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Donald Trump’s Debate Weapon: Checks Written to His Rivals
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Donald J. Trump arrived by helicopter to visit his golf course, Turnberry, in Ayr, Scotland last week.Credit Jan Kruger/Getty Images
Favors are not free in business or politics and Donald J. Trump will have his ledger ready if the insults start flying his way at Thursday’s debate.
His rivals have called him a cancer, a phenomenon, a symptom of insanity and worse since he has surged to the top of the polls in recent weeks. Happy to counterpunch, Mr. Trump will be ready to remind them how nice – and generous – he has been to them over the years.
“I think they are very disloyal people,” Mr. Trump said in an interview. “But they’re politicians. They would have been loyal if I didn’t run.”
While he acknowledges that it could be a little bit awkward taking the stage after so much tough talk, Mr. Trump said that verbal fisticuffs is all part of the business of politics. Still, he remembers every time when they came calling.
Mr. Trump said that he gave $350,000 to the Republican Governors Association at the request of Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, its former chairman who personally came to his Manhattan office and asked for a contribution.
“I was the fair-haired boy,” Mr. Trump said, recalling the days when Republicans would humbly ask him for help.
While they are at odds these days, Mr. Trump said that he once hosted a lavish fund-raiser for Jeb Bush at his apartment when the Florida Republican was running for governor. He also donated $500 to his 2002 re-election campaign.
He has sparred with Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin for the top spot in Iowa, but he also donated $10,000 to him in 2014, impressed by the fight he showed against Democrats. A few months ago Mr. Walker thanked him with an inscribed plaque.
“It’s not hanging on the wall,” Mr. Trump said, trying to remember what he did with it.
As he has mentioned before, Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina once asked Mr. Trump for help getting a slot on Fox News. The billionaire magnate regifted the South Carolina senator’s cell phone number to the world after Mr. Graham called him a name.
Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky has raised questions about the mental state of Mr. Trump’s supporters, suggesting that they are not thinking clearly. Mr. Trump is happy to remind voters that he donated thousands of dollars to support Mr. Paul’s charitable work as an eye surgeon.
“He called me about a year ago and said, ‘I’d love to play a round of golf with you,’ ” Mr. Trump recalled. “He couldn’t have been nicer.”
As for the rest, Mr. Trump gave $2,500 to former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s Huck PAC in 2012. He was wined and dined three years ago by then-Gov. Rick Perry of Texas at Jean Georges inside the Trump International Hotel & Tower overlooking Central Park. And if Senator Marco Rubio of Florida attacks him on immigration, Mr. Trump will be happy to point out the warm note Mr. Rubio wrote him in a copy of Mr. Rubio’s book, which Mr. Trump said was now on the bottom of a pile somewhere.
Mr. Trump maintains that all the gift giving is just good business, regardless of a politician’s policies, and that the donations mean little to his balance sheet.
“I’ve often been a amazed that a U.S. senator will get on an airplane and come to New York and sit with me to get a check,” Mr. Trump said. “Most of their life is fund-raising.”
http://www.nytimes.com/politics/fir...p-debate-weapon-checks-written-to-his-rivals/
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Donald J. Trump arrived by helicopter to visit his golf course, Turnberry, in Ayr, Scotland last week.Credit Jan Kruger/Getty Images
Favors are not free in business or politics and Donald J. Trump will have his ledger ready if the insults start flying his way at Thursday’s debate.
His rivals have called him a cancer, a phenomenon, a symptom of insanity and worse since he has surged to the top of the polls in recent weeks. Happy to counterpunch, Mr. Trump will be ready to remind them how nice – and generous – he has been to them over the years.
“I think they are very disloyal people,” Mr. Trump said in an interview. “But they’re politicians. They would have been loyal if I didn’t run.”
While he acknowledges that it could be a little bit awkward taking the stage after so much tough talk, Mr. Trump said that verbal fisticuffs is all part of the business of politics. Still, he remembers every time when they came calling.
Mr. Trump said that he gave $350,000 to the Republican Governors Association at the request of Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, its former chairman who personally came to his Manhattan office and asked for a contribution.
“I was the fair-haired boy,” Mr. Trump said, recalling the days when Republicans would humbly ask him for help.
While they are at odds these days, Mr. Trump said that he once hosted a lavish fund-raiser for Jeb Bush at his apartment when the Florida Republican was running for governor. He also donated $500 to his 2002 re-election campaign.
He has sparred with Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin for the top spot in Iowa, but he also donated $10,000 to him in 2014, impressed by the fight he showed against Democrats. A few months ago Mr. Walker thanked him with an inscribed plaque.
“It’s not hanging on the wall,” Mr. Trump said, trying to remember what he did with it.
As he has mentioned before, Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina once asked Mr. Trump for help getting a slot on Fox News. The billionaire magnate regifted the South Carolina senator’s cell phone number to the world after Mr. Graham called him a name.
Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky has raised questions about the mental state of Mr. Trump’s supporters, suggesting that they are not thinking clearly. Mr. Trump is happy to remind voters that he donated thousands of dollars to support Mr. Paul’s charitable work as an eye surgeon.
“He called me about a year ago and said, ‘I’d love to play a round of golf with you,’ ” Mr. Trump recalled. “He couldn’t have been nicer.”
As for the rest, Mr. Trump gave $2,500 to former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s Huck PAC in 2012. He was wined and dined three years ago by then-Gov. Rick Perry of Texas at Jean Georges inside the Trump International Hotel & Tower overlooking Central Park. And if Senator Marco Rubio of Florida attacks him on immigration, Mr. Trump will be happy to point out the warm note Mr. Rubio wrote him in a copy of Mr. Rubio’s book, which Mr. Trump said was now on the bottom of a pile somewhere.
Mr. Trump maintains that all the gift giving is just good business, regardless of a politician’s policies, and that the donations mean little to his balance sheet.
“I’ve often been a amazed that a U.S. senator will get on an airplane and come to New York and sit with me to get a check,” Mr. Trump said. “Most of their life is fund-raising.”
http://www.nytimes.com/politics/fir...p-debate-weapon-checks-written-to-his-rivals/
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Payin Debts.... N40
No fukks given!
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10 Things We Learned About the Real Estate Market from Donald Trump's Presidential Announcement Speech
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Donald Trump announced that he is "running" for president today, with a 40 minute speech in which he touched on such subjects as whether or not he is a good person ("I think I am a nice person. People that know me, like me. Does my family like me? I think so, right. Look at my family."), whether Mexican immigrants are good people ("They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people."), and how many websites he has ("I have so many websites, I have them all over the place."). Also, since he is ostensibly still a real estate mogul, he had a number of illuminating things to share about the real estate industry. Here are ten of them:
1) There are too many restrictions on hotel developers:
"They just built a hotel in Syria. Can you believe this? They built a hotel. When I have to build a hotel, I pay interest. They don't have to pay interest."
2) The Chinese are buying expensive apartments:
"Hey, I'm not saying they're stupid. I like China. I sell apartments for— I just sold an apartment for $15 million to somebody from China."
3) Donald Trump won the Bank of America Building from China in a war:
"I own a big chunk of the Bank of America Building at 1290 Avenue of the Americas, that I got from China in a war. Very valuable."
4) Environmentalists are hindering us from developing military islands in the ocean:
"Now they're going militarily. They're building a military island in the middle of the South China sea. A military island. Now, our country could never do that because we'd have to get environmental clearance, and the environmentalist wouldn't let our country— we would never build in an ocean."
5) A desire to "build those big buildings" is what drove him in early days:
"[My dad] used to say, 'Donald, don't go into Manhattan. That's the big leagues. We don't know anything about that. Don't do it.'
"I said, 'I gotta go into Manhattan. I gotta build those big buildings. I gotta do it, Dad. I've gotta do it.'"
6) Donald Trump was responsible for Manhattan's Javits Center (this is news):
"I ventured into Manhattan and did a lot of great deals— the Grand Hyatt Hotel. I was responsible for the convention center on the west side."
7) Real estate is the old-fashioned way:
"I have to say this. I made it the old-fashioned way. It's real estate. You know, it's real estate."
8) Walls are on the rise:
"I would build a great wall, and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me, and I'll build them very inexpensively, I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall.
"Mark my words."
9) Our airports carpets are in bad shape:
"So we have to rebuild our infrastructure, our bridges, our roadways, our airports. You come into La Guardia Airport, it's like we're in a third world country. You look at the patches and the 40-year-old floor."
10) Donald Trump's golf courses are the best golf courses:
"Obamacare really kicks in in '16, 2016. Obama is going to be out playing golf. He might be on one of my courses. I would invite him, I actually would say. I have the best courses in the world, so I'd say, you what, if he wants to— I have one right next to the White House, right on the Potomac. If he'd like to play, that's fine."
· Here's Donald Trump's Presidential Announcement Speech [Time]
10 Things We Learned About the Real Estate Market from Donald Trump's Presidential Announcement Speech
[Photo via Shutterstock.]
Donald Trump announced that he is "running" for president today, with a 40 minute speech in which he touched on such subjects as whether or not he is a good person ("I think I am a nice person. People that know me, like me. Does my family like me? I think so, right. Look at my family."), whether Mexican immigrants are good people ("They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people."), and how many websites he has ("I have so many websites, I have them all over the place."). Also, since he is ostensibly still a real estate mogul, he had a number of illuminating things to share about the real estate industry. Here are ten of them:
1) There are too many restrictions on hotel developers:
"They just built a hotel in Syria. Can you believe this? They built a hotel. When I have to build a hotel, I pay interest. They don't have to pay interest."
2) The Chinese are buying expensive apartments:
"Hey, I'm not saying they're stupid. I like China. I sell apartments for— I just sold an apartment for $15 million to somebody from China."
3) Donald Trump won the Bank of America Building from China in a war:
"I own a big chunk of the Bank of America Building at 1290 Avenue of the Americas, that I got from China in a war. Very valuable."
4) Environmentalists are hindering us from developing military islands in the ocean:
"Now they're going militarily. They're building a military island in the middle of the South China sea. A military island. Now, our country could never do that because we'd have to get environmental clearance, and the environmentalist wouldn't let our country— we would never build in an ocean."
5) A desire to "build those big buildings" is what drove him in early days:
"[My dad] used to say, 'Donald, don't go into Manhattan. That's the big leagues. We don't know anything about that. Don't do it.'
"I said, 'I gotta go into Manhattan. I gotta build those big buildings. I gotta do it, Dad. I've gotta do it.'"
6) Donald Trump was responsible for Manhattan's Javits Center (this is news):
"I ventured into Manhattan and did a lot of great deals— the Grand Hyatt Hotel. I was responsible for the convention center on the west side."
7) Real estate is the old-fashioned way:
"I have to say this. I made it the old-fashioned way. It's real estate. You know, it's real estate."
8) Walls are on the rise:
"I would build a great wall, and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me, and I'll build them very inexpensively, I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall.
"Mark my words."
9) Our airports carpets are in bad shape:
"So we have to rebuild our infrastructure, our bridges, our roadways, our airports. You come into La Guardia Airport, it's like we're in a third world country. You look at the patches and the 40-year-old floor."
10) Donald Trump's golf courses are the best golf courses:
"Obamacare really kicks in in '16, 2016. Obama is going to be out playing golf. He might be on one of my courses. I would invite him, I actually would say. I have the best courses in the world, so I'd say, you what, if he wants to— I have one right next to the White House, right on the Potomac. If he'd like to play, that's fine."
· Here's Donald Trump's Presidential Announcement Speech [Time]
10 Things We Learned About the Real Estate Market from Donald Trump's Presidential Announcement Speech
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Donald Trump and Roger Ailes Make Up — for Now
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17has been in tatters ever since Fox's debate moderators peppered Trump with critical questions on stage in Cleveland. From the moment Trump faced reporters in the post-debate “Spin Room," he’s been attacking the network's treatment of him, with special venom reserved for Megyn Kelly.
Donald Trump’s Newest Enemy: Fox NewsThe Trump Campaign Has Descended Into Civil War — Even Ivanka Has Gotten Involved
Now, it appears both sides want peace. This morning, Trump tweeted that Ailes called to assure him that Fox will cover him “fairly” going forward. According to two high-level Fox sources, Ailes's diplomacy was the result of increasing concern inside Fox News that Trump could damage the network. Immediately following Thursday's debate, Fox was deluged with pro-Trump emails. The chatter on Twitter was equally in Trump’s favor. “In the beginning, virtually 100-percent of the emails were against Megyn Kelly,” one Fox source, who was briefed on the situation told me. “Roger was not happy. Most of the Fox viewers were taking Trump’s side.”
Things got worse for Ailes over the weekend. In a phone conversation, Trump told Sean Hannity that “he was never doing Fox again,” according to one person with knowledge of the call. The anti-Kelly emails, and threat of a boycott by Trump, seems to have pushed Ailes to diffuse the war. One Fox personality told me that Fox producers gave instructions to tell in-house talent not to bring up Trump’s controversial comments that Kelly had “blood coming out of her wherever" during the debate. According to one count, Fox only aired Trump’s comment once since Friday, while CNN mentioned it at least 50 times.
In recent days, Ailes got a glimpse of what a Trumpless Fox News would look like. On Sunday, Trump called in to the four other public affairs shows; this morning he gave interviews to Today and Morning Joe. Inside Fox, this was alarming. “This thing with Megyn got way ahead of Roger and bigger than he must have thought,” one Fox personality said. “Roger wants this to blow over,” another source added. “He’s upset that conservatives are mad at Fox.” Online, Ailes also took flack. Both The Drudge Report and Breitbart Newscarried pro-Trump headlines.
The Roger Ailes Primary
Whatever Ailes said to Trump in their phone call earlier, it seems to have worked. Trump has agreed to interviews on Fox & Friends and Hannity tomorrow.
Irena Briganti, a Fox spokesperson, did not return a call for comment. The Trump campaign declined to comment.
Donald Trump and Roger Ailes Make Up — for Now
By Gabriel Sherman
219Shares
17has been in tatters ever since Fox's debate moderators peppered Trump with critical questions on stage in Cleveland. From the moment Trump faced reporters in the post-debate “Spin Room," he’s been attacking the network's treatment of him, with special venom reserved for Megyn Kelly.
Donald Trump’s Newest Enemy: Fox NewsThe Trump Campaign Has Descended Into Civil War — Even Ivanka Has Gotten Involved
Now, it appears both sides want peace. This morning, Trump tweeted that Ailes called to assure him that Fox will cover him “fairly” going forward. According to two high-level Fox sources, Ailes's diplomacy was the result of increasing concern inside Fox News that Trump could damage the network. Immediately following Thursday's debate, Fox was deluged with pro-Trump emails. The chatter on Twitter was equally in Trump’s favor. “In the beginning, virtually 100-percent of the emails were against Megyn Kelly,” one Fox source, who was briefed on the situation told me. “Roger was not happy. Most of the Fox viewers were taking Trump’s side.”
Things got worse for Ailes over the weekend. In a phone conversation, Trump told Sean Hannity that “he was never doing Fox again,” according to one person with knowledge of the call. The anti-Kelly emails, and threat of a boycott by Trump, seems to have pushed Ailes to diffuse the war. One Fox personality told me that Fox producers gave instructions to tell in-house talent not to bring up Trump’s controversial comments that Kelly had “blood coming out of her wherever" during the debate. According to one count, Fox only aired Trump’s comment once since Friday, while CNN mentioned it at least 50 times.
In recent days, Ailes got a glimpse of what a Trumpless Fox News would look like. On Sunday, Trump called in to the four other public affairs shows; this morning he gave interviews to Today and Morning Joe. Inside Fox, this was alarming. “This thing with Megyn got way ahead of Roger and bigger than he must have thought,” one Fox personality said. “Roger wants this to blow over,” another source added. “He’s upset that conservatives are mad at Fox.” Online, Ailes also took flack. Both The Drudge Report and Breitbart Newscarried pro-Trump headlines.
The Roger Ailes Primary
Whatever Ailes said to Trump in their phone call earlier, it seems to have worked. Trump has agreed to interviews on Fox & Friends and Hannity tomorrow.
Irena Briganti, a Fox spokesperson, did not return a call for comment. The Trump campaign declined to comment.
Donald Trump and Roger Ailes Make Up — for Now
trump tweeted out an old megyn kelly interview she had with howard stern trump won
trump wontrump up to 32% in the breitbart poll. 
i'm wondering if they'll go so far to ban him from debates. i think rand paul was alluding to that today.
:spit:
The Donald is fighting wars on atleast 7 different fronts and winning them all.