Posted on 04/11/2011 6:27:18 PM PDT by mnehring
Investing in a downtown dream [Donald Trump] will be attending a ceremony Thursday for the demolition of the former Chicago Sun-Times building. Trump's 90- story tower will be financed through several sources. INVESTORS Total of $160 million [George Soros] Fortress Investment Group LLC Grove Capital LLP, a spinoff of Soros Fund Management Blackacre Institutional Capital Management LLC CONSTRUCTION LENDER $650 million Deutsche Bank Chicago Tribune...
Maybe not most, but a lot are. You should have seen people defending his history of bankruptcy as a business plan and using eminent domain to seize property for his own use (such as taking family businesses for parking lots for his casino). A LOT of people are drinking his kool-aid.
Well, now I know why I have felt so uneasy with Trumps sudden conspiracy theories being picked up by all the media. Nothing about it felt right. Now I think it’s clear that he is another soros plant to discredit the conservative movement. He is planted for the purpose of splitting the Tea Party vote. It’s just another way to pull votes away from Sarah Palin. Send him to the dust bin of history, quick.
The only people on FR who back Trump have one issue, the birth certificate and they don’t care about any of his policy positions. This scares me. I don’t think they even know his positions on anything else.
One battle at a time. If he can help destroy obama and the dems at this time, then we should support him in his efforts.
Things are radically different today than 2007 and 2004. People can change. Maybe he had an epiphany.
If he was tied together at the hip then, he sure isnt making any points these days is he since he is out and out attacking Soroses boy.
Article back in Oct/Nov of last year, Soros giving up on Obama and considering other paths including Trump. (end of this thread).
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2703283/posts
I was surprised when trump came on the scene. I liked what he had to say about China, and manufacturing being drummed out of this country by regulations and taxes. I fail to understand why his birth certificate issue is so undermined. But then I guess rules are not rules, laws are not laws, and the Constitution just doesn’t matter anymore.
Fine, then whent he primaries hit we pick someone other than Trump..that is if he runs, which I have my doubts on.
I believe Trump is going to back someone. And if indications are anything, what Palin said about the BC issue the other day is an indication. She flipped on the issue from a few weeks ago.
Here is a political rule for you who are amateurs. When somebody is ripping apart your political enemy, you shut the HELL UP and let the fir fly. Then you move in after the smoke settles, you notice that Romney is nowhere to be found at this time? Not a word from him.
The whole bunch are a lot of shysters...ALL OF THEM.
Totally agree!!!
“If he was tied together at the hip then, he sure isnt making any points these days is he since he is out and out attacking Soroses boy.”
Yes Barry is Soros’ Mini Me. I don’t think the puppetmaster is ready to give him up just yet.
Don’t forget that Trump presented the Obama Admin with an offer to build a $20-$30 million grand ballroom onto the Whitehouse as a gift to the country. They have never even acknowledged the offer. I saw Trump mention it in an interview. I can’t say I’d blame him if he was peeved. Maybe he just decided to get a little payback. Who knows?
Maybe Trump is a patriotic american who thinks the same way we all do that the country is going to Hell in a handbasket and he thinks he can do a good job getting back on track. Just a thought. I’m watching and waiting to see what happens.
While you are correct on thse that support him the fact is they are republican socialists or liberal-tarians.
Well, there may - or may not be - 'guilt by association'. Am sure Trump ready to defend. . .and attack. . .attack. . .attack.
Who knows. . .perhaps this is their 'reward' for Trump's bold BC challenge to Obama; and is warning of what might come.
The 'dirt diggers' for the Dems, no doubt; put in more hours than anyone in their Party. And probably get paid the least; or OTOH; maybe the most. . .
Yes. But I wouldn’t put it past Soros to give Trump the limelight, featuring him as a Christian conservative to draw in the Tea Party crowd.....then who knows what?!!!! We must think long and hard about this one.
Am definitely looking for change and while I am hoping it not my 'ending point; 'anybody but Obama' is my starting point.
Be proud. John Kerry voters voted for anybody but Bush.
It’s just business.
I do business with people I don’t agree with politically and they don’t agree with my views.
But we still gotta make paper.
Ahhh, but they voted for a Democrat. And under my 'anybody but' considerations; they are out of bounds as are Libertarians and either of the 'Paul's'. (As well as a few Repubs who are not going to run 'anyway'.)
Do want our candidate wannabees to stop shaking their heads over Trump and try to take at least a page or two, from his playbook.
But of course, they will not 'go there'. . .to the really sticky issues, challenges; i.e the lies - and truth - of everything Obama.
I didn’t write this, but got it from a friend in California todayL:
The Magic of Donald Trump
By Ben Shapiro · Wednesday, April 13, 2011
For well over a year, I, along with the rest of the conservative base in America, have lamented the lack of decent possible Republican presidential candidates. Despite the fact that he has run the most incompetent administration in history, President Obama remains a solid bet for re-election in 2012. Obama’s frontrunner status springs from two crucial facts: first, by overexposing himself in the public eye, he has made himself larger than life; second, the Republican field is pathetically weak.
Mitt Romney has about as much charm as a Ziploc bag, and his support for Romneycare in Massachusetts should immediately put him out of the running. Though brilliant, Newt Gingrich is chameleonic and impossible to peg down to principle; therefore, he’s unacceptable to many primary voters. Sarah Palin is polarizing; Haley Barbour bears too strong a resemblance to Deputy Dawg; Mike Huckabee isn’t interested in running, and his religious background makes him a beloved target of the secular press; Tim Pawlenty makes Ben Stein seem colorful.
The Republican field has not been this wide open since ... well, since 2008. Sadly, the intervening three years have not cleared up any questions.
If Republicans were to construct an ideal candidate, he would have to be rich beyond belief — Obama is going to raise $1 billion for his next election campaign, and no Republican candidate has the ability to come close to those numbers without deep pockets. The ideal Republican candidate would have significant name recognition with the general public — no Republican candidate has ever won the presidency without significant name recognition going into the primaries since Warren G. Harding in 1920. The ideal Republican candidate would have stage presence, an intimidation factor, and a willingness to play dirty.
In the last several weeks, that ideal Republican candidate has materialized.
His name is Donald Trump. His slogan is ready-made: “You’re Fired.” He does not give a damn what the media thinks of him — he steamrolled Meredith Vieira during his NBC interview with her last week. He can self-fund to the tune of $1 billion.
And what’s more, he can win.
Pay no attention to the recent polls showing Obama crushing Trump by 20 points in a head-to-head matchup. That disparity is attributable to the public perception that Trump is a loudmouth with no true interest in running. The moment he declares in earnest and gets on the campaign stump, his numbers will rise dramatically.
Trump has across-the-board appeal. His show, “The Apprentice,” routinely draws nearly 9 million viewers per episode. Blue-collar workers identify with Trump’s rough-and-tumble attitude. He even has union support — he’s made a political mint bashing outsourcing, and he recently told Human Events that he has made “many billions of dollars working with the unions,” though he does not disagree that public sector unions bilk taxpayers.
Trump’s image boils down to this: he’s a no-nonsense businessman who is brash enough to take on Obama directly. He’s big enough to stand toe-to-toe with Obama and slug it out.
The biggest question that surrounds Trump of late is his focus on the question of Obama’s birth certificate. Trump has stated routinely and openly that he wonders whether Obama was born in the United States, and he has called on Obama to release his birth certificate. This has earned him the ire and scorn of Obama’s lackeys, who say he has “zero chance” of getting elected.
In reality, the birth certificate issue is specifically geared toward certain political ends for Trump. First, it is obviously calculated to attract the most anti-Obama segment of the conservative base — and it has already succeeded, if primary polling is any indicator. Second, it is designed to force Obama into defending his character — Trump has already suggested that at best, Obama refuses to come clean with the American people. Finally, it shows Obama that if Trump is nominated, the campaign will not be a McCain-style hands-off lovefest. It will be a knockdown drag-out brawl. Trump will stop emphasizing the birth certificate issue, to be sure, but not until he’s milked it for all it is worth.
Is Donald Trump the best Republican candidate for president out there? It would be tough to argue otherwise. He’s got all the makings of a breakout star; he’s got bravado and the cash to back it up. If he really runs, he won’t have any trouble finding supporters. And as he puts it, he is the Obama administration’s “worst nightmare.” So far, who can argue with him?
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