1. Sexist:
A. Sees women as sex objects. Owned Miss USA Pageant for 19 years. Thinks it's appropriate to comment on the attractiveness of women as a salient reason not to vote for someone. No actual intellectual rebuttal. Goes right to personal attack of superficial nature.
When the anchor throws to Carly Fiorina for her reaction to Trump's momentum, Trump's expression sours in schoolboy disgust as the camera bores in on Fiorina. "Look at that face!" he cries. "Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?!" The laughter grows halting and faint behind him. "I mean, she's a woman, and I'm not s'posed ta say bad things, but really, folks, come on. Are we serious?"
B. Makes lecherous comments about his own daughter. During a March 2006 appearance on "The View" with his daughter Ivanka, Donald Trump was asked how he would react if Playboy magazine were to ever feature Ivanka's picture on its cover. Mr. Trump responded: "I don't think Ivanka would do that inside the magazine. Although she does have a very nice figure. I've said that if Ivanka weren't my daughter, perhaps I would be dating her." EWW.
B. Disrepectful comments about women he disagrees with. Megyn Kelly: Trump’s animosity towards Kelly first arose when she challenged him over his misogynistic comments about women at the first Republican primary debate in August, saying: “You’ve called women you don’t like fat pigs, dogs, slobs and disgusting animals,” and asking: “Does that sound to you like the temperament of a man we should elect as president?” It was a tough question, but one well within the realm of relevance, especially, as Kelly pointed out, in the context of Hillary Clinton’s candidacy. Since then, Trump has repeatedly, childishly and abusively taunted Kelly. Asked about Kelly on CNN after the August debate, Trump said: “you could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever,” a comment he later denied was a reference to menstruation.
What could he have been referring to, given that there was no actual blood anywhere in the debate???
2. Hypocritical. Law-breaker.
A. Exploited models visas from Eastern Europe, using law which he himself has criticized others for. http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/10/news/trump-model-visas/
B. Cheated people by reneging on contracts. Dishonest businessman who gets rich off the backs of other hardworking Americans.
C. Refuses to release tax returns when every presidential nominee for the last 40 years has done so. Hiding something?
D. Used his charity foundation to settle lawsuits (illegal)
3. Immoral
A. Adulterer and proud of it.
B. Ridiculous birther controversy. Has lied about his role in it. http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2016/09/17/donald-trump-birther-origins-timeline-foreman-lok.cnn
C. Christian? Not buying it.
D. Bold-faced liar. “The latest study by fact-checking group PolitiFact found that 27 percent of Hillary Clinton's statements were mostly or completely, pants-on-fire false, compared with 70 percent of Trump's. Trump said this week at a rally that President Barack Obama founded ISIS.
"He was the founder of ISIS, absolutely," Trump reiterated in an interview with CNBC on Thursday morning. Trump also said recently that Vladimir Putin wouldn't "go into Ukraine." (He did, in 2014).https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/07/27/why-clinton-is-less-trusted-when-trump-lies-much-more/ “He is unapologetic about saying things that are completely and verifiably untrue,” DePaulo said. Experts find Clinton’s lying habits to be more “normal” among politicians in this respect. “I think Trump is borderline pathological,” Serota said. “But the only person that would know that for sure is his psychologist.”
4. No experience. Never held elected office. Questionable policies.
- 121 Republican Foreign policy experts signed a letter opposing him as president, calling his proposed policies "wildly inconsistent and unmoored in principle."
B. Muslim ban goes against Bill of Rights and plays into ISIS’s hands
C. Ignores science. Denies climate change. “Trump has dismissed manmade climate change as a hoax invented by the Chinese.” http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-scientists-idUSKCN11Q2PD
D. Anti-vaccination. Despite science, continues to link vaccines to autism. http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/17/opinions/graham-cnn-debate/
5. Not a good businessman. Not as rich as he says he is.
- Many failed businesses, bankruptcies, no proof of net worth
B. Owes millions in loans
C. Bankruptcies
6. Suspicious Ties to Russia. Praises Putin.
7. Not presidential. A divider, not a unifier. Lacking in diplomacy and civility.
A. Says John McCain is not a hero, while he dodged the draft. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-john-mccain-war-hero-captured/
B. Disparaged Muslim family whose son had died for the the US.
C. Bully. Makes fun of disabled reporter. Claims he didn’t know he was disabled, but has been on a first name basis with the reporter for years.
D. Advocates use of violence and personal attacks against any who disagree with him.
“Get him outta there! Don’t give him his coat,” the real estate mogul said. “Keep his coat. Confiscate his coat. You know it’s about ten degrees below zero outside. No, you can keep his coat. Tell him we’ll send it to him in a couple of weeks.”
"So if you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of him, would you?" he told a crowd in Iowa in February. "Seriously, okay, just knock the hell. I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees; I promise, I promise."
Then he denied saying it and says he doesn’t advocate violence. HA.
E. Embarrassingly boorish hot-headed loose cannon, sexist, negative, belligerent, shameless self-promoter.
In a 1991 interview with Esquire, Donald Trump suggested that sexy girlfriends are the antidotes to bad press: "You know, it doesn't really matter what they write as long as you've got a young and beautiful piece of ass."
"I could stand on 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and people would still vote for me."
7. Melania not good first lady role model.
A. Plagerized Michelle Obama's speech at national convention and said she wrote it herself. Later someone else took the fall and claimed to have made the error. http://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2016/07/19/melania-trump-plagiarize-michelle-obama-speech-orig.cnn
B. Claimed to have gotten a university degree in Slovenia, proven false. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/melania-trumps-website-taken-down/
C. Nude photos
http://www.aceshowbiz.com/images/news/news-00099502-melania-trump-s-naked-photos.jpg
For all these reasons, I hope you will reconsider casting your vote for someone who I believe would be very damaging to our country.
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