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Trump: GOP challengers 'viciously' attacked me
The Hill ^ | August 2, 2016 | Mark Hensch

Posted on 08/02/2015 8:00:10 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Sunday that Republicans have not given him a warm welcome since he entered their 2016 nominating process.

Trump argued he is on the defensive against over GOP White House hopefuls during an interview that morning.

“I’m not looking to attack them,” Trump said of the rest of the Republican field on ABC’s “This Week.”

“I didn’t start the attacks,” he said. “But I have been attacked and I counter punch.”

“I mean, they attacked me first and I hit them back and maybe even harder than they hit me,” Trump added.

“But the fact is that I’ve been attacked pretty viciously by some of these guys.”

Trump charged that his entrance into politics freed him from his previous life as a New York business mogul. The outspoken billionaire admitted on Sunday that he no longer needs diplomacy when dealing with other public figures.

“I was a businessman all my life,” Trump told host Jonathan Karl.

“I had to deal with politicians and I would contribute to them and I would deal with them and certainly I’m not going to say bad things about people because I needed their support to get projects done,” he said.

“Now I’m no longer a businessman,” Trump added. “Now I’m somebody who wants to make our country great.”

Trump additionally said he is seeking the Oval Office so he can improve America’s fortunes following President Obama’s two terms there.

“I think he has done a very poor job as president,” Trump said of Obama.

“We don’t have victories anymore,” he said. “I think that he has set a very low standard.”

--This report was updated at 10:47 a.m.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: 2016; billionaire; donaldtrump; gopprimary
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

“We don’t have victories anymore,” he said. “I think that he has set a very low standard.”

THAT IS THE KIND OF STUFF TRUMP NEEDS TO SAY...THE RIGHT STUFF


21 posted on 08/02/2015 9:52:04 AM PDT by TomasUSMC (FIGHT LIKE WW2, WIN LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

And after the election, he’ll be at Bill and Hillary’s inauguration party celebrating with his longtime friends.


22 posted on 08/02/2015 9:53:36 AM PDT by Darren McCarty (Big talk isn't courageous at all. Trump's a bigmouth and a joke. Cruz or Walker have my vote.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Thin skin.


23 posted on 08/02/2015 9:54:18 AM PDT by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

That’s what happens when you lead in the polls. Everybody has a target on their back, and the target of the guy in the lead has the most potential shooters.


24 posted on 08/02/2015 9:56:16 AM PDT by discostu (It always comes down to cortexiphan)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Perry, Rubio, Bush, Walker’s fundraiser—they’ve all made insulting attacks on Trump.


25 posted on 08/02/2015 10:05:39 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Please describe how Trump was “viciously attacked” by the other candidates causing him to hit back?

I would like to know also
26 posted on 08/02/2015 11:06:46 AM PDT by uncbob
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Vicious? If what’s been said already is what he considers viscous, he’ll never survive the primary process, let alone the general.


27 posted on 08/02/2015 1:50:33 PM PDT by Reaper19
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To: hondact200
Hodad, you do know that every presidential candidate since Harry Truman has had a book published to support their candidacy, right snookums?

Now run along and join your playmates while the adults finish talking. Aye, there's a good laddie.

28 posted on 08/02/2015 2:19:11 PM PDT by Company Man (I've got a Princess Bride quote and I'm not afraid to use it)
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To: Company Man

An Adult speaking - so you are condescending that I am a child. Hey meathead when you were sitting in your mommies basement I was struggling to keep alive when the Lebanon Barracks were bombed around many good Marine buddies that made it possible for you to have the freedom to have the damn lobotomy, or the ability to speak out of your rectum! Go back to your little cave and smoke a couple of doobies while youre at it. What an absolute idiot. Wonder have you purchased all the books by every Presidential Candidate, probably you wrote Odumbo’s books for him. Way to go Weather Undergoround terrorist Bill Ayers! or is it you are Bernadette Dorn!


29 posted on 08/02/2015 4:06:45 PM PDT by hondact200
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To: hondact200
Classic projection, and still you failed to refute my statement that The Donald is far, far from being the only Presidential candidate who has used book publishing as a means of self promotion. Your post was so ignorant of this fact that I mistake you for a child. Thank you for your service. Now run along and play. (oops)
30 posted on 08/02/2015 4:40:26 PM PDT by Company Man (I've got a Princess Bride quote and I'm not afraid to use it)
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To: Company Man

Why have a discussion with a brain dead idiot that has his head so far up Trump’s backside that he is navel gazing the rest of those around him. here on FR here were those whom thought that Cruz was the second coming of Reagan. So if anyone said something different about Cruz they wer called a Troll, A Child or other cliche’s. Suddenly because Trump ‘ is like a bull in a China shop he is the answer to all of America’s problems.’ So PLEASE STOP The Condescension of others whom do question want Trump is doing. There are many on FR whom question Trump’s abilities, so everyone is a child. REALLY sounds like you have a REAL Problem are you sure you are not a narcisstic man child yourself that has a hang up. I gladly served this country and became paralyzed from the waist down because the lunatic Muslims decided blow up the marine Barracks. I relive the nightmare many times, BUT I went to College, obtained mutliple degress and I serve the public as a mental health counselor, many clients whom are military veterans. BUT Guess What, i have taken time from my business and job to take care of my mother whom has Alzheimers Disease and on Tuesday August 4 she will be going into a nursing home as she is in the final months of her life.

I do not remember Ronald Reagan writing a book to get into the Presidency, nor do I remember Gerald Ford or George HW Bush. Are you sure? Okay what is the Title of Trump’s book. I know Ted Cruz has written a book too and so had John McCain, Barack Hussein Obama. BUT I AM A busy person taking care of an elderly parent and she has become beyond my capabilities from sitting in a wheelchair, so tell me more what Trump book states. BUT INSTEAD YOU WANT TO CALL ME A CHILD. HEy are you sure you are not Barack Hussein Obama whom has come unto to FR to battle his useless mindless wit to debate people whom have more brains in ther head than you have the ability to take a dump to be able to relieve the pressure on yoiur pea sized brain in order to have a thought that you are the only person in the world and if anyone has the ability to disagree with you call them a child. Really are you an adult yourself, because in all actualility you act like a mindless twit whom has nothing more to add to a conversation but call others children. So when you can grow up take your ability to be condescending and go to the Huffington Post or some other Democratic site that allows for the idiots like you to be condescending to others. SEMPER FI to the marines who gave up their lives for the real assholes like you in America> Their shed blood was not in vain but shed for you have the ability to spout off at the mouth and be condescending to others. I truly do feel sorry that you truly are a mindless asshole! Go kiss Trumps ass and see how far that gets you. Soon Trump will be out of the picture and the mindless twit like you will be seeking after yet another mindless twit!


31 posted on 08/02/2015 5:59:07 PM PDT by hondact200
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To: ncalburt

Gaul? You have France?


32 posted on 08/02/2015 6:08:52 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: hondact200

Say that was pretty good, almost an opus. Sorry for your troubles , time will tell if Trump is only in it to sell his book.


33 posted on 08/02/2015 9:41:11 PM PDT by Company Man (I've got a Princess Bride quote and I'm not afraid to use it)
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To: hondact200

If you want to understand why Trump is popular, read this.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3318299/posts


34 posted on 08/03/2015 5:28:46 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Republicans are nothing more than "beards" for Democrats.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

For such a wonderful business man and a true fighter against RINO’s (sarc), Trump really does have thin skin.


35 posted on 08/03/2015 2:36:11 PM PDT by TNMOUTH
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