“And, if we let our people really go, we wouldn’t need the oil at all“, Trump said of America’s energy economy. “I go on your show – you will get the highest ratings you’ve had in years“, Trump said. Jails are already seriously overcrowded so maybe we can build some “camps” – you know, like all totalitarian regimes have – to keep the illegals penned up until their hearing. Instead, he said, “I’m good at looking at contracts” and would aggressively “police” the agreement to close the loopholes and assure Iran keeps its end of the bargain in scaling back its nuclear capabilities.
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Mr Trump, who has repeatedly portrayed Mexico, Japan, and China as “ripping us off”, shifted his focus to Saudi Arabia in an interview aired on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday. They destabilized the Middle East. It was a big mistake. “Now, we don’t need the oil so much“.
Lawmakers across both parties were quick to respond to Trump’s latest interview, with fellow 2016 candidate Carly Fiorina ripping her competitor for his ability to avoid answering questions. Rape, incest, if the mother is going to die. There’s a war on women that is happening in this country, starting with basic abortion rights, freedom to choose what we fought for in the 60s and 70s, that women died for, bleeding in back alleys from hanger abortions.
Of course, we’d have to round them all up to deport them. “He’s a puppet. Those people, they’ll take negative ads on me and on other people because they want him in there because they’re going to control Jeb Bush“.
In a 37-minute conversation on “Meet The Press”, Todd pushed Trump on a wide range of issues with which the real-estate magnate would presumably be confronted if he won the presidency in 2016. “[They] shouldn’t be given to the Iraqis?” “They got nothing. And they can’t even say we had a victory”. But we’ve had soldiers that were so badly hurt and killed. “I want to compete with the rest of the world. I mean, he spent $4 million in legal fees to make sure that nobody ever saw [them]”. We had thousands of people killed, wounded warriors all over the place.
“The primary reason we’re with Saudi Arabia is because we need the oil”, Trump said. But Trump has insisted he’s more in-line with the GOP now, and pointed to Ronald Reagan, who he said was “a Democrat, absolutely, with a liberal bent” before becoming a Republican as a similar case. “I really see a lot of great, you know, when you watch your show and all of the other shows and you have the generals”.
Todd: So you’re going to split up families? This is evident with the appearance of the two most popular contenders in the presidential contest today: Donald Trump (on the right, by the foul line) and Bernie Sanders (in left-center). He’ll have a heck of a time overturning Roe v. Wade (and all subsequent Supreme Court decisions), but Trump probably doesn’t believe in checks and balances.
“We defend Saudi Arabia”, he said. He said Bolton is a “tough cookie and knows what he’s talking about”, while Jacobs “is a good guy”.
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Referencing an interview that Trump gave in 1990 t0 Playboy magazine, Todd asked the real-estate magnate if his candidacy had made Americans “all part of a reality show”.
