‘The fuse is lit’: Trump-Russia scandal is about to go off like a bomb

[Best Virginia]

I agree with Dan Rather. This is just the beginning and it's about to get FUGLY for Trump.


Veteran CBS News anchor Dan Rather wrote on Facebook Thursday that the scandal over Pres. Donald Trump’s personal and political connections to the Russian government and those of his aides is like a bomb with a lit fuse.

“Every once in a while in Washington, the fuse is lit for what seems to be a big scandal,” said Rather. “Much more rarely does that fuse lead to an explosion of the magnitude we are seeing with Russia and the new Administration, and frankly the Republicans in Congress.”


With revelations that Attorney Gen. Jeff Sessions apparently perjured himself regarding contacts with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, another key Trump appointee appears to be on the verge of going down in flames like national security adviser Gen. Mike Flynn.


Flynn resigned last month after wiretaps on Kislyak’s phone revealed that he and Flynn had multiple conversations prior to the president’s inauguration that Flynn later lied about to the public and to Vice President Mike Pence.


“Sessions is but the latest person close to President Trump who seems to be ensnared in a story that is more worthy of Hollywood melodrama than the reality of the governance of our country. Democrats are calling for Sessions to resign, and this story could move very quickly,” said Rather on Facebook.


He continued, “We are well past the time for any political niceties or benefits of the doubt. We need an independent and thorough investigation of Russia’s meddling in our democracy and its ties to the President and his allies. We don’t know what we don’t know.”


“The press is doing an admirable job,” he wrote. “But there is only so much it can do without such things as subpoena powers. Let’s just make this clear. This is about a foreign and hostile power trying to influence our election while being in contact with close aides to the presidential campaign that the Kremlin wanted to win. Furthermore, there are serious questions about Mr Trump’s longstanding ties to Russian money and influence peddlers. We don’t know where this might go, but it isn’t going away.”

 

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http://thetruthdivision.com/2017/03/flashback-chuck-schumer-vladimir-putin-coffee/

No, there was no outrage over this get-together.

Why? Because there’s nothing wrong with people from different parts of the world talking, celebrating, or building relationships — it’s the essence of politics.

That is, unless you’re Attorney General Jeff Sessions or former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn — both of which have been excoriated by the mainstream media and left-wing politicians for alleged and actual conversations.

The picture above was taken in 2003 as Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, enjoys a Krispy Kreme doughnut and coffee with Senator Charles Schumer from New York as Putin visits the first New York gas station of the Russian company Lukoil.

The hysteria over Trump administration officials talking —or not talking— with Russia needs to end.

It’s getting in the way of putting America back on track.

 

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I agree with Dan Rather. This is just the beginning and it's about to get FUGLY for Trump.


Veteran CBS News anchor Dan Rather wrote on Facebook Thursday that the scandal over Pres. Donald Trump’s personal and political connections to the Russian government and those of his aides is like a bomb with a lit fuse.

“Every once in a while in Washington, the fuse is lit for what seems to be a big scandal,” said Rather. “Much more rarely does that fuse lead to an explosion of the magnitude we are seeing with Russia and the new Administration, and frankly the Republicans in Congress.”


With revelations that Attorney Gen. Jeff Sessions apparently perjured himself regarding contacts with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, another key Trump appointee appears to be on the verge of going down in flames like national security adviser Gen. Mike Flynn.


Flynn resigned last month after wiretaps on Kislyak’s phone revealed that he and Flynn had multiple conversations prior to the president’s inauguration that Flynn later lied about to the public and to Vice President Mike Pence.


“Sessions is but the latest person close to President Trump who seems to be ensnared in a story that is more worthy of Hollywood melodrama than the reality of the governance of our country. Democrats are calling for Sessions to resign, and this story could move very quickly,” said Rather on Facebook.


He continued, “We are well past the time for any political niceties or benefits of the doubt. We need an independent and thorough investigation of Russia’s meddling in our democracy and its ties to the President and his allies. We don’t know what we don’t know.”


“The press is doing an admirable job,” he wrote. “But there is only so much it can do without such things as subpoena powers. Let’s just make this clear. This is about a foreign and hostile power trying to influence our election while being in contact with close aides to the presidential campaign that the Kremlin wanted to win. Furthermore, there are serious questions about Mr Trump’s longstanding ties to Russian money and influence peddlers. We don’t know where this might go, but it isn’t going away.”

Dan Rather is to honest news what bubonic plague was to healthy people.

 

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I agree with Dan Rather. This is just the beginning and it's about to get FUGLY for Trump.


Veteran CBS News anchor Dan Rather wrote on Facebook Thursday that the scandal over Pres. Donald Trump’s personal and political connections to the Russian government and those of his aides is like a bomb with a lit fuse.

“Every once in a while in Washington, the fuse is lit for what seems to be a big scandal,” said Rather. “Much more rarely does that fuse lead to an explosion of the magnitude we are seeing with Russia and the new Administration, and frankly the Republicans in Congress.”


With revelations that Attorney Gen. Jeff Sessions apparently perjured himself regarding contacts with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, another key Trump appointee appears to be on the verge of going down in flames like national security adviser Gen. Mike Flynn.


Flynn resigned last month after wiretaps on Kislyak’s phone revealed that he and Flynn had multiple conversations prior to the president’s inauguration that Flynn later lied about to the public and to Vice President Mike Pence.


“Sessions is but the latest person close to President Trump who seems to be ensnared in a story that is more worthy of Hollywood melodrama than the reality of the governance of our country. Democrats are calling for Sessions to resign, and this story could move very quickly,” said Rather on Facebook.


He continued, “We are well past the time for any political niceties or benefits of the doubt. We need an independent and thorough investigation of Russia’s meddling in our democracy and its ties to the President and his allies. We don’t know what we don’t know.”


“The press is doing an admirable job,” he wrote. “But there is only so much it can do without such things as subpoena powers. Let’s just make this clear. This is about a foreign and hostile power trying to influence our election while being in contact with close aides to the presidential campaign that the Kremlin wanted to win. Furthermore, there are serious questions about Mr Trump’s longstanding ties to Russian money and influence peddlers. We don’t know where this might go, but it isn’t going away.”

On September 8, 2004, Dan Rather cited “exclusive information, including documents” to justify major CBS Evening News and 60 Minutes stories alleging that George W. Bush shirked his duties when he was in the Texas Air National Guard in the 1960s and 1970s. Within a few hours of those documents being posted on CBS News’s Web site, however, typography experts voiced skepticism that the documents had actually originated with their alleged author and Bush’s former commanding officer, the late Lt. Colonel Jerry Killian. As the evidence mount, Rather stubbornly clung to the idea that his story was bulletproof, and he derided critics as partisans and Internet rumormongers.

The forged documents were debunked by a blogger Charles F. Johnson, whose work would likely be quickly dismissed as “fake news” by CBS today.

The scandal was so outrageous, four CBS employees were axed from the “news” network.

CBS reported in early 2005:

Four CBS News employees, including three executives, have been ousted for their role in preparing and reporting a disputed story about President Bush’s National Guard service.

The action was prompted by the report of an independent panel that concluded that CBS News failed to follow basic journalistic principles in the preparation and reporting of the piece. The panel also said CBS News had compounded that failure with a “rigid and blind” defense of the 60 Minutes Wednesday report.

Asked to resign were Senior Vice President Betsy West, who supervised CBS News primetime programs; 60 Minutes Wednesday Executive Producer Josh Howard; and Howard’s deputy, Senior Broadcast Producer Mary Murphy. The producer of the piece, Mary Mapes, was terminated.

“We deeply regret the disservice this flawed 60 Minutes Wednesday report did to the American public, which has a right to count on CBS News for fairness and accuracy,” said CBS President Leslie Moonves.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/dan-rather-still-wrong-after-all-these-years-1445295792

 

[Best Virginia]

On September 8, 2004, Dan Rather cited “exclusive information, including documents” to justify major CBS Evening News and 60 Minutes stories alleging that George W. Bush shirked his duties when he was in the Texas Air National Guard in the 1960s and 1970s. Within a few hours of those documents being posted on CBS News’s Web site, however, typography experts voiced skepticism that the documents had actually originated with their alleged author and Bush’s former commanding officer, the late Lt. Colonel Jerry Killian. As the evidence mount, Rather stubbornly clung to the idea that his story was bulletproof, and he derided critics as partisans and Internet rumormongers.

The forged documents were debunked by a blogger Charles F. Johnson, whose work would likely be quickly dismissed as “fake news” by CBS today.

The scandal was so outrageous, four CBS employees were axed from the “news” network.

CBS reported in early 2005:

Four CBS News employees, including three executives, have been ousted for their role in preparing and reporting a disputed story about President Bush’s National Guard service.

The action was prompted by the report of an independent panel that concluded that CBS News failed to follow basic journalistic principles in the preparation and reporting of the piece. The panel also said CBS News had compounded that failure with a “rigid and blind” defense of the 60 Minutes Wednesday report.

Asked to resign were Senior Vice President Betsy West, who supervised CBS News primetime programs; 60 Minutes Wednesday Executive Producer Josh Howard; and Howard’s deputy, Senior Broadcast Producer Mary Murphy. The producer of the piece, Mary Mapes, was terminated.

“We deeply regret the disservice this flawed 60 Minutes Wednesday report did to the American public, which has a right to count on CBS News for fairness and accuracy,” said CBS President Leslie Moonves.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/dan-rather-still-wrong-after-all-these-years-1445295792

Interesting, completely useless, historical reference. For comparison, let's see what Trump was doing in 2004 - 2005...

Donald Trump In 2004 On STDs And Dating: It’s Like Vietnam And Iraq

Donald Trump has repeatedly compared the risks of dating to serving in war. In 1993, Trump, who received multiple draft deferments, told Howard Stern if you are dating, “you’re the equivalent of a soldier going over to Vietnam.” In 1997, he told Stern that dating was his “own personal Vietnam.”


In 2004, Trump adapted his comparison to modern times, updating his reference by likening dating to serving in Iraq. Trump was speaking to Playboy magazine about dating in the age of AIDS when he made the comment.


“Was there a time when you worried about AIDS because of all you’d done?” asked Playboy.


“There was, but I got tested,” said Trump. “I think it’s hard for young kids today. It’s a whole different thing. I tell my sons just to get a nice girlfriend and be happy, because it’s dangerous out there. It’s Vietnam. I guess now we can say it’s Iraq—same deal, right?”

Donald Trump Accused of Deleting Emails in 2004 Casino Lawsuit

According to USA Today, transcripts from a 2006 lawsuit against the big bouncing birthday boy Donald Trump, who turns 70 today—when did he get so big??—reveal that his company, the Trump Organization, regularly erased all emails from 1996 to 2001.

Email figured prominently in the lawsuit, filed by Trump’s publicly traded casino company, Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts, against a former employee Richard Fields. From USA Today:

The gist of the Trump company’s suit in a Broward County, Fla., court was that while he was working with Trump, Fields had developed the idea of working with the Seminole Tribe in Florida to build a casino, then told Trump the idea wasn’t going to fly. Fields then left Trump’s employ at the end of the 1990s and struck the same deal with other partners.

Trump sued Fields and the companies he had ended up working with on a Seminole casino, arguing that Trump Hotels should be entitled to all profits the casinos produced, which were expected at the time to be more than $1 billion over 10 years.

The companies Trump sued argued that if it was true that Trump Hotels had been pursuing a similar deal with the tribe, there would be emails and other records documenting their discussions. The judge agreed and ordered Trump Hotels to hand over emails, financial documents, executive meeting calendars and so forth.

But the emails no longer existed (if they ever had). “My understanding from speaking to my client is that there are no emails,” Trump company’s lawyer, Robert Borrello, said at a March 2006 hearing. “They don’t keep emails from the time period from ’96 until within the last couple of years, when the organization instituted retention procedures for keeping emails electronically.” An IT director testified that there were no routine procedures in place for preserving emails before 2005. Also, Borrello said, Trump himself didn’t even use email.

The judge in the case was baffled. “He has a house up in Palm Beach County listed for $125 million, but he doesn’t keep emails. That’s a tough one,” Judge Jeffrey Streitfeld said. “If somebody starts to put forth as a fact something that doesn’t make any sense to me and causes me to have a concern about their credibility in the discovery process, that’s not a good direction to go, and I am really having a hard time with this.”

Donald Trump Made a Very Bad Joke About Statutory Rape

The Daily Show, which recently unearthed a clip of Donald Trump creepily talking about his infant daughter’s breasts in 1994, has discovered another jarring clip from 2004 in which Trump jokes about statutory rape.

During a morning radio show with Don Imus, Trump commented on the case of 23-year-old middle school teacher Debra Lafave, who the Daily Beast reports “was charged with — and later pleaded guilty to — lewd and lascivious battery for having sexual intercourse with one of her 14-year-old students on four separate occasions.”

Here’s the disturbing conversation, in which Trump talks about how hot the rapist is and then says the teenage victim probably “put the moves on her” and that being raped "might have given him confidence":

Trump: “How would you like to be the husband of the wife who was playing around with a 14-year-old kid? Unbelievable. By the way, did you see what she looked like?”

Imus: “Not bad."

Trump: “Not bad? Yeah, I’d say so. I know a lot of guys who are trying to date her right now.”

Imus: “Well, I don’t know what teachers looked like when you were in school…”

Trump: “None of them looked like that, believe me. So do you think this 14-year-old kid is scarred forever? He might have put the moves on her! It might have given him confidence, actually."

Donald Trump speculates about sex with ‘troubled’ Lindsay Lohan in resurfaced 2004 interview
‘She's probably deeply troubled and therefore great in bed,’ Mr Trump said of the then 18-year-old actress


Trump to Stern in 2004: OK to call daughter Ivanka a 'piece of a--'

In the September 2004 chat, Trump mentions daughter Ivanka, prompting Stern to interject "by the way, your daughter."

"She's beautiful," Trump says.

"Can I say this? A piece of a--," Stern responds.

"Yeah," Trump says.

Esquire editors update 2004 story on Trump to say he's lying on Iraq

Editors at Esquire Magazine appended an editor's note to an Aug. 2004 story about Donald Trump after the Republican nominee repeatedly cited the article as evidence that he consistently opposed the invasion of Iraq.

"During the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed to have been against the Iraq War from the beginning, and he has cited this story as proof," said the note. "The Iraq War began in March 2003, more than a year before this story ran, thus nullifying Trump's timeline."

In the original article, Trump said he would not have supported the Bush administration's decision to depose Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

"Look at the war in Iraq and the mess that we're in. I would never have handled it that way," Trump said in 2004. "Does anybody really believe that Iraq is going to be a wonderful democracy where people are going to run down to the voting box and gently put in their ballot and the winner is happily going to step up to lead the county? C'mon. Two minutes after we leave, there's going to be a revolution, and the meanest, toughest, smartest, most vicious guy will take over."

Trump recorded having extremely lewd conversation about women in 2005

The video captures Trump talking with Billy Bush, then of “Access Hollywood,” on a bus with the show’s name written across the side. They were arriving on the set of “Days of Our Lives” to tape a segment about Trump’s cameo on the soap opera.

Late Friday night, following sharp criticism by Republican leaders, Trump issued a short video statement saying, “I said it, I was wrong, and I apologize.” But he also called the revelation “a distraction from the issues we are facing today.” He said that his “foolish” words are much different than the words and actions of Bill Clinton, whom he accused of abusing women, and Hillary Clinton, whom he accused of having “bullied, attacked, shamed and intimidated his victims.”

“I’ve never said I’m a perfect person, nor pretended to be someone that I’m not. I’ve said and done things I regret, and the words released today on this more than a decade-old video are one of them. Anyone who knows me knows these words don’t reflect who I am,” Trump said.


The vulgar video, obtained by The Washington Post, was said to be recorded Sept. 16, 2005, and captures Trump bantering with then-“Access Hollywood” host Billy Bush as they ride a bus to meet “Days of Our Lives” star Arianne Zucker.

Its release created a sensation just two days before the next presidential debate in St. Louis — and caused several high-profile Republicans to turn on him. Some even told him to step down.

Trump says he tried to ‘f–k’ a married woman in 2005 video

“You know, I moved on her, actually,” Trump is heard saying of a woman — later identified as “Entertainment Tonight” host Nancy O’Dell — as the bus pulls into a studio parking lot.

“I moved on her and I failed. I’ll admit it,” he continues. “I did try and f- -k her. She was married.”

 

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Gennifer Flowers: Bill Clinton Contacted Me In 2005, I Told Him To ‘Leave Me Alone’ (VIDEO)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/28/gennifer-flowers-bill-clinton_n_2204985.html

Gennifer Flowers, the model and actress whocame forward in 1992with allegations that she’d engaged in a longterm affair with then-Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton, recently made new claims that Clinton had reached out to her as recently as 2005.

Speaking withSusan Roesgen of New Orleans ABC affiliate WGNO, Flowers claimed that she received a phone call from Clinton at her house in Louisiana.

(Watch the interview in the video above)

“He wanted to come by my house and talk to me,” Flowers, now 62, told Roesgen. “He said, ‘I’ll put on a hoodie and I’ll jog up there.’ He used to do that.”

Flowers said that she denied Clinton’s request.

“And I said, ‘No, I want you to leave me alone.’ And that was that,” Flowers recalled.

Earlier in the interview, Flowers claimed that her now-famous press conference had finally given Clinton the name recognition that he’d told her he needed in order to be a contender in 1992.

“I made him a household name overnight,” she said.




The Clintons really did attend Donald Trump's 2005 wedding

Clinton: Government 'failed' people
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/05/clinton.katrina/index.html
HOUSTON, Texas (CNN) -- Former President Bill Clinton on Monday said the government "failed" the thousands of people who lived in coastal communities devastated by Hurricane Katrina, and said a federal investigation was warranted in due time.

"Our government failed those people in the beginning, and I take it now there is no dispute about it," Clinton told CNN. "One hundred percent of the people recognize that -- that it was a failure." (See interview -- 2:32)

He and former President George H. W. Bush have launched the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund to help raise money for those left homeless by the storm. (Full story)

Clinton is just the latest in a long line of critics who have blasted the federal government for not moving fast enough to help people in the immediate aftermath of Katrina, which slammed into the Gulf Coast one week ago as a Category 4 hurricane.

He said that the utmost priority was saving people now -- and evaluating the mistakes in the months to come.

"We've got the departments on the ground, we've got the military on the ground, we've got a chance to do it right now, and we should do it right," he said. "And then in an appropriate time we should analyze what went wrong and why and what changes should be made."

As with the 9/11 commission charged with looking at the events leading up to and after the September 11, 2001 attacks, Clinton suggested a bipartisan Katrina commission be formed. It would investigate what went wrong and determine "what is the best structure and what are the best personnel decisions" to make in emergency management, he said.

The elder Bush echoed Clinton's sentiment, telling CNN's Larry King that he is "not satisfied" with the handling of the hurricane's aftermath.

Nonetheless, he defended his son's performance.

"What can he do? He can just go out and do what he's doing today, showing that the federal government's involved, has been involved, will continue to be involved ... He cannot listen to every critic from the editorial page of The New York Times," the elder Bush said.

 

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Interesting, completely useless, historical reference. For comparison, let's see what Trump was doing in 2004 - 2005...

Donald Trump In 2004 On STDs And Dating: It’s Like Vietnam And Iraq

Donald Trump has repeatedly compared the risks of dating to serving in war. In 1993, Trump, who received multiple draft deferments, told Howard Stern if you are dating, “you’re the equivalent of a soldier going over to Vietnam.” In 1997, he told Stern that dating was his “own personal Vietnam.”


In 2004, Trump adapted his comparison to modern times, updating his reference by likening dating to serving in Iraq. Trump was speaking to Playboy magazine about dating in the age of AIDS when he made the comment.


“Was there a time when you worried about AIDS because of all you’d done?” asked Playboy.


“There was, but I got tested,” said Trump. “I think it’s hard for young kids today. It’s a whole different thing. I tell my sons just to get a nice girlfriend and be happy, because it’s dangerous out there. It’s Vietnam. I guess now we can say it’s Iraq—same deal, right?”

Donald Trump Accused of Deleting Emails in 2004 Casino Lawsuit

According to USA Today, transcripts from a 2006 lawsuit against the big bouncing birthday boy Donald Trump, who turns 70 today—when did he get so big??—reveal that his company, the Trump Organization, regularly erased all emails from 1996 to 2001.

Email figured prominently in the lawsuit, filed by Trump’s publicly traded casino company, Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts, against a former employee Richard Fields. From USA Today:

The gist of the Trump company’s suit in a Broward County, Fla., court was that while he was working with Trump, Fields had developed the idea of working with the Seminole Tribe in Florida to build a casino, then told Trump the idea wasn’t going to fly. Fields then left Trump’s employ at the end of the 1990s and struck the same deal with other partners.

Trump sued Fields and the companies he had ended up working with on a Seminole casino, arguing that Trump Hotels should be entitled to all profits the casinos produced, which were expected at the time to be more than $1 billion over 10 years.

The companies Trump sued argued that if it was true that Trump Hotels had been pursuing a similar deal with the tribe, there would be emails and other records documenting their discussions. The judge agreed and ordered Trump Hotels to hand over emails, financial documents, executive meeting calendars and so forth.

But the emails no longer existed (if they ever had). “My understanding from speaking to my client is that there are no emails,” Trump company’s lawyer, Robert Borrello, said at a March 2006 hearing. “They don’t keep emails from the time period from ’96 until within the last couple of years, when the organization instituted retention procedures for keeping emails electronically.” An IT director testified that there were no routine procedures in place for preserving emails before 2005. Also, Borrello said, Trump himself didn’t even use email.

The judge in the case was baffled. “He has a house up in Palm Beach County listed for $125 million, but he doesn’t keep emails. That’s a tough one,” Judge Jeffrey Streitfeld said. “If somebody starts to put forth as a fact something that doesn’t make any sense to me and causes me to have a concern about their credibility in the discovery process, that’s not a good direction to go, and I am really having a hard time with this.”

Donald Trump Made a Very Bad Joke About Statutory Rape

The Daily Show, which recently unearthed a clip of Donald Trump creepily talking about his infant daughter’s breasts in 1994, has discovered another jarring clip from 2004 in which Trump jokes about statutory rape.

During a morning radio show with Don Imus, Trump commented on the case of 23-year-old middle school teacher Debra Lafave, who the Daily Beast reports “was charged with — and later pleaded guilty to — lewd and lascivious battery for having sexual intercourse with one of her 14-year-old students on four separate occasions.”

Here’s the disturbing conversation, in which Trump talks about how hot the rapist is and then says the teenage victim probably “put the moves on her” and that being raped "might have given him confidence":

Trump: “How would you like to be the husband of the wife who was playing around with a 14-year-old kid? Unbelievable. By the way, did you see what she looked like?”

Imus: “Not bad."

Trump: “Not bad? Yeah, I’d say so. I know a lot of guys who are trying to date her right now.”

Imus: “Well, I don’t know what teachers looked like when you were in school…”

Trump: “None of them looked like that, believe me. So do you think this 14-year-old kid is scarred forever? He might have put the moves on her! It might have given him confidence, actually."

Donald Trump speculates about sex with ‘troubled’ Lindsay Lohan in resurfaced 2004 interview
‘She's probably deeply troubled and therefore great in bed,’ Mr Trump said of the then 18-year-old actress


Trump to Stern in 2004: OK to call daughter Ivanka a 'piece of a--'

In the September 2004 chat, Trump mentions daughter Ivanka, prompting Stern to interject "by the way, your daughter."

"She's beautiful," Trump says.

"Can I say this? A piece of a--," Stern responds.

"Yeah," Trump says.

Esquire editors update 2004 story on Trump to say he's lying on Iraq

Editors at Esquire Magazine appended an editor's note to an Aug. 2004 story about Donald Trump after the Republican nominee repeatedly cited the article as evidence that he consistently opposed the invasion of Iraq.

"During the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed to have been against the Iraq War from the beginning, and he has cited this story as proof," said the note. "The Iraq War began in March 2003, more than a year before this story ran, thus nullifying Trump's timeline."

In the original article, Trump said he would not have supported the Bush administration's decision to depose Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

"Look at the war in Iraq and the mess that we're in. I would never have handled it that way," Trump said in 2004. "Does anybody really believe that Iraq is going to be a wonderful democracy where people are going to run down to the voting box and gently put in their ballot and the winner is happily going to step up to lead the county? C'mon. Two minutes after we leave, there's going to be a revolution, and the meanest, toughest, smartest, most vicious guy will take over."

Trump recorded having extremely lewd conversation about women in 2005

The video captures Trump talking with Billy Bush, then of “Access Hollywood,” on a bus with the show’s name written across the side. They were arriving on the set of “Days of Our Lives” to tape a segment about Trump’s cameo on the soap opera.

Late Friday night, following sharp criticism by Republican leaders, Trump issued a short video statement saying, “I said it, I was wrong, and I apologize.” But he also called the revelation “a distraction from the issues we are facing today.” He said that his “foolish” words are much different than the words and actions of Bill Clinton, whom he accused of abusing women, and Hillary Clinton, whom he accused of having “bullied, attacked, shamed and intimidated his victims.”

“I’ve never said I’m a perfect person, nor pretended to be someone that I’m not. I’ve said and done things I regret, and the words released today on this more than a decade-old video are one of them. Anyone who knows me knows these words don’t reflect who I am,” Trump said.


The vulgar video, obtained by The Washington Post, was said to be recorded Sept. 16, 2005, and captures Trump bantering with then-“Access Hollywood” host Billy Bush as they ride a bus to meet “Days of Our Lives” star Arianne Zucker.

Its release created a sensation just two days before the next presidential debate in St. Louis — and caused several high-profile Republicans to turn on him. Some even told him to step down.

Trump says he tried to ‘f–k’ a married woman in 2005 video

“You know, I moved on her, actually,” Trump is heard saying of a woman — later identified as “Entertainment Tonight” host Nancy O’Dell — as the bus pulls into a studio parking lot.

“I moved on her and I failed. I’ll admit it,” he continues. “I did try and f- -k her. She was married.”

Hi there little puddle pirate.

 

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="Best Virginia, post: 1477284, member: 31684"]Interesting, completely useless, historical reference. For comparison, let's see what Trump was doing in 2004 - 2005...

Donald Trump In 2004 On STDs And Dating: It’s Like Vietnam And Iraq

Donald Trump has repeatedly compared the risks of dating to serving in war. In 1993, Trump, who received multiple draft deferments, told Howard Stern if you are dating, “you’re the equivalent of a soldier going over to Vietnam.” In 1997, he told Stern that dating was his “own personal Vietnam.”


In 2004, Trump adapted his comparison to modern times, updating his reference by likening dating to serving in Iraq. Trump was speaking to Playboy magazine about dating in the age of AIDS when he made the comment.


“Was there a time when you worried about AIDS because of all you’d done?” asked Playboy.


“There was, but I got tested,” said Trump. “I think it’s hard for young kids today. It’s a whole different thing. I tell my sons just to get a nice girlfriend and be happy, because it’s dangerous out there. It’s Vietnam. I guess now we can say it’s Iraq—same deal, right?”

Donald Trump Accused of Deleting Emails in 2004 Casino Lawsuit

According to USA Today, transcripts from a 2006 lawsuit against the big bouncing birthday boy Donald Trump, who turns 70 today—when did he get so big??—reveal that his company, the Trump Organization, regularly erased all emails from 1996 to 2001.

Email figured prominently in the lawsuit, filed by Trump’s publicly traded casino company, Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts, against a former employee Richard Fields. From USA Today:

The gist of the Trump company’s suit in a Broward County, Fla., court was that while he was working with Trump, Fields had developed the idea of working with the Seminole Tribe in Florida to build a casino, then told Trump the idea wasn’t going to fly. Fields then left Trump’s employ at the end of the 1990s and struck the same deal with other partners.

Trump sued Fields and the companies he had ended up working with on a Seminole casino, arguing that Trump Hotels should be entitled to all profits the casinos produced, which were expected at the time to be more than $1 billion over 10 years.

The companies Trump sued argued that if it was true that Trump Hotels had been pursuing a similar deal with the tribe, there would be emails and other records documenting their discussions. The judge agreed and ordered Trump Hotels to hand over emails, financial documents, executive meeting calendars and so forth.

But the emails no longer existed (if they ever had). “My understanding from speaking to my client is that there are no emails,” Trump company’s lawyer, Robert Borrello, said at a March 2006 hearing. “They don’t keep emails from the time period from ’96 until within the last couple of years, when the organization instituted retention procedures for keeping emails electronically.” An IT director testified that there were no routine procedures in place for preserving emails before 2005. Also, Borrello said, Trump himself didn’t even use email.

The judge in the case was baffled. “He has a house up in Palm Beach County listed for $125 million, but he doesn’t keep emails. That’s a tough one,” Judge Jeffrey Streitfeld said. “If somebody starts to put forth as a fact something that doesn’t make any sense to me and causes me to have a concern about their credibility in the discovery process, that’s not a good direction to go, and I am really having a hard time with this.”

Donald Trump Made a Very Bad Joke About Statutory Rape

The Daily Show, which recently unearthed a clip of Donald Trump creepily talking about his infant daughter’s breasts in 1994, has discovered another jarring clip from 2004 in which Trump jokes about statutory rape.

During a morning radio show with Don Imus, Trump commented on the case of 23-year-old middle school teacher Debra Lafave, who the Daily Beast reports “was charged with — and later pleaded guilty to — lewd and lascivious battery for having sexual intercourse with one of her 14-year-old students on four separate occasions.”

Here’s the disturbing conversation, in which Trump talks about how hot the rapist is and then says the teenage victim probably “put the moves on her” and that being raped "might have given him confidence":

Trump: “How would you like to be the husband of the wife who was playing around with a 14-year-old kid? Unbelievable. By the way, did you see what she looked like?”

Imus: “Not bad."

Trump: “Not bad? Yeah, I’d say so. I know a lot of guys who are trying to date her right now.”

Imus: “Well, I don’t know what teachers looked like when you were in school…”

Trump: “None of them looked like that, believe me. So do you think this 14-year-old kid is scarred forever? He might have put the moves on her! It might have given him confidence, actually."

Donald Trump speculates about sex with ‘troubled’ Lindsay Lohan in resurfaced 2004 interview
‘She's probably deeply troubled and therefore great in bed,’ Mr Trump said of the then 18-year-old actress


Trump to Stern in 2004: OK to call daughter Ivanka a 'piece of a--'

In the September 2004 chat, Trump mentions daughter Ivanka, prompting Stern to interject "by the way, your daughter."

"She's beautiful," Trump says.

"Can I say this? A piece of a--," Stern responds.

"Yeah," Trump says.

Esquire editors update 2004 story on Trump to say he's lying on Iraq

Editors at Esquire Magazine appended an editor's note to an Aug. 2004 story about Donald Trump after the Republican nominee repeatedly cited the article as evidence that he consistently opposed the invasion of Iraq.

"During the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed to have been against the Iraq War from the beginning, and he has cited this story as proof," said the note. "The Iraq War began in March 2003, more than a year before this story ran, thus nullifying Trump's timeline."

In the original article, Trump said he would not have supported the Bush administration's decision to depose Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

"Look at the war in Iraq and the mess that we're in. I would never have handled it that way," Trump said in 2004. "Does anybody really believe that Iraq is going to be a wonderful democracy where people are going to run down to the voting box and gently put in their ballot and the winner is happily going to step up to lead the county? C'mon. Two minutes after we leave, there's going to be a revolution, and the meanest, toughest, smartest, most vicious guy will take over."

Trump recorded having extremely lewd conversation about women in 2005

The video captures Trump talking with Billy Bush, then of “Access Hollywood,” on a bus with the show’s name written across the side. They were arriving on the set of “Days of Our Lives” to tape a segment about Trump’s cameo on the soap opera.

Late Friday night, following sharp criticism by Republican leaders, Trump issued a short video statement saying, “I said it, I was wrong, and I apologize.” But he also called the revelation “a distraction from the issues we are facing today.” He said that his “foolish” words are much different than the words and actions of Bill Clinton, whom he accused of abusing women, and Hillary Clinton, whom he accused of having “bullied, attacked, shamed and intimidated his victims.”

“I’ve never said I’m a perfect person, nor pretended to be someone that I’m not. I’ve said and done things I regret, and the words released today on this more than a decade-old video are one of them. Anyone who knows me knows these words don’t reflect who I am,” Trump said.


The vulgar video, obtained by The Washington Post, was said to be recorded Sept. 16, 2005, and captures Trump bantering with then-“Access Hollywood” host Billy Bush as they ride a bus to meet “Days of Our Lives” star Arianne Zucker.

Its release created a sensation just two days before the next presidential debate in St. Louis — and caused several high-profile Republicans to turn on him. Some even told him to step down.

Trump says he tried to ‘f–k’ a married woman in 2005 video

“You know, I moved on her, actually,” Trump is heard saying of a woman — later identified as “Entertainment Tonight” host Nancy O’Dell — as the bus pulls into a studio parking lot.

“I moved on her and I failed. I’ll admit it,” he continues. “I did try and f- -k her. She was married.”

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