2016 elections - because it's never too early

[jimmy olsen]

Donald sez to look up the sex tape on the fat chick. But doesn't provide a link.

Bad form Donnie. 

The girl from the time period in question. Not exactly a whale.

[DGuller]

Where did her feet go?

[jimmy olsen]

Lol, how has this guy stayed rich?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/newly-released-video-deposition-shows-trump-in-character-winging-it-224435335.html

Donald Trump doesn't prepare for depositions any more, it seems, than he prepares for presidential debates.

"What did you do to prepare for the case today, for the deposition?" he was asked by a lawyer for restauranteur Geoffrey Zakarian, in a videotaped June 16 deposition that was released by a Washington, D.C., judge today.

"I would say virtually nothing," Trump replies on camera, matter-of-factly.

Did he review any documents? Zakarian's lawyer wanted to know.

"No, I didn't," Trump replies.

In short, Trump was just winging it — just like many believe he's been doing as a presidential candidate all along.

Trump is restrained and composed throughout the deposition and there are no explosive exchanges that are likely to impact his candidacy. Still, the videotape is revealing, shedding new light on how Trump conducts his business, and to a lesser extent, his campaign for the presidency.

Trump acknowledges, for example, that despite running a multibillion-dollar real estate empire, he doesn't take notes, doesn't use email and doesn't read leases before he signs them.

He also doesn't believe he's said "anything so bad" during his  campaign — otherwise how did he ever become the Republican nominee for president?

"I obviously have credibility," Trump says early on in the deposition, because he ran against 17 people for the GOP nomination, "mostly senators and governors, highly respected people," and he beat them all.

"So it's not like, you know, like I've said anything that could be so bad. Because If I said something that was so bad, they wouldn't have had me go through all of these people and win all of these primary races. And I'm pretty even in the polls or close to even in the polls right now."

The comments that weren't "so bad" — and have become the central issue in the Zakarian lawsuit — were those that kicked off his presidential campaign last year about the immigrants he said Mexico was "sending" to the United States. "They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists," he said then.

Trump acknowledged that he was essentially winging those as well. Not only did he not write it out before he delivered his speech, he didn't consult with anybody about what he was going to say.

"With respect to the speech that you made, and specifically, the focus on Mexicans and immigrants, did you write the statement in advance? Was it written?" Zakarian's lawyer, Deborah Baum, asks him.

"No," Trump replies.

"And did you plan in advance what you were going to say?"

"Yes."

"Okay. Did you talk to other people about it?"

"No."

"Did you give any thought to the effect your statement relative to Mexicans and immigrants would have on tenants in your current or future projects?

"No. No, I didn't. I didn't at all."

The deposition came in a lawsuit brought by Trump last year after the restaurateur broke off a deal to open up an eatery in Trump's new hotel in downtown Washington. Zakarian claimed that  the real estate mogul's comments would damage his brand and hurt his business, justifying his decision to break off a lease he had already signed.

From Trump's perspective, that's breach of contract: "He's got a lease. He's got to pay his rent," Trump argues in the deposition.

But the true significance of the deposition is that it may remind voters of just how litigious Trump is. He brought his lawsuit against Zakarian and another one against celebrity chef José Andrés, who also pulled out of a deal to open up a restaurant in the new Trump hotel, after he began his campaign for president.

Motions in both cases, by Trump's lawyers and his antagonists, to prevail on summary judgment have both recently been dismissed. That means that, barring a settlement (and Trump likes to boast that he doesn't settle lawsuits), both cases are now headed for trial.

And that's not all. There are also three pending lawsuits against Trump, accusing him of fraud in his running of Trump University, one of them slated to go to trial in federal court before U.S. Judge Gonzalo Curiel in San Diego this November 28, just a few weeks after the presidential election.

Last year, a Florida lawyer who has sued Trump predicted that a Trump presidency could end up being "a litigation circus," with multiple depositions, trials and courtroom grillings even as the real estate mogul seeks to run the country. The newly released video deposition in the Zakarian case underscores just what a circus it could be.

[Ed Anger]

Donald sez to look up the sex tape on the fat chick. But doesn't provide a link.

Bad form Donnie. 

The girl from the time period in question. Not exactly a whale.

Fat.

And quit stalking my posts, perv.

[jimmy olsen]

Donald sez to look up the sex tape on the fat chick. But doesn't provide a link.

Bad form Donnie. 

Fat.

And quit stalking my posts, perv.
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Notice me Senpai!

Here's a soft core movie that Donald cameoed in

https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/donald-trump-appeared-in-a-2000-playboy-softcore-porn?utm_term=.ahj13JmkzB#.xePP1rL9yQ

[jimmy olsen]

Donald sez to look up the sex tape on the fat chick. But doesn't provide a link.

Bad form Donnie. 

Fat.

And quit stalking my posts, perv.

Notice me Senpai!

Here's a soft core movie that Donald cameoed in

https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/donald-trump-appeared-in-a-2000-playboy-softcore-porn?utm_term=.ahj13JmkzB#.xePP1rL9yQ

[Razgovory]

Goofy ass stoners.  See, that's why "Libertarians" are completely unrealistic, just like any other one-issue party.

It sounds like Gary Johnson's running mate isn't even going to vote for him.

[jimmy olsen]

Doom!

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/states-major-election-hacking-228978#ixzz4LmSzzccW

Hackers have intensely probed state voter registration systems in more than 20 states, a DHS official told POLITICO on Friday.

The revelation comes amid fears that the electoral system is vulnerable to digital meddling, following a series of suspected Russian hacks of Democratic organizations, party officials and state election networks.

GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump's has fueled these concerns with proclamations that the election will be "rigged."

The DHS official — speaking on background because of the subject's sensitive nature — explained that hackers of all stripes are constantly testing the digital defenses of every state's public-facing election systems. But in 20-plus states, the agency determined that these intrusion attempts have become what DHS calls "probing of concern."

"It's reached a threshold of some concern," the official told POLITICO, cautioning that the majority of states were not experiencing successful intrusions.

The federal government has focused more attention on state voting systems in the wake of confirmed digital intrusions into voter rolls in Arizona and Illinois.

The FBI and DHS asked states to look for hacking attempts coming from the IP addresses linked to those intrusions. That filtering exposed the maelstrom of attacks on state election systems that officials are now trying to analyze.

"It's not to say that people weren't constantly trying to probe all these different websites" before the Arizona and Illinois incidents, said the DHS official. "I would imagine they probably were."

[CountDeMoney]

lol, Trump wins Oregon.

[jimmy olsen]

How surprising 

http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2016/09/time-donald-trump-called-saudi-arabia-good-place-get-divorce

In order to avoid admitting to cheating on his wife, Donald Trump invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination 97 times during his divorce proceedings with Ivana Trump in 1990, the Huffington Post reported Friday. So it should come as little surprise that Trump had kind words for a system that allows men to divorce their wives without going to court: Saudi Arabia's Shariah law.

The Republican presidential candidate praised the Islamic law, or Shariah, system during a 60-second syndicated daily radio commentary called "Trumped!" that he recorded from 2004 to 2008. In a January 2008 segment, Trump discussed a news story of a Saudi man who had divorced his wife for watching a television show while alone at home because, in Trump's telling, the husband considered it tantamount to being alone with a strange man.

"Men in Saudi Arabia have the authority to divorce their wives without going to the courts," Trump said. "I guess that would also mean they don't need prenuptial agreements. The fact is, no courts, no judges—Saudi Arabia sounds like a very good place to get a divorce."

....

[jimmy olsen]

I'm amazed Ted Ceuz didn't hammer him on this shit during the Republican primary.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/trump-opinions-on-sex-tapes-228969#ixzz4LnesKtrs

Donald Trump wasn't always so disgusted by sex tapes
By BEN SCHRECKINGER 09/30/16 02:48 PM EDT

In an early morning tweet storm, Donald Trump lashed out at former Miss Universe Alicia Machado Friday, calling her "disgusting" for allegedly appearing in a sex tape.

Machado has starred in risqué reality TV programs and posed nude for the Mexican version of Playboy magazine, the Daily Beast and other outlets that investigated the claim found no evidence that she has starred in any pornographic films and that the clips posted online actually feature another woman.

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But Trump's views on sex tapes seem to be continually evolving, because in his long history in public life, he has taken a variety of stands on such tapes — and on how the women in them should be regarded.

One pattern does emerge: If the woman is a friend, he considers the tape a non-issue at worst. If it's someone he's feuding with, then he thinks she has some explaining to do.

(A Trump campaign spokeswoman did not respond to a request for comment.)

Here are 6 public statements Trump has made about sex tapes.

1. In a 2003 interview with Howard Stern, Trump praised Paris Hilton and said her "probably unfortunate" online sex tape likely helped her career.

TRUMP: "I've known Paris Hilton from the time she's 12."

STERN: "She's hot."

TRUMP: "Her parents are friends of mine and the first time I saw her she walked into a room and I said, 'Who the hell is that?'"

STERN: "Did you want to bang her?"

TRUMP: "She's a very ... Well, at 12 I wasn't interested. I've never been into that. They've sort of always stuck around that 25 category."

...

STERN: "Have you seen the video, the sex video?"

TRUMP: "I have seen it."

STERN: "You did? What did you do? You went on the Internet?"

TRUMP: "No, it was just on the Internet."

STERN: "How did you see that? What did you do?"

TRUMP: "Melania showed it to me."

STERN: "What did you think of that? Did you see ..."

TRUMP: "I think it's probably unfortunate and perhaps it made ... What is that noise?"

STERN: "That's the tape."

TRUMP: "All right. I think it's probably unfortunate and it made Paris hotter in terms of the world because the world is so screwed up. I mean, you think a thing like that is going to destroy, like Hugh Grant who I love. I think he's great. He's a member of my golf club. You would have think he would have been destroyed by what happened to him and he's the biggest star now than he ever was, so you never know what happens but I think it probably made Paris even better.

2. In 2004, according to an Associated Press article, Trump pitched Hilton to host the Miss USA Pageant and her sex tape didn't "bother" him.

Trump told Us Weekly magazine he got the idea while Hilton's parents, Kathy and Rick, were visiting him at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla. And he said Hilton's infamous Internet sex tape doesn't bother him. "I've known Paris since she was a little girl," Trump said. "She's a fine girl ... I think she will give the pageant its highest TV ratings."

3. In a 2005 interview with Vanity Fair, Trump said the sex tape made Hilton "hotter."

"I hate what happened with that sex tape, but it only made her hotter," Trump told Vanity Fair in October 2005.

4. In 2009, Trump called on Miss USA runner-up Carrie Prejean to release a sex tape she made at age 17.

Prejean, dueling with Trump over her dismissal as Miss USA, had criticized Trump in a book for allegedly sorting contestants in his pageants by how sexually attracted he was to them. She had also recently said she filmed an erotic video for her boyfriend when she was 17, calling it her "biggest mistake."

In response, Trump told the television show Extra: "She's trying to act like she's a nun... so maybe she should release the sex tape and people would see whether or not she is a nun."

5. Days later, Trump again called on Prejean to release the underage sex tape on CNN.

"As far as the sex tape, I guess Carrie was the one that told people about the sex tape. She openly admits there is a sex tape. Maybe she should reveal the sex tape to see whether or not it's horrendous or whatever." [Showbiz Tonight, 11/12/09]

6. Early Friday morning, Trump tweeted that Machado is "disgusting" and encouraged the public to "check out [her] sex tape and past."

"Did Crooked Hillary help disgusting (check out sex tape and past) Alicia M become a U.S. citizen so she could use her in the debate?"

[celedhring]

I don't understand why he's getting bogged down in this. Picking a fight about some Venezuelan Miss. 

He's so easily baited and as such thin skin it's risible - and scary.

[Legbiter]

Clinton continues her charm offensive. 

Hacked audio of a conversation between Hillary Clinton and donors during a February fundraising event shows the Democrat nominee describing Bernie Sanders supporters as "children of the Great Recession" who are "living in their parents' basement."

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-supporters-audio-leak-228997

[Legbiter]

Donald sez to look up the sex tape on the fat chick. But doesn't provide a link.

Bad form Donnie. 

The girl from the time period in question. Not exactly a whale.

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

And there's Donnie fatshaming her and being all deplorable back in 1997.

[Tonitrus]

Listening to Trumps's deposition that was released(for funsies), regarding his lawsuit about a restaurant in his DC Old Post Office hotel...I keep hearing his lawyer objecting to questions that Trump then just goes ahead and answers.  I gotta wonder if that kind of behavior would make our resident lawyers cringe (profressionally).