Posted on 08/29/2015 2:24:06 PM PDT by Hojczyk
In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, GOP front runner Donald Trump is firing back at the Club for Growth.
“They’re a pack of thieves,” Trump told Breitbart News as he was leaving Nashville’s Rocketown facility. He had just finished delivering a high-energy speech to an overflow crowd of more than 1,000 people.
Trump was attending the annual convention of the National Federation of Republican Assemblies, which describes itself as “the grassroots Republican wing of the Republican Party.”
“They [the Club for Growth] came to my office looking for money. I turned them down. That’s why they’re after me,” Trump told Breitbart News.
Earlier in the week, the Club for Growth attacked Trump for his proposal to penalize Ford Motor Company for putting a car manufacturing plant in Mexico rather than Tennessee.
“Donald Trump’s threat to impose new taxes on U.S. car companies will hurt the American economy and cost more American jobs,” David McIntosh, President of the Club for Growth, said in a statement.
“It should thrill liberals and Democrats everywhere that Trump wants to create new taxes and start a trade war to force American companies to work where he demands,” McIntosh added.
Trump stopped specifically to address Breitbart’s question as he moved down the exit aisles surrounded by throngs of supporters.
“I love Breitbart News. This is going to be a good question,” Trump said.
Trump did not pull any punches when asked if he had a message for the Club for Growth in response to its attacks.
Other candidates might shy away from calling out their critics so bluntly as “a pack of thieves,” but for Trump it was just another opportunity to take the battle to the opposition.
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You can always tell the people/organizations who are love America and who are tools for the globalist agenda.
I don’t know much about the CFG. Do they get as riled up about the hostile business environment this government and the courts have created? What does the record show?
False choice, but nice try anyway.
“I’m with Club For Growth”
I second that thought. The Club ARE Conservatives. Some on this thread are nativists (aka labor goons)
One of the reason America is so great is FREE TRADE.
This may be one of the Trumpsters first fails with the readers on FR
If they don't make things in the U.S., there's nothing "American" about them.
You can have a desk drawer corporation with a D.C. address but there's nothing "American" about it.
Usually just looking for some taxpayer cash.
I wish Trump would call for a “Union Fairness” law- where unions are FORCED to stop negotiating ridiculous contracts.
When you force a factory to pay someone $80K per year plus benefits to sweep floors, that’s 4 people who could be off welfare doing a non-technical job for $20K each
When Unions force companies to keep workers employed in non-existant jobs, that ruins business. For example, railroads were force to pay ‘brakemen’ until they retired, even after modern railroad cars stopped needing an actual brakeman.
Or how about steel factories whose labor costs got so high the we do not make steel in the USA anymore...all because of unions.
UNIONS are the thugs now- not the evil corporate basses.
Good point. If it is in Tennessee. It is built in the USA, and maybe better, because it has less influence from uniongoons.
Something about wandering off into a fever swamp....
The donors, you know, are not confined only to the Koch Brothers. A LOT of players have jumped in, some with more malign intent than others. Because of the relative secrecy of their operations, and not much opportunity for independent scrutiny of just who is putting up the cash, and the strings attached to that cash, what might have been a good idea for slowing the pace of decline has turned instead into an accelerant of that same downward slope.
The Club for Growth, like the Chamber of Commerce, has been behind the rather one-sided “free trade” agreements, in which the US ACCEPTS imports, but is blocked from exporting much of our own product to others. This has meant flight of jobs to overseas and into relatively low-productivity venues, that succeed only in keeping wages low in those third-world countries, but by pricing our own more technologically advanced goods out of world trade, creates a deficit machine that continues to expand at an exponential rate.
Trump is not one bit conservative
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And neither are you! You are a first class snob and elitist.
It doesn’t matter what Trump does, you still can’t praise the man for anything.
Instead of promoting your guy, all you seem to be capable of is trolling Trump threads dropping you little stink bombs.
You sound like a bitter, little A-hole.
We do have free trade. Across State lines, with the rules of trade established by a Congress of people who represent the Citizens of those States.
As for incorporating the rest of the world in that gig...have no interest in that at all.
that junk cost $1500 brand new. Today’s computerized junk is $50K. Yes. I want to go back to the ‘54 blue Buick special, my first car.
Club For Growth said that? Link?
I’d be getting all the rejuvenation I can from Mrs Trumps God endowed warmth and tenderness
Make a man right with the world I figure
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
I suspect that Trump has room to use taxes to punish USA car manufactures who use foreign labor while still overall lowering taxes by enforcing constitutional limits on federal taxes.
And neither are the 99.99% of the other republicans in congress or presidential hopefuls... So, what's your point?
Yeah our great Free Trade deals had done wonders for the US. /sarc
Seems the car issues you mentioned are more related to union thuggery and lack of pride in their work by workers—both those issues could be resolved right here in the U.S. Bring companies back home!
She is smoking hot, Donald is a lucky man to go home to that every night.
On the other hand, I had a 69 Camaro that we souped up. Crashed and rolled it at 112 mph. My friend, driving at the time, rolled over the top of a 440-six-pack Cuda and flipped. My friend climbed out without a scratch, having only a seat belt. They used to make some serious cars.
It’s called the Right-to-Work law.
I'm not sure what you mean. I've put over 150k miles on my '59 Chevy truck myself and I didn't own it until 1982. It had been a daily work truck for a plumber up until then. It's made of heavy gauge steel not plastic too.
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