<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 2:11 PM, spike </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"> </span></b><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><span class="gmail-"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"><b><u></u><u></u></b></span></p></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif">><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">></div>…</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif">I get impatient when people talk about trivialities like the pay grade of assistants</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif">… In contrast Donald won't let us see his tax records and his business relationships are a confusing tangled mess that he makes no effort to untangle for us. And yet it's Clinton who is opaque not Trump. …</span><br><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"> John K Clark </span></blockquote><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> </span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>Ah, OK I see the disconnect, and how two things are being compared which are so dissimilar: Trump was playing with his money. Mrs. Clinton was playing with ours<span style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14pt">.</span></div></div></div></blockquote><div> </div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">Exactly, so if President Trump gives preferential treatment to his business interests he will personally benefit from it but Mrs. Clinton won't because she has no skin in the game. </font></div></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>Trump isn’t breaking any laws:</blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">I just Googled "Trump" and "broke the law" and got 368,000 results.</div> </font></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>the IRS already has his tax returns. </blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">But we the voters do not have his tax returns. And because of that and because they are so secret and convoluted if President Trump does give </font></div><font size="4"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">preferential treatment to his business interests</font><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> we the voters won't know, only he will know, and of course his wife and kids who will continue to run his business as usual. </font></div></font></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>She has shown contempt for our laws with that very questionable arrangement with her aide. Unless she can show us a contract with details on what her aide was doing, that isn’t just questionable, it is illegal.</blockquote><div> </div><div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">I'll </font></div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">be damned if I know why but the probability Trump will win has gone up in recent days, </div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">it's now at about 30%, so the danger is approximately the same as putting not one but two bullets into in revolver, spinning the cylinder at random putting the gun to your head and pulling the trigger. Perhaps that's why when I hear details of the work contract of some aid to Hillary that I've never heard of until a few days ago my mind starts to wander. </div></font></div><span style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14pt"> </span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>That arrangement gives the appearance that perhaps other countries (where governments durn sure are corrupt) might perhaps possibly view a donation to the Clinton Foundation as a way to get access to the US State Department. </blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">Donating money to a political campaign </font></div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">in the unstated hope of gaining access is not a crime and is not even considered immoral in most circles, and even less donating money to a philanthropic foundation to get access. However it is illegal to accept contributions from </div>foreign government officials<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> and it's even illegal to ask for it, but that's exactly what Donald Trump did: </div></font></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></div>t<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-06-29/trump-campaign-broke-law-by-soliciting-foreign-donations-complaint-alleges">http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-06-29/trump-campaign-broke-law-by-soliciting-foreign-donations-complaint-alleges</a><br><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div></font>Trump refuses to show us how he was making his money. Mrs. Clinton refuses to show us how she was spending ours.</blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">As I said the list hates Hillary far more than it hates Trump, and I honest to god don't get it.</div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"></div></font></div><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></font></div><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> John K Clark</div></font><br></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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