Posted on 07/06/2015 11:29:57 PM PDT by z taxman
The big joke Tuesday was that comb-over reality TV star Donald Trump announced that he’s running for president in 2016 as a Republican. As if it isn’t funny enough that he’s given hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Democratic Party and the Clinton Foundation, he also said he wants Oprah Winfrey as his VP. And just in case you aren’t convinced of his conservative credentials, it turns out he’s left quite a liberal footprint of anti-gun, pro-abortion, redistribution of wealth, Obam-esque socialism.
Back in 2000 The Don was flirting with running for president as a Reform Party candidate...
Here’s what he wrote about gun control:
"It’s often argued that the American murder rate is high because guns are more available here than in other countries... This is another issue where you see the extremes of the two existing major parties. Democrats want to confiscate all guns, which is a dumb idea because only the law-abiding citizens would turn in their guns and the bad guys would be the only ones left armed. The Republicans walk the NRA line and refuse even limited restrictions. I generally oppose gun control, but I support the ban on assault weapons."
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Elsewhere in Trump’s manifesto he takes the very liberal position of murdering unborn babies:
"There are some issues I don’t want to say much about. I support a woman’s right to choose, for example, but I am uncomfortable with the procedures. When Tim Russert asked me on Meet the Press if I would ban partial-birth abortion if I were president, my pro-choice instincts led me to say no."
Socialized medicine:
"We need, as a nation, to reexamine the single-payer plan, as many individual states are doing."
(Excerpt) Read more at downtrend.com ...
And yet he’s doing well so far with voters.
Telling the truth about Trump is a liberal conspiracy
!! Being anti-gun is actually conservative! Don’t hurt Trump’s feelings with facts!
WHO IS YOUR CANDIDATE MR. NEW MAN?
Thomas Newton
A decade and half later Trump has changed his views to support the 2nd Amendment.
Or he’s etch a sketching for the GOP Primary. Derp.
“A decade and half later Trump has changed his views to support the 2nd Amendment.”
I have no idea how sincere his conversion is.
I was just noting that he declared himself in the race and then jumped up near the top of the field so he’s getting something right.
I think he’ll stay clear of social issues and 2nd amendment issues given that recent events have settled all of that for the moment.
He seems to be running on immigration, better trade, American jobs.
Trump Speech
https://home.nra.org/home/video/donald-trump-2015-nra-ila-leadership-forum/list/live-event-coverage
So you’re a shapeshifter?
Nah you posted Derp.
“Facing more than a thousand protesters, The Donald railed that New York is in “big trouble” because of “bloated government, corruption all over the place” — and the gun control law enacted after the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre.
“You have the constitutional right to keep and bear arms. You have that right and they want to take it away,” Trump said. “And they are taking it away, slowly but surely, they are taking it away.” “
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Homer Simpson!
His son is a big gun guy that converted him over the years.
Just trying to bring some water back to my dying world.
“His son is a big gun guy that converted him over the years.:
OK. I know very little about his personal life except what has been aired in tabloids and was unavoidable.
I like his 3 main stances. Close the border, better trade deals, jobs for Americans.
It’s probably a long shot for him to get the nomination but right now he’s up near the top.
FOX NEWS SUNDAY JULY 5:
GEORGE WILL: But ask yourself this thought experiment. If Donald Trump were a Democratic mole placed in the Republican Party to disrupt things, how would his behavior be different? I don’t think it would be. There’s all this talk but it’s something to it about the Republican brand.
Picture him on stage in Cleveland. He says something hideously inflammatory, which is all he knows how to say, and then what do the other nine people on stage do? Do they either become complicit in what he said by their silence or do they seriatim have to attack him?
The debate gets hijacked. The process gets hijacked. And at the end of the day, he’s a one-man Todd Akin. And he’s Todd Akin with 10 different facets. That’s the gentleman who in 2014 election said some unfortunate things about rape, and every Republican was asked about them from then on.
http://www.foxnews.com/transcript/2015/07/05/gov-chris-christie-discusses-his-presidential-bid/
If that were true, why, in 2013, did he praise his fellow gun-grabber Michael Bloomberg for trying to take guns from law-abiding citizens?
Donald Trump Praises ‘Brilliant’ Mayor Bloomberg For ‘Putting His Money Where His Mouth Is’ On Guns
No electric sheep?
Trump is whatever you want him to be.
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