Posted on 05/16/2011 10:01:30 AM PDT by massmike
Donald Trump is not running for president.
"After considerable deliberation and reflection, I have decided not to pursue the office of the Presidency," Trump said in a statement Monday. "This decision does not come easily or without regret; especially when my potential candidacy continues to be validated by ranking at the top of the Republican contenders in polls across the country," the real estate mogul and reality show star continued.
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Looks suspiciously like dithering on Bin Laden until he could use the killing to his advantage. And Trump forces him to play the (fake?) BC card in the same week...while there is oral argument in the 9th Circuit Monday, May 2?
Now Barry can't wag the dog with Bin Laden or the BC so two self-protective bullets are gone from the belt.
I have to believe Obama would have preferred to hold off on the BC controversy until much longer to minimize the time available for forensic scrutiny of the LFBC before the election.
From TIME NewsFeed 2 hours ago...
Trump took the stage, introduced by NBC programming chief Robert Greenblatt, to announce his plans for the 2012 race and, thus, the next season of Celebrity Apprentice. Trump said that “as much as I'd like to,” he will not be running; he cited the amount of money the show has raised for charity as a reason. (Apparently he can do more good for the world as host of a reality show than as leader of the free world.)
No White House for the Donald: How Trump Broke the News at NBC's Upfronts
NOOOOO!
I saw Trump weeks go in an interview telling the host that he will be 'surprised' by his (Trumps) decision, which Trump had already made. Sure, surprised if you are very gullable. I think even Rush said it was a make believe run.
Can you imagine if Trump actually was elected president after those claims he made? He would just call up China and OPEC and demand they forget their own interests and become his servant. Why didnt Bush and Obama do it if it was that easy, according to Trump? Because they are not as smart as Trump! They actually got elected, unlike Trump who just made believe.
Thank goodness Trump blundered into the Birther minefield before they went apefeces crazy on our candidates and held them up to the litmus test of birtherism.
This could have played out much much worse. For us I mean.
It really couldn't be worse for birthers. Eat crow and like it.
Why did you get
Thad MCcotter
Roy Moore
Buddy Roemer
Willard Romney
into the list? I never heard any suggestion that they’re even considering
People are grasping at straws. The republican race has/is looking horrible.
Puh-leeze. They were swooning over the Donald largely over the birther issue. He used them over it. And they apparently don't seem to care.
The republican race has/is looking horrible.
Really. I think it's looking a lot more horrible for Obama with high unemployment and $4 gas and tapped-out governments. The GOP could nominate just about anyone and beat Obama. You are just letting the MSM faux despair get you down.
Puh-leeze. They were swooning for the Donald largely over the birther issue. He used them to get publicity, nothing more. And they apparently don't seem to care.
The republican race has/is looking horrible.
Really. I think it's looking a lot more horrible for Obama with high unemployment and $4 gas and tapped-out governments. The GOP could nominate just about anyone with some conservative credentials and beat Obama. You are just letting the MSM faux despair get you down.
So Trump was your idea of a litmus test for conservatives? Wow! You must be one of those crazy nutjobs I’ve been hearing about that actually believed Trump was a viable GOP candidate.
Get real! No one I know of thought he was serious or legit. But it is an undeniable fact that he did damage to Obama. Even the White House said so.
And if a nut-job like Trump could do that, then why not a real candidate?
Look. YOU will be the one to eat crow when Palin (or whoever the frontrunner is this fall) goes on the attack against Obama over the BC issue.
But if you think we conservatives can run another campaign like McCain did where he actually said we have nothing to fear from an Obama presidency, then (self edit here).
We can not win on “the issues” alone. But Trump (idiot that he is) proved that the BC issue can do serious harm to Obama. You better hope that Palin (or someone even better) picks up on this. And you better hope YOU like crow.
Palin backed Trump on the BC issue only after he went viral.
I still ain’t drinkin’ from that punch bowl
You take every opportunity to use the word birther as an epithet, usually preceded by “stupid” or “ignorant” or "uninformed."
Your stalking of birthers and mocking of these FReepers who are constitutionalists and who object to the conspiracy to defend Obama’s lack of transparency is an Alinski and trolling tactic.
You correctly point out factual error that some newbies make as they explore birther claims, but you then smear all birther constitutionalists using birther as an epithet.
I am regularly offended by your derisive name-calling (birther as an epithet) posts which lump me in with newbies who claim that an American couldn't go to Pakistan in 1981, or other well-intended, but uninformed mistakes.
You, youself, BuckeyTexan, are a type of birther which is a Leo Donofrio two-citizen NBC birther, but you have chosen to go on a campaign to attack FReepers who also believe that it also matters where Obama was born (jus soli) and that Obama's sustained withholding of his HI BC was in itself evidence that he had something to hide.
Here are some "facts and logic" for you: Donald Trump proved Birthers right who for two years insisted that the HI long form BC existed and that Obama could get it released if he had wanted to at any time. Donald Trump's direct attacks on Obama have resulted in vindication of LTC Lakin's claim that there would be no reason why an honorable CIC would fail to release his BC.
For that, I am thankful to Donald Trump, and am vindicated as a birther who continues to observe that Obama still fails to demonstrate transparency and could at any time waive ALL privacy protections surrounding his birth circumstances, but still does not!
According to him in Corsi’s book.
Being blonde, rather than old with a less than reliable memory at times, 8^), I thought that you had previously stated a long while back that you didn’t believe Obama was eligible.
It sure is. Everyone knows that mockery didn't exist until Alinsky invented it.
Donald Trump's direct attacks on Obama have resulted in vindication of LTC Lakin's claim that there would be no reason why an honorable CIC would fail to release his BC.
I thought you guys reckoned the released document was a fake?
You can't have it both ways.
His announcement now was not a surprise or related to Huckabee. Trump always said he would announce his decision about May 15th due to the date of his last show of the season.
Say what? The “litmus test” was this ...
Either a candidate signs on as a full birther OR they don’t take the Constitution seriously and need to be dismissed discredited and disparaged - as YOU did with Palin quoting her saying the issue was a “distraction”.
Trump was NEVER a viable candidate - it was a publicity stunt bought largely by birthers. What is undeniable is that the release of the LF COLB cut the number of birthers in half and obliterated any hope of a Trump candidacy.
I thought “Palling around with Terrorists” was a much better approach actually.
No serious candidate is going to make this their issue - Trump self immolation “damaged” 0bama in your mind - but in reality it cut the number of birther in half. That you are still in denial about it shows that you were not, perhaps, very rational about the subject from the get go.
Damn. Good. Points.
I said this way, way upthread (made anti-birther’s heads explode) and I’ll say it again.
If it weren’t for Donald Trump, Osama bin Laden would still be alive.
(Not only is that true, but Obama bin Lyin’ would not have caved in and released that second (phony) birth certificate. Which only INCREASES the BC controversies.)
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