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Without doubt this is correct. He's also in the lamentable position of having no lawyers worth a damn. High-powered lawyers of top calibre all know three things about Donald Trump; that he doesn't listen to advice, doesn't keep his mouth shut, and doesn't pay you. For my part I hope things keep getting worse for him. If that happens it will absolutely be his own doing.

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I actually doubt he has a spare million to pay even if he felt compelled to do so. Now that his money laundering has been curtailed and his "charity" checkbook closed, I think he is struggling to make ends meet. He was hoping to use his 2020 Re-Election Committee donations to cover the gap but those big dollar donors couldn't be conned like the rubes and there are too many rules to sidestep. It will be even worse now that Sauron's eye is focused on his Saudi money connections. Come January, his lawyers will be redirected from the Mueller investigation to stopping the Dems from releasing his tax returns because he can't afford lawyers for both and we know where his priorities lie.

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Latest developments appear to be that Trump is calling the DNA test Senator Warren took, "bogus", and braying that he wants to have one administered himself. Considerably worse than that, he's claiming that she gained admission to Harvard by falsely claiming to be Native American. (She didn't.) Just imagine if the DNA test had shown very strong probability that Warren has, oh, for the hell of it, one-eighth Native American DNA. Does anybody think Donald Trump would have accepted that, admitted he was both wrong and slanderous, and paid up -- even with other people's money? Never. He'd have claimed (as he has anyway) that the test was bogus and gone right back to mockingly calling her "Pocahontas".Someone should raise the old matter of the Central Park Five being cleared on DNA evidence, after Trump had arbitrarily labelled them guilty and called for the death penalty to be imposed. He's never admitted he was wrong about that either.Trump? Justice? Scientific testing? The words just don't go together.

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Circulation and profit

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The DNA test does not validate the claims Warren has made.

"...To make up for the dearth of Native American DNA, Bustamante used samples from Mexico, Peru, and Colombia to stand in for Native American..."

"...Warren has 12 times more Native American blood than a white person from Great Britain and 10 times more than a white person from Utah, the report found..."

https://www.bostonglobe.com...

So, Warren is 10 times more Native than these guys....

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Mormons are the new Cherokee.

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Bone Spurs has never covered a pledge he made in his life. His staff has to put the check in front of him and guide his hand to pay the widow of a military hero for god sakes. How can a man with more reasons to feel shame than any who has ever lived - not felt shame once. He tried to stiff his brother. They seem proud of that one. All of the kids who did not kick his ass on the playground do feel shame.

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I've wondered about that myself. Even if he was from Arkansas, he was Yale Law and a Rhodes Scholar, so he ticked off some important social boxes.

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Traitor Tot doesn't have $1M. Hell, I'm probably richer than he is.

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I find it fascinating. And yes, I have spent hundreds of hours on ancestry.com. Like Elizabeth Warren, I was always told I had indigenous people in my family history. I can't find it, but I'm still looking. My search is difficult because I come from a long line of West Virginia and lower Delaware farmers, most of whom were illiterate which makes finding names on a census that much harder.

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Huh? Do you think the actual reason Donnie ran for president was so he could golf for free? Makes as much sense as anything else.

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LOL.. He does have a great smile. But if I am being honest, I don't want to see someone argue or fight with Trump. I wanna see someone put him in his place hard enough that he stays there. Kamala is the one to do that. (In my oh so humble opinion.)

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Jerry Brown 2020. He has experience and also a catchy campaign song!

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The Eagles did it better.

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I was terribly upset when my cat died too, I cried for 2 weeks. I still cry when I think about him, so I understand where you are coming from.

Have you heard of a British/Australian TV series called "Who Do You Think You Are?" You can watch it on YouTube, and there are multiple series of both the UK and AU versions. It is a genealogy documentary series in which a celebrity traces their family tree in each episode. (There is an American version, but it is not very good).

They dedicated several episodes to celebrities who had been adopted, and these were some of the most interesting episodes of all. Sometimes the celebrity's parent or grandparent who had been adopted had very bitter feelings about the adoption and had never been interested in tracing their birth parents, and sometimes they did not and simply wanted to solve a mystery that they had wondered about all their lives. In several cases, the family started off wondering if perhaps they should let sleeping dogs lie, but in the end they were always very glad they had pursued the research, because they often discovered wonderful things and stories so tragic it made me cry.

You might want to look up these episodes on YouTube, and watch a few of them, if you are interested. You can find them on the episode lists in Wikipedia, just search these two sites for the word "adopt".https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...

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