Posted on 07/12/2015 1:15:37 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Donald Trump took his ire toward Mexico to a new dimension as he visited Los Angeles this weekend.
During a speech to Hollywood conservative group Friends of Abe last night the GOP presidential candidate said Iraq was a needed buffer against a hostile Iran and that it was wrong for the United States to have invaded Saddam Hussein's fiefdom.
"Instead," Trump told the crowd, we should have invaded Mexico."
This was according to an attendee who wishes to remain anonymous.* The remark was greeted with rousing applause, our source said.
The real estate mogul also said that, if he were elected to the highest office of the nation, he would "blow up the oil wells" that he believes sustain the Middle East terrorist group ISIS.
Trump arrived for the 7:30 p.m. event at the Luxe Sunset Boulevard Hotel at 7:55. He was transported in a two-SUV caravan, and he didn't stop to greet supporters outside.
Demonstrators appalled by his June 16 comments that Mexican immigrants are drug-running criminals and "rapists" gathered across the street from the Brentwood venue.
Our source said that Friends of Abe, whose membership reportedly includes Clint Eastwood, Gary Sinise and Pat Boone, rented out the hotel bar, patio, and lobby lounge to ensure privacy.
Even hotel guests, the witness said, were told they could not use the bar during the event.
Actor Nick Searcy of FX's Justified entered the dining room in a Mexican wrestling mask and told the invite-only crowd, "I had to wear this to get past em." He was ostensibly referring to the pro-immigrant protesters outside, most of whom appeared to be Latino. The comment evoked laughter, our source said.
Author Ann Coulter, who has been equally if not more vicious on immigration, was in the audience, and Trump blew her a kiss from the podium, the witness said.
Lou Ferrigno, Paul Sorvino, and Morgan Brittany were spotted in the audience. Comedian Tom Dreesen introduced Trump but asked the audience to keep his own name out of it, we were told.
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After speaking to the Friends of Abe, Trump took no questions and exited.
Following his June 16 comments, Trump has stood fast by his stance "when Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best" but he also expressed some qualified affection for the Mexican people and aimed his guns more specifically at the White House and at the Mexican government.
"Their leaders are much smarter, sharper and more cunning than our leaders and theyre killing us at the border and theyre killing us in trade," he said during a campaign stop in Phoenix today.
What kind of “reporting” is this?
It was a public event not a secret underground meeting.
Does this stuff help us win the White House?
Makes me wonder about a guy that had the Clintons, Katie Couric and other such types at his his wedding.
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=hillary+clinton+at+donald+trumps+wedding+photos
Oh boy...what next? Nuke ‘em from orbit?
And there is this too, only to read, I’m not making judgements yet. I don’t think anyone posted it but I don’t think it shows any great reversals on issues:
I can’t believe he would say this.
I am shocked at the depth of my sudden love for this man.
One.
Anonymous.
Source.
This is the level of 'news reporting' in America today. My only surprise was that they didn't claim Trump raped a two-year-old boy on-stage.
He has Ideas? Really?
Don't infuse this article with false veracity. There is ZERO indication that this actually happened.
Dude. You've been around here for a while. You know better than to fall for the 'one anonymous source' lie from the Propaganda Machine called the 'American News Media'.
Of course he didn't. The press simply makes s**t up these days. Seriously.
“If we owned Mexico, would we deal any better with their gangs than we do our own?”
Take a look at the Mexico-Guatemala border versus the US-Mexico border and you tell me. I’d rather close off that border after we’ve secured Mexico as a US territory. We should be at war with Mexico and their soft-invasion of us, only we don’t seem to care.
Hell no, we have enough cultural friction as things are.
Yes, and "One Anonymous Source" will have been next to Donald on the NYC subway, and will have overheard him speaking about nuking Mexico into a cell phone.
Those whacky "One Anonymous Source"'s! Such crazy kids!
Some things needs to be driven home when the loser of a conflict decides to behave badly
I've watched the press descend from "selective reporting phase", to "taking out of context" phase, to "altering a statement's meaning phase", and now we are finally into the "making s**t up out of whole-cloth phase".
Why not ? It is as deranged as saying you would bomb “the hell” out of Iraq’s oil fields and he doesn’t even believe it is an actual country.
Really.
WAY over the top.
Next thing we know he might let slip 'The bombing begins in 5 minutes'.
Don't laugh, he so nutty he just might!
Well, we could have kept a couple parts of it we gave back like Baja or didn’t choose to really seize, but we did keep about half of it by the a treaty of Guadaluoe Higsldo in 1848
You and I don't agree about much, so let us celebrate the one time we agree about something.
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