Eric Trump: Dad started with nothing

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  1. Vegas giants

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    Good thing Trump is on board with that plan now....he doesn't want to be left behind!
     
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    Of course, Hillary who's been in the pockets of special interests and big business for 30 years and owes them billions dollars worth of favors and Trump who gets virtually zero from pharma, oil, insurance, other industries... they are in the same league. Right.
     
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    100 million ....yeah that's practically zero. LOL
     
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    Vs a billion Hillary got from oil, insurance, pharma military industries during this election and billions during her previous 30 years in public service... Sorry but no comparison.
     
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    She got a billion? Evidence please. LOL
     
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    Speaking of evidence, where is your evidence that Adelson gave anything (let alone $100 mln) to Trump? I checked and you completely made it up.
     
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    Is Fox News good enough?
    [h=3]Report: GOP mega-donor Adelson to give Trump up to $100 million ...[/h] "Billionaire Republican donor Sheldon Adelson is reportedly willing to give Donald Trump as much as $100 million for his presidential campaign -- a purported record-setting amount for the wealth casino magnate.

    Adelson pledged the amount to Trump, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, during a meeting last week in New York, two GOP sources told The New York Times, which first reported the story."
     
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    It happens that a million is really not so much money in real life terms. One needs that in the bank just to pay medical bills in their old age. You have NO IDEA what rich is, or how money generates money. Your anger and frustration with the silver spoon people is understandable, however.

    I'm surprised that given your choice between two silver spoon candidates, you would get behind the one who wants to take what money you have left (Clinton), as opposed to the one that would like to see you with a good job and security (Trump).
     
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    Don't believe your lying eyes.
    But that obvious existence of properties around the world aside -- how come you aren't attacking every other person born into wealth. Why aren't you going after John Kerry/Mr. Hunt? or the Kennedy's, or Nancy Pelosi?

    Read up, Grasshopper:
    http://ijr.com/2014/02/116056-wall-street-bankers-top-donors-agree-democrat-party-new-party-rich/

    http://freebeacon.com/politics/more-democrats-than-republicans-sit-on-10-richest-members-of-congress-list/
     
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    That's a guess. Or your prediction.

    But we have history that proves that Hillary is not for the little guy.

    So I'd rather gamble on Trump than accept more of the same from Hillary.
    I'm optimistic. Not masochistic.
     
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    Foolish nonsense. Trump was not holding a position of public trust. He wasn't "representing" anyone but himself. You did not entrust him with your grandchild's future. What do you imagine he owed you 10 years ago? Nothing.

    Most rich people set up family foundations as a tax shelter. Family foundations are generally relatively small and set up to award grants. The Clinton Foundation is a horse of a different color, and is operated like a racket - so there really isn't a comparison.

    No one cares where he made his neckties or what loopholes he took advantage of while operating as a businessman. They are the same loopholes every business takes advantage of. So it puts him in a position to know what that landscape looks like.
     
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    So no evidence of Adelson giving Trump even a penny? You understand the difference between promising and actually doing, right. That's exactly what I expected, the claim that Adelson gave money to Trump was completely false.

    Meanwhile the big business, Oil, Insurance, the Military Industrial Complex, Pharma and Hollywood gave Hillary bankroll Hillary to the tune of close to a billion dollars, expecting a very handsome return on their investment. They won't be disappointed.
     
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    Trump is an enthusiast for the privatizing of America--especially its national forests. The only jobs that Trump will create are jobs in the oil and gas industry, jobs that help destroy the environment. Manufacturing jobs will not be coming back, because corporations can't away with paying $5 an hour.

    I have a grandchild on the way, and I would like to know that she (I hope) will get to enjoy the wilderness like I do. Have you ever been to the Olympic National Forest, or Yosemite, or Yellowstone? Imagine them dotted with fracking operations, or shale oil pits.

    Trump is an enthusiast for totally eliminating all of the EPA (which should have their policies audited as some of them are ridiculous). Imagine our rivers on fire again, or, like China, having to wear masks over our mouths because of the horrendous air quality. That is what you are going to get without an EPA. If anyone is going to turn America into a third world country, it is Trump. One of the ways that separates developed countries from developing countries is our strict EPA rules. Look at the environmental messes of Mexico, India, Brazil, and others.

    Billionaires can't have it all, and that is what I am voting against--the privatization of America.
     
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    Trump was born into wealth. That is a fact. To claim he started with nothing is a lie. It is also an insult to the intelligence of working people everywhere.
     
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    Prove it
     
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    Another poster that doesn't know that wealth is assets minus liabilities. And I am not attacking Trump because he was born to weath. I attack Trump because he is a lier, a fraud, an abuser of women, rips off the little people who can't fight back, and a person whose moronic ideas are a threat to the survival of our nation.
     
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    Curious as to what evidence in Trump's past behavior would lead you to be optimistic that he cares in the slightest for the " little guy" . Is it Trump University. Is it his doing his manufacturing overseas. Or perhaps his employing illegals to build his casinos. Or perhaps it is his record of stiffing small contractors. Or perhaps his attempt to stiff the vets.

    Give us just one example where he has actuall done anything significant for anyone other than himself or his family. Bet you can't but watching you try to change thevsubject will be entertaining.

    Give us
     
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    When you apologize for your lie that Adelson gave Trump $100 million and take your claim back, I will prove that big business, Wall Street, the donors and lobbyists class overwhelmingly support Hillary.... Not that anyone on the planet has an iota of doubt about this.
     
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    I accept your defeat
     
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    No guts to apologize for your totally false statement? I am shocked :D
     
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    Donnie's son will make a perfect candidate for the future White Nationalist movement. Millions of these people already support his dad, but his dad is a buffoon around a microphone. Or a debate, for that matter.
     
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    And he will claim he is a self made man. Lol
     
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    How can you discount not only having the starting capital from daddy, but being able to take additional loans out? Not to mention, in my opinion a bigger advantage, daddy's business contacts.
     
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    There is only one silver spoon candidate, who has never had to work a day in his life. His name is donald.

    For you to attempt to defend him in this manner shows you are not interested in honest discourse about the man. I see you need to simplify things by saying donald wants me to have a job and hillary wants to take my money (even though that's contrary to everything that comes out of their respective mouths). You simplify because Donald is a simple candidate for simple people. When people say he "tells it like it is" that's code for simple language. He identifies well with uneducated people because he talks like one. It's no different than GW Bush, people don't feel threatened by a guy with a 5th grade vocabulary.

    What's clear is that he most certainly did not start with nothing. He started with possibly every single advantage an American could have when starting a business. That doesn't mean he is without accomplishments, it means he most certainly did NOT start from nothing.
     
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    I would have voted for him on general, Capital principle, if he and purchased his own cruiser, and simply "taken care of business" in the Middle East.
     

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