Posted on 03/20/2016 11:53:00 AM PDT by reaganaut1
On Friday, Donald Trump questioned whether Mitt Romney is actually Mormon. “I have many friends that live in Salt Lake City — and by the way, Mitt Romney is not one of them,” Trump said during a Salt Lake City speech. ”Are you sure he’s a Mormon? Are we sure?”
This is the third time Trump has questioned the faith of one of his opponents, despite having criticized the practice of questioning other people’s faith, ABC’s George Stephanopoulos pointed out this morning during an interview with Trump. “Why do you keep doing it?” he asked.
Here’s Trump’s reply:
With Mitt Romney — well, first of all, with Mitt Romney, I was saying to the Mormons, Mormons are very smart people. And I said it in a joking way, but they can take it, you can take it any way you want. The Mormons are very smart people. I know many Mormons. I don’t think Mitt Romney is a smart person. I never have thought he was a smart person, but the Mormons are very smart people. So I said, are you sure he’s a Mormon? And I’m not going to change it because I think Mitt Romney has proven to be not a smart person. As far as Ted Cruz, he’s one of the greatest liars and biggest liars I have ever known. He lies about so much. He lies about things that he shouldn’t be lying about. He lies about things that don’t matter. I tell people, and I think that’s why Ted Cruz has lost the Evangelical vote, look what he did with Ben Carson, who has endorsed me. Look what he did to Ben Carson. He said Ben Carson in Iowa has left. He’s out of the campaign, vote for me.
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I find it an interesting comment on character when Trump complains about the Pope commenting on his faith, but then he turns around and questions other people’s faith.
Rules for thee but not for me????
It was a quick joke and nothing more. But the PC police blow everything out of proportion.
I don’t know whether or not Romney is Mormon, but I damn well know without a shred of doubt he is a liberal Democrat.
Trump has little control over his mouth or his mind.
He says the first thing he thinks which gives one a clue as to how his mind works.
He’s a crude dude with a lot of hate in him.
It’s a joke.
He said it about Romney.
In Utah.
Now is this Romney the same jackass who questioned EVERYTHING about Trump and moved into gratuitous insults a week or two ago?
Whining little punk.
Trump said Mormons work hard. Romney was lazy. We sure he’s really a Mormon?
It wasn’t questioning his faith. That’s gay.
At ease he doesn’t grease his hair down.
He is probably just saying it to get a reaction out of Romney.
Pretty sure he was joking since Romney is usually careful not to say he is a Mormon or LDS, unless he is trying to get voters in Utah. I believe through most of Romney’s campaigns he always gave his religion as Christian, not LDS or Mormon.
The odd thing is several of my LDS/Mormon friends have said that Romney is not a “real” Mormon, not sure what they mean by that. I don’t discuss religion with them, so I don’t ask what they mean.
Romney fought against Reagan as a democrat. That is a fact.
His ol man-the GD shyster, destroyed Goldwaters chances in the 60s.
I saw it as humor. In simple terms:
Mormon equals smart
Romney equals dumb
Therefore Romney does not equal mormon
I think they ought to look at Cruz’s beliefs not Mitt’s. We all know he is Mormon. I went to high school with some relatives of his back in the ‘70’s. Same last name, huge Mormon family.
Why do Republican candidates continue to have themselves interviewed by a (former) Clinton employee, Clinton communications director, and Clinton Foundation contributor???
At least they could do themselves a favor and point out the blatant conflict of interest for the low information viewers.
“Well, George, since you are a former Clinton employee and one of their close friends, and you recently donated to Hillary’s phony foundation without disclosing it to your current employer and viewers, I think you can understand.....”
Look at that ‘lyin’ attack DT suffered, biggest one yet. Sounds offensively defensive.. doth he protest too much? Something about to happen/break about DT?
psy ops
They are a people able to laugh at themselves and Trump knows it.
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