Re:Peter Thiel To Join Trump Transition Team
by pmorici on Friday November 11, 2016 @08:07AM
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Trump didn't start his political career in 2010. He first considered running for president in the 1988 election.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEPs17_AkTI
This also isn't the first time he's run. He ran as a reform party candidate in 2000 when he campaigned on the issues of "fair trade, eliminating the national debt, and achieving universal healthcare" he also said he wanted Oprah to be his running mate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_presidential_camp...
Re:Peter Thiel To Join Trump Transition Team
by DefaultUserHN on Saturday November 12, 2016 @01:46PM
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Trump did not start in 2010. It had been a long road to the White House for Trump.
I bet part of that was an emotion completely absent from Trump's public persona: shame.
Trump started his political career circa 2010 as a "birther" -- going on national TV, asking for Obama's birth certificate, saying he was born in Kenya and therefore ineligible to hold office. Really racist, bottom-of-the-barrel tabloid stuff.
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Obama was incredibly gracious the day after the election. Here he is, talking about how he's "rooting" for Trump to do well, how Trump's success as President will be the nation's success:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr2USTE3L98
Meeting after all that must have been at least a little bit embarrassing. Even for the Donald.