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By Mark Sumner
Friday Sep 30, 2016 · 7:34 AM PDT




("Down. That would be the direction." ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!! For some reason, visions of rats and sinking ships are coming to mind...:nohead:Shush()*:missingte)

It seems almost impossible that, on a morning where the Republican nominee is urging America to watch a sex tape as part of an effort to shame a woman he hasn’t seen in over a decade, and dealing with an expanding investigation into his slush fund/"charity" where the list of violations seems to grow every day, that there could be another big wave about to break over the Trump campaign.
Readers of the Miami Herald are waking up to more news about Trump's activities in Cuba and it has Florida politics on a high boil.
Revelations that Donald Trump’s hotel and casino company secretly spent money trying to do business in Cuba in violation of the U.S. trade embargo roiled Miami politics Thursday, forcing top Cuban-American Republicans to express concern about Trump’s dealings while maintaining that the allegation isn’t reason enough to disavow the presidential nominee yet.


Some people may not be at the “disavow” stage, but others clearly are, as Trump’s Florida spokesperson Healy Baumgardner, resigned this week.
"It is clear the campaign is now going in a direction I am no longer comfortable with."
Down. That would be the direction.


On Thursday, Trump’s campaign manager managed a inadvertent confirmation that Trump had broken the laws.
Read the entire story. It starts out with a screaming headline, as it usually does, that he did business in Cuba. And it turns out that he decided not to invest there. They paid money, as I understand, in 1998 — and we’re not supposed to talk about many years ago when it comes to the Clintons.
That money Trump paid in 1998? That went to consultants to look at opportunities in Cuba … which was, and still is, illegal. Trump was also on the “didn’t do business” talking point, but of course he had to add some insults.
“I never did business in Cuba. There’s this guy who has a very bad reputation as a reporter. You see what his record is. He wrote something about me in Cuba. No, I never did anything in Cuba. I never did a deal in Cuba,” he told NH1 News.
But the accusation isn’t that Trump opened a hotel or invested in a casino. It’s that he looked into opportunities.

A story published in Newsweek said Trump’s firm spent as much as $68,000 on a “foray” exploring business possibilities in Cuba in 1998, which would be a clear violation of the strict embargo in place at the time.
It’s not just a violation of the law, it’s more than enough to put Trump’s hands all over the third rail of Florida politics.
Two other Miami Republicans in Congress, Reps. Carlos Curbelo and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, have refused to back Trump. Curbelo told the Miami Herald on Thursday that Trump “should explain what happened in 1998.”
“No one is above the law,” he said, though Newsweek reported that the statute of limitations against any action against Trump has expired.
True enough. It’s very unlikely that anyone is going to “lock him up” for this. But that doesn’t matter, so long as Americans lock him out.
How could this revelation affect Trump's chances in Florida?
Don't run afoul of Florida's expatriate Cuban community. It's one of those iron-clad rules that Republican presidential nominees have obeyed since the rise of Fidel Castro - and it's now another rule that Donald Trump has apparently broken.
The most recent poll in Florida has Clinton up by a slim margin. However, that’s pre-debate and pre-Cuba story.
 

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All of you scumbags carefully avoid addressing the annoying detail that the story is true...
 

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Trump's Florida spokesperson resigns as campaign responds to allegations of Cuba payoffs



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By Mark Sumner
Friday Sep 30, 2016 · 7:34 AM PDT




("Down. That would be the direction." ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!! For some reason, visions of rats and sinking ships are coming to mind...:nohead:Shush()*:missingte)

It seems almost impossible that, on a morning where the Republican nominee is urging America to watch a sex tape as part of an effort to shame a woman he hasn’t seen in over a decade, and dealing with an expanding investigation into his slush fund/"charity" where the list of violations seems to grow every day, that there could be another big wave about to break over the Trump campaign.
Readers of the Miami Herald are waking up to more news about Trump's activities in Cuba and it has Florida politics on a high boil.
Revelations that Donald Trump’s hotel and casino company secretly spent money trying to do business in Cuba in violation of the U.S. trade embargo roiled Miami politics Thursday, forcing top Cuban-American Republicans to express concern about Trump’s dealings while maintaining that the allegation isn’t reason enough to disavow the presidential nominee yet.


Some people may not be at the “disavow” stage, but others clearly are, as Trump’s Florida spokesperson Healy Baumgardner, resigned this week.
"It is clear the campaign is now going in a direction I am no longer comfortable with."
Down. That would be the direction.


On Thursday, Trump’s campaign manager managed a inadvertent confirmation that Trump had broken the laws.
Read the entire story. It starts out with a screaming headline, as it usually does, that he did business in Cuba. And it turns out that he decided not to invest there. They paid money, as I understand, in 1998 — and we’re not supposed to talk about many years ago when it comes to the Clintons.
That money Trump paid in 1998? That went to consultants to look at opportunities in Cuba … which was, and still is, illegal. Trump was also on the “didn’t do business” talking point, but of course he had to add some insults.
“I never did business in Cuba. There’s this guy who has a very bad reputation as a reporter. You see what his record is. He wrote something about me in Cuba. No, I never did anything in Cuba. I never did a deal in Cuba,” he told NH1 News.
But the accusation isn’t that Trump opened a hotel or invested in a casino. It’s that he looked into opportunities.
A story published in Newsweek said Trump’s firm spent as much as $68,000 on a “foray” exploring business possibilities in Cuba in 1998, which would be a clear violation of the strict embargo in place at the time.
It’s not just a violation of the law, it’s more than enough to put Trump’s hands all over the third rail of Florida politics.
Two other Miami Republicans in Congress, Reps. Carlos Curbelo and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, have refused to back Trump. Curbelo told the Miami Herald on Thursday that Trump “should explain what happened in 1998.”
“No one is above the law,” he said, though Newsweek reported that the statute of limitations against any action against Trump has expired.
True enough. It’s very unlikely that anyone is going to “lock him up” for this. But that doesn’t matter, so long as Americans lock him out.
How could this revelation affect Trump's chances in Florida?
Don't run afoul of Florida's expatriate Cuban community. It's one of those iron-clad rules that Republican presidential nominees have obeyed since the rise of Fidel Castro - and it's now another rule that Donald Trump has apparently broken.
The most recent poll in Florida has Clinton up by a slim margin. However, that’s pre-debate and pre-Cuba story.

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Trump's Florida spokesperson resigns as campaign responds to allegations of Cuba payoffs



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By Mark Sumner
Friday Sep 30, 2016 · 7:34 AM PDT




("Down. That would be the direction." ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!! For some reason, visions of rats and sinking ships are coming to mind...:nohead:Shush()*:missingte)

It seems almost impossible that, on a morning where the Republican nominee is urging America to watch a sex tape as part of an effort to shame a woman he hasn’t seen in over a decade, and dealing with an expanding investigation into his slush fund/"charity" where the list of violations seems to grow every day, that there could be another big wave about to break over the Trump campaign.
Readers of the Miami Herald are waking up to more news about Trump's activities in Cuba and it has Florida politics on a high boil.
Revelations that Donald Trump’s hotel and casino company secretly spent money trying to do business in Cuba in violation of the U.S. trade embargo roiled Miami politics Thursday, forcing top Cuban-American Republicans to express concern about Trump’s dealings while maintaining that the allegation isn’t reason enough to disavow the presidential nominee yet.


Some people may not be at the “disavow” stage, but others clearly are, as Trump’s Florida spokesperson Healy Baumgardner, resigned this week.
"It is clear the campaign is now going in a direction I am no longer comfortable with."
Down. That would be the direction.


On Thursday, Trump’s campaign manager managed a inadvertent confirmation that Trump had broken the laws.
Read the entire story. It starts out with a screaming headline, as it usually does, that he did business in Cuba. And it turns out that he decided not to invest there. They paid money, as I understand, in 1998 — and we’re not supposed to talk about many years ago when it comes to the Clintons.
That money Trump paid in 1998? That went to consultants to look at opportunities in Cuba … which was, and still is, illegal. Trump was also on the “didn’t do business” talking point, but of course he had to add some insults.
“I never did business in Cuba. There’s this guy who has a very bad reputation as a reporter. You see what his record is. He wrote something about me in Cuba. No, I never did anything in Cuba. I never did a deal in Cuba,” he told NH1 News.
But the accusation isn’t that Trump opened a hotel or invested in a casino. It’s that he looked into opportunities.
A story published in Newsweek said Trump’s firm spent as much as $68,000 on a “foray” exploring business possibilities in Cuba in 1998, which would be a clear violation of the strict embargo in place at the time.
It’s not just a violation of the law, it’s more than enough to put Trump’s hands all over the third rail of Florida politics.
Two other Miami Republicans in Congress, Reps. Carlos Curbelo and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, have refused to back Trump. Curbelo told the Miami Herald on Thursday that Trump “should explain what happened in 1998.”
“No one is above the law,” he said, though Newsweek reported that the statute of limitations against any action against Trump has expired.
True enough. It’s very unlikely that anyone is going to “lock him up” for this. But that doesn’t matter, so long as Americans lock him out.
How could this revelation affect Trump's chances in Florida?
Don't run afoul of Florida's expatriate Cuban community. It's one of those iron-clad rules that Republican presidential nominees have obeyed since the rise of Fidel Castro - and it's now another rule that Donald Trump has apparently broken.
The most recent poll in Florida has Clinton up by a slim margin. However, that’s pre-debate and pre-Cuba story.


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Time to double on the meds, Sick Brit Twit; wtf does any of that have to do with Rump's top person in, arguably the state he MOST needs to win, waking up, smelling the coffee, and BAILING on his pathetic campaign?
 

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So, he paid a consultant money to find business opportunities (if any) in Cuba... yet never did any business in Cuba?

So, didnt he do business with the consultant?

Also, he might not have known the law, and had no willful intentions of breaking it. According to the Government and FBI, as long as there is no willful intent, you didnt break the law.
 

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So, he paid a consultant money to find business opportunities (if any) in Cuba... yet never did any business in Cuba?

So, didnt he do business with the consultant?

Also, he might not have known the law, and had no willful intentions of breaking it. According to the Government and FBI, as long as there is no willful intent, you didnt break the law.
He might not have known the law??????? An International Businessman didn't know the ins and outs of the Cuba embargo? C'mon dude. Of course there was willful intent to break it. Very Clintonesque attempt at defense on your part. :):)
 

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She might not have known the law??????? A Politician who has been in Washington for decades didn't know the ins and outs of the classified and sensitive information? C'mon dude. Of course there was willful intent to break it. Very Clintonesque attempt at defense on your part. :):)

Fixed it for ya....
 

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Fixed it for ya....
She did stupid, inexcusable stuff with the Server and E Mail, but she didn't break the law. The GOP Head of the FBI already decided that. Too bad for your side. Shush()*. OTOH, the idiot Drumpf once again broke the law, something he makes a habit of doing.
 

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Short and to the point, just like brain dead ghost.

The only thing that's "short" is your intelligence. Oh, btw, has Rump fallen "significantly behind" enough states for you, Dumbo?
 

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She did stupid, inexcusable stuff with the Server and E Mail, but she didn't break the law. The GOP Head of the FBI already decided that. Too bad for your side. Shush()*. OTOH, the idiot Drumpf once again broke the law, something he makes a habit of doing.

She didnt break the law, cause comey said there wasnt any willful intent. Plain and simple lol.
 

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Over the next seven years, James Comey’s power will only continue to grow.

There is no ready means to slow or stay a figure who has—for better or for worse—repeatedly defied presidents, shrugged off institutional constraints, and wielded the instruments of his office to mold outcomes to his will.

We can only hope that Comey will rediscover his sense of self-restraint.


Otherwise, with more than two-thirds of his tenure still before him, the only question will be just how far our untouchable FBI director is willing to go.



 

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