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From out of the ether on Tuesday, October 11, 2016:
Crumb the First
The Redoubtable Newt Gingrich
Gingrich said that Clinton would be a “nightmare” and would produce the “most corrupt and dishonest administration in American history.”
“I think to sit on your hands, to find some pretense because Donald Trump is not pure enough, so you’re willing to have Hillary Clinton get elected, is an enormous disservice to the future of the country and to the future of our children and grandchildren,” he added.
Gingrich, who ran for president in 2012, said Republicans should “relax and slow down for a minute.”
“You don’t have to run around and defend Donald Trump. That’s his job,” he said. “You also don’t have to abandon him. There is no alternative at a practical level. He is the nominee.”
Gingrich served as speaker of the House under President Bill Clinton from 1995 until 1999.
Rip Van Winkle Gingrich must still be rubbing the sleep from his eyes. He already tried the “nightmare”, “most corrupt and dishonest administration in American history”. and “disservice to the future of the country and to the future of our children and grandchildren” routine in 1998, by orchestrating the effort to impeach Bill Clinton. The Senate told him to take a hike. Constitutional government, and separation of powers, and all that
That chestnut horse is long out of the barn and passed on. Gingrich reached and flopped.
As for Trump, the most likely explanation for his dire straits is his own self, and the crappy advice he gets from aging out of office surrogates, not the benighted elected Republican officials on the sidelines, watching a train wreck in progress and desperately trying to stay out of the debris path.
Crumb the Second
The Trump Campaign in One Crisp Photo
Millions of words have been written. Here’s the visual analogue. The state of Trump’s Presidential Campaign in early October 2016:
A Samsung Note 7 handset is pictured next to its charred battery after catching fire during a test at the Applied Energy Hub battery laboratory in Singapore October 5, 2016. REUTERS/Edgar Su
Oops, sorry. That picture is apparently for the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 cell phone. R.I.P.
Aw, the picture just works anyway. That is one crispy critter all right.
Crumb the Third
Proof Trump Doesn’t Understand Foreign Policy
Donald Trump built the Taj Mahal casino and once called it “the eighth wonder of the world.”
The Republican candidate in the race for the presidency — who took his Atlantic City casinos through bankruptcy four times — minced no words about Monday’s shutdown of the gambling hall.
“There’s no reason for this,” Trump told The Associated Press in a recent interview as his friend and fellow billionaire Carl Icahn prepared to close the casino.
Au contraire, mon cher. Trump spent $1 billion to build the Glitz Palace in 1990, and then saddled it with more than $3 billion in junk bond and other debt in his casino empire He consistently lost money (running a casino, for God’s sake), and lost ever larger pieces to stiffed creditors (six times) until 2014, when he was reduced to 10% ownership. His friend Carl Icahn lost another $350 million to try and save Trump’s bacon, and decided to call it quits.
This massive business failure falls on Trump in overwhelming measure. He recklessly overspent and gambled OPM, and wants to grace us now with his sound business counsel.
Trump’s balance of payments record trade deficit of more than $3 billion to a fake Muslim “World Wonder” palace is a foreign policy financial disaster.