HAS THE “VETTING OF TRUMP” FINALLY BEGUN?

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The media has finally decided that it’s time to start asking some questions.

 

It’s starting to finally appear that the powers-that-be are finally going to start properly vetting “The Donald”.  Fortunately, it is starting with Trump’s ideas about replacing Obamacare.

 

Now, most of my readers know that I am personally a big supporter of a single-payer health plan for all Americans.  The conservatives always try to say how great America’s health care system is and that single payer would destroy “The best health care in the world!”

 

Well, that’s been proven to be total Bull-Crap!  It has been shown time and time again that America’s traditional health care programs are way down the list in excellence, and they are the most expensive of all the industrialized nation’s health care plans.

 

But, let’s look at what the Republican Trump is offering for replacing Obamacare.

 

As it turns out, one of the first to finally start vetting Donald Trump and his health care plan was Marco Rubio during the last debate.  And here was Donald Trump’s response to what his health care plan would be:

 

RUBIO: What is your plan? I understand the current lines around the state, whatever that means. This is not a game where you draw maps…

TRUMP: … And, you don’t know what it means…

RUBIO: … What is your plan, Mr. Trump?

(APPLAUSE)

RUBIO: What is your plan on healthcare?

TRUMP: You don’t know. The biggest problem…

(CROSSTALK)

RUBIO: … What’s your plan…

TRUMP: … The biggest problem, I’ll have you know…

RUBIO: … What’s your plan…

TRUMP: … You know, I watched him meltdown two weeks ago with Chris Christie.

I got to tell you, the biggest problem he’s got is he really doesn’t know about the lines.

The biggest thing we’ve got, and the reason we’ve got no competition, is because we have lines around the state, and you have essentially….

RUBIO: … We already mentioned that plan, I know what that is, but what else is part of your plan…

TRUMP: … You don’t know much…

RUBIO: … So, you’re only thing is to get rid of the lines around the states. What else is part of your healthcare plan…

TRUMP: … The lines around the states…

RUBIO: … That’s your only plan…

TRUMP: … and, it was almost done — not now…

RUBIO: … Alright, (inaudible)…

TRUMP: … Excuse me. Excuse me.

RUBIO: … His plan. That was the plan…

TRUMP: … You get rid of the lines, it brings in competition. So, instead of having one insurance company taking care of New York, or Texas, you’ll have many. They’ll compete, and it’ll be a beautiful thing.

 

It keeps going for quite a while like that. “Lines around the states” refers to the question of allowing insurance companies to sell policies across state lines, instead of only within one state. This is one of a very small number of ideas that Republicans have settled on so that they have something to say when asked what they’d do about health care.

 

But as usual, Donald Trump’s stumbling answer just continues to show that Trump doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

 

The old idea that just by stopping the state-to-state restrictions (removing the lines around the states) on the insurance companies, this would open up the competition and reduce health care costs.  This idea had been tried and it was a total failure.  The insurance companies are not interested in leaving their assigned regions and in competing where they are forced to reduce their premiums.

 

Even with today’s Obamacare, major companies like the giant health care company, United Health Care, had jumped in to support the many health care exchanges around the country.  But as of today, they have already lost over $750 million and are considering not going forward with the ACA after 2017.  They have totally stopped advertising for new ACA participants.

 

This is just one of many areas where Mr. Trump is once again, totally ignorant.

 

Why the other candidates haven’t gone after Donald Trump’s overall ignorance is beyond me.  Finally, starting with Rubio, they are now questioning Trump’s possible relationships with the mobs in New York and within the state’s building construction industry.  They are also questioning his hiring of illegal immigrants instead of available American workers because the immigrants were so much cheaper.

 

According to some of the reporters following the campaigns, the Clinton campaign has been doing a lot of quiet homework and digging into Trumps business and personal background.  The word on the street is that they already have a treasure trove of stuff for supporting a Clinton versus Trump campaign.

 

Oh yes, Clinton has been in the public eye, almost as long as Trump, and she still has her issues with the FBI and her e-mails.  But I wouldn’t be surprised if there is a number of potential strong cases against a man who is an expert at multiple corporate bankruptcies.  And someone who has been married multiple times, was once on the front page of a New York tabloid saying he, “Had the best sex ever,” with a woman that was not his then wife.

 

Trump has not been vetted properly for someone that wants to be the president of the United States.  There are a number of legal cases Trump was involved with that were settled with clauses where no one is allowed to discuss the cases.  The media is finally going after Trump the way they have gone after Clinton and had gone after Obama, Romney and other former candidates.

 

Let’s also not forget the many current cases against the bogus Trump University.  This is where individuals signed up for the university and paid around $30,000 to attend what ended up being seminars developed from Trump’s book, “The Art of the Game”.  They attended the seminars, were given a certificate and had their picture taken with a life-size cardboard replica of “The Donald”.  Trump University was not an accredited university and the certificates meant squat.  The class-action case is currently in the courts with many individuals being represented that were fooled into signing up.

 

What I also find interesting is how many of the well-respected conservative opinion writers are against Trump, even though many also do not necessarily support those running against Trump.

 

Writers such as Kathleen parker, Jennifer Rubin, George Will, Michael Gerson, Charles Krauthammer, Victor Davis Hanson, Dan Greenfield and others have all written a number of articles against Donald Trump.

 

With these conservative against Trump as a nominee, why hasn’t the rest of the press and Trump’s competition not been vetting Trump as they have usually done with all other serious candidates?

 

After being in the lead in the polls since last June, did they just now decide that Trump was a serious candidate?

 

If that is the case, then shame on them if because of their lack of imagination, they will have allowed a dunderhead such as a reality TV showmen to become the Republican party’s nominee.

 

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