Some answers for Donald Trump to use the next time he is asked the "killer" questions:

"When the issue of Mr. Obama's birth-right citizenship was first raised, it wasn't just my concern. It was concern for tens of millions of Americans. Quite frankly, there were legitimate questions, and the president could have answered all those questions in 24 hours. All he had to do was tell the officials in Hawaii to release his birth certificate.

But he didn't. He dragged the issue on through the courts for almost 4 years, before he finally released a copy of his birth certificate. Why he dragged America through this for 48 months, rather than solving the problem overnight, we will never know. That's a question you have to ask Pres. Obama and his lawyers, not me.

But it's important to remember that I was not the one who raised these questions! The accusations of the president's foreign birth were repeated again and again, early on, by Mrs. Clinton's lawyer and campaign adviser, Sidney Blumenthal, and her campaign manager, Patty Solis Doyle. Those anti-Obama rumors came from them, not me. It was also the Clinton campaign that released the picture of Sen. Obama attending a party in Kenya in Muslim dress. Why the Clinton campaign did that….. I don't know. But again, that's a question you'll have to ask Mrs. Clinton, not me.

Those rumors didn't start with me, but I think I did us all a service, including Pres. Obama, when I stated for the record last week that I absolutely believe Pres. Obama was born here in the United States.

Why why didn't I mentioned it before then? Because, quite frankly, it had ceased to be an important issue. The worldwide problems that were created by the Obama administration, and Mrs. Clinton's mishandling of our foreign affairs, had become much more important than the rumors that had been fueled by the Clinton campaign during the last presidential campaign.

Yes you're right, I did call Rosie O'Donnell that…. And I think if you look at what she did the lead up to it, personally attacking me and my family…. Quite frankly,…. I think that's about the minimum I could have done.

But since you brought up the issue of women's rights, let's focus on that from moment. There are three highly significant events that prove exactly what Mrs. Clinton thinks about women's rights.

20 years ago there was a scandal in the White House. A young female intern was victimized. If the president had simply gone on television right away, admitted to America what he's done, and asked that we move beyond it, most Americans would've been very forgiving.

But that's not what happened. For almost 4 years, with Mrs. Clinton's lawyer-help, they dragged this through the mud of a constitutional crisis… and our living rooms. They attacked the young woman, and every other woman associated with her. In the end, the president was impeached, not so much for the act itself, but for the lies, abuse, and cover up.

That all could have been avoided if that 20-year-old intern's rights had been respected in the first place.

Secondly, back during an election in Arkansas, there was an accusation of rape. An abusive, hurtful, criminal rape. That accusation came from a very respected woman who is now a prominent attorney in Dallas.

Mrs. Clinton became aware of those accusations, and the probable truth behind them. But instead of coming to the victim's aid, she took that rape woman off to the side and told her, and I'm paraphrasing here, to shut up for the good of her husband's campaign.

There was physical evidence of that rape, and we're told that rape victims should be believed. I wish Mrs. Clinton had decided to help the victim, instead of her husband's campaign.

Finally there was another case of rape. Mrs. Clinton was a court-appointed criminal defense attorney for a man accused of a 12-year-old girl. Again, I'll have to hold back on the description because of who might be watching at home, but it's enough to say that the rape was bad enough, was violent enough, that as a result of the rape that 12-year-old girl will never be able to have children.

Mrs. Clinton was the rapist’s court-appointed criminal defense attorney. But maybe the real criminal part was, that even though she knew her client was guilty, that he was the rapist, she used her position as a lawyer to further attack that defenseless 12-year-old girl.

Without going at all the details, she told the court, in public records, that the rape was the 12-year-old girl’s fault, not the rapists.

And the worst part of all of this; she knew her rapist-client was guilty. She implied in a radio interview that she knew he was guilty and he had lied to beat the polygraph. There is an audiotape of that interview if anyone is interested.

She knew her client was a guilty rapist, so she attacked the young girl to get them off. And maybe the worst part of this whole case, she was good at it. She got the perpetrator, the rapist, off with nothing more than time served in the County jail.

If you ever really want to know what Mrs. Clinton thinks about women, about defending women, about defending their rights, all you have to do is look at these three cases. All you have to do is look at the facts.

Perhaps the worst part is, in her "rebuttal" tonight, Mrs. Clinton will probably try to defend her actions. The bottom line is, it's been years since these horrible things happened, and Mrs. Clinton still doesn't understand that it's wrong, she thinks she can explain it away.

It's like so many things she's done; "we're lawyers, and if we can get away with it…. That makes it okay." That's not okay in the White House…. And that's not okay in my America.

The Clinton campaign keeps trying to tell us about her "experience." They tell us to look at her 26 years in government. Let's do that, let's take a look at her 26 years in government.

Does anyone remember anything she actually accomplished as the president's wife. She talked about doing so many things, but what did she actually accomplish? What actually got done? See, that's the difference between the world of politics and my world of business. In politics, all you have to do is talk a good game. In business, only real results count.

Then she was the senator from New York. Does anyone remember any bills she was the primary sponsor of? I may be wrong, but other than naming a few post offices, does anyone remember anything called the "Hillary Act.” Does anyone actually remember what she achieved by herself as a senator. See, being a senator is different from being president. As a senator, you can depend on the others to do your work for you, to do the heavy lifting. As president, as Harry Truman said, "The Buck Stops Here!" As president you're responsible for everything, and the only time Mrs. Clinton had that responsibility, it was a disaster.

As Secretary of State, our international relations became a fiasco. The first thing she and Pres. Obama did was launch around the world apology tour, telling all the foreign countries that they were so sorry for how bad a country America had been to them.

She handed the Russians a pushbutton that was supposed to solve our problems with them. The results were an absolute disaster. Russia has become a superpower dictatorship, gobbling up countries on its border, and again rattling its rockets and nuclear missiles at the United States. And Mrs. Clinton thought that all could be resolved by a little button that said "Reset." Actually, when the history of the world in the early part of 21st century is written, will know that that button really said "We Give Up."

You don't even have to go beyond the Middle East to look at the disasters she created as Secretary of State. Remember the "Arab Spring". Remember how we were told that was going to make the world safer place. Here's the bottom line. As a result of Mrs. Clinton's incredible malfeasance as Secretary of State, our friends in the Middle East were shot, countries that once supported us have gone over to the other side, and Mrs. Clinton and Pres. Obama did everything they could do to destroy the leadership of our best friend in the Middle East, a true Israeli patriot, Benjamin Netanyahu.

ISIS grew from nothing to start to be the number one terror organization in the world on Mr.s Clinton’s watch. Does anyone think ISIS is the “junior varsity.” The people in Orlando and San Bernadino, and New York, and New Jersey and Washington State don’t.

On the homefront, the Obama-Clinton administration thinks it is a s prime achievement was Obamacare. Do you remember "if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor" Remember "we'll cut health care costs by 25%.” The bottom line here is, even if you still have him or her, your doctor is probably about ready to give up, your healthcare cost has skyrocketed, 80% of the companies who got involved in Obama care had dropped out because it's a financial fiasco, the vast majority of people who signed up for it were already on welfare and the government is paying for it… No, excuse me, you’re paying for it, and they say this is their primary achievement!?!?!?!?!

Stepping back to the Middle East from moment, they're still trying to t he same ell us that the Iranian nuclear deal was good for you. Here's the bottom line; all the sanctions were removed, we gave them $150 billion which they are now using to fund terrorism around the world, and guess what they forgot to tell us when they announced a deal. Guess who verifies that the Iranians are complying and not building hydrogen bombs?

Who make sure the Iranians are keeping their word? That's right, we are depending on the Iranians to police themselves. I know it sounds crazy, it's insane, but that's the international deal Mrs. Clinton is most proud of!

To sum it up, it's all really very simple. There is one overriding belief that Mrs. Clinton holds. She feels it's better when she and the Washington bureaucrats decide everything for you. They want to tell you where to live, how to live, and everything else in your lives, because they think Washington can decide better than you can.

The last 26 years proves that is very, very, very wrong. Please don't let it happen for another four years.

It was an important issue. Had people held true to the original meaning, Obama never would have been President.

In 1787, Being born in the country to a foreign father made you a transient Alien, not a Citizen. The founders were right to put in such a safeguard because look at the mess this foreign idiot caused!

We have just become too foolish to understand and too preoccupied with foolishness to bother remembering what it used to mean. Also, William Rawle introduced a LOT of misdirection into the Historical record.

As Hillary spouts off with accusations about Trump’s past: “You seem to be able to remember an awful lot about my past. That’s remarkable for someone who can’t remember anything about herself when questioned by the FBI.”

I watched with a bunch of Republicans and we were all a bit frustrated at Trump's failure to nail Hillary.

I hope his debate prep team provides him with responses even half as good as these so that he can totally wallop her in the next two meetings.

Good stuff.
I would add when he is asked about donations or tax returns to bring up the foundation.

To the audience: the list of donor’s pay for play will make Americans truly feel like they are at the end of the line.He should do something like ask the audience if they donated to her foundation...if not, then you will be left out.

Tell about the foundation salaries and lack of transparency and sheer greed.

Tell about the Saudis who donated big $$ and how her Isis defeat plan will go when the Saudis have paid her to do the opposite.

Lastly, remind the audience to read her book reviews.

Perhaps he could also challenge Hillary’s lie that “the Republicans caused the economic crash of 2008”. The fact are that the Democrats, led by Bill Clinton, Barney Frank and Chris Dodd were the enablers that allowed Franklin Raines, Jamie Gorelick and other Democrat criminals to crater the economy. This crippling event was then made worse by Obama’s massive bailout that added another 800 billion to our national debt while doing nothing to solve the original problem.

Don’t worry, he can wallop all right. His choice not to last night was deliberate.

This was Trump’s first chance to address the whole country and reassure wimps, millennials and snowflakes that he is not the raging psychopath they’ve heard about. He did not play hardball, or that would have been the only takeaway: Trump the misogynist bully.

Next time will be different. Trump was a gentleman and Hillary was the vicious one. He won’t be passive again in the face of her lies and insults.

Birth Certificate: “What difference, at this point, does it make?”

Taxes: “Didn’t you get them? I emailed them to you.”

One of the women commented that the sound of his breathing through his nose and his cutting in on Hillary to correct her lies seemed a bit bullying to her.

She was OK with it, but she thought other women might find it overly antagonistic. She was especially concerned about those listening on the radio.

Anyway, it looks from the polls that Trump did best among average voters, of which there are many more than there are so-called 'fact' checkers, talking heads, and other associated wanks ... er ... wonks.

The Clinton machine fired every bullet in their gun at Trump, and missed. Trump hasn’t even taken his gun out of the holster.

Don’t think Trump didn’t know this. With two debates left, the only thing Hillary has left is racist, sexist, homophobe. Trump still has emails, Benghazi, anything Bill Clinton, her health, Obamacare.

Yes, Trump could have launched bombs. But now he can do it and there is no witty retort from the Clinton campaign.

When Hillary brings up Trump million dollar give from his parents, Trump Should say:

How did Chelsea get her 10 million dollar Manhatten APT that doubles as a medical ward?

“She handed the Russians a pushbutton that was supposed to solve our problems with them. The results were an absolute disaster. Russia has become a superpower dictatorship, gobbling up countries on its border, and again rattling its rockets and nuclear missiles at the United States. And Mrs. Clinton thought that all could be resolved by a little button that said “Reset.” Actually, when the history of the world in the early part of 21st century is written, will know that that button really said “We Give Up.””

She didn’t even get the reset button right. “”We worked hard to get the right Russian word. Do you think we got it?” she asked Lavrov, laughing.

“You got it wrong,” said Lavrov, as both diplomats laughed.

“It should be “perezagruzka” [the Russian word for reset],” said Lavrov.”This says ‘peregruzka,’ which means ‘overcharged.’””

This crippling event was then made worse by Obama’s massive bailout that added another ~~800 billion~~$7 Trillion to our national debt while doing nothing to solve the original problem.

Did you notice we went from a $438 billion deficit to $1.5 trillion/yr for all of Obama's first term? Where did the extra $1 trillion come from? The Continuing Resolutions rolled the stimulus into the baseline. We have spent it every year since with GOP collusion on the Continuing Resolutions. THAT'S how bad the GOP has been!

Trump should point out that the whole issue of Obama’s birth place came up because both Obama and Michelle claimed that he was born in Kenya in order to gain fees for speeches and to sell his first book. Why is this point being lost on everyone?

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