Mark Cuban on Trump...

woodguru

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Cuban in an interview was saying that Trump isn't even close to being in the ballpark of having enough actual cash money to fund a run for office. In fact the way he put it is that Trump is groveling to billionaires looking for major funding, having contacted Cuban asking for support. Ouch, that would have to hurt someone like Trump to be painted as groveling to a fellow magnate. Apparently having some insight into what the Donald is actually worth he has taken exception to the Trump's claims that he is wealthy enough that he is self funding, Cuban sees this as a misleading lie to even infer to gullible people that he has enough money that he doesn't need money from anyone because he will pay for his own campaign. Cuban figures Trump's real world worth is $200/$250 million tops, and that is not the kind of money that is readily available as in cash, campaigns need cash.

There have been many truly wealthy people that have in fact paid hundreds of millions of their own money, Ross Perot being one, Meg Whitman spent at one point over $200 million in her run for governor, she got a bonus leaving Ebay of $700 million cash. Cuban says he could write a check for a billion dollars and not notice it was gone, he could fund a campaign.

He says the claim by Trump that he is self funding is a ludicrous lie. The GOP is apparently going to test Trump's resolve and willingness to shell out money from his own pocket, they say that they are broke in terms of funds (have none for his race in response to Hillary), that they are committed to dozens of senate and congressional races in the interest of keeping seats that will have serious challenges, in part due to the toxicity of the man and his mouth.

Of course Trump's answer is to throw all the other GOP races under the bus in favor of his presidential race, feeling the need to keep up with Hillary because she has no campaign funding shortages. On top of everything else Trump is looking to pay himself back the loans he is making to his campaign, he just assumed that when he was flush with backing from the GOP and superpacs that this would be an automatic.

I suspect that if Trump gets into a scuffle with the GOP over funding he will walk. It's hard to imagine the GOP caring when it might be exactly what they want. Trump will use the lack of funding as an excuse to walk away with a reason he didn't do well.

Where this might go? I can easily imagine Trump suing the RNC under breach of faith terms on the grounds that they are not treating Trump the same way they have treated any other candidate. Trump's name brand, the value of what he gets paid by resorts and other entities to use the Trump name is going to be forever damaged. Trump has his supporters but he is despised and reviled by the rest of the world in a way that gets worse as more things come out. I can't imagine that revenues on Trump named resorts are not going to take a beating as a result of the spotlight on Trump the man and how he rolls.

My right wing neighbor and I discuss these exact things, and never with any anger or heat, and this is how the bet on whether Trump will still be there for the election came about. I discuss these things with Republican friends, they acknowledge that some of this might be true but who can tell with such a wild race that Trump has put on. Many of my Republican friends say they could even swallow voting for Sanders over Trump, but never Hillary.

If it angers you to hear someone else's perspective and opinion you are wound a bit tight, otherwise known as being caught up in beliefs to where you don't want to hear reality.

So being under the original understanding that Trump was paying for his own campaign, this being what impressed people so much, how does it make you feel to have been lied to like that and find out he anything but self funding?

This is a topic about what Trump is and does, as well as his campaign finances and whether you think he will be there by the time the actual election takes place...

...not what Hillary or Obama did or is doing, which has nothing to do with what you think about Trump. If you don't have an opinion about the Donald and his circumstances and problems he is incurring then there is nothing you need to say, there are many other topics that are about beating them up, this is about intelligently looking at the presumptive GOP candidate, who happens to be up a creek.
 
Originally Posted By: woodguru this is about intelligently looking at the presumptive GOP candidate

nobody on this board has ever thought of you or any other die hard lib to be intelligent. far from it.

what you say or think is a non concern to 99.9% of us here.

go away troll boy. far, far away.
 
I love how you make ridiculous statements because you have a right to your "opinion"(according to you), and then in the same rambling you tell others THEY do not have a right to their opinion if it is in contrast to yours. Actually you just say they are "uneducated" or unwilling to see the light or whatever other sideways way you have of saying if someone disagrees with you they are stupid.

Do you even READ what you write or are you too busy cutting and pasting then patting yourself on the back for such a job well done?

.....and you claim you are not THAT kind of socialist....

Keep saying it...." I am good enough, I am smart enough, and doggonnit people like me."

 
Originally Posted By: Orneryolfart357I have still not seen the Woodsnot Pics from England. Anyone?

LOL, tell the truth, would any of us even believe it was him with his troll abilities? I certainly wouldn't, too many pics on the Internet and besides what camera lens could withstand the excessive drool?
 
Yo brain fart... How do YOU know Mark Cuban isn't lying, trying to discredit Trump as most of the other elitist peckerheads in this country have, because Trump's fixing to upset their apple cart?

Obviously, you don't! So you might loose the pompous wiseass attitude to save making yourself appear anymore a fool than you already have and do on a daily basis nimrod.

We know this isn't a discussion about Hillary and/or Obama and caring about lies, if it were it would be titled "SOP in the DNC". Liberals are too stupid to care about being lied to. When they start caring about being lied to, they stop supporting the Democrat party. Which obviously you haven't, proving you are still not intelligent enough to care about being lied to, day after day after day after day... so please do tell us; why do you even broach such a ridiculous topic as being lied to by a candidate, when we know those you mention have lied to us for how many years already???


 
I still don't know who the [beeep] this cuban guy is or why I should care what his opinion is, on trump or anything else for that matter?
 
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