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If Hillary's camp is any guide, her performance should be dynamite tonight
from Elizabeth Chan Senior Strategist, Content and Creative at Hillary for America:
Donald Trump still hasn’t answered these 35 questions. It’s time to demand he does.
Tonight is the first of three presidential debates between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. And for the first time in this election, the two candidates are going to share a stage—and questions from the debate’s moderator, NBC’s Lester Holt.
Frankly, we’re a little jealous of Holt.
Over the course of this campaign, we have had many, many questions for Trump, and he’s provided very few answers.
Time’s running out, too: With only 43 days left before Election Day, Trump has some serious explaining to do to the American people.
Here are 35 questions he still needs to answer. (Lester, feel free to borrow them.)
We know you’re a liar. Are you a perjurer as well?
Did you also knowingly break the law by using a quarter of a million dollars in charitable donations to your foundation to pay your legal bills?
And did you use your foundation illegally to convince a state attorney general not to investigate you for fraud?
Where are your tax returns? And what are you hiding by not releasing them? Is it that:
You don’t actually pay taxes?
You’re not as rich as you claim?
You have deep financial ties to Russia, which would be a massive, unprecedented conflict of interest for an American president (not to mention a national security risk)?
All of the above?
Are you so over-the-top in your praise of Russia and its leader and oligarchs because of your extensive business ties there? And what are you going to prioritize as president: our national security or your bottom line?
Will you promise to sell the Trump Organization (and the many, many conflicts of interest it brings with it) if you are elected president?
Do you really believe that President Obama was born in the United States? If so, why haven’t you apologized to him for perpetuating a racist lie for years?
If you’re such a great negotiator, why did you choke when you discussed your “big, beautiful wall” with the president of Mexico and he refused to pay for it? And why did you lie to the American people about it afterward?
If you’re such a great businessman, why have you filed for bankruptcy so many times? Why should we put the global economy in the hands of someone who holds the record for filing Chapter 11 the most of anyone in the past 30 years?
And while we’re at it: What happened with Trump Steaks, Trump Airlines, Trump Beverages, Trump Vodka, Trump magazine, Trump Mortgage, and Trump University?
If you’re going to be “the greatest jobs president God ever created,” why do experts across the political spectrum say your agenda would risk a recession?
How can you possibly think “wages are too high”?
Is your tax plan one big ruse to get rich at the expense of everyone else? Why should we give your family a $4 billion tax cut when we could use that money to give 3 million children a year of health care or repair 8,000 American bridges?
When you say you’d replace the Affordable Care Act with “something terrific,” could you be more specific?
How can you crack down on outsourcing when you have made your own products overseas?
How can you spend so much time demonizing
immigrants when you hired (and exploited) foreign workers to build Trump Tower and your modeling agency exploited foreign models?
How is your mass-deportation force to round up and deport 16 million immigrants and Americans born to immigrant parents going to work? And what do you have to say to the children born in America who are scared they and their parents are going to be deported?
How do you justify your long history of refusing to pay your bills to the small businesses that keep your own sprawling empire running? If you’ve shown no remorse at letting small businesses go under—simply because you didn’t feel like paying them—how can you be a president for small business?
Why did you take taxpayer dollars set aside to help small businesses after 9/11 for one of your Wall Street properties?
Why do you think climate change is a Chinese hoax?
Why should we believe you “love the vets” when your record shows you lie about helping them?
How does running a pageant make you qualified to direct our foreign policy and be Commander-in-Chief of the world’s most advanced military (which you call “a disaster”)?
When are you going to tell us your “secret” plan to defeat ISIS and global terrorism?
Why did you invite Muammar el-Qaddafi, Libya’s former brutal dictator and state sponsor of international terrorism, to stay in your home?
Have you learned that Belgium is a country and not a city yet?
If you’ve shown you can be baited by a tweet, why on earth should we put you in control of the nuclear codes?
Do you realize that rolling out a maternity leave plan that doesn’t actually do much to help working families is not how you win over the female voters you’ve spent an entire campaign—and frankly, a lifetime—alienating?
If you’ve been discriminating against African Americans for decades, and even were sued for denying them housing, why should we believe you’d do anything to fight for racial justice?
Why would an Indiana-born judge not be able to do his job because he has Mexican heritage?
Should a potential Commander-in-Chief pick a public fight with a Gold Star family?
Why do you retweet white supremacists and anti-Semites so often? Or even at all?
Why do you encourage and incite violence at your campaign rallies?
Why do you publicly mock anyone who’s different from you—like the time you impersonated a disabled reporter?
After all this, do you really believe “I alone can fix it”?
Why should the American people entrust their country to the most unqualified and temperamentally unfit candidate ever to run for president?
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Clearly Trump wins because he skips over all that issues and details and objective reality nonsense and just bites the head off the bat right there on live tv.
