Posted on 08/26/2015 5:08:23 PM PDT by markomalley
Donald Trump believes the moment an Iraqi reporter thew a shoe at George W. Bush and Bush didn’t blink “may have been his best moment if you want to know the truth, that is very sad to say.”
Trump appearing on the Hugh Hewitt Show Wednesday stated that if Jorge Ramos, who interrupted Trump Tuesday “had a microphone, he would have blasted everyone out of the room” since he was “shouting so loud.”
Hugh Hewitt: Yeah what he did, it was not professional. I’ve been doing this for 25 years. It wasn’t professional, but it wasn’t professional for him and it was also very successful for you because of the way you handled it. And I was actually reminded, do you remember when the Iraqi threw the shoe at George W. Bush and he didn’t blink and he just carried on?…
Donald Trump: Yes.
Hewitt: That’s what it reminded me of and you see why?
Trump: Well that may have been his best moment if you want to know the truth, that is very sad to say. But the truth is, I didn’t think in terms of television. I just said you know, “Who is this guy that is screaming.” I don’t think… I think when you’re doing a lot of live television, you don’t necessarily think that you are on live television, but that was live all over the place. And I just thought it was inappropriate. The first thing I thought was it was really unfair because there was so many people, with good, sitting with their hands up, wanting to ask questions and this man was standing up and really shouting quite loud. Now you didn’t hear the extent of it because he did’t have a microphone. Had he had a microphone on and yet you still heard him because he was shouting so loud.
Hewitt: Yeah.
Trump: But if he had a microphone, he would have blasted everyone out of the room. So, it worked out fine. And it probably was good for him. And actually at the end, by the time we finished, I mean I did’t think he was such a bad guy. I’m glad I invited him back because I think maybe I would have been criticized if I didn’t invite him back because you know some people, you know the concept of getting him out, which people didn’t mind but I think they wanted him back. So it was an interesting evening, that I can tell you.
WATCH: (Starts at 4:23)
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Nope. “WND”. Check it out and report back. Very clear. Nice try.
Sigh, I cannot begin to tell you.
Sorry to hear of your personal loss
I do not believe Joseph Farrah for a second
I was talking about the first Gulf War and what followed.
I didn’t revise anything.
Perot was worth around $3 billion when he ran. Today he’s worth around $4 billion and his son is worth around $2 billion. They’ve done all right.
Perot also hated McCain and Kerry over the MIA issue.
Are you kidding me? The Gulf war was over the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait!! Where have you been?
Whatever Obama has on Roberts, Bush knew it, too and still appointed him knowing he would be compromised down the road.
Trump seems incapable of holding his tongue when he has a chance to issue a gratuitous insult.
Hewitt was conducting a polite and non-confrontational interview. He even complimented Trump on the way he handled Ramos. In fact, it seemed to me that Hewitt was giving DT every chance to act the statesman and thereby win over some of us who have doubted his ability to act presidential.
But no, Don apparently can’t resist the temptation to indulge in a bit of cheap New Yorkish street humor, in order to make a disparaging comment about a very decent and honorable man, a President whose leadership during our war on the jihadis will probably be praised by future, unbiased historians.
Will DT’s boorish behavior ever moderate? Dunno. I guess we’re in for an interesting ride over the next 15 months.
Well, you and I both know that we wouldn't even try, at least not before January 20, 2017. And even after that magic date, I gotta rate the proposition as highly dubious.
On the other hand, the Israelis may have no choice but to launch an air attack with their own nukes -- and they really might act sooner rather than later. No exaggeration. Take a look the following lengthy, scary and very authoritative article:
I must say in all honesty that after I read this article a few days ago, I didn't sleep too well that night. It's deeply troubling to think the world could be so close to a nuclear attack, even though initiated by our Israeli friends. But I certainly couldn't fault them if indeed they should act as the article suggests they must.
>> There was plenty of justification to go after Hussein <<
As I recall, there were something like 13 reasons in the “Authorization for the Use of Force” against Sadam.
IIRC, only one or two of those reasons dealt with weapons of mass destruction. And the reasons were so compelling that Biden, Kerry and Madame Rodham voted for the authorization.
So yeah, “plenty of justification” is exactly correct. And I suspect that future, unbiased historians will understand the various justifications and thereby give GWB good marks. Just sorry that I’m too old to live that long!
On the one hand you can go along with the article. But the unintended consequences of such an attack ( almost certain fully united Muslim invasions) opposition from every western government, mischief from Russia and China . . . I don’t see even a frantically desperate Israel doing this.
>> I don’t see even a frantically desperate Israel doing this <<
Oh, I understand your point fully. Horrible consequences could flow from an attack, even if the Sunnis all give Israel covert support.
But I read the entire lengthy article. I recommend you do so as well. I have to say that it’s disturbingly persuasive. All kinds of fascinating but scary details about the technology that show the author truly knows whereof he speaks.
In particular, he has me believing that no “conventional” weapons could now do the job — not with the hardening of potential targets that Iran has already achieved.
The bottom line for me is that Obama has put the whole world in a “box” from which there seems no good escape. Either the Israelis nuke Iran in the short run, or Iran EMP’s us and levels Israel in the intermediate-to-long run. As things now stand, I don’t see a realistic third option. More sanctions? Regime change? A ground invasion? Too late IMO. I can only hope I’m wrong.
I was just saying if you think back to the day he was appointed, most here thought it was wonderful. I certainly thought it was wonderful, I remember the Conservative movement at the time was thrilled that Roberts was appointed.
As for getting inside their heads, I dont know.
Suitor lied and said he was a Conservative,the list is long.
Trump says they wont put one over on him, he will pick true Conservatives./..here`s hoping...We should get it in writing
Are you just acting dumb?
Yes, the Gulf war was over the invasion of Kuwait.
The Gulf war ended with Iraq agreeing to specific terms they had to abide by.
Those terms were later violated - and I listed some of those violations.
The violation of those terms by Iraq was enough justification all by themselves for the resumption of war regardless of 9-11 or the search for WMD.
Are you catching on yet?
Did somebody throw an email server at her?
“Trump is trying to start his swan song by destroying everybody in the pub party....”
The great majority of GOP pols are not doing what we elected them to do.
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