Posted on 09/20/2015 8:10:14 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS, "THIS WEEK" HOST: Let's get into this controversy over the last couple of days. I saw your tweets yesterday, you said you didn't have a morally responsibility when that question came up about President Obama. But this is getting a lot of attention in part because you have raised questions like this in the past. So, for the record, was President Obama born in the united states?
DONALD TRUMP: Well, you know, I don't get into, George, I'm talking about jobs, military, I don't get into it. They asked the questions. Frankly, it's no longer an interest to me. It's something I don't want to talk about. I want to talk about the vets and the military. I want to talk about jobs. I don't get into that, George.
STEPHANOPOULOS The way to get behind it is answer yes or no --
TRUMP: That's possible, but I don't talk about it.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Even though you raised questions and you investigated this in the past --
TRUMP: Well, people thought I should have defended the president in terms of the question that was asked the other night. My attitude is, would he have done that for me? He's been very capable of defending himself, believe me. So, we'll see what happens. But I think the tweets really covered it cell. I actually was very interested because I got in hot water for not saying anything. First time it's ever happened to me. This is something where I didn't even say anything.
STEPHANOPOULOS: I take that point. But you raised these questions so often in the past, why can't you say definitively yes or not? You raised it many times. And he's not a Muslim.
TRUMP: George, you have raised the question. I haven't raised the question.
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Heck, it was Stephanopoulos himself who bailed obama out when he referred to “my muslim faith” in that early interview.
Good for Trump!!
Taking it to the MSM this morning :)
The media tries to pin him down and he just tosses their questions aside as irrelevant.
The obsession by the media over this speaks volumes of their efforts to hide the truth.
Props to Mr Trump for not backing down to this clown!!
There was a movie with Will Ferrell about time travel. In the movie, he had an encounter with Matt Lauer who ticked him off greatly. One of the lines in the movie was “Suck it, Matt Lauer.”
That’s what little Georgie should be treated to.
The answer is simple. “No one other than Obama and his confidantes know the answer to these questions, because Obama hasn’t released anything meaningful about his past. College transcripts, long form birth certificate. It’s been nothing but misdirection from this president about his past despite all the controversy. And at this point, you’re coming at me more than the media ever has against Obama. So who knows? You certainly don’t. Only Obama knows.”
Everything he’s done shouts “I’m a Muslim!”
And we’re supposed not to notice?
And it’s now used to hammer the GOP front runner?
Stephanopoulos is delusional.
It would have been funny if Trump reminded Georgie about when Bummer said “My muslim faith” and Georgie corrected it.
Obama is as anti-American as they come and is eaither a Muslim or a Muslim enabler bent on the subjugation or destruction of the US. That’s why Stephi, you brunt tool; next time use the other hand.
“And he’s not a Muslim.”
The way to stop this is whenever anyone says that immediately turn it around and ask
“How do you know”.
“Because he’s said so.”
“So it’s just a matter of whether people believe him. If half of Americans don’t believe him it’s not up to me to convince them. If he didn’t lie so much maybe they would believe him. But I really don’t know one way or another.”
Why are the media and few politicians (mostly of the R persuasion and vying for the position of president) so defensive for Obama on that statement-in-passing that someone at a political rally made?
It seems more than just trying to get Trump to ‘claim it’ and apologize for it.
Or, maybe that is all the MSM have remaining in their ‘get Trump’ arsenal.
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They sure did not jump to Trump’s defense a few weeks ago when some of the other R’s were questioning the depth of Trump’s religiousness.
A: “Why can’t you tell everyone that you are ACTIVELY working with Hillary to get her elected President?”
I assume that dialogue didn’t occur, lol. I wish it had!
The obsession by the media over this speaks volumes of their efforts to hide the truth.
Props to Mr Trump for not backing down to this clown!!
You know....maybe I’m finally getting it. Trump is playing “rope-a-dope” with these Obamabot media morons. He ate up Jake Tapper this morning on CNN!!! and...Stephanopoulos is braindead from head to toe (Trump wiped up the floor with him)!!!! Go DONALD TRUMP!!!
Islam does not allow for the concept of a nation-state. (This is the basis of the problems in all of the middle east “nations.” They were created by the west, not by themselves.) There is just Islam. It is a religion, a legal system, a government and all the things that would, to a westerner be a nation. You can not be an American, or, for that matter, a German or a Japanese, and also be a Muslim believer. If you are one, you can’t be the other. They are mutually exclusive. Now, you can be a citizen, but only until Islam takes over the nation. Then you are a “subject” (not a citizen) of the Caliphate.
So you ask, what are those people who are Iranian, or Iraqi? They are Muslim first. The people in charge of those states, like the Ayatollahs, keep up the fiction because they are surrounded by other states. It gives them territorial identity which is useful when dealing with other states. But you can’t be a real citizen with legal protections of those states unless you are Muslim. Then, if you are, the next up is what kind of Muslim? They don’t all have the same rights; depending on who is in charge and what their beliefs are.
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