Posted on 02/29/2016 12:47:40 PM PST by TheThirdRuffian
The New York Times is sitting on an audio recording that some of its staff believes could deal a serious blow to Donald Trump who, in an off-the-record meeting with the newspaper, called into question whether he would stand by his own immigration views.
Trump visited the paper’s Manhattan headquarters on Tuesday, Jan. 5, part of a round of editorial board meetings that — as is traditional — the Democratic candidates for president and some of the Republicans attended. The meetings, conducted partly on the record and partly off the record in a 13th floor conference room, give candidates a chance to make their pitch for the paper’s endorsement.
After a dispute over Trump’s suggestion of tariffs on Chinese goods, the Times released a portion of the recording. But that was from the on-the-record part of the session.
n Saturday, columnist Gail Collins, one of the attendees at the meeting (which also included editor-in-chief Dean Baquet), floated a bit of speculation in her column:
The most optimistic analysis of Trump as a presidential candidate is that he just doesn’t believe in positions, except the ones you adopt for strategic purposes when you’re making a deal. So you obviously can’t explain how you’re going to deport 11 million undocumented immigrants, because it’s going to be the first bid in some future monster negotiation session.
Sources familiar with the recording and transcript — which have reached near-mythical status at the Times — tell me that the second sentence is a bit more than speculation. It reflects, instead, something Trump said about the flexibility of his hard-line anti-immigration stance.
So what exactly did Trump say about immigration, about deportations, about the wall? Did he abandon a core promise of his campaign in a private conversation with liberal power brokers in New York?
(Excerpt) Read more at buzzfeed.com ...
“I won’t say “I told ya so” to the Trumpbots just yet.”
WHY?? Do YOU know what’s on the tape? Do you now what Trump said??? NO one else knows!
You’re being punked. Fed innuendo, second hand claims, hearsay.
“We’re letting you know this now but can’t present evidence until September”, when Megyn Kelly’s book comes out claiming Trump was stalking her, woo’ed her. Told her she did good shows.
Two days ago Cruz released nine years of tax returns. You probably know that, but that doesn’t stop you.
Where is Cruz pushing this? I just saw it on Google news.
It’s being pushed FOR CRuz via his campaign arm Cruzervative Review/Mark Levin’s FB.
That’s where.
I N U E N D O
by the bushel
Summaries.
He has no biz interests, so no biggie.
Trump should shut this one down easily. Just ask them to release whatever it is they have. Issue should be easy open and shut case. Unless Trump is lying to everyone.
Buzzfeed is a commie site...and anything they write about is nothing but lies...
Donald Trump could hand a ‘homeless man a hundred dollar bill’ and there could be cameras around to report it, but this stupid site buzzfeed would say ‘Donald Trump walked right by a homeless man and ignored him’....that’s what I’m upset about...
All the MSM lie and all the time!!!
The issue for me is that we're told we have to accept all of Trump's non-conservative positions because he's so unique on immigration. But I think that when push comes to shove, Trump's immigration plan (if enacted) will have few if any differences to the ones Cruz or Rubio would enact. Congress simply won't pass anything more severe.
So I worry we're going to get the same immigration plan, plus ethanol subsidies, no entitlement reform, opposition to Citizens United, and all the other Trump baggage.
Spent yesterday telling some hard core lefty relatives terrified of Trump that they might be pleasantly surprised at the difference between what he's promising to excite primary voters, and what he actually ends up delivering.
OK, not on Facebook, by design.
I just want to hear the tape. This is Trump’s CORE issue.
I just heard a clip of Cruz at a rally saying there’s a secret tape. That’s the first I heard of it.
How many times are they going to peddle this “11 million undocumented immigrants” crap, when we all know it’s really 40 million or more ILLEGAL aliens!
And where is this audio recording, New York Times?
Put up or shut up, New York Slimes. If it exists, let’s hear it.
The NYT can’t release the tape unless Trump consents.
He’s pushing it now at his rally.
“Holding to super tuesday eve is a bit late.”
Or maybe they’re saving it for the general when it may pay even greater dividends from the Slimes point of view.
Dec 9th, 2015 - "Per a memo from BuzzFeed's Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith, if you want to call GOP frontrunner Donald Trump a racist, that's cool – as long as you work for BuzzFeed. ...
Smith recently wrote a letter to his staff detailing the guidelines of social media policy regarding reporting on Trump's campaign and concluded that it was perfectly fair to label him as a "mendacious racist," largely because the things he's been publicly saying and posting to Twitter can be construed, to many, as such. Because of that, Smith claims, "BuzzFeed News's reporting is rooted in facts, not opinion; these are facts." " -snip-
Two reasons.
One it was off the record.
Two they will still release it after Trump gets the nomination. They want Hillary to win and best chance for her is for Trump to win the GOP nomination. Regardless if you agree with that or not that IS what the liberals think. They want Trump to win. Of course we thought Obama would be easy to beat as well.
“All the MSM lie and all the time!!!”
I completely agree.
And this is an easy one for Trump to shut down simply by releasing the tape.
Off the record???? Then why did the NYT continue recording?!!
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