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Jun 15, 2020 10:50:50   #
moldyoldy
 
https://news.yahoo.com/revealed-family-member-turned-trump-235853708.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&uh_test=1_04

Donald Trump’s niece, his deceased brother’s daughter, is set to publish a tell-all book this summer that will detail “harrowing and salacious” stories about the president, according to people with knowledge of the project.

Mary Trump, 55, the daughter of Fred Trump Jr. and eldest grandchild of Fred Trump Sr., is scheduled to release Too Much And Never Enough on Aug. 11, just weeks before the Republican National Convention.

One of the most explosive revelations Mary will detail in the book, according to people familiar with the matter, is how she played a critical role helping The New York Times print startling revelations about Trump’s taxes, including how he was involved in “fraudulent” tax schemes and had received more than $400 million in today’s dollars from his father’s real estate empire.

As she is set to outline in her book, Mary was a primary source for the paper's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation, supplying Fred Trump Sr.’s tax returns and other highly confidential family financial documentation to the paper.

Mary Trump has kept out of the public eye and has not spoken publicly in decades—but in 2000, amidst a bitter family court battle over Fred Trump Sr.’s will, she told the New York Daily News, "Given this family, it would be utterly naive to say it has nothing to do with money. But for both me and my brother, it has much more to do with that our father [Fred Jr.] be recognized," she said.

Fred Trump Jr., the firstborn son and once the heir apparent to his father’s real estate empire, worked for T***s World Airlines after turning his back on the family business.

He died in 1981 aged just 42 from a heart attack owing to complications from his alcoholism, leaving behind a son, Fred the 3rd, and daughter Mary, who has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology.

The circumstances of Fred Trump Jr.’s descent into alcoholism are also aired in the book, with allegations that Donald and Fred Trump Sr. contributed to his death and neglected him at critical stages of his addiction.

In a 2019 interview, Donald Trump admitted to pressuring his brother over his career choices but said he had come to regret it. “I do regret having put pressure on him,” Trump told The Washington Post. Discussing his brother and the family business Trump said it “was just something he was never going to want” to do.

“It was just not his thing... I think the mistake that we made was we assumed that everybody would like it. That would be the biggest mistake... There was sort of a double pressure put on him,” Trump admitted.

After Fred Jr.’s children brought their messy court case against the family—contesting their grandfather’s will and alleging it was “procured by fraud and undue influence” on the part of Donald and his siblings—they highlighted Donald’s callous treatment of family members as he, along with siblings Maryanne and Robert, cut off the medical benefits to his nephew’s sick child William, who was born with cerebral palsy. The move, the family said at the time, was payback for Mary and Fred the 3rd’s challenge to the will.

That court case produced a treasure trove of confidential and highly sensitive Trump family financial documents, including Fred Trump Sr.’s tax returns, which almost two decades later would fall into the hands of The New York Times and form the basis for one of the most stunning pieces of journalism in recent years.

In June of 2019, The Daily Beast reported how The New York Times Trump tax team imploded when four-time Pulitzer Prize-winner David Barstow went rogue, aggressively pursuing a source of their groundbreaking investigation to ghostwrite a book and secure a six-figure payday—a move explicitly forbidden by the Times’ ethics rules.

That story detailed how Barstow went behind his colleagues’ backs and pursued the source—who was not his source to begin with—even after his editors told him not to do the book.

Barstow even went so far as to make a surprise visit to the source’s residence after they ceased communications with him, staying at least three hours, and ringing the front and back doorbells multiple times as the person hid in their home.

“The source was freaked out. The source felt invaded. They ended up hiding until he left the residence,” a person with knowledge of the situation told The Daily Beast at the time, adding that the source considered calling the police.

While Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet backed Barstow over his questionable ethical decisions and Barstow claimed he acted appropriately, he soon left the paper to take up a position leading the University of California Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism’s investigative reporting program.

At the time of publication, The Daily Beast did not name the source and took extensive measures to protect their identity. In the upcoming book, however, Mary Trump will out herself as a source for the Times and detail her involvement working with journalists Russ Buettner, Susanne Craig, and Barstow to crack the story, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

The book is sure to send shock waves through Washington and the Trump family just months before the e******n and it comes hot on the heels of John Bolton’s much-anticipated memoir. But unlike all the books by former Trump staffers, this is the first time a Trump family member has written a tell-all that is highly critical of the president.

The bad blood between President Trump and his niece dates back 20 years to the fight over Fred Trump Sr.’s will and the actions he took to cut off financial and medical support for her brother’s ill child. Now that feud is about to spill out into the public eye during a critical e******n year, with the president struggling to shore up his plummeting popularity.

“My aunt and uncles should be ashamed of themselves,” Mary Trump said about Donald Trump and his siblings in that rare 2000 interview, which provides a preview of the tone of her book. “I'm sure they are not.”

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Jun 15, 2020 11:02:18   #
moldyoldy
 
https://news.yahoo.com/bolton-book-claims-trump-committed-163444821.html

Donald Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton is set to claim in a bombshell book that the president has committed “Ukraine-like t***sgressions” across his entire foreign policy, far beyond the alleged misconduct he was impeached for.

He will also describe his attempts and those by “others in the administration to raise alarms about them”, according to a press release on Friday about the forthcoming memoir.

Bolton, a staunch conservative who previously served as Republican president George W Bush’s hawkish ambassador to the United Nations, will criticize the Democrat-led impeachment inquiry for focusing solely on Trump’s alleged bid to pressure the leader of Ukraine into damaging the reputation of Trump’s e******n opponent Joe Biden, while leaving out much wider accusations of similar wrongdoing.

Trump was acquitted by the Republican-led Senate in his impeachment trial early in 2020.

Bolton will argue in his book, The Room Where It Happened, that the Democrat-led House of Representatives committed “impeachment malpractice” by impeaching Trump over his Ukraine dealings when, it is suggested in the book, the president had committed other “Ukraine-like t***sgressions”.

The press release for the book teases that Bolton will describe the t***sgressions.

New York publishers Simon & Schuster boasted: “This is the book Donald Trump doesn’t want you to read.”

The White House has fought to block the book, claiming in January that it contained classified information. The book is now due out on 23 June.

Bolton was ousted last September after months of disagreement over America’s foreign policy approach, especially Trump’s freewheeling ways, amid revelations of searing internal divisions within Trump’s inner circle. Trump said he had “disagreed strongly” with Bolton, who claimed he was in the process of resigning when Trump moved to fire him.

According to the release on Friday, the new book “argues that the House committed impeachment malpractice by keeping their prosecution focused narrowly on Ukraine when Trump’s Ukraine-like t***sgressions existed across the full range of his foreign policy – and Bolton documents exactly what those were, and attempts by him and others in the administration to raise alarms about them”.

Critics will probably pounce on Bolton for not publicly raising concerns about these “t***sgressions” while they were occurring – and for later refusing to testify to the House about them. Bolton refused to provide a deposition during the impeachment inquiry.

Bolton also criticizes Trump for focusing solely on his chances of re-e******n as he made major policy decisions. “I am hard-pressed to identify any significant Trump decision during my tenure that wasn’t driven by re-e******n calculations,” he writes.

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Jun 15, 2020 11:17:50   #
Michael Rich Loc: Lapine Oregon
 
moldyoldy wrote:
https://news.yahoo.com/revealed-family-member-turned-trump-235853708.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&uh_test=1_04

Donald Trump’s niece, his deceased brother’s daughter, is set to publish a tell-all book this summer that will detail “harrowing and salacious” stories about the president, according to people with knowledge of the project.

Mary Trump, 55, the daughter of Fred Trump Jr. and eldest grandchild of Fred Trump Sr., is scheduled to release Too Much And Never Enough on Aug. 11, just weeks before the Republican National Convention.

One of the most explosive revelations Mary will detail in the book, according to people familiar with the matter, is how she played a critical role helping The New York Times print startling revelations about Trump’s taxes, including how he was involved in “fraudulent” tax schemes and had received more than $400 million in today’s dollars from his father’s real estate empire.

As she is set to outline in her book, Mary was a primary source for the paper's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation, supplying Fred Trump Sr.’s tax returns and other highly confidential family financial documentation to the paper.

Mary Trump has kept out of the public eye and has not spoken publicly in decades—but in 2000, amidst a bitter family court battle over Fred Trump Sr.’s will, she told the New York Daily News, "Given this family, it would be utterly naive to say it has nothing to do with money. But for both me and my brother, it has much more to do with that our father [Fred Jr.] be recognized," she said.

Fred Trump Jr., the firstborn son and once the heir apparent to his father’s real estate empire, worked for T***s World Airlines after turning his back on the family business.

He died in 1981 aged just 42 from a heart attack owing to complications from his alcoholism, leaving behind a son, Fred the 3rd, and daughter Mary, who has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology.

The circumstances of Fred Trump Jr.’s descent into alcoholism are also aired in the book, with allegations that Donald and Fred Trump Sr. contributed to his death and neglected him at critical stages of his addiction.

In a 2019 interview, Donald Trump admitted to pressuring his brother over his career choices but said he had come to regret it. “I do regret having put pressure on him,” Trump told The Washington Post. Discussing his brother and the family business Trump said it “was just something he was never going to want” to do.

“It was just not his thing... I think the mistake that we made was we assumed that everybody would like it. That would be the biggest mistake... There was sort of a double pressure put on him,” Trump admitted.

After Fred Jr.’s children brought their messy court case against the family—contesting their grandfather’s will and alleging it was “procured by fraud and undue influence” on the part of Donald and his siblings—they highlighted Donald’s callous treatment of family members as he, along with siblings Maryanne and Robert, cut off the medical benefits to his nephew’s sick child William, who was born with cerebral palsy. The move, the family said at the time, was payback for Mary and Fred the 3rd’s challenge to the will.

That court case produced a treasure trove of confidential and highly sensitive Trump family financial documents, including Fred Trump Sr.’s tax returns, which almost two decades later would fall into the hands of The New York Times and form the basis for one of the most stunning pieces of journalism in recent years.

In June of 2019, The Daily Beast reported how The New York Times Trump tax team imploded when four-time Pulitzer Prize-winner David Barstow went rogue, aggressively pursuing a source of their groundbreaking investigation to ghostwrite a book and secure a six-figure payday—a move explicitly forbidden by the Times’ ethics rules.

That story detailed how Barstow went behind his colleagues’ backs and pursued the source—who was not his source to begin with—even after his editors told him not to do the book.

Barstow even went so far as to make a surprise visit to the source’s residence after they ceased communications with him, staying at least three hours, and ringing the front and back doorbells multiple times as the person hid in their home.

“The source was freaked out. The source felt invaded. They ended up hiding until he left the residence,” a person with knowledge of the situation told The Daily Beast at the time, adding that the source considered calling the police.

While Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet backed Barstow over his questionable ethical decisions and Barstow claimed he acted appropriately, he soon left the paper to take up a position leading the University of California Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism’s investigative reporting program.

At the time of publication, The Daily Beast did not name the source and took extensive measures to protect their identity. In the upcoming book, however, Mary Trump will out herself as a source for the Times and detail her involvement working with journalists Russ Buettner, Susanne Craig, and Barstow to crack the story, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

The book is sure to send shock waves through Washington and the Trump family just months before the e******n and it comes hot on the heels of John Bolton’s much-anticipated memoir. But unlike all the books by former Trump staffers, this is the first time a Trump family member has written a tell-all that is highly critical of the president.

The bad blood between President Trump and his niece dates back 20 years to the fight over Fred Trump Sr.’s will and the actions he took to cut off financial and medical support for her brother’s ill child. Now that feud is about to spill out into the public eye during a critical e******n year, with the president struggling to shore up his plummeting popularity.

“My aunt and uncles should be ashamed of themselves,” Mary Trump said about Donald Trump and his siblings in that rare 2000 interview, which provides a preview of the tone of her book. “I'm sure they are not.”
https://news.yahoo.com/revealed-family-member-turn... (show quote)



Yahoo?......the same i***ts who promoted the debunked Steele dossier.

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Jun 15, 2020 11:18:43   #
ldsuttonjr Loc: ShangriLa
 
moldy: Get over it! Durp!

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Jun 15, 2020 11:25:29   #
SWMBO
 
byronglimish wrote:
Yahoo?......the same i***ts who promoted the debunked Steele dossier.


Yes, that Yahoo and probably with no more factual information than the Steele dossier.

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Jun 15, 2020 11:38:37   #
moldyoldy
 
Now if only you all were smart enough to read who wrote the stories.

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Jun 15, 2020 12:02:50   #
Seth
 
moldyoldy wrote:
https://news.yahoo.com/revealed-family-member-turned-trump-235853708.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&uh_test=1_04

Donald Trump’s niece, his deceased brother’s daughter, is set to publish a tell-all book this summer that will detail “harrowing and salacious” stories about the president, according to people with knowledge of the project.

Mary Trump, 55, the daughter of Fred Trump Jr. and eldest grandchild of Fred Trump Sr., is scheduled to release Too Much And Never Enough on Aug. 11, just weeks before the Republican National Convention.

One of the most explosive revelations Mary will detail in the book, according to people familiar with the matter, is how she played a critical role helping The New York Times print startling revelations about Trump’s taxes, including how he was involved in “fraudulent” tax schemes and had received more than $400 million in today’s dollars from his father’s real estate empire.

As she is set to outline in her book, Mary was a primary source for the paper's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation, supplying Fred Trump Sr.’s tax returns and other highly confidential family financial documentation to the paper.

Mary Trump has kept out of the public eye and has not spoken publicly in decades—but in 2000, amidst a bitter family court battle over Fred Trump Sr.’s will, she told the New York Daily News, "Given this family, it would be utterly naive to say it has nothing to do with money. But for both me and my brother, it has much more to do with that our father [Fred Jr.] be recognized," she said.

Fred Trump Jr., the firstborn son and once the heir apparent to his father’s real estate empire, worked for T***s World Airlines after turning his back on the family business.

He died in 1981 aged just 42 from a heart attack owing to complications from his alcoholism, leaving behind a son, Fred the 3rd, and daughter Mary, who has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology.

The circumstances of Fred Trump Jr.’s descent into alcoholism are also aired in the book, with allegations that Donald and Fred Trump Sr. contributed to his death and neglected him at critical stages of his addiction.

In a 2019 interview, Donald Trump admitted to pressuring his brother over his career choices but said he had come to regret it. “I do regret having put pressure on him,” Trump told The Washington Post. Discussing his brother and the family business Trump said it “was just something he was never going to want” to do.

“It was just not his thing... I think the mistake that we made was we assumed that everybody would like it. That would be the biggest mistake... There was sort of a double pressure put on him,” Trump admitted.

After Fred Jr.’s children brought their messy court case against the family—contesting their grandfather’s will and alleging it was “procured by fraud and undue influence” on the part of Donald and his siblings—they highlighted Donald’s callous treatment of family members as he, along with siblings Maryanne and Robert, cut off the medical benefits to his nephew’s sick child William, who was born with cerebral palsy. The move, the family said at the time, was payback for Mary and Fred the 3rd’s challenge to the will.

That court case produced a treasure trove of confidential and highly sensitive Trump family financial documents, including Fred Trump Sr.’s tax returns, which almost two decades later would fall into the hands of The New York Times and form the basis for one of the most stunning pieces of journalism in recent years.

In June of 2019, The Daily Beast reported how The New York Times Trump tax team imploded when four-time Pulitzer Prize-winner David Barstow went rogue, aggressively pursuing a source of their groundbreaking investigation to ghostwrite a book and secure a six-figure payday—a move explicitly forbidden by the Times’ ethics rules.

That story detailed how Barstow went behind his colleagues’ backs and pursued the source—who was not his source to begin with—even after his editors told him not to do the book.

Barstow even went so far as to make a surprise visit to the source’s residence after they ceased communications with him, staying at least three hours, and ringing the front and back doorbells multiple times as the person hid in their home.

“The source was freaked out. The source felt invaded. They ended up hiding until he left the residence,” a person with knowledge of the situation told The Daily Beast at the time, adding that the source considered calling the police.

While Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet backed Barstow over his questionable ethical decisions and Barstow claimed he acted appropriately, he soon left the paper to take up a position leading the University of California Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism’s investigative reporting program.

At the time of publication, The Daily Beast did not name the source and took extensive measures to protect their identity. In the upcoming book, however, Mary Trump will out herself as a source for the Times and detail her involvement working with journalists Russ Buettner, Susanne Craig, and Barstow to crack the story, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

The book is sure to send shock waves through Washington and the Trump family just months before the e******n and it comes hot on the heels of John Bolton’s much-anticipated memoir. But unlike all the books by former Trump staffers, this is the first time a Trump family member has written a tell-all that is highly critical of the president.

The bad blood between President Trump and his niece dates back 20 years to the fight over Fred Trump Sr.’s will and the actions he took to cut off financial and medical support for her brother’s ill child. Now that feud is about to spill out into the public eye during a critical e******n year, with the president struggling to shore up his plummeting popularity.

“My aunt and uncles should be ashamed of themselves,” Mary Trump said about Donald Trump and his siblings in that rare 2000 interview, which provides a preview of the tone of her book. “I'm sure they are not.”
https://news.yahoo.com/revealed-family-member-turn... (show quote)


And you think this book by a disgruntled relative will make a difference...how?

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Jun 15, 2020 12:06:03   #
Seth
 
moldyoldy wrote:
https://news.yahoo.com/bolton-book-claims-trump-committed-163444821.html

Donald Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton is set to claim in a bombshell book that the president has committed “Ukraine-like t***sgressions” across his entire foreign policy, far beyond the alleged misconduct he was impeached for.

He will also describe his attempts and those by “others in the administration to raise alarms about them”, according to a press release on Friday about the forthcoming memoir.

Bolton, a staunch conservative who previously served as Republican president George W Bush’s hawkish ambassador to the United Nations, will criticize the Democrat-led impeachment inquiry for focusing solely on Trump’s alleged bid to pressure the leader of Ukraine into damaging the reputation of Trump’s e******n opponent Joe Biden, while leaving out much wider accusations of similar wrongdoing.

Trump was acquitted by the Republican-led Senate in his impeachment trial early in 2020.

Bolton will argue in his book, The Room Where It Happened, that the Democrat-led House of Representatives committed “impeachment malpractice” by impeaching Trump over his Ukraine dealings when, it is suggested in the book, the president had committed other “Ukraine-like t***sgressions”.

The press release for the book teases that Bolton will describe the t***sgressions.

New York publishers Simon & Schuster boasted: “This is the book Donald Trump doesn’t want you to read.”

The White House has fought to block the book, claiming in January that it contained classified information. The book is now due out on 23 June.

Bolton was ousted last September after months of disagreement over America’s foreign policy approach, especially Trump’s freewheeling ways, amid revelations of searing internal divisions within Trump’s inner circle. Trump said he had “disagreed strongly” with Bolton, who claimed he was in the process of resigning when Trump moved to fire him.

According to the release on Friday, the new book “argues that the House committed impeachment malpractice by keeping their prosecution focused narrowly on Ukraine when Trump’s Ukraine-like t***sgressions existed across the full range of his foreign policy – and Bolton documents exactly what those were, and attempts by him and others in the administration to raise alarms about them”.

Critics will probably pounce on Bolton for not publicly raising concerns about these “t***sgressions” while they were occurring – and for later refusing to testify to the House about them. Bolton refused to provide a deposition during the impeachment inquiry.

Bolton also criticizes Trump for focusing solely on his chances of re-e******n as he made major policy decisions. “I am hard-pressed to identify any significant Trump decision during my tenure that wasn’t driven by re-e******n calculations,” he writes.
https://news.yahoo.com/bolton-book-claims-trump-co... (show quote)


And you think this book by a disgruntled, fired former administration employee will make a difference...how?

For years, your ilk called Bolton everything from a f*****t to a war monger. Now he's your hero.

As I said elsewhere, your ilk are to hypocrisy what Rembrandt was to art.

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Jun 15, 2020 12:12:12   #
moldyoldy
 
Seth wrote:
And you think this book by a disgruntled, fired former administration employee will make a difference...how?

For years, your ilk called Bolton everything from a f*****t to a war monger. Now he's your hero.

As I said elsewhere, your ilk are to hypocrisy what Rembrandt was to art.


Bolton will never be a hero, but he can expose the criminality of trump.

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Jun 15, 2020 12:27:24   #
Seth
 
moldyoldy wrote:
Bolton will never be a hero, but he can expose the criminality of trump.


Of what criminality do you speak?

If you come right down to it, your side's the one that's always yelling that Republicans are warmongers, yet President Trump has bent over backwards to avoid committing U.S. troops to foreign wars.

Meanwhile, Bolton has always wanted to send our forces all over the place to project our military might, which didn't sit well with Trump; he grew tired of having Bolton produce nothing but war plans, and got rid of him.

So what's your problem?

You know what's obvious? You could care less about the lives of our military members or the well-being of Americans in general -- all you care about is your unreasonable hatred of the president.

That's why every time something comes along that you mistakenly believe will ring down the curtain on this excellent POTUS, you begin wringing your hands, drooling and cackling like an old witch.

Pitiful, simply pitiful, Mr. Mold.

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Jun 15, 2020 12:38:18   #
moldyoldy
 
Seth wrote:
Of what criminality do you speak?

If you come right down to it, your side's the one that's always yelling that Republicans are warmongers, yet President Trump has bent over backwards to avoid committing U.S. troops to foreign wars.

Meanwhile, Bolton has always wanted to send our forces all over the place to project our military might, which didn't sit well with Trump; he grew tired of having Bolton produce nothing but war plans, and got rid of him.

So what's your problem?

You know what's obvious? You could care less about the lives of our military members or the well-being of Americans in general -- all you care about is your unreasonable hatred of the president.

That's why every time something comes along that you mistakenly believe will ring down the curtain on this excellent POTUS, you begin wringing your hands, drooling and cackling like an old witch.

Pitiful, simply pitiful, Mr. Mold.
Of what criminality do you speak? br br If you co... (show quote)


Trump is an i***t who has sold out to Russia, abandoned Europe, wrote love letters to Kim, and caused the world to back away from the US.

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Jun 15, 2020 12:42:58   #
Tug484
 
Seth wrote:
Of what criminality do you speak?

If you come right down to it, your side's the one that's always yelling that Republicans are warmongers, yet President Trump has bent over backwards to avoid committing U.S. troops to foreign wars.

Meanwhile, Bolton has always wanted to send our forces all over the place to project our military might, which didn't sit well with Trump; he grew tired of having Bolton produce nothing but war plans, and got rid of him.

So what's your problem?

You know what's obvious? You could care less about the lives of our military members or the well-being of Americans in general -- all you care about is your unreasonable hatred of the president.

That's why every time something comes along that you mistakenly believe will ring down the curtain on this excellent POTUS, you begin wringing your hands, drooling and cackling like an old witch.

Pitiful, simply pitiful, Mr. Mold.
Of what criminality do you speak? br br If you co... (show quote)



That's why Bolton's mad, he wanted Trump to go to war.

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Jun 15, 2020 13:06:04   #
EL Loc: Massachusetts
 
moldyoldy wrote:
Trump is an i***t who has sold out to Russia, abandoned Europe, wrote love letters to Kim, and caused the world to back away from the US.


Are you going to write a fairytale too????

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Jun 15, 2020 13:16:45   #
Seth
 
moldyoldy wrote:
Trump is an i***t who has sold out to Russia, abandoned Europe, wrote love letters to Kim, and caused the world to back away from the US.


Like I said, Mr. Mold -- you have an unreasonable hatred of Trump. You h**ed the man well before he was even inaugurated. Everything you accuse him of above was fabricated in your hating mind based on nothing but... hatred.

And your ilk calls conservatives h**ers.

Get real.

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Jun 15, 2020 13:17:42   #
Seth
 
Tug484 wrote:
That's why Bolton's mad, he wanted Trump to go to war.


Yeah, and Trump wouldn't play.

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