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DOCUMENTING TRUMP’S ABUSE OF WOMEN

10/24/2016

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For his 1993 book, “The Lost Tycoon,” Harry Hurt III acquired Ivana’s divorce deposition, in which she stated that Trump raped her.

When the news broke that Donald Trump had been caught on video in 2005 boasting that, as a celebrity, he feels free to “grab” women “by the pussy,” Harry Hurt III experienced a sense of vindication. In 1993, Hurt published “Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump,” an unauthorized biography that has long been out of print. The day the tape surfaced, he was hitting golf balls at a driving range in Sagaponack, New York, when a text message arrived from a friend: “Donald is done!”

After Hurt watched the tape, he said, “I thought, Finally, this behavior is coming out.” But he doubted that the revelation would do any real damage to Trump’s campaign. Researching his book, in the early nineties, Hurt discovered and documented more serious instances of Trump’s mistreatment of women, yet most news outlets had declined to report on them. Even during the current campaign, Hurt said, “I’ve been a voice in the wilderness.”

When “Lost Tycoon” was published, Kirkus Reviews credited Hurt, a former contributing editor at Texas Monthly, with having written “a slick, informed account.” The Times ignored it. Trump denounced it, and last year, in a tweet, he called Hurt a “dummy dope” who “wrote a failed book.”

The part of the book that caused the most controversy concerns Trump’s divorce from his first wife, Ivana. Hurt obtained a copy of her sworn divorce deposition, from 1990, in which she stated that, the previous year, her husband had raped her in a fit of rage. In Hurt’s account, Trump was furious that a “scalp reduction” operation he’d undergone to eliminate a bald spot had been unexpectedly painful. Ivana had recommended the plastic surgeon. In retaliation, Hurt wrote, Trump yanked out a handful of his wife’s hair, and then forced himself on her sexually. Afterward, according to the book, she spent the night locked in a bedroom, crying; in the morning, Trump asked her, “with menacing casualness, ‘Does it hurt?’ ” Trump has denied both the rape allegation and the suggestion that he had a scalp-reduction procedure. Hurt said that the incident, which is detailed in Ivana’s deposition, was confirmed by two of her friends.

Hurt held on to his copy of Ivana’s sealed deposition for years. “It was sworn testimony,” he said. But eventually, when he was cleaning house during his own divorce, he said, “I threw it all out.” He went on, “The larger tragedy is that Trump might be elected President of the United States. I never imagined in my wildest nightmares that it would come to this.”
My Source: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine.2016/10/24/documenting-trumps-abuse-of-women
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A Member Of Trump’s Own Evangelical Council Called Him ‘Lecherous And Worthless’

10/11/2016

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“I cannot and will not offer help to a man who believes this kind of talk a minor error.”
A megachurch pastor who is part of Donald Trump’s own evangelical advisory council had some fiery advice for the Republican presidential candidate: Repent for the “misogynistic trash” you spewed out about women. 

James MacDonald, pastor of Illinois’ Harvest Bible Chapel, was responding to crude comments Trump made in a 2005 “Access Hollywood” audio recording, in which the candidate was caught on a hot mic talking how he felt free to sexually assault women because he was a “star.” MacDonald roundly condemned the idea that such language was merely “locker room banter.” 

“Mr. Trump’s comments released yesterday — though 10 years ago (he was 60) — are not just sophomoric or locker room banter. They are truly the kind of misogynistic trash that reveals a man to be lecherous and worthless — not the guy who gets politely ignored, but the guy who gets a punch in the head from worthy men who hear him talk that way about women,” MacDonald wrote in an email sent to several members of Trump’s faith council.

MacDonald went on to write that he does not want to offer Trump any more of his time without seeing evidence of a “change of heart and direction.”

“If Mr. Trump isn’t seeking our counsel now— 1) to be repentant 2) on how to portray that repentance, then the idea of a faith council (which has deteriorated into influence brokering anyway) is really kind of a joke right?,” the pastor wrote in the email. “I have spent my life helping men get free from such disgusting commentary on women — even writing my doctoral dissertation on self-disclosure of sin among men. I cannot and will not offer help to a man who believes this kind of talk a minor error.”

The email was published with MacDonald’s permission on the blog of the Wheaton College professor Ed Stetzer.

MacDonald was one of 26 Christian leaders invited to be part of Trump’s evangelical executive advisory board in June. The leaders were not required to endorse Trump to join the board.
On his own blog, MacDonald said that he was initially impressed by Trump’s “authenticity” during their initial meeting in June. Most of all, the pastor wrote that he was impressed by the candidate’s views on the economy, his Supreme Court nominees, and his interest in repealing the Johnson Amendment, which restricts churches from endorsing political candidates.

“Since that meeting late last June, I have been waiting for the ‘Faith Council‘ to become a place where counsel is given about faith, or at least where people of faith offer counsel,” MacDonald wrote on his blog. “So far, there has been none of the former and only a wee bit of the latter.”
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After the video leak, several members of the advisory board indicated that they are still firmly in the Trump camp. But as a whole, Protestant pastors are having a hard time deciding whom to vote for this election cycle. 

During the past two election cycles, Protestant pastors favored Republican presidential candidates by at least 35 percentage points, according to a study conducted by the Christian research firm LifeWay Research. This year, Trump is leading by only 13 percentage points. About 40 percent of protestant pastors are still undecided. 

MacDonald hasn’t officially withdrawn from Trump’s advisory board, but in a conversation with The Washington Post, he said that he’s “hanging on by a thread” and wouldn’t tolerate something similar happening in the future.

“If it exceeded the previous in any category, I think that would be the end,” he said.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-james-macdonald_us_57fd0ff1e4b0e655eab7be6a
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The New York Times rates 61 of Donald Trump's business deals, concludes 40% failed

10/6/2016

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Donald Trump has built his case for becoming president of the United States on his "incredible" business acumen.

The Republican candidate often brags about the many successful deals he's made over the last 40 years, arguing that this expertise will give him a "huge" advantage in the Oval Office.

To test that claim, The New York Times analyzed 61 of Trump's projects from the 2000s to 2012, scouring archived web pages, old press releases, and lawsuits to see if they were in fact good business.
The reporters concluded that 24 of those deals failed, 16 had problems, and 21 were successes. They didn't outline the methodology that led them to these conclusions. Some of the projects The Times categorizes as unsuccessful may have earned Trump hefty sums (like Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, for example), as he pointed out in an interview for the story.

Some projects, like Trump University, were mired in lawsuits that Trump ultimately lost or had to settle. Others, like "The Apprentice" TV show, which Trump hosted for 14 seasons, were runaway successes.

The Times story focuses on how, no matter the outcome of the business itself, Trump always touted his projects with language convinced they would be a hit. He is the one behind "The Art of the Deal," after all.

We've rounded up how the Times rated the 61 businesses they investigated below:

A.   24 projects The Times concluded "Didn't work out"

  1. Trump Villas, Grenadines
  2. Trump Tower, Tampa, FL
  3. Mississippi Casino
  4. Trump Atlanta
  5. Trump Ocean Resort, Baja
  6. Trump at Cap Cana, Dominican Republic
  7. Trump Financial
  8. Trump Philadelphia
  9. Trump Dubai Tower, United Arab Emirates
  10. Trump on the Ocean
  11. Trump Tower, Batumi, Georgia
  12. Trump Plaza Tower, Israel
  13. GoTrump.com travel booking service
  14. US Pro Golf Tour partnership
  15. Sentient Jet partnership
  16. Running Horse golf, Fresno
  17. Trump animated series
  18. Trump magazine
  19. "Trump Tycoon" mobile app
  20. Trump network
  21. Trump Institute
  22. Trump Steaks by Sharper Image
  23. Trump Office for Staples chairs
  24. Brand licensing in Brazil

B.   16 projects The Times concluded "Had problems"

  1. Trump Waikiki, Hawaii
  2. New tower at Trump Taj Mahal 
  3. Trump SoHo
  4. Trump Toronto
  5. Trump Las Vegas
  6. Trump Hollywood
  7. Trump Panama
  8. Trump Chicago
  9. Trump Golf Links, Scotland
  10. Puerto Rico Golf & Residences
  11. US speaking tour
  12. Trump University
  13. Australian speaking tour
  14. Trump Home collection
  15. Trump Vodka
  16. Brand licensing in India

C.   21 projects The Times concluded "Measured up"

  1. Palm Beach home sale
  2. Trump Parc Stamford
  3. Miami's Doral Hotel
  4. Trump Towers Mall Istanbul
  5. Trump Towers Pune, India
  6. Trump International Realty
  7. Trump Vineyard Estates
  8. DJT restaurant
  9. Trump National golf club, Washington, DC
  10. Trump National golf club, Philadelphia
  11. ALM/Lawyer Invitational golf tournament
  12. Trump Golf Links, Ferry Point
  13. Trump National golf club, Jupiter, Florida
  14. Trump National golf club, Colts Neck, New Jersey
  15. Trump National golf club, Charlotte
  16. "Why We Want You to Be Rich" book
  17. Miss Universe
  18. "The Apprentice" TV show
  19. "The Ultimate Merger" TV show
  20. Golf Channel TV show
  21. Trump Signature Collection
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http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-businesses-failures-successes-2016-10
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DONALD TRUMP’S TAXES

10/2/2016

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The New York Times has not quite obtained this campaign season’s Holy Grail—a full version of Donald Trump’s most recent state and federal income-tax returns—but the newspaper has come impressively close.­­

According to a piece posted late Saturday, an anonymous source mailed Susanne Craig, who has been a dogged investigator of Trump’s real-estate holdings, an envelope containing three pages of tax information from 1995: the first pages of his returns for New York, where he was a resident, and New Jersey and Connecticut, where he was required to file nonresident tax returns. The secret source, perhaps mischievously, used Trump Tower, the candidate’s home, as well as his business and campaign headquarters, for the return address.

Trump is the first Presidential nominee of a major party to refuse to release his tax returns since the seventies, when the practice became routine after questions were raised about Richard Nixon’s taxes. Trump has claimed that because he is under audit by the I.R.S., he cannot release his returns, though the I.R.S. has said that there is no prohibition against Trump making them public. At last Monday’s debate, on Long Island, Trump argued that his financial-disclosure form filed with the Federal Election Commission included more important and detailed information than his taxes. “You don’t learn that much from tax returns,” he said.

Not true. Trump’s full tax returns, which, according to a picture Trump once tweeted, are hundreds—perhaps thousands—of pages long, would reveal how much he donates to charity, what tax rate he pays, whether he pays federal taxes at all, and whether he receives income from foreign sources that could create conflicts of interest. They would shed light on whether his net worth is as high as he claims.

The Times’s bombshell about Trump’s taxes doesn’t answer all of these questions, but it does advance the story considerably. The reporters tracked down Trump’s Long Island tax preparer, Jack Mitnick, whose signature appears on one of the documents. “This is legit,” the eighty-year-old told the paper.

The giveaway for Mitnick was line 18 on the New York return, where Trump and his wife at the time, Marla Maples, declared their federal adjusted gross income: -915,729,293. Mitnick noticed that the first two digits of the eye-popping, near-billion-dollar loss were curiously misaligned. As he explained to the Times, his tax software in the mid-nineties couldn’t handle more than a seven-digit loss, so, after printing the document, the accountant ran the page through his typewriter and added the extra digits.
Most of the Times piece focuses on the analysis of tax experts, who conclude that by declaring such a staggering loss in 1995, Trump could have avoided paying federal taxes for eighteen years. As the Times notes, Trump may have been carrying over losses from the near-collapse of his empire in the early nineties, when he went on a buying spree that included Atlantic City casinos, the Plaza Hotel, Trump Air, and the Princess, his twenty-nine-million-dollar yacht, which he was later forced to sell at a loss.

Back then, when he was on the edge of personal bankruptcy (his companies have declared bankruptcy four times), Trump’s future was in the hands of the numerous banks to whom he owed money. The bankers made a fateful decision: they needed Trump, whose name was on everything he owned, to survive financially in order to maintain the value of his assets as they sold them off. In effect, despite Trump’s poor business decisions, his skills as a self-promoter saved him and allowed him to climb out of bankruptcy.

Trump soon shifted the focus of his business ventures to full-time self-promotion. The 1995 tax documents are artifacts from a moment when Trump was about halfway between his old, failed career as a real-estate mogul and his newly emerging career as a brand that he licensed to properties around the world and as a personality that he monetized in TV deals, commercials, and get-rich-quick seminars.

Thanks to the quirks of the U.S. tax code, the staggering losses of his failures in the early nineteen-nineties may have helped Trump avoid federal taxes through his late-nineties comeback, the springboard that launched him into politics. The danger for Trump is not that the Times scoop exposes him as a rapacious capitalist who took advantage of the U.S. tax code. He essentially admitted, in the first debate, that there were years when he paid no federal taxes. The bigger threat to him is that the scoop reminds the public that Trump is not a great businessman, but he is a great con man—and his latest mark is the American voter.
My Source: http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/donald-trumps-taxes
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