Posted on 08/03/2015 7:31:35 PM PDT by BigEdLB
HH: The word is that the Democrats will filibuster and the president will veto — that’s the only way to get rid of Planned Parenthood money for selling off baby parts is to shut the government down in September. Would you support that?
DT: Well I can tell you this. I would and I was also in support if the Republicans stuck together you could have done it with Obamacare also, but the Republicans decided not to stick together and they left a few people out there like Ted Cruz. You know, they left a lot of the people who really went in and wanted to do the job and you know what? If they had stuck together they wold have won that battle. I think you have to in this case also, yes.
nope - just describing what we will need in the next POTUS to handle the disaster Obama will leave behind. I don’t regard any of those details as particularly esoteric, especially the last one describing how to split the budget.
We have just become used to a doofus President. Time to reset expectations for competence.
His unfamiliarity with the triad was indicative of an overall lack of understanding of the facts needed to make informed decisions and weigh conflicting advice.
He’s still my man if I need a golf course or a casino built. Draining the swamp the next POTUS will inherit - not so much.
To be honest I thought your first post was sarcasm but I wasn't sure.
Email your question to the MSM moderator before the debate! Have them ask Trump what a "nuclear triad" is. Then ask him some questions about extremely contagious diseases, pathogens bolaviruses.
I really wish the moderator would go there with these types of questions.☺
Please read 18 again. Really.
Bumping this thread in light of last night’s debate, and adding an excerpt of the actual triad questions from Hewitt’s August 3rd interview with Trump.
Hugh Hewitt: Now let me ask you about the American nuclear triad.. Is it necessary anymore, Donald Trump, is it affordable?
Donald Trump: I think one of the most important things that we have to worry about is nuclear generally speaking. The power of nuclear, the power of the weapons that we have today and that is by the way — the deal with Iran — the concept of it is so important that you have to make a good deal and what they should have done is that they should have doubled up and tripled up the sanctions and negotiate from strength instead of the pathetic negotiators that we had so anything that we had to do with nuclear to me the power of the weapons — the problem is that it is not how many soldiers you have, the power of weaponry today is is utmost important.
Hugh Hewitt: Do we need all the three kind of nuclear weapons that we have though?
Donald Trump: I think we should have absolutely have — you know we are going to have to build ourselves back up because — I don’t know if you saw that 60 Minute piece about a year ago where our nuclear weapons are so absolute and so outdated, the phones didn’t work, the wires were rotted and frankly to allow that to actually go on television where they are giving tours of places of silos and they are rusting and rotting and I’m Putin and I looking at that I’m saying I’m saying, “Wow these guys don’t have the power we thought they had.”
Hugh Hewitt: But do you think we can afford to to just update one of the three legs nor do we need all three of them like the Cold War?
Donald Trump: I think we need massive protection and unfortunately you know the nuclear is the protection It’s not just the question of having a million soldiers nowadays. You need the protection because North Korea has it, the deal based on everything that I’ve seen as you know Iran is gong to have it, Pakistan has it, India has it. Hopefully, India is on our side a little more than most but people are getting it and Russia has it big league and China has it, but you know, Putin said about a month ago and I was shocked to hear it — first time I’ve ever heard it from that kind of a power. Essentially he said don’t mess with us, we have nuclear weapons. Do you remember that?
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