Wow! Didja see that? It was... (insert your own adjective). Rough and tumble politics at its berst (best + worst = berst) and I'm still not sure who "won".
Poor Ben Carson. The left-behind nice guy, begging for someone to attack him so he could get at least a little air time.
Let's see now... thirty some years ago Donald Trump (actually, more than likely some underling in Trump's development company) hired a contracting company that went out and hired a bunch of Polish illegals. Because Trump didn't pore over the documents for the workers hired by his contractors, but because Trump had name recognition and money, Trump was sued and paid out some undisclosed sum in a settlement.
To me, this is the equivalent of you or me hiring a reputable gardening company, or roofing contractor, or cleaning service or some other service company and getting sued because that company hired a bunch of illegal aliens and mistreated them by not meeting minimum wage laws, etc. I don't see that this has a hook on which to hang anything. But that's me.
CNN and Fox, on the other hand, are saying that the allegation is 'True' - that it was Trump himself, personally, who hired these illegals. They're glossing over, completely dismissing the fact that it was another company that did it and that Trump probably had no idea what was going on until it was too late to rectify.
You don't suppose they (CNN and Fox) are in the pockets of the Donor Establishment, do you? Nah... couldn't be. Could it?
As for the Trump University claim, that is much more disturbing because it seems there might be some there, there. It sounds like a scam to me, based on what I read. One of those house-flipping things that were so popular in the early 2000's, leading up to the housing bubble burst. There were dozens if not hundreds of similar things but, because of name recognition and the presumption of deep pockets, Trump is being sued over it. If he did anything more than lend his name to it, that's bad. However, as bad as it is, it's a black mark not a devastating revelation.
Do I like or condone it? Hell no! But it is, again, one of those things that he probably nodded in the direction of instead of diving into up to his elbows.
To me, there's a difference.
Lots of people, big and little, important and not so important, down the ages have given the nod to things, not realizing the entirety of what was planned, and only found out too late to do anything to stop it. I suspect this is one of those things. Some weasel in Trump's company got this brilliant idea, sold it to his boss (and maybe that boss dressed it up some more and sold it to Trump or another level), and that's how it got started. In the meantime, Trump was off doing other things, trusting people who shouldn't have been trusted, and then...wham! Slapped with a lawsuit.
After all, the head of a company as large as Trump's is not doing everything himself. He's not answering the phones and typing the letters and doing the filing, etc. He's got people for those things, and he's got other people for managing those things and managers for other things. It's like Undercover Boss.
I don't regularly watch that, but I've seen glimpses of a couple of episodes and in each the boss is so distant from the line workers, the people who keep the day-to-day stuff going, that neither knows or recognizes the other. That's probably how it is in the Trump empire.
Now, is that an excuse? Sort of but not really because The Buck Stops Here is a true statement - and it's as true in business as it is in politics.
What Trump is not getting credit for is for not throwing the person or people who got him into those messes under the bus. He hasn't said, 'well, that's because so-and-so did this-and-that'. He's taking it all on himself, which is a sign of a strong character.
So the man has feet of clay. So what. Thirty years ago, when he was in his early thirties, he failed in judging the character of a company he hired. More recently he got involved, gave his name to some bogus 'university' scam. Okay, does that disqualify him from running for office? Mmm. No. Not really.
That's my take on it. And I still think that Trump is the best option of the three on stage last night.
Rubio is owned by the Establishment / Donors and so is Cruz and we don't need another four or eight years of that nonsense. We've still had enough, so Trump is it for me.
That said, I'm going to finish my lunch and get back to work because, in the end, I'll get to vote but I'm only one voice of many in this discussion and whatever is going to happen will happen. I'll just be interested in seeing what it is.
Have a wonderful day!
Best~
Philippa
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