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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sun Jan 13, 2019, 09:48 AM Jan 2019

NYT's Maureen Dowd Spanks 'World's Brattiest 72-Year-Old' Trump in Scathing Op-Ed


by Tamar Auber | Jan 12th, 2019, 5:57 pm

The New York Times’ Maureen Dowd did not hold back — at all — in her scathing rebuke of the “world’s brattiest 72-year-old” President Donald Trump.

In her most recent op-ed published on Saturday, Dowd contrasts the upbringing of Rep. Nancy Pelosi to that of spoiled Trump.

According to Dowd, while Pelosi’s family saw immigrants and those with little as people to uplift into the American dream, the Trump family saw them as “suckers to squeeze.”

From the NYT op-ed:

According to The Times’s blockbuster tax investigation, Fred lavished Donald with three trust funds and $10,000 Christmas checks. When Donald was 8, he was already a millionaire, thanks to his tax-scamming father. Fred Trump was hauled before a congressional panel investigating whether he had looted government money through fraud. (One congressman said the patriarch’s chicanery made him “nauseous.”)


By the time Donald was 27, he had fully absorbed Trump family values, a callous inversion of noblesse oblige: He and his father were getting sued by the Justice Department for refusing to rent to blacks.

Dowd also points out the paternal bailouts and hefty allowances continued into Trump’s middle age.
"By the time he was in his 40s, Donnie’s allowance was more than $5 million annually. No wonder he’s still an infant,” Dowd noted.

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https://www.mediaite.com/print/nyts-maureen-dowd-spanks-worlds-brattiest-72-year-old-trump-in-scathing-op-ed/

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NYT's Maureen Dowd Spanks 'World's Brattiest 72-Year-Old' Trump in Scathing Op-Ed (Original Post) DonViejo Jan 2019 OP
Lil late MoDo... where were you the last election?! InAbLuEsTaTe Jan 2019 #1
Guess she needs an occasional break from trashing the Clintons. Paladin Jan 2019 #3
She was too busy writing snarky, petty columns about Hillary to bother with catbyte Jan 2019 #4
Hell would be too good for her!! InAbLuEsTaTe Jan 2019 #5
+1 dalton99a Jan 2019 #7
A very good question gratuitous Jan 2019 #10
NYT has lost SO much credibility... can't read this crap anymore. InAbLuEsTaTe Jan 2019 #11
"suckers to squeeze" - that's how republicans see & treat other people Achilleaze Jan 2019 #2
Fuck Modo... SidDithers Jan 2019 #6
+1. Never forget dalton99a Jan 2019 #8
Not a word about his treason. dalton99a Jan 2019 #9
Trump is senile Gothmog Jan 2019 #12
Meh...... This overpaid mediocre hack thought 2000 was a game. Same in Guy Whitey Corngood Jan 2019 #13

catbyte

(34,412 posts)
4. She was too busy writing snarky, petty columns about Hillary to bother with
Sun Jan 13, 2019, 10:41 AM
Jan 2019

an actual immoral, sleazebag criminal. She can go straight to hell.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
10. A very good question
Sun Jan 13, 2019, 12:19 PM
Jan 2019

It's not like all of these sordid little details had been kept from the public. It was all out there for any newspaper in Trump's home town to put together during the 2016 campaign. Once again, the self-styled newspaper of record sits on a story until it's too late.

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