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Saturday, June 27, 2015

"... a primary season with a candidate who makes inaccurate, racist comments about Latin Americans is unlikely to elevate the discourse ..." Well, he is a Republican, after all, so how COULD the discourse be elevated?

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COMMENTS:
*  Ole Mop Head spreading his racism and hatred as usual. We are all foreigners in some respect anyway. Get a job as president of a new mop company and get lost you Republican nutcase.
*  Let Trump go home. He is nothing but a joke. Republicans don't need a distraction like TRUMP to trump the effort to dethrone liberal twits.
*  Every day this bozo lives he somehow manages to make of himself a greater idiotic spectacle than the day before.
*  Trump is here for Trump only to get further name recognitions so he could put his names on more products in order to get richer, Trump doesn't care about America, in matter of fact he is weakening America's foreign policies by degrading about 1 billion Spanish speaking people by calling them rapist. Very soon every Spanish speaking country will call US ambassador for explanation, and apologize for this fish-head and brain damaged comments..
*  Keep it up Donald. It proves to all of us how trivial the Republican party is and how it doesn't have a chance of ever electing another president. Yeah Donald.
*   I can't believe there are people who back this guy. He is, after all, a raving lunatic who hustled himself some money by bankrupting multiple corporations so he didn't have to pay his bills. He gets a younger wife every 10 years and represents the worst part of our country, the greedy ego fueled 1%.
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Donald Trump Is Taking All His Toys and Going Home
By Samantha Cowen, June 27, 2015

A lot of people don’t want to work with Donald Trump—and not just because he’s known for firing people on national television.

Responding to comments the business mogul made about Mexican immigrants when Trump announced his candidacy for the 2016 Republican nomination for president, partners and performers are refusing to participate in the Miss USA pageant, owned by Trump and NBC Universal.

Broadcast company Univision announced Thursday it would not simulcast the pageant on its Spanish language channel, UniMas. Then Trump sent a letter to the company’s CEO on Friday, barring its employees from stepping his Miami golf course and country club, which are adjacent to Univision’s headquarters.

He also added a rather threatening P.S. to the typed letter.

"Please congratulate your Mexican Government officials for having made such outstanding trade deals with the United States. However, inform them that should I become President, those days are over. We are bringing jobs back to the U.S. Also, a meaningful border will be immediately created, not the laughingstock that currently exists." Trump wrote.

These remarks are relatively tame compared to his previous comments.

“When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best,” Trump said during his kickoff speech last week. “They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”

The comments incensed many of Trump’s peers, with both UniMas cohosts withdrawing from the simulcast as well as Colombian performer J. Balvin, whose performance would have aired on both UniMas and NBC.

NBC, however, is moving forward with its broadcast of the pageant on July 12. A long time partner of Trump’s—it also airs his reality series Celebrity Apprenticeeven the peacock network had to assert its dissenting views from Trump.

“Donald Trump’s opinions do not represent those of NBC, and we do not agree with his positions on a number of issues, including his recent comments on immigration,” the network said in statement issued late Thursday.

Trump has remained unapologetic, and threatened to sue Univision from pulling out of the multi-million dollar contract.

So, Why Should You Care? Trump leads all GOP candidates except Jeb Bush, according to a recent poll of New Hampshire Republicans. Though initially considered a long shot, he may have a legitimate chance of placing strongly in the first primary of the 2016 election, which would likely prolong his campaign. Regardless of your stance on immigration policies, a primary season with a candidate who makes inaccurate, racist comments about Latin Americans is unlikely to elevate the discourse, distracting from the real problems the U.S. faces and damaging relations with Latin American countries. 
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