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riversedge

(70,175 posts)
Mon Oct 3, 2016, 07:50 PM Oct 2016

Hillary Clinton: 'What kind of genius loses $1 billion in a year?'

Source: Detroit Free Press






Kathleen Gray, Detroit Free Press 7:02 p.m. EDT October 3, 2016




(Photo: Brendan Smialowski, AFP/Getty Images)



TOLEDO — With half an indictment of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, and half a treatise on her plan for the economy, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton came to Ohio on Monday to try to level a race in the battleground state that has been shifting toward her competitor.

Speaking to a crowd of 1,200 people that filled a train station in downtown Toledo, Clinton said she’s the person who has the interests of all Americans at heart.

“In the debate (Trump) said it was smart to avoid paying taxes. His campaign was bragging that it makes him a genius. But what kind of genius loses $1 billion in a single year?” Clinton said.


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“He was contributing nothing to our economy, nothing for Pell grants, nothing for veterans, nothing for the military,” she added. “Trump represents the same rigged system that he claims he’s going to change. ... Trump was taking from America with both hands and leaving the rest of us with the bill.”...............................

Read more: http://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2016/10/03/hillary-clinton-what-kind-genius-loses-1-billion-year/91473228/



You go gal.





Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton delivers an economic address at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Plaza on October 3, 2016 in Toledo, Ohio. (Photo: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI, AFP/Getty Images)



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Hillary Clinton: 'What kind of genius loses $1 billion in a year?' (Original Post) riversedge Oct 2016 OP
STICK IT TO HIM, HILLARY Skittles Oct 2016 #1
A stupid "genius" ailsagirl Oct 2016 #2
Excellent. yardwork Oct 2016 #3
K&R smirkymonkey Oct 2016 #4
It takes a lot of effort to blow a billion dollars in a year. LuvNewcastle Oct 2016 #5
What kind of genius indeed? NNadir Oct 2016 #6
HEY retrowire Oct 2016 #7
Romney knows "what makes Michigan great"! Beartracks Oct 2016 #8
!!!! BumRushDaShow Oct 2016 #11
That's the question and leave it at that rpannier Oct 2016 #9
In the immortal words of Michael Kelso: Marc2010 Oct 2016 #10
So if he loses 2 billion what is he then? A Super-Genius? GOLGO 13 Oct 2016 #12
I believe your yacht has been repossessed and is now in the hands of a Saudi Prince, Mr Trump. truthisfreedom Oct 2016 #13

LuvNewcastle

(16,843 posts)
5. It takes a lot of effort to blow a billion dollars in a year.
Mon Oct 3, 2016, 08:35 PM
Oct 2016

Not just your average, everyday idiot can do something like that.

retrowire

(10,345 posts)
7. HEY
Mon Oct 3, 2016, 09:14 PM
Oct 2016

I won the lottery once and blew it all on cookies SO WHAT OHHHH

OHHHH...

She's talking about Trump.

Yeah he's a moron!

rpannier

(24,329 posts)
9. That's the question and leave it at that
Mon Oct 3, 2016, 11:40 PM
Oct 2016

Il Douche and his quisling Ghoul can frame Gruppenfu@kers great business acumen in not paying taxes, but how do you explain losing nearly 1 billion dollars back when it was almost impossible to do so

GOLGO 13

(1,681 posts)
12. So if he loses 2 billion what is he then? A Super-Genius?
Tue Oct 4, 2016, 08:20 AM
Oct 2016

"I'm Donald J. Trump, billionaire. I own a mansion & a yacht. Validate me!!"

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