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Trump campaign to negotiate directly with TV networks on debate formats
Washington Post ^ | 11/02/2015 | Costa

Posted on 11/02/2015 12:49:47 PM PST by GIdget2004

nald Trump and his advisers have decided to work directly with television executives and take a lead role in negotiating the format and content of primary debates, which have become highly watched and crucial events in the 2016 race, according to Republicans familiar with their plans.

Trump plans to reject a joint letter to television network hosts regarding upcoming primary debates drafted Sunday at a private gathering of operatives from at least 11 presidential campaigns, the Republicans said.

The move by Trump, coming just hours after more than a dozen Republican strategists huddled in the Washington suburbs to craft a list of possible demands, effectively throttles an effort by the campaigns and the letter’s drafter, longtime GOP attorney Ben Ginsberg, to find consensus and work collectively to negotiate terms.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: Fantasywriter; Marcella

Trump is the White Obama.

Your posting habits reinforce that to the hilt.

This is not the fault of Trump, but of his immature and greedy followers.

You want, you want, you want.

Gimmie, gimmie gimmie.

You’re no different than the Obama zombies.
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101 posted on 11/02/2015 3:59:08 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: HarleyLady27

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He would finish the job of leading this country into abject tyranny. The limit of his desire is the only limit there can be, and in the white house we’ve already seen the result of that state of mind.
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102 posted on 11/02/2015 4:01:46 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: conservativegranny

Not every act of human kindness costs money. It always costs something, but again, that something needn’t be money.

My original post pointed out how amazing it is that not one person from Obama’s past has ever stepped forward and recounted an instance of singular personal kindness in a moment of direst need.

Then again it’s not amazing. He’s a Malignant Narcissist, and MN’s don’t put themselves out to help anyone.


103 posted on 11/02/2015 4:02:38 PM PST by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: GilGil

We call her Tokyo GilGill around here where she hangs out.


104 posted on 11/02/2015 4:02:56 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Fantasywriter

“Then again it’s not amazing. He’s a Malignant Narcissist, and MN’s don’t put themselves out to help anyone.”

I understand the point you were trying to make about the difference between Obama and Trump but I do not understand why you had to drag Ted Cruz into it.


105 posted on 11/02/2015 4:09:39 PM PST by conservativegranny (Cruz 2016)
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To: editor-surveyor

You can talk all you want...I am a Trump supporter, one of a HUGE base of supporters!!!


106 posted on 11/02/2015 4:10:34 PM PST by HarleyLady27 (I have such happy days, and hope you do too!!!)
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To: Pride in the USA

This ought to be interesting...


107 posted on 11/02/2015 4:10:43 PM PST by lonevoice (Life is short. Make fun of it.)
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To: editor-surveyor

That’s your opinion not mine....thank you!!!

GO TRUMP!!!


108 posted on 11/02/2015 4:11:36 PM PST by HarleyLady27 (I have such happy days, and hope you do too!!!)
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To: Fantasywriter

I agree with you!!!

Trump used his jet to take a little boy who needed surgery and couldn’t get there in time on regular airlines, to get the boy to surgery....wonder how many of the other candidates did something like that?

He also, in his rally last week talked to a wounded warrior in a wheel chair, with his wife and family, and made calls to the VA to get that wounded warrior the help he needed...has any of the other candidates did anything like that?


109 posted on 11/02/2015 4:14:33 PM PST by HarleyLady27 (I have such happy days, and hope you do too!!!)
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To: conservativegranny

The same people who call Trump a Malignant Narcissist A, ignore the instances in his past when he has gone out of his way to help people he didn’t even know, and B, throw these types of labels around far too freely.

I had an idea that if the supporters of another candidate had to compare the personal testimonies of people stepping forward of their own accord to give character witnesses, it might cause some re-evaluation. Maybe I’m too optimistic.


110 posted on 11/02/2015 4:17:45 PM PST by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: HarleyLady27

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A small, limited and shrinking group.
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As people learn about what he really means, they move away from him, if they are sane.
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111 posted on 11/02/2015 4:18:03 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor

Right, oh you are soooo wrong on everything you say, but go ahead and say it....


112 posted on 11/02/2015 4:19:06 PM PST by HarleyLady27 (I have such happy days, and hope you do too!!!)
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To: HarleyLady27

Trump loves our vets, that’s for sure.


113 posted on 11/02/2015 4:19:06 PM PST by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Fantasywriter

Yes he does, and America and Americans!!!

And he isn’t a ‘politician’ either!!!


114 posted on 11/02/2015 4:19:46 PM PST by HarleyLady27 (I have such happy days, and hope you do too!!!)
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To: HarleyLady27

Has he raised anyone from the dead yet?

I thought I heard a story about one of them that had something to do with loaves and fishes. Or was it wine and a wedding? I forget.

This is ridiculous.


115 posted on 11/02/2015 4:20:59 PM PST by conservativegranny (Cruz 2016)
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To: conservativegranny

No not yet, but I imagine you have!!!


116 posted on 11/02/2015 4:22:14 PM PST by HarleyLady27 (I have such happy days, and hope you do too!!!)
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To: Marcella

“I don’t hate Trump but I see what he really is as I’ve been an evaluator of behavior for over 30 years”

So have I and it appears you are a failure at it.

People with NPD Narcisstic Personality Disorder which is what you are pushing here have no empathy for others. That would be a guy like Obama. A guy who never does anything for others unless its in front of a camera.

A person who fits your description of Donald J. Trump would never jump out of a Limousine to stop a man with a baseball bat from attacking another man.

That person would never give Sgt. Tamooressi $25,000 to help him get back on his feet after getting out of the Mexican prison. Then never say a word about it until Greta blabbed on him.

That person would never pay off someone’s mortgage just because they stopped to help him when his car broke down. Then never mention it for self aggrandizement.

That person would never help the wounded warrior in the wheelchair at the rally last week and not be bragging about it from every microphone. To my knowledge Trump never mentioned it at the USS Wisconsin rally. His aide tweeted one time that they are working on it.

These and other acts of kindness too numerous to mention are a trademark of Donald Trump.

People with NPD don’t work well with others. Case in Point Barack Obama and Congress.

Donald Trump on the other hand has built a $9 billion real estate empire. You cannot do real estate deals unless you can work well others including government. The art of persuasion is a must in Real Estate and Mortgage Financing. Kings don’t last long in that business.

Of the thousands of people Donald Trump has employed in the past and currently employs why do you think not one of them has been seen sitting down with Chuck Todd or Jake Tapper to tell of their tale of abuse at the hands of Donald Trump?

Where are the other business people who should be lined up to testify as to the vicious autocratic Ahole they had to negotiate with on thousands of business deals? I have seen none to date.

For all intents and purposes Donald Trump appears to be a bright, astute business person who is a decent, kind and generous human being.

Is he tough? Hell yes.


117 posted on 11/02/2015 4:30:57 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: GilGil
I keep saying Trump is waging a soft coup of the RNC installing himself as the titular head of the RNC

The RNC has nowhere to go but up.


118 posted on 11/02/2015 4:38:02 PM PST by Iron Munro (<p> The wise have stores of choice food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20)
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To: HarleyLady27

Oh, is this going to be about me now?


119 posted on 11/02/2015 4:38:03 PM PST by conservativegranny (Cruz 2016)
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To: Iron Munro

right now the RNC has nowhere to go


120 posted on 11/02/2015 4:39:53 PM PST by GilGil
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