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Tough Questions for Donald Trump from America’s Families
Texas Values Action ^
| Feb. 17th, 2016
| Jonathan Saenz
Posted on 02/18/2016 3:43:13 PM PST by DrewsDad
Texas Values Action and its national family policy alliance say questions remain for Donald Trump
Texas Values Action, CitizenLink, and our national alliance of nearly 40 state-based family policy councils representing millions of Evangelicals nationwide, today released an open letter to presidential candidate Donald Trump calling on him to answer direct questions on his policy positions.
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Mr. Trump:
We, the undersigned, represent millions of pro-family Americans who are dedicated to a nation where God is honored, religious freedom flourishes, families thrive and life is cherished. As a national alliance with nearly 40 state-based organizations, we have invited you to participate in our Presidential Teleconference Series to share your views on the issues important to values voters. We have interviewed most of the leading candidates, but after several attempts, we have not yet been able to schedule such a call with you. Therefore, we direct the following questions to you on policy issues important to our constituents:
- After years of describing yourself as "pro-choice in every respect"-even supporting partial-birth abortion-you now say that you are pro-life. Your explanation for this change of position - that a baby who was nearly aborted ended up being a "superstar" - is confusing, particularly since you acknowledged that if the child had been "a loser," your pro-abortion position probably wouldn't have changed. Please explain this utilitarian view of the sanctity of human life. Do you consider life only worth protecting if it meets certain criteria, and, if so, what are those criteria?
- How do you square your new position on life with your statements in 2015 supporting continued taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest abortion seller?
- The next president is expected to nominate two to four U.S. Supreme Court justices, beginning immediately with the vacancy caused by the passing of Justice Scalia. These nominations will likely decide critical issues such as abortion. You've recommended your sister, Maryanne Trump Barry, for the High Court. Yet, as a federal judge, she overturned the New Jersey Partial-Birth Abortion Ban, writing that it "burdened a woman's constitutional right to obtain an abortion." How can we trust you to nominate judges who will respect the constitutional limits on judicial power and uphold the sanctity of human life?
- You claim to support religious freedom, yet a leading gay-activist organization calls you "one of the best, if not the best, pro-gay Republican candidates to ever run for the presidency" - particularly because of your "standout position" when it comes to legislation that forces Christian business owners - and others of faith - to either betray their conscience or lose their business. How do you reconcile these contradictory positions?
- You have built your campaign on lifting the economic outlook of lower-income Americans, yet you built your fortune in part on gambling, which preys on those very people. How will you make America great when you've run businesses associated with increased crime, bankruptcies, broken marriages and suicides?
- The first casino in the nation to add a strip club was Trump Taj Mahal Casino in Atlantic City, which boasts of "36,000 square feet of adult entertainment." What would you say to young girls and women who are concerned about a president who is directly connected with the exploitation of women?
- As someone who claims to be a fiscal conservative, how do you justify your statements in support of a huge tax increase and government bailouts. Regarding the bank bailouts, you even stated: "I do agree with what they're doing with the banks. Whether they fund them or nationalize them, it doesn’t matter, but you have to keep the banks going.â Perhaps most concerning of all is your continued admiration for single-payer, government-run healthcare systems. Please explain how this is consistent with the party of limited government?
- One of your favorite campaign themes is that you are going to "run America" if elected. Considering our system of checks and balances, and especially in light of the last seven years of government by fiat, how will you demonstrate your respect for the U.S. Constitution and the limited power the Founding Fathers intended for the federal government in general, and the executive branch in particular?
Mr. Trump, we look forward to your response to these, and many other questions, affecting the lives of American families nationwide.
TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Arkansas; US: South Carolina; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: cruz; trump
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To: DrewsDad
I can't find the post right now, but it appears that all the other major Republican candidates have met with these organizations and answered their questions. I guess Trump thinks he can fool a certain number of pro-family voters without answering tough questions.
He's also a workaholic, and probably puts on the back burner that which he'd rather not take time for, but how in the world is he going to run all of his business interests and at the same time, remain alert to our country's needs? Some people feel he's in this election to hand it off to Hillary [providing she is still alive]. Could it be true?
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posted on
02/18/2016 4:34:21 PM PST
by
mlizzy
(America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe/Wade has deformed a great nation. -MT)
To: DrewsDad
Here you go;
Repeal and replace Obamacare with personal HSAs and increased competition and free market solutions by dropping state boundaries on Health Insurance resulting in more options and lower costs for consumers
Partner with hospitals, charities and other organizations to provide a safety net for indigent care similar to or through Medicaid which already exists.
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posted on
02/18/2016 4:35:47 PM PST
by
ripnbang
("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man a subject)
To: af_vet_1981
Please post the salary and benefits packages these professional conservatives receive while purporting to represent us ... OMG this destroys Trump, quick, ATTACK THE MESSENGER!
There is none so blind as those who refuse to see!
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posted on
02/18/2016 4:37:56 PM PST
by
American in Israel
(A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
To: DrewsDad
Sounds like what Trump said during the first debate last August.
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posted on
02/18/2016 4:39:34 PM PST
by
odawg
To: DrewsDad
Perhaps decided to skip this debate? When the going gets tough the Trump gets going, out the door that is.
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posted on
02/18/2016 4:43:34 PM PST
by
American in Israel
(A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
To: arl295
Cold hard reality does Tend to be tiresome sometimes, but I have found that ignoring it does not make it go away or become untrue.
These are all valid questions, with very well substantiated talking points. I kind of wonder how you can make the intellectual leap to just dismiss all these lies, they do say love is blind, I guess you have a man crush.
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posted on
02/18/2016 4:51:30 PM PST
by
American in Israel
(A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
To: American in Israel
Cold hard reality does Tend to be tiresome sometimes, but I have found that ignoring it does not make it go away or become untrue.
These are all valid questions, with very well substantiated talking points. I kind of wonder how you can make the intellectual leap to just dismiss all these lies, they do say love is blind, I guess you have a man crush.
Okay, first line 6 is a lie, it is easy debunked with a 2 minute google search. Trump is not in charge of Trump Entertainment Resorts, which owns Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, Trump Entertainment Resorts does, Trump lost the company through his bankruptcy of that company. The CEO of Trump Entertainment Resorts is Robert Griffin.
If the strip club in the Trump Taj Mahal is such a big "concern", call up Mr. Griffin and demand he close it down. Stop with the fake outrage towards someone who isn't a decision maker since 2009. Scores, the company that operates the strip club in the Taj Mahal, opened up in 2013, 4 years after Trump's departure. Sorry I can't blame the guy for something that wasn't his decision or didn't happen on his watch.
Now if I can debunk that LIE that easily with a quick 2 minute google search, I am sure if I had enough time and ambition, I could debunk the other lies on that list as well.
I am ashamed, as a Christian, that other Christians have to resort to outright lies to bring down another Christian. Lets stay to the facts, for once
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posted on
02/18/2016 5:00:01 PM PST
by
arl295
To: DrewsDad
That is the issue that really matters right now. If one of the globalists gets in and gets amnesty done, your concerns with electing a conservative will be over. It will never happen again after that, at least inner lifetimes.
To: jospehm20
inner should be in our lifetimes.
To: American in Israel
...
There is none so blind as those who refuse to see! Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
Exodus, Catholic chapter twenty, Protestant verse seven,
as authorized, but not authored, by King James
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posted on
02/18/2016 5:47:43 PM PST
by
af_vet_1981
(The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
To: babble-on
It's usually a love of filthy lucre that betrays them, or is it that by which they betray Him ? What is the going rate to take out Donald Trump, for the sake of the families and children ? Donald Trump is the only one of these not asking us (yet) for money.
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posted on
02/18/2016 5:55:32 PM PST
by
af_vet_1981
(The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
To: af_vet_1981
And the one thing we can be certain of when it comes to Trump is that greed has never played a role in any of his decisions.
To: babble-on
And the one thing we can be certain of when it comes to Trump is that greed has never played a role in any of his decisions.Trump is not the executive director, et al. playing the role of the hypocritical Puritans; he is the Publican in the race, so to speak. It is how he is blowing up their little world of power and influence.
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posted on
02/18/2016 6:15:58 PM PST
by
af_vet_1981
(The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
To: af_vet_1981
And he can choose to answer or not answer questions about his values and beliefs in that role as candidate for office.
And the public can choose to be interested in or disinterested in those responses.
What bothers me is that he seems to be a thin-skinned hothead, who responds to questions like these, that are asked about any candidate’s biography and track record, with the sort of anger and ad hominem arguments that are usually indications of something to hide.
To: The Iceman Cometh
Yep, but a lot of people don’t read, they watch tv for their information. The information they hear is usually out of kilter or not fully explained, id, health care.
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posted on
02/18/2016 6:58:20 PM PST
by
tillacum
To: DrewsDad
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posted on
02/18/2016 7:41:42 PM PST
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: odawg
It’s a hit piece but not necessarily propaganda.
I saw him on CNN just a few minutes ago and he was asked that question. He said he was against Obama care BUT
We all know this: ignore everything before the BUT
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posted on
02/18/2016 7:50:43 PM PST
by
altura
(Cruz for our country)
To: babble-on
What bothers me is that he seems to be a thin-skinned hothead, who responds to questions like these, that are asked about any candidateâs biography and track record, with the sort of anger and ad hominem arguments that are usually indications of something to hide.I think in this case, they are symptomatic of a residual anger against the political classes that are destroying our country. Cruz was elected in 2012 and has not been successful in leading Republicans; he just keeps asking for more money to further his own career, promising that if he is promoted then he will make a difference. He is a career politician and government employee. I'm not interested in furthering his career by providing more money.
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posted on
02/18/2016 9:01:01 PM PST
by
af_vet_1981
(The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
To: DrewsDad
Jonathan Saenz is a big Cruz supporter. It’s all over google. Also, his first wife divorced him to be in a lesbian relationship with a woman.
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