Posted on 07/12/2015 1:15:37 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Donald Trump took his ire toward Mexico to a new dimension as he visited Los Angeles this weekend.
During a speech to Hollywood conservative group Friends of Abe last night the GOP presidential candidate said Iraq was a needed buffer against a hostile Iran and that it was wrong for the United States to have invaded Saddam Hussein's fiefdom.
"Instead," Trump told the crowd, “we should have invaded Mexico."
This was according to an attendee who wishes to remain anonymous.* The remark was greeted with rousing applause, our source said.
The real estate mogul also said that, if he were elected to the highest office of the nation, he would "blow up the oil wells" that he believes sustain the Middle East terrorist group ISIS.
Trump arrived for the 7:30 p.m. event at the Luxe Sunset Boulevard Hotel at 7:55. He was transported in a two-SUV caravan, and he didn't stop to greet supporters outside.
Demonstrators appalled by his June 16 comments that Mexican immigrants are drug-running criminals and "rapists" gathered across the street from the Brentwood venue.
Our source said that Friends of Abe, whose membership reportedly includes Clint Eastwood, Gary Sinise and Pat Boone, rented out the hotel bar, patio, and lobby lounge to ensure privacy.
Even hotel guests, the witness said, were told they could not use the bar during the event.
Actor Nick Searcy of FX's Justified entered the dining room in a Mexican wrestling mask and told the invite-only crowd, "I had to wear this to get past ‘em." He was ostensibly referring to the pro-immigrant protesters outside, most of whom appeared to be Latino. The comment evoked laughter, our source said.
Author Ann Coulter, who has been equally if not more vicious on immigration, was in the audience, and Trump blew her a kiss from the podium, the witness said.
Lou Ferrigno, Paul Sorvino, and Morgan Brittany were spotted in the audience. Comedian Tom Dreesen introduced Trump but asked the audience to keep his own name out of it, we were told.
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After speaking to the Friends of Abe, Trump took no questions and exited.
Following his June 16 comments, Trump has stood fast by his stance — "when Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best" — but he also expressed some qualified affection for the Mexican people and aimed his guns more specifically at the White House and at the Mexican government.
"Their leaders are much smarter, sharper and more cunning than our leaders and they’re killing us at the border and they’re killing us in trade," he said during a campaign stop in Phoenix today.
Thank you, dearest Jim!
MSM in its vicious dishonesty almost always omits the word “ILLEGAL”!
Someone must have severe triskaidekaphobia.
“And our idiot Marxist president flat out doesn’t give a shit how it happens. Just as long as America is destroyed.”
Amen.
been there, done that, Mr. Trump
We got 6 states out of the land ceded by Mexico in 1848. Obama took 4 of them both times, for a net gain of about 60 electoral votes each time for the 'Rats.
Better not annex any more territory.
There's a difference between those who've come here legally, to improve themselves AND this country...and those who come here ILLEGALLY, to commit crimes and sponge off entitlements.
LOL, just thinking, we should offer Mexico Statehood if they keep coming in at the rate they are.
Dead on the mark, plus he's surrounded himself with Marxists to help him do it.
I'm not certain about Trump either, but he's putting his own money where his mouth is!! And he's stating facts! No notes, he knows the issues and he speaks smash-mouth bold in plain English.
Right now, I'm very much open to Trump's candidacy, because like you said, unless this illegal invasion is stopped and corrected, we *are* going to lose our country.
LOL.
Just that one?
Had Mexico become part of the USA it would have had a lot of wide ranging effects for the world later on.
Cuba may not have gone communist simply because it would have been harder for Castro and his boy Che to reach. The Panama canal would have likely been built sooner and central America would be in much better shape with a massive trucking industry to and from the canal. Space launches would probably be from the Yucatan.
Probably all kinds of things I’m not considering.
No, there’s more.
But some amuse me more than others.
Hear hear!
Mexico might very possibly have been a bite the US couldn’t handle.
In fact, when the war started most military observers thought the Mexican Army considerably outclassed the US Army, which had in general not covered itself with glory in the War of 1812, its last conventional operations.
Right on Jim. We left California 18 years ago and it’s hard to imagine how quickly this has happened. I was scheduled to go to the bay area this coming week but lucky for me a fellow FReeper bailed me out.
A line of cobalt 60 at the border should do the trick.
Fine but 1) Did he say the US should invade Mexico and 2) If so was he serious? Try looking back at the topic once in a while.
They are invading us.
Turnabout is fair play.
Don’t like it, then don’t invite it.
So you think we should invade Mexico? That’s a plausible solution?
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