The Future President, Donald Trump Part 2

A Trump Empire Built on Inside Connections and $885 Million in Tax Breaks
Source: NY Times

The way Donald J. Trump tells it, his first solo project as a real estate developer, the conversion of a faded railroad hotel on 42nd Street into the sleek, 30-story Grand Hyatt, was a triumph from the very beginning.

The hotel, Mr. Trump bragged in “Trump: The Art of the Deal,” his 1987 best seller, “was a hit from the first day. Gross operating profits now exceed $30 million a year.”

But that book, and numerous interviews over the years, make little mention of a crucial factor in getting the hotel built: an extraordinary 40-year tax break that has cost New York City $360 million to date in forgiven, or uncollected, taxes, with four years still to run, on a property that cost only $120 million to build in 1980.

The project set the pattern for Mr. Trump’s New York career: He used his father’s, and, later, his own, extensive political connections, and relied on a huge amount of assistance from the government and taxpayers in the form of tax breaks, grants and incentives to benefit the 15 buildings at the core of his Manhattan real estate empire.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/18/nyregion/donald-trump-tax-breaks-real-estate.html?emc=edit_th_20160918&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=36371920&_r=0



The article goes on to mention that tRump obtained a $150,000 grant for one of his buildings near the 9/11 attacks. These grants were designed to help SMALL BUSINESSES in the area recover, even though tRump is not a small business and he stated on the day of the attacks that his building was undamaged.

A Trump Empire Built on Inside Connections and $885 Million in Tax Breaks

Source: NY Times

"the liberal press, right????"

The way Donald J. Trump tells it, his first solo project as a real estate developer, the conversion of a faded railroad hotel on 42nd Street into the sleek, 30-story Grand Hyatt, was a triumph from the very beginning.

The hotel, Mr. Trump bragged in “Trump: The Art of the Deal,” his 1987 best seller, “was a hit from the first day. Gross operating profits now exceed $30 million a year.”

But that book, and numerous interviews over the years, make little mention of a crucial factor in getting the hotel built: an extraordinary 40-year tax break that has cost New York City $360 million to date in forgiven, or uncollected, taxes, with four years still to run, on a property that cost only $120 million to build in 1980.

The project set the pattern for Mr. Trump’s New York career: He used his father’s, and, later, his own, extensive political connections, and relied on a huge amount of assistance from the government and taxpayers in the form of tax breaks, grants and incentives to benefit the 15 buildings at the core of his Manhattan real estate empire.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/18/nyregion/donald-trump-tax-breaks-real-estate.html?emc=edit_th_20160918&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=36371920&_r=0



The article goes on to mention that tRump obtained a $150,000 grant for one of his buildings near the 9/11 attacks. These grants were designed to help SMALL BUSINESSES in the area recover, even though tRump is not a small business and he stated on the day of the attacks that his building was undamaged.

I am not sure why the moderators punish everyone because of trolls, but, they are allowed to do as they think best.

I am not going to sit down for the trolls. Especially goooeyjohn and his AC14747 sock account.

Mike Pence Refuses To Call David Duke ‘Deplorable’

The vice presidential candidate said he doesn’t want the former KKK grand wizard’s support — but he doesn’t want to call him names either.
09/12/2016 06:48 pm ET | Updated 6 days ago
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Jessica Schulberg Foreign Affairs Reporter, The Huffington Post
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Indiana Gov. Mike Pence refused on Monday to say David Duke, the former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, is a “deplorable” supporter of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer pushed Pence, Trump’s running mate, to respond to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton saying on Friday that half of her rival’s supporters fit into a “basket of deplorables.”

“There are some supporters of Donald Trump and Mike Pence who ― David Duke, for example, some other white nationalists ― who would fit into that category of deplorables, right?” Blitzer asked.

First, Pence dodged.

“I’m not really sure why the media keeps dropping David Duke’s name,” Pence said. “Donald Trump has denounced David Duke repeatedly. We don’t want his support and we don’t want the support of people who think like him.” (Trump initially declined several opportunities to distance himself from Duke. White nationalists wrote on hate websites that they interpreted Trump’s behavior as a tacit show of support.)

Blitzer pushed. “Well, you’d call him a deplorable?” he asked Pence.

“No, I’m not in the name-calling business,” the vice-presidential candidate responded, proving that no question is too easy.

“What Hillary Clinton did Friday night was shocking,” Pence continued. “I mean millions of people who support Donald Trump around this country are not a basket of anything ― they are Americans. And they deserve the respect of the Democrat nominee for president of the United States.”

Mike Pence declines to call Donald Trump supporter David Duke “deplorable” https://t.co/D6fuQRolmg https://t.co/S1nfCf8Iyy
— CNN (@CNN) September 12, 2016

Clinton partially walked back her statement on Saturday, but she was quick to jump on Pence’s bungled conversation with Blitzer.

“If you won’t say the KKK is deplorable, you have no business running the country,” she tweeted Monday.

If you won’t say the KKK is deplorable, you have no business running the country. https://t.co/mFut8Qrz9A
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 12, 2016

After the interview, Pence insisted his comments had been misunderstood.

It is outrageous that some members of the media are taking quotes out of context! https://t.co/x379lHe86p
— Mike Pence (@mike_pence) September 12, 2016

Duke praised Pence’s interview performance later on Monday.

“It’s good to see an individual like Pence and others start to reject this absolute controlled media,” he told BuzzFeed.

Duke also seems to not mind the title “deplorable.”

“#BasketofDeplorables,” he wrote in a tweet accompanying a highly edited image showing him, Trump and other prominent Trump supporters standing behind a banner reading, “Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white.”

This article has been updated with additional reactions from Mike Pence and David Duke.

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

Foreign-policy experts grow more hostile to Trump as N. Korea tests missiles

Fact Checker: Trump’s claim linking NYC bombing to immigration

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This is the trouble with Trump, he goes for simplistic answers which he fits around his preconceived beliefs without checking any facts or waiting for any information to form his opinions of which he fires off continually. We already had an administration which did that Bush W under the direction of Cheney and we have seen the results. Trump would be like that only ten times worse. I don't see how anyone at all can support him and vote for him.

Only tRump would try to gin politics into this. Fear must be mighty addictive stuff.

Actually he is just being the tried and true conservative on the issue of terrorism, blanket blame seems to be the way they think and it works more often than not.

What do ya'll think of Trump's latest gaffe so to speak on the "African American" communities being the worst than ever in the past? Being worst than slavery, segregation, separate drinking fountains...? Wonder who writes his talking points?

Such a schmuck to the max.

My husband and his brother were raised in a primarily black, part hispanic, community as white children of irish descent. He's my ex, but we still talk about family, friends, points of view that still tend to agree. His brother is a high up building inspector, and is happily now assigned to the old Los Angeles neighborhood. My take on Trump is fear - promotion of fear by him, possibly some fear of his own but I don't really pick that up, and my fear that somehow he will win.

Palin to Advise Trump on Improving Sentence Structure

NEW YORK—In an admission that his message might have gotten lost in Monday night’s debate, Donald J. Trump has enlisted the former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to advise him on improving his sentence structure. Campaign officials stressed that bringing Palin on board was not a sign of panic, but merely an acknowledgement that the Alaskan’s communication skills could be Trump’s “secret weapon.” “We would be silly to have a resource like this available to us and not use it,” said Trump’s campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway. “No one debates like Sarah Palin.”

Excuse me while I plotz..

are you cribbing from The Onion?

ahhhhh it was Borowitz

I couldn't help it. It could actually happen.