Posted on 09/03/2015 10:03:40 PM PDT by Steelfish
Donald Trump: I Will Know The Difference Between Hamas And Hezbollah 'When It's Appropriate'
4 September Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump did not take kindly in a radio interview on Thursday to being asked to identify the affiliations of various militant leaders in the Middle East, saying the host was asking “a gotcha question”.
Discussing Islamist extremism, conservative talk-radio host Hugh Hewitt told Trump he was looking for the next president to identify the leaders of major militant groups, naming the heads of Islamic State, Hezbollah, al-Qaida and its Nusra Front wing in Syria.
“Do you know the players without a scorecard yet, Donald Trump?” asked Hewitt, who will co-moderate the next official Republican presidential debate on 16 September in California.
“No, you know, I’ll tell you honestly, I think by the time we get to office, they’ll all be changed. They’ll be all gone,” Trump replied.
“The names you just mentioned, they probably won’t even be there in six months or a year,” he added.
Hassan Nasrallah has headed Hezbollah since 1992.
Hewitt pushed Trump on the question, asking him: “So the difference between Hezbollah and Hamas does not matter to you yet, but it will?”
Trump replied: “It will when it’s appropriate. I will know more about it than you know, and believe me, it won’t take me long.”
The billionaire real estate mogul has risen to the top of the polls in a crowded Republican field more than a year before the November 2016 election.
When Hewitt said these were not meant as “gotcha” questions, Trump responded: “Well, it sounded like gotcha. You’re asking me names that, I think it’s somewhat ridiculous, but that’s OK. Go ahead, let’s go.”
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Good managers down get into the little details;
they hire other people to do that.
I’ll bet he knows how many states there are in the union.
The press pulled this same BS with Dan Quayle.
Then, when Her Heinous Hillary ran for a New York state office, Demo-pimp David Letterman fed her a ‘test’ on New York state facts that she had obviously been briefed upon.
It’s too bad that now conservatives are tag-teaming with Democrats and their MSM to try and tear down the GOP’s front runner.
You do it here every day.
He might not know their names, but I bet he would call them Islamist extremists.
What is Hugh going to ask in the debate?: “Can you spell supercalifragilisticexpialadocious?”
I don't know, they all sounds (and look) the same to me.
New Mexico?
Just because he didn’t know the names the leaders doesn’t mean he doesn’t know which group is which. I do, and I don’t bother to learn the names of various Mohammeds who run them.
all IslamoNazi murder gangs are essentially similar
asking any candidate to cogently differentiate between them
is like asking O for his real birth certificate
you can’t REALLY expect a positive response
SoS Bolton will present Pres Trump with an outline of the facts, and a couple-three options with the up side and down side of each. Trump will make a pick, and Like Piccard to Ryker, he will say,”Make it so!”
Einstein didn’t know his own phone number. When asked why, he said, “Never memorize something that you can look up.”
Albert Einstein
It makes me sick, people like you, sitting there, perpetuating bald-faced lies about Reagan to defend your guy. Where is your proof? YOU DON'T HAVE ANY, BECAUSE IT'S LIES.
get help
One is funded by the Democrats through the UN, the other if funded by the Democrats through Iran.
LOL ROFL
Never, ever say that again. If he was your hero, you wouldn't be spreading unsubstantiated lies about him? Where do you get this B.S.? The Bush family? In 25 years, I have never seen people trashing Reagan so much as Trump supporters. It's one lie after another. You are disgusting.
Go to bed and stay there, please
Now which Kardashian went to Wharton and then built billion dollar skyscrapers in one of the worlds toughest markets?
You ought to give Trump his due, even if you think he shouldn’t be POTUS.
Your dislike of Trump is fair - you have a right to your opinion - but you ought to stick to facts, not absurd comparisons.
A brilliant answer
The Difference Between Hamas And Hezbollah
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