The paper this morning is full of stories about all things Trump. The result is that his severe character flaws are being given a drape of respectability. So lest any of my readers are tempted to succumb to his reasonableness as a candidate, I am writing this post.
The man in his past has used the legal structure to protect himself financially from his own bad decisions of which there were many. He has run poorly casinos using too much leverage, the proceeds of which flowed to him personally. He started an airline that went no where financially and then went out of business. He started a "university" that didn't teach people what it said it would and is now subject to potential class action law suits that are working their way through the court system as we speak. The profits of this university flowed to Trump while the student loans that financed this scam are a burden to those students. The only thing Trump does really well in business is lease his name in a risk free way. Others pay him in the hope that his name will bring them greater profits.
Put that all together, and Donald Trump is a financial rat. And none of that history illustrates to me a great propensity for him to be a steady leader of the nation who can work well with others. As far as I can tell from what I have seen of the type of people who work for Trump, he attracts dim witted yes men.
And where are his tax returns? I don't know when Presidential candidates started releasing them, but it is certainly time for Trump to release his.
Now his people suggest that his 1st 100 days will demonstrate that he is putting a team in place to improve things and he will not be disruptive to the economy. Yet, in his 1st 100 days he plans to confront multi-national companies and demand they move manufacturing jobs back to the U.S.. He will confront nations and demand that they pay for the U.S. military, while renegotiating trade agreements, and he will demand that Mexico pay for the wall he will be designing. He will over turn any number of Obama executive orders and start rounding up the 11 mm undocumented workers. And he will sign legislation repealing ObamaCare, without any replacement for those with pre-existing conditions or those who have benefits from the expansion of Medicaid. And he will appoint a Supreme Court justice in the mode of the late Justice Scalia. And he will ban Muslims from coming to America. Who will buy the Condo's in his next building? Will the Saudi's have to sell the Condo's they already own in his building? He doesn't think that all that will be disruptive to the basic economy around the world?
And let us remember his birthism campaign against President Obama. Ignoring the basic fact that there was no truth to it, Trump went on and on and on about it. To what end? What does his ignoring facts and using media to promote an ignorant belief tells us about his character.
If all that were not enough reason to vote for Hillary, there is one more big reason. Trump attracts support from those who are tired of political correctness. At a basic level these are people who think they have the right to not have to be part of anything politically correct because it violates their personal rights. So the remnants of the KKK support Donald Trump. Old Navy puts out an ad with a bi-racial family in it, and social media erupts with hatred for Old Navy for doing so. Trump's success encourages active racism and hatred, even tho he personally is tolerant of races and personal sexuality preferences. If Trump were President, would we be seeing Jim Crow acts start up again? Would minorities have any protection from racist white's?
I could go on citing specifics in the articles, but I am out of time and I think this post is long enough.
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