user1111 wrote:
Trump supporters = deflection. You mention their scum candidate and they are quick to reply with some bs about Hillary who is 12 digits ahead. Girl bye!

Monroe wrote:
Trump gives millions, and guess who gets most of Hillary's donations? The Clinton Foundation, which then pays out huuuuuge salaries to her friends and family. You can't make this stuff up.

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Brent Johnson | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com

Donald Trump appears to have given less than $100,000 of his own money in the seven years before a high-profile donation to a veterans group last month, even though he promised millions, according to an investigation published by the Washington Post.

If the billionaire real estate mogul ? who is now the presumptive Republican presidential nominee ? honored all the money he vowed to give away in the 15 years before the veterans donation, the gifts would have been more than $8.5 million, the report said.

But public records show the former Atlantic City casino tycoon donated less than a third of that money ? about $2.8 million ? in that time through a foundation he set up called the Trump Foundation. And the last record of any gift Trump made personally to the foundation was 2008.

Trump and his staff have repeatedly told the media that the businessman gives away millions privately, which aren't found in the foundation's records. Such figures could be found on Trump's tax returns, but he refuses to release them publicly, saying they are under audit.

Vets should united against Donny

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BREAKING NEWS: AT LEAST 10 DEAD AS APPARENT SUICIDE BOMBERS HIT ISTANBUL AIRPORT

No claim of responsibility yet

Responsibility - PKK - Kurdish militant separatists or ISIS. You can flip a coin a this point.

I'm sure they were gay and Turkey's lax gun laws were responsible, right?

Well... that is a short list... don't forget the Jews, Israel, Republicans, Tea Party, and Trump Rhetoric... can we blame a video tape? or has that one been used?

You know what? I think Merkel and Obama are going to pin this one on the Brexit vote. And of course Trump.

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BREAKING NEWS: AT LEAST 10 DEAD AS APPARENT SUICIDE BOMBERS HIT ISTANBUL AIRPORT

No claim of responsibility yet

Responsibility - PKK - Kurdish militant separatists or ISIS. You can flip a coin a this point.

I'm sure they were gay and Turkey's lax gun laws were responsible, right?

Well... that is a short list... don't forget the Jews, Israel, Republicans, Tea Party, and Trump Rhetoric... can we blame a video tape? or has that one been used?

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BREAKING NEWS: AT LEAST 10 DEAD AS APPARENT SUICIDE BOMBERS HIT ISTANBUL AIRPORT

No claim of responsibility yet

Responsibility - PKK - Kurdish militant separatists or ISIS. You can flip a coin a this point.

I'm sure they were gay and Turkey's lax gun laws were responsible, right?

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BREAKING NEWS: AT LEAST 10 DEAD AS APPARENT SUICIDE BOMBERS HIT ISTANBUL AIRPORT

No claim of responsibility yet

Yup, Obama and Hillary-they sure do know how to deal with the Muslim world!

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BREAKING NEWS: AT LEAST 10 DEAD AS APPARENT SUICIDE BOMBERS HIT ISTANBUL AIRPORT

No claim of responsibility yet

Responsibility - PKK - Kurdish militant separatists or ISIS. You can flip a coin a this point.

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BREAKING NEWS: AT LEAST 10 DEAD AS APPARENT SUICIDE BOMBERS HIT ISTANBUL AIRPORT

No claim of responsibility yet

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BREAKING NEWS: AT LEAST 10 DEAD AS APPARENT SUICIDE BOMBERS HIT ISTANBUL AIRPORT

No claim of responsibility yet

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http://larazalawyers.net/id3.html

Scroll to the bottom to see the link.

Sigh...

Just a link. Not affiliation.

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http://larazalawyers.net/id3.html

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Judge Curiel not only awarded a scholarship to an illegal alien, but his California La Raza lawyers group hosts a link to the national La Raza hate group.

Gee, if Trump belonged to a group who had an Aryan Nation link on its website, now we'd have a story!

Curiel is a member of the San Diego La Raza Lawyers Association, a nonprofit professional association of Latino lawyers that is affiliated with a statewide organization, the La Raza Lawyers of California. Neither these groups nor Curiel are affiliated with the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), an unrelated advocacy group.

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@pebble, Trump has a lot less exposure over Trump U than Clinton does over her husband getting paid $16.5 million dollars to shill for a 'for profit' university with abysmal graduation rates-a company that scored big US govt funding while Hillary ran state. But I'd be leery about a jurist with radical, pro illegal alien ties being involved with someone wanting to build a border fence. Wait, are the Democrats building a fence and demanding photo ID's for the Philly convention? Is that true?? tee hee

@sushi, lol. I guess growing up in one of the most racist, discriminatory, and jingoistic countries on the planet makes you see racists everywhere. You can probably get professional help for that.

For profit universities are a pox on society. However, they exist and *do* function as legitimate businesses. Having low graduation rates isn?t a crime. Promising people one thing and delivering something different is.

Trump didn?t claim that the judge couldn?t adjudicate fairly because of the judge?s beliefs on immigration. He said that judge couldn?t do his job because he?s Mexican despite the man being born in the United States of America, just like Donald.

I can?t care about the Democratic convention. The Republicans won?t allow guns in the run. Big deal.

When House Republicans created the Select Committee on Benghazi two years ago, tasking the panel to investigate a deadly attack that had already been thoroughly investigated by other committees, GOP activists, conspiracy theorists, pundits, and election staffers had high hopes of what Rep. Trey Gowdy?s (R-S.C.) committee could accomplish.

That was quite a while ago. More than two years and $7 million later, the Republicans? Benghazi panel has wrapped up the longest congressional investigation in the history of the United States, and it couldn?t avoid this lede in the New York Times.

Ending one of the longest, costliest and most bitterly partisan congressional investigations in history, the House Select Committee on Benghazi issued its final report on Tuesday, finding no new evidence of culpability or wrongdoing by Hillary Clinton in the 2012 attacks in Libya that left four Americans dead.

The full report, which is over 800 pages long, is online here. By all accounts, the GOP members of the panel raised a variety of criticisms and concerns, including inadequate security resources in Libya, bureaucratic inertia, and breakdowns in coordination between agencies.

Or put another way, the Select Committee on Benghazi came to the same conclusions all of the other investigations reached quite a while ago, raising questions anew about why in the world this committee was necessary in the first place.

As regular readers know, some congressional Republicans admitted the panel was a partisan exercise, which was created and sustained for purely political reasons. Committee Democrats, who released their own 339-page report yesterday, said in a press statement, ?Decades in the future, historians will look back on this investigation as a case study in how not to conduct a credible investigation.?

The evidence to bolster the point is overwhelming. Given the panel?s abuses, the inescapable fact is clear: the Republicans? Benghazi Committee didn?t investigate a scandal; the Republicans? Benghazi Committee was the scandal.

It?s obviously unrealistic to believe the Republican scandal-mongers who?ve thrown all kinds of ugly accusations at President Obama and Hillary Clinton will apologize now, but I am genuinely curious about how they?ll deal with the cognitive dissonance. On the one hand, the right has already convinced itself that administration officials are guilty of horrific wrongdoing. On the other hand, every Republican committee ? including the one created for the purpose of digging up dirt in time for the 2016 election ? has failed to find evidence to bolster the conspiracy theories.

So, are we to believe the conspiracy theories are wrong or that Trey Gowdy and his GOP allies are somehow in on an elaborate cover-up?

Perhaps the more salient question is more straightforward: why in the world did House Republicans spend two years and $7 million to effectively exonerate Hillary Clinton as part of the GOP?s favorite conspiracy theory?

While conservatives ponder that, let?s reiterate an important angle to all of this: I?ve long found the Republicans? Benghazi Committee to be ridiculous, but I?m not suggesting the deadly terrorist attack in Libya, which left four Americans dead, was unworthy of investigation. Just the opposite is true ? Congress had a responsibility to determine what happened and take steps to prevent similar attacks in the future.

But therein lies the point: seven separate congressional committees investigated the Benghazi attack before the Select Committee was even created. This was already one of the most scrutinized events in American history. Republican lawmakers, however, didn?t quite care for what the evidence told them, so they effectively concluded, ?Seven committees didn?t tell us what we wanted to hear, so maybe the eighth committee will.?

Except, it appears this one came up short, too.

The Select Committee on Benghazi lasted longer than the investigations into the federal response to Hurricane Katrina, the attack on Pearl Harbor, the assassination of President Kennedy, the Iran-Contra scandal, Church Committee, the Watergate probe, and the 9/11 attacks. In fact, it?s of interest that the 9/11 Commission, investigating every possible angle to the worst terrorist attack in the history of the country, worked for 604 days and created a bipartisan report endorsed by each of the commission?s members.

The Benghazi committee, meanwhile, worked for over 700 days to create a partisan, election-year document, rehashing revelations that have been known and documented for years.

History will not be kind.

Curiel is a member of the San Diego La Raza Lawyers Association, a nonprofit professional association of Latino lawyers that is affiliated with a statewide organization, the La Raza Lawyers of California. Neither these groups nor Curiel are affiliated with the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), an unrelated advocacy group.

Mexican drug cartel target
Before he was first appointed to a state-level judgeship in 2006, Curiel worked as a federal prosecutor in Southern California with a focus on drug cases -- and with them, the Mexican cartels.
In the late 1990s, Curiel's efforts to extradite a pair of alleged cartel gunmen to Mexico put him directly in the traffickers' crosshairs. The Los Angeles Times reported at the time that, according court documents, "a top lieutenant in the Arellano Felix drug trafficking cartel" told another inmate he planned to have "Curiel assassinated and that he had requested and received permission from the leaders of the Arellano cartel."
Curiel was quickly provided a security detail, including bodyguards who traveled with him until the threat passed. He would go on to serve, between 1999 and 2002, as the lead attorney for the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force.
"During this period, he led an investigative unit of more than 20 federal agents and four assistant U.S attorneys that successfully extradited and prosecuted leaders, assassins and members of the infamous Arellano-Felix drug cartel," Sen. Barbara Boxer's office said in a statement following his 2011 nomination to the federal court.
In 2012, Sen. Richard Blumenthal introduced Curiel at his confirmation hearing, touting the judge's "extraordinary experience" and decades in the courtroom.
"One of the most significant cases involved the successful prosecution of the Arellano Felix drug cartel, a multi billion-dollar drug trafficking ring responsible for more than 100 murders in the United States and Mexico," he said.

Monroe wrote:
@pebble, Trump has a lot less exposure over Trump U than Clinton does over her husband getting paid $16.5 million dollars to shill for a 'for profit' university with abysmal graduation rates-a company that scored big US govt funding while Hillary ran state. But I'd be leery about a jurist with radical, pro illegal alien ties being involved with someone wanting to build a border fence. Wait, are the Democrats building a fence and demanding photo ID's for the Philly convention? Is that true?? tee hee

@sushi, lol. I guess growing up in one of the most racist, discriminatory, and jingoistic countries on the planet makes you see racists everywhere. You can probably get professional help for that.

Monroe wrote:
@pebble, Trump has a lot less exposure over Trump U than Clinton does over her husband getting paid $16.5 million dollars to shill for a 'for profit' university with abysmal graduation rates-a company that scored big US govt funding while Hillary ran state. But I'd be leery about a jurist with radical, pro illegal alien ties being involved with someone wanting to build a border fence. Wait, are the Democrats building a fence and demanding photo ID's for the Philly convention? Is that true?? tee hee

@sushi, lol. I guess growing up in one of the most racist, discriminatory, and jingoistic countries on the planet makes you see racists everywhere. You can probably get professional help for that.