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In this clip, Donald Trump Jr. claims he "grew up" in a communist country, and knows what it's like to wait "in breadlines". Junior also suggests that he grew up in "Czechoslovakia", a country that hasn't existed since 1993.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Typical Family response. Just following in his Daddies footsteps.
mopinko
(70,238 posts)SWBTATTReg
(22,171 posts)Hassler
(3,390 posts)Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)His father didn't pay child support? He still speaks to and supports his father? Why?
I'd say lying is inherited. Who knew?
yonder
(9,678 posts)Maeve
(42,288 posts)Ivana took him to the store? Daddy didn't support him? I believe him about as far as I could comfortably spit a rat
CatMor
(6,212 posts)he really said it and it's laughable.
calguy
(5,333 posts)They are scared of Bloomberg and are starting to attack him. They don't realize Mike will hit them back swiftly and bigly. All the more reason for me to support Bloomberg. As Bloomberg rises watch the Senate lose interest in investigating the Bidens.
rurallib
(62,451 posts)tanyev
(42,622 posts)nolabear
(41,991 posts)And hes said some craaaaaaaazy goddam things. Hes so much like his father. And daddys still never going to love him.
Bob Loblaw
(1,900 posts)He ate sand.
miyazaki
(2,251 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)What a freak show! He never stood in any "bread lines". He's a total liar, just like his father. And he thinks his father relates to the humble blue collar workers? His father and their whole family despises those people and they are just using them because they are stupid and gullible and will swallow any shit that he dishes out.
His father would have every blue collar worker reduced to abject poverty with no safety-nets, no healthcare, no food, shelter or means to fight back. He just knows how easy they are to manipulate and that is why he pretends to like them. It's so cynical and disgusting.
Ugh, I hate him so much. I am beginning to think he is just as horrible as his father. He is certainly just as stupid.
At least Bloomberg has actually DONE things that have actually helped people who were not in his class and has a proven record of improving conditions in NYC. He's not my ideal candidate, but if he can fuck up Trump, I'm on his side. https://www.mikebloomberg.com/about?gclid=CjwKCAiAhJTyBRAvEiwAln2qBz-LuFSxJIyzwlJb29XCgjC8T-TaSS4ekBlZcZVVVZMYk5ujInJ0qRoCQBAQAvD_BwE
moose65
(3,168 posts)I absolutely cant stand the sight of him. He is a grade-A asshole, and he has the worst case of resting smirk-face Ive ever seen. And he drives me nuts with that fake Thurston Howell III fake rich accent that he uses. Ugh. He is repulsive, just like dear old dad.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)baseball jersey when he went to pick him up at college for a baseball game. He told him to put on a suit and meet him in the limo. I thought that was incredibly cruel and humiliating.
Now that I know more about Jr., I am kind of thinking that I would have rather seen Sr. beat Jr. senseless with a baseball bat and then see Jr. get up and beat Sr. back with the same bat. Sorry Mods, just a sick little fantasy I have. Just joking. Kind of.
SharonClark
(10,014 posts)world wide wally
(21,755 posts)magicarpet
(14,175 posts)He was in a play about the Communist Soviet State.
bamagal62
(3,270 posts)underpants
(182,904 posts)lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)There's no denying it.
In It to Win It
(8,285 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,937 posts)The Trumps are not shy about proclaiming how much they have 'sacrificed'.
Visit to Arlington Cemetery reminded Donald Trump Jr. of all his family's 'sacrifices,' he writes
https://www.stripes.com/news/us/visit-to-arlington-cemetery-reminded-donald-trump-jr-of-all-his-family-s-sacrifices-he-writes-1.606501
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212910508
"I gave up my life to move to Washington to help Americans," Ivanka Trump says in Davos interview.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,233 posts)Botany
(70,589 posts)When the communists were falling and Vaclav Havel had just taken over I spent
some time there and Donny Jr. doesn't know what is talking about. But to the Fox
News watchers they think he is making sense and are just lapping that shit up.
Stinky The Clown
(67,819 posts)He also speaks the language with reasonable fluency.
Skittles
(153,193 posts)he's the kind of guy that would say I'VE KNOWN WHAT IT IS TO BE HUNGRY BUT I ALWAYS WENT TO A RESTAURANT
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)he left and went to McDonalds. Miserable, stupid POS!
Midnightwalk
(3,131 posts)Think about it. Fredo wouldnt dishonor his family by lying. So he grew up in a Soviet satellite country. Probably was groomed by the kgb since he was a toddler.
I cant figure out if Im lying, crying or dying
blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)WT absolute F, dude?
Olafjoy
(937 posts)Cool story, bro.
struggle4progress
(118,356 posts)... The StB had been interested in Trump since 1977, when he married a Czechoslovakian-born woman ... News of the wedding reached the StB bureau in Zlín ... Ivanas father, Milo, regularly gave the StB information on his daughters visits from the US and his son-in-laws burgeoning career. The StBs work on Donald and Ivana intensified in the late 1980s, after Trump let it be known he was thinking of running for president ...
'A very different world' - inside the Czech spying operation on Trump
Luke Harding in Prague
Mon 29 Oct 2018 02.00 EDT
No wonder Jr was involved in the Trump Tower meeting: the families Russia connections must go back decades.