Having dealt with Palm Beach properties for years myself, I can say Trump’s experience is far from unusual. Nay! It’s the norm.
I have never dealt with a greater entitlement mentality or a more litigious bent than that held by the luminaries and plutocrats of Palm Beach. They win. You lose.
Silly me, I have only been at this for 35 years. When we have customers with storm damage, Adjustors/Cat Teams descend like locusts to assess damage to any structure. Where were they on this loss? Had to be in one of those high net worth companies, someone like Chubb. Where were they on this loss? Where was the claims manager, having coffee in the break room?
He probably had a policy with a carrier like Chubb or similar? And if you have been in the insurance biz for 2 minutes that is what carriers like Chubb or similar do – they overpay a lot of claims. I have had clients call me and say “..wow, what do I do with the rest of the money..”. But of course, the liberal media will never report the “whole” story.
Dear Perplexed, the Clintons have been investigated for the last 25 years — and well reported. With Wikileaks releasing news each day from hacked accounts, those are also reported.
Just because the GOP can’t make it stick doesn’t mean it has been investigated.
I am sure they also talked about Trump’s Deplorables.
October 30, 2016 at 6:09 pm
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So by that logic you agree since Trump’s campaign has been in contact with Wikileaks about Russian hacks they are in the pocket of Russia? Right?
October 31, 2016 at 6:57 am
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It looks like Comey’s wife was among the many people, including well-tenured FBI agents involved in the Hillary Clinton email investigation, that eventually convinced him he had done a great disservice to his countrymen by deciding not to recommend prosecution of HRC last summer.
I’m not sure who deserves more credit for potentially saving the USA from a fate far worse than that we’ve endured under Obama; Mrs. Comey or the FBI agents who protested the unfathomable decision by Comey last summer. So, thanks go to all of them.
“I have the world’s greatest memory. It’s one thing everyone agrees on.”
But yet, also…
Trump said he could not remember which hurricane had damaged Mar-a-Lago or when it hit.
Not exactly the world’s greatest memory. Perhaps he meant to say the world’s most “selective memory”. Not too hard for me to remember when cats producing millions of dollars in damage occur. And, I don’t pretend to have the world’s greatest memory. What a fraud and a joke this man is.
Alleged? I don’t know. I mean, I know some very smart people who say it happened. These are very, very good people too. If they said it’s true, then it’s true. AND, not once…hundreds of time. Maybe thousands. I don’t know.
Have you looked into it, or just read the right wing bullshit that makes people like you almost incapable of participating in reality?
There have already been reports that they were not sent or received by Clinton, nothing was withheld by Clinton, and there probably aren’t even any new emails. Also, the George W Bush administration’s ethics lawyer has already announced he will file a Hatch Act Violation complaint against Comey.
I will be curious as to the 2 ACTUAL TRIALS Drumpf is in over the course of the next 2-4 weeks. One, for alleged child raping and another for fraud. I notice how all of the Faux News minds are talking about that. And, just to be clear, if Hillary did something criminal, I think she should be held accountable for those actions. Meaning, tried, convicted, and sentenced. Do my right wing friends feel the same about Don The Alleged Child Raper?
Dear Captain, it appears that the Trumpettes won’t even acknowledge it, let alone his sexual assaults on women, even though he was the one to brag about it.
Come Wednesday, Nov. 9, we may very well end up President Trump who is intent on making this the United States of F.U.B.A.R. Next up, the laughing stock of the world.
The Wikileaks dumps have adversely affected liberals, to point of lashing out at anyone and anything, and hurling hyperbole and lies.
November 2, 2016 at 1:31 pm
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Depolarbearables, your side is the one lashing out at anyone and anything, hurling hyperbole and lies. In fact, your candidate is its main offender. Heavenforbid Trump makes it to the White House as he will surely make America the U.S. of F.U.B.A.R.
October 31, 2016 at 2:24 pm
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Why do you people insist on bringing GWB into every, single rebuttal? Does it matter that this lawyer was GBW’s admin’s ethics lawyer? At least the GWB admin HAD ethics. Something the Clinton’s never had, never will have.
People don’t bring him into every rebuttal, that’s an idiotic statement. What morals are you talking about? Lying about the intelligence to start an illegal war killing hundreds of thousands? Torturing people? Commuting the sentence of a person who could have testified against him? Using ineffective fundamentalist Christian ideology in anti-Aids programs, resulting in a less efficient program and avoidable deaths? Anti gay policies denying equal rights?
The author of this article worries about a $17M payout involving Trump’s Florida Club.
Meanwhile, the Clinton Foundation is still raking in bribes in the hundreds of millions of Euros, Dollars, etc. by foreign leaders who definitely do NOT have the best interests of US citizens in mind.
This is an insurance publication so the focus is on an insurance claims payment. If this was a political review, the author should compare this to the Clinton Foundation questions. Please note I am not saying this was a well-written article, just addressing your question of focus.
Imagine you are interviewing a candidate for a job opening at your insurance company or agency.
The interview goes well, although someone in HR essentially screened out another candidate who performed well in his interview BEFORE he was actually interviewed in person, by enhancing the first candidate with unwarranted praise and adulation.
You are convinced that the first candidate should be hired, although she has no accomplishments of significance on her resume. She did list a hyuuuge amount of frequent flyer miles accumulated while working at a prior job where she has shown no accomplishments.
The reference check turned out well. However, the background check reveals she has just been named as a target of a Federal Bureau of Investigation investigation that was abruptly closed a few months ago, but which has recently been re-opened upon discovery of potentially damaging evidence on a close associate’s phone.
Do you hire her? Or do you turn back to the list of other candidates?
If you think us anti-Trump people (for the record I am also anti-Clinton) are against him because we have not had a chance to “interview” him, you are extremely naïve. We are against him because of what he has been saying and what he has done in the past.
If you are for him, you have not been listening. Either that or you decided to hire him before you interviewed him.
Let’s get a new list of candidates to interview.
He and the Republicans are the reason Hillary Clinton will still probably get elected.
i’m with you, Ron…Can’t stand either candidate. I suspect there’s a lot of us out there. It’s honestly too bad the Libertarians didn’t have a stronger candidate this election; if there was ever a year for a third party candidate to make a serious statement, this would’ve been the year. I still can’t believe these two are the best either party has…
Whatever happens, may God be with us all come 11/9, assuming this mess is settled by then.
I agree. I am voting “None of the above” on 11/8. I believe it would send an incredible message if enough voters do not vote for the POTUS in this election.
Not a bad strategy, Ron. You either have Hillary or Don The Alleged Child Raper. Not exactly the best America could offer.
October 31, 2016 at 11:38 pm
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Alleged Child Rapers go to jail if there is substantiating evidence. Otherwise, the USA has a judicial system that presumes INNOCENCE unless guilt is proven. So far, it has save Hillary from several hundred years in prison.
November 1, 2016 at 8:41 am
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Well, Yogi, then we will see if he is innocent starting in two weeks when he goes to trial for alleged child rape. Until then, he is just merely Don the ALLEGED Child Raper.
November 1, 2016 at 8:50 am
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And Yogi, back to your interview and hiring question, are you going to hire someone who, in two weeks, is going to trial for alleged child rape? Or, how about in four weeks when he goes to trial for fraud? Or, someone who has been shown to be lying over 70% of the time? Or, do you just hate the other option so much you’re willing to hire ANYONE ELSE, including the buffoon I’m describing above? Why not take Ron’s approach?
November 1, 2016 at 12:17 pm
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Sorry, Yogi, I had the trials backwards. Fraud is up first and then child rape. And, they are actual trials, not investigations. The investigations have been completed and the prosecution has enough evidence to indict him on these criminal charges. Oh, and there’s another fraud trial after these two as well.
November 1, 2016 at 3:26 pm
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Yes, I am OK with voting for Trump the ALLEGED whatever it is this week.
Should he be convicted, Pence will serve admirably as POTUS.
Kaine; not so much.
November 1, 2016 at 4:34 pm
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Admirably? Periods for Pence? Forced funerals for abortions? The guy who abhors my gay brothers and sisters? Not very admirable at all. I’d put him in the deplorable basket and not in the other basket of Drumpf supporters. Which basket are you in?
October 31, 2016 at 2:56 pm
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If the Republicans had nominated ANYONE other than Trump, they would be blowing her out of the water. And if the Democrats had nominated ANYONE other than Clinton, they would be skating into the White House. Instead, they give us these two gems – two lying, corrupt, self-serving egomaniacs with more baggage than a Samsonite warehouse.
We SHOULD be voting for who we think is the best person to lead our country. Instead, most of us are going to end up voting for the person we think is the lesser of two evils, and will do the least damage in the next four years.
Remember when you go to vote, “None of the above” is an option. There is no law that says you have to vote for a candidate for each office on the ballot.
November 1, 2016 at 3:35 pm
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Can I write “No more crooked Clintons” on my ballot?
I once proposed the ballots for US Elections have a box for a negative vote; i.e. it reduces the selected candidates vote count by one. This is certainly an election where that would be used many times for HRC.
November 1, 2016 at 3:38 pm
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DePolarBearables,
That is fine with me.
It would be the ultimate, “Race to the bottom”. Just do not underestimate how many negative votes Donald Trump would end up garnering.
November 1, 2016 at 9:57 pm
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Did Trump ever expose national security info to hacking by the Russians, N Koreans, Chinese, etc. … ?
Did Trump lie to family members of the deceased in Benghazi, Libya, and later say “What difference, at this point, does it make” when asked a question about Benghazi by a Congressional Committee?
Did Trump say he would repeal or repair The ACA?
Did Trump…. well, I could go on for most of the night, but since this is a reply to a libbie who will blindly follow the Corrupt Clintons, “What difference, at this point, would it make?”
I am on record saying if Hillary did something criminal, I believe she should be held accountable. I’m also on record saying you don’t have to vote Clinton, but there is no way you can vote Drumpf if you call yourself a Christian, or, well, sane.
October 30, 2016 at 7:48 am
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Huma and Hill went up to Capitol Hill,
To lie to Congress, or not remember.
Carlos Danger’s pants fell down, ending Hill’s quest for a Crown,
Because it exposed his laptop, not his member.
I’m waiting for Hill to blame the Carlos Danger email treasure trove on either Bush or Putin or a Vast Right Wing Conspiracy. I wonder what the odds on each of them are in Vegas right now?
The ACA mess doesn’t look to be as big a problem for Hillary right now, relative to the Halloweiner Surprise.
Celtica–we know for sure that Bill Clinton did not ‘allegedly’ have an affair, did not ‘allegedly’ have sex in the Oval Office. I do not believe one, single word that comes out of anyone’s mouth who supports, or works for the Clintons. They are all garbage, as far as I am concerned.
And, for your reading pleasure this fine afternoon:
If you allow Hillary to take her dishonest, corrupt army of takers and enter the White House, America will regret it to the end of the Earth…
After you watch this, if you agree with Lou Dobbs’ analysis, please forward this to your contact list. I believe that it needs to make at least 2 repeats before the election — this message is as good as any commercial I’ve seen.
We need more in the media who have the guts (and integrity) to call it like Lou Dobbs does… and the voting public to see it.
Having dealt with Palm Beach properties for years myself, I can say Trump’s experience is far from unusual. Nay! It’s the norm.
I have never dealt with a greater entitlement mentality or a more litigious bent than that held by the luminaries and plutocrats of Palm Beach. They win. You lose.
If an insurance carrier pays a claim, any claim, that is on them notwithstanding your personal bias.
Silly me, I have only been at this for 35 years. When we have customers with storm damage, Adjustors/Cat Teams descend like locusts to assess damage to any structure. Where were they on this loss? Had to be in one of those high net worth companies, someone like Chubb. Where were they on this loss? Where was the claims manager, having coffee in the break room?
Probably defending the law suit that Trump filed to get a $17 million payout just because that is what Trump does.
Two word rebuttal. Cook County (Chicago).
He probably had a policy with a carrier like Chubb or similar? And if you have been in the insurance biz for 2 minutes that is what carriers like Chubb or similar do – they overpay a lot of claims. I have had clients call me and say “..wow, what do I do with the rest of the money..”. But of course, the liberal media will never report the “whole” story.
After the landslide, maybe Donald can collect more from his insurers.
Worthless article. Typical of a drive-by sort of piece with little on facts, nothing illegal, but meant to portray Trump as a bad guy.
Where is the $6 million that went missing from the State Department while Clinton ran it?
Well, he is a bad guy.
Do you mean $6 billion?
Actually wayne, it was $6 Billion with a B. Clinton Foundation? Sure didn’t go for Haiti relief.
What do you expect from a con man who is the subject of lawsuits against him for repeated fraud???
And let’s not forget Trump pocketing $150,000 from the 9-11 Fund even though he stated that he suffered no losses from 9-11.
Stand up guy all the way around — but just for himself.
His problems pale when compared to the Clintons. But the AP doesn’t want to investigate the Clintons, do they?
Dear Perplexed, the Clintons have been investigated for the last 25 years — and well reported. With Wikileaks releasing news each day from hacked accounts, those are also reported.
Just because the GOP can’t make it stick doesn’t mean it has been investigated.
Yes, we did notice that Lynch let her off the hook after the famous tarmac meeting with her husband. Just talked about golf and grand children, right?
I am sure they also talked about Trump’s Deplorables.
So by that logic you agree since Trump’s campaign has been in contact with Wikileaks about Russian hacks they are in the pocket of Russia? Right?
It looks like Comey’s wife was among the many people, including well-tenured FBI agents involved in the Hillary Clinton email investigation, that eventually convinced him he had done a great disservice to his countrymen by deciding not to recommend prosecution of HRC last summer.
I’m not sure who deserves more credit for potentially saving the USA from a fate far worse than that we’ve endured under Obama; Mrs. Comey or the FBI agents who protested the unfathomable decision by Comey last summer. So, thanks go to all of them.
Happy Hallo-Weiner!
Trump only benefits Trump.
After yesterday’s VP airplane incident in NT, Trump spokesman reinforces speculation that “the weather is rigged”.
Comment of the week! you win the internet!
Ahhh, the comment was just OK. But his name is genius.
Haven’t you heard? Killary did it.
Questions linger over Hillary Clinton becoming a quarter-billionaire from doing nothing but making speeches.
Don The Alleged Raper actually said this:
“I have the world’s greatest memory. It’s one thing everyone agrees on.”
But yet, also…
Trump said he could not remember which hurricane had damaged Mar-a-Lago or when it hit.
Not exactly the world’s greatest memory. Perhaps he meant to say the world’s most “selective memory”. Not too hard for me to remember when cats producing millions of dollars in damage occur. And, I don’t pretend to have the world’s greatest memory. What a fraud and a joke this man is.
Alleged? I don’t know. I mean, I know some very smart people who say it happened. These are very, very good people too. If they said it’s true, then it’s true. AND, not once…hundreds of time. Maybe thousands. I don’t know.
Well, my work week ended on a high note! HILLARY IS GOING TO GET HERS…FINALLY!!!
Have you looked into it, or just read the right wing bullshit that makes people like you almost incapable of participating in reality?
There have already been reports that they were not sent or received by Clinton, nothing was withheld by Clinton, and there probably aren’t even any new emails. Also, the George W Bush administration’s ethics lawyer has already announced he will file a Hatch Act Violation complaint against Comey.
I will be curious as to the 2 ACTUAL TRIALS Drumpf is in over the course of the next 2-4 weeks. One, for alleged child raping and another for fraud. I notice how all of the Faux News minds are talking about that. And, just to be clear, if Hillary did something criminal, I think she should be held accountable for those actions. Meaning, tried, convicted, and sentenced. Do my right wing friends feel the same about Don The Alleged Child Raper?
Dear Captain, it appears that the Trumpettes won’t even acknowledge it, let alone his sexual assaults on women, even though he was the one to brag about it.
Come Wednesday, Nov. 9, we may very well end up President Trump who is intent on making this the United States of F.U.B.A.R. Next up, the laughing stock of the world.
The Wikileaks dumps have adversely affected liberals, to point of lashing out at anyone and anything, and hurling hyperbole and lies.
Depolarbearables, your side is the one lashing out at anyone and anything, hurling hyperbole and lies. In fact, your candidate is its main offender. Heavenforbid Trump makes it to the White House as he will surely make America the U.S. of F.U.B.A.R.
Why do you people insist on bringing GWB into every, single rebuttal? Does it matter that this lawyer was GBW’s admin’s ethics lawyer? At least the GWB admin HAD ethics. Something the Clinton’s never had, never will have.
People don’t bring him into every rebuttal, that’s an idiotic statement. What morals are you talking about? Lying about the intelligence to start an illegal war killing hundreds of thousands? Torturing people? Commuting the sentence of a person who could have testified against him? Using ineffective fundamentalist Christian ideology in anti-Aids programs, resulting in a less efficient program and avoidable deaths? Anti gay policies denying equal rights?
You are in denial or reality when you say liberals don’t rebut arguments by blaming Bush.
Email, email.
Who failed to hide incriminating email?
The nasty, corrupt Play-for-Paying-her-a-Fee-mail.
The author of this article worries about a $17M payout involving Trump’s Florida Club.
Meanwhile, the Clinton Foundation is still raking in bribes in the hundreds of millions of Euros, Dollars, etc. by foreign leaders who definitely do NOT have the best interests of US citizens in mind.
Where’s the logic in that focus?
This is an insurance publication so the focus is on an insurance claims payment. If this was a political review, the author should compare this to the Clinton Foundation questions. Please note I am not saying this was a well-written article, just addressing your question of focus.
Imagine you are interviewing a candidate for a job opening at your insurance company or agency.
The interview goes well, although someone in HR essentially screened out another candidate who performed well in his interview BEFORE he was actually interviewed in person, by enhancing the first candidate with unwarranted praise and adulation.
You are convinced that the first candidate should be hired, although she has no accomplishments of significance on her resume. She did list a hyuuuge amount of frequent flyer miles accumulated while working at a prior job where she has shown no accomplishments.
The reference check turned out well. However, the background check reveals she has just been named as a target of a Federal Bureau of Investigation investigation that was abruptly closed a few months ago, but which has recently been re-opened upon discovery of potentially damaging evidence on a close associate’s phone.
Do you hire her? Or do you turn back to the list of other candidates?
DePolarBearables,
If you think us anti-Trump people (for the record I am also anti-Clinton) are against him because we have not had a chance to “interview” him, you are extremely naïve. We are against him because of what he has been saying and what he has done in the past.
If you are for him, you have not been listening. Either that or you decided to hire him before you interviewed him.
Let’s get a new list of candidates to interview.
He and the Republicans are the reason Hillary Clinton will still probably get elected.
i’m with you, Ron…Can’t stand either candidate. I suspect there’s a lot of us out there. It’s honestly too bad the Libertarians didn’t have a stronger candidate this election; if there was ever a year for a third party candidate to make a serious statement, this would’ve been the year. I still can’t believe these two are the best either party has…
Whatever happens, may God be with us all come 11/9, assuming this mess is settled by then.
Louie,
I agree. I am voting “None of the above” on 11/8. I believe it would send an incredible message if enough voters do not vote for the POTUS in this election.
Not a bad strategy, Ron. You either have Hillary or Don The Alleged Child Raper. Not exactly the best America could offer.
Alleged Child Rapers go to jail if there is substantiating evidence. Otherwise, the USA has a judicial system that presumes INNOCENCE unless guilt is proven. So far, it has save Hillary from several hundred years in prison.
Well, Yogi, then we will see if he is innocent starting in two weeks when he goes to trial for alleged child rape. Until then, he is just merely Don the ALLEGED Child Raper.
And Yogi, back to your interview and hiring question, are you going to hire someone who, in two weeks, is going to trial for alleged child rape? Or, how about in four weeks when he goes to trial for fraud? Or, someone who has been shown to be lying over 70% of the time? Or, do you just hate the other option so much you’re willing to hire ANYONE ELSE, including the buffoon I’m describing above? Why not take Ron’s approach?
Sorry, Yogi, I had the trials backwards. Fraud is up first and then child rape. And, they are actual trials, not investigations. The investigations have been completed and the prosecution has enough evidence to indict him on these criminal charges. Oh, and there’s another fraud trial after these two as well.
Yes, I am OK with voting for Trump the ALLEGED whatever it is this week.
Should he be convicted, Pence will serve admirably as POTUS.
Kaine; not so much.
Admirably? Periods for Pence? Forced funerals for abortions? The guy who abhors my gay brothers and sisters? Not very admirable at all. I’d put him in the deplorable basket and not in the other basket of Drumpf supporters. Which basket are you in?
If the Republicans had nominated ANYONE other than Trump, they would be blowing her out of the water. And if the Democrats had nominated ANYONE other than Clinton, they would be skating into the White House. Instead, they give us these two gems – two lying, corrupt, self-serving egomaniacs with more baggage than a Samsonite warehouse.
We SHOULD be voting for who we think is the best person to lead our country. Instead, most of us are going to end up voting for the person we think is the lesser of two evils, and will do the least damage in the next four years.
Not much of a choice. :(
BS,
Remember when you go to vote, “None of the above” is an option. There is no law that says you have to vote for a candidate for each office on the ballot.
Can I write “No more crooked Clintons” on my ballot?
I once proposed the ballots for US Elections have a box for a negative vote; i.e. it reduces the selected candidates vote count by one. This is certainly an election where that would be used many times for HRC.
DePolarBearables,
That is fine with me.
It would be the ultimate, “Race to the bottom”. Just do not underestimate how many negative votes Donald Trump would end up garnering.
Did Trump ever expose national security info to hacking by the Russians, N Koreans, Chinese, etc. … ?
Did Trump lie to family members of the deceased in Benghazi, Libya, and later say “What difference, at this point, does it make” when asked a question about Benghazi by a Congressional Committee?
Did Trump say he would repeal or repair The ACA?
Did Trump…. well, I could go on for most of the night, but since this is a reply to a libbie who will blindly follow the Corrupt Clintons, “What difference, at this point, would it make?”
DePolarBearables,
Based on your posts, you are a blind Trump supporter. That makes you no better than a blind Clinton supporter.
I am on record saying if Hillary did something criminal, I believe she should be held accountable. I’m also on record saying you don’t have to vote Clinton, but there is no way you can vote Drumpf if you call yourself a Christian, or, well, sane.
Huma and Hill went up to Capitol Hill,
To lie to Congress, or not remember.
Carlos Danger’s pants fell down, ending Hill’s quest for a Crown,
Because it exposed his laptop, not his member.
Carlos Danger; the gift that keeps on giving… to the Republicans.
I’m waiting for Hill to blame the Carlos Danger email treasure trove on either Bush or Putin or a Vast Right Wing Conspiracy. I wonder what the odds on each of them are in Vegas right now?
The ACA mess doesn’t look to be as big a problem for Hillary right now, relative to the Halloweiner Surprise.
Drump’s America:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/kkk-newspaper-support-donald-trump-front-page-article-article-1.2854482
Captain Planet – there is a new conference today at 3 p.m. PST with Trump’s accuser who was a child when Trump allegedly raped her in 1994.
Celtica–we know for sure that Bill Clinton did not ‘allegedly’ have an affair, did not ‘allegedly’ have sex in the Oval Office. I do not believe one, single word that comes out of anyone’s mouth who supports, or works for the Clintons. They are all garbage, as far as I am concerned.
Patticake,
Bill Clinton isn’t on the ticket.
And, for your reading pleasure this fine afternoon:
If you allow Hillary to take her dishonest, corrupt army of takers and enter the White House, America will regret it to the end of the Earth…
After you watch this, if you agree with Lou Dobbs’ analysis, please forward this to your contact list. I believe that it needs to make at least 2 repeats before the election — this message is as good as any commercial I’ve seen.
We need more in the media who have the guts (and integrity) to call it like Lou Dobbs does… and the voting public to see it.
The Foulest Stench of All (By Lou Dobbs)
http://video.foxbusiness.com/ v/5085818847001/dobbs-the- clinton-cartel-emits-the- foulest-stench-of-all-/?#sp= show-clips
Someone has the guts to express what needs to be said. Whether you like Trump or not watch this.
Really? You are going to post a Faux News link? Credibility lost already.
***Ooops…meant to say for your VIEWING pleasure this fine afternoon….mea culpa.