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We focus primarily on the American scene but also cover world politics. "},"link":[{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/nomadicpolitics.blogspot.com\/feeds\/posts\/default"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/407281054887604200\/posts\/default\/-\/rick+perry?alt=json-in-script\u0026max-results=2"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/nomadicpolitics.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/rick%20perry"},{"rel":"hub","href":"http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"},{"rel":"next","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/407281054887604200\/posts\/default\/-\/rick+perry\/-\/rick+perry?alt=json-in-script\u0026start-index=3\u0026max-results=2"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Nomad"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/03686282358562565742"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"generator":{"version":"7.00","uri":"http://www.blogger.com","$t":"Blogger"},"openSearch$totalResults":{"$t":"18"},"openSearch$startIndex":{"$t":"1"},"openSearch$itemsPerPage":{"$t":"2"},"entry":[{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-407281054887604200.post-1549547583959255504"},"published":{"$t":"2016-03-10T17:58:00.000+02:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2016-03-10T18:14:34.416+02:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Donald Trump"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Fraud"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Hillary Clinton"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"JEB"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Law"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"rick perry"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Trump University"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Gravitas of a Grifter: Why Trump's Art of the Deal is all about the Art of  Butt-Kissing and Betrayal "},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ch2 style=\"background-color: #bdbdbd; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small; font-weight: normal;\"\u003Eby Nomad\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Ch2\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-XnaOO5qCAsg\/VuF6NmQ9ksI\/AAAAAAAAMH8\/STihul8KVTw\/s1600\/DT.JPG\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-XnaOO5qCAsg\/VuF6NmQ9ksI\/AAAAAAAAMH8\/STihul8KVTw\/s400\/DT.JPG\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EIn a recent deposition, Republican Presidential candidate Trump \u0026nbsp;allowed us a peek at his true nature. It wasn't pretty and reveals a man very different than his supporters see onstage.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h2\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003E\u003Cu\u003EThe Two Faces of Trump\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003EAs we have come to know, Republican front-runner Donald Trump likes to portray himself as a politically-incorrect kind of guy who says the first thing to comes to his mind.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003EIf it is childish, irresponsible or just plain racist, then that's who he really is. He's not been groomed and manicured and cultivated like a hot-house orchid. Trump is Trump, and he doesn't give a damn who likes it and who doesn't.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003EFor that, h\u003C\/span\u003Eis supporters love him.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E \u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003EHis appeal is based primarily on the premise that he may be rough around the edges but he is, at least, honest. If he goes too far sometimes, it is, if nothing else, a step in the right direction, they'll tell you.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003ESure, he may rub a lot of people the wrong way, his supporters say, but he makes good points and gives a voice for angry people who feel forgotten. Trump may be a joke but he isn't a phony, they'll tell you.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003EIf nothing else, Trump's a breath of fresh air and not part of the political game-playing that has made Washington such a despised place.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E \u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003EHowever, the problem for Mr. Trump is that this particular persona is really a \u003Ci\u003Enew innovative\u003C\/i\u003E, more based on his \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reality_television\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Reality television\"\u003Ereality-TV\u003C\/a\u003E character. The real story, his actual history is radically different.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003E\u003Cu\u003E\u003Ca name='more'\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EFalse Advertising and Fraud\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003EThis truth came out recently when,\u0026nbsp;on 10 December 2015, Trump was called to give a \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/assets.documentcloud.org\/documents\/2747360\/Trump-Depo.pdf\"\u003Edeposition regarding a lawsuit against his bankrupt Trump University\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026nbsp;A quick summary of the case, according to the plaintiffs, is as follows:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nOn behalf of these consumers, plaintiffs claim \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.trumponline.com\/\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Donald Trump\"\u003EDonald J. Trump\u003C\/a\u003E and his so-called “university” violated federal and state laws by falsely advertising seminars and\u0026nbsp;mentorships\u0026nbsp;(“Live Events”) as teaching Trump’s “real-estate secrets” through his “hand-picked” “professors” at his “elite” university.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIn reality, the instructors were high-pressure salespeople paid on a commission basis to up-sell consumers to even more expensive courses (including the “Gold Elite” course for $34,995), and these salesmen were never trained on Trump’s “real-estate secrets” much less taught them. In 2005, the \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_State_Education_Department\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"New York State Education Department\"\u003ENew York State Education Department\u003C\/a\u003E told Trump to stop using the word “university” in its title, because it was illegal to do so, but Trump continued to operate illegally until forced to change the name in 2010. \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/2747360-Trump-Depo.html\"\u003ETrump chose a rally in Arkansas\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;in February to rebut the charges and claims. In his typically rambling speech, Trump attacked the one of the plaintiffs by name (\"terrible\" \"horrible, horrible witness.\")\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nHe insinuated that the \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_Attorney_General\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"New York Attorney General\"\u003ENew York attorney general\u003C\/a\u003E was in cahoots with Obama and was bribed to launch a prosecution against him. On top of that, he finally attacks the judge, implying he was hostile toward Trump (\"beyond belief\") because the judge was Hispanic.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nHe told the crowd that he could have settled out of court but it was the principle of the matter.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nIt should have been thrown out, wasn’t thrown out, and I say I’d rather go to court... I just didn’t want to be forced to settle and I could have settled it before I did this and I knew somebody would try and to use it for publicity, but I believe I can turn it around just to show you how dishonest these people are.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.rgrdlaw.com\/assets\/images\/761.jpeg\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rgrdlaw.com\/assets\/images\/761.jpeg\" height=\"200\" width=\"176\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nTrump- the Crusader for Honesty and all that is right.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAttorney \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.rgrdlaw.com\/attorneys-Jason-A-Forge.html\"\u003EJason Forge\u003C\/a\u003E, of the San Diego firm of \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/robbins%20geller%20rudman%20%26%20dowd%20llp\/\"\u003ERobbins Geller Rudman \u0026amp; Dowd LLP\u003C\/a\u003E, acted as the interrogating attorney for the plaintiff Art Cohen (and others).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\nAt the Arkansas rally, Trump couldn't hide his contempt for the law firm. \u0026nbsp;To the cheers from the rally supporters, Trump called the firm \u003Ci\u003E\"sleazebag\".\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn fact, this firm, with 200 lawyers in 10 offices nationwide, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.rgrdlaw.com\/firm.html\"\u003Ehas taken on and won cases\u003C\/a\u003E against such big league corporations as \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.enron.com\/\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Enron\"\u003EEnron\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.rgrdlaw.com\/cases-unitedhealth-recovery-options-backdating.html\"\u003EUnitedHealth Group\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.rgrdlaw.com\/cases-visa-mastercard-interchange-litigation.html\"\u003EVisa\/MasterCard\u003C\/a\u003E, and the infamous \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.rgrdlaw.com\/cases-countrywide-class-action-recovery.html\"\u003ECountrywide\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nTo advise and represent Mr. Trump is \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Daniel_M._Petrocelli\"\u003EDefense Attorney Daniel Petrocelli\u003C\/a\u003E of the firm of \u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/O%27Melveny_%26_Myers\"\u003EO'Melveny and Meyers LLP\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E. Its clients include\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bank_of_America\"\u003EBank of America\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Exxon_Mobil\"\u003EExxon Mobil\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fannie_Mae\"\u003EFannie Mae\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Goldman_Sachs\"\u003EGoldman Sachs\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIn addition, one of its top lawyers argued before the Supreme Court in \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Exxon_Shipping_Co._v._Baker\"\u003EExxon Shipping Co. v. Baker\u003C\/a\u003E, on behalf of \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Exxon\"\u003EExxon\u003C\/a\u003E regarding the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Exxon_Valdez\"\u003EExxon Valdez\u003C\/a\u003E oil spill.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003E\u003Cu\u003EExhibit 519\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nRegarding the details of the case, I will skip since it is not the \"juicy bits.\" What's really interesting and insight is one of the seemingly off-topic exchanges between Forge and Trump. It's certainly an insight into the way Trump thinks.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n(With apologies, I decided only to summarize when possible and include excerpts elsewhere. \u0026nbsp;It is too much fun not to transcribe the exact words.)\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nMr. Forge calls upon the defendant Trump to confirm an exhibit- a print-out of archived posts from Trump's blog. Trump's attorney objects calling the line of questioning irrelevant.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThat objection is register and the questioning continues again.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nForge begins by asking Trump to confirm the exhibit as a copy of the blog post, dated 2 December 2008.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ctable border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"width: 660px;\"\u003E\n\u003Ctbody\u003E\n\u003Ctr\u003E\n\u003Ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"146\"\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\n\u003Ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"514\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EForge:\u003C\/b\u003E I'm going to direct your attention to the fourth paragraph, but you're welcome to read whatever you want. The fourth paragraph you wrote of Hillary Clinton:·\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u0026nbsp;\"Hillary is smart, tough and a very nice person and so is her husband.\"\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EAnd then you wrote,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\"Bill Clinton was a great president.\"\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EDid you believe that sentiment when you wrote it in this blog?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003ETrump:\u003C\/b\u003E When was this done?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EForge:\u003C\/b\u003E December 2nd, 2008.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003ETrump:\u003C\/b\u003E It was a long time ago.· I mean, at the time -- I mean, I was fine with it at the time. I think in retrospect, looking back, it was not a great presidency because of his scandals. That was 2008. I say that's a long time ago.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EForge:\u003C\/b\u003E So you posted it, but you believed it then, but you don't believe it now?· Or you didn't believe it then and you still don't believe it?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003ETrump:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EI might have said it. I don't think it was a very important statement made then. I wasn't in politics. It didn't matter to me. If I was to think about it with all that he went through, I would probably not call him a great president anymore because of all of the scandal and the turmoil that he had. It was a very tumultuous period of time, and then he was impeached. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\n\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\nAt this point, Forge points out something obvious.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ctable border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"width: 660px;\"\u003E\n\u003Ctbody\u003E\n\u003Ctr\u003E\n\u003Ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"146\"\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\n\u003Ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"514\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E Forge:\u003C\/b\u003E But all that turmoil and the impeachment and the scandal, that all predated your posting of this blog, though? But you're saying you just didn't think about it that much?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\n\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\nTrump seems to be searching for a way out. Then Forge asks him a question he must have dreaded.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ctable border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"width: 660px;\"\u003E\n\u003Ctbody\u003E\n\u003Ctr\u003E\n\u003Ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"146\"\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\n\u003Ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"514\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EForge:\u003C\/b\u003E Do you believe that Hillary Clinton would make a great vice president, Mr. Trump?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003ETrump:\u003C\/b\u003E No.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EForge:\u003C\/b\u003E Did you believe she would make a great vice president back in 2008?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003ETrump:\u003C\/b\u003E I don't know. Did I say that here?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\n\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThere's some confusion. \"Here\" could be taken to mean either in the blog or in the present proceedings. A minute later, Trump's attorney clears it up.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ctable border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"width: 660px;\"\u003E\n\u003Ctbody\u003E\n\u003Ctr\u003E\n\u003Ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"146\"\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\n\u003Ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"514\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EForge:\u003C\/b\u003E Not in here, no. I'm just asking you, did you believe that back in 2008?\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003ETrump:\u003C\/b\u003E No, I didn't think I said that. No, I don't think she would be a good vice president.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EForge:\u003C\/b\u003E Do you believe she would make a great president? Back in the year 2008, did you think she would be a great president?\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003ETrump:\u003C\/b\u003E I don't think I said anything. I don't say it here. Let's see, if we go back many, many years ago, do I think she would have? Probably not. I don't think she's got the \u003Ci\u003Egravitas\u003C\/i\u003E.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\n\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIf there was a loud guffaw in the room when Trump declared Clinton didn't have gravitas, it is not recorded. Coming from Trump, it's a remarkable statement. \u003Cb\u003EGravitas\u003C\/b\u003E is defined as \u003Ci\u003E\"dignity, seriousness, or solemnity of manner.\"\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/a.abcnews.go.com\/images\/Politics\/GTY_trump_wedding_clintons_jef_150806_16x9_992.jpg\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.abcnews.go.com\/images\/Politics\/GTY_trump_wedding_clintons_jef_150806_16x9_992.jpg\" height=\"221\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EHillary must have gotten a great chortle from hearing Trump commenting on her - or anybody's- gravitas.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nRemember that at one of the recent debates watched by  millions of viewers, Trump demonstrated his own dignity of manner by saying: \u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\n“My fingers are long and beautiful, as, it has been well documented, are various other parts of my body.”\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nNote too Trump's past love for the Clintons didn't really happen \u0026nbsp;\"many many years ago.\" It was only eight years ago. That may not be yesterday but, for an adult, eight years isn't such a long time.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003E\u003Cu\u003EExhibit 520\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nNext comes Exhibit 520, another post from his blog. This time dated 13 March 2008. Trump is directed to the end of the second paragraph of the article in which Trump wrote:\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\n\u0026nbsp;\u003Cb\u003E\"I know Hillary, and I think she would make a great president or\nvice president.\"\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Ctable border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"width: 660px;\"\u003E\n\u003Ctbody\u003E\n\u003Ctr\u003E\n\u003Ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"146\"\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\n\u003Ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"514\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EForge:\u003C\/b\u003E You do know Hillary Clinton, correct? ·\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003ETrump:\u003C\/b\u003E Yes.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EForge:\u003C\/b\u003E And you knew her back in 2008?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003ETrump:\u003C\/b\u003E Yeah.· Pretty much.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EForge:\u003C\/b\u003E So did you believe this sentiment when you expressed it in March of 2008?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003ETrump:\u003C\/b\u003E Well, I didn't think too much about it. ....Yeah, at the time I might have.· I didn't give it a lot of thought because I was in business. And as a businessman, I think it was something I never really gave much thought to.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003ENow that I see what she's done and how she's handled herself and how she's handled her e-mails and all of the problems that she's got, I would say she wouldn't make a very good vice president or president.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\n\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThere are quite a few problems with Trump's rationale. First and foremost, it is untrue. Trump was not merely a businessman when he wrote that. Back in 1999, he had announced his intention to run in the presidential race of 2000 as the Reform Party nomination.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIncidentally, he became a Republican only quite recently. Over the years, he has switched political party affiliations, at least, five times since the late ‘80s.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nMr. Trump registered for the first time in New York as a Republican in July 1987, only to dump the GOP more than a decade later for the Independence [Reform] Party in October 1999, according to the New York City Board of Elections.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t\u0026amp;rct=j\u0026amp;q=\u0026amp;esrc=s\u0026amp;source=web\u0026amp;cd=1\u0026amp;cad=rja\u0026amp;uact=8\u0026amp;ved=0ahUKEwjyhMe8hrbLAhWDu4MKHaSzADsQFggdMAA\u0026amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FDonald_Trump_presidential_campaign%2C_2000\u0026amp;usg=AFQjCNEErbi3P7y8uUbGywP1KJREW0IiVA\u0026amp;sig2=PWXpHn2qTxSAX5HE0j1X6A\"\u003EWikipedia has this to say:\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nCritics questioned the seriousness of Trump's campaign and speculated that it was a tactic to strengthen his brand and sell books. Trump defended his candidacy as a serious endeavor and proclaimed that he had a chance to win the election. Though he never expanded the campaign beyond the exploratory phase, Trump made numerous media appearances as a candidate, traveled to campaign events in Florida, California, and Minnesota, and qualified for two presidential primaries.  \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIn any event, after a poor showing in the California primary, Trump dropped out. So to claim that he wasn't interested in politics and was merely a businessman is contrary to his own biography.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nForge points out that Trump was unshakeable in his support of Clinton in 2008 but now he has had second thoughts. It was, Trump keeps repeating a long time ago. The Clintons have \"let the country down.\"\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ctable border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"width: 660px;\"\u003E\n\u003Ctbody\u003E\n\u003Ctr\u003E\n\u003Ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"146\"\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\n\u003Ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"514\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cb style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EForge:\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E So you think they've let the country down \u003Ci\u003Esince March of 2008?\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\n\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nTrump refuses to give any specific examples, outside of the emails. Instead, he clings to the same lie he used earlier. That he was a businessman and not a politician.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ctable border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"width: 660px;\"\u003E\n\u003Ctbody\u003E\n\u003Ctr\u003E\n\u003Ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"146\"\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\n\u003Ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"514\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003ETrump:\u003C\/b\u003E Well, since I've really started to watch and study politics as opposed to just thinking about business and not thinking about politics.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\n\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAs a presidential candidate. this, in fact, is quite a perilous route to take. After all, his only qualification to be president is his business career.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nFor Trump called upon to explain what he said in the past, to try to reconcile what he says now, things were about to get so much worse. His past glowing assessment of Hillary and Bill were not the only ones he made.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ctable border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"width: 660px;\"\u003E\n\u003Ctbody\u003E\n\u003Ctr\u003E\n\u003Ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"146\"\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\n\u003Ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"514\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EForge\u003C\/b\u003E: Now, you've said of Jeb Bush previously that he is exactly the kind of political leader\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; country needs now, and we very much need in the future. He's bright, tough and principled.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\n\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51hOB9KFYcL._SX345_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51hOB9KFYcL._SX345_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\" height=\"320\" width=\"222\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\nTrump, in his 2000 book,\u0026nbsp;(possibly ironically) entitled \u003Ci\u003E\"\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t\u0026amp;rct=j\u0026amp;q=\u0026amp;esrc=s\u0026amp;source=web\u0026amp;cd=1\u0026amp;cad=rja\u0026amp;uact=8\u0026amp;ved=0ahUKEwjMi-3S57XLAhUDr4MKHesxCB4QFggdMAA\u0026amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FThe-America-Deserve-Donald-Trump%2Fdp%2F1580631312\u0026amp;usg=AFQjCNHgjs0_YJucXv8tghCrW8DwsbMz-A\u0026amp;sig2=nYe\"\u003EThe America We Deserve\u003C\/a\u003E,\u003C\/i\u003E wrote:\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n“Florida Governor Jeb Bush is a good man I’ve held fundraisers for him. He’s exactly the kind of political leader this country needs now and will very much need in the future. He, too, knows how to hang in there.”\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAgain, the fact that Trump gave fundraisers for a politician like\u0026nbsp; JEB contradicts his current claim that he was only a businessman and didn't give much thought to politics.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nActually, the premise is wrong to begin with: Isn't it possible to be both a businessman and politically-savvy? Rather than being one or the other, wouldn't it be much more logical for a \"successful\" capitalist to be very well acquainted with politics?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\nAnd that possibility is much closer to the truth. \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/florida\/statements\/2015\/sep\/16\/jeb-bush\/jeb-bush-said-donald-trump-wanted-casino-gambling-\/\"\u003EAs one source explains\u003C\/a\u003E:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nTrump held a 1997 fundraiser, which reportedly raised $500,000 for Bush when he ran for governor, according to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. As the race continued the next year, Trump Hotels \u0026amp; Casino Resorts donated $50,000 to the Republican Party of Florida, when Trump was pushing the state to allow him to open casinos on Seminole tribal land. The tribe was seeking to open Vegas-style slot machines and poker in casinos, to be managed by Trump.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIn the deposition, Trump is whistling a very different tune about JEB.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ctable border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"width: 660px;\"\u003E\n\u003Ctbody\u003E\n\u003Ctr\u003E\n\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: justify;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"146\"\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\n\u003Ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"514\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003ETrump:\u003C\/b\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EI didn't know him very well when I said that. I mean, I hardly knew him at all. Now I know him well, and I think he would be a disaster as president, frankly.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\n\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nHe knew him well enough to donate time and money to his campaign. His endorsement very likely convinced a lot of people to vote for JEB.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIf these voters once trusted Trump's judgment of Bush's character back in 2000, when he was wrong, why should they trust his judgment now?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ctable border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"width: 660px;\"\u003E\n\u003Ctbody\u003E\n\u003Ctr\u003E\n\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: justify;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"146\"\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\n\u003Ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"514\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cb style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EForge:\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E So did you not believe it when you said it before?· Or you just simply didn't have a basis and you -- .\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003ETrump:\u003C\/b\u003E I didn't have much of a basis. But I said it to be nice, and it didn't matter, but I said it to be nice and to be respectful.· But I didn't really know him.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\n\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nOver the years, he has been known for many things, a braggart, a bully, a proto-fascist, a shrewd but unscrupulous businessman. Many many things but Trump has never had to live up to a reputation of \u003Ci\u003Ebeing nice or being respectful.\u003C\/i\u003E It was hardly a top priority for Donald Trump.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAnybody who dared to use those words on his reality-TV show would have been sent packing with a Trump rant about \"losers\" and brushed off the sidewalk with a trademark smirk.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAttorney Forge painfully brings up Trump's positive assessment of \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t\u0026amp;rct=j\u0026amp;q=\u0026amp;esrc=s\u0026amp;source=web\u0026amp;cd=1\u0026amp;cad=rja\u0026amp;uact=8\u0026amp;ved=0ahUKEwjkurzZgLbLAhUBQyYKHUuXDzwQFggdMAA\u0026amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FGeorge_Pataki\u0026amp;usg=AFQjCNGQz8udAn3wmNFewgDub89uJPvT-A\u0026amp;sig2=u4khjYjxGYg8YjHsyN0SQQ\"\u003EGeorge Pataki\u003C\/a\u003E- another former Republican candidate in 2016. He once called him \u003Ci\u003E\"the most underrated guy in American politics.\"\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n(Today, Trump thinks this underrated guy \"couldn’t be elected dog catcher if he ran again and was a has-been.)\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nDid he believe what he said in the past? Was he just saying it to be nice and respectful?\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nDoes he believe it now?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn the deposition, he is called upon to speculate- like a third party observer- on what he might have believed at the time compared to what he now believes about Pataki.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Ctable border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"width: 660px;\"\u003E\n\u003Ctbody\u003E\n\u003Ctr\u003E\n\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: justify;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"146\"\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\n\u003Ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"514\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003ETrump:\u003C\/b\u003E No, I think I would have believed it at the time. But I'm not a fan, you know, as I got to know him. I didn't know him very well.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EBut as I got to know him and I got to see him when I became political and involved politically, as opposed to not knowing people in business, I would say that no, he's not -- . I don't think he would be very good.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\n\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nTexas Governor Rick Perry too received Trump voluntary blessing and like all of the other divine praises, that recommendation has also been revised.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAll this begs a simple question: if he didn't know these people why was he giving them so much undeserved credit? What was he putting his reputation (such as it is) on the line?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThe answer to that question was about to come out in the most\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nrevealing exhibit yet.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003E\u003Cu\u003EExhibit 489\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nWhat comes next is perhaps at his most honest and, at the same time, at his most detestable.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThe lawyer now turns to a transcript of a TV news show called This Week, at the time host by John Karl. In the interview, Trump was asking directly about his endorsements of people like JEB. How does he square what he said in the past with what he said in the here-and-now?\u003C\/div\u003E\nForge produces the quoted reply:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Ctable border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"width: 660px;\"\u003E\n\u003Ctbody\u003E\n\u003Ctr\u003E\n\u003Ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"146\"\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\n\u003Ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"514\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EForge:\u003C\/b\u003E Your response, Mr. Trump, was it's -- your response to the questions about your praise for these folks that you no longer have praised for is,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003E\"It's a very simple answer to that. I was a businessman all my life. I've made a tremendous fortune. I had to deal with politicians and I would contribute to them and I would deal with them and certainly I'm not going to say bad things about people because I needed their support to get projects done. I needed their support for lots of things, or I may have needed their support, put it another way. I mean, you're not going to say horrible things and then go in a year later and say, Listen, can I have your support for this project or this development or this business? So I say nice about almost everybody, and \u0026nbsp;I contributed to people because I was a smart businessman. I built a tremendous company, and I did that based on relationships.\"\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\n\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\nIn the deposition, Defendant Trump confirms that he still believes what he said (only a month and a half earlier). Something of a miracle all things considered.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ctable border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"width: 660px;\"\u003E\n\u003Ctbody\u003E\n\u003Ctr\u003E\n\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: justify;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"146\"\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\n\u003Ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"514\"\u003E\u003Cb style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EForge:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E So one of the reasons why you said these nice things about people like Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton was because you didn't think about it that much and because you might need their help for something in the future\u003C\/span\u003E?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E·\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\n\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/s12.postimg.org\/ocan2kiq5\/Trump_Clinton.png\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/s12.postimg.org\/ocan2kiq5\/Trump_Clinton.png\" height=\"274\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\nToday, when he doesn't need her help, Trump calls Hillary Clinton \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/02\/09\/politics\/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-evil\/\"\u003E\"in a certain way, evil.\"\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nToday, when not obliged to be nice for the sake of business, he complains without the slightest bit of reflection, that Clinton \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/12\/20\/politics\/donald-trump-calls-hillary-clinton-liar\/\"\u003E\"lies like crazy.\"\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWhen casinos are no longer a priority, Candidate Trump calls JEB\u0026nbsp;a \"lightweight,\" \"not a smart man,\" \"stiff,\" and a \"spoiled child.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn a taste of his own brand of gravitas, Trump was merciless (but possibly accurate):\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\n\"Here's a guy, honestly, if he weren't in government, you wouldn't hire him to do anything, okay? If you had a company you wouldn't even hire him.\" \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\nIn the deposition, Trump doesn't answer the question directly but Trump explains:\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ctable border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"width: 660px;\"\u003E\n\u003Ctbody\u003E\n\u003Ctr\u003E\n\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: justify;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"146\"\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\n\u003Ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"514\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003ETrump:\u003C\/b\u003E You want to always be friendly with politicians. If you're a businessman, I'm a businessman, you always -- you want to be as nice as \u0026nbsp;you can to politicians whenever possible.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EForge:\u003C\/b\u003E Because you might need their assistance?\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003ET\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003Erump: \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EWell, you don't want to have them go against you. You want to have -- I don't think about Jeb Bush one way or the other, frankly. But when I was in business, I had no problems with Jeb Bush. So if somebody would ask me, I would think -- now, when you're in politics, and you get to know them better because you get to know these people better, and you see what you're dealing with, you can answer a question I think a lot more accurately.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EForge:\u003C\/b\u003E So you didn't want these people against you?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003ETrump:\u003C\/b\u003E No, you don't want them against you.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EForge:\u003C\/b\u003E And you would rather have them on your side?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003ETrump:\u003C\/b\u003E You would rather have them on your side, politicians. When you're in business, you would like to have the politicians on your side.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EForge:\u003C\/b\u003E And so you say nice things about them?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003ETrump:\u003C\/b\u003E You don't want to say bad about them, ideally you don't want to say badly. \u0026nbsp;And you don't think about it as deeply either.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EI mean, when you asked me about different people, they're nice, they're very good, they could be very good. When you start thinking about people in a much deeper fashion, when it's updated and you've seen what they've done, you've seen where they've been, you can answer it\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EI think much different politically than you would as a businessman. As a businessman, you're not thinking that much about it. You want them to like you, and that's pretty important for business.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\n\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\nThe rest of the deposition returns to the questionable practices of Trump University so I will leave it there for another time perhaps.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003E\u003Cu\u003EThat Art of the Deception\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nDonald Trump is now 69 years old and much of his life has been dedicated to his business career as a successful (?) real estate mogul.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nBy his own admission, \"The Art of the Deal\" is actually the Art of Being Deceptive, of cozying up to people who have something you need or might need in the future, even if you don't really know much about them. It's the art of constant revision and opinion updates. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nFor Trump, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t\u0026amp;rct=j\u0026amp;q=\u0026amp;esrc=s\u0026amp;source=web\u0026amp;cd=1\u0026amp;cad=rja\u0026amp;uact=8\u0026amp;ved=0ahUKEwj-uouil7bLAhWCSiYKHeIRD5UQFggjMAA\u0026amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FTrump-The-Deal-Donald-J%2Fdp%2F0345479173\u0026amp;usg=AFQjCNFQPUBaYT7__tMm7lRPE-eSd_lfgg\u0026amp;sig2=FDn6SgmFbVrZDAr0ZrDGSw\"\u003EThe Art of the Deal\u003C\/a\u003E is really the art of the great betrayal: betraying the people who you once said you respected and you supported. But also, it is about betraying the voter who once trusted your judgment and thought your reputation as a businessman qualified you to endorse politicians.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIt's the art of \"not thinking too deeply\" and of constantly revising your opinion to fit the situation based solely on your self-interest.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nToday, Trump likes to play the part of somebody who shoots from the hip, says what he thinks and lets the chips fall where they may. His entire campaign is based on this image. And it is a case of fraud and false advertising.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn fact, this testimony under oath pretty conclusively proves that nobody has spent more time kissing the butts of politicians, the same people he now claims \"let the nation down\" or who have been \"disastrous.\"\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Chr noshade=\"\" size=\"5\" width=\"70%\" \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"zemanta-related\" style=\"clear: both; margin-top: 20px; overflow: hidden;\"\u003E\nRelated articles\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cul class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\" style=\"margin: 0; overflow: hidden; padding: 0;\"\u003E\n\u003Cli class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.politicususa.com\/2016\/02\/20\/donald-trump-scalias-funeral-accuse-president-obama-muslim.html\" style=\"border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"https:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/366358161_80_80.jpg\" style=\"border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.politicususa.com\/2016\/02\/20\/donald-trump-scalias-funeral-accuse-president-obama-muslim.html\" style=\"background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDonald Trump Uses Scalia Funeral to Accuse President Obama of Being a Muslim\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/keithrhiggons.com\/10-new-and-ridiculous-donald-trump-statements\/\" style=\"border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"https:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/366466387_80_80.jpg\" style=\"border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/keithrhiggons.com\/10-new-and-ridiculous-donald-trump-statements\/\" style=\"background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E10 New and Ridiculous Donald Trump Statements\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/pope-francis-trump-is-not-christian\/\" style=\"border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"https:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/366268960_80_80.jpg\" style=\"border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/pope-francis-trump-is-not-christian\/\" style=\"background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EPope Francis: Donald Trump \"is not Christian\"\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/407281054887604200\/posts\/default\/1549547583959255504"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/407281054887604200\/posts\/default\/1549547583959255504"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/nomadicpolitics.blogspot.com\/2016\/03\/gravitas-of-grifter-why-trumps-art-of.html","title":"Gravitas of a Grifter: Why Trump's Art of the Deal is all about the Art of  Butt-Kissing and Betrayal "}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Nomad"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/03686282358562565742"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-XnaOO5qCAsg\/VuF6NmQ9ksI\/AAAAAAAAMH8\/STihul8KVTw\/s72-c\/DT.JPG","height":"72","width":"72"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-407281054887604200.post-2698508216930180928"},"published":{"$t":"2016-01-10T12:44:00.000+02:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2016-03-14T21:15:20.012+02:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"2016 election"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Bobby Jindal"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"George W. Bush"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Huckabee"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Insanity Defense"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Mental disturbance"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"religion"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Republican Party"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"rick perry"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"ronald reagan"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Santorum"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\"God Told Me So\": The  Dangerous Delusions of the Religious Republican "},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ch2 style=\"background-color: #bdbdbd; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small; font-weight: normal;\"\u003Eby Nomad\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Ch2\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-rfHQZ7wJpXQ\/VpIptoRY4VI\/AAAAAAAALts\/y1toJ6Eo2NA\/s1600\/God%2BTold%2Bme%2BSo.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"256\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-rfHQZ7wJpXQ\/VpIptoRY4VI\/AAAAAAAALts\/y1toJ6Eo2NA\/s400\/God%2BTold%2Bme%2BSo.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EIt's strange that the typical conservative voter would reject in a courtroom the very thing they openly support in their presidential candidates.\u003C\/h2\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: #cccccc; font-family: \u0026quot;times\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: x-large;\"\u003EL\u003C\/span\u003East week, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.11alive.com\/story\/news\/local\/acworth\/2015\/12\/17\/abbey-hebert-olivia-smith-acworth-stabbing\/77498252\/\"\u003Eas reported by local media\u003C\/a\u003E, \u0026nbsp;the courts in Cobbs County, Georgia\u0026nbsp; heard defense of an 18-year-old woman Olivia Nicole Smith. She is accused of the horrific stabbing murder her step-cousin, 17-year-old high school Abbey Hebert.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAccording to her testimony, Smith claimed to neighbors, right after the murder, that God had made her do it after she and her cousin smoked marijuana together. She explained that she had \"an overwhelming feeling of God coming to her: and that God had disapproved of her behavior.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn response to this imagined judgment, the young woman had an argument with her relative. That argument somehow ended in a butcher knife of murder in the victim's front yard. Prior to this, both victim and accused murderer had been close friends.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThe public was justifiably outraged by the sensational crime. \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nOf course, it wouldn't be the first time that God (or Satan) has been the alleged accomplice\/mastermind of some otherwise inexplicable crime. In fact, it's a pretty common thing.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAstoundingly, in the very same county in Georgia, back in 2008,\u0026nbsp;then 36-year-old \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/archive.wltx.com\/news\/story.aspx?storyid=62482\"\u003EDonna Marie Redding\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003Etold the police that her husband, Gary Dean Parnell, taken the Lord’s name in vain once too many times.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n(For those of you keeping score, that's Commandment Number 3 - taking God's name in vain- while the prohibition on murder is Commandment Number 6.)\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nRedding's religious sensibilities were utterly offended by all this loose talk, she claimed, and for this reason, Jesus commanded her to shoot her man with a 12-gauge shotgun in the stomach.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca name='more'\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EThe judge was apparently unswayed by Redding's explanation. She was sentenced to 18 years in prison after she pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in exchange for dropping a charge of murder.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAgain, the public must have felt justice had been delivered. We can't have people blowing holes in one another simply because one of them forgets to say \"Gosh, darn it.\"\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003E\u003Cu\u003EThe Word of God and the Insanity Defense\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nCiting a command from God is not, as more cynical readers might believe, merely some kind of courtroom maneuver. Religious delusional behavior is, in fact, a rather common symptom of mental illness, specifically of \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schizophrenia\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Schizophrenia\"\u003Eparanoid schizophrenia\u003C\/a\u003E. That's the most common type of schizophrenia and \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.currentpsychiatry.com\/specialty-focus\/schizophrenia-other-psychotic-disorders\/article\/how-to-care-for-patients-who-have-delusions-with-religious-content\/c4d09baf5dd83ef913af3d6794e0d3b9.html\"\u003Ein a study of 193 inpatients with schizophrenia, 24% had religious delusions.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nDelusions with religious content (DRC) are associated with poorer clinical outcomes and dangerousness. So, it's not something to take lightly.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIn 2005, in Seattle, Isaiah Kalebu broke into the home of a lesbian couple and tortured, raped and stabbed them. It was a horrendous crime too.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSadly it might well have been avoided. Kalebu had had a history of psychiatric problems, and the staff at one facility where he had been observed noted Kalebu's pressured speech, intense mood, tangential thoughts, intrusiveness toward other patients.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDoctors also noted that Kalebu \"seemed disconnected from the realities of the moment\" often described as \"\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pseudobulbar_affect\"\u003Eemotional incontinence\u003C\/a\u003E.\" \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nWhen the case came to trial, Kalebu was clearly unrepentant, and told anybody who would listen that he had been told to attack his enemies by \"\u003Ci\u003Emy God, \u0026nbsp;the God of Abraham, Issac, and Jacob\u003C\/i\u003E.\" He was so disruptive in the courtroom that authorities were forced to physically restrain him in his chair.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nEventually, Kalebu- who was obviously insane- was found guilty of aggravated murder and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. While it is clear that Kalebu has serious mental issues, the verdict, at least, will remove this very dangerous person\u0026nbsp; from the general population.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThe insanity defense is rarely invoked and seldom successful even when the evidence of mental incapacity is clear. It's usually the last shot as far as a defense.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nOutside of the possibility that they are simply faking their madness, there's also another good reason why juries reject this defense. Think of the message we send to the rest of the world if we accept this defense.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThere are after all a lot of unbalanced people in the world. Do we really want to tell them they don't need not resist powerful urges or they must act on the voices in their heads? \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIt's understandable that the public should feel a sense of relief that such people are locked away from the rest of society. We as a civilized society- (well, sort of) cannot allow lunatics like that to run amok and act upon what they claim to be the Word of God.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-dW3FIan088s\/Vn5mvbCUfzI\/AAAAAAAALpM\/ObjvfSTdoLA\/s1600\/74f430e6d001597b6c7065c24dd72ddc.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"297\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-dW3FIan088s\/Vn5mvbCUfzI\/AAAAAAAALpM\/ObjvfSTdoLA\/s640\/74f430e6d001597b6c7065c24dd72ddc.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003E\u003Cu\u003EThe Danger of Delusions\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThat's why it is all the more bewildering that in 2016, six of the 16 Republican presidential candidates claimed or implied that they were commanded by God to run for the office.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThat trend in Republican politics didn't begin this year. We saw peeks of it in Reagan's presidency. President George W. Bush also made similar statements before and during his tenure in office. During a meeting with \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t\u0026amp;rct=j\u0026amp;q=\u0026amp;esrc=s\u0026amp;source=web\u0026amp;cd=1\u0026amp;cad=rja\u0026amp;uact=8\u0026amp;ved=0ahUKEwi6_tWxm_nJAhUDTCYKHe6fDxAQFggdMAA\u0026amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FRichard_Land\u0026amp;usg=AFQjCNHg2SBcmT3EcG-PFrHLkpkmxD-PXg\u0026amp;sig2=_563g1ptALTOU5eudPqPVA\"\u003ERev. Richard Land\u003C\/a\u003E, head of the public policy arm of the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t\u0026amp;rct=j\u0026amp;q=\u0026amp;esrc=s\u0026amp;source=web\u0026amp;cd=1\u0026amp;cad=rja\u0026amp;uact=8\u0026amp;ved=0ahUKEwjF8sO7m_nJAhUM7yYKHc1CC5wQFggdMAA\u0026amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sbc.net%2F\u0026amp;usg=AFQjCNHgiOtTEx1EeEwtTsuotWqlE2huXw\u0026amp;sig2=SoEDGf5UTt8N5L3Xtyr6Hg\"\u003ESouthern Baptist Convention\u003C\/a\u003E, in 1999. Bush said\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\n“I believe God wants me to be president”\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\nA kind of a divine appointment.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nImmediately after 9\/11, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t\u0026amp;rct=j\u0026amp;q=\u0026amp;esrc=s\u0026amp;source=web\u0026amp;cd=8\u0026amp;cad=rja\u0026amp;uact=8\u0026amp;ved=0ahUKEwiD_ZrHm_nJAhWDbD4KHV8PCZUQFggwMAc\u0026amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FMichael_Duffy_(American_journalist)\u0026amp;usg=AFQjCNGFqtPGi791uKBPIZolDvyV4A6yjg\u0026amp;sig2=jHX_H1Rai1jDNWCk2lcEEw\"\u003EMichael Duffy\u003C\/a\u003E of Time Magazine quoted Bush as saying\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\n[I was] “chosen by the grace of God to lead at that moment”\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAnd in October 2005, BBC reported that \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/10\/13\/AR2005101301688.html\"\u003EPresident Bush told a Palestinian negotiator Nabil Shaath\u003C\/a\u003E that God had told him to strike at al-Queda and had also instructed him \"to strike at Saddam Hussein.\" (Perhaps it was only a sly reference to Dick Cheney?)\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAll of these remarks were more or less private- which might be more worrying in a way.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\nIn a 2003 article entitled \"\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/sojo.net\/magazine\/september-october-2003\/dangerous-religion\"\u003EDangerous Religion\u003C\/a\u003E,\" Jim Wallis in \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t\u0026amp;rct=j\u0026amp;q=\u0026amp;esrc=s\u0026amp;source=web\u0026amp;cd=2\u0026amp;cad=rja\u0026amp;uact=8\u0026amp;ved=0ahUKEwiMrcy4ovnJAhUI4yYKHZOCBUkQFgguMAE\u0026amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fsojo.net%2Fmagazine\u0026amp;usg=AFQjCNEatgLW4Tv0RkTpMvf36n1rpstGqw\u0026amp;sig2=AoeCNpDOnmQxJpI0D4BacA\"\u003ESojourners\u003C\/a\u003E Magazine writes\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nMany of the president's critics make the mistake of charging that his faith is insincere at best, a hypocrisy at worst, and mostly a political cover for his right-wing agenda.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\nWallis, however, is willing to suspend his disbelief.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nThe real question is the content and meaning of that faith and how it impacts his administration's domestic and foreign policies. \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThat was written in 2003. With the benefit of greater hindsight, we now see that Bush's divinely-inspired crusade in Iraq came at a tremendous cost, in financial, in mortal and in moral terms.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAnd that opens up the the even darker side to all this God-baiting. Supposing that a leader's conviction that he has been appointed by God is actually based on sincere and deeply held faith, we still must ask the most frightening question of all: \u003Cb\u003Ewhat won't a president do if he thinks God had ordered him to do so?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThink of all that power- indeed the power to destroy all life on the planet- in the hands of a man who genuinely believes he hears the voice of God in his head?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cu\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com\/files\/2015\/08\/GOP_2016_PERRY_45364229.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com\/files\/2015\/08\/GOP_2016_PERRY_45364229.jpg\" height=\"213\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003E\u003Cu\u003ECandidates or Con Artists?\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIn this election cycle, the Republicans have had no hesitation in publicly claiming God's support for their campaigns. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nFormer Texas Governor \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t\u0026amp;rct=j\u0026amp;q=\u0026amp;esrc=s\u0026amp;source=web\u0026amp;cd=1\u0026amp;cad=rja\u0026amp;uact=8\u0026amp;ved=0ahUKEwjUlMvomfnJAhUD6SYKHZ6dAHAQFggdMAA\u0026amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FRick_Perry\u0026amp;usg=AFQjCNEycbt5mZISlk6AotieeXXBJJYPmA\u0026amp;sig2=VVpXroM7LRTyi-y3yxrZhQ\"\u003ERick Perry\u003C\/a\u003E, the ever coy candidate, shied away from attributing any \u003Cb\u003E\u003Ci\u003Edirect\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E command from God and managed to outsource his divinity-approved credentials. \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2015\/09\/rick-perry-drops-out-presidential-race-213569\"\u003EHis wife compared him to Moses\u003C\/a\u003E, for example, and talked about seeing a \"burning bush.\" He told an interviewer that God sent him messages \"through a lot of ways and through a lot of messengers.\" (Similarly, Charles Manson believed that God passed him messages through the Beatles and was instructing him to start a race war.)\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAfter a lackluster showing in the polls, Perry had some doubts about his heavenly orders. On 11 September 2015 , Perry was no longer talking about God's command, burning bushes, or messengers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nHe was talking instead \u0026nbsp;about the green green grass of home, about retiring with his visionary wife and his dogs to the farm. As he walked away from his campaign, Perry told reporters that he had no regrets and that he was \"a blessed man.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/politics\/first-draft\/2015\/07\/24\/one-of-two-charges-against-rick-perry-is-dismissed\/?_r=0\"\u003EAt least as long as he can stay out of federal prison\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nOf course, not everybody was as philosophical about giving up on high hopes. Texas billionaire \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/forbes\/welcome\/\"\u003EDarwin Deason\u003C\/a\u003E, who had donated some $5 million to Perry's campaign, wasn't ready to believe that God had changed his mind so easily. Divinity or no divinity, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.newser.com\/story\/212852\/donor-to-rick-perry-i-want-my-5m-back.html\"\u003EDeason wanted his money back\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2015\/09\/22\/upshot\/22UP-Walker\/22UP-Walker-articleLarge.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2015\/09\/22\/upshot\/22UP-Walker\/22UP-Walker-articleLarge.jpg\" height=\"213\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\nWisconsin governor \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t\u0026amp;rct=j\u0026amp;q=\u0026amp;esrc=s\u0026amp;source=web\u0026amp;cd=5\u0026amp;cad=rja\u0026amp;uact=8\u0026amp;ved=0ahUKEwip1-Py9_bJAhUENiYKHQ4PDn8QFggrMAQ\u0026amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FScott_Walker\u0026amp;usg=AFQjCNEXeV4JzuWze5OCTc6G1MX_DzU_5Q\u0026amp;sig2=SWJBxTDRTClMEk724uxyWA\"\u003EScott Walker\u003C\/a\u003E went so far as to say that \"every major decision\" in his life had been driven by his relationship with God. Running for president, he admitted, was actually \"God’s calling\" and not an exercise of his personal ambition. In his first official appeal for donations, Walker said that his candidacy was \"\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2015\/07\/22\/gods_plan_these_gop_candidates_claim_the_almighty_wants_them_to_run\/\"\u003EGod’s plan\u003C\/a\u003E.\"\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIn September, God must have had second thoughts about Walker. Walker suspended his campaign, \u0026nbsp;climbing up to.. \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnn\/2015\/images\/09\/20\/rel10a.pdf\"\u003Ezero in the national polls.\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/statepolitics\/scott-walkers-finance-reports-to-provide-insight-into-failed-campaign-b99597334z1-333074031.html\"\u003EAccording to one source\u003C\/a\u003E, Walker\u0026nbsp;had raised $7.4 million for his short-lived presidential bid but spent his cash as quickly as it came in. Not very impressive in a party that claims that austerity is the surest road to success. In the end, Walker walked and, after all the bills came in,\u0026nbsp; left a debt of $1 million.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAnother one of God's losers was Governor of Louisiana \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t\u0026amp;rct=j\u0026amp;q=\u0026amp;esrc=s\u0026amp;source=web\u0026amp;cd=5\u0026amp;cad=rja\u0026amp;uact=8\u0026amp;ved=0ahUKEwiqi7uD-PbJAhUBziYKHbSkAY8QFggtMAQ\u0026amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FBobby_Jindal\u0026amp;usg=AFQjCNEqTLGbTCYrHcddrJ1cG5ptSfuutg\u0026amp;sig2=dZ2L9qK79QDyy6KRRs7fgQ\"\u003EBobby Jindal\u003C\/a\u003E. After \"thinking and praying\" a lot last spring, God gave Jindal a big thumbs up for a presidential campaign and in Bobby jumped right in. Before he was an official candidate, Jindal had learned how to be a religious crowd-pleaser.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBack in 2014, at \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t\u0026amp;rct=j\u0026amp;q=\u0026amp;esrc=s\u0026amp;source=web\u0026amp;cd=9\u0026amp;cad=rja\u0026amp;uact=8\u0026amp;ved=0ahUKEwj5haDOmvnJAhVF6yYKHT1JDFkQFghGMAg\u0026amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FLiberty_University\u0026amp;usg=AFQjCNG_C_8Tu4EcgxZtNZfKCRf2iyNpNw\u0026amp;sig2=FWbTr5UYDc56Es1-_uoPzA\"\u003ELiberty University\u003C\/a\u003E (Jerry Falwell's ghost lumbers about the campus grounds still) Jindal explained the audience:\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\"I used to think that I had found God, but I believe it is more accurate to say that He found me.\"\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nBy the beginning of this month, God obviously reversed himself and left Bobby where he found him. Like the sound of a bedroom slipper falling onto a carpeted floor, the ending of Jindal's political barely made any noise at all. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.christianspeakers360.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/dr.-ben-carson-interview.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianspeakers360.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/dr.-ben-carson-interview.jpg\" height=\"208\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t\u0026amp;rct=j\u0026amp;q=\u0026amp;esrc=s\u0026amp;source=web\u0026amp;cd=4\u0026amp;cad=rja\u0026amp;uact=8\u0026amp;ved=0ahUKEwicurTUmfnJAhXK7CYKHQYbAqwQFggmMAM\u0026amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FBen_Carson\u0026amp;usg=AFQjCNGtncpLxkIWPiNq72BsDzF2fpZfWg\u0026amp;sig2=gascPDnbB64M9APnVLhmdA\"\u003EDr, Ben Carson\u003C\/a\u003E, a Seventh Day Adventist, was another candidate who claimed God's hand was on his shoulder. All during his campaign, he was alluding to how God had \u003Ci\u003Epersonally\u003C\/i\u003E helped him in the past. There was the oft-told story of how God came to the aid of a \"ghetto kid\" and he didn't study for an exam, He helped him score 97%.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nCarson also told his audience that God was the explanation why he was doing so well in the polls. All of the experst and all of those \"smart\" pollsters couldn't explain it, he said to his cheering audience. \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nCarson cleverly avoided saying directly that he \u003Ci\u003Epersonally\u003C\/i\u003E had God in his pocket but he inferred it clearly enough. He had, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-politics\/wp\/2015\/12\/01\/does-ben-carson-believe-god-wants-him-to-win-the-white-house\/\"\u003Ehe claimed\u003C\/a\u003E, never wanted to run for office. It wasn't something he particularly wanted to do. So he consulted God and told Him,\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\"if you really want me to do this, then you will have to open the doors. I’m not going to push them open. And the doors have flung open.\"\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThese days, the doors \u0026nbsp;are creaking shut everso slowly. God has obviously pranked yet another candidate.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/02\/rick-santorum-getty.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/02\/rick-santorum-getty.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003E\u003Cu\u003EThe Miracle that Never Happened\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nFormer Pennsylvania senator \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t\u0026amp;rct=j\u0026amp;q=\u0026amp;esrc=s\u0026amp;source=web\u0026amp;cd=2\u0026amp;cad=rja\u0026amp;uact=8\u0026amp;ved=0ahUKEwjVkKiomfnJAhXF2SYKHRFOChIQFggvMAE\u0026amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FRick_Santorum\u0026amp;usg=AFQjCNHuTRE54Qf1oVd8qF-2KvrOu5k2DA\u0026amp;sig2=vb3am59XaNgiUw-4ZcCbtA\"\u003ERick Santorum\u003C\/a\u003E has never been shy about using either his family nor his supposed divine connections in his campaign. His wife, Karen, told reporters back in 2011, that her husband's candidacy was \"God's will\" and they both believed \"with all their hearts\" that Santorum becoming president was something that God wanted.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBad news for Karen. The polls do not reflect God's will, with \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/2016.republican-candidates.org\/Santorum\/\"\u003E99% of Republican voters preferring anybody but Santorum.\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;To put it biblically, a camel will pass through the eye of a needle before Santorum gets the Republican nomination.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nFormer Arkansas Governor \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t\u0026amp;rct=j\u0026amp;q=\u0026amp;esrc=s\u0026amp;source=web\u0026amp;cd=11\u0026amp;cad=rja\u0026amp;uact=8\u0026amp;ved=0ahUKEwiYoq-8mfnJAhWEQSYKHeZ5Bc4QFghEMAo\u0026amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FMike_Huckabee\u0026amp;usg=AFQjCNHAPU9c-LU0r9Z4S-pil0NqRbml3w\u0026amp;sig2=gsrHaoNFztRoozCP_PlYLg\"\u003EMike Huckabee\u003C\/a\u003E- a frustrated zealot if ever there was one- has never been a demur about citing God's blessing. \u0026nbsp;He said the decision to run was not a political or financial one \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2015\/01\/mike-huckabee-gods-blessing-will-make-me-president-to-stop-the-atheist-secular-theocracy\/\"\u003Ebut a spiritual decision\u003C\/a\u003E and that whoever finally ended up in the White House would need help from the Lord.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\n“You know, the only thing worse than not being elected president would be to be elected president without God’s blessing.\"\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAs a candidate, this surely implies he believes that he has that approval. Without God's hand upon him, he said, he would rather not get near the place.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAnd what a tragedy that would be.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nLike Carson, Huckabee attributed his (momentarily) rise in the polls to divine intervention. When asked how such a thing could happen Huckabee said that there was \"only one explanation for it, and it’s not a human one.\"\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIt’s the same power that helped a little boy with two fish and five loaves feed a crowd of five thousand people. That’s the only way that our campaign can be doing what it’s doing. And I’m not being facetious nor am I trying to be trite. There literally are thousands of people across this country who are praying that a little will become much, and it has. And it defies all explanation, it has confounded the pundits.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIn other words, it's an honest-to-goodness miracle!!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nToday with Republican polls all showing Huckabee at less than 3% of the vote. (on a good day) that miracle has faded into \u003Ci\u003Eflukedom\u003C\/i\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003E\u003Cu\u003EThe Paradox of the Republican Voter\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIn each case, the candidates claimed directly or indirectly that God was on their side. And their supporters were ready to support that delusion.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nFor the most part, these candidates didn't claim their their policies were more cost effective, or better for the majority of Americans. Actually their policies are often vague and contradictory or constitutionally impossible. They haven't promised a chicken in everybody's pot or a new car in everybody's garage.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThey have instead merely claimed that God had spoken to them and they were heeding his command.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nHad these Republican voters instead been jurors in a court case in which the accused claimed he had heard the voice of God, these very same people would have \u0026nbsp;rejected that argument without any hesitation.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nWhen it comes to murdering teens, well-armed common-law wives, and homicidal madmen, the majority of Americans wholeheartedly reject the idea that commands from God are an excuse for committing crimes. The claim that the voice of God instructed them to do something simply doesn't have any legitimacy in a court of law.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nMost jurors would agree that such claims are is more likely a ploy to escape justice or a sign of a deep and possibly dangerous mental disturbance.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAnd yet....\u0026nbsp;when it comes to Republican voters, they don't have any problem supporting candidates with exactly the same notions.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Chr noshade=\"\" size=\"5\" width=\"70%\" \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"zemanta-related\" style=\"clear: both; margin-top: 20px; overflow: hidden;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"\u003ERelated articles\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cul class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\" style=\"margin: 0; overflow: hidden; padding: 0;\"\u003E\n\u003Cli class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/news\/crime\/daughter_admits_manslaughter_after_killing_her_father_in_lowestoft_who_she_thought_was_the_devil_1_4351710\" style=\"border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"\/\/i.zemanta.com\/364705341_80_80.jpg\" style=\"border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/news\/crime\/daughter_admits_manslaughter_after_killing_her_father_in_lowestoft_who_she_thought_was_the_devil_1_4351710\" style=\"background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaughter admits manslaughter after killing her father in Lowestoft who she thought was the devil\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.madinamerica.com\/2015\/12\/an-accused-murderer-is-trying-to-use-a-brain-scan-as-evidence-he-couldnt-control-his-actions\/\" style=\"border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"\/\/i.zemanta.com\/364850121_80_80.jpg\" style=\"border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.madinamerica.com\/2015\/12\/an-accused-murderer-is-trying-to-use-a-brain-scan-as-evidence-he-couldnt-control-his-actions\/\" style=\"background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\"An Accused Murderer Is Trying to Use a Brain Scan as Evidence He Couldn't Control His Actions\"\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/407281054887604200\/posts\/default\/2698508216930180928"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/407281054887604200\/posts\/default\/2698508216930180928"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/nomadicpolitics.blogspot.com\/2016\/01\/god-told-me-so-dangerous-delusions-of.html","title":"\"God Told Me So\": The  Dangerous Delusions of the Religious Republican "}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Nomad"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/03686282358562565742"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-rfHQZ7wJpXQ\/VpIptoRY4VI\/AAAAAAAALts\/y1toJ6Eo2NA\/s72-c\/God%2BTold%2Bme%2BSo.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"}}]}});