Donald Trump is planning to run for President of the United States of American. After having an Actor as President under Ronald Reagan who started to give millionaires their first tax hand-out, we are now contemplating about letting an egocentric, self-made millionaire run our country?
A man who became not only known through a TV show but also through an investigation in January 2002, by the Securities and Exchange Commission, which brought a financial-reporting case against Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts Inc., alleging that it had committed several "misleading statements in the company's third-quarter 1999 earnings release." The matter was finally settled with the defendant, Donald Trump, neither admitting nor denying the charge. By settling he was never actually cleared of these charges.
But now Donald Trump is trying to stay in the spotlight with outraging claims against President Barack Obama. However, as you are able to read as well on Factcheck.org when it comes to getting facts straight, he fouls up again and again on the basics of President Barack Obama’s birth. As a rookie reporter, he just wouldn’t make it.
- He claims the president’s grandmother says Obama was born in Kenya. In fact, the recording to which he refers shows Sarah Obama repeatedly saying through a translator: "He was born in America."
- He claims that no hospital in Hawaii has a record of Obama’s birth. Hospital records are confidential under federal law, but Honolulu’s Kapi’olani Medical Center has published a letter from Obama calling it "the place of my birth," thus publicly confirming it as his birthplace.
- He insists that the official "Certification of Live Birth" that Obama produced in 2008 is "not a birth certificate." That’s wrong. The U.S. Department of State uses "birth certificate" as a generic term to include the official Hawaii document, which satisfies legal requirements for proving citizenship and obtaining a passport.
- He claims that there’s no signature or certification number on the document released by Obama. Wrong again. Photos of the document, which we posted in 2008, clearly show those details.
- He says newspaper announcements of Obama’s birth that appeared in Hawaii newspapers in 1961 "probably" were placed there fraudulently by his now-deceased American grandparents. Actually, a state health department official and a former managing editor of one of the newspapers said the information came straight from the state health department.
- He claims "nobody knew" Obama when he was growing up and "nobody ever comes forward" who knew him as a child. "If I ever decide to run, you may go back and interview people from my kindergarten," Trump said. Well, two retired kindergarten teachers in a 2009 news story fondly recall teaching a young Barack Obama.
Read about the facts and analysis on http://factcheck.org/2011/04/donald-youre-fired/
The question though remains, are we not interested in an intelligent, well educated and socially responsible President anymore? Has the greed for more money blinded us so much that we keep wanting to elect Presidents whose ideologies are in more important than the well-being of the people?
The question though remains, are we not interested in an intelligent, well educated and socially responsible President anymore? Has the greed for more money blinded us so much that we keep wanting to elect Presidents whose ideologies are in more important than the well-being of the people?
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