{"id":40334,"date":"2024-05-29T07:59:19","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T12:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=40334"},"modified":"2024-05-29T07:59:19","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T12:59:19","slug":"the-hurdles-to-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/05\/29\/the-hurdles-to-success\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hurdles To Success"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When\u00a0Donald Trump<\/a>\u00a0met some of the country\u2019s top donors at a luxurious New York hotel earlier this month, he told the group that a businessman had recently offered $1 million to his presidential effort and wanted to have lunch.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not having lunch,\u201d Trump said he responded, according to donors who attended. \u201cYou\u2019ve got to make it $25 million.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another businessman, he said, had traditionally given $2 million to $3 million to Republicans. Instead, he said he told the donor that he wanted a $25 million or $50 million contribution or he would not be \u201cvery happy.\u201d [WaPo<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I know some folks are — rightfully — angry at Mr. Trump. But, to my eye, the scandalous behavior of these businessmen<\/em> — or experts in bribery, as it appears — makes me wonder if purchasing success<\/em> from the government is how they become “successful businessmen.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This caught my eye: When\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0met some of the country\u2019s top donors at a luxurious New York hotel earlier this month, he told the group that a businessman had recently offered $1 million to his presidential effort and wanted to have lunch. \u201cI\u2019m not having lunch,\u201d Trump said he responded, \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40334"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40341,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40334\/revisions\/40341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}