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Trump on GOP: 'I'm not looking to have it be party of Trump, I'm looking to have a great country'
Just the News ^ | May 15, 2021 - 11:34am | By Daniel Payne

Posted on 05/16/2021 12:21:16 PM PDT by Hojczyk

Former President Donald Trump on Thursday appeared to distance himself from his superstar celebrity status in the Republican Party, suggesting that the GOP should pursue pro-American policies rather than build a platform around Trump himself.

The former president made the remarks during a lengthy interview with Rita Cosby on New York's WABC Radio on Thursday night. Asked by Cosby whether or not the rising status of Trump-friendly U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik means that the GOP is the "Republican Party of Trump," Trump demurred.

"Well, look, I'm not looking to have it be the party of Trump, I'm looking to have a great country," he said. "I'm looking to have a country that is run by people that know what they're doing."

"And we had it going, and then they had a fraudulent election," he added, alluding to claims that the 2020 election involved significant levels of voter fraud and illegal voting.

The president during the interview criticized the ongoing performance of current President Joe Biden; though he declined to give a specific "grade" to Biden's presidency thus far, he criticized the president's handling of various crises including those in Israel and at the southern U.S. border.

"[N]obody can be happy with what's happening at our border," he said. "I don't care whether you're liberal or whether you're conservative, whether you're Democrat, Republican, nobody can be happy. I don't believe that. This is what they want. And now they've lost control."

(Excerpt) Read more at justthenews.com ...


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1 posted on 05/16/2021 12:21:16 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

Bttt


2 posted on 05/16/2021 12:25:48 PM PDT by Guenevere (When the foundations are being destroyed what can the righteous do)
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To: Hojczyk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iA06RuHaJ3w

This is who is running congress.....this women tells it like it is..the most hated women in D.C.

The next Sarah Palin

It is an hour but if you only watch the first ten minutes you get the idea


3 posted on 05/16/2021 12:26:01 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

POTUS Trump MAGA, Make America Great Again.

Illegitimate Usurper Xiden MAGA, Make America Grovel Again.


4 posted on 05/16/2021 12:29:20 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: Hojczyk

That’s why Donald Trump came down the escalator—not for a new episode of “The Apprentice”, but for us to have a great country!!!!

Now the biden/harris politburo has thrown our country into the toilet!! Dear Lord, enable our beloved country to rise from its parlous state, just as You rose from the dead!!!!


5 posted on 05/16/2021 12:31:18 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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Trump, with very little help and seemingly with ease had peace in the middle East in sight and manufactures being forced to make tough decisions about bringing plants back to United States which was resulting in higher wages. The speed in which he did what he did against all the adversity, should be a lesson to every citizen in the country. The world is in the state it’s in because that what the leaders want.


6 posted on 05/16/2021 12:32:07 PM PDT by wiseprince (Me,)
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To: Hojczyk

MTG is not running Congress, but should be.

That video is very telling about her superior intellect compared to the ‘Rats and Lizards of the GOP.


7 posted on 05/16/2021 12:33:29 PM PDT by Paladin2 (.)
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As Trump was first running for office, the events reminded me of going pheasant hunting on a farm near Sheridan, Oregon. I would be walking along this fence row as a bored fourteen-year-old. Out in the field was an enclosure where the farmer was raising turkeys. As we got adjacent to it and when no one was looking, I hurled a rock into the enclosure just to see the birds squawk and run about. To me Trump was the rock, and the turkeys were all the other politicians. For me, the uproar over his comments reminded me of the bumper sticker which says, “Well behaved women seldom make history”.

The Republicans were valueless because their motto had become, “Vote for us we are just as good as the Democrats”.

Since the major political parties could no longer claim my allegiance, the only principle left to me was the value I placed on the oath I took as a Navy officer to support and defend the Constitution. Here was a unique statement of the sovereignty and worth of the individual which would be revolutionary forever.

Trump said he was at least willing to commit to appointing judges that would adhere to my oath. Now no political commitment should ever be considered sacrosanct, but I had no one to vote for. I chose to vote against the objectively demonstrated evil and that left Trump as the only viable option on the ballot.

I’ll vote for a great country, not a person. It would be nice if he wasn’t pretty much alone. We have certainly received an insight to just how bad it is.

8 posted on 05/16/2021 12:35:50 PM PDT by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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I take him fully at his word here. If you watch the 1987 interview he did with Larry King, it isn’t hard to accept his word.


9 posted on 05/16/2021 12:38:47 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists are The Droplet of Sewage in a gallon of ultra-pure clean water.)
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I understand completely.


10 posted on 05/16/2021 12:39:15 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is The I read in the papers.)
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To: Guenevere

Rita Cosby!! I thought she was dead!


11 posted on 05/16/2021 12:39:27 PM PDT by abb (P)
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To: rlmorel

Always take DJT at his word.


12 posted on 05/16/2021 12:40:10 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is The I read in the papers.)
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Trump on GOP: 'I'm not looking to have it be party of Trump

Better than having it be the party of the Bushes and the Cheneys.
13 posted on 05/16/2021 12:41:22 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

DJT has certainly given his word and backed it up with action far more than any modern politician I can think of.

You and I agree on this.


14 posted on 05/16/2021 12:53:31 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists are The Droplet of Sewage in a gallon of ultra-pure clean water.)
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To: Hojczyk

PDJT sure knows how to say things clearly and intelligently


15 posted on 05/16/2021 12:56:50 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not created, they're excreted." Cicero 2000 years ago)
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“I don’t care whether you’re liberal or whether you’re conservative, whether you’re Democrat, Republican, nobody can be happy. I don’t believe that. This is what they want.
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The border is the reason BOTH parties colluded to cheat him out.
It is the reason the GOP obstructed all of his efforts to build the wall.

Bush League Republicans are happy that the border is back open and the flood is starting again.
It is what they want.

They want to turn the country into North Mexico so it can be subsumed to the UN under the New World Order.


16 posted on 05/16/2021 12:58:02 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Hojczyk
'm looking to have a country that is run by people that know what they're doing

Maybe Trump has sold this tired trite racist line to us us basket of deplorables, but no woke person wants that vision for America. / sarcasm

17 posted on 05/16/2021 1:00:07 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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“I take him fully at his word here”

You just switched on the bat signal and attracted gotham’s Never Trumpers on FR. There’s a lot of them here s/


18 posted on 05/16/2021 1:01:02 PM PDT by max americana (FIRED LEFTARD employees at our office every election since 2008 and enjoyed seeing them cry.)
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To: Hojczyk

“this women tells it like it is..the most hated women in D.C.”

Is this supposed to be singular or plural?


19 posted on 05/16/2021 1:02:24 PM PDT by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: Hojczyk

PDJT resurrected our ailing economy and we got both business and employment opportunities

PDJT made peace break out in the middle east

PDJT started to build our southern defense wall

etc.

All of which accomplishments the new Regime has destroyed, reversed in just its first 100 days.
Plus a lot more damage such as threats to our few remaining 2A rights, threats of forced vaccination “passports” (albeit Mr. Biden’s last statement did not support them, many of his entourage keep talking about them), and more krap getting ready to be shoved down our throats

all in the first 100 days


20 posted on 05/16/2021 1:04:15 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not created, they're excreted." Cicero 2000 years ago)
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