I'm not American I don't live in America I just dislike Trump for what he and Alex Salmond, former SNP leader, did to Aberdeen
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/You%27ve_Been_Trumped
I started looking into Trump's background way before he announced his intentions to run for the white house years before
I was ultimately baffled at how he had got away with so much I watched many interviews with him in them I read many articles about him
when he announced he was running for white house I thought no way he'd win
but he did
Russian interference wasn't to get Trump the win
Putin just didn't want Clinton to win
Trump winning was just a bonus for Putin
Trump said in one interview "say it often enough, even if it's not true, keep saying it over and over, control the narrative people will start believing"
let's hope Trump will finally face the music
@ecksmc I, too, never thought he'd get the nomination. As an NYC native I knew what a criminal he was. I truly thought it was just another grift, a way to pocket campaign funds from bigots. Which it was... but it didn't stop there.
I know so many people he ripped off who worked on his buildings. Lives ruined. And yet he won, & the scale of his grift went global.
We will never undo the damage. May he rot in prison & beyond.
@Sheree the only real reason he ran at that time was his debt
his massive debts were about to he called in mainly from Deutsche Bank he thought running would ease that pressure while grifting on the side to help him ease that pressure even more
yup that was my main findings how he bullied small businesses who had done work for him and never paid they would sue he would counter sue ending their business or them dropping the claim
@ecksmc I never understood how he got away with it over all those years & all those ventures. The Mango Mafia.
I also never watched his TV show, assumed it must be a parody. I mean, EVERYONE knew he was a gangster & not a successful businessman, right?
My thinking was too influenced by the NYC bubble. I've sure expanded my horizons since then.
@Sheree some did, most didn't
inho i blame the media
they did report some of his failures but ultimately they did help him cover up and made him a celebrity figure even though they knew his past - they let him control the narrative - they helped him wash away the dodgy part of him from the public eye
the media didn't do its job when he announced he was running instead of reporting the facts about his past and connections to real dodgy criminals they focused on his tweets, mainly
@ecksmc Agree. After he announced I spent a lot of time yelling at Joe & Mika & tons of other media whores looking to boost their profiles on his outrageousness. Haberman & most of the NYT staff were complicit. Faux News, of course. Parroting his lies is not reporting.
They amplified his taking serious issues & treating them with taunts & sound bytes. He should have been ignored.
I don't know if we can ever crawl out of his filth.
@ecksmc @Sheree
You're right, E. The media -- and the damn Russians -- repainted him as some kind of success who cared about people, and that could not be farther from the truth.