989+ Reasons Griffin Hates Donald Trump Alternate Title: “Yes, This Was Probably Uncalled For”
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989+ Reasons Griffin Hates Donald Trump Alternate title: “Yes, This Was Probably Uncalled For” Legal/financial corruption 1 (contains reasons 1-88) Trump Foundation corruption 10 (89-113) Racism 14 (114-168) Lies (incomplete list) 19 (169-275) Fascism 29 (276-359) Unconstitutional policies 36 (360-379) Danger to economy 38 (380-412) Bad businessman 42 (413-447) Tweets 45 (448-481) Demeaning / dangerous behavior towards women 47 (482-530) Cabinet picks / staff 51 (531-667) Mike Pence 62 (668-692) Dumb beliefs / conspiracies he’s peddled 65 (693-747) Incompetence to be president 70 (748-893) Russia 83 (894-927) Broken Promises 86 (928-943) Misc. 88 (944-989) Supporters Everything wrong with the wall He doesn’t care about you He’s everything evangelicals hate (except a Republican) Appendix A: 34 reasons why Breitbart sucks 91 Appendix B: 34 reasons why Fox News isn’t too great either 95 1 Corruption 1. Tax return revelations show that he has paid no income tax over the past couple of decades, and brags about it, and has repeatedly lied about being unable to release tax returns under audit even after the IRS and every economist and tax expert have come out and said that this is not the case. He has not even provided evidence that he is under audit. In fact, he could release the first two pages of his tax returns, which detail deductions, income, and charitable giving (among other things), since these aren’t affected by audit. He has refused to do so for unknown reasons. (http://www.newsweek.com/2016/09/16/donald-trump-tax-returns-495955.html) 2. He has a long history of tax evasion and trouble with the IRS, with nearly a hundred cases documented. (http://archive.thegleaner.com/news/380144241.xhtml) 3. Trump Hotels and Casinos Resorts Inc. Outright lied to the US Securities and Exchange Commision (SEC) in 1999 by excluding a one time charge of 80 million dollars (while including a one time charge of 17 million), because if they didn’t the total earnings wouldn’t have met prior expectations. The SEC ordered a cease-and-desist. (http://money.cnn.com/2002/01/16/news/sec_trump/) (https://www.sec.gov/news/headlines/trumphotels.htm) 4. Solicited donations from Scottish politicians just before he visited Scotland. (http://fusion.net/story/319256/trump-emails-scotland-campaign-finance/) 5. Court records show ties and even collaboration between Trump and mobs as a developer in New York City. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/trump-swam-in-mob-infested-wat ers-in-early-years-as-an-nyc-developer/2015/10/16/3c75b918-60a3-11e5-b38e-06883 aacba64_story.html) 6. Donald Trump would circumvent political donation limits by spreading out payments across 18 different businesses and companies. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/trump-swam-in-mob-infested-wat ers-in-early-years-as-an-nyc-developer/2015/10/16/3c75b918-60a3-11e5-b38e-06883 aacba64_story.html) 7. Was fined $200,000 for not allowing blacks/women in the casino while Trump’s friend and racist mafia leader was gambling (and lost the appeal). (http://www.upi.com/Archives/1992/10/19/Trump-Plaza-loses-appeal-of-discriminati on-penalty/1911719467200/) 8. In 1983, Trump stiffed labor workers out of $300,000 in benefit funds by employing undocumented laborers. The court decided against Trump, and he later settled. (http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/deal-sealed-trump-tower-suit-article-1 .834028) 9. Trump’s SoHo hotel illegally kept the 22% service fee that is supposed to go to the staff as tips. Trump settled and the hotel was ordered to pay $500,000 to the victims. 2 (https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20160307/soho/trump-soho-hotel-stiffed-catere rs-out-of-tips-lawsuit-charges) 10.In 1994, Trump attempted to use eminent domain to force an elderly woman out of her home in order to build casinos. The attempt was laughed out of court. (https://reason.com/blog/2015/10/07/donald-trumps-shameful-eminent-domain-ab) (https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?q=Casino+Reinvestment+Development+Au thority+v.+Coking&hl=en&as_sdt=6,33&case=13215941806857520148&scilh=0) 11. In 1981, Trump bought a building facing Central Park, and attempted to force the current tenants out by cutting heat and water, and imposing strict building rules. (http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/28/news/trump-apartment-tenants/) 12. Trump asked the building manager to spy on the tenants, even detailing their habits and activities. When the tenants and Trump’s organization discussed an offer for the tenants to buy the property for $15 million to end all the drama, his organization then sued for $150 million for “coercing a bargain sale of the building”. (http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/28/news/trump-apartment-tenants/) 13. Trump settled the above case for $500,000 for each attorney, with the agreement that Trump could monitor repairs for 5 years. When an elderly, terminally ill woman still complained, they drilled holes in her ceiling and set up a workstation which filled her apartment with dust. The woman was dying of lung cancer. (http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/28/news/trump-apartment-tenants/) 14. Trump also overcharged another woman in the above case $40,000 for her rent, which he had to paid back. (http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/28/news/trump-apartment-tenants/) 15. Trump selected a man convicted of working with the mafia to commit stock fraud as one of his senior advisers. (http://bigstory.ap.org/article/29c255c0b69a48258ecae69a61612537/trump-picked-st ock-fraud-felon-senior-adviser) 16. Trump took a $40 million dollar loan from the Deutsche Bank, and when they asked him to pay it back he sued for $3 BILLION dollars. (http://www.wsj.com/articles/when-donald-trump-needs-a-loan-he-chooses-deutsche -bank-1458379806) 17. He swindled several buyers out of tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars during failed Condo projects in Tampa. (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/13/nyregion/feeling-deceived-over-homes-that-w ere-trump-in-name-only.html) 18. He hired illegal immigrants and defrauded them of pay. (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/05/realestate/fifth-avenue-bonwit-teller-opulence -lost.html?_r=0) 19. Snuck over illegal immigrants for modeling work and also refused to pay them. (http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/10/news/trump-model-visas/) 20. Admitted to secretly funding anti-casino ads in the Catskill areas in order to prevent competition with Atlantic City. This is illegal and he did not disclose it. He paid $250,000 in fines without a fight. 3 (http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/06/nyregion/trump-and-others-accept-fines-for- ads-in-opposition-to-casinos.html) 21. Hundreds of other lawsuits, fraud cases, and law violations (obviously not all were found guilty.) 22.When Trump, in 1973, was on trial for discriminating against minorities, he used a number of delaying tactics until he eventually settled the case. (http://www.newsweek.com/2016/11/11/donald-trump-companies-destroyed-emails- documents-515120.html) 23.First he said that the government asked him to release statements without telling him, swearing under oath that he “first heard about it in the car radio”. However, court and phone records show that they filed the request at 10AM and called him immediately after. 24.He then countersued for $100 million dollars, delaying the process further. 25.He ignored discovery demands - legal requirements to turn over documents - even challenging their necessity. After 6 months of ignoring deadlines and demands, the attorney called and was told they had no plans to answer any questions. 26.When granted a subpoena, Trump admitted that they had been destroying all corporate documents for six months and didn’t have any document retention program in order to “save space”. 27.When they announced a date to investigate the headquarters, Trump pretended they didn’t know it was supposed to be that day. He then claimed that they were harassed by the investigators, even employees who made sworn statements later refused to testify under oath. 28.After a year and a half, they finally reached a settlement where Trump’s organization agreed to no discrimination against minorities. The government sent in undercover minority applicants, and they were once again discriminated against compared to the undercover white applicants. Trump went to court again in 1978, where they once again reached a settlement. (http://www.newsweek.com/2016/11/11/donald-trump-companies-destroyed-emails- documents-515120.html) 29. Trump’s organization once failed to turn over emails and documents related to a lawsuit because “they didn’t have any servers with emails”. Sworn statements by tech employees in the organization later contradicted this, and technology service providers later produced statements and evidence that they did indeed have email servers at the time. Investigations showed that they didn’t have any email data before January 2001… the same month Trump learned about information regarding the lawsuit. (http://www.newsweek.com/2016/11/11/donald-trump-companies-destroyed-emails- documents-515120.html) 30. Trump once argued under oath that a “Donald Trump Development” is different from a “Development By Donald Trump” to escape liability by fraud. 31. Trump called for South Korea to launch their own defense system, including nuclear weapons program. Donald Trump’s business partner, Daewoo Engineering and 4 Construction, is the leading South Korean industry involved in nuclear energy and would benefit immensely. (http://www.newsweek.com/2016/09/23/donald-trump-foreign-business-deals-natio nal-security-498081.html) 32.