Trump and his boy Christie
LOST said:
Trump will go back to his businesses. Don't know where Christie will go.
Smorgasbord?
I had a vision of people encountering Christie and greeting him with Nelson's (The Simpsons) HA, Ha.
I wonder if Christie wasn't gunning for VP.. wasn't going after Chief of Staff in a Trump administration. Maybe he just wants a future presidential pardon.
Pissed Christie. If there is a Trump administration (god forbid), he'll get the AG job or some other law job in the "administration."
GL2 said:
Pissed Christie. If there is a Trump administration (god forbid), he'll get the AG job or some other law job in the "administration."
I disagree. The only tiny bit of joy of a Trump Administration would be seeing Christie sent off as Ambassador to Outer Nowhere.
http://gawker.com/chris-christie-called-donald-trump-to-beg-like-a-big-ba-1783860363
Is Gawker still running stories on how Trump used the bankruptcy laws? That'd be ironic.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/manafort-confirms-christie-was-livid-he-wasnt-picked-to-be-trumps-vp/article/2003351/
New Jersey governor Chris Christie was reportedly enraged he didn't earn the VP spot, according to a top Trump campaign official.
While minding my own business at the Starbucks inside the Westin hotel this morning, I saw a man engage Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort in conversation about the VP selection process. The man, whom I couldn't identify, suggested that Pence was a smart pick and Gingrich would've been a disaster.
"Christie was livid, right?" the man said at one point. "Yeah," Manafort replied.
Christie has made no secret that he was disappointed he wasn't chosen to be Donald Trump's running mate. "[I] don't like coming in second. Ever," Christie said Thursday. But the conversation overheard by THE WEEKLY STANDARD Sunday suggests Christie's feelings were far more intense than mere disappointment.
Our governor told the Michigan GOP delegation this morning that Donald Trump made a significant donation to Hurricane Sandy relief. Gov. Christie even conjured a little conversation between Trump and Mrs. Christie, who was in charge of the fundraising. Christie related that Trump basically, said, "Whatever you need, I'll write the check."
Turns out, none of it was true. Christie's office corrected the record later today. Trump did not donate to Hurricane Sandy relief, but did donate $20,000 for the governor's mansion at Drumthwacket where the Christie family doesn't even reside.
http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/07/christie_misspoke_about_trump_making_sandy_donatio.html
Stoughton said:
Turns out, none of it was true. Christie's office corrected the record later today. Trump did not donate to Hurricane Sandy relief, but did donate $20,000 for the governor's mansion at Drumthwacket where the Christie family doesn't even reside.
http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/07/christie_misspoke_about_trump_making_sandy_donatio.html
And even that is not true.
"...records show the Donald J. Trump Foundation did give $20,000 between 2012 and 2013 to the Drumwthacket Foundation, a separate charity run by Christie's wife that helps maintain Drumthwacket".
THE FOUNDATION did it, not him. Which would be fine if he put any of the $10 billion he pretends to have into the foundation... but he doesn't.
Just like everything else he does... he makes sure that is OTHER people's money-- not his own.
He takes other people's money and then uses it to pretend that he is charitable.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/07/06/five-questions-we-still-cant-answer-about-donald-trumps-charity-donations/
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/06/donald-trump-charity-giving
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-portrait-of-trump-the-donor-free-rounds-of-golf-but-no-personal-cash/2016/04/10/373b9b92-fb40-11e5-9140-e61d062438bb_story.html
http://newsexaminer.net/politics/donald-trump-the-least-charitable-billionaire/
Robert_Casotto said:
Is Gawker still running stories on how Trump used the bankruptcy laws? That'd be ironic.
Along with an inability to see analogies, conservatives also fail at irony.
it's what passes for deep analysis when you're a winger. Duh...bankruptcy and uhhh...bankruptcy. Same thing!
tom said:
it's what passes for deep analysis when you're a winger. Duh...bankruptcy and uhhh...bankruptcy. Same thing!
Wild guess. Bankruptcy law is not your area of expertise.
Do I need to be one, to know that different people go bankrupt under different circumstances?
I'm glad you're not a judge; your first question would be, "party affiliation? "
Hard to argue that Gawker's bankruptcy was due to anything other than a spectacular, fatal lack of judgement. Trump is hardly clean-handed with the casino bankruptcy, but there were economic and other factors that contributed to that situation, from what I understand. I would say that Gawker's bankruptcy reflects more poorly on them than Trump's does on him, with the big caveats that I'm no expert whatsoever on any of this. But Gawker easily could have avoided their situation by adhering to the basics of journalistic responsibility.
Robert_Casotto said:
tom said:
it's what passes for deep analysis when you're a winger. Duh...bankruptcy and uhhh...bankruptcy. Same thing!
Wild guess. Bankruptcy law is not your area of expertise.
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Not a wild guess at all, but neither are you. Obviously.
tom said:
Do I need to be one, to know that different people go bankrupt under different circumstances?
I'm glad you're not a judge; your first question would be, "party affiliation? "
If you'd care to elaborate on the differences between Gawker's Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing strategy to avoid satisfaction of the defamation lawsuit award and Trump's Taj Mahal, et. al. Chapter 11 debt reorganization filings, do that.
Robert_Casotto said:
tom said:
Do I need to be one, to know that different people go bankrupt under different circumstances?
I'm glad you're not a judge; your first question would be, "party affiliation? "
If you'd care to elaborate on the differences between Gawker's Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing strategy to avoid satisfaction of the defamation lawsuit award and Trump's Taj Mahal, et. al. Chapter 11 debt reorganization filings, do that.
Trump caused the bankruptcies of his casinos by highly leveraging them and then taking out all of the cash in management fees leaving the casinos vulnerable to economic hiccups. Gawker was sued and hit with a judgment, that may well be overturned on appeal, but could not get the judgment stayed and the only way to allow it to continue to operate was to seek relief under the bankruptcy code.
I've been trying to post that photo since the inception of this thread...boy my iPad must be getting a bit slower.
Ok, someone explain to me, how automatic registration while you are getting a new NJ Driver License or while renewing an existing one, would lead to voter fraud.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/chris-christie-voter-registration_us_57b72874e4b00d9c3a172d64?section=politics
I mean, isn't a NJDL the primary form of identification in the state? And doesn't the state go to great lengths to ensure that you are who you say you are while getting a NJDL? What am I missing here? (Aside from the obvious that automatic registration may lead to more people actually voting which typically hurts the GOP).
it doesn't. He's raising a red herring because like all Republicans, he's afraid it will lead to more young people and people of color voting.
pmartinezv said:
Ok, someone explain to me, how automatic registration while you are getting a new NJ Driver License or while renewing an existing one, would lead to voter fraud.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/chris-christie-voter-registration_us_57b72874e4b00d9c3a172d64?section=politics
I mean, isn't a NJDL the primary form of identification in the state? And doesn't the state go to great lengths to ensure that you are who you say you are while getting a NJDL? What am I missing here? (Aside from the obvious that automatic registration may lead to more people actually voting which typically hurts the GOP).
So sad to see a career end like this. He was so great in "Ray"