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EXCLUSIVE: TRUMP CALLS CLUB FOR GROWTH ‘A PACK OF THIEVES’
Breitbart ^ | August 29,2015 | by MICHAEL PATRICK LEAHY

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Mexico; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; clubforgrowth; corporatism; cronycapitalism; cronycorporatism; election2016; fascism; hib; newyork; trump; trump4trump
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To: Hojczyk

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?


21 posted on 08/29/2015 2:43:28 PM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: calico_thompson

False choice, but nice try anyway.


22 posted on 08/29/2015 2:45:52 PM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: calico_thompson

“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


23 posted on 08/29/2015 2:46:10 PM PDT by DanZ
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To: Hojczyk
American companies to work where he demands

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.

24 posted on 08/29/2015 2:47:33 PM PDT by Regulator
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To: Hojczyk

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.


25 posted on 08/29/2015 2:48:01 PM PDT by Mr. K (If it is HilLIARy -vs- Jeb! then I am writing-in Palin/Cruz)
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To: cardinal4

Good point. If it is in Tennessee. It is built in the USA, and maybe better, because it has less influence from uniongoons.


26 posted on 08/29/2015 2:48:39 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Theorks for Hillary.y need to target the 'Ministry of Virtue' which has nothing to do with virtue.)
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To: Moonman62

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.


27 posted on 08/29/2015 2:48:48 PM PDT by alloysteel (If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? - Will Rogers.)
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To: GeronL

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.


28 posted on 08/29/2015 2:49:16 PM PDT by Artcore
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To: DanZ
One of the reason America is so great is FREE TRADE

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.

29 posted on 08/29/2015 2:49:46 PM PDT by Regulator
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To: calico_thompson

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.


30 posted on 08/29/2015 2:51:58 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: DannyTN
They want to ship American industries overseas, depriving Americans of jobs.

Club For Growth said that? Link?

31 posted on 08/29/2015 2:52:10 PM PDT by Toddsterpatriot ("Telling the government to lower trade barriers to zero...is government interference" central_va)
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To: Hojczyk

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


32 posted on 08/29/2015 2:52:25 PM PDT by wardaddy (White boy wiggers in pickups with Cope and Rebel Flags and cowboy rap....FMR)
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To: Hojczyk; All
Patriots who support Trump need to get him up to speed on the Supreme Court’s clarification of Congress’s limited power to lay takes. More specifically, state sovereignty-respecting justices had clariifed that Congress is prohibited from laying taxes essentially for anything that Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-ilmited powers.
“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.

33 posted on 08/29/2015 2:54:16 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: GeronL
Trump is not one bit conservative

And neither are the 99.99% of the other republicans in congress or presidential hopefuls... So, what's your point?

34 posted on 08/29/2015 3:04:37 PM PDT by dragonblustar (Philippians 2:10)
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To: DanZ

Yeah our great Free Trade deals had done wonders for the US. /sarc


35 posted on 08/29/2015 3:06:42 PM PDT by MARKUSPRIME
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To: calico_thompson

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!


36 posted on 08/29/2015 3:07:55 PM PDT by nclaurel
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To: wardaddy

She is smoking hot, Donald is a lucky man to go home to that every night.


37 posted on 08/29/2015 3:08:11 PM PDT by MARKUSPRIME
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To: calico_thompson
I know what you're saying: Detroit (both because of mgt and labor) got incredibly non-competitive after 1962-63 (You're wrong on the 1950s---despite the fins, American cars were superb during the 50s. Anyone who had a 56 Chevy knows what great cars they were).

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.

38 posted on 08/29/2015 3:15:42 PM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: Mr. K

It’s called the Right-to-Work law.


39 posted on 08/29/2015 3:17:43 PM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: calico_thompson
Do we want to go back to the 1950’s, days when GM, Ford and Chrysler built junk that would not last 100,000 miles, ...

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.

40 posted on 08/29/2015 3:22:52 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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