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highplainsdem

(48,970 posts)
Tue Apr 2, 2019, 10:38 AM Apr 2019

Sportswriter Rick Reilly Reveals in Graphic Detail All the Ways Donald Trump Cheats at Golf (VIDEO)

https://www.mediaite.com/trump/sportswriter-rick-reilly-reveals-in-graphic-detail-all-the-ways-donald-trump-cheats-at-golf/


Veteran sportswriter Rick Reilly‘s new book Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump — which chronicles President Donald Trump‘s extensive cheating on the links — clocks in at 244 pages. Listening to Reilly spell out the extent of Trump’s cheating, though, one gets the impression there was a plethora of material left on the cutting room floor.

Appearing on CNN’s New Day Tuesday, Reilly said of Trump, “He cheats like a mafia accountant. He cheats crazy. He cheats whether you’re watching or not. He cheats whether you like it or not.”

Reilly relayed comments from caddies at Trump’s club in Bedminster, NJ — who don’t deny helping him cheat, admitting to carrying multiple balls in their pockets.

“He kicks the ball out of the rough so many times the caddies call him Pele,” Reilly said.

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Much more at the link, including 7 minutes of video from CNN.
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happybird

(4,605 posts)
1. "He kicks the ball out of the rough so many times the caddies call him Pele,"
Tue Apr 2, 2019, 10:43 AM
Apr 2019


What a cheater asshole. SMDH.

MagickMuffin

(15,936 posts)
3. He cheats at EVERYTHING, How has he missed out of Cheating Death???
Tue Apr 2, 2019, 10:51 AM
Apr 2019

Well Death has waited this long. I suppose let him live out the rest if his life in misery.

KPN

(15,642 posts)
4. That was really worth the 7 minutes. Don't know that I'd read the book, but yeah, the 7 minutes
Tue Apr 2, 2019, 10:53 AM
Apr 2019

was worth my time. ... Something is seriously wrong with this man. I sure am glad I'm not nor are any of my 3 children in the military right now. The troops' well-being will be the last thing on this guy's mind if it ever comes to a big war under his "watch" (not sure that he's capable of "watching" anything aside from Faux Noos and his TV-ratings.

GusBob

(7,286 posts)
5. I think the greater point is: other people help him cheat
Tue Apr 2, 2019, 10:54 AM
Apr 2019

Whether it be Putin or the caddies. In my opinion those who help him cheat are worse than he is

Botany

(70,498 posts)
6. He picked up and threw a person's ball into a bunker?
Tue Apr 2, 2019, 10:56 AM
Apr 2019
https://www.golfchannel.com/news/new-book-details-donald-trumps-alleged-cheating-golf-course

Sports announcer Mike Tirico says Trump once threw Tirico's golf ball off the green into a nearby bunker when they played together.

renate

(13,776 posts)
7. In all seriousness... I suspect that many of his supporters don't like to read, so maybe videos...
Tue Apr 2, 2019, 10:57 AM
Apr 2019

... are an efficient way to get information to them.

It’s so much more powerful to hear and see things like this from the horse’s mouth than to read about them, not just for nonreaders but for everyone.

GusBob

(7,286 posts)
10. Hmmm. I just read the Rolling Stone interview with the author
Tue Apr 2, 2019, 12:13 PM
Apr 2019

This golf business may be more important than it looks. He thinks the golf courses that DT owns oris trying to develop influence foriegn policy towards china, puerto rico and even muslim countries

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