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procon

(15,805 posts)
Sat Aug 6, 2016, 05:58 PM Aug 2016

All 16 of Trump’s terrible gaffes in his worse week ever.

WASHINGTON ― For Donald Trump, the past week has marked a fresh low in a campaign that has already sunk modern American politics to new levels.

But unlike the GOP presidential nominee’s previous nadirs ― such as his call for a blanket travel ban on Muslims, or his false claim that the father of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was involved in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy ― this week has actually hurt Trump’s campaign. A lot. Polls taken late this week show Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton leading Trump by double digits nationwide. The businessman is even behind in deep red states like Georgia. So what happened?

The short answer is that Trump waged war against everyone from the family of a fallen soldier, to his party’s top officials, to a baby who cried at one of his rallies. He’s given voters, GOP lawmakers and potential donors a laundry list of reasons to steer clear of his campaign. Here’s how Trump’s terrible week went down.

The list of Trump’s 16 gaffes:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/how-donald-trump-worst-week_us_57a56964e4b021fd9878be0e?53a60n1u42jf00y66r



As an aside, while browsing through HuffPo's Political section, I noticed that most of the news, current events and opinion articles about Trump, included this stern warning with linked citations:

Editor’s note: Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims ― 1.6 billion members of an entire religion ― from entering the U.S.



The message seems pretty clear.


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All 16 of Trump’s terrible gaffes in his worse week ever. (Original Post) procon Aug 2016 OP
He aint got no game. Thinkingabout Aug 2016 #1
k and r niyad Aug 2016 #2
Suspicion: Trump has NEVER voted. Hortensis Aug 2016 #3
Get that baby out of here, LMFAO. sarcasmo Aug 2016 #4

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
3. Suspicion: Trump has NEVER voted.
Sat Aug 6, 2016, 07:59 PM
Aug 2016

How else could he imagine that people can walk in and vote 10 times? All those poll workers every place I've voted take their jobs very seriously.

He said on Fox News that court rulings striking down voter identity laws were discriminatory and would likely lead to fraud on Election Day. “People are going to walk in there, they’re going to vote 10 times, maybe. Who knows? They’re going to vote 10 times,” Trump said.
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