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DONALD TRUMP vs Mitt Romney, Errick Errickson & Others for YOUR PORTFOLIO  |  Episode 199

DONALD TRUMP vs Mitt Romney, Errick Errickson & Others for YOUR PORTFOLIO | Episode 199

FromSelf Directed Investor Talk: Alternative Asset Investing through Self-Directed IRA's & Solo 401k's


DONALD TRUMP vs Mitt Romney, Errick Errickson & Others for YOUR PORTFOLIO | Episode 199

FromSelf Directed Investor Talk: Alternative Asset Investing through Self-Directed IRA's & Solo 401k's

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Mar 16, 2016
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Donald Trump racks up more primary victories, and it looks like the GOP establishment, and some Republican party types like Mitt Romney and Erick Erickson are pushing for open revolt.  What does this mean for your portfolio?  I’m Bryan Ellis.  I’ll tell you RIGHT NOW in Episode 199.----Hello, SDI nation!  Welcome to the podcast of record for savvy, self-directed investors like you, where we have one and only one goal and that is to help YOU make great investments that are simple, safe and strong.Yesterday was the biggest day in the Presidential primary process since Super Tuesday, and again, Donald Trump appears to be an unstoppable force on the Republican side, as is true for the gaffe-prone Hillary Clinton on the Democrat side.So folks, let’s talk about this like adults, shall we?I didn’t vote for Donald Trump in the primary in my home state of Georgia.  I did vote for a Republican candidate, but not Trump.  I am a conservative, but I am not a Republican.I find the whole situation disgusting, to be honest.  What we have is a situation in which Trump, a guy who – whether you love him or hate him – has shown some incredible business acumen over the years, notwithstanding the failure of a few of his businesses.  Note again that I didn’t vote for him, but I do respect much of what he’s accomplished.  I also greatly respect the negotiations philosophy used by his team, as described in detail in the book “Trump Style Negotiation” by his attorney, George Ross.Anyway, Trump is the CLEAR choice so far in Republican primaries.  There’s a guy on the radio here in Atlanta named Erick Erickson who sometimes gets some face time on Fox News as well.  Erickson is a good example of the foolishness that’s happening right now.  He’s pushing this notion that a majority of people on the Republican side do NOT want Trump to be president because he’s not gotten the majority of the votes in any primary.Erickson is a fool.  He’s always previously impressed me as a pretty bright guy, but Trump is totally inside his head, living rent free, and dominating Erickson’s thoughts.  It’s a statistical improbability that ANYBODY would get a majority vote in any election when there were as many as 17 different candidates on the ballots to begin with, and in fact, most of those candidates remain on the ballots to this day, despite the fact that many of them have formally dropped out, because those ballots are set months in advance.Who are the most popular politicians of the last 30 years?  Probably Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton.  If Reagan or Clinton were on a ballot with 16 other candidates, those guys wouldn’t get majorities either.This isn’t a defense of Trump, by the way.  There’s a lot about him that I think is exciting, but there’s a lot about him I think that is terrifying.And there’s also Mitt Romney, a guy who lost the last election so badly that he should, quite honestly, be ashamed to be seen in public.  Here’s a guy who has been in numerous political races, and has lost every one of them, excepting only his victory to become governor of Massachusetts.  He didn’t run for that seat again, because his approval rating was in the 30% range, placing him at #48 among 50 governors for approval rating.  Point is, Mitt Romney is no political or leadership dynamo, yet he’s out there encouraging people to vote for any candidate but Trump, literally.The hysteria on the Republican side has been absolutely mind-blowing, and it proves that the job of people in politics is focused on one thing:  Keeping their power.  It’s OVERWHELMINGLY OBVIOUS that Trump is the favored candidate, and yet what you have is a national party making it clear that they hope to re-assign the nomination to someone other than Trump on the basis that THEY don’t like the candidate.It's insanity, folks.  It’s no less ridiculous on the Democrat side, where even in the states that Hillary Clinton has lost to Bernie Sanders, Clinton has garnered more delegates for the nomination.  The Republican
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