What Does Trump Have To Do To Convince His Supporters and Especially His Donors He Will NOT Ever Fulfill the Duties of the POTUS, Nor Does He Want To

 Why Donald Trump Will NEVER Fulfill the Duties Of President of the United States

He Simply Doesn't Want To!

John A. Smith, Editor/Founder, August 31, 2016

 

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Trump Never Actually Wanted The Job, Just The Attention

     Donald J. Trump, Republican Nominee for President of the United States,  played with the idea of running for President in a few Presidential election cycles. He enjoyed the attention he got when the media kept after him as he was "deciding" whether or not he was going to run. Until this current cycle he milked that attention as long as he could and then begrudgingly announced he wasn't going to run, and with that, the attention he loved so much went away. Donald Trump announces his candidacy for the U.S. presidency at Trump Tower on Tuesday, June 16, 2015, in New York City. He took the plunge and found himself in a world he worshiped, the world of all eyes focusing on him. He is in fact a egocentric, an incurable narcissist to the nth degree. Possibly a sociopath, for real!  Upon winning the Republican primary he was told that viciously attacking opponents using lies and outrageous statements, although they do get crowds riled up, would not work in the general election. He was now going to have to "pivot" and become more restrained and Presidential. He would have nothing to do with that at first. He then tried a number of times to "stay on message" and be more "Presidential" but couldn't, and still can't. Within hours of reading a prepared, measured, controlled speech from the teleprompter he would find himself tweeting his zany, outrageous, racist, hateful, ignorant, and shocking (although nothing shocks people anymore because of how he is and what he has already said) tweets, contradicting what he had just said hours before. It's then that signs began to show that he didn't really want to do the job that is President of the United States. 

     Leading up to the conventions it was time to pick a Vice Presidential candidate. The vetting of these candidates began. Trump sent Donald Trump Jr. to "vet" John Kasich, Governor of Ohio, and Trump Jr. said to Governor Kasich "how would you like to be the most powerful Vice President there ever was in history." John Kasich was somewhat taken aback said "Well, how would that be?" Donald Trump Jr. said "You would be completely in charge of all foreign and domestic policy." Again aghast at what Trump Jr. just said Kasich responded "but that's EVERYTHING! What would the "President" be doing?" And with that, wait for it, wait for it, with a straight face Donald Trump Jr. said "Making America great again." Now, before all the loyalist Trump supporters deny this and say "that's a lie!" you need to know that Governor Kasich himself has told of this conversation numerous times on Sunday News TV shows and to many media outlets, and not once did Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., nor anyone from the Trump campaign ever say that a single word of what Governor Kasich recounted was inaccurate. That was because by the time the convention came about, Trump had already decided that there was no way he was going to put all his money in a trust, live on the $400,000/yr salary that the President receives, and especially was not going to actually do the  job and fulfill the obligations of the President. A reporter once showed Trump a picture of President Barack Obama, and another of President George W. Bush, both had been wearing traditional garb of the country they were visiting while they were with the leader of that country, the reporter asked Trump, "are you willing to carry on this tradition of protocol?" Trump responded "I'll have someone do that for me."  I guess billionaires are used to having someone do anything that has to be done that they themselves don't want to do. Did you know that the President has to pay for every meal that he, his family, and any private guests eat? Yes, they do. Who Pays for the Obama Family's Food? by mentalfloss.com . Could you imagine Donald J. Trump getting a bill, equivalent in price to what an eight star hotel would charge if they existed, every month?! A Chief Usher for many years at the White House recalled he doesn't "remember a single first family that didn't complain about the high price of food at the White House. What WOULD Trump do if his trained pallet, and that of any private guests, accounted for his entire salary? OH NO! No presents for Melania this year. UH OH! Is there a divorce in the future for "President Trump?!"

Trump Admitted He Doesn't Know "A Lot" of Things A President Needs To Know - Yet He Refuses To Learn, Why?

He doesn't want to bother to learn all that stuff someone would need to be an effective (or at least not the stupidest) President ever. He knows he's not going to need that knowledge because he's never going to be President. Remember, this egomaniac is only in it for the attention he gets at the rallies! I'm being serious, not sarcastic. When asked about not knowing what he would need to know about foreign policy Trump admitted "there's a lot I don't know, but I'll surround myself with the smartest people, the best people, really good people." His ability to do that has not exactly proved to be true as his very first "hire" was Elliot Broidy, whom he brought on to advise him "on all financial matters." Broidy owned a small Wall Street investment firm and had previously plead guilty to bribing people in the NY Attorney General's office, and others, with $1M, to get control of $250M of the NYC Employee Pension Fund, to invest, and then promptly took $18M in fraudulent fees. In court Broidy admitted to the bribes and taking of fees and said "there's no way a small investment firm like mine would ever get to control $250M of that fund without bribes." READ MORE: Guilty Plea in Fraud Case Tied to New York Pension  Trump's hiring of "the best people, the smartest people, the best" hasn't improved. Just look at his campaign.


If Trump Refuses To Learn The Important Issues About Foreign and Domestic Policy, How Will He Ever Actually Get Anything Done As President? He Won't, Because He Has No Plans On Actually Fulfilling the Duties of the President Of The United States

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     Just as he had Donald Trump Jr. have that conversation with Governor Kasich, Donald Trump has given many loud signs that he will not be President and will not fulfill the obligations of the presidency. He also has said many things that should have put up a big red flag that he is constantly lying and has no idea of what is is actually saying, like when he says "I know more about ISIS than the Generals do." REALLY Mr Trump?! REALLY?!, The GENERALS! Who are actually ACTUALLY FIGHTING THE WAR?! REALLY?! You lying, despicable, draft-dodging, piece of S__T! And yea, I'm sure that, like you say in the photo above, you will make our heads spin, but it won't be because you will be "so good at the military." That being the same military you  fraudulently dodged by having some doctor write a note saying you had a "bone spur" which made you incapable of performing any kind of duty in the Armed Forces. Well, let me congratulate you on your complete recovery, and for having the "best health of anyone that ever became President of the United States" as per your Gastroenterologist (I won't use his name here so as not to embarrass him or to have him lose business because he had the unfortunate circumstance of being your doctor) that was given only 5 minutes to write that letter you requested and became "flustered." By the way, he says on his television interview that he was told he needed the letter in 5 minutes because Hillary's campaign was about to release a letter from HER doctor. The problem with that is, that she already produced a letter (one that actually meets the standard) back in JULY! Why would you tell this doctor you needed this letter in 5 minutes because Hillary was about to release hers if she released hers months ago? 

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     So who does Donald Trump get his military and foreign policy knowledge from? As you can see in the above photo he talks to himself! It must be that military school he went to. You know, the one that "made him feel like he was in the military." Yea, this it! It was that military school that taught him all he knows about foreign policy, which is a resounding ZERO! ZILCH! NADA! NOTHING! But he was smart enough to ask 3 times, 3 times in a one-hour instructional and informational meeting (he needed to learn about nuclear weapons because he slipped awhile back and showed his ignorance when he blurted something out that told everyone in the world that he had no idea of what the Nuclear Triad is) about nuclear weapons from one of the most respected people in the world on the topic, "if we have nuclear weapons, why don't we use them?" Yes 3 times he asked this top expert
"if we have nuclear weapons, why don't we use them?!" That's scary!

     By his own words and especially by the actions of him and his campaign he has basically told everyone that he in no way in hell will put all his money in a trust, live off the $400,000/yr salary, and definitely not live life day-to-day as a President of the United States. As he has said numerous times, after the election he can go back to a REALLY GOOD LIFE.

Trump Has Indicated He Doesn't Want To Win

     Joe Scarborough (Morning Joe/MSNBC) said on his show a few weeks ago that he was with a "very close friend" of Trump's that past weekend and the friend said Trump told him that the best outcome would be that he lost the election (because he doesn't really want to BE president) but only by a few points so then he could claim the election was rigged, for the rest of his life, and not be looked upon as a "loser."  Trump has said he wouldn't do a number of things that the POTUS is required to do, and he doesn't have any notion to do them.

The Strategy (To Lose)

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Reaching Out To Minorities Is Imperative To Win -- Oh Well

     Trump's campaign announced about a week before the RNC Convention that the candidate, immediately following the convention, would be going on "An Outreach To The Hispanic Community Tour," because they know for a fact that you can't win a Presidential election with only "old white men" and racists. In fact they actually scheduled events starting in the important swing state of Florida for the day after the Democratic convention ended. But the day after the DNC convention ended the Trump cancelled that appearance and all the rest of the "Outreach To The Hispanic Community Tour." Trump initially cancelled his "Outreach" scheduled for July 8th in Miami with Cuban business and faith leaders because of the tragic shooting of police officers in Dallas. 

"RNC Chair Reince Priebus bragged prior to the Republican Convention that Trump “is going to be doing a Hispanic engagement tour coming up soon” and claimed Trump “understands” the need to expand the party in the general election. That apparently went in one ear and out the other as Trump has failed to meet with Hispanic leaders in Texas and Florida, which is only angering the few Republican Hispanic voters left." 

Then the rescheduled July 26 event was officially canceled because the roundtable participants were out of town. (Three Republican sources told BuzzFeed News a hold was put on the campaign calendar for that time slot but the event was never planned.)
Another unreported, but planned Hispanic event was also canceled: The July 5 event was supposed to bring Trump face-to-face with San Antonio business leaders and Texas Republicans, but after the campaign reached out for venue space and possible participants, the event was scrapped. READ MORE: Donald Trump’s Hispanic Outreach Effort Humiliatingly Goes Down In Flames

     Again there is just NO WAY anyone can win a presidential election with just old white men and racists. Breitbart.com (former CEO Stephen Bannon is now Trump's campaign CEO) is a right wing, conspiracy theory, website that is known for completely making up false news and stories.
Based on seeing an article on Breitbart,com Trump said “I don’t know if you’ve seen what's happening, but over the last three weeks, the polls with African American folks and Spanish-speaking folks, the Hispanics, Latinos, have gone way up. Way up. They’ve gone way up,” Trump said, to applause. "It seemed like it was validation of the time he'd spent over the last week making somewhat awkward appeals to voters in those demographics. But it’s not, because those numbers are wrong.
The problem almost certainly began with a headline at Trump’s favorite website, Breitbart.com. On the heels of Trump’s speech near Milwaukee last Tuesday, the site ran a story with a headline that would seem to make Trump's case on black voters." READ MORE: Donald Trump is doing great with black and Hispanic voters now, according to polls that don’t exist . "On Aug. 5, those numbers were 8 percent and 24 percent, respectively. In the Reuters/Ipsos poll, Trump went from 5.6 percent with black voters on Aug. 1 to 2.5 percent on Monday. (There weren’t enough Hispanic respondents to separate out.)" So why would Donald Trump cancel his events with all Black and Hispanic voters and leaders? Because he doesn't WANT to win!

The Ground Game

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When Donors Donate To Trump's Campaign Do They Understand That He's Using Their Money To Feed His Narcissistic Behavior, And His Ego, And His Need To Hear Crowds Cheering, And NOT To Help His Chances Of Winning The White House?

     A good, well established, ground game, is another absolute must if you actually want to win the presidency. Renting a 10,000 seat arena in the State of Washington, where this candidate has NO CHANCE of winning is not. He also has made appearances at places like Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, CT, once again veering from appearances in key swing states like Florida and Pennsylvania to try to bolster his support in a “true blue” state. There he spoke to African-Americans, the only problem with that is the room was filled with older white Americans. The speculation that Trump would visit Connecticut before the announcement was made drew a sharp attack from Connecticut Democrats."Donald Trump stands for everything we in Connecticut stand against. From inciting violence against his political opponent, to insulting a Gold Star family, to mocking a reporter with a physical disability, Trump has shown time and time again that he is temperamentally unfit and lacks the judgment to serve as commander-in-chief,” the Connecticut Democratic Party said in a statement. READ MORE:Trump to hold Saturday rally in Connecticut/The CT Mirror


     Trump has literally NO CHANCE of winning the state of Washington state, so why is he spending his donors money renting out the 10,000 seat Xfinity Arena? A protest against Donald Trump was planned for Clark Park at the same time as the candidates event.  According to the Facebook group "No Hate in Our State," the protesters planned to march against "Trump's dangerous xenophobic, racist, misogynist, homophobic rhetoric and policies. "On this day we will come together peacefully, and reject Trump's hate, and violence," the page read. " “I think everyone who is following the polling can see what the numbers are and that is that. Hillary Clinton is winning this state by a wide margin,” said Bill Phillips, former chairman of the Snohomish County Democrats.

     Trump also predicted a general election victory in Washington state, which hasn’t voted Republican for President since Ronald Reagan in 1984. A new survey by independent pollster Stuart Elway shows Clinton leading 43% to Trump’s 24% in Washington. Read more here: http://www.theolympian.com/news/politics-government/article98973802.html#storylink=cpy Why is he not spending that money on an all important ground game? Perhaps because HE DOESN'T WANT TO ACTUALLY WIN!

     "Donald Trump’s ground game in key swing states is a disaster, and it’s causing panic among Republicans, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday."  READ MORE: The GOP Panics As Donald Trump’s Ground Game Is Virtually Nonexistent What Trump is NOT doing with donors money is setting up field offices in key battleground states to get the vote out. Trump, knowing how important a good ground game is to actually wining the election has done the following in key battleground states:

Battleground State Field Offices

"As the presidential election marathon breaks into a final sprint, the Trump campaign faces a jaw-dropping gap in the ground game: Hillary Clinton currently has more than three times the number of campaign offices in critical states than does Donald Trump. Those figures include both Trump offices and Republican National Committee victory offices, as confirmed by the Trump campaign.  As of Aug. 30, Hillary Clinton has 291 offices in those 15 battlegrounds. Donald Trump has 88. (Those figures include joint presidential and party offices.)  Both campaigns pledge that more offices are coming." READ MORE: The Trump campaign has a ground-game problem - pbs.org/newshour .
 
FLORIDA: Donald Trump’s campaign has opened a whopping ONE field office of the 24 field offices it promised to open in the important battleground state of Florida. Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton’s campaign has 34 offices in the state."

NORTH CAROLINA: Clinton: 30 Field Offices, Trump: NONE

PENNSYLVANIA: Clinton: 36 Field Offices, Trump: 2

NEW HAMPSHIRE: Clinton: 17 Field Offices, Trump: 1

 OHIO: Clinton: 36 Field Offices, Trump: 16 (No Republican has ever won the presidency without winning Ohio)

 VIRGINIA: Clinton: 29 Field Offices, Trump: 18 (These are actually RNC offices that Trump claimed he opened.)

     For maps showing all battleground states and how many field offices each candidate has opened SEE: The Trump campaign has a ground-game problem - pbs.org/newshour . Why isn't Trump building a good ground (get out the vote) game if he knows that there is absolutely NO WAY to win a presidential election without one? BECAUSE HE DOESN'T WANT TO WIN! How can his supporters, and especially donors, no see this?!   


     I challenge any Trump supporter and/or donor to convince me that they REALLY BELIEVE that Trump is READY and WILLING to take over the presidency.

     

Who is A.L.E.C. Why are they, and Republican Governors and Republican-Controlled State Legislators Limiting City and Local Legislators Ability To Govern For The People?

How Republicans Use "Preemption Laws" To Take Legislative Power Away From The People

From "The American Prospect Longform" August 22, 2016

John A. Smith, Editor/Founder, New York, August 26, 2016

     See how Republican Governors and Republican-controlled State Legislatures are using "Preemption Laws" to take away Cities and local legislators power to create laws that the people in those cities heavily favor. They recently affected Denton, Texas, when they passed a fracking ban in November 2014. "Sure enough, despite widespread local support, it only took months to make Denton’s fracking ban history. The GOP-dominated Texas state legislature, under pressure from the oil and gas industry, passed a law forbidding any locality from banning fracking. Denton’s own state representative voted for the measure." READ MORE: http://prospect.org/article/blue-cities-battle-red-states.
     

     These Republican Governors are affecting local laws passed by the people of those cities and towns in the interest of corporations and special interests by writing these preemption laws, of which many are actually written by ALEC (see ALEC Exposed here:http://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_Exposed ) Preemption laws are being used by state legislatures on issues like gun safety, smoking, anti-discriminatory legislation, LGBTQ legislation, and much much more.

     "Minimum preemption” laws have been used for years. They force localities to do something where they might otherwise have done little or nothing, like environmental laws.  The federal government has been setting minimum standards of environmental protection for years, preempting the states from allowing lower environmental standards.

      "Most current preemption laws, by contrast, are what one might call “maximum preemption.” These laws aren’t about setting minimums; instead, they prohibit local regulation. States have prevented localities from creating paid sick leave requirements for businesses, or raising the minimum wage. Many who oppose these measures blame their proliferation on the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council, known as ALEC, which has drafted “model” preemption bills for state lawmakers to use. “Pretty much anything you can think of that matters to the American family is under assault by local preemption,” says Mark Pertschuk, the director of Grassroots Change, which fights preemption laws around the country reports The American Prospect. "In the last five years, as Republicans have captured an unprecedented number of state legislatures and as cities have become hotbeds for progressive organizing, the number of maximum preemption laws has grown dramatically. In 2011, after Wisconsin passed a bill limiting the local ability to require paid sick days, ALEC and the National Restaurant Association took up the cause, and now 15 states have preempted local paid sick day requirements" READ MORE: http://prospect.org/article/blue-cities-battle-red-states.

LEGAL DEFINITION: "Preemption"

n. the rule of law that if the federal government through Congress has enacted legislation on a subject matter it shall be controlling over state laws and/or preclude the state from enacting laws on the same subject if Congress has specifically stated it has "occupied the field."

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      Most current preemption laws, by contrast, are what one might call “maximum preemption.” These laws aren’t about setting minimums; instead, they prohibit local regulation. States have prevented localities from creating paid sick leave requirements for businesses, or raising the minimum wage. Many who oppose these measures blame their proliferation on the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council, known as ALEC, which has drafted “model” preemption bills for state lawmakers to use. “Pretty much anything you can think of that matters to the American family is under assault by local preemption,” says Mark Pertschuk, the director of Grassroots Change, which fights preemption laws around the country. - The American Prospect

   
     Earlier this year the Charlotte City Council passed a measure extending civil-rights protections for its LGBT community. The policy also allowed transgender individuals to use the bathroom that corresponds with their gender identity rather than with their biological sex. Including gay and transgender people in anti-discrimination ordinances has become a standard business-friendly move; nationwide, 225 cities and counties have passed similar measures, in part to attract businesses. While Republican Governor Pat McCrory and state legislature leaders threatened to intervene in Charlotte, Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts, an advocate of the measure, wasn’t overly concerned. “I thought they’d make a big noise about it but they’d recognize it was just Charlotte, it’s a progressive city, and they didn’t need to come in and change anything because it would jeopardize the economy,” she says.

      But when the state Republicans responded, they sent shockwaves around the country by passing a maximum preemption measure that invalidated all local anti-discrimination ordinances, including those protecting women and racial minorities. Not only did they force transgender people to use public bathrooms based on their reproductive organs; for good measure, they also rolled a provision into the bill that forbade any North Carolina city from increasing the minimum wage. READ MORE: http://prospect.org/article/blue-cities-battle-red-states.

     Even if you're disgusted with the candidates for the presidential race it is imperative that you vote this November 8th! The Senate, House, and local elections are crucial to the future of our cities, towns, counties, and country.

Donald Trump "Regrets" Saying the Wrong Things - A First

Regretting Saying Horrible Things Is Good

But Doesn't Change How Prepared To Be President He Is

John A. Smith Editor/Founder, August 19, 2016

 

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     Perhaps the tanking poll numbers finally made Donald Trump realize that he is taking any chance of being elected away. Maybe it was someone on his campaign staff, old or new. But yesterday in Charlotte North Carolina the presidential candidate, for the first time ever, said "Sometimes in the heat of debate and speaking on a multitude of issues you don't choose the right words, or you say the wrong thing, I have done that... and believe it or not, I regret it." 

     Although it's nice to see him say he regrets some of the things he has said it obviously doesn't make up for the hateful, racist, divisive language he has directed at so many, for so long. Attacking a judge working a case against him who has a stellar record and calling him "unable" to do his job because his parents are Mexican is ludicrous. Mocking a reporter with a disability unconscionable. Attacking a gold star family totally disrespectful and "out of bounds."

     Saying he regrets some things he has said also doesn't prepare him to be President. He simply doesn't have enough knowledge about foreign affairs, or for that matter, domestic affairs. In an interview with George Stephanopolos he was asked about why his campaign had argued to take out the stipulation that they would supply weapons to Ukraine to fight off Russian aggression. His response was "I don't know," which he repeated time and time again. But then said in no uncertain terms ""you can take this, understand this, write it down, Russia is NOT going into Ukraine." He didn't know that Russia had taken Crimea TWO YEARS AGO! He then said "well you know, I hear, from many people that the people of Crimea wanted to be part of Russia." Recently he said he knows "more about ISIS" than our military Generals do. Mr. Trump, you DO NOT know more about ISIS than our military leaders. A staunch Republican recently said that when he is being told what reality is, "he doesn't want to learn it."

     Thanks for your regrets Mr. Trump, now go start learning something about our country, our people, and what it actually takes to be the President of the United States.

GOP Continues to Lie About Benghazi and Exploit Families

GOP LIES and Exploits Benghazi Families

John  A. Smith, Editor/Founder August 9, 2016

 GOP HELD 10 COMMITTEES AND SPENT OVER $50M IN TAXPAYER'S MONEY TO FIND NOTHING    

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     This is one of those rare times that Democratic Nominee for President of the United States Hillary Rodham Clinton is being "Mostly True" according to PolitiFact: "There have been seven investigations [there have actually been ten now] (of Benghazi) led mostly by Republicans in the Congress" that concluded "nobody did anything wrong, but there were changes we could make."— Hillary Clinton on Monday, October 5th, 2015 in on NBC's Today Show. "House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy suggested last week [from Oct. 5, 2015 article] that Congress’ current investigation into the 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya, is a political move against former Hillary Clinton, and she was quick to jump on the Republican’s gaffe." Read More: Clinton: 7 Benghazi probes so far. 

     What the Republicans don't talk about is how they cut funding to protect the embassies just six months prior. Ten (10) congressional committees have investigated the Benghazi tragedy in the Republicans’ nearly four-year obsession. The latest by the "Select Committee" brought this summary: "The Benghazi Select Committee has now spent more than 7 million in taxpayer dollars in its politically-motivated effort to damage Hillary Clinton. Over the past four years, a total of ten congressional investigations have now looked into Benghazi—and found no evidence wrongdoing [sic] by Clinton or the Obama Administration."  This is a breakdown of those committees by Correct The Record: THE GOP’S ADDICTION TO BENGHAZI “INVESTIGATIONS” JUST WON’T END - Republicans Are Determined to Keep the Benghazi Conspiracy Alive.   

*The following is an opinion column by R Muse*
Republicans have admitted, on several occasions by the way, that the House Benghazi committee’s investigation was a long-term campaign to damage Hillary Clinton even before she announced a run for the White House. The committee’s chairman, Representative Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) has stated that he found nothing, but still, his committee is busy on a taxpayer-funded Republican “campaign” against Mrs. Clinton. The cost, according to estimates as of last year was approximately $6.7 million and it was enough of a waste of money to inspire a high-ranking Defense Department official to include the waste of money in a letter criticizing Gowdy’s tactics on the Benghazi Select committee. The Pentagon is weary of the three-plus years of several committees’ demands to waste their valuable time, money, and personnel. Read More: Pentagon Condemns House Benghazi Committee’s Wasteful “Speculative” Investigation By Rmuse on Sun, May 1st, 2016 at 9:29 pm.    

     From the Benghazi Research Center here is "Benghazi By The Numbers" showing money, hours, and much more about the wasteful, misguided, and at times fraudulent investigations where the "Select Committee" spent more than $7M and  "House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy suggested last week [from Oct. 5, 2015 article] that Congress’ current investigation into the 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya, is a political move against former Hillary Clinton." The article says there were approximately 252 witnesses, 10 Congressional hearings, 13 published reports, and much, much more. After all the money and time spent they found "0" investigations found evidence of a stand down order, "0" investigations to find evidence of an "intelligence failure" leading to the Benghazi tragedy, and "0" investigations that found any "administrative wrongdoing." Read More: Benghazi By The Numbers/Benghazi Research Center . 

GOP Busted On Benghazi: Voted For MASSIVE Embassy Security Cuts Starting in 2011

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     What the GOP never talks about is their cutting of funds to protect the embassies. The Hill reported as far back as 09/18/12 10:41 PM EDT By Alexander Bolton that GOP cuts to embassy security draw scrutiny, jabs from Democrats . The articles states "Republicans have sought to cut hundreds of millions of dollars slated for security at U.S. embassies and consulates since gaining control of the House in 2011.Democrats are scrutinizing the GOP proposals in the wake of attacks on U.S. embassies and consulates in the Middle East, one of which saw Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three other Americans murdered." In October 2015 the Reverb Press reported:"

GOP Complaining About Benghazi Security Issues Despite Previously Demanding Embassy Security Cuts

     "It looks like the GOP’s tendency towards history revisionism is continuing to bite the party in its collective ass." The article went on to say " It’s also worth noting that while the GOP was oh so indignant at the Democrats for questioning their embassy security budget cut proposals, we had then-Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney attempting to pin the failures to stop the attack on the American Embassy in Benghazi on President Barack Obama." Read More: GOP Busted On Benghazi: Voted For MASSIVE Embassy Security Cuts Starting in 2011/Reverb Press

GOP Exploits Families of Victims of Benghazi

 

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     “I blame Hillary Clinton personally for the death of my son,” Smith said during a tearful speech at the Republican National Convention on Monday."  Read more: Benghazi victim's mother blames Clinton for son's death . Today, Patricia Smith, the mother of one of the four Americans killed in the 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Hillary Clinton. Actually Hillary Clinton is being sued by parents of Sean Smith and Tyrone Woods, two of the four men who died in Benghazi in 2012. This after all those committees, money, time spent found "no administrative wrongdoing." Does anyone believe that this lawsuit is anything but the GOP exploiting these families? Read More: Parents of Two Benghazi Victims File Lawsuit Against Hillary Clinton . You can read the full lawsuit here. 

Media Outlets Report "New" Information on Benghazi - Only NONE OF IT Was New

Screenshot of MediaMatters June 2016 article

     Again, after all the money, time, and effort by the GOP they found nothing and continue to lie to the American people as if they found something, anything to prove wrongdoing. It's disgraceful and a waste of taxpayer's money, and time that the Congress and Senate could be spending actually representing their constituents needs. 

"Several media outlets falsely reported that the final report released by Republicans on the House Select Committee on Benghazi contained “new information,” when in fact all of the “key findings” in the report had been previously reported. Committee Republicans reportedly released “embargoed ‘exclusives’” strategically to manipulate reporters into presenting details in the releases as new information." Read More: Media Fell For Bogus “New Information” Spin In GOP Benghazi Report/MediaMatters For America

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     I don't know about you but I for one NEVER want to hear the word "Benghazi" again! 

 

Where Does Donald Trump Stand Within the Republican Party and With America?

By John A. Smith, Editor/Founder August 8, 2016

Donald Trump Drops In Polls

Washington Post/ABC News poll August 1 through August 4, 2016

Trump Doesn't Listen To Anyone - Except Maybe The Polls

     After two weeks of Republican Presidential Nominee Donald J. Trump repeatedly tweeting attacks on his favorite social media, Twitter, attacking the Gold Star Khan family, not initially endorsing Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed Services, Senator John McCain (R-AZ) and popular New Hampshire Senator Kelly Ayotte. In announcing he wasn't endorsing Ryan last week Trump said “I’m just not quite there yet,” using the exact words Ryan used about him after the Indiana primary in May when asked if he would support Trump. The candidate also went to New Hampshire last week and claimed he is doing better than fellow Republican Senator Kelly Ayotte in statewide polls. He got a "Pants On Fire" from PolitiFact for that one.  Read More: Read More: Donald Trump's Pants on Fire claim about doing better than Kelly Ayotte in N.H. polls. Many people started to question whether the presidential nominee needed a "candidate intervention," or maybe they are the one's who need an intervention. Read More: Someone Needs an Intervention Here, and It’s Not Donald Trump/Slate.com. He wasn't listening to anyone and his running mate Governor Mike Pence (R-IN) and Campaign Manager Paul Manafort found themselves crazy with trying to "spin" all the nuttiness coming out of their candidates mouth and on his Twitter account. 

     But later, the National and State polls showed Trump in a free-fall and he reversed himself. On Friday, August 5th, at a campaign rally in Green Bay, WI,  he unenthusiastic-ally endorsed them all. Read More: Trump Endorses Paul Ryan, John McCain and Kelly Ayotte/ABC News  By then national polls showed a match up between Trump and Clinton, if the Presidential election were held today, to be 3-8 points in Clinton's favor. By Saturday a Washington Post/ABC News Poll finds Clinton has widened lead ahead of Trump to 8 points . But perhaps the worst results were coming in the battleground states. 

Battleground State Polls:

Virginia

     "The battleground state of Virginia looks a little less like a battleground today, as Hillary Clinton has opened up a lead there of 49 percent to 37 percent, echoing some of the movement seen in national polls this week."  This is of course Hillary's running mate junior U.S. Senator Tim Kaine's home state.  

Arizona

     "On the other side of the country in Arizona, Trump leads 44 percent to 42 percent, only two points in a state Republicans typically win without too much trouble. Even if this is as close as Arizona ever gets (just 15 percent of those not voting for Clinton would still consider her) it nonetheless tells the story of a potentially shifting map, forcing Trump to defend usually-red territory, in part because of such strong Hispanic support behind Clinton. In Arizona, 80 percent of Hispanic voters feel they're more motivated to vote this year than previous years, and don't believe Donald Trump treats all people fairly."

Nevada

    " In Nevada, Clinton leads, 43 percent to 41 percent, also bolstered by support from Hispanic voters and younger voters, but facing more difficulty with older, white voters. In Nevada, as elsewhere, the commander-in-chief measure nets Clinton a large advantage, even as she has lower numbers on measures such as bringing change. And the selection of Tim Kaine as vice president may have helped Clinton in Virginia, too, as voters are more likely to say it makes them more likely to vote for the ticket than to vote against it." 

NOTE: Comments on Virginia, Arizona, and Nevada are excerpts from a post on CBS.com

By Anthony Salvanto CBS News August 7, 2016, 10:30 AM:  Read More: Poll: Clinton opens big gap in battleground state of Virginia.

 New Hampshire

     According to a CNN Politics "A new poll of New Hampshire shows Clinton with a commanding 15-point lead over Donald Trump, finding Granite State Democrats coalescing around their nominee after their convention while state Republicans remain resistant to Trump.

Clinton leads Trump 47% to 32% among likely New Hampshire voters, according to the poll from WBUR, with third-party candidates Gary Johnson and Jill Stein included. Matched up one-on-one, Clinton's lead grows to 17 points, 51% to 34%."

     Although it should be noted that the poll used here doesn't take into account Hillary went on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace on July 31, 2016  Read More: Clinton fact-checked on 'truthful' claim in email scandal and said FBI Director James Comey confirmed her statements on her email scandal were “truthful” – with one prominent fact-checker giving the claim four “Pinocchios.” 

     "Hillary Clinton has admitted that she may have “short-circuited” her answers to media questions about the way she handled classified emails. The former secretary of state insisted on Friday that she did not misrepresent FBI director James Comey’s findings on the issue that continues to dog her presidential campaign." Read More: Clinton says she may have 'short-circuited' statements about email.

Pennsylvania

     "In Pennsylvania -- a Democratic-leaning Rust Belt state that Trump has vowed to put in play for the GOP this election -- another poll released Thursday showed Clinton leading Trump by double digits. Clinton leads Trump 49% to 38% among likely Pennsylvania voters, according to the Franklin and Marshall College poll. Her lead swells to 13 points, 47% to 34%, with Johnson and Stein included." Read More: Battleground polls: Clinton tops Trump post-convention/CNN Politics

Michigan

"Another battleground poll released Thursday -- Michigan -- also found Clinton holding a significant lead over Trump. 

 

Clinton is ahead of Trump by 9 points, 41% to 32%, among likely Michigan voters, according to a Detroit news/WDIV-TV poll. Clinton's lead is smaller, 6 points, without third-party candidates included.

 

Pollster Richard Czuba told the Detroit News the survey found a "shocking" Clinton lead in typically reliable Republican areas in west and southwest Michigan, where she carries leads of 5-6 points. And according to the poll, 30% of self-identifying Michigan Republicans are not backing Trump.

Trump's struggles in the state's conservative strongholds are attributable in part to Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson. The poll found that in those west and southwest regions of Michigan, critical for flipping Michigan red, Johnson is drawing 10% and 16% support, respectively.

The poll also found a majority of Michigan voters -- 61% -- say Trump is "ill-prepared to be commander in chief."

 

The Detroit News/WDIV-TV poll was conducted from July 29 through August 1, surveying 600 likely Michigan voters. It has a margin of error of +/- 4 points."  Read More: Battleground polls: Clinton tops Trump post-convention/CNN Politics

 

 

Coming Soon: Can, and will Hillary stop lying long enough to get her "Untrustworthy" numbers down?

Seriously - Not Being Sarcastic - Is Trump A Sociopath or Is He Purposely Trying To Find A Way Out? Why Does Hillary Keep Telling The Same Old Lies Even After They've Been Disproved? What can We Do To Change The Broken Election Process?

By John A. Smith, Founder/Editor, August 3, 2016 ___________________________________________

so·ci·o·path

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noun

noun: sociopath; plural noun: sociopaths

1. a person with a personality disorder manifesting itself in extreme antisocial attitudes and behavior and a lack of conscience.

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Does Donald Trump REALLY Want Be President?

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  The short answer is no. Yesterday in my post Trump & Clinton Continue Their Blatant Lies - But they're Really Not Good At It I expressed my thoughts about what I thought Trump's plan for the future was. It included the fact that I did not believe in any way, shape, or form, that Donald Trump, Republican Nominee for President of the United States would ever actually fulfill his duties as President of the United States should enough ignorant people allowed him to win. I didn't think he has a snowballs chance in hell but when you look at the polls you quickly realize that there are a large number of low-information, "I only watch Fox News," and/or simply stupid (not just dumb) voters in America.  

     Yesterday on Morning Joe/MSNBC, Joe Scarborough said he had lunch with someone who is very close to Trump. He confirmed that Trump does not want to actually BE President. He told Joe that Donald's "best case scenario" would be to lose the election by one-half of one percentage point so that he could say "they stole the election from me" for the rest of his life. That is consistent with my thoughts. I wrote:

     A couple months after Donald Trump declared he was running for President, someone interviewing him showed him pictures of former President George W. Bush and of President Barack Obama, they were portrayed wearing garb of the country they were visiting (separate events) and Trump was asked if he would go to other countries and wear their traditional garb. Trump's response was a very quick "NO! no, I would have someone else do that." Donald Trump Jr. was sent to vet Governor John Kasich (R-OH) as a potential running mate for Trump. He asked Governor Kasich what he thought about being the most "powerful Vice President in the history of America." Kasich responded "how would that be?" Donald replied "you would be in charge of ALL domestic and foreign policy." Kasich said "but that's everything, what would President Trump be doing?" Donald Jr. replied "making America great again."  

     Again, consistent with Trump never in a million years putting all his money in a trust, living on the President's salary of only $400,000/year, and being tied to the grueling schedule of the POTUS, it will NEVER happen!

Hillary Clinton Must Think Americans Are Complete Idiots

     Hillary Clinton, Democratic Nominee for the President of the United States continues to lie. She is again using old lies that have been totally rebuffed, contradicted, proven to be false. She knows that she is lying, she knows the American people knows she lying, and she doesn't care. In an article in The Atlantic on August 1, 2016 Ron Fournier asked a simple question; Why Can't Hillary Clinton Stop Lying?  "On Sunday, the former secretary of state told FOX News’ Chris Wallace that FBI Director James Comey cleared her of misleading the public about her rogue email server at the state department: “Director Comey said my answers were truthful, and what I’ve said is consistent with what I have told the American people, that there were decisions discussed and made to classify retroactively certain of the emails.” That’s wrong and she knows it, which makes it a lie."

     She is arrogant and counts on the American people being "low-information," gullible, uninformed, unable to seek out the truth, people who will vote for her no matter what she does, or says, because her opponent is uninformed, narcissistic, misogynistic, racist, who is hateful and losing his mind attacking a Gold Star family. While she is right about some people (Trump supporters) most Americans can see through her lies and will not vote for her.

What can the American Voter Do To Send Both Parties a Message That They Are Not Going To Stand For A Corrupt, Establishment, Two-Party System, and A Broken Election Process?

     American voters can vote for a 3rd party to show that they will vote for a 3rd party in future elections. I know, I' get these responses whenever I bring up voting for a 3rd party candidate, and here are my responses[Reprinted from August 2, post Trump & Clinton Continue Blatant Lies - But They're Really Not Good At It : 

 1) "I would but I'm afraid to because I don't want Trump to win." Response: Trump will NOT win this election, not even the Republicans want that. Their party has been hijacked by him. Even though this presidential election is the most important in decades due to the fact that anywhere from two to five U.S. Supreme Court Justices will be appointed I do not fear Trump winning. Today on Morning Joe/MSNBC Joe Scarborough said he had talked to someone very close to Trump and that friend said that Trump believes his best outcome to be beat by a half a percentage point so he Could say "the election was stolen" for the rest of his life. This falls right in with what I've believed for some time. Trump would NOT take on the duties of POTUS, he's having fun because he's a mega-narcissist and getting tremendous attention on the campaign. See"Donald Trump Does NOT Want To Be President - He Will Never Take On The Duties of the POTUS" below.

2) "A third-party candidate doesn't have a snowballs chance in hell of winning." Response: No, they don't. But if we send a message that we won't stand for a rigged two party system, AND fight injustices like the media block out of 3rd party candidates, AND that we're done putting up with the current, corrupt, disrespectful, politicians that don't represent us, but represent 1%er's and large corporations, by a noticeable percentage of voters voting for a 3rd party candidate, we CAN CHANGE FUTURE ELECTIONS! The "movement" will be moving forward and growing as the message of "we WILL vote for 3rd party candidates" is acknowledged. 

3) "Although I like a lot of what is in Dr. Jill Stein's platform, there are things I disagree with." Response: You're not going to find a candidate running that is for all the positions that you are for, in ANY party. You certainly aren't going to find everything you want in what Trump and Clinton are saying and what they will actually do. Again how can you vote for someone like Trump who yesterday said "she has no right to criticize my campaign, she couldn't even beat Bernie." George Stephanopoulos had to remind him that "she DID beat Bernie," and Trump said "barely." Really?!

4) "What can we really do to get the "movement" or "revolution" to gain traction? Response: We can get behind groups, organizations, activists, that support 3rd party candidates and help their chances for future elections i.e. Anonymous Launches Campaign to Oppose Media Blackout of Green Candidate . 
   
5)  "We only have 98 days left before the election, what can we really get done?" Response: We can do a lot. We can get a percentage of the vote to make the two current parties see that we ARE ready to vote for 3rd parties. We can support, and work towards, getting obstacles for 3rd party candidates removed, so that in a future election a 3rd party candidate will actually have a chance to win!

Voting For A 3rd Party Candidate Won't "Give Trump A Win" But It Will Change The Way Our Election Process And The 1%er Owned Media Do Business In The Future 

     It is obvious that Dr. Jill Stein doesn't have "a snowballs chance in hell" of winning the presidential election but that doesn't mean that she can't do a lot for the American people,  the broke election process we are enduring, and 3rd party candidates in the future.  The media blackout on 3rd party candidates is not even disputed. Bernie Sanders, the Democratic primary, but he did do many good things, he got many issues put into the Democratic platform, he brought many young people into the election process, he got over 8 million people to make an average donation of $27 showing that you don't need 1%er's, corporations, and special interests, to make a run for office. Should a third party candidate get a respectable number of votes it will increase efforts by many to fight the issues surrounding 3rd party candidates for future elections. Issues like the media block, donations to 3rd parties, and many other obstacles that exist today. 

Which 3rd Party Candidate Has The Best Chance of Sending The Message?  

     Dr. Jill Stein, Presumptive Green Party candidate for President of the United States. @jillstein2016 - Jill2016 Jill Stein for President on Twitter, on Facebook Jill Stein for President 2016, is a candidate that is currently on the ballot in 31 states, her campaign is currently petition in 15 states, filed and awaiting results in 2 states and can be written in in Indiana and North Carolina. Look at Jill Stein's bio on Wikipedia   and the Green Parties Platform and see if your willing to send a very important message to the Republicans and Democrats.   

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Trump & Clinton Continue Blatant Lies - But They're Really Not Good At It

And The Lies Keep Coming From

 Trump and Clinton

By John A. Smith Founder/Editor August 2, 2016,

Trump Should Have Stayed OFF Sunday Shows 

Trump, Campaign, Try To Spin His Hateful, Racist Attacks On Khan Family

     On Thursday at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, site of the Democratic National Convention Khizr Khan, with his wife, Ghazala, by his side, made a speech. The Khan's lost their son, Humayun Khan in Iraq when he walked toward a suicide bomber and told the soldiers with him to get back. He saved his fellow soldiers but died when the bomber detonated his bomb. Humayun was posthumously awarded The Bronze Star and a Purple Heart. 

     In Khan's speech he said "you have sacrificed nothing, and no one." George Stephanopoulos on ABC News/This Week with George Stephanopoulos, asked Donald Trump, Republican Nominee for President of the United States about that statement and Trump responded "well that sounds so, who wrote that, did Hillary's scriptwriter's write that." This Sunday on NBC News/Meet the Press with Chuck Todd Khizr Khan said "the stewardship of this country needs to be in the hands of a person with moral compass, who can relate, who has some empathy with the citizen's he wishes to lead, this candidate (Trump) is void of both. On Saturday The Trump For President Campaign responded "Captain Humayun Khan was a hero to our country... the real problem here are the radical Islamic terrorists who killed him." 

     Republicans are also denouncing Trump with House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY.) condemning his Islamophobic attacks on the Muslim war hero’s family without mentioning his name, but falling short of withdrawing their support as reported in the Huffington Post. Read More: GOP Leaders Don’t Ditch Trump Even After Condemning His Attacks On Muslim War Hero’s Family . 

Trump Flaunts His Ignorance On Foreign Policy Again - His "Negotiation Skills" Aren't What They Were Trumped Up To Be Either

     For the author of "The Art of the Deal" and self-proclaimed "best negotiator ever" Trump and his "best people" pretty much let everything slide when forming the 2016 GOP Platform except for one thing, the part of the platform that encourages giving lethal weapons to the Ukraine to help ward off aggression from Russia. The Washington Post reports "Republican delegates at last week’s national security committee platform meeting in Cleveland were surprised when the Trump campaign orchestrated a set of events to make sure that the GOP would not pledge to give Ukraine the weapons it has been asking for from the United States." Read More: Trump campaign guts GOP’s anti-Russia stance on Ukraine . Where Trump wanted to soften the platform on same-sex-marriage and support for business decisions to deny certain services to same-sex couples Politico reports " While the party platform now bends toward Trump in some areas, other traditional planks of party orthodoxy remain firmly in place. Religious conservatives — without specifically swiping at Trump — rejected efforts by social moderates to soften the party’s stance against same-sex marriage. The Platform Committee on Monday afternoon added language defining marriage as the union between one man and one woman. And the platform also features language that embraces social conservative positions such as opposition to adoption by same-sex couples and support for business decisions to deny certain services to same-sex couples." Read More: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/donald-trump-republican-platform-225394#ixzz4G5UZ3vBM  His "best negotiation skills of anyone in the world" aren't showing here. Neither is his ability to "hire the best people," "the most knowledgeable people," "the best," for representing him in negotiations or for running his campaign for that matter.

Trump Loves Putin - danzcolorplus6543

Does Trump Have A Relationship With Putin?

      In 2013, 2014, and 2015, Donald Trump said he did have a relationship with Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin who is a Russian politician, and is the current President of the Russian Federation. Further into his interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABC/This Week... Trump claimed "I have no relationship with Vladimir Putin" right after which Stephanopoulos played clips  of Trump on MSNBC November 13, 2013 where the interviewer asked Trump "Do you have a relationship with Vladimir Putin, a conversational relationship, or anything where you feel you have sway over his government?" Trump responds "I do have a relationship and I can tell you he's very interested in what we're doing here, he's probably very interested in what you and I are saying and I'm sure he's going to see it in some form, but I do have a relationship with him." Following that clip Stephanopoulos asked "if you don't have a relationship with him they why did you say you did in 2013, 2014, and 2015?" Trump's response was "no I...what do you call a relationship? He says nice things about me, I have no relationship with Putin, I don't think I ever met him, I never met him, I don't think I ever met him (George interjects "you would remember if you met him wouldn't you?) Trump responded "yea, I think so." Another clip was played from May 27, 2014 where Trump gave a speech at the National Press Club and said "I was in Russia recently, I was in Moscow and I spoke indirectly, and directly, with President Putin and he could not have been nicer." Cut back to yesterday's interview on ABC/This Week where Stephanopoulos asked Trump directly "you never spoke to him on the phone" and Trump responds "I have never spoken to him on the phone." It went on and on with more clips and more direct contradictions and lies. Joe Scarborough on Morning Joe/MSNBC yesterday show that on November 23 2015 Donald Trump was quoted as saying "I have the world's greatest memory. It's one thing everyone agrees on." And on November 26, 2015 he (Trump) said "Despite having one of the all-time great memories..." Well it seems that if he did then it is failing miserably now. Finally, George Stephanopoulos asked "Why did you soften the GOP platform on Ukraine?" Trump: "ah, I wasn't involved, honestly, I wasn't involved, yea, I was not involved, I like to, ahhh I'd have to take a look at that, but I was not involved." George: "Do you know what they did? Trump: "They softened it, I heard, but I was not involved." George: "they took away the part of the platform calling for the provision of lethal weapons for Ukraine to defend themselves, why is that a good idea?" Trump: "look, I have my own ideas, he's not going into Ukraine, just so you understand, he's not going to go into Ukraine, you can mark it down, you can put it down, you can take it anyway you want." George Stephanopoulos: "He's already there isn't he?" Donald Trump: "Well he's there in a certain way but I'm not there, you have Obama there, frankly that whole part of the world is a mess under Obama with all the strength your talking about and all of the power of NATO, in the meantime he's going where he takes Crimea, he's sort of..." George: "but you said you might recognize that" Trump: "I'm going to take a look at that, but you know what the people of Crimea, from what I heard, would rather be with Russia, and you have to look at that also." Putin took Crimea by force! What and Who is telling him anything!!! 

How Could Anyone Who Reads This, Or Witnessed Donald Trump's Statements Yesterday Alone, Think That He Wouldn't Be a Possibly Fatal Error For This Country?

Let's Talk About The Candidate From The Other Party In Our "Two-Party" System of Democracy (or what's left of it) 

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Hillary Clinton Reverts Back To Original Lies On Sunday Shows - Yes, AFTER They Were Totally Discredited By F.B.I.

     Hillary Clinton, Democratic Nominee for President of the United States says F.B.I. Director called her "Truthful" on e-mails. On Fox News Sunday on March 10, 2015 Clinton said "I did NOT e-mail any, um, classified material on my e-mail, there is no classified material." On July 25, 2015 also on Fox News Sunday "I am confident that I never sent nor received any information that was classified at the time...," August 18, 2015 "I had ah, not sent ah, classified material nor received anything marked classified." Yesterday on Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace said to Clinton, on her first interview since the convention "After a long investigation F.B.I. Director James Comey said none of those things that you told the American public were true."  Clinton responded {first with the trademark fake smile} "Chris, that's not what I heard Director Comey say {then using 2nd signature trademark when she's answering questions she praises the question and/or the person asking the question} I thank you for giving me the opportunity to, ah, in my view, clarify, Director Comey said my answers were truthful and what I said is consistent with what I have told the American people, that there were decisions discussed and made to classify retroactively certain of the e-mails." Chris Wallace followed up with "But in a Congressional hearing on July 7th Director Comey directly contradicted what you had told the public." At that point he showed a clip from that hearing where Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) asked F.B.I. Director Comey "Secretary Clinton said there was nothing marked classified on her e-mails either sent or received, was that true?" Director Comey said "that's not true." Rep. Gowdy continued "Secretary Clinton said that I did not e-mail any classified material to anyone on my e-mail, there is no classified material, is that true?" Director Comey responded by saying "There was classified material on her e-mail." Chris Wallace then said "Not only did he contradict what you said, he also said in that hearing that you were extremely careless and negligent." Clinton: "Well Chris, I looked at the whole transcript of everything that was said and what I believe, number one, I made a mistake, not using two different e-mail addresses, I have said that, and I repeat it again today. It's not anything I would ever do again. I take classification seriously, I relied on, and had every reason to rely on the judgements of the professionals with whom I worked." Joe Scarborough played this same clip on Morning Joe/MSNBC and at this point they cut from Clinton saying what is above and show Joe laughing and he says "Oh my God, she just blamed people, professionals, that she forced to communicate with her through an unsecured e-mail! 

Hillary Almost Immediately "Promoted" Debbie Wasserman-Schultz When Leaked E-mails Proved The DNC Conspired Against The Sanders Campaign

     How does anyone see Hillary hiring, "Promoting," DWS as "Honorary Chairperson" of her campaign not being first, the biggest slap in the face to Bernie Sanders and his supporters; and secondly, rewarding a co-conspirator for doing the dirty work? Really?! Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL) did conspire to hurt the Sanders campaign. She, and the DNC, may have more problems.

     Salon, in an article, 10 reasons why #DemExit is serious: Getting rid of Debbie Wasserman Schultz is not enough on July 29, 2016 reported "Shortly after Bernie Sanders publicly endorsed Hillary Clinton a new hashtag trended on Twitter: #DemExit.  The hashtag offered Sanders supporters a chance to vent their frustrations with the Democratic Party and with the sense that their candidate had been pressured into an endorsement.  Rather than reach out to these disaffected voters, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) ignored them."

     Hillary Clinton has not only been caught lying to the American people on way to many occasions, but as of this past Sunday she has proved that she plans to go on doing the same thing. The fact that she knows she's lying, she knows that people know she's lying, and is arrogant enough to not care says it all.

What Are People Supposed To Do? 

     There is a third party choice. Green Party Presumptive Nominee for President of the United States, Dr. Jill Stein. Before you close this screen I ask you to read on just a little further. Not many people believe a third party candidate has a snowballs chance in hell in winning the office of the POTUS ninety-nine days from now. I'M WITH YOU! I don't believe Donald Trump has a snowballs chance in hell of winning the 2016 election for President of the United States either. I do believe a strong message needs to be sent to both the Democratic and Republican parties that Americans will fight to stop the media from "blocking" 3rd party candidates from getting any coverage. DecisionData.org  2016 Presidential Media Blackouts: Not Just Conspiracy , The Blaze Sanders Campaign Decries ‘Bernie Blackout’ on Corporate Network News  and {although reported by Breitbart - whom I don't usually use as a source but this is a straightforward story} Anonymous Launches Campaign to Oppose Media Blackout of Green Candidate recently published article bringing light to this fact. Call it firing a shot over the bow.

Poll 7/30/16 - 7/31/16 76.47% say they would consider voting for a 3rd party candidate

The next thing people say is "you will draw people away from Hillary and Donald Trump will win, and that's too scary." Well, here's my thoughts on that. If Hillary Clinton can be so arrogant as to totally disrespect Bernie supporters and Bernie himself, what makes you think that she is going to follow-up on ("90% of what Bernie wanted in the platform got into the platform") getting those issues that are important to Bernie Sanders and his supporters that were put into the platform implemented? She went along to get him to endorse her and hopefully draw his supporters over to her. When she saw it wasn't going that way she basically said SCREW YOU ALL when she promoted DWS whom conspired against Bernie. People who didn't like Hillary already and found her "untrustworthy" as 70% of all Americans do are supporting Trump because he says what they want to hear and/or are racist to the bone. I wonder how many Trump supporters actually think he would do the job as President? Although the results of a poll I conducted (results above) had only 17 participants, of those who voted 76.47% said they would consider voting for a third party candidate. The poll remains open. Take the one question poll now.

Send A Message That We Will NOT Be Disrespected and Be Cheated Out Of Our Democracy By The Current Two-Party Corrupt System - Trump Will Not Win the Election, Period

     Here are  some of the comments I get people whenever I ask if someone they would consider voting for a third-party candidate:

1) "I would but I'm afraid to because I don't want Trump to win." Response: Trump will NOT win this election, not even the Republicans want that. Their party has been hijacked by him. Even though this presidential election is the most important in decades due to the fact that anywhere from two to five U.S. Supreme Court Justices will be appointed I do not fear Trump winning. Today on Morning Joe/MSNBC Joe Scarborough said he had talked to someone very close to Trump and that friend said that Trump believes his best outcome to be beat by a half a percentage point so he Could say "the election was stolen" for the rest of his life. This falls right in with what I've believed for some time. Trump would NOT take on the duties of POTUS, he's having fun because he's a mega-narcissist and getting tremendous attention on the campaign. See"Donald Trump Does NOT Want To Be President - He Will Never Take On The Duties of the POTUS" below.


2) "A third-party candidate doesn't have a snowballs chance in hell of winning." Response: No, they don't. But if we send a message that we won't stand for a rigged two party system, AND fight injustices like the media block out of 3rd party candidates, AND that we're done putting up with the current, corrupt, disrespectful, politicians that don't represent us, but represent 1%er's and large corporations, by a noticeable percentage of voters voting for a 3rd party candidate, we CAN CHANGE FUTURE ELECTIONS! The "movement" will be moving forward and growing as the message of "we WILL vote for 3rd party candidates" is acknowledged. 

3) "Although I like a lot of what is in Dr. Jill Stein's platform, there are things I disagree with." Response: You're not going to find a candidate running that is for all the positions that you are for, in ANY party. You certainly aren't going to find everything you want in what Trump and Clinton are saying and what they will actually do. Again how can you vote for someone like Trump who yesterday said "she has no right to criticize my campaign, she couldn't even beat Bernie." George Stephanopoulos had to remind him that "she DID beat Bernie," and Trump said "barely." Really?!

4) "What can we really do to get the "movement" or "revolution" to gain traction? Response: We can get behind groups, organizations, activists, that support 3rd party candidates and help their chances for future elections i.e. Anonymous Launches Campaign to Oppose Media Blackout of Green Candidate . 
   
5)  "We only have 98 days left before the election, what can we really get done?" Response: We can do a lot. We can get a percentage of the vote to make the two current parties see that we ARE ready to vote for 3rd parties. We can support, and work towards, getting obstacles for 3rd party candidates removed, so that in a future election a 3rd party candidate will actually have a chance to win!

What 3rd Party Candidate Should We Look At If We Were For Bernie Sanders?

     Take a look at Dr. Jill Stein, Green Party Presumptive Nominee for President of the United States. Dr. Jill Stein is on the ballot in 47 states at this point.
    
     Jill Ellen Stein (born May 14, 1950) is an American physician, activist, and politician. She is currently the Green Party's presumptive nominee for President of the United States in the 2016 election.^[1][2][3] Stein was the nominee of the Green Party for President of the United States in 2012,^[4][5][6] and was twice a candidate for Governor of Massachusetts—in 2002 and 2010.^[7][8][9]
She received 469,501 votes in 2012 (0.36% of the total votes),^[10] more than any other female general election candidate.^[11] On June 22, 2015, during an appearance on Democracy Now!, Stein formally announced she would seek the Green Party's 2016 presidential nomination.^{[12]   Read More: From Wikipedia}

What Platform is Jill Stein Running on?

     It's called "Our Power To The People Plan." You'll see that the Green Party and Jill Stein want the same things that Bernie Sanders and his supporters want. See the entire platform here .

You've Told Us That The 1%er's Who Own The Media "Block Out" 3rd Party Candidates, Has Jill Stein Gotten Any Media Coverage?

     Yes. A Google search for "Media coverage for Jill Stein" brings up much coverage that is favorable to her and can be increased with pressure on media outlets from the people. An example would be "Jill Stein campaign deserves media coverage" by Green Bay Press Gazette. Here's an except: " Jill Stein is on the ballot for Wisconsin and her campaign is working to get on the ballot in all 50 states to give dissatisfied voters another choice in November. In a democratic society, the media should take seriously their responsibility to inform voters about their choices on the ballot. I look forward to the Green Bay Press-Gazette running balanced coverage of Jill Stein as the election approaches."  There is much more to read available on the search results page.

Donald Trump Does NOT Want To Be President - He Will Never Take On The Duties of the POTUS

     A couple months after Donald Trump declared he was running for President, someone interviewing him showed him pictures of former President George W. Bush and of President Barack Obama, they were portrayed wearing garb of the country they were visiting (separate events) and Trump was asked if he would go to other countries and wear their traditional garb. Trump's response was a very quick "NO! no, I would have someone else do that." Donald Trump Jr. was sent to vet Governor John Kasich (R-OH) as a potential running mate for Trump. He asked Governor Kasich what he thought about being the most "powerful Vice President in the history of America." Kasich responded "how would that be?" Donald replied "you would be in charge of ALL domestic and foreign policy." Kasich said "but that's everything, what would President Trump be doing?" Donald Jr. replied "making America great again." This morning on Morning Joe/MSNBC Joe Scarborough said "I'm having a conversation with someone, again, very close to Trump, he told me "Trump doesn't want to lose, but also doesn't want to really win and have to govern, his best case scenario would be to lose by a half of percentage point and be able to say the election was stolen from him for the rest of his life." "This person knows him extraordinarily well" said Joe Scarborough. Given the fact that this reporter is still flabbergasted that so many people say they support and want Trump to be President, I don't believe they will all actually vote for him, and even less think he will actually fulfill the duties and rigorous schedule of a POTUS. Yesterday on the campaign trail Trump told the crowd "I'm afraid the election is going to be stolen ... It takes guts to do this... I could be having a very nice life right now, I don't have to be with "you people" ranting and raving, right, I could be having a very nice life."

     Yesterday Warren Buffet, CEO, Berkshire Hathaway, and one of the richest men in the world, if not the richest, said "We've both done very well (Trump and himself) during this period and our families haven't sacrificed anything and Donald Trump and I haven't sacrificed anything. But how in the world can you stand up to a couple who have lost a son and talk about sacrificing because you have built a couple of buildings? I asked Donal Trump, have you no sense of decency sir?... "So he names the company after himself...for the next 10 years the company loses money every year, every single year, he takes out $44M in compensation during that period. In 1995 when he offered (Public Stock offering) this company, if a monkey had thrown a dart at the stock page the monkey on average would have made 150%." OH! SLAP! Did you hear it?

Hillary Clinton Will Not Work To Implement Those Issues Put Into The Democratic Platform By Bernie Sanders Influence

     HRC basically let Bernie know the deal they made for him to full throatily endorse her in exchange for some of his issues being put into the Democratic Platform wasn't going to be honored, on her part, by working for those issues, when she "promoted" Debbie Wasserman-Schultz to "Honorary Chairman" of her campaign. Yesterday on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace she reverted back to her old lies about her personal server and e-mails even though Chris Wallace showed her where F.B.I. Director Comey proved she was out right lying. She has the audacity to lie to the American people's face because she thinks we're that ignorant, or simply is so arrogant that she doesn't care, or both.
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