Posted on 12/16/2014 2:23:26 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
* Trump has kept his spotlight hot and raised smirks by speculating about a White House run, but now he's scheduling speeches in early primary states
* 'A lot of people believe I'm having fun with it, and I enjoy the process,' he said during an Economic Club of Washington event, but 'the country's in serious trouble'
* He lashed out at potential opponents including Jeb Bush and Ted Cruz
* Couldn't come up with a 'single nice thing' to say about Hillary Clinton and insists Sen. Elizabeth Warren will give her serious competition
* Trump has flirted with running for more than a decade but has never pulled the trigger
* One Iowa political consultant says: 'He's a loose cannon with a private jet. I can't wait'
Real estate mogul and 'The Apprentice' star Donald Trump isn't running for president yet, but he is sounding more and more like someone who believes there's a path to the White House opening up before him.
'I can tell you there's a very substantial chance I will (run),' Trump told MailOnline in an interview Monday before he spoke at an event hosted by the Economic Club of Washington.
But 'I don't want to put a number on it,' he said, when asked whether the chance of a Trump candidacy was better than 50-50.
He is, however, lining up support in key early primary states and taking pre-emptive swipes at potential rivals, both classic behaviors of the species POTUS seekus.
Next month Trump will appear at three separate events in Iowa, one of the three marquee states whose Republican voters will anoint a front-runner in the 2016 presidential nomination contest....
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Let’s see, we have a choice between goofballs, traitors, incompetents, and guaranteed losers. Beautiful.
Shut up Trump, you ridiculous bag of gas. Go build something.
Great the RINO’s are lining up the for chance to try to gang up on Cruz!
Any REAL conservative MUST BE STOPPED !
I HATE the GOPe
Romney, McCain, Obama, Cruz - seems odd that each was other born elsewhere, or born of at least one parent who was a foreigner, or both. Very odd.
Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.
What it means is, Ted Cruz will run for President.
Shave your head, Donald.
Trump was on CSPAN today being interviewed.
I figured something was up.
He’s like Gene Simmons...truly a relentless self promoter.
I do get a lot of laughs listening to him.
I’m guessing you forgot Rubio.
OTOH, he doesn't want to file any financial disclosure papers, so he's never going to run. Just going to troll for attention - again.
Be quiet Donald. If you’re real nice, your daughter will let you babysit the Grandkids again, and this time, maybe for free!
Trump isn’t running for POTUS....
He would have to disclose his financials and that isn’t happening...
Trump is a useful idiot. Always has been.
But occasionally - he is one for our side.
Did 0bama?
Trump is little more than cartoon character. And narcissist.
Aren't most of Trumps deals (good, bad, and indifferent) pretty much out in public already?
When faced with yet another GOP loser provided by the party, we will write in Sen.Ted Cruz, a vote we can cast proudly.
He heard that from Bill.
Not really, the Natural Born Citizen requirement is a thorn in the Open Borders / New World Order types.
This is why they are pushing every possible erode the requirement, this is why they are pushing them into the Presidency.
Amen to that. BTW did you hear Michael Savage saying that Cruz just ended his future political career by pandering to the left. He claimed that Cruz made a mistake agreeing with the left’s views of “torture”?
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