Posted on 03/22/2016 6:08:42 AM PDT by justlittleoleme
HIATT: So what do you think China’s aims are in the South China Sea?
TRUMP: Well I know China very well, because I deal with China all the time. I’ve done very well. China’s unbelievably ambitious. China is, uh… I mean, when I deal with China, you know, I have the Bank of America building, I’ve done some great deals with China. I do deals with them all the time on, you know, selling apartments, and, you know, people say ‘oh that’s not the same thing.’ The level of… uh, the largest bank in the world, 400 million customers, is a tenant of mine in New York, in Manhattan. The biggest bank in China. The biggest bank in the world.
China has got unbelievable ambitions. China feels very invincible. We have rebuilt China. They have drained so much money out of our country that they’ve rebuilt China. Without us, you wouldn’t see the airports and the roadways and the bridges; I mean, the George Washington Bridge is like, that’s like a trinket compared to the bridges that they’ve built in China. We don’t build anymore, and it, you know, we had our day. But China, if you look at what’s going on in China, you know, they go down to seven percent or eight percent and it’s like a national catastrophe. Our GDP is right now zero. Essentially zero.
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RYAN: You [MUFFLED] mentioned a few minutes earlier here that you would knock ISIS. You’ve mentioned it many times. You’ve also mentioned the risk of putting American troop in a danger area. If you could substantially reduce the risk of harm to ground troops, would you use a battlefield nuclear weapon to take out ISIS?
TRUMP: I don’t want to use, I don’t want to start the process of nuclear. Remember the one thing that everybody has said, I’m a counterpuncher. Rubio hit me. Bush hit me. When I said low energy, he’s a low-energy individual, he hit me first. I spent, by the way he spent 18 million dollars’ worth of negative ads on me. That’s putting [MUFFLED]…
RYAN: This is about ISIS. You would not use a tactical nuclear weapon against ISIS?
[CROSSTALK]
TRUMP: I’ll tell you one thing, this is a very good looking group of people here. Could I just go around so I know who the hell I’m talking to?
Of course, when it’s Obama’s word salad, they clean it up for him, don’t they?
Word Salad my arse! It’s plain as day as to whether he would use Nukes: : I don’t want to use, I don’t want to start the process of nuclear.
Why should he answer their loaded question? A completely insane, “Donald Trump cannot be trusted with a nuclear trigger!” soundbite. (Nevermind that Hillary can be bought and sold for ANYTHING at ANY time at ANY price the bidder puts up! And - to the Washington Post - THAT behavior is perfectly acceptable and should be ignored. )
The Wash-Post is not interested in anything but getting more sewage thrown at him.
Now, if he said - “When the first Islamic nuclear weapon is exploded over Israel, the second weapon will explode over Mecca, and the thrid will explode over top of Medina, THEN I would begin listening to the Washington Posts questions about nuclear weapons.
The same nuclear and satellite weapons delivery methods Hillary and Bill already sold to China .
I just don’t trust him.
Me neither... this is how he answers everything.
The only substance he knows is the stuff he gleaned from Cruz back when they were best buds.
I’ve regularly said that Donald speaks like a spoiled third grader. I think I’ll have to alter that. By third grade they teach you that every complete sentence has to have a subject and a verb. He clearly hasn’t reached that threshold.
Your problem IS: Youre not tired of winning, YET!
All that noise.. and nothing about China's aims in the South China Sea.
VERY FUNNY.
I’m not spending $.99 at the link.
I love to win. :)
Trump’s inability to use complete sentences will be devastating in TV ads. If he gets the nomination, Hillary will skewer him with this. We saw a hint of it in her ad in response to Trump’s very funny barking ad. I cringed when he said he consults with himself and has a good brain and so on.
They'll be even more devastating in the debates vs. Clinton.
..DJT said George Schultz was very good—member of the CFR...
Exactly, Trump’s inarticulateness will be on full display in the debates. Of course, she will also have the assistance of the leftist media to make things even worse. Cruz would eviscerate her.
You're right... that's what's happening here.
“All that noise.. and nothing about China’s aims in the South China Sea.”
China has always “conquered” via economic trade...you simply don’t understand the relevance of Trump’s answer. I would agree he needs to bring his speaking down to levels most Americans will understand...he does not do that well. But, don’t kid yourself, he is communicating many relevant things when he talks...hitting many different voter demographics. He has the ability to bring in many thoughts to individual sentences...but, he does so coarsely. That is because he really is not a polished politician.
Answering the questions more succinctly might be a start in mitigating some of that "sewage."
“All that noise.. and nothing about China’s aims in the South China Sea.”
Of course not, it is stupid and potentially dangerous to disclose your strategy in advance to an adversary.
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