Is Trump's real agenda to monetize the fringe right wing base?

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Final-Fan said:

1.  You are correct; the real estate portion of his empire (which he largely inherited) seems from skimming through that article to be significantly larger than his licensing and other ventures, which I was alluding to.  For the record, I was never implying that he did not have such interests. 

2.  Are you saying that flip-flopping is a sign of a politician's opinion being bought?  That's the only way I can make sense of how you got from what we were talking about to the Clinton Foundation.  In that case, I will agree that Trump won't be susceptible to that kind of bribery but surely you can admit that he has a strong incentive to bend policy for personal gain.  I wonder whether the EPA (which he proposed abolishing) ever gave him grief about one of his developments...

3.  But why do you put that confidence in him when your DEFENSE of his conduct in the Trump University deal is that he will lie his ass off for personal gain if you don't have him nailed to a legal contract? 

4.  Links 1 and 2:  he never met her 30 years ago when the book was being written.  Possibly he has met her since (like after it was written and he and Trump were going to book signings), and anyway he doesn't have to meet her to know about her secondhand and form an opinion of her intelligence and judgment.  Link 3:  Third party candidates being "spoilers" is a sad result of our current electoral system (not just electoral college).  Whether his claim is true depends on how many of Stein's voters would vote Democratic if they weren't voting for her.  I agree that he is stating his point insensitively.  Link 4:  Hyperbole, I agree.  I don't care for that myself, but doesn't make him wrong about Donald Trump.  Even if he's exaggerating what he's told us about that time as well Trump can't pay attention to topics that don't interest him.  If his account of that time period was entirely fabricated I'm sure Trump's lawyers would have followed through on their threat to sue.  Links 5, 6, 7:  I don't like the man much more than you do, but I don't care about what he's saying in his capacity as third-rate talking head.  I care about what he can tell us about Donald Trump as someone who, while not quite being a member of his inner circle, had comparable access to him for a long period of time.  Am I satisfied that his account of that time is 100% correct?  No.  Do I believe that it has some truth to it?  Yes.  And if what he said was so much as 20% true I think we can seriously question Trump's willingness to engage intellectually on topics that do not particularly interest him, regardless of their objective importance.  That is a pretty dangerous thing to have in a president.  (P.S.  Are you aware that Schwartz's deplorables comment was referring to Trump's media surrogates and not popular supporters?)  In summary:  if you want to discredit Tony Schwartz, stop trolling his Twitter feed and find me something that can either independently vouch for Trump's intellectual chops (when his own self-aggrandizement isn't on the table), or some evidence that Tony Schwartz's account of his observations of Trump is a fabrication. 

1. FWIW, Trump could be inflating his numbers but nobody can get a truly precise measurement when your a private business in Trump's case ... 

2. I don't deny that Trump won't make policies to his advantage but he also naturally favours the vast majority of his views so tit for tat ? I view abolishing the EPA as a positive since it means less government intervention in the flexibility of being able to improve solely upon human capital ...

3. You have to put some confidence/instincts in almost decision you make so I don't see why this case is isolated for Trump when there are no guarantees to be had in the future. Can you prove that Clinton can deliver every time while making sure she doesn't sell us out ? 

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This fucking isn't about her intelligence and judgement! (Fun fact, Tony Schwartz has never claimed to have met Trump's daughter!) He made himself look like an idiot by by becoming the very thing he hated, distortion. So not only is he a hypocrite but he's a scumbag for even trying to deform something as personal as family relationships into something ugly. What in god damn right does he have to claim to know about her OWN feelings towards her father even after finishing his work when she was at the age of 6 ?! Does he have no shame defacing everything about Trump along with his own dignity as a human being ? 

It doesn't matter how much support Jill Stein has when just for the principle of it the things he said applied to Gary Johnson as well when he's taking votes from Clinton enough to make Colorado competitive! This is the type of narrative that comes from a typical big party establishment sheep that just keeps fucking poisoning the system in a two party one and he's damn guilty of it. In fact if you claimed that he wasn't so polticially inclined in this case then why the hell did he specifically state that he responded due to the fact that Trump's running for POTUS ?! If Tony Schwartz truly only had a personal beef then why would he make it specifically known that he's donating to minorities that Trump is known to be incendiary with ? Just how exactly would that personally rub Trump ? 

You can't exactly sue when everyone has the right to freedom of speech since opinion's can be protected so Trump is next to powerless ... 

If you don't like him then at least try to validate everything he says. If you and Tony Schwartz seriously thinks that Trump doesn't have the willingness to intellectually engage on any topic then how the hell did he graduate from one of the most reputable business schools in the world like Wharton ?! I don't see the big problem with disinterest when you can also get the benefit of having the least amount of bias regarding the subject at hand ... 

You've got some audacity for calling me out on trolling when the man we're talking about does nothing but troll on Trump (He made a conspiracy theory FFS and he recently attacked his son too!) and just because he is stating facts doesn't mean Tony isn't trolling ... 

Tony says some really cancerous shit that he'll even attack those closest to Trump ...