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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDavid Sirota: Trump is not the only candidate willing to make utterly mind-boggling statements
from In These Times:
The Other 2016 Presidential Candidates Are Saying Things That Are Basically As Crazy As Donald Trump
Trump is not the only presidential hopeful willing to make utterly mind-boggling statements.
BY DAVID SIROTA
Since announcing his 2016 White House bid, Donald Trump has been the central focus of the campaignby one estimate, he has garnered almost 40 percent of all election coverage on the network newscasts. Clearly, The Donalds attempt to turn 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. into Trump White House has attracted so much attention because the candidate is seen as a Bulworthesque carnival barker who will say anything, no matter how hypocritical, factually unsubstantiated or absurd.
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Take Hillary Clinton. Earlier this month, she said, there can be no justification or tolerance for this kind of criminal behavior that has been seen on Wall Street. She added that while institutions have paid large fines and in some cases admitted guilt, too often it has seemed that the human beings responsible get off with limited consequences or none at all, even when they have already pocketed the gains. Her campaign echoed the message with an email to supporters lauding Clinton for saying that when Wall Street executives commit criminal wrongdoing, they deserve to face criminal prosecution.
Clintons outrage sounds convincing at first but then, audacity-wise, it starts to seem positively Trump-like when cross-referenced with campaign finance reports, foundation donations and speaking fees.
According to an Associated Press analysis, Clinton has already raked in more than $1.6 million worth of campaign contributions from donors in the same financial sector she is slamming on the campaign trail. Additionally, Clintons foundation took $5 million worth of donations from at least nine financial institutions that secured special deals to avoid prosecutioneven as they admitted wrongdoing. The Clintons also accepted nearly $4 million in speaking fees from those firms since 2009.
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Then there is Jeb Bush. He recently trekked back to Tallahassee to deliver a speech portraying himself as a clean-government reformer. He asserted that before he became Florida governor, lobbyists and legislators grew a little too comfortable in each other's company but he also insisted that he refused to go along with that establishment and wasnt a member of the club.
Again, it sounds vaguely convincing, until the facts make the chutzpah involved seem positively Trump-ish. .............(more)
http://inthesetimes.com/article/18234/more-2016-candidates-embrace-the-trump-zeitgeist
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David Sirota: Trump is not the only candidate willing to make utterly mind-boggling statements (Original Post)
marmar
Jul 2015
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Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)1. Eh, the Clinton and Bush ones were not mind-boggling.
Just hypocritical.