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Trump declares war on GOP, says ‘the shackles have been taken off’
The Washington Post ^ | October 11th, 2016 | By Sean Sullivan, Robert Costa and Dan Balz

Posted on 10/11/2016 5:36:30 PM PDT by Mariner

Donald Trump declared war on the Republican establishment Tuesday, lashing out at House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (Wis.), Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) and other GOP elected officials as his supporters geared up to join the fight amid extraordinary turmoil within the party just four weeks before Election Day.

One day after Ryan announced he would no longer campaign on Trump’s behalf, the GOP nominee said as part of a barrage of tweets that the top-ranking Republican is “weak and ineffective” and is providing “zero support” for his candidacy. Trump also declared that “the shackles have been taken off” him, liberating him to “fight for America the way I want to.”

Trump called McCain “foul-mouthed” and accused him with no evidence of once begging for his support. The 2008 nominee pulled his endorsement following a Friday Washington Post report about a 2005 video in which Trump is heard making vulgar comments about forcing himself on women sexually.

“I wouldn’t want to be in a foxhole with a lot of these people, that I can tell you. ... especially Ryan,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News Channel. He said if he is elected president, Ryan might be “in a different position.”

In perhaps the most piercing insult, Trump said his party is harder to deal with than even Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, whom conservatives loathe. Yet he also released a new TV ad featuring footage of Clinton coughing and stumbling during a recent bout with pneumonia — signaling that few issues are out of bounds for his scorched-earth campaign.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


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WAR!

This is a very positive development.

1 posted on 10/11/2016 5:36:30 PM PDT by Mariner
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To: Mariner

LET IT ALL RIP. BURN DOWN THE HOUSE. The revolution is near.


2 posted on 10/11/2016 5:37:46 PM PDT by Hildy
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To: Mariner
He's on his own. Whatever he says won't be accurately stated in most of the MSM. He's pissed them off, and while it did please me at the time, is now coming home to roost. The MSM will get Hillary elected whether we like it or not.

Starting to regret the decision I made over a decade ago to cut back drinking alcohol to infrequent occasions ...

3 posted on 10/11/2016 5:38:42 PM PDT by CatOwner
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To: Mariner

Burn it down.

Ryan as a bank teller, Beck in a homeless shelter.


4 posted on 10/11/2016 5:39:28 PM PDT by anton
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To: anton

Your enemies are not always your enemies and your friends are not always your friends.


5 posted on 10/11/2016 5:40:57 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: CatOwner

“The MSM will get Hillary elected whether we like it or not.”

Stop with the FUD, sheesh. Trump is going to win. After all the crap that’s been thrown at him he’s still ahead or tied. Grow a pair.

Vote Trump 2016


6 posted on 10/11/2016 5:41:42 PM PDT by TheStickman (Trump will be the 1st Pro America president since Reagan)
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To: CatOwner
The MSM will get Hillary elected whether we like it or not.

The MSM was supposed to keep him from getting this far, and they failed. Why are the Rats so worried if they've got it in the bag? You know nothing. At least admit it.

7 posted on 10/11/2016 5:42:37 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: CatOwner

You sound like a bed-wetter. Are you a bed-wetter?


8 posted on 10/11/2016 5:42:47 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: Mariner

Go Trump!


9 posted on 10/11/2016 5:43:08 PM PDT by Lent
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To: Mariner

We are definitely at war.


10 posted on 10/11/2016 5:43:27 PM PDT by TTFlyer
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To: Mariner

Trump interview on Bill O’Reilly:

https://youtu.be/CG_5uKBoFX0


11 posted on 10/11/2016 5:44:55 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: TheStickman

I live in the wrong part of the country to have much to be upbeat about. I live in one of the lesser liberal areas of California (though still quite left leaning), and I get my choice of two DEM candidates for our House seat. Having to rely on the rest of the country to bail us out give one a feeling of no control over our political destiny.


12 posted on 10/11/2016 5:45:22 PM PDT by CatOwner
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To: TTFlyer

Oiling up the trigger release on the guillotine as we speak.


13 posted on 10/11/2016 5:45:57 PM PDT by Don Corleone (Oil the gun, eat the cannolis, take it to the mattress.)
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To: CatOwner
The MSM will get Hillary elected whether we like it or not.

Perhaps "We The People" will have something to say about that.

14 posted on 10/11/2016 5:46:42 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Try another insult and see if you can really hurt my feelings, sweetie.


15 posted on 10/11/2016 5:46:55 PM PDT by CatOwner
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To: TTFlyer; All
"We are definitely at war."

Then we must be in it to win it.

First, we must ensure that McCain and Ryan are NOT elected. We do that by voting for their respective Democrat opponents.

There are several more.

Their MUST be a price for the treachery of the Republicans.

16 posted on 10/11/2016 5:47:12 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

Cry havoc and let loose the dogs of war!

Go Trump!


17 posted on 10/11/2016 5:47:38 PM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittanc)
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To: CatOwner

Republicans in Louisiana used to feel the same way you do. Then Louisiana finally went Republican in a big way, but it turned out the Republicans were too moderate to stop the Democrats from raising taxes and regulating the economy.


18 posted on 10/11/2016 5:48:11 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Trump-Pence, 2016)
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To: CatOwner

Waa...waaa


19 posted on 10/11/2016 5:48:12 PM PDT by Osage Orange (PNA....my butt)
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To: CatOwner

Sure wouldn’t want to share a foxhole with you. You’d spend the entire time crying like a baby.


20 posted on 10/11/2016 5:49:48 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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