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To: Helicondelta

Trump appears to be melting down. If the publically released polls are accurate, why does Trump keep acting so threatened by Sen. Cruz?


6 posted on 02/15/2016 8:51:21 PM PST by dschapin
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To: dschapin

This is Trump being Trump. Wait until he is doing it for America!

Fight Back

Much as it pays to emphasize the positive, there are times when the only choice is confrontation. In most cases I’m very easy to get along with. I’m very good to people who are good to me. But when people treat me badly or unfairly or try to take advantage of me, my general attitude, all my life, has been to fight back very hard. The risk is that you’ll make a bad situation worse, and I certainly don’t recommend this approach to everyone. But my experience is that if you’re fighting for something you believe in— even if it means alienating some people along the way— things usually work out for the best in the end.

When the city unfairly denied me, on Trump Tower, the standard tax break every developer had been getting, I fought them in six different courts. It cost me a lot of money, I was considered highly likely to lose, and people told me it was a no-win situation politically. I would have considered it worth the effort regardless of the outcome. In this case, I won— which made it even better.

When Holiday Inns, once my partners at the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, ran a casino that consistently performed among the bottom 50 percent of casinos in town, I fought them very hard and they finally sold out their share to me. Then I began to think about trying to take over the Holiday Inns company altogether.

Even if I never went on the offensive, there are a lot of people gunning for me now. One of the problems when you become successful is that jealousy and envy inevitably follow. There are people— I categorize them as life’s losers— who get their sense of accomplishment and achievement from trying to stop others. As far as I’m concerned, if they had any real ability they wouldn’t be fighting me, they’d be doing something constructive themselves.

Trump, Donald J.; Schwartz, Tony (2009-12-18). Trump: The Art of the Deal (Kindle Locations 765-779). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.


36 posted on 02/15/2016 8:57:54 PM PST by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR!)
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To: dschapin

Why does Ted Cruz have Beck going around saying that Cruz has been sent by God to save us? Why does Heidi say that Ted is going to “show us the face of God”? Aren’t these things more than just a little weird.


46 posted on 02/15/2016 9:00:37 PM PST by euram
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To: dschapin

He’s not feeling threatened, he’s disgusted and furious with the lying little man.


99 posted on 02/15/2016 9:27:55 PM PST by Duchess47 ("One day I will leave this world and dream myself to Reality" Crazy Horse)
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To: dschapin

No one likes to be lied about, especially in front of millions of people. I knew Cruz was a liar, he’s lied about all the candidates, but when he came out and said Trump wanted to do away with the 2nd amendment I knew he was not playing with a full deck. Trump has had a CC permit for years and is a lifetime member of the NRA. I agree with Trump. I think Cruz is a pathological liar and in the end that’ll be what sinks his campaign. Cruz needs help for his lying. Like I said it’s pathological.


127 posted on 02/15/2016 10:14:18 PM PST by NKP_Vet (In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle,stand like a rock ~ T, Jefferson)
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