TRUMP is seriously dangerous

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Simon Cullen ‏@Simon_Cullen Oct 15
Just saw a Donald Trump cap in the Jewish Museum in Berlin. The caption talks about how he "gathers power from every TV appearance"

The Trump Golem Runs Amok
By contributors | Nov. 4, 2016 |

By Shalom Goldman | ( Patheos.com ) | – –
A year ago, as U.S citizens of both political parties were developing a fascination with Donald Trump, no pundits came forth with a mythic or religious way to understand Trump’s appeal or his ability to strongly repel those not attracted to him. As I teach college courses on the intersection of religion and politics, I was hoping that someone quicker and wiser than I am would come forward to situate the Donald in the world of archetypes, and remove him—if only briefly—from the world of stereotypes.
I very much wanted to share my colleagues’ insights about the presumptive Republican candidate with my undergraduates, but found no wisdom on the topic in the rank of the academic study of religion and myth. While I waited for a messiah of punditry to speak (or publish), I found myself reaching for stories from scripture or mythology, but found no perfect fit. (Little did I know that within a few months some Evangelical pastors would find affirming things to say about Trump’s biblical role models: King David and Samson were often mentioned, though I heard little mention of Bathsheba or Delilah.)
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Veteran NY Times writer George Vecsey came through with a compelling image when he wrote in the late summer of 2015: “Make no mistake about it, the Republicans have made this an easier world for Donald Trump to spread his foolishness. For over six years they have run a campaign of ignorance and malice and, yes, prejudice about the twice-elected President. McConnell and Boehner and Graham have questioned Obama’s motives, his actions, and, with their silence, even his birthplace in Hawaii. I think it is because they cannot handle having a moral and educated man of African and American descent, as the smartest man in their room. Their behavior has created a monster. Donald Trump is their Golem.”
One of our Canadian cousins echoed his sentiments. In September 2015, Neil Macdonald, Senior correspondent for the Canadian Broadcasting News, offered CBC News readers what I consider the most apt archetype for Trump—the Golem.
According to Merriam-Webster, the dictionary definition of “golem” is:
an artificial human being in Hebrew folklore endowed with life
something or someone resembling a golem: as a: automaton b: blockhead
Associated in Jewish folklore with the the city of Prague, the Golem was a creature created to protect the Jewish community from harm. The Golem was created, or rather, animated from a large lump of clay that lay inert in the rabbi’s attic study. The rabbi wrote the divine secret name of God on the Golem’s forehead; then the creature sprang to life. To stop the Golem from running amok the rabbi had to catch and subdue the creature and erase the magic name from its forehead. But as the Golem grew more powerful, his creator, the wonder-working rabbi of the city, could no longer control him. The Golem ran amok, harming the very people he was created to protect, along with anyone else who got in his way.
As Neil Macdonald so perceptively noted: “Like the Golem of Chelm, the animated clay creature in Jewish folklore that grew uncontrollable and threatened the entire universe, Trump seems to gather power with every TV appearance and every crackpot speech. And like the Golem, he now threatens to crush his creator if any attempt is made to remove the magic, animating letters from his forehead. In the Golem’s case, it was a holy name; in Trump’s, it’s a white baseball cap proclaiming ‘Make America Great Again.’”
Soon after that CBC article, a few U.S. journalists, primarily those veterans of an era of journalism in which the cultural references were richer and more varied than they are today, started using the “Trump as Golem” meme.
Over the past year “Trump as Golem” has finally caught on.
Last month The Huffington Post’s Jeffrey Young excoriated the Republican leadership for allowing Trump to win the nomination. “You have,” he told a long list of Republican notables, “lost control of the golem you created.”
And last week, just before the election, Trump as Golem and his “make America Great Again” baseball cap have surfaced in the unlikeliest of places—Berlin’s Jewish Museum. In an exhibit dedicated to the history of the Golem in art and mythology, the museum chose to include a Trump cap in the exhibit. The cap, with the rest of exhibit, will be at the museum for a few weeks into the first 100 days of the next Washington administration.
http://www.juancole.com/2016/11/trump-golem-runs.html

[NeonLX]

The U.S. government is seriously dangerous.

Sorry to be so superficial.

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A Mexican official has filed a criminal tax complaint against Trump in Tijuana, Mexico

Trump Just Got Hit With Massive $32 Million Fraud & Tax Evasion Lawsuit
ByNatalie DickinsonPosted on November 1, 2016

Republican nominee and lawsuit magnet Donald Trump has found himself the target of yet another accusation of fraud and financial misconduct – this time in another country. A Mexican official has filed a criminal tax complaint against Trump in Tijuana, Mexico, over yet another failed business venture – the Trump Ocean Resort, which collapsed before it even began construction.

But before the housing market and the rest of the global economy collapsed with the onset of the Bush Recession, Trump and his partners sold $32.5 million in future properties to unwitting customers since 2006 and leaving their investors in the lurch.

In addition, Donald Trump is accused of dodging an additional $32.5 million in taxes – surprise! – but has countered that he wasn’t actually involved, but that he was just “leasing” his name on the project. The investors, however, counter that Trump’s face was on the brochure and quoted him as saying it would be “the most spectacular place in all of Mexico.”

Though Trump worked out the deal with Los Angeles-based developer Irongate Wilshire and Mexican company P.B. Impulsores, the lawsuit singles out Trump by name, calling him out “against the Mexican state because beyond defrauding investors he also committed fraud by not paying taxes in Mexico for the mercantile operations he took part in.”

It should come as no surprise, since Donald Trump has dodged paying American income taxes for decades and defrauded his investors his entire life. Far from being a “successful” businessman, Trump has proven time and time again he is incapable of following through with the most basic of financial transactions – the exchange of money for rendered goods and services.
http://occupydemocrats.com/2016/11/01/t ... n-lawsuit/

[NeonLX]

Viva La Mexico!

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Viva La Mexico!

A Taco trunk on every corner and some tequila on the side!

Presidential candidate Donald Trump’s Russian ties are scaring NATO allies
Russia knows it's interfering in another foreign campaign, and it may be working
MATTHEW ROZSA

Four days before the presidential election, America’s NATO allies are terrified by what they’ve been hearing from Donald Trump.

As Newsweek reported on Friday, officials from many European countries have expressed increasing alarm over how a Trump presidency would influence American foreign policy.

Their concerns included Trump’s refusal to admit that Russia has used cyberattacks to influence the presidential election — which could embolden Vladimir Putin to engage in similar actions elsewhere — the fact that Trump has hired people for his campaign with pro-Putin ties, including former campaign manager Paul Manafort, former advisor Carter Page, and retired Lieutenant General Michael Flynn; reports that an unnamed Trump associate secretly met with a pro-Putin member of Russian parliament; and the frequent pro-Russia propaganda that’s flowed to Trump campaign officials.

Russia’s agenda here isn’t simply pro-Trump; it is also explicitly and vindictively anti-Clinton. During her tenure as secretary of state, Putin believed and publicly accused her of interfering in Moscow’s affairs, most notably when she accused Putin of cheating in Russia’s 2011 parliamentary elections.

According to a European intelligence expert who spoke to Newsweek, Putin’s regime retaliated against this by hacking into various Democratic Party organizations and sending the information through a “pipeline” which created multiple layers between Russia and the sources to which they sent the information. As a result, sites like WikiLeaks have been able to post leaked documents that hurt Clinton while maintaining plausible deniability as to its origin. As Newsweek described:

Hackers pilfer information from a variety of organizations both inside and outside Western governments; that is distributed to individuals who feed it into what a source told a European intelligence expert was a “pipeline.” This so-called pipeline can involve multiple steps before hacked information is disclosed through the media or online. For example, that source reported that documents in the United States intended to disrupt the American election are distributed through WikiLeaks. However, there are so many layers of individuals between the hackers and that organization there is a strong possibility that WikiLeaks does not know with certainty the ultimate source of these records; throughout 2016, the site has been posting emails from various Democratic Party organizations that were originally obtained through Russian hacking.

This isn’t to say that Russia didn’t also spy on Trump. According to Newsweek’s European sources, both Clinton and Trump had dossiers compiled about them by Russian intelligence. Because Clinton knew that her conversations with Moscow might be recorded, the dossier on her was used mainly for intelligence rather than with the hope that it could embarrass her, and her private email server meant that she wasn’t compromised in the Russian hack on the White House, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and State Department unclassified email systems. That said, it is unknown what is contained in the Russian dossier on Trump, since the Kremlin sees no geopolitical advantage in hurting his presidential campaign.

A Western intelligence source told Newsweek that there has been some pushback against the pro-Trump agenda in Russia.

Sergie Ivanov, the chief of staff for the presidential executive office in Moscow, expressed concern this summer that the hacking and disinformation campaign had gone too far and could result in backlash from the United States. These feelings were exacerbated after Trump lashed out against the Khizr Khan, a Muslim-American whose soldier died during the Iraq War, which prompted many Russian analysts to conclude that he would be forced to withdraw from the race due to mental unfitness. This is why Russia’s hacking campaign was temporarily put on hold, only to be resumed when Trump’s demeanor improved.

NATO countries were also alarmed by Trump’s numerous pro-Putin comments, some of which go back as far as 2007.

Trump has said that Putin is “doing a great job” in Russia during an appearance with Larry King in 2007. He praised Putin’s “intelligence” and “no-nonsense way” in his 2011 book, “Time To Get Tough.”

In 2013, he tweeted that he hoped Putin will be his “new best friend” when Trump brought the 2013 Miss Universe pageant to Moscow. He’s also claimed that Putin is “outsmarting our country” during another interview with Larry King in 2013.


After Putin praised him in December, Trump said it was a “great honor to be so nicely complimented by a man so highly respected within his own country and beyond.”

That same month, he said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that Putin’s execution of journalists was merely Putin “running his country and at least he’s a leader.”

In July, he said, “there’s nothing I can think of that I’d rather do than have Russia friendly, as opposed to the way they are right now, so that we can go and knock out ISIS with other people,”(http://www.salon.com/2016/10/20/puppet- ... mir-putin/) and told Matt Lauer that “if he’s [Putin] going to say great things about me, I’m going to say great things about him.”

Then, during the final presidential debate with Hillary Clinton, he admitted (http://insider.foxnews.com/2016/10/19/d ... over-putin) that “if we get along well, that would be good.”

Clinton’s response was no doubt what most of NATO’s leaders are currently thinking: ““Well, that’s because he’d rather have a puppet as president of the United States.”

http://www.salon.com/2016/11/04/preside ... to-allies/

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2OYxFlW0Yg

Jon Stewart Hilariously Recounts That Time When Trump Bombarded Him With Anti-Semitic Tweets

"Oh, I think this guy's trying to let people know I'm a Jew."

By Alexandra Rosenmann / AlterNet November 2, 2016


Jon Stewart has had lots of practice at political impersonations during his nearly two-decade run as host of “The Daily Show” — mimicking everyone from Tim Walz and Mike Pence to George W. Bush and Donald Trump.
Photo Credit: Comedy Central

Donald Trump isn't just "a man you can bait with a tweet," as Hillary Clinton said at the Democratic National Convention. He's a flat-out cyberbully, as confirmed by comedian Jon Stewart during a November 1 fundraiser for veterans.

"This is a little something I've entitled 'The Day I Woke up to Find out Somebody Was Tweeting Weird Sh*t About Me,'" Stewart told the audience at the Stand Up For Heroes event.

"On April 24, 2013, at 11am, someone comes into my office and says, 'Donald Trump just tweeted: 'I promise you I'm much smarter than Jonathan Leibowitz—I mean Jon Stewart—who, by the way, is totally overrated,'" Stewart recalled.

Stewart joked he didn't necessarily disagree with the statement that came out of nowhere.

"I said, as you might say to yourself, what the f*ck is that about?" Stewart told the benefit audience, recalling that he first tried to understand Trump's motives. Little did he know Trump would soon call out Stewart again.

"A couple of days later, [Trump] tweets, 'As I've said many times before, Jon Stewart is highly overrated,'" Stewart revealed.

"I swear, this is true, he tweets again, 'If Jon Stewart is so above it all and legit, why did he change his name from Jonathan Leibowitz? He should be proud of his heritage,'" Stewart said.

Trump wasn't done yet.

"Jon Stewart is a total phony, he should cherish his past, not run from it," the New York real estate mogul then asserted.

Stewart could not believe what he was reading.

"I start to think to myself, like, oh, I think this guy's trying to let people know I'm a Jew, and I think to myself, like, doesn't my face do that?" Stewart joked.

The audience roared.

"Honestly, where have you seen this face other than [on] a poster for Yentl? In what world are people like, Stewart, that's a Scottish name, but there's something about that fella that looks a little schmear-y?" Stewart asked.

"It would be funny if it wasn't so toxically f*cking crude and horrible," Stewart continued.

That's when Stewart decided to tweet back, "Many people don't know this, but Donald Trump's real name is F*ckface Von Clownstick."

Watch:

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/t ... on-stewart

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Cuban not ‘kidding’ about Trump bribery risks
Heidi M. Przybyla , USA TODAY 4:18 p.m. EDT November 4, 2016

Billionaire businessman Mark Cuban says he was not kidding when he warned that Donald Trump could be bribed by foreign governments.

After a rally in Pittsburgh Friday, in which he said Trump values his bank account above all else, Cuban joined Hillary Clinton on her campaign plane for a short flight to Detroit. It was then that he came to the back of the plane to underscore to reporters what he’d said during the rally.

“I was serious,” Cuban told reporters about his belief that Trump could be susceptible to bribery from foreign powers. “Given what’s at stake, it’s certainly not inconceivable, and actually likely, that he could be bribed. Would any of us as Americans trust Donald Trump to say no to a $20 or $30 billion offer just to do something?”


USA TODAY
Trump tries to stay on message in the campaign's home stretch

Cuban, owner of the NBA's Dallas Mavericks, has become an outspoken foe of the GOP nominee, needling Trump over his business practices.

Standing next to Cuban was Clinton's campaign chairman, John Podesta, who was asked to weigh in on Cuban’s contention about Trump’s receptiveness to bribes.

“He has always put himself first when it comes to stiffing his employees, stiffing his contractors,” said Podesta. “You have to ask yourself, if he’s sitting across the table from a foreign leader, is he going to put America’s interests first?”

The comments echo what Cuban said at the earlier rally in Pittsburgh. “We cannot trust that man” who puts his bank account first, he told a couple thousand supporters at Heinz Field. “You think he’s gonna do what’s right for the country, or you think he’s gonna take the money?” said Cuban.

When he came to the back of the press cabin, Cuban returned repeatedly to the bribery point. “You think I’m kidding,” he said. “I’m not.”
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/poli ... /93300972/

[norton ash]

Cuban's right. Like you wouldn't invite your crackhead friend to house-sit.

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Ms. Trump worked in the U.S. illegally for 10 months without the proper visa

Melania Trump modeled in U.S. prior to getting work visa
By ASSOCIATED PRESS 11/04/16 10:14 PM EDT

WASHINGTON — Melania Trump was paid for 10 modeling jobs in the United States worth $20,056 that occurred in the seven weeks before she had legal permission to work in the country, according to detailed accounting ledgers, contracts and related documents from 20 years ago provided to The Associated Press.
The details of Mrs. Trump's early paid modeling work in the U.S. emerged in the final days of a bitter presidential campaign in which her husband, Donald Trump, has taken a hard line on immigration laws and those who violate them. Trump has proposed broader use of the government's E-verify system allowing employers to check whether job applicants are authorized to work. He has noted that federal law prohibits illegally paying immigrants.
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Mrs. Trump, who received a green card in March 2001 and became a U.S. citizen in 2006, has always maintained that she arrived in the country legally and never violated the terms of her immigration status. During the presidential campaign, she has cited her story to defend her husband's hard line on immigration.
The wife of the GOP presidential nominee, who sometimes worked as a model under just her first name, has said through an attorney that she first came to the U.S. from Slovenia on Aug. 27, 1996, on a B1/B2 visitor visa and then obtained an H-1B work visa on Oct. 18, 1996.
The documents obtained by the AP show she was paid for 10 modeling assignments between Sept. 10 and Oct. 15, during a time when her visa allowed her generally to be in the U.S. and look for work but not perform paid work in the country. The documents examined by the AP indicate that the modeling assignments would have been outside the bounds of her visa.

It is highly unlikely that the discovery will affect the citizenship status of Mrs. Trump. The government can seek to revoke the U.S. citizenship of immigrants after the fact in cases when it determines a person willfully misrepresented or concealed facts relevant to his naturalization. But the government effectively does this in only the most egregious cases, such as instances involving terrorism or war crimes.
The disclosures about the payments come as Mrs. Trump takes on a more substantial role advocating for her husband's candidacy. She made her first speech in months Thursday, in which she spoke of her time working as a model in Europe and her decision to come to the U.S.
"As a young entrepreneur, I wanted to follow my dream to a place where freedom and opportunity were in abundance. So of course, I came here," she said. "Living and working in America was a true blessing, but I wanted something more. I wanted to be an American."
The documents obtained by the AP included ledgers, other accounting documents and a management agreement signed by Mrs. Trump from Metropolitan International Management that covered parts of 1996 and 1997. The AP obtained the files this week after seeking copies since August from employees of the now-defunct modeling firm, after Mrs. Trump made comments earlier this summer that appeared inconsistent with U.S. immigration rules.
A New York immigration lawyer whom Mrs. Trump asked to review her immigration documents, Michael J. Wildes, also reviewed some of the ledgers at AP's request. Wildes said in a brief statement that "these documents, which have not been verified, do not reflect our records including corresponding passport stamps." He did not elaborate or answer additional questions asking for clarification. Wilde appeared to be referring to Mrs. Trump's arrival in the United States on Aug. 27, 1996, one day after the ledgers list a charge for car service to pick up Mrs. Trump from the airport. Trump campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks also did not answer additional written questions from the AP.


Since questions arose earlier this year, Mrs. Trump has declined to publicly release her immigration records. Wildes, the immigration lawyer, released a letter in September that laid out the details of what he said Mrs. Trump's immigration records show, including a seven-week window in which Mrs. Trump was in the U.S. before her work visa was issued.
During that seven-week period, the ledgers list modeling work for clients that included Fitness magazine and Bergdorf Goodman department store. The management agreement, which said it was not an employment agreement, included a handwritten date of Aug. 27, 1996. The top of the document said it was "made and entered into as of this 4th day of September 1996."
Many of the documents were part of a legal dispute related to the dissolution of the firm in the late 1990s and found recently in storage. The accounting ledgers for the firm's models were listed on hundreds of pages of continuously fed paper that appeared yellowed with age. They were authenticated by a former employee who worked at the firm at the time. The employee spoke on condition of anonymity because this person feared retaliation and threats from Trump's presidential campaign.
Exhibit markings with the records were also consistent with documents filed in New York state court, including a deposition of one former partner that referred to the same exhibit number. The sworn testimony describing the exhibit's content matches the documents obtained by the AP.
A former partner, Paolo Zampolli, who previously told the AP that he recruited Mrs. Trump to come to the U.S. as a model, confirmed that the contract language was used by his firm and his signature appeared on the document. Mrs. Trump's signature on the contract resembled her signature on her marriage license recorded in 2005. Asked about the two dates on the document, Zampolli said he usually vacationed in Europe each August and likely arranged for the contract to be formally executed when he returned to New York after Labor Day, even though Mrs. Trump had signed it eight days earlier.
Zampolli previously told the AP that Mrs. Trump obtained a work visa before she modeled professionally in the United States. He said the ledgers for Mrs. Trump were consistent with printouts used by his firm at the time, but he would not personally vouch for them because he said money matters were handled by the company's chief financial officer, who has since died.
Zampolli said he did not recall Mrs. Trump working without legal permission. "Honestly, I don't know. It's like 20 years ago," he said. "The contract looks (like) a real one and the standard one."
Foreigners are not allowed to use a visitor visa to work for pay in the U.S. for American companies. Doing so would violate the terms of that visa and could prohibit a foreigner from later changing his or her immigration status in the U.S. or bar the foreigner from the United States again without special permission to come back. The E-verify system started in 1997— after Mrs. Trump came to the country— and was dramatically expanded after 2007.
Some ledgers obtained by the AP identify Mrs. Trump by her professional name and detail her involvement with the modeling agency from July 18, 1996, through Sept. 26, 1997. Other documents from the same accounting ledgers identify Mrs. Trump as Melanija Knaus and list $20,526 in gross earnings for the period before she was granted her work visa on Oct. 18, 1996. The documents also show the modeling company paid for her rent, lent her money and paid for her pager.
Some ledgers were first made available to True.Ink, an online lifestyle publication, and then independently obtained and verified by the AP.
Metropolitan International Management managed the careers of about 65 women in 1996 and 1997, according to court records. It paid the women as independent contractors, collecting a 20 percent commission and deducting expenses. The ledger shows that the firm also deducted federal taxes from the models' gross earnings, including Mrs. Trump's.


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/m ... z4P64O01K9

National Enquirer Shielded Donald Trump From Playboy Model’s Affair Allegation
Tabloid owner American Media agreed to pay $150,000 for story from 1998 Playmate of the Year, but hasn’t published her account

By JOE PALAZZOLO, MICHAEL ROTHFELD and LUKAS I. ALPERT
Nov. 4, 2016 9:29 p.m. ET

The company that owns the National Enquirer, a backer of Donald Trump, agreed to pay $150,000 to a former Playboy centerfold model for her story of an affair a decade ago with the Republican presidential nominee, but then didn’t publish it, according to documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal and people familiar with the matter.

The tabloid-newspaper publisher reached an agreement in early August with Karen McDougal, the 1998 Playmate of the Year. American Media Inc., which owns the Enquirer, hasn’t published anything about what she has told friends was a consensual romantic relationship she had with Mr. Trump in 2006. At the time, Mr. Trump was married to his current wife, Melania.

Quashing stories that way is known in the tabloid world as “catch and kill.”

In a written statement, the company said it wasn’t buying Ms. McDougal’s story for $150,000, but rather two years’ worth of her fitness columns and magazine covers as well as exclusive life rights to any relationship she has had with a then-married man. “AMI has not paid people to kill damaging stories about Mr. Trump,” the statement said.

Hope Hicks, a Trump campaign spokeswoman, said of the agreement with Ms. McDougal: “We have no knowledge of any of this.” She said that Ms. McDougal’s claim of an affair with Mr. Trump was “totally untrue.”

Ms. McDougal expected her story about Mr. Trump to be published, people familiar with the matter said. American Media didn’t intend to run it, said another person familiar with the matter. Ms. McDougal didn’t return calls for comment.


Mr. Trump and American Media Chairman and Chief Executive Officer David J. Pecker are longtime friends. Since last year, the Enquirer has supported Mr. Trump’s presidential bid, endorsing him and publishing negative articles about some of his opponents.

In a written statement, Mr. Pecker said that it is no secret that he and Mr. Trump are friends and that he greatly admires him. However, he said, the Enquirer under his management “set the agenda” on Mr. Trump’s affair with Marla Maples when he was married to his first wife. “That in itself speaks volumes about our commitment to investigative reporting,” he said.

A contract reviewed by the Journal gave American Media exclusive rights to Ms. McDougal’s story forever, but didn’t obligate the company to publish it and allowed the company to transfer those rights. It barred her from telling her story elsewhere. The company said it also would give her monthly columns to write and would put her on magazine covers.

AMI said in a written statement the company was pleased to hire Ms. McDougal as a columnist.

The tabloid publisher didn’t publish Ms. McDougal’s story of the alleged extramarital affair even after Mr. Trump’s alleged relationships with and comments about women became a campaign issue. In October, the Washington Post published a videotape made by “Access Hollywood” of Mr. Trump, in which he spoke of groping women. Several women subsequently said publicly that he had made unwanted sexual advances.

Mr. Trump has denied their accounts and apologized for his remarks on the tape, calling them locker-room banter.

Ms. McDougal, who continued modeling after appearing in Playboy, told several of her friends she had a relationship for about 10 months with Mr. Trump, beginning in 2006 and lasting into 2007, according to people familiar with her account. Another friend told the Journal that Ms. McDougal’s relationship with Mr. Trump lasted about a year.

A friend of Ms. McDougal’s recalled attending the Miss Universe pageant at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles as a guest of Mr. Trump in 2006. Mr. Trump’s limousine picked up Ms. McDougal and her at Ms. McDougal’s Beverly Hills home, and the two women sat in the front row with Mr. Trump and music producers Quincy Jones and David Foster. Mr. Trump escorted them home, the friend said.

Messages left with representatives for Messrs. Jones and Foster weren’t immediately returned.

In July, Ms. McDougal was in talks with producers at ABC News to tell her story, but she ultimately agreed to the deal with AMI, guided by her lawyer Keith Davidson, according to two people familiar with the discussions.

“I did indeed represent Ms. McDougal and currently represent Ms. McDougal in her negotiations with American Media Inc. to provide services to them,” Mr. Davidson said.

Mr. Davidson also represented Stephanie Clifford, a former adult-film star whose professional name is Stormy Daniels and who was in discussions with ABC’s “Good Morning America” in recent months to publicly disclose what she said was a past relationship with Mr. Trump, according to people familiar with the talks. Ms. Clifford cut off contact with the network without telling her story. She didn’t respond to requests for comment.

An ABC spokesperson declined to comment on Ms. McDougal or Ms. Clifford.

The Trump spokeswoman, Ms. Hicks, said it was “absolutely, unequivocally” untrue that Ms. Clifford had a relationship with Mr. Trump.

Mr. Davidson’s work for Ms. McDougal was in connection with “claims against Donald Trump and or assisting client in negotiating a confidentiality agreement and/or life rights related to interactions with Donald Trump and/or negotiating assignment of exclusive press opportunities regarding same,” according to a copy of Mr. Davidson’s agreement to represent her, which was reviewed by the Journal.

The agreement between Ms. McDougal and AMI doesn’t mention Mr. Trump by name, but gives the publisher the rights to “any romantic, personal and/or physical relationship McDougal has ever had with any then-married man.” The document says AMI is entitled to damages of at least $150,000 if she discloses her story elsewhere on social media or gives interviews about it.

Ms. McDougal hasn't appeared in or written for any AMI publications since signing the agreement, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Mr. Trump’s relationship with Mr. Pecker, the chairman of American Media, is well-documented. In the 1990s, when Mr. Pecker was president and chief executive of Hachette Filipacchi Magazines, the publisher put out “Trump Style,” a custom quarterly magazine distributed to guests at Trump properties.

As the presidential race ramped up last year, the Enquirer published a series of columns by Mr. Trump. One began, “I am the only one who can make America great again!” Another was headlined, “Donald Trump: The Man Behind the Legend!”
http://www.wsj.com/articles/national-en ... 1478309380

[Jerky]

Trump's campaign appeals district court order against voter intimidation-related actions to the 6th Circuit.

Read that again and let it sink in.

http://www.chron.com/news/article/The-L ... 593774.php

J

[Freitag]

Not to mention NM, OH, PA, NH, ME.

(Sorry if this is the wrong thread, I'm not sure where to post general election info unrelated to either candidate being seriously dangerous.)

[Jerky]

I have gone out of my way for six months to not give Matt Drudge a single iota of my attention.

Thanks for fucking up a streak.

But yeah, as long as we're talking about Trump being seriously dangerous, I suppose any good news for him belongs in this thread.

J.

[PufPuf93]

I have gone out of my way for six months to not give Matt Drudge a single iota of my attention.

Thanks for fucking up a streak.

But yeah, as long as we're talking about Trump being seriously dangerous, I suppose any good news for him belongs in this thread.

J.

I never read Drudge but used to look at Drudge during the GWB years to observe what GWB supporters were thinking.

However, in recent weeks I have looked at Drudge because I paid a visit and saw mostly anti-Trump articles.

Look for yourself at this moment: http://www.drudge.com/

There are eight articles including "Trump" in title that are anti-Trump in nature. None that are positive.

[8bitagent]

Again, not to defend Trump, but while he seems very open to coercion by foreign interests who play him as the useful idiot,
isn't Clinton taking tens of millions from state sponsors of terror and human rights abuses also alarming? Thats why its sometimes, when it comes to war,
hard to see which is the lesser of two evils

Trump's campaign appeals district court order against voter intimidation-related actions to the 6th Circuit.

Read that again and let it sink in.

http://www.chron.com/news/article/The-L ... 593774.php

J

Thank God. And a judge ordered all voters purged(majority black) from NC to be immediately restored.
I may not like Hillary in the least, but voter intimidation, fraud, etc cuts down through the ugliest doors of America.

[8bitagent]

I have gone out of my way for six months to not give Matt Drudge a single iota of my attention.

Thanks for fucking up a streak.

But yeah, as long as we're talking about Trump being seriously dangerous, I suppose any good news for him belongs in this thread.

J.

I never read Drudge but used to look at Drudge during the GWB years to observe what GWB supporters were thinking.

However, in recent weeks I have looked at Drudge because I paid a visit and saw mostly anti-Trump articles.

Look for yourself at this moment: http://www.drudge.com/

There are eight articles including "Trump" in title that are anti-Trump in nature. None that are positive.

Drudge's headline earlier in big bold letters was that the Clinton camp are into Satanic rituals. lol.

But I do find Drudge's fascination with "woo" headlines curious. This is one of his headlines today, which I do think is quite a trip
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/11/04/elon-mus ... -wage.html