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āIām going to have to see what happens. I will see what happens. I have to be treated fairly,ā Trump said. āWhen I did this, I said I have to be treated fairly. If Iām treated fairly, Iām fine. All I want to do is (have) a level playing field."
*there are two ways to look at this: he canāt say that he hasnāt been treated unfairly, because no one has seriously criticized him (aside from the usual outlets). Second part is that if Trump ran as an independent, the blowback that would hit āOl Renfieldā would be awesome.
in any event
Side-note: Its amazing that he hasnāt realized that there is no āIā in the word āteamā.
Side-note: Iām really tempted to put a Bobby Heenan gif that has him saying āYou have to be fair to Trump.ā
nah doesnāt rhymeā¦
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Please, do.
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āIām going to have to see what happens. I will see what happens. I have to be treated fairly,ā Trump said. āWhen I did this, I said I have to be treated fairly. If Iām treated fairly, Iām fine. All I want to do is (have) a level playing field."
Dear Mr. Trump: If you were to run an independent campaign for POTUS next year, you would win the hearts of nearly every pretty little blonde with a body like your daughter. Wouldnāt that be nice? ā Donāt you want that, Mr. The Donald? Think about it ā hundreds of thousands of Ivankas dreaming of YOU and masturbating to YOU every single night!
Do it, Mr. The Donald! Do it!
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Do it, Donald! Donāt listen to the losers! The Clownshirts are counting upon you!
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Trump (Again) Refuses To Rule Out Independent Bid For The Presidency
Mr Trump (note the respect),
I would hold you in much higher esteem than you could have ever attainedā
if you would agree to run as an independent.
Your 3rd-party run would have an undeniable positive effect on our political system
in ways you could never achieve running as a Ā®.
(Sorry this is more than 140 characters!)
Possibly a fan for life (itās all up to you sir),
jw1
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Whether heās been treated fairly is obviously a key question, so I hope he gets advice on the situation from someone he can trust to have his best interests at heart, someone who helped get the whole excellent adventure going in the first place, someone with no ax to grind. I refer, of course, to his bestie Bill Clinton.
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Drumpf also claimed today to have seen āthousands and thousandsā or Arab Americans in New Jersey āCheering as the Twin Towers came down.ā
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-saw-thousands-thousands-people-164537580.html
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āWhen I did this, I said I have to be treated fairly. If Iām treated fairly, Iām fine. All I want to do is (have) a level playing field."
No multi billionaire who feels entitled to whatever he wants would ever believe he was treated āfairlyā if he gets beat in the primaries.
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This man is dangerous.
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Oh, sweet Baby Jesus, make it so!
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I believe that the only reason that Trump refuses to advocate slavery is the inability of his Management Team to come up with a way for the slaves to pay for their room and board (with the zero wages they would receive).
The Base is down with it, though
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Iām still not convinced heās not the political equivalent internet troll who happens to also be a billionaire.
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I just threw up a little in my mouth.
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Thereās no tEaM without ME!
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I expected this. Trump has been having such fun trolling the GOP but does he really want to be President? He must know he canāt possibly win the general election.
So this is all about laying an exit strategy that allows Trump to claim VICTORY! For the past week he has really amped up the vile racist attacks and endorsement of violence by his supporters. That looks to me like he is inviting the establishment to finally come out against him. That will give him the pretext to run as a third party candidate.
He will utterly destroy the GOP in the 2016 races but he will be able to claim a moral victory and save face.
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That is a fantasy of every non-troll posting here.
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I want a front row seat to see Reince Pubics face when he gets the news. Hell, I will videotape it so we can enjoy it for posterity.
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I donāt think it is off the mark. Trump is quite unpopular in the GOP. But he stands a good chance of getting the nomination because there are so many other candidates and they are all weak choices.
It might well be that the GOP would do best to allow a complete blow out than try another Romney and put off their date with reality another year.
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Itās bluff. Heās negotiating. But heās also a ārealistā, very much in the more horrible senses of what that means, tho nonetheless, his moves are based on reptilian appreciation of things there to be seen by anyone.
What he sees is whatās been in political news lately: efforts by some of his competition, the small fry so far, to mobilize the Republican establishmentās views of how the RNC rules, such as they are, that apply to GOPās primary season, and as well to the unlikely (but nowhere near impossible) prospect of a convention-centered battle over credentials, seating, rules of order, etc.
Trump lacks power in those areas - as do all the contestants, but he even compared to the stronger establishment competition of Bush, Cruz and Rubio. (Those rules actually look like theyād work even better for Walker and, for somewhat different reasons, for Perry, & to some extent for Christie as well. The sources of Christieās demise are only too public; heās only in this in hopes of securing a future cabinet position. Perry was simply overtaken by the times and early on watched as money and other resources heād counted on being for him, going instead to Cruz. I think Walker was more a case of his and his backers, and more importantly the potential backers he was waiting for, seeing very quickly he was way out of his depth in being able to carve off a place for himself among any of the larger national & regional & special interest movements within the partyās Base.)
Walkerās butler, Reinhold Priebus, doesnāt really have a master now, except for what power the historical ownership of the GOP franchise grant him (Charlie Black, in particular), so this subdrama of Trump v. Priebus is something thatās not just come up several times already, itāll come up again and again, so long as Trumpās polling numbers play out during the primary season. Each primaryās PUBLIC face is one thing, the process of consequential delegate selection is another, and thatās what Trumpās concerned with now. Rubio, because of his understanding of GOP politics and his connections within the structure, and Cruz because his big analytical brain & all his big money backers each with hooks into the great beast that is the GOP establishment, both have it all over Trump when it comes to what happens the DAY AFTER the votes in a given stateās primary is publicly known.
In reality, all a third party run by Trump would do is turn the Republican party away from any chance at the White House, probably lose them several close Senate seats, and bring about a reduction in the partyās majority hold over the House. Maybe Trump actually is okay with that - in a āMy way or Apocalypse Nowā scenario; but I really donāt think so. But heās certainly trying to stoke fear within the party establishment that itās within his power to do all that, and that heās crazy or egotistical or both enough to do it.
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