Posted on 08/02/2015 8:00:10 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Sunday that Republicans have not given him a warm welcome since he entered their 2016 nominating process.
Trump argued he is on the defensive against over GOP White House hopefuls during an interview that morning.
“I’m not looking to attack them,” Trump said of the rest of the Republican field on ABC’s “This Week.”
“I didn’t start the attacks,” he said. “But I have been attacked and I counter punch.”
“I mean, they attacked me first and I hit them back and maybe even harder than they hit me,” Trump added.
“But the fact is that I’ve been attacked pretty viciously by some of these guys.”
Trump charged that his entrance into politics freed him from his previous life as a New York business mogul. The outspoken billionaire admitted on Sunday that he no longer needs diplomacy when dealing with other public figures.
“I was a businessman all my life,” Trump told host Jonathan Karl.
“I had to deal with politicians and I would contribute to them and I would deal with them and certainly I’m not going to say bad things about people because I needed their support to get projects done,” he said.
“Now I’m no longer a businessman,” Trump added. “Now I’m somebody who wants to make our country great.”
Trump additionally said he is seeking the Oval Office so he can improve America’s fortunes following President Obama’s two terms there.
“I think he has done a very poor job as president,” Trump said of Obama.
“We don’t have victories anymore,” he said. “I think that he has set a very low standard.”
--This report was updated at 10:47 a.m.
Is Trump going to tell us he hasn’t bought into past accusations against conservatives? If he’s going to pretend to be a conservative, he had better get used to it.
The others will turn into the Tower of Babel.
Damn straight.
Keep it up. You know you're over the target.
Isn't it weird how sometimes the Men Seeking Men mediums eat it up when Republicans go at each other but other times it's almost as if it causes them constipation?
I wonder why that is.
“But the fact is that I’ve been attacked pretty viciously by some of these guys.”
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Its only going to get worse. The GOP is in panic mode and their personal attacks against Trump will accelerate with the rise in his poll numbers.
Trump will be short and sweet in all his statements.
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I hope you’re right. That is a good strategy. Keep it pithy.
Please describe how Trump was “viciously attacked” by the other candidates causing him to hit back?
“I mean, they attacked me first and I hit them back and maybe even harder than they hit me,” Trump added.
You get hit, you hit back....harder! The pantywaist GOPe has no clue how to do this.
McCain called Trump’s 15,000 in Phoenix “Crazies” . Limpy Graham called him a “JACK ASS” And Perry called him a “Cancer”. Then Trump cleaned their clocks and turned out the lights on them.
I saw Rove lying AGAIN this morning “expecting to see Trump attack everybody” . That is a groundless lie. He knows it is a groundless lie but he has got to distract from his puppet bush who got bitch slapped by Hillary clinton and thrown out of the bar at a Florida appearance and he never retaliated! That makes me cringe in revulsion for Rove’s puppet.
The GOPe has becoming a punching bag for the Left. People are sick and tired of their lack of courage and convictions.
Trump heads to the sound of gunfire. The GOPe runs away from it.
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Exactly right.
“Please describe how Trump was “viciously attacked” by the other candidates causing him to hit back?”
Why would anyone go to the effort of providing you those links just so you can argue the definition of “vicious” at your leisure?
Alinsky gets predictable.
Your boy, Walker has Hired the Romney Smear team from 2012-2008.
Scotty employees include Mrs George Will who is linked to the Tired Ivana Trump smear .
Scotty hired O’Driscoll the Snake who oversaw the trashing of the conservatives in the 2012 election.
The fact Walker got Prebius his job as Head Viper who runs the most anti conservative RNC in our lifetime says it all.
You were better off astroturfing for Rick La Raza Perry than the stealth Gope snake Walker !
Walker is one of the Gope three amigos along with Rubio and Jebbie.
These KStreet flunkies were working with the RNC to boycott Trump from the first debate.
Team Walker the old Mitten Romney smear team cooked up thevIvana Trump lame hit!
viciously attacked - huh? Oh that’s right rock, paper and scissors - and Trump has suffered a bruised ego from the rock, a paper cut from the scissors and the scissors are being used to cut his real motives - aggrandizement of Trump as the Art of the Real deal. - bottom line lets sell my books so I can get more and more money . It is not about the country anymore it is about the selling a book!
Perry called him a cancer. Walker team called him dummy. Graham called him a racist. Rubio said he should drop out. RNC has said he has no place in the GOP. Bush puppets in media have called him every name in the book. FOX News and WSJ tear him apart every day with orders from Murdoch who has called him an embarrassment. Etc.
“I mean, they attacked me first and I hit them back and maybe even harder than they hit me,” Trump added.
I remember Barry urging his followers to bring a gun to a knife fight, to get in their faces, hit those RINO’s HARD.
Somehow, the MSM thought Barry’s stance was A OKAY
Someone had better change his diapers.
He sounds like a 12-year old again.
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