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Actually, I did go to the link. I wanted to hear some CONTEXT regarding the things he’s said in the past. Hopefully with links back to transcripts or videos. The link did ok, but some of its links went to recent summaries of Trump’s past statements, and DID NOT provide links. So I couldn’t hear/read everything in context.

What I found was a guy that looked at things in a different perspective than most people.

For example, he was dealing with banks simply shutting off lending in 2008, grinding his work to a halt...so yea, he wanted to get banks lending again. For Social Security and Medicare, he talks only about “people that have been paying in their entire working careers” (or something worded very close to that)...he’s against cutting that. Every conservative that I know of feels the same, or close enough. No one pressed him on younger people. And he says that we can fix SS by growing the economy, hence taking in more revenue. While not technically fixing SS, it would free up tremendous revenue for the government.

The car bailouts...no link to his direct words, so I don’t know the context. A flat tax - he’s simply stating reality - we’ll never get a totally flat tax, but he does support making it much flatter.

His only praise for Obama was in Jan, 2009 (the stimulus), when Obama had 75% of Republicans SUPPORTING HIM. His praise was based on Obama’s words...spend money on infrastructure. Not being an ideologue like Rush, myself, and most people here - Trump didn’t realize that the ‘stimulus’ was a scam. He did 6 months later when he said he hadn’t seen a damn thing come out of it.

On Single Pay. He talks to people, probably only healthy people, in those countries (especially Scotland), and I suspect, to a man, they all say they like it. Walk into a clinic, any clinic, present a card - get great Primary Care. It takes some research to figure out it’s a disaster at the back end, since the media won’t report it. Most people don’t do that research...likely including Trump. But he says three other things - first, there has to be some way to assure people needing medical care get medical care, that Obamacare does not come close to that and has ruined existing health care plans, and that Single Payer cannot work here, because of everything else screwed up in this country...so he’s not too far off, overall.

So call me a Trump apologist if you want, but EVERYONE is spinning stuff and not providing context - go read the transcripts and watch the interview, and ask whether Trump is flaming liberal or not.