Posted on 09/04/2015 10:37:26 AM PDT by Steelfish
Trump, After Republican Pledge, Breaks From Pack On Iran, Gay Marriage By Susan Heavey. WASHINGTON - Leading Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Friday broke away from stances held by many of his rivals on issues ranging from the Iran nuclear deal to the gay marriage fight in Kentucky.
Trump's statements in a lengthy interview on MSNBC came one day after signing the party's loyalty pledge.
He called the Iran nuclear agreement "a disastrous deal" and "a horrible contract," but said he would work with it.
Many of the 16 other Republicans seeking the party's nomination for the 2016 presidential election have vowed to immediately undo the Obama administration's agreement if they win office. But Trump, a wealthy businessman, reiterated his view that too much money was at stake and his rivals were wrong to say they would rip it up.
"This is the perfect example of taking over a bad contract," he said, adding that he would be tough in enforcing it.
Closer to home, Trump also eschewed rivals on the Kentucky battle over gay marriage. Some Republicans loudly backed Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis, who opted for jail time rather than issue any marriage licenses following the U.S. Supreme Court's June ruling in support of gay marriage.
"We are a nation of laws," Trump said. "The decision's been made, and that's the law of the land."
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Except it’s not a deal yet. Instead of acting like the vote already happened, I’d like to see Trump try to stop it. No one has a bigger mic.
Unless he’s already become one of those who want the Presidency more than anything else.
Don’t ever want something so bad you can’t walk away, you’ll lose every time.
Agreed ball...now comes the trial in which Trump will have to steel himself to have a chance to weather the storm which shall befall him. If he is capable of that, this may actually work.
Now you know will come the FReepers who hold the Christian vote in contempt with there Jimmy Carter was a Christian accusations.
There are those who play checkers. There are those who play chess. The checker players among us support her. The chess players are willing to let it play to it’s end before acting.
Ok, that is the last I will defend him. I wasn’t voting for him anyway, but now I will stay silent while the attackers attack. He is of no interest to me.
If the Kentucky clerk is in jail for failing to follow the law, why is Hillary Clinton still free and running for president?
Jimmy Carter was A “CHURCH GOER”...much the same as Barack Mohammad Hussein Obama was a Church Goer
and then we have those infamous pretend Revrunts...Sharpton and Jacksome.
He is a GOPe lackey.
How many of 0dungo's people have been cited for CONTEMPT just like the clerk? 4? 5?
Immigration is law made by legislatures. The homo marriage nonsense is “law” made by judges. You don’t see a difference?
And what of the Iran deal?
Trump is starting to show the typical political traits of trying to have things both ways. No thanks.
Cruz, Jindal, Huckabee, Santorum are still in it for me.
It is amazing to read the comments of the Trump supporters. Every one has some idea about what Trump REALLY means, and how he will really turn it around and do something super conservative, and we are all too dense to see how smart Trump really is in all of this...
I am just waiting for the day that Trump suggests that government hospitals should do third-trimester abortions specifically so we can lower the deficit by selling the baby parts. I know that there will be dozens of Trump supporters gushing about how smart and conservative that is, and why didn’t anybody ever think of that before!
Good thinking.
And the homosexual marriage? What is he to do? Be a martyr? Not in the cards.
I don't like these either but not sure what one does different at this point except deal with it. Enforce the deal that Obama reached and, with homosexual marriage, how about a different tact, get government out of it and leave "marriage" a matter of the church.
This is not an attack. it is about his actual positions. If he loses support over it, it will be his own doing.
p.s. In KY will they be giving complementary bottles of KY jelly to gays applying for marriage licenses?
Ihe Extreme Court’s decision is *not* a law. Its an opinion... in this case, an ideological belch.
Cruz is correct on both these issues.
Congress cannot make any laws which violate the First Amendment, as the court is attempting to do.
The existing State statute was overturned by the lower court, leaving no law.
The court rules on the constitutionality of laws, it does not write laws. The SCOTUS refused to hear the case--so it wasn't even the Supremes who passed down a ruling.
Congress CAN pass a law requiring NO ONE be forced, for the purposes of employment, public or private, to engage in any activity which violates their religious beliefs, but then that would conflict with Obamacare (abortion and abortifacient provisions, for starters), queer training in the schools, funding Planned Parenthood through tax payments, and so much more.
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