Kicking Money Out of Politics: Trump Boots Koch Brother from Golf Course
Well, one of the great things of having a billionaire as president, there isn't enough money to buy him...
Kicking Money Out of Politics: Trump Boots Koch Brother from Golf Course , from Breitbart.
President-elect Donald Trump told a critical biographer and guest of billionaire David Koch to leave his West Palm Beach golf course on New Year’s Eve, forcing Koch to leave with him.
Trump’s gesture was another slight against the pro-amnesty, pro-“free trade” billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, who opposed Trump during the Republican primary season and refused to help him during the general election. It also signals Trump will not necessarily play nice with the GOP political establishment and Beltway right.
Nice to see that he won't be bought by the republican establishment.
Same story from the Progressive Liberal stance.....
Trump kicks biographer off golf course , from Politico
This is clearly a good thing for the American people.
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It is about time that we have a president that is not beholding to outside money or the political establishment....
Something we have needed for a long time.
I hope you are right and he keeps business separate.
Given the choice I'd rather have David Koch be president than Donald Trump any day. Kochs libertarian conservative hybrid is far closer to me ideologically than Trump is. I still detest populists be they from the left, center, or right.
I'm sure you would, XX but then again we do have extremists on both sides.
Don't we.
And if you think the Koch Bro's are Libertarians, you do not know what a Libertarian is. Yes they poured a lot of money into the Tea Party, but not to aid it, to control it. Hence damaging it more than helping it.
They also poured a lot of money into the Bushes, father and son, which more closely represents their establishment credentials.
What is certain, they are no friends of the American People, about the same as George Soro's
One of the sillier articles we have seen in a while. Trump was perfectly willing to let David Koch play.
Here is what Harry Hurt (the author who was told to leave) said about Trump to a reporter later -
“You are among the few people that understand how fucked up this guy (Trump) is, he is a complete psycho, but most people don’t know that.”
When is the last time we had a president of the United States described as a "complete psycho", by anyone (who knows him personally) ?
... which makes this another article with a false headline.
Yes Hal - the title of the article is misleading. President Elect Trump did tell the biographer to leave out of vindictiveness and nothing so noble as for the American people. Mr. Koch was not included in that request but chose to go because they were a group and had come in the same car. Bottom line, suggesting Mr. Koch had been booted is a complete falsehood. Actually, it's a lie and anyone who peddles it as anything other than a lie is a liar. We need to start calling things as they truly are.
I suspect this incident is just a window into similar things to come.
A lie, nice spin. But then I figured someone would take up the liberal spin on it. it's why I posted them both.
It got to be a lie, otherwise your worldview comes crashing down about your ears. Yes the writer was persona non grata, Koch expected it to pass cause he was there, didn't work.
Trump sent a message to the establishment.
He's a lot smarter than you think.
False headline?
I posted both takes the hard conservative one and the hard liberal one.
AND used the headlines they used.
More of showing how fake perception rules the day.
Of course the liberal side will say it is a false headline.
It was expected. We have to keep the dichotomy going that Trump really didn't win, and he's really a corrupt republican.
AS false as that may be.
Yes Mr Koch was escorted out. That is the truth along with the person that was objected to who was the writer.
If you actually read the story, they were going to continue playing cause Koch was there, but Trump insisted they had to leave even though Koch was there.
Is is a dog and pony show for the masses, that is the way Mr Koch took it. and I believe the way Mr Trump handled it.
But still, a new boss is in town, and money doesn't buy you special favors.
That was the point being made.
If you actually read the story, they were going to continue playing cause Koch was there, but Trump insisted they had to leave even though Koch was there.
Hogwash. The only one told to leave was Harry Hurt.
David Koch is a member of the country club at the course. How the hell is anyone going to tell him he has to leave a course where he is a member ? ROFL
Really, the owner of the course can and did cause that question was raised. And Trump is the owner.
And Mr Koch left, the spin is so he didn't cause any waves.
But still he left. Now if he hadn't, then you would have an argument, but he did, at the direction of Trump, so no, you don't.
"Breathless media coverage of the New Years’ Eve encounter between Trump, Koch, and his guest framed it as Trump having little tolerance for criticism: Nearly every headline focused on the biographer and his critical book, not Koch."
Clearly, Media spin...... Can't have Trump doing anything against the establishment, upsets the liberal paradigm.
The Breitbart article is wrong, as are you. Try and deal with your disappointment NM.
If anything, your predictable, John.
I posted them both so you wouldn't have to look far for the spin story you and yours would rather highlight.....
Not true John. You can be a member of the Association and a member of the Country Club, but that doesn't give you golfing privileges unless you pay the dues for the golf course - not just the Country Club.
Yes, I saw the interview that Mr. Hurt gave and he explained the conversation that took place between him and President Elect Trump. Donald asked him to leave solely for personal reasons on a piece he wrote 20 years ago about Donald. To suggest it was to set a precedence to the privileged is a stretch. It had nothing to do with Mr. Koch. It was a personal vendetta nothing more. I'm not sure how some can twist this to claim it's people trying to take the election win from President Elect Trump. He will be the President.
What does money and favors have to do with this. Koch was not part of the problem Trump was having, it was Hurt as both articles state.
The headline is misleading at best.
The Politico article title is much closer to the truth.
Yes, false headline. I don't care who wrote it - it's fundamentally false.
If you go to bar with a friend, and the owner kicks your friend out on sight because of a past history, and you decide to go with your friend - you didn't get kicked out.