Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Another Trump 140-Character Tweet Load of Crap Highlighted as Newsworthy

One Sign Missing: “Mission Unaccomplished”
 (Ready for November 8th)

“Trump rages on Twitter after his Veteran donations are called into question…”

From The Business Insider, in part: Donald Trump took to Twitter on Monday night to defend his donations to veterans' charities amid new questions about his January fundraiser.

The questions center on Trump's earlier claim that he [personally] donated $1 million to the fundraiser he held instead of attending a Republican debate in January sponsored by FOX. At the event, he named other large donations he reportedly solicited for veterans' charities and who gave.

But reporters have had a hard time confirming how much money has actually been distributed to Veteran groups. Washington Post reporter David Fahrenthold noted also on Twitter that he's “still looking for the $1M that @realdonaldtrump says he gave vets since this past January.”

Trump continued to tweet: “Much of the money I have raised for our veterans has already been distributed, with the rest to go shortly to various other veteran groups.”

Then Trump then attacked the media for its coverage of the donations, saying in another tweet: “Amazingly, with all of the money I have raised for the Vets, I have got nothing but bad publicity from the dishonest and disgusting media.”

Despite Trump saying he raised between $5 million and $6 million for Veterans, his campaign said earlier this week that the January fundraiser only netted $4.5 million, according to The Washington Post. 

Then Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski told the Post that some people who had promised donations for the fundraiser had backed out. Lewandowski then told the Post he wasn't sure if Trump's $1 million was included in the $4.5 million total that he said he had raised.

After Trump's Tweetstorm, reporter Fahrenthold clarified what he's found out so far about the supposed donations: That only $3.1 million and not the $5-$6 million that Trump professed that he raised, and, the Trump $1 million is still MIA.

So, who and what is the public to believe? The blowhard and his sustained and well-known and rehearsed bravado (via tweets of course), or the facts that the media finds out about, or is unable to find out? The answer is self-evident, except for brain dead Trumpets. 

One word describes Donald J. Trump: Disgraceful...!!! 


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