Posted on 07/04/2015 8:23:49 PM PDT by Mariner
On the heels of several major corporations distancing themselves from Donald Trump's various business interests, the Republican presidential candidate admitted Saturday that he didn't think the corporate backlash to his inflammatory comments about Mexican immigrants would be "quite this severe."
"I knew it was going to be bad because I was told this. All my life I have been told this: If you are successful, you don't run for office," Trump said in an interview on Fox News, addressing the recent spate of businesses that have severed their relationships with his brand. "I didn't know it was going to be quite this severe, but I really knew it was going to be bad."
During his presidential campaign announcement last month, Trump emphasized the need to curtail immigration from the southern border and criticized Mexican immigrants for "bringing crime" and being "rapists."
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"It seems like I'm sort of the whipping post because I bring it up. And I don't understand whether you are liberal or whether you are conservative or whether you are Republican, Democrat -- why wouldn't you talk about a problem?" Trump said Saturday. "The crime is raging. It's violent, and people don't want to even talk about it. If you talk about it, you are a racist. I don't understand it."
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No you’re a whipping post because you can’t talk about it without sounding like a know nothing moron. Get a speech coach or something.
Well spoken...and that’s the point. Rubio, would JUST LOVE his antics to be written-off as a “childhood mistake” and most of the Republicans were all set to do just that.
...but not Trump.
“There are far more supporting Trump on immigration then the media is willing to admit.....and the more they hammer Trump the more people are standing with him...”
And the support cuts across BOTH PARTIES...not a factor yet, but a huge factor if he’s the nominee.
What happens when the GOP really pisses Trump off and he runs
as an independent?
Good question.
If they take enough of his money,
He will really get pissed off and run as an independent.
No, they didn't. It was intentional. All the media is reporting that Trump criticized "immigrants."
“If they take enough of his money,
He will really get pissed off and run as an independent.”
With Trump, who knows? Maybe he’ll enter into the Dim Primary? (sensing weakness in the Pant Suit). Maybe both parties (if allowed by election law)? In some ways, he’s sound, in other ways, a loose cannon.
I should have written "misreported". No, it is not a mistake, it is damn propaganda. 24/7 propaganda, even on Fox News the continue to "misreport".
I should have written “misreported”. No, it is not a mistake, it is damn propaganda. 24/7 propaganda, even on Fox News they continue to “misreport”.
I don’t disagree with you at all. Its just really hard to get white people to get out and raise hell on the street.
I don’t think rump will be the nominee....but he’s sure shaking things up!
I don’t think rump will be the nominee....but he’s sure shaking things up!
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