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Donald Trump’s resume backs his run for president
New York Post ^ | June 20, 2015 | 10:38pm | By Jonathon M. Trugman

Posted on 06/21/2015 4:46:51 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network

So Donald Trump — New York’s charismatic multibillionaire businessman — has thrown his hat into the 2016 presidential ring.

While many question his presence in the race, 2016 may be the year in which America is in desperate need of a suave, successful businessperson like Trump — or former HP CEO Carly Fiorina — to solve what ails our economy.

(full story here) http://nypost.com/2015/06/20/donald-trumps-resume-backs-his-run-for-president/

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


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To: Georgia Girl 2
Whether you like or dislike Donald Trump he is qualified to be President of the United States.

He is over 35, and a US citizen. Can't argue with that. But so are about fifty million people each of which would do a better job than combover boy.

21 posted on 06/21/2015 10:35:21 AM PDT by Eric Pode of Croydon (Life's a bitch. Don't elect one.)
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To: Flintlock
Trump is very good at saying the kinds of things which cause some people to react viscerally.

It's called "salesmanship".

22 posted on 06/21/2015 10:40:37 AM PDT by Eric Pode of Croydon (Life's a bitch. Don't elect one.)
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To: Eric Pode of Croydon

Actually if you cut through the rhetoric for a few seconds Trump would probably do a pretty good job.


23 posted on 06/21/2015 11:01:10 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: grania
I'm not a gun owner. Why does anyone need an assault weapon?

Because your question, like the Constitution Ignorant Trump, goes directly against the 2nd-Amendment:

II Amendment: A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
Donald Trump is supposed to defend and uphold the US Constitution. How is he going to do when he disagrees with it?

Donald Trump is NOT Ready for Prime-Time.
24 posted on 06/21/2015 11:37:04 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

He’s a crony capitalist big government guy from way, way back. I would vote for Christie or Huckabee before I’d vote for Trump. (please God may I not be confronted with that choice.....)


25 posted on 06/21/2015 11:54:53 AM PDT by Eric Pode of Croydon (Life's a bitch. Don't elect one.)
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To: SoConPubbie
Okay...the right to bear arms shall not be infringed. Does that mean a person who is so inclined could have a nuclear weapon?

I get it that citizens can be armed. for self defense, to protect others and property, and to protect ones rights against an out of control government. Somebody already explained to me the definition of "assault weapons" so I have a clearer picture.

But I don't think someone saying some kinds of weapons should be restricted is a bad thing. I understand, though, that it's a slippery slope and if the gov starts restricting things, it wouldn't be long before squirt guns are illegal.

I don't think it's a reason to discount Trump. I think it's a conversation we need to have. Aren't members of Trump's family hunters? So, I doubt he's a gun-grabber.

26 posted on 06/21/2015 12:10:45 PM PDT by grania
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To: Eric Pode of Croydon
He’s a crony capitalist big government guy from way, way back. I would vote for Christie or Huckabee before I’d vote for Trump. (please God may I not be confronted with that choice.....)

It is far more likely that the choice you will have is Hillary or Donald.

I would vote for Satan incarnate before I would vote for Hillary.

27 posted on 06/21/2015 2:42:36 PM PDT by CurlyDave
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To: Eric Pode of Croydon

Well I must tell you that there are a lot of people who will be fine with giving Trump a chance.


28 posted on 06/21/2015 2:43:56 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: grania

He’s not a gun grabber. Even if he was the legislature is not going to try to pass any gun control anytime soon. The public does not want gun control which is why you see many states passing legislation to loosen their gun laws even further.


29 posted on 06/21/2015 2:50:13 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: grania
...Okay...the right to bear arms shall not be infringed. Does that mean a person who is so inclined could have a nuclear weapon?

The Framers have addressed your question, at least implicitly. Article I, section 8, clause 11 authorizes congress to issue "Letters of Marque and Reprisal". At the time of the founding, these were warrants authorizing private citizens to take action against enemy nations.

The very strong implication was that it was perfectly reasonable for individual citizens, or groups of individual citizens, to possess weapons at least comparable to, if not equivalent, or even superior to those of enemy nations.

Even though congress has never used this power, the thinking behind it is pretty clear to anyone who can read common english. The lawyers who will spend days and months arguing over how many angels can dance on the head of a pin have convinced themselves that the 2A has a much lesser meaning today. But it does not take much thinking or study for a reasonable man to convince himself that the original meaning of "keep and bear arms" was quite broad.

30 posted on 06/21/2015 3:06:41 PM PDT by CurlyDave
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To: CurlyDave; grania
The Framers have addressed your question, at least implicitly. Article I, section 8, clause 11 authorizes congress to issue "Letters of Marque and Reprisal". At the time of the founding, these were warrants authorizing private citizens to take action against enemy nations.

No response Grania?

To tell you the truth Grania, I was floored by your posts on this. I thought you really were a conservative.
31 posted on 06/21/2015 4:56:47 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: Georgia Girl 2
He’s not a gun grabber. Even if he was the legislature is not going to try to pass any gun control anytime soon. The public does not want gun control which is why you see many states passing legislation to loosen their gun laws even further.

If he believes that "assault weapons" should not be in US Citizens hands, then yes, he is a gun-grabber by extension.

Furthermore, it means that from a conservative perspective, he apparently cannot take the oath of office to protect and defend the constitution as he is directly opposed to the most important amendment made to the constitution, the 2nd amendment, upon which all the other amendments and even the constitution itself depends.

Donald Trump is not ready for Prime-Time.
32 posted on 06/21/2015 4:59:45 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

I don’t doubt it. A lot of people would vote for Oprah, or Joel Osteen, or Dale Earnhardt Junior.


33 posted on 06/21/2015 5:09:52 PM PDT by Eric Pode of Croydon (Life's a bitch. Don't elect one.)
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To: SoConPubbie

I am a conservative. I don’t like guns, but respect the Constitutional right to have guns. Anything about the extent of the right to bear arms is new information to me.


34 posted on 06/21/2015 5:23:36 PM PDT by grania
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To: grania
I am a conservative. I don’t like guns, but respect the Constitutional right to have guns. Anything about the extent of the right to bear arms is new information to me.

It SHOULD NOT be for a Presidential candidate.

Furthermore, you should, as a Presidential Candidate (Trump), not be taking sides against the 2nd Amendment.

The Revolutionary War started when the British tried to confiscate the weapons (muskets, which could be considered the "Assault Weapons" of their day) on the greens of Lexington and Concord.

Trump is NOT ready for prime-time and apparently doesn't know his US History, and/or the Constitution, or is the wrong side of this issue to be POTUS.
35 posted on 06/21/2015 5:55:09 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: SoConPubbie; grania
Trump is NOT ready for prime-time and apparently doesn't know his US History, and/or the Constitution, or is the wrong side of this issue to be POTUS.

As my high school civics teacher used to tell us, five plus decades ago: "politics is the art of the possible."

As much as I would love to see a return to the original meaning of the 2A, the best I think we are ever going to get in my lifetime is the appointment of 1 or 2 conservative Supremes. This and a conservative congress may get us to semi-auto rifles and pistols with normal capacity magazines and shall-issue CCW being available throughout the country.

Even if Trump is wishy-washy on the 2A right now, he has room to learn. He is constitutionally qualified to be President, and he can learn the real meanings of history and the founding in a short time.

He is flamboyant, likable, and rich enough to self-finance a serious campaign. He is also media-savvy, which we are going to need to beat Hillary. We could do a lot worse in our nomination. While I like Walker and Cruz more than Trump, on an idealogical basis, Trump has the huge advantage of being wealthy enough and connected enough to take retribution on any members of the media who try to undercut him though skullduggery.

Think Candy Crowley and the 2012 debate, where she essentially lied as the clock ran out to throw public opinion to Obama, when Romney was actually correct on the issue at hand. While she could do that to Mitt, I don't think anyone would have the courage to pull an underhanded trick like that on Trump. Her personal finances would be in the crapper for the rest of her life and every peccadillo in her past would be magnified and broadcast to the entire world.

Best of all, Trump is an unabashed capitalist who can get our economy moving again.

Imagine a guy who has navigated the corruption of the NY real estate market taking on the task of reforming defense procurement. We would have advanced weaponry on time and under budget. In quantities that would make Putin shake & quiver in his boots. And, he would recognize ISIS as a true threat.

36 posted on 06/21/2015 11:19:27 PM PDT by CurlyDave
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To: grania

We may not need an assault weapon, but there is the 2nd Amendment component, and creeping gun control that goes with limiting what a gun owner can have.

When are they doing away with Hammers, Knives, ball bats, fence post, shoelaces all have been used as killing weapons. Not to mention poisons.


37 posted on 06/22/2015 4:52:34 AM PDT by GailA (If You don't keep your Promises to Our Troops, you won't keep them to anyone. Ret. SCPO's wife)
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To: GailA
That's why I'm anti-gun (for me) but pro 2nd amendment. It's about our constitutional rights, added in there because even back then people did not trust the government.

It's also a diversion from what all of this homicidal maniacs have in common. From the little information that trickles to us online, it seems that they've all been prescribed mind-altering pharmaceuticals, which might explain the dead look in their eyes and their blurring of fantasy and reality.

38 posted on 06/22/2015 5:19:21 AM PDT by grania
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To: grania

It’s not just mind altering drugs, a popular sleep aid Lunesta causes EXTREME RAGE KILLING and can from the first pill, the effects last at least 2 days. I don’t sleep well because of pain and was prescribed it. Thus speaks a single experience with it. I hid in the house for 2 days until the effects wore off, as I knew I was not my normal mellow self.

http://www.peoplespharmacy.com/2011/07/18/drugs-that-trigger-violent-behavior/


39 posted on 06/23/2015 5:53:17 AM PDT by GailA (If You don't keep your Promises to Our Troops, you won't keep them to anyone. Ret. SCPO's wife)
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