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The life and the character of Donald Trump
The life and the character of Donald Trump
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First off - yes, I am a liberal, but I am not the caricature of liberals that conservative media wants you to believe in and be afraid of.
I was born and raised in a small town in the south. My first job was working in tobacco fields as a high school summer job.
First off - yes, I am a liberal, but I am not the caricature of liberals that conservative media wants you to believe in and be afraid of.
I was born and raised in a small town in the south. My first job was working in tobacco fields as a high school summer job.
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In the early 70s, the Trump family business was the subject of one of the largest housing discrimination cases of its time, which they eventually settled: https://thehill.com/homenews/news/319788-fbi-releases-documents-related-to-trump-apartment-discrimination-case">https://thehill.com/homenews/...
In the early 70s, the Trump family business was the subject of one of the largest housing discrimination cases of its time, which they eventually settled: https://thehill.com/homenews/news/319788-fbi-releases-documents-related-to-trump-apartment-discrimination-case">https://thehill.com/homenews/...
Woody Guthrie wrote a song about Fred Trump’s racist housing habits. https://twitter.com/thetnholler/status/1192909508022022145?s=21">https://twitter.com/thetnholl...
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Donald Trump routinely stiffs and fails to pay the people, contractors, and small businesses who do work for him: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/06/09/donald-trump-unpaid-bills-republican-president-laswuits/85297274/">https://www.usatoday.com/story/new...
Donald Trump routinely stiffs and fails to pay the people, contractors, and small businesses who do work for him: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/06/09/donald-trump-unpaid-bills-republican-president-laswuits/85297274/">https://www.usatoday.com/story/new...
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Trump is the child of a slumlord who then went on to run pyramid schemes, fake schools, fake charities, sell cheap Chinese-made goods, and to do everything - legal and otherwise - to promote a false image of himself and his family, and then try to capitalize on that name.
Trump is the child of a slumlord who then went on to run pyramid schemes, fake schools, fake charities, sell cheap Chinese-made goods, and to do everything - legal and otherwise - to promote a false image of himself and his family, and then try to capitalize on that name.
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Despite being perfectly healthy in high school and college, Trump avoided the draft five times through deferments: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/02/us/politics/donald-trump-draft-record.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/0...
Despite being perfectly healthy in high school and college, Trump avoided the draft five times through deferments: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/02/us/politics/donald-trump-draft-record.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/0...
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Throughout his life, Trump has intentionally been dishonest about his worth; sometimes to avoid taxes, and other times to receive loans that he wouldn& #39;t have been able to receive otherwise:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/politics/trump-statements-of-financial-condition/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/... https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-inflated-worth-of-scottish-properties-on-financial-forms-report">https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-inf...
Throughout his life, Trump has intentionally been dishonest about his worth; sometimes to avoid taxes, and other times to receive loans that he wouldn& #39;t have been able to receive otherwise:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/politics/trump-statements-of-financial-condition/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/... https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-inflated-worth-of-scottish-properties-on-financial-forms-report">https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-inf...
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Trump also has a habit of lying about being charitable. In 1996, he went to a public charity event for kids with AIDS, pretending to be one of the top donors to the charity. He sat in the chair of a real donor, and danced. But he never donated a dime:
https://www.complex.com/life/2016/10/trump-crashed-charity-event-macarena-didnt-donate">https://www.complex.com/life/2016...
Trump also has a habit of lying about being charitable. In 1996, he went to a public charity event for kids with AIDS, pretending to be one of the top donors to the charity. He sat in the chair of a real donor, and danced. But he never donated a dime:
https://www.complex.com/life/2016/10/trump-crashed-charity-event-macarena-didnt-donate">https://www.complex.com/life/2016...
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Donald Trump made millions from a pyramid scheme that took advantage of its recruits: https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-made-millions-from-multilevel-marketing-firm-1439481128">https://www.wsj.com/articles/...
Donald Trump made millions from a pyramid scheme that took advantage of its recruits: https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-made-millions-from-multilevel-marketing-firm-1439481128">https://www.wsj.com/articles/...
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Trump has a history of forcing people into arbitration instead of allowing lawsuits to continue in public courts: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/donald-trump-lawsuits-secret-arbitration">https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/z...
Trump has a history of forcing people into arbitration instead of allowing lawsuits to continue in public courts: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/donald-trump-lawsuits-secret-arbitration">https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/z...
