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Donald Trump has an estimated net worth of $4.5 billion as of April 2016, according to Forbes. Donald Trump talks big. Long before he started spinning and exaggerating things on his campaign trail, he himself upgraded the rating of his Trump University¡¯s Better Business Bureau to "A" grade. Recently, he has inflated and amplified the fortune he holds more than by 100%. In last May, Trump in a statement posted to his campaign site claimed that he is worth at least $10 billion and his worth had even increased in the year since he began his campaign. In 2015, when Trump began his presidential campaign, Bloomberg estimated his worth at $2.9 billion. During the same period, Fortune and a number of publications placed him between $3.7 and $3.9 million. As per Forbes, their consistent tracking of Trump's wealth since 1982 reveals that, the value of Trump's property in September 2015, including the value of his various aircrafts and licensing in his name, could reach a maximum total of $4.5 billion. Trump has consistently exaggerated how much he owns and downplayed how much he owes. So far, Trump has spent only $18 million of his $4.5 billion fortune on the campaign and his campaign has raised $25 million for him. Forbes placed him on the 324 rank on the World Billionaires list 2016 (Rank No: 405 on 2015) and rank 113 in the U.S, during 2016.

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Do you think Donald Trump has any respect for women?

Donald Trump has become famous for his campaign of insult comedy. He just can¡¯t seem to stop himself from insulting his opponents. Though the real-estate magnate says he generally only attacks people who go after him first, but he never stopped, rather continued his nicknaming during his 2016 campaign, lashed out at rivals, business partners, and the media. To him Mexicans are rapists; all Muslims hate Americans and vowed to build a wall to keep immigrants out of the United States. No person other than Jeb Bush is his biggest target for abuse. He calls him "low energy", "weak", "puppet", "he will NEVER make American great again¡±, and ¡°A total embarrassment to both himself and his family". Some of his other insults include: On Rick Perry, "should be forced to take an IQ test"; On Ben Carson, ¡°has never created a job in his life (well, maybe a nurse)"; On Marco Rubio, "couldn't even respond properly to President Obama's State of the Union Speech without pouring sweat & chugging water"; On Barack Obama, "Is our president insane?"; On Hillary Clinton, ¡°SHE HAS NO STRENGTH OR STAMINA¡±; On George Pataki, "couldn't be elected dog catcher if he ran again"; On Glenn Beck, "always seems to be crying (worse than Boehner) ¡­ a real nut job!"; On Juan Williams, "you never speak well of me & yet when I saw you at Fox you ran over like a child and wanted a picture". Perhaps his biggest insult was to his closest rival Hillary Clinton. Trump once remarked: "If Hillary Clinton can't satisfy her husband, what makes her think she can satisfy America?"

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Here is a picture of Mia Love as she is meeting the Haitian Community in North Miami.

Ludmya Bourdeau "Mia" Love is an American politician, the first Haitian American and the first black female Republican in Congress. This U.S Representative from Utah is the first African American to be elected to Congress from Utah. Her parents emigrated together from Haiti in 1973, two years before her birth. On Saturday, March 12, 2016, despite her busy political schedule, she took time out to meet a group of Haitian-American professionals at a breakfast reception organized by the Haitian-American Chamber of Commerce of Florida (HACCOF) at Moca Café, in North Miami. Mia came to Miami on an election campaign of Sunshine State for GOP presidential candidate Marco Rubi. The meeting was the result of Mia's 6-month old commitment to the Chamber's Chairman, Jeff Lozama. Mia made the commitment when they met for the first time in Washington, D.C. in last September. In his opening speech, Mr. Lozama made it clear that Ms. Love was present in the meeting for non-political reasons-- to hold open minded talks with her Haitian compatriots. The meeting was a success to certain degrees, because many important Haitian-Americans were absent in the meeting. One reason for their absenteeism could be that Haitian-Americans are politically more inclined to the Democratic Party.

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The Senator of South Florida, Marco Rubio, conducting his first visit to the island of Haiti. His main purpose is to have a better understanding of the ongoing problem of Restavec and Human trafficking that that has been going on in Haiti for generations.

Visiting with his wife Jeannette, Senator Marco Rubio took the opportunity while in Haiti to visit the Institute for Human and Community Development which is a school for restavecs or children in Haiti who have been working as domestic with more prominent families in Haiti. The parents of these children often willingly offer their children to work with other families in Haiti because they usually can not afford to raise them economically.

Senator Rubio had a brief meeting with the Haitian President Michel Martelly and some business leaders before leaving Haiti on the same day

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Here is a picture of Pierry, a Haitian immigrants from Queens in Republican Ad.

The Republican National Committee (RNC) has decided to run a series of advertisement campaign to showcase how diversified group of Republicans actively support and belong to their party. They have released a series of five advertisements on air (at a cost of $300,000) during the Fox Business Republican Debate in South Carolina on Thursday, January 14, 2016. The ads feature Mario, a Latino, first-generation college graduate from Pueblo; Katherine, mother of an autistic child from Tampa, Florida; Vallerie, a community leader from Sarasota, Florida; Mike, a small business owner and 9/11 firefighter from the Bronx, New York; and Pierry, the son of Haitian immigrants from Queens. This is an effort of RNC to win back the White House after realizing how poorly they fared in the 2012 election with 6% of the African-American vote and 27% of the Hispanic vote. Recent comments by their candidate Donald Trump about immigrants has made the situation worse.

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Here is GOP candidate Rand Paul as he decided to go to Haiti and perform eye surgeries while the other candidates campaign in Iowa.

Presidential Candidate Rand Paul Doing Good in Haiti

GOP presidential hopefuls are spending August in Iowa, to improve their chances of becoming president. Except Rand Paul

As a doctor, he will perform free-of-charge cataract eye surgeries in Haiti. His reason for the surgeries is the island is near the U.S.; tremendous need exists; and medical access is difficult.

Haitians suffer high rates of blindness due to proximity to the equator, Haiti's year-round sunniness, and lack of protective sunglasses.

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Here is a picture of Former Maryland Governor, Martin O'Malley, as he is raising the issue of the Haitian migrants in the Dominican Republic. He has called on the United States government to speak up against the deportations of Haitian migrants there.

Martin O'Malley, the U.S. Presidential candidate has openly showed his empathy for the Dominican-Haitians deported from the Dominican Republic. He has showed his support from them and in a radio interview said that it was an inhumane act by the DR government. He has expressed his astonishment as to why the US government has not acted to the circumstances. He said that the strengthening of bonds among the American and Caribbean countries is a key to the progress of USA. O'Malley, who has been the governor of Maryland twice, has extended his helping hand towards the deported and promised improved healthcare facilities and creation of an agency for ensuring the eligible immigrants.

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The historic win of the Haitian-America Mia Love to become the first Haitian-American in US Congress and also the First Black Woman elected as a GOP to congress has created some joy for her fans. However this win has also created some discomfort among some long standing organizations.

NAACP has been criticized by GOP for ignoring Mia Love's Historic win.

Republican official Raffi Williams is harshly criticizing the NAACP for not hailing the notable wins of Haitian-American Mia Love to a Republican seat in Congress, and African-American senator Tim Scott's Republican win for South Carolina.

Love is the first Haitian-American and woman senator-elect, and Scott the first African-American to win since Reconstruction.

Williams vented his frustration over the NAACP's snub by tweeting a number of times, complaining they ". . . won't celebrate black republicans."

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There you have it folks. History has been made. The Haitian American candidate just won a seat in US Congress

She beat Democrat Doug Owens by taking 50 percent of the vote, with Mr. Owens's 47 percent.

Mia Love who is 38 years old is the first Haitian-American to win congressional office. She is the baughter of Haitian immigrants. She was the mayor of Saratoga Springs

Recently, Haiti has celebrated a lot of firsts in American politics throughout many states including Florida, New York and D.C., but one woman would have not one, but two firsts. Mia Love, not only the first Haitian-American to win the House seat in Utah, is also the first Black Republican woman to do so. She won over her Democratic rival, Dough Owens, to take the congressional seat with 50% of the precincts. Her victory was welcomed after the loss in 2012 for the same seat.

Kreyol Pale, Kreyol Kompran!

Mezanmi, moun lakay ape pote fyerte nou ho Ozetazini. Eske nou tande ke ginyin yon ti Ayisyenn-Amerikain ki prale nan kongres Amerikin. Sa se yon gro koze. Li demontre ke nou se yon group moun ki ape pren pouvwa nan gro payi sa yo bay pou Etazini-an.

Mape pran tout plezi mwin pou mwin felicite Mia Love pou gro bagay sa li realize jodia. Se pa pou rou selman ou fè sa se pou tout Kominote Ayisyen-an

Gro Mesi Mia Love

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Here is a picture of the Haitian-American Mia Love as she was just spectacular at the Republican National Convention in Tampa in 2012. Ludmya Mia Bourdeau Love drew rousing cheers during her speech as the first Haitian-American to occupy center stage at the Republican National Convention.

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