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EXCLUSIVE: TRUMP CALLS CLUB FOR GROWTH ‘A PACK OF THIEVES’
Breitbart ^ | August 29, 2014 | MICHAEL PATRICK LEAHY

Posted on 09/13/2015 9:17:05 PM PDT by Steelfish

EXCLUSIVE: TRUMP CALLS CLUB FOR GROWTH ‘A PACK OF THIEVES’

by MICHAEL PATRICK LEAHY 29 Aug 2015. NASHVILLE, Tennessee–In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, GOP front runner Donald Trump is firing back at the Club for Growth.

“They’re a pack of thieves,” Trump told Breitbart News as he was leaving Nashville’s Rocketown facility. He had just finished delivering a high-energy speech to an overflow crowd of more than 1,000 people.

Trump was attending the annual convention of the National Federation of Republican Assemblies, which describes itself as “the grassroots Republican wing of the Republican Party.”

“They [the Club for Growth] came to my office looking for money. I turned them down. That’s why they’re after me,” Trump told Breitbart News.

Earlier in the week, the Club for Growth attacked Trump for his proposal to penalize Ford Motor Company for putting a car manufacturing plant in Mexico rather than Tennessee.

“Donald Trump’s threat to impose new taxes on U.S. car companies will hurt the American economy and cost more American jobs,” David McIntosh, President of the Club for Growth, said in a statement.

“It should thrill liberals and Democrats everywhere that Trump wants to create new taxes and start a trade war to force American companies to work where he demands,” McIntosh added.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


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KEYWORDS: 2016election; clubforgrowth; election2016; hib; newyork; trump
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To: Steelfish

I just now spent about 15 minutes searching through the CFG website. I note two things that either disturb me or I find very interesting.

1) I don’t see anywhere I could get at with respect to issues where illegals, amnesty, immigration or anything like that is discussed as a significant issue, and

2) They have “white papers” on most of the candidates. Read through most of their slides on the various sub issues for Bush, Cruz, Rubio, et al AND Trump. As far as I can see CFG is plainly against him, and they footnoted his comments in multiple instances, some going back to the 1990s. The odd thing about this is that there are no ‘footnotes’ for any of the other candidates.

This right here is enough to tell me I don’t want anything to do with those “Over 100,000 pro growth concerned citizens”.


61 posted on 09/14/2015 4:27:21 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: TBP

“The Club for Growth is a well-known, established conservative organization. Attacking them is not wise.”

Given what’s happening to Europe and this country, NO ORGANIZATION is conservative if they support Open Borders. None. There is NO EXCUSE to stick with those policies.


62 posted on 09/14/2015 4:29:32 AM PDT by BobL (REPUBLICANS - Fight for the WHITE VOTE...and you will win (see my 'profile' page))
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To: TBP

How much of the money that they rake in goes for conservative causes, and how much goes into the pockets of the club members?


63 posted on 09/14/2015 4:29:45 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Falcon 105)
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To: TBP
The Club for Growth is running negative ads against the opponent, supporting Senator Portman in OH. Portman's the guy who got the ball rolling on supporting same-sex "marriage" as soon as he got to DC, "for love of his son"...

Just sayin'.

64 posted on 09/14/2015 4:42:50 AM PDT by grania
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To: kabar
Heidi Cruz took a leave of absence? She didn't quit and renounce them? She should release HER financial statements. Has Ted Cruz released his yet?

The total Cruz package....large cheap labor donors, support for H1B Visas, the very bad trade deals, Heidi still connected to Goldman Sachs isn't looking as good as the original promise of Ted Cruz did.

65 posted on 09/14/2015 4:47:49 AM PDT by grania
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To: randita

That may be how it was FOUNDED, but.....

Harvard and Yale, plus many others were founded as Christian colleges; some even specifically for the education and training of ministers of the gospel. Notice how THAT turned out. God is persona non grata at most, if not all. And one of the big two just received a grant (bribe) to finance a School of Sharia Law. And they’re apparently going to keep it, and do it.

So don’t give a scummy outfit a pass merely based upon the fact that once upon a time they had an honorable founding. I think the U.S. Congress and Senate could be Exhibit-A in that discussion.


66 posted on 09/14/2015 4:59:18 AM PDT by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
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To: Gaffer
Other times (if one would get down to personal bias) when I hear Jeb Bush, I get the distinct impression he’s searching for the correct English word for what he’s thinking in Spanish...:0)

That is hilarious.

67 posted on 09/14/2015 5:08:06 AM PDT by Stentor ("The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.")
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To: kabar

Well, that explains a lot. Why would Trump, who is a businessman, donate to an organization which is donating heavily to one of his (Trump’s) competitors in the race?


68 posted on 09/14/2015 5:18:33 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Jim 0216
Get rid of Obamacare. It never was health CARE. It is supposedly health INSURANCE, but the only enduring qualities I see there are Mandates and penalties/taxes/fees for breathing, aside from a redistribution of wealth.

Since the doctors aren't making more off it, the money is going elsewhere--and not to health.

I know of a few businesses who simply quit hiring people and quit expanding--during an oil boom--because of the O care mandates.

69 posted on 09/14/2015 5:26:07 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Steelfish
....start a trade war

Start? WE ARE IN A TRADE WAR NOW, and we are losing.

70 posted on 09/14/2015 5:29:35 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Steelfish

I’m beginning to see that many of these so-called consultants, advocacy groups, and think-tanks are nothing more than protection rackets.


71 posted on 09/14/2015 5:29:58 AM PDT by Flick Lives (One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
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To: randita

Should be - “The Club for Growth is a national network of over 100,000 self interested, government manipulators who share in the belief that requesting million dollar “contributions” from the uber-rich is the quickest path to prosperity and we shall take every opportunity that comes from the economicly free.”


72 posted on 09/14/2015 5:40:06 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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To: Gaffer

Thanks!


73 posted on 09/14/2015 5:43:47 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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To: Ge0ffrey

Trump has made billions. The equate him to the Kardashiansemis silly.

Also, who should we be supporting that has a chance to win?


74 posted on 09/14/2015 6:21:50 AM PDT by boycott
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To: Arthur McGowan

It’s sad. It’s as if they are under some kind of mind numbing spell. But I suppose that is what liberal indoctrination does.

Thanks for that insight.

Do you see any coming around at all?


75 posted on 09/14/2015 7:41:37 AM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Steelfish

“They’re a pack of thieves,”

From what I have seen lately Trump is being kind.


76 posted on 09/14/2015 9:53:49 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: TBP
The Club for Growth is a well-known, established conservative organization.

The CFG once supported an anti-Second Amendment politician. I wrote them in effect that "that's once." If they did anything like that again, I would quit contributing. I think they've shown their true colors by supporting the Cheap Labor Express. No more money for them.

77 posted on 09/14/2015 10:49:42 AM PDT by JoeFromSidney ( book, RESISTANCE TO TYRANNY, available from Amazon)
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To: laplata

I don’t see any change coming. As long as Francis is Pope, most or all new bishops will be pro-abortion lefties like Cupich.


78 posted on 09/14/2015 11:32:03 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan (Beau Biden's funeral, attended by Bp. Malooly, Card. McCarrick, and Papal Nuncio, Abp. Vigano.)
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To: Arthur McGowan

Well, that’s not surprising.

People who think any one candidate can step in and remedy our situation are deceiving themselves. It is too far gone for man to fix.

The Republican’s are in charge of the House and Senate and they can’t even slow down the train wreck.

Thank you.


79 posted on 09/14/2015 11:42:29 AM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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