Posted on 02/01/2016 7:54:46 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Donald Trump has come under fire during the campaign for his supporting Hillary Clinton and specifically, the Clinton Foundation. Records show Trump donated $250,000 to the Foundation and many conservatives have questioned how he can run as a Republican while playing on his extensive ties with the Clintons.
Republican primary front-runner Donald Trump on Sunday explained why he gave a quarter of a million dollars to the Clinton Foundation before he ran for president.
“I did give to the Clinton Foundation. What I didn’t know is they’d be using it for private aircraft and things like that,” Trump said on “Fox News Sunday.”
“The Clinton Foundation was helping with Haiti and with lots of other things, and I thought it was going to do some good work, so it didn’t make any difference to me,” he added.
The real estate mogul also pointed to his business interests in cultivating support among politicians from each party.
“Again, I was a businessman, and it was my obligation to get along with everybody, including the Clintons, including Democrats and liberals and Republicans and conservatives,” he said. “As a businessman, I had an obligation to do that.”
As a high profile member of the New York establishment, Trump naturally gravitated toward the former president and his wife, the sitting Senator from the state. That he felt it necessary as a businessman to cultivate the Clintons is not in dispute. But some of the glowing words he had for Hillary are not easily reconciled with his current thoughts about her.
Is insincerity a part of "getting along" with everybody? That's what most Republicans will have to decide before they vote.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Trump filed a 100 page financial disclosure with the FEC when he announced his candidacy...his holdings and debt are public record.
Again, I say “WHO CARES”!
I say bring the political system down. TRUMP will the MONKEY WRENCH to STIR EVERYTHING UP.
I AM FED UP WITH ALL THE B.S. FROM EVERY ANGLE TO GET MY VOTE EVERY FRICKING ELECTION FOR THE PAST 40 YEARS, AND THEN THEY DO THE OPPOSITE WHEN IN OFFICE!
TRUMP 2016
You’ve got to be kidding me.
Oh God — this country is so screwed.
Now he's a candidate, and it's currently his obligation to "adjust" his message and momentarily shift his stances to attract enough sentiment and votes to get himself nominated. What he really believes isn't truly known.
No one owns Trump? Does that include the conservatives who vote for him?
The "love the words" dynamic is the same as what swept the country for Obama in 2008.
And how do you know you’re not just getting yet another line of BS from the latest angle for THIS “fricking election” from Trump? The guy has shifted his stances more than Sahara sands in a windstorm. How do you know you’re not being played? How do you know THIS time Trump really, really means it?
[You must think you are perfect.]
These Cruz supporters think and act no differently than liberals.
Exactly. People tried to warn others that this is not the way to vote. Now they are doing the exact same thing.
I have never seen such hypocrites in all my born days.
There you go projecting yourself on to others. Not surprising.
It says while throwing out the ad hominem.
DD, SS on FR...smh.
mass hysteria.......star struck delusion.
[At least some is getting out there, in spite of it being political grandstanding. ]
Any whose name should have been on the payor portion of the check??
Trump took the effort and work to make the event possible. He and his foundation have every right for their name to be on it.
For the amount you preach against someone’s pride in their success, you would be better suited supporting Bernie Sanders than ANYONE on the right!
**Any whose** name should have been on the payor portion of the check??
** And whose**
Their starting to SCREAM at you now........lol hang in there.
Why even post this cutesy? Just write "I Hate Trump".
DID I say it wasn't or should not have been? NO not me.
I love success, it's a GOOD thing.
you protest to much...if it ain’t a big thing, why bother?
“I am the Pope.”
Do we have to kiss your ring? ;-)
You’re right, who cares. But Ted Cruz’s wife works for Goldman! (A bank in which Donald Trump owns shares, but who cares.)
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