Trump: I Won't Change What I Say Even If Terrorists Used My Words To Recruit

talkingpointsmemo.com ^ | December 20, 2015, 10:27 AM EST | Sara Jerde

[GonzoII]

>Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said in an interview aired Sunday that he wouldn't change what he's saying - even if terrorists featured him in recruitment videos - because his words "represent toughness and strength."

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had said at the Democratic presidential debate that Trump had become "ISIS' best recruiter" and was featured in the organization's recruitment videos.

Politifact later ruled that there was "no evidence" to support Clinton's statement, which Trump noted in his interview with NBC News' "Meet the Press."

"She lies like crazy about everything, whether it's trips where she was being gunned down in a helicopter or an airplane, she's a liar and everybody knows that," Trump said. "But she just made this up in thin air."

[GonzoII]

I WAS HOPING HE WOULD SAY SOMETHING LIKE THAT. GO TRUMP!

[Leaning Right]

Every time Trump swings, he hits it out of the park.

[Norm Lenhart]

My respect for him just increased a lot. Still a Cruizer with no plans to switch but my respect did go up.

[mtrott]

CNN covered Hellary’s claim this morning. The host challenged Wasserman Shultz about that this morning, saying that CNN checked this out and found no evidence that ISIS was using a video of Trump as a recruitment tool. Of course, Wasserman ignored him and refused to even reply to his question.

[Chode]

[odawg]

In other words, Hillary believes that since it is inflammatory for Trump to say he will destroy ISIS and prevent infiltration by ISIS, then she obviously believes the reverse. She is now a grandmother and will overcome all with love.

[Leaning Right]

I am not surprised by Hillary’s latest lie. But what I am VERY surprised about is that NBC and CNN are investigating that lie. I wonder what they’re up to.

[pepsionice]

It does beg how she’ll do in a debate with Trump next September and October. Even if she brings in her own moderators and they do their best to make Trump look bad...I think Trump will just make them look foolish.

[Gaffer]

I’d tell them, “You were recruited by my words according to Democrats; you will be killed by my military when the American People elect me.”

[uncbob]

Yep The GOP should have been calling the Clintons and Obama out on the down right lying years ago
But Dole- McCain- Bush- Romney were/are too damn wimpy

Starting with Bush I never using Clinton's draft dodging and military loathing against him

[Gaffer]

There is so, so much inflammatory ammo one could use against her. The only one that would use it against here in a debate is Trump. I think he could cause her to stroke-out on stage if he wanted.

[Helicondelta]

Hillary is insane. She thinks that Trump offends Islam when he says he will destroy Isis.

[Leaning Right]

Even if she brings in her own moderators and they do their best to make Trump look bad...I think Trump will just make them look foolish.

Well, one thing is for sure. Trump won't just stand there with a silly smile on his face, the way McCain and Romney did.

[uncbob]

I am not surprised by Hillary’s latest lie. But what I am VERY surprised about is that NBC and CNN are investigating that lie. I wonder what they’re up to.

It is what they up against
Trump and Cruz who are not afraid to call out the lies etc like former GOP wimp candidates

So they have no choice if they are going to have Trump on their shows

[Gaffer]

She ARMED ISIS.

[jpsb]

“she’s a liar and everybody knows that” and on national television too. LOL, Go Trump!

[Spok]

As usual, the liberals claim it’s all about rhetoric when it’ really about fanaticism and brute force. Sometimes killing your enemy is the only option he gives you. The Republicans get it.

[AuntB]

The worst lie in the debate was O’mally when he said that some Muslim kid asked if Trump was going to make her leave her home in the USA....of course, Hillary agreed and the moderators just let them lie that ALL Muslims would be extricated from the US by Trump.

Also....all that preaching about Trump’s ‘bad’ language....

I’m sick of the PC crowd whining every time Donald Trump utters a swear word out on the campaign trail! Trump isn’t the only one using colorful language…and these guys did it in OFFICE! Bush, Cheney, Carter, Obama and MORE!

Top 16 foul-mouthed politicians

http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/04/29/politicians.swear.list/

[snips]

Vice President Joe Biden was heard telling Obama “this is a big f——— deal” during the March 23, 2010, signing of the health care reform bill.

Cheney told Sen. Patrick Leahy (on the senate floor!)on June 24, 2004, to “go f-— yourself” when the Vermont Democrat blasted Halliburton’s role in Iraq.

Then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush, running in the 2000 presidential race, was caught on a live microphone tearing into New York Times reporter Adam Clymer. At a Labor Day 2000 rally in Naperville, Illinois, Bush called him a “major-league a—hole.”

Bill and Hillary Clinton

While President Bill Clinton and first lady Hillary Clinton were not known to have cursed publicly, numerous accounts from White House insiders over the years tell a different story — that both often using the f-word in conversations and arguments inside and outside the White House.

[BlueNgold]

Next rally...

Trump: Let me be perfectly clear for the jihadist recruiters Hillary says are considering editing me for their videos...

I will drive ISIS from the face of the earth. I will destroy your oil, level your strongholds, and kill you wherever we find you.
With Trump as President you will have two simple choices: peace or death. Choose wisely.

Next thought: anyone else consider it a little strange that the woman who wouldn’t protect our Ambassador from known threats, the woman who placed our country at risk by tossing around Top Secret emails on her personal network, is now supposedly tied in to what makes ISIS mad, and - of course - it’s the videos again... She’s clueless!

[Junk Silver]

There’s a fundamental un-truth at the heart of the lie Hllary is telling about the “Trump recruitment video”.

Islamic terrorists are not motivated because we have hurt their feelings. The problem is not well meaning Muslims who so want to integrate into our society but are radicalized ( a.k.a. “turned to the dark side”) because we aren’t welcoming enough.

Islam is a political system determined to conquer the world. Terrorist acts are designed to create submission on the part of Western societies. I believe the election of Obama seven years after the Twin Towers fell is a perfect example of this.

Muslims don’t want our love and acceptance. They want our submission.