Posted on 05/16/2011 10:01:30 AM PDT by massmike
Donald Trump is not running for president.
"After considerable deliberation and reflection, I have decided not to pursue the office of the Presidency," Trump said in a statement Monday. "This decision does not come easily or without regret; especially when my potential candidacy continues to be validated by ranking at the top of the Republican contenders in polls across the country," the real estate mogul and reality show star continued.
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I will not shy away from expressing the opinions that so many of you share yet don’t have a medium through which to articulate.”
Thanks for pointing these comments out. I hope he will stick to it.
Trump's “campaign” was based on calling Obama’s BC bluff and was a bet that Obama did not have and could not show (or would not dare to forge) an HI BC that the HI DOH and governor would vouch for (sort-of).
Trump was coordinating his attacks on Obama with WND and the releases of Corsi’s “Where's the BC?”
When Obama “released” (digitally uploaded) a facsimile of an HI LFBC, Trump had to decide whether to double-down on declaring the HI BC to be a forgery or to fold and he appears (could be a fake-out) to have folded and NOT be planning to attack Obama tomorrow in concert with WND.
I hope this appearance is not true and that as WND boosts the publicity of its evidence that the LFBC is a forgery tomorrow in concert with the Corsi book release that Trump will be right there with Corsi, despite having withdrawn as a GOP candidate.
Trump has said he would not do this and he won’t He said that he studied what happened to Perot and saw it was impossible for him. He may have a fake hair piece but I don’t think he wants Obama re-elected. All theories that Trump is on Obama’s side in this thread are ridiculous.
There's your trouble. You've drawn an imaginary line.
I’m glad to see the field narrowing this way. Personally, I think we have far too many people toying with the idea of running in 2012.
Let’s boil it down to the most serious contenders.
There's your trouble. You've drawn an imaginary line.
We were discussing polling regarding the BC issue - and the question is, did Trump's attacks on Obama do any damage? I don't see it in polling. You feel otherwise. We'll have to leave it at that.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/04/28/971250/-Advertiser-boycott-of-NBCs-The-Apprentice-begins
Well, Trump is for Trump and Trump only. He is no conservative and never has been. But fools rush in...
I’m essentially a birther who’s given up on birtherism... at least for now.
Trump tried to do something with it, and went nowhere.
Obama released another phoney jpg, and it’s accepted nearly everywhere.
We are now fast approaching the campaign itself and it’s just too late to keep grasping at this issue when there is so much, much more that the Kenyan King is vulnerable on.
Do I believe he was born in America? No.
Do I believe we can prove it in time for this campaign? No.
Do I believe we need this issue to kick the Kenyan King out of the White House? No.
Let’s just kick the Kenyan King out of the White House and leave it to the academics to reveal the truth about his Kenyan birth later.
I see the same kind of fevered analysis as I have on many of the other birther threads. The kind with a lot of heat and not a lot of light. And I am receptive to the latest BC being a fraud.
It doesn't take much of a brain to realize that 0bama is a fraud.
Well, y'all ain't making a very good case to the American public if it is so obvious.
Does either of you think the WikiLeaks dump of the location had anything to do with the timing?
Palin was smart waiting to announce.
You think they heard the click of her high heels coming down the hallway?
I was actually pulling for Trump to stay in the race at least through the early primaries so that he MIGHT have a shot at debating..... which would put some fear in the rest of the GOP about trending towards TRUE FISCAL CONSERVATISM, not to mention the hearts of the Dummy-crats who KNOW that Trump would have totally FLATTENED Obama in any presidential debate one-on-one!!!!
“Birtherism is a whackjob conspiracy theory?”
If it clouds ones mind, and diminishes rational thought so as to lose ones ability to spot a phony – then yes it is
If so, 'gunner probably owns it, eh?
I really don’t know what to think. We can’t get a straight story about the raid from the Obama Admin. The sixteen hour delay is a pathetic joke - should have been sixteen seconds max. But in the end it’s encouraging that enough of our military and intel systems still work that the raid was a success with such a dipweed in charge.
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I will not shy away from expressing the opinions that so many of you share yet don’t have a medium through which to articulate.”
You go Trump. Hammer Obama at every turn.
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