worth more than $4.2bn, with liquid assets of more than $250m.

A passage in the 132-page filing says: “The sponsor is Donald J Trump. Mr Trump has significant commercial real estate holdings worldwide including interests in office, retail, residential, golf-clubs and hospitality properties in markets including New York, San Francisco, Florida, Washington DC, and Scotland. As of 30 June 2011, Mr Trump reports a net worth in excess of $4.2bn and liquidity in excess of $250m.”

The Trump campaign did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

Jessica Ong, a spokeswoman for Wells Fargo, insisted the 2012 filing was correct.

She said: “Obviously, if it was inaccurate, we wouldn’t have filed it with the SEC.”

While $250m is a large amount of money, it is nowhere near enough to finance a modern presidential campaign. Trump has already loaned between $43m and $50m to his campaign, raising questions about how much he can afford to continue to spend without selling off assets or taking on significant loans.

Trump has insisted that he has far more than $250m in liquid assets, last year telling Fox News anchor Sean Hannity he had $400m, all of which he was prepared to use.

Mitch McConnell admits Trump does not have enough money available to win the election

In sworn testimony for a 2007 lawsuit, deposition transcripts show, Trump was asked by a lawyer whether he had “ever exaggerated in statements about your properties?”

“I think everyone does,” Trump answered. The lawyer pressed: “Does that mean that sometimes you’ll inflate the value of your properties in your statements?”

“Not beyond reason,” Trump said.

Trump’s claim to be able to self-fund his campaign has been a foundation of his so-far successful claim to be independent of the Washington establishment. Although he is now frantically building a fundraising apparatus, he has insisted this is simply to help the Republican National Committee (RNC) raise money for the party as a whole. His campaign reported only $1.3m “cash on hand” to begin the month of June, in contrast to Hillary Clinton’s $42.5m.

The RNC has not seemed overly concerned. Speaking to CNN in June, the group’s chief strategist, Sean Spicer, said that if Trump “wanted to get that [fundraising] number up in two seconds, he just strokes a check and it’s up”.

The Trump campaign has insisted that the businessman has converted his loan into a donation. No such paperwork has yet been filed with the Federal Election Commission (FEC).

The 2012 SEC filing contradicts a claim made by Trump in November 2011, in which he said he had a net worth of more than $7bn and insisted that he derived almost $3bn from the value of his personal brand.

In May 2016, Trump filed a statement with the FEC in which he insisted his “net worth is in excess of $10bn”. The disclosure indicated that he had taken on at least $50m in debt and sold off assets in the past year.

While the statement from Wells Fargo indicates that Trump may be far less wealthy than he claims, it would also indicate that he is in better financial shape than many financial experts believe, unless he has suffered significant undisclosed financial losses in recent years.

Fortune magazine has estimated that Trump is currently worth $3.9bn; in 2015, Bloomberg News assessed Trump’s fortune at $2.9bn.

Another billionaire, Mark Cuban, has scoffed at Trump’s claims, suggesting the presumptive Republican nominee may not be a billionaire at all. Cuban’s reading of Trump’s most recent financial disclosure was that Trump may only have $165m available.

No, Trump didn't post a Star of David. He posted a six pointed star with some text in it.

You're the only one that believes that. Even the Nazi twits that put the image up first don't deny it. What kind of twit are you?

What is it? Is it hard for you to believe Trump peruses white supremacist publications and sites?

That's all the Nazis did. Their text was a bit shorter, just one word, Jude.

The tweet came from a racist website by a racist comedian named fishbonehead1. Trump has since replaced the star with a circle. We do not need a president who gets his information from racist websites, this makes about the third time he has done this.

source for statements above

He didn't post a Star of David. It's a simple fact. He posted a six pointed star with text in it. I'm not interested in your speculations about a hidden meaning.

I might discuss that later, but at present, I am stating the simple fact that he didn't post a Star of David. The statement that he did is what I can only call a lie, since he didn't. There are lots of six pointed stars in the world. You don't get to speculate about what the poster might have been thinking.

Well, Trump's tweet had a star shaped background to different text.

Don't be too disappointed, if he becomes president he'll have plenty of time for editing.