Someone should take Donald home now. He’s starting to scare the kids.
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As Walter Winchell used to say — “Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. America from border to border and coast to coast and all the ships at sea.”
We have breaking news.
A source close to the Trump campaign tells Slickster that Rudy Giuliani will play the role of Hillary Clinton during Donald Trump’s debate preparation.
A Trump surrogate says Giuliani is “uniquely qualified for the role — if you know what I mean.”
Just wondering
I’d tell you, but then I’d have to kill you
It’s comedy hour at Slickster. The person running Comrade Trump’s campaign, not the Breitbart dude who is so far to the right that when he looks left, he sees Attila the Hun, was in the spin cycle the other day.
Kellyanne Conway, who is widely acknowledged as a top notch Republican pollster, recently looked at the numbers and didn’t like them. Her candidate is in a free fall and is going to hit the ground hard.
So she came up with a joke of an idea. She told a reporter for England’s Channel 4 that Trump has a secret group of supporters. It’s kinda like the famous Silent Majority of Republican of years gone by — except this time, she says, it’s real.
She claimed that Trump’s main supporters prefer being polled on the Inter Webs instead of the phone because on the phone they are less inclined to admit their support for Vladimir Putin’s close and personal friend.
In other words, they are too embarrassed to say they plan to vote for Trump.
Seriously.
But, shhhhhhh. It’s a secret.
Just press play.
#ImWithTheBlacks!
Do you remember Trump’s speech when he decided to start chasing the African American vote? He gave it Tuesday, in West Bend, Wisc., a city about an hour’s drive from Milwaukee which is were riots had been taking place following a fatal police shooting of a black man.
Why Trump gave the speech in West Bend is still not clear. It is a city of a little more than 31,000 people. According to the 2010 census, 1.0 percent of the population is African American.
We’re not sure if there were African Americans in the crowd. The Donald didn’t point out to the gathering that there were. Nor did he single out someone and tell the crowd to “look at my African American over here” as he did during a June rally in Redding, Calif.
The speech was generally known not so much for what Trump said as it was for how he said it. He mostly got points for reading someone else’s words from a teleprompter without going off the rails.
His campaign was so proud of him that a press release quickly went out with quotes from media members citing the wonderful things being said about him and his speech.
Among them was a quote from Jill Colvin, a reporter with the Associated Press. “Jill Colvin: ‘Trump Sounds Like He’s Talking Directly To African Americans …’ (Twitter.com, 8/16/16)”
It is accurate if you are only interested in using part of the quote and that’s all his campaign was interested in. Oh, and check out the hash tag on Trump’s tweet.
Say what?
This needs no formal introduction. We will let the Trump surrogates do the talking.
Just press play.
Hide ‘n seek
Brother can you spare a dime?
Where is the outrage from the moral right? Perhaps Trump taking Christie to his first intelligence briefing Wednesday was just one of the perks Bridgeboy earned.
Seven Republicans campaigning to be US president are in a fight for survival in their last debate Saturday before the New Hampshire primary, battling to win over a significant number of undecided voters. / AFP / Jewel Samad (Photo credit should read JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)
The (“failing”) New York Times reports Christie forgave Trump’s casinos approximately $25 million in tax debt.
“The Times discovered the agreement during a review of the thousands of documents filed in the bankruptcies of Mr. Trump’s casinos. The taxes went unpaid from 2002 through 2006, during which time Mr. Trump was leading the company as chairman and, until 2005, as its chief executive. He reaped millions of dollars in fees and bonuses from the company, even as it underperformed competitors, lost money every year and saw its stock collapse.”
And the hits just kept on coming.
“In February 2007, Heather Lynn Anderson, a deputy attorney general who specializes in tax cases, filed papers in court saying auditors had discovered discrepancies that raised “numerous additional questions regarding the accuracy” of the Trump casinos’ tax returns. The company had reported lower revenue figures on its tax returns, for example, than on filings with the State Casino Control Commission. Ms. Anderson also wrote that Mr. Trump’s flagship casino, the Taj Mahal, had reported to the casino commission that it paid $2.2 million in alternative minimum assessment tax in 2003, which was not true. The company had paid only $500 in income taxes.”