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Trump Defends Support for Clinton, Adds He's one of the Great Women Abusers of All Time
Washinton Examiner ^ | 1/4/2016 | Ryan Lovelace

Posted on 01/04/2016 8:07:41 AM PST by conservativejoy

Donald Trump on Monday defended his decision to support Bill Clinton when the former president faced allegations of sexual misconduct in the 1990s, but at the same time said Clinton is "one of the great women abusers of all time."

"Why do you call him one of the great women abusers of all time when you've said that the impeachment process against him didn't make sense, Monica Lewinsky didn't make sense?" CNN's Chris Cuomo asked.

"I had to, I was on their side," Trump replied. "Again, Chris, as a businessman I got along with everybody. So it was always important to defend people when I was, it was important for me to get along with the Clintons -"

"But it sounds like your morality shifts based on your motivation," Cuomo interrupted.

"[W]hen I was a businessman, they said I was a great businessman, a world-class businessman," Trump said. "I got along with Clinton, I got along with everybody. I got along with Harry Reid. I got along with everybody."

The billionaire businessman said it was important for him to rush to Hillary Clinton's side because he "needed votes for things," but added that he decided to criticize the Clintons after Hillary Clinton called him a sexist.

Trump argued that he no longer cares about Monica Lewinsky, the White House intern with whom Bill Clinton had a sexual relationship. But he added, "I think that Hillary was an enabler and a lot of things happened that were obviously very seedy." The former reality television star ranks second in the Washington Examiner's newest GOP presidential power rankings.


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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas
Duly noted.

The important thing to me is that's now he's taking them on.

It's been said that a Conservative is a Liberal who's been mugged.

Maybe Trump is tired of being mugged.

Maybe.

61 posted on 01/04/2016 9:51:37 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: GOPJ
In the past BOTH Trump and Reagan were Democrats.

Reagan believed in the Democrat party when it was the party of the "working man." When they went commie, he switched parties. Unlike Trump, he didn't cynically support BOTH parties for 20 years, until he decided to run for president.

62 posted on 01/04/2016 9:51:54 AM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: GOPJ
In the past BOTH Trump and Reagan were Democrats.

I'm sure that when Reagan was a Democrat, he was an honest Democrat, not merely adopting a mask because of an agenda. And he changed his mind because he honestly realized he'd been wrong.

Trump is fake. Truth is completely irrelevant to him. He's lying to us, just like he lied to them, just like he lies to everyone else.
63 posted on 01/04/2016 9:53:52 AM PST by Hilda
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To: Timber Rattler

Please see my more lengthy response to your very intelligent question. It’s earlier in the thread—can’t remember what number it was.

You have a very valid and truthful point. My response earlier in the thread answers this. :)


64 posted on 01/04/2016 10:04:13 AM PST by navymom1
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To: Hilda

We don’t see this issue the same way...

Do you really believe Trump thinks it’s OK for illegals to flood into the country?

Or that it’s OK with him the way vets are treated?

What part of what he’s saying (exactly) do you think he doesn’t mean?


65 posted on 01/04/2016 10:06:05 AM PST by GOPJ (The MSM's the thug arm of the Democrat Party. They'll keep a lid on anything that might hurt Hillary)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

Reagan was a union organizer... he knew what democrats were when he WAS a democrat. The same stuff being said about Trump today was said about Reagan back then... even down to calling him a clown. And a grade B actor...


66 posted on 01/04/2016 10:08:07 AM PST by GOPJ (The MSM's the thug arm of the Democrat Party. They'll keep a lid on anything that might hurt Hillary)
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To: GOPJ
Do you really believe Trump thinks it’s OK for illegals to flood into the country?

If they make him money, yes.

He knows it's not okay with us. In fact, he knows that it's a huge problem for us. So he tells us it's a huge problem for him.
67 posted on 01/04/2016 10:13:50 AM PST by Hilda
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To: GOPJ
Reagan was a union organizer... he knew what democrats were when he WAS a democrat.

"Reagan was twice elected as President of the Screen Actors Guild, the labor union for actors, where he worked to root out Communist influence. "
And Reagan didn't cynically donate to both parties.
68 posted on 01/04/2016 10:16:34 AM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: Boogieman; St_Thomas_Aquinas; Hilda; Artcore; dead

As you can see from the link article below - Reagan was elected six times to the Screen Actors Guild. He was a democrat all those years... a union leader.

Reagan LEFT the democrat party in the early 60’s... then became a ‘viable (Republican) candidate in 1964’. The time between ‘early 1960’s and 1964 is NOT that long a time period. Certainly NOT decades.

http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2013/06/how-ronald-reagan-won-his-first-election/

Reagan had some experience with campaigns in 1966. He had been a union leader as an actor, and he was elected six times to head the Screen Actors Guild.

The former Hollywood actor became active in the Republican Party in California after leaving the Democratic Party in the early 1960s.

Reagan also became a viable political candidate after making a landmark political campaign speech in 1964 on national television supporting the GOP presidential candidate, Barry Goldwater.


69 posted on 01/04/2016 10:19:02 AM PST by GOPJ (The MSM's the thug arm of the Democrat Party. They'll keep a lid on anything that might hurt Hillary)
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To: GOPJ
And you continue to pass over the fact that Trump cynically donated to both parties for 20 years.
70 posted on 01/04/2016 10:21:36 AM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: Artcore

Two election cycles that gave us Obama pretty much inoculated me.


71 posted on 01/04/2016 10:23:27 AM PST by conservativejoy (Pray Hard, Work Hard, Trust God ...We Can Elect Ted Cruz)
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To: GOPJ
During the late 1940s, Reagan and his wife provided the FBI with names of actors within the motion picture industry whom they believed to be communist sympathizers, though he expressed reservations; he said "Do they expect us to constitute ourselves as a little FBI of our own and determine just who is a Commie and who isn't?".[42]

Reagan testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee on the subject as well.[43] A fervent anti-communist, he reaffirmed his commitment to democratic principles, stating, "I never as a citizen want to see our country become urged, by either fear or resentment of this group, that we ever compromise with any of our democratic principles through that fear or resentment."[43]

The Democrap party left him.

72 posted on 01/04/2016 10:25:20 AM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas; GOPJ

So, you refuse to address the facts that GOPJ has presented?

Care to explain Cruz working with Ryan to help pass TPA in the Senate and Cruz’s support for H1B Visas?

Trump has been a private citizen is entire life, Cruz is a sitting member of the U.S. Senate. The double standard you folks use is an amazing thing to behold.


73 posted on 01/04/2016 10:27:04 AM PST by Artcore
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To: Artcore

Clarification on my comment:

‘Care to explain Cruz working with Ryan to help pass TPA in the Senate...’

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Cruz and Ryan wrote an op-ed to help garner support for TPA in both the House and Senate.

It was also very telling that Obama’s strong support for TPA/TAA/TPP wasn’t a red flag for Cruz of how bad these things actually were. Strange indeed.


74 posted on 01/04/2016 10:30:52 AM PST by Artcore
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To: Artcore
Care to explain Cruz working with Ryan to help pass TPA in the Senate and Cruz’s support for H1B Visas?

I already did. Maybe you missed it.

75 posted on 01/04/2016 10:33:56 AM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas
Most large companies donate to both parties... and would rather NOT ‘donate’ to either party - Republican or Democrat.

Remember how Jesse Jackson would shake down companies for cash for his projects? Do you really think most of those companies were backing Jackson's brand of ‘civil rights’ or that they didn't want to fight him and Jackson's white liberal elite ‘friends’ in the press?

If you guessed what Jackson was doing was a shakedown you were right.

Businessmen must PAY to get someone to pick up the phone when they call. It's a shakedown. Congress wrote the rules so it would be OK for all sorts of ways for companies and countries to give them money.

It's one of the reforms Trump is running on... Trump KNOWS how politicians get bought - BECAUSE HE'S BOUGHT SOME... That's why he won't accept money from large donors... he 'gets' what's going on....

76 posted on 01/04/2016 10:56:26 AM PST by GOPJ (The MSM's the thug arm of the Democrat Party. They'll keep a lid on anything that might hurt Hillary)
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To: Artcore

Thanks Artcore... nice to have you here.


77 posted on 01/04/2016 10:58:35 AM PST by GOPJ (The MSM's the thug arm of the Democrat Party. They'll keep a lid on anything that might hurt Hillary)
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To: GOPJ
Remember how Jesse Jackson would shake down companies for cash for his projects? Do you really think most of those companies were backing Jackson's brand of 'civil rights' or that they didn't want to fight him and Jackson's white liberal elite 'friends' in the press?

This would be called "cowardice."

We know from history that boards of directors usually capitulate.

In this case we know exactly who capitulated, over and over, for 20 years.

78 posted on 01/04/2016 11:04:01 AM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

Every company I’ve ever heard of does the same thing... gives to both parties. I can assure you - they don’t like it either.


79 posted on 01/04/2016 11:07:51 AM PST by GOPJ (The MSM's the thug arm of the Democrat Party. They'll keep a lid on anything that might hurt Hillary)
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To: GOPJ
Trump went along to get along. No Patrick Henry moment for him.

"Yes Mrs. Clinton! How much Mrs. Clinton? Are you sure this is enough to keep the IRS away from my accounts, Mrs. Clinton?"

Yep, that's the guy to stand up and shut down the system.

80 posted on 01/04/2016 11:23:19 AM PST by dead ("I'm up to my eyeball in virgin goats!" - Mullah Omar)
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