Why did the media keep tabs on Trump's golfing, but not on Biden's vacationing?

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  1. ECA

    ECA Well-Known Member

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    You have material for three separate threads in your one post. I think that might be a record. In fact, I think you win the prize for the biggest attempt at moving the goalpost. Congrats...:trophy:
     
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    That’s NOT what I said. I said you’re saying YOUR side is talking out of both sides of your mouth. You want to tar and feather President Biden as incapably senile AND as a larcenous genius; all in the same breath.

    TRAITOR tRump may be “unelectable”. What’s your point? That being unelectable means he should get off Scott free for defrauding The United States and all Americans, using a seditious cartel of co-conspirators to do AND trying to steal steal secrets on his way out the door? I don’t think so!
     
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    chris155au Well-Known Member

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    Which facts are you referring to? And which anecdotes have I used?
     
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    Only the double standard considering the media's dedicated attention to Trump's golfing for four long years.
     
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    chris155au Well-Known Member

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    "What he's always done?" Which is what, go on vacation?
     
  6. Lee Atwater

    Lee Atwater Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Not just golfing. Let's not forget how he profited from vacationing at resorts he owned.

    Trump hotels charged his Secret Service protectors 'exorbitant' rates
    https://www.npr.org/2022/10/17/1129491352/trump-hotels-overcharged-secret-service-agents

    This road you are going down is not just a dead end..........there's a cliff at the end.
     
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    The only double-standard is Trump's. See post #45
     
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    Every president while in office, and even not in office, goes on vacation on the government's dime. This includes the use of Air Force One when in office, Secret Service protection both in and out of office, and so forth. But Trump does not pay his bills as evidence with over two dozen municipalities who still have not been paid when he was campaigning in 2016. Now they are demanding that he pay up front when he comes to town.
     
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    Trump stiffed his alleged co-conspirators, whose false claims brought in $250 million

    Several of the attorneys who spearheaded President Donald Trump’s frenzied effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election tried, and failed, to collect payment for the work they did for Trump’s political operation, according to testimony to congressional investigators and Federal Election Commission records. This is despite the fact that their lawsuits and false claims of election interference helped the Trump campaign and allied committees raise $250 million in the weeks following the November vote, the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot said in its final report.

    Among them was Trump’s closest ally, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Trump and Giuliani had a handshake agreement that Giuliani and his team would get paid by the Trump political operation for their post-election work, according to Timothy Parlatore, an attorney for longtime Giuliani ally Bernard Kerik.

    But the Trump campaign and its affiliated committees ultimately did not honor that pledge, according to campaign finance records. The records show that Giuliani’s companies were only reimbursed for travel and not the $20,000 a day he requested to be paid.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/15/trump-alleged-co-conspirators-never-got-paid-by-trump-team.html
     
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    No.
     
  11. JohnHamilton

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    I have chuckle. Is it so hard to understand that Biden was a crook then and victim of dementia now?

    As Trump, you should be one of his subversive fans. If he gets the Republican nomination, Biden is re-elected. Biden and Trump are neck and neck despite Biden’s many negatives.Trump’s vote is frozen at about 45% and will never increase. His negatives are huge, and much of his campaign funds will be spent on legal expenses.
     
  12. Lee Atwater

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    For the sake of intellectual honesty don't you think you should show cause for us to believe "Biden was a crook" or stop making the accusation?
     
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    Have chuckle? Have whatever you want but you can’t have it both ways. President Biden is neither senile or an evil genius. BUT! He IS doing a great job of getting the country back on track after TRAITOR tRump’s disastrous misadministration.

    ?As tRump? As TRAITOR tRump I would shoot myself. What a miserable existence he’s lived.
     
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  14. JohnHamilton

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    I meant to say, “As FOR Trump, but my mind sometimes runs faster than my fingers.

    Trump has had it pretty good. He’s run though an incredible amount of money, and all the women he could buy plus some others he’s grabbed by the butt, sometimes are great financial expense. I can’t understand why he needed all of them, but maybe I am undersexed.

    In case you missed it, I am not a Trump fan. I voted for him twice because of a general desire for the retention of the capitalist system and his two crooked opponents. I want him out as a candidate, but if it’s Biden vs. Trump I’ll reluctantly have to vote for “The Donald” again, firmly holding my nose.
     
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    Can you provide proof of him saying this?

    This is a link that at least on the surface seems to contradict your claim
    Fact Check-No evidence Donald Trump said he plays ‘very little golf’ | Reuters
     
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    Fair enough. Thank you for the reference.
     
  20. Lee Atwater

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    My pleasure.
     
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    You voted for TRAITOR tRump because you didn't want a crooked president? :eyepopping:

    And you think he's lived an enviable life? :shock:
    He's done his best to **** everybody he's met. If not physically, then financially or both. His life is a gold plated lie.

    That's hilarious ... good one!
     
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  22. JohnHamilton

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    That depends upon how you define “traitor.” I don’t want to defend Trump because you will call me a supporter. When your son, who has no qualifications for a job that pays millions, is collecting money from foreign nations, some from our enemies, because you are Vice President of the United States, it’s a conflict of interest. I know that Biden is your current “lamb of Jesus.” If any other Democrat gets the nomination, that person will be your new anointed hero.
     
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    My son is an honest computer programmer. He has traded off my good name, with respect. As I traded off my father’s and grandfather’s. I don’t see a thing wrong with that.

    What the right is alleging, without ANY concrete evidence, is that the Biden’s have done something spurious. If they have, prosecute them and PROVE it. Otherwise **** and quit obfuscating TRAITOR tRump’s crimes by slandering the Biden’s.
     
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    By inviting the one you wish to do business with to go golfing with you, and then at lunch after words.
     
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    Why can't the media also have a double standard?
     

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