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He sucks.
But a lot of people on here seem like they support the gun legislation that uses the terror watch list as prevention to gun access. While it's unclear what exactly makes someone get on that list, my guess is there's a decent amount of racial profiling that goes into it.

Has Trump accepted any money from the NRA?

@yoursilverlining: haha, right?

This is hardly surprising. He's a racist a-hole. Of course he wants to use racial profiling.

What IS surprising is that there are there are so many other racist a-holes that voted for him...

@looch: I think the NRA distanced themself from Trump after he suggested the Orlando massacre victims should have had guns. The NRA doesn't support drunk people using guns.

@Adira: people are scared and he rode this fear all the way to the nomination.

I hope people don't take this profiling and policing in their own hands. It's bad enough when we have over zealous cops.

Of course he thinks this. The idiotic is strong with this one.

I fear for our country.

@Truth Bombs: @Adira: What surprises me are the Trump supporters that I work with and that are in my family. I live in a conservative area, so I have to keep my mouth shut about politics most of the time. It's disheartening and infuriating. When someone who I thought was a good person says they support Trump, I just want to be like, "I have so much love and respect for you! Why are you doing this to me?!!"

I'm Canadian and don't generally follow any politics....but this Trump thing seems unreal to me as everything I read I think, this cannot be real?

Even what @Mrs. Lemon-Lime: said "The NRA doesn't support drunk people using guns.",
......it's ludicrous that this even needs to be said!

@looch: He has been, but that's going to have to change quick for the main election. He loaned his campaign $50mil and he's raised another $15mil. A lot of that has been used to repay his own companies or for his family's travel (he's not doing tv ads). He *says* he's not going to ask for that money back, but ...

He's got to get to $1billion before November. Forbes says he's worth about $4.5billion (and a lot of that's tied up in properties, etc.). Should be interesting ...

His campaign tried to get him to call 20 wealthy donors last week, but he only got through 3 before he quit. Looks like the GOP is going to have to do most of the work for him.

@Adira: Girl, I know. Our TV has been off a lot more lately, and I've completely tuned out of news radio - all due to Trump! They give him SO MUCH free press. I'm sick of hearing about it. I will say, it's forced us to have music on more than usual, and it's actually kinda nice.

@looch: I think the GOP is worried that, if he uses his own money, any money the GOP *does* raise will end up being used to pay Trump back. The money he contributed to the campaign is not listed as non-refundable campaign contributions, it's listed as loans. As of his latest campaign finance filing, anyway. There's a chance he won't lose a dime in this, and the GOP would have to pay him back + interest.

Also, I'm sure many of them are thinking that, if there's a chance he could splinter the Republican party, just let Clinton win and then take over the House and Senate over the next few years, block everything she tries to push through, and recoup/figure out how to get their sh*t together for 2020.

He's only got 73 paid staffers, he's running on a shoe-string budget, and he can't stomach the idea of having to ask other people for money. I don't know who his next campaign manager is going to be - but this general election will probably take 10 years off their life, at least! I can't imagine having to deal with that man and his family on a daily basis.

I liked that piece by Aziz. The comments on Facebook were horrifying though. So many people who support Trump are uniformed and say the most hateful things. I'm most disappointed that A) Trump's campaign has made Americans feel like it's okay be racist/assholes out in public and B) People I love are talking about voting for him and just ignore his hateful words completely.