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politicaljunkie41910

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Thu Sep 1, 2016, 12:38 AM Sep 2016

Only the lamestream media on CNN and MSNBC can fawn all over Trump's immigration policy speech

while ignoring the fact that this is the same man who has repeatedly hired illegal immigrants to build Trump Tower, abused the H1B Visa program to staff his hotels, and instructed young models how to circumvent the Tourist Visa program to staff the Trump modeling agency while treating these models as modern day slaves and charging them obscene amounts for rent and administrative fees.

Only the lamestream media on CNN and MSNBC can repeatedly ask why Hillary won't do press conferences while they continue to ask her the same lame questions during unofficial press conferences, while allowing Trump to lie repeatedly every time he speaks about anything and everything to the extent that they have given up on factchecking his speeches.

Only the lamestream media on CNN and MSNBC can repeated state that Trump is a businessman, not a politician while ignoring the fact that he is the lousiest businessman ever, who has filed for bankruptcy at least 4 times to get out of paying his debts to third parties while bragging about having profited from the bankruptcy process; has scammed small business owners out of money rightfully owed them by refusing to pay them what was owed to them for work they had completed by threatening to drag them through lengthy court procedures unless they accepted much less than what was owed; and repeatedly lies about his contributions to charitable organizations.

And finally, I have given up on the lamestream media's inability to refrain from creating false equivalency arguments where none exists. Today CNN's Gloria Borger stated earlier today that both candidates (Hillary and Trump) had taken the atmosphere of political campaigning to new lows and then proceeds to give example after example of Trump's name calling of candidates i.e. calling Hillary Crooked Hillary, and Lying Hillary, and saying Hillary is a Bigot and I was waiting for her to show equivalent examples of where Hillary was the one starting this shit. When Trump started with the name calling, I noted then that the media seemed to find his labeling of people funny, and I said then that this would only result in the election process being reduced to getting down into the gutter, if this type of thing was allowed to continue unchecked. Well, it's been more than a year since Trump started with the name calling and the media somehow now wants to blame everyone but the bully who started it for the lack of civility.

They overlook the fact that Trump continuously just makes up shit, to include phony numbers and statistics, and doesn't know anything about how the three branches of government are structured, doesn't know anything about the Constitution or how bills are passed in Congress, the size of our government or the readiness of our military or who are the major players in the Middle East while claiming to know more than the Generals who are executing the conflicts we are involved in, and he has no shame about the fact that he doesn't know shit from shine-ola, and the lamestream media has no problem with that as long as he doesn't have a server in his basement.

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Only the lamestream media on CNN and MSNBC can fawn all over Trump's immigration policy speech (Original Post) politicaljunkie41910 Sep 2016 OP
+1,.."while ignoring the fact that this is the same man who has repeatedly hired illegal immigrants" uponit7771 Sep 2016 #1
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