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House GOP Shocked to Learn That Infamous Con Artist Cant Be Trusted
By Eric Levitz
Donald Trump once ran a university that sold fraudulent master classes in real-estate investing to his most devoted, cash-strapped fans. That school instructed its recruiters to target a single parent of three children that may need money for food and to encourage such working-poor people to finance their educations with massive credit-card debt. If a prospective student expressed anxiety about maxing out his or her credit cards, recruiters were instructed to reply, Do you enjoy seeing everyone else but yourself in their dream houses and driving their dreams cars with huge checking accounts? Those people saw an opportunity, and didnt make excuses, like what youre doing now.
In 2009, the mogul started a multilevel marketing scheme that promised to let down-on-their-luck Americans opt-out of the recession. The man used his charitable foundation to rebrand other peoples donations, pay off legal settlements, and purchase a painting of himself. Throughout his business career, Trump made a regular practice of paying his contractors less than he had promised.
Trump betrayed his wives in spectacular fashion and neglected his children. He adopted Roy Cohn as a mentor and father figure, and wrote this tribute to Joseph McCarthys chief counsel in the Art of the Deal.
What I liked most about Roy Cohn was that he would do just the opposite. Roy was the kind of guy whod be there at your hospital bed long after everyone else had bailed out, literally standing by you to the death.
When Cohn was diagnosed with AIDS, Trump did not stand by his hospital bed. In the words of Cohns longtime secretary, Donald found out about it and just dropped him like a hot potato.
I cant believe hes doing this to me, Cohn reportedly said of Trumps behavior. Donald pisses ice water.
None of this should be news to the congressional GOP. A little over a year ago, many of their partys leading lights were shouting that Trump was a fraud and a con artist at the top of their lungs.
But, apparently, House Republicans thought that with them, Donald would be different. Last month, the president begged vulnerable GOP representatives to vote for his unpopular, draconian health-care bill. Fourteen Republicans from districts Clinton won backed the legislation. Trump threw them a party to celebrate its passage.
And then, after Trump burned through the popularity boost that legislation provided, the president went and told Senate Republicans that the House bill was mean and coldhearted effectively endorsing the central claim of every Democratic congressional candidates 2018 campaign.
House Republicans cant believe what Trump is doing to them:
In the House Ways & Means Committee markup today, there was discussion among a couple of Dems and Republican members, with a Democrat saying: See, we told you your health care bill was mean. Now the president agrees with us. A number of members of Congress have told Axios that Trump and Pence lobbied the bill like nothing theyd ever seen, using superlatives such as calling it a great bill. Members who Trump urged to take a risk and pass the bill are now seeing him turn his back on them. One member said Trump was on the phone urging people to support it, and for him to turn around and do this, its stunning. I cant believe it.
The president pisses ice water.
YCHDT
(962 posts)OnDoutside
(19,962 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)But I did a little poking around yesterday about the current status of the case:
http://www.trumpuniversitylitigation.com/Home/Documents
While the court approved the proposed settlement agreement on March 31, 2017, a non-class plaintiff Sherri Simpson filed a notice of appeal on May 1. I don't think Trump has actually paid a dime of that settlement, yet.
kag
(4,079 posts)Not.
YCHDT
(962 posts)vlyons
(10,252 posts)They are incapable of hearing sound advice BEFORE jumping off a cliff.
AJT
(5,240 posts)Cosmocat
(14,566 posts)are paying attention ...
kentuck
(111,103 posts)...when they gave him a lift.
WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)"apparently, House Republicans thought that with them, Donald would be different."
Change the names and it's such a classic bad romance line. But by the time we're 30/35 most of us have learned that 'when someone shows you who they really are, believe them.' Once you 'get' that Trump is a textbook narcissist and a con man selling 'snake oil' he becomes incredibly obvious.
For instance, Trump loves to quote from the old song, The Snake, likening undocumented workers to the snake, but it's actually an example of his narcissism.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/01/politics/trump-the-snake/index.html
hatrack
(59,587 posts)Hey GOP - next time, consult Dear Abby first.
Dumbasses.
WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)I have a feeling that Trump's going to be that crazy abusive spouse who run up the credit cards, empties the bank accounts and then stands in the house throwing things out the window and screaming to the whole world how ·they're· the victim along with every real and imagined wrong and way the X is lacking.
jaxind
(1,074 posts)What about during the campaign...he skips a debate to have a rally to donate the money to the vets (I think it was the vets). And, he doesn't donate until gets found out! And, his voters believed him when he said he would take care of their health, and all his other empty promises??!
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,414 posts)"I didn't know he was going to take away MY healthcare!"
"I didn't know he was going to deport MY husband!"
Notice how loudly Republicans cry and moan whenever Republican policies affect THEM. They are reaping what they've sown. I feel sorry for them but, unlike them, I feel sorry for EVERYBODY who stands to lose under Trump/GOP
rpannier
(24,330 posts)As mean as this may sound, 'I'm not sorry they deported that guy. That family and their stupid town got a front row view of what that's all about.'
dalton99a
(81,516 posts)Dustlawyer
(10,495 posts)The propaganda they listen to tells them that.
When Texas passed the medical malpractice tort reform almost eliminating medical malpractice suits in the state, I would get Tea Party nuts in my office wanting to sue their doctors. I had one husband actually tell me his wife's case was legitimate, unlike the rest of my cases, and that was BEFORE I told him I could not take her case. I explained why, since his wife didn't work there was no loss of past or future income. With a cap of $250,000 max we would not have enough money to justify the huge case expenses required since we had to post a bond and hire very expensive medical experts, plus all of the other case expenses and attorney's fees. There would be nothing left over for his wife to get. His comment was, "I thought it (the tort reform) was for the frivolous cases!" I had to explain that a poll had been taken of all of the judges in the country and 98% said they had no problems with frivolous cases in their court. The biggest factor is that we do not get paid unless we get money for our clients. That keeps us from taking those cases because we would put our time and our money into a case that will just be thrown out.
They never thought any of this aimed at them, only at the others, the moochers.