The entertainer who is a prominent supporter of Hilary
Clinton tore into the Republican presidential nominee in a piece for
Huffington post and she pulled no punches. Responding to Trump's jibe
that Hillary doesn't look presidential, she called him "a raccoon in a
tanning bed with a flying squirrel on his head", she also accused him of
“spreading and reflecting bigotry and hatred” throughout America. Read
the piece after the cut...
When a politician ends almost every sentence with “believe me”... don’t! He’s probably lying.
According to PolitiFact, Donald Trump’s statements are rated “false,”
“mostly false,” and “pants on fire” 71 percent of the time. In other
words, the majority of the time that Trump speaks, he is not telling the
truth.
But do the facts matter to Donald Trump or many in the media who are too
entertained to correct his lies? We saw how Matt Lauer didn’t challenge
him. Chris Wallace, the Fox News personality who is hosting one of the
debates, has gone on record saying that facts are not relevant to him.
This should be profoundly unacceptable to the American people. Our
country and its stability is on the line. Facts do matter!
When Trump throws around words like “crooked,” he’s really describing
himself and he doesn’t even know it. In psychological terms, it’s called
“the disowned self.” Psychiatrists have explained how a person who
refuses to recognize his own flaws will often project them onto other
people.
As an article in The Washington Post recently said, “Trump’s history of
corruption is mind-boggling.” This is a man who has bankrupted
companies, reneged on bank loans, and cheated small business owners. For
someone who claims to be a champion of the people, his m.o. is actually
to stiff the little guy. Trump is notorious for refusing to pay
painters, carpenters, plumbers and all sorts of vendors the money he
owes them. The contracts he signed mean nothing to him. After the work
is done, he’ll offer pennies on the dollar and say, If you don’t like
it, sue me!... knowing full well that these mom-and-pop businesses don’t
have the resources to take him to court. Even so, he’s been sued nearly
1,500 times over the last 30 years.
To those supporters who believe he’s a rich businessman and think he’s
going to make them rich... get the facts straight. Investors in his
failed casino ventures lost 90 percent of their money between 1995-2005.
When the going gets tough, Trump vanishes. He eventually filed for
bankruptcy, leaving others holding the bag.
And this man has the nerve to insult Hillary, who has always cared about
other people? From the time she was in college, she’s been working to
improve the lives of others... women, children, minorities.
What has Donald Trump ever done to serve others?
He only cares about promoting himself.
While Trump was being investigated and then sued by the Department of
Justice for refusing to rent apartments to black and Hispanic people...
Hillary was in Texas helping to register black and Hispanic voters.
While Donald had to be shamed into coming up with the contribution he
promised to veterans... Hillary actually got legislation passed when she
was in the Senate to expand their health care and other benefits.
While Donald has vowed to appoint Supreme Court justices who will
overturn the ruling on marriage equality, Hillary declared that “gay
rights are human rights” when she was Secretary of State.
Trump is both spreading and reflecting bigotry and hatred. He said a
judge was not capable of doing his job because of his Mexican heritage.
One in five of his supporters believe slavery should never have been
abolished and 61 percent believe President Obama wasn’t born in the
United States. For five years, Trump has wasted our time with his
crackpot birther conspiracy theory. Only now he has suddenly had a
conversion, but he doesn’t even have the decency to apologize. And he
has the audacity to say Hillary started it all... another outrageous
lie. He sounds like a child on the playground trying to escape
punishment.
He’s basically a bully, but like all bullies, he’s a coward at heart. He
skipped out on a debate because he didn’t like the moderator. He can’t
handle the tough questions. He’s so thin-skinned that as soon as anyone
challenges him, he sues them.
Hillary has been attacked right and left for decades and is still standing.
She has negotiated with leaders around the world to keep us safe from
nuclear threat because it would destroy the planet... while he
shockingly said, “If we have nuclear weapons, why can’t we use them?”
And he has the nerve to call her “trigger-happy”? “Unstable”?
His ignorance is astounding.
So how come Hillary is not getting credit for all her accomplishments?
It goes back to something I’ve felt for many years...strong women,
powerful women have always been suspect.
Some men are challenged by strong women... afraid of them... and some women are jealous of them.
Strong women have too many opinions for some people... they prefer women
who are quiet. They want us to speak less and smile more. After Hillary
answered questions on national security, Reince Priebus complained that
she didn’t smile enough. Well, guess what... there was nothing to smile
about. As she said, this is serious business.
And Trump says Hillary doesn’t look presidential? What does that mean...
coming from a guy who looks like a raccoon in a tanning bed... with a
flying squirrel on his head? That’s what a president is supposed to look
like? A wrestler who dies his hair blonde?
Republicans play dirty and their smear tactics unfortunately work. As
they say, “If you repeat a lie long enough and loud enough, people will
believe it.” And that’s what’s happening and it’s terrifying.
We can’t allow ourselves to be swiftboated again. We can’t let that
happen to Hillary... a woman who has the temperament and the experience
to be president... unlike Donald Trump, whose idea of foreign policy was
bringing the Miss Universe pageant to Russia. How can you support a man
who says, “Women... you have to treat them like sh—“ and believes such
hateful things about 51 percent of the American population?
These views are deplorable. Hillary Clinton was right to denounce Trump’s racism, sexism and xenophobia.
And then he has the nerve to say he’s going to make America great again??
Here are some more facts. The New York Times just reported that
household incomes rose for American families by 5.2 percent last year,
according to figures from the Census Bureau... the biggest one-year
increase since 1967! Household incomes are now higher than when
President Obama entered office. The stock market is above 18,000, which
means it has more than doubled since Obama came into office.
If we want the country to continue to improve, we must continue
President Obama’s incredible policy work, successful despite the worst
opposition we’ve ever seen in Congress, and vote for Hillary Clinton —
and down the ballot for Democratic senators and congresspersons who will
not be negative and obstructionist. Instead, they will work with her to
get legislation passed on gun control and campaign finance reform. My
heart sinks when I read that billions of dollars have already been spent
during this Presidential election cycle. Just think what that kind of
money could have done for medical research... our schools... our
infrastructure.
We cannot allow America to fall into the hands of a narcissist who has
shown no regard for anyone but himself... a bigoted and misogynist
reality-TV character with no political experience and no qualms about
lying loudly and often.
There is NO equivalency between these two candidates. Only Hillary
Clinton has the skills, the knowledge, the temperament and the
compassion to lead this nation.
Source:
www.naijacop.com
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