re: #9 piratedan

it really doesn’t shock me that the Trump crew is this corrupt, it really doesn’t, we had plenty of clues with stiffed contractors, get rich quick schemes with the money laundering thru his casinos, Trump Steaks and Trump University… we knew all of that and knew beforehand what a petty venal creature he is…

what really pisses me off and actually shocks me that even despite all of that veneer, the GOP is essentially cut from the same cloth, they may serve a different master whose interest coincide with who owns Trump, but to find out that there really isn’t even an iota of a scintilla of shame in their ranks in regards to what they’re doing, knowingly and knowing the damage caused and that they have no compunction to continue to behave and speak the way that they do… I can understand the utter disdain that they’ve earned and hope that there is still enough of a foundation of this country’s systems and institutions that will allow itself to defend the ideals and Constitution that this country was founded on.

I knew very little about Mr. Trump when he announced his campaign. (That said, his “Mexican rapists” comment was enough for me to put him in the Steve King column of bigots.) I suspect that’s the same with a lot of people around here: No one was really familiar with Donald Trump’s past, and had no way of researching it. (FOX, Christian hate radio, and Sinclair sure weren’t talking about it, neither was the newspaper. The kitten-grabbing comment got no coverage here, nor his stiffing of contractors, or the allegations of hiring undocumented Polish workers, &c &c &c).