Posted on 12/16/2014 2:23:26 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
* Trump has kept his spotlight hot and raised smirks by speculating about a White House run, but now he's scheduling speeches in early primary states
* 'A lot of people believe I'm having fun with it, and I enjoy the process,' he said during an Economic Club of Washington event, but 'the country's in serious trouble'
* He lashed out at potential opponents including Jeb Bush and Ted Cruz
* Couldn't come up with a 'single nice thing' to say about Hillary Clinton and insists Sen. Elizabeth Warren will give her serious competition
* Trump has flirted with running for more than a decade but has never pulled the trigger
* One Iowa political consultant says: 'He's a loose cannon with a private jet. I can't wait'
Real estate mogul and 'The Apprentice' star Donald Trump isn't running for president yet, but he is sounding more and more like someone who believes there's a path to the White House opening up before him.
'I can tell you there's a very substantial chance I will (run),' Trump told MailOnline in an interview Monday before he spoke at an event hosted by the Economic Club of Washington.
But 'I don't want to put a number on it,' he said, when asked whether the chance of a Trump candidacy was better than 50-50.
He is, however, lining up support in key early primary states and taking pre-emptive swipes at potential rivals, both classic behaviors of the species POTUS seekus.
Next month Trump will appear at three separate events in Iowa, one of the three marquee states whose Republican voters will anoint a front-runner in the 2016 presidential nomination contest....
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So his father was a Mexican? Does that make him Swiss?
You lost me on the Swiss.
Ted Cruz’s mother was an American citizen, conferring citizenship on him even had he been born on a Moon colony.
O wasn’t unknown, but your dad from Chicago never heard of him?
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IMHO, trump didn’t put his money where his mouth was, regarding 0.
So why should I trust him when he bloviates about running for president?
He’s a publicity seeking gasbag....
Until such time as he spills the beans on 0, I trust him as far as I can throw him.
I think O voted present enough, that most “Crackuhs” hadn’t heard of him.
Yes, Ted Cruz Can Be Born in Canada and Still Become President of the U.S.
Yes she did. And so did his Cuban father, as did the nation of Canada. Ted has inherited his citizenship from all three.
Ted Cruz is a natural born multinational citizen of the world due to his birth, rather than a bred and born American like I assume you are and I am.
In a way, it could be the Donald trying to help out — he knows he’s really in showbiz, and it would look hypocritical if he’d give Cruz a pass after pretending Obama’s Kenyan birth bothered him.
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