Reince Priebus is telling people that it’ll all be okay – the RNC has leverage over Trump because Trump will need their data operation and voter lists so they’ll be able to push him into moderating his campaign to meet their policy goals.
Good luck with that.
They’ll be greeted as liberators!
RNC: We’ll build a wall around Trump and make him pay for it.
Additionally, she’s a complete idiot.
Palin is clever with zingers.
LOL! Literally.
Only if she gets the words in the right order. Or manages to stick to a single thought per sentence.
Well, if Trump wins the RNC is basically irrelevant for presidential purposes for the next 8 years. Though to be fair, the rest of us will be fucked too.
The thing is Trump’s positions on a lot of actual issues, at least as much as we can tell (and we can’t tell much, he’s vague and noncommittal on most issues) are more moderate than the Republican party wants. Then he’s vastly to the far right on immigration. I’ve read some articles suggesting that instead of spending a lot of effort explaining his past liberal positions (some of which he’s never fully repudiated, and some like abortion he’s half-assed repudiated with made up Road to Damascus type stories) he just decided to say things on immigration so profoundly unacceptable to liberal Americans that any rival who calls him liberal will look foolish. To a degree that has worked, Cruz in particular has tried to attack Trump as a liberal and it just hasn’t worked, the average voter doesn’t care if a guy has said he is going to leave entitlements untouched and won’t let people be uninsured, if he says Mexicans are rapists and all Muslims should be banned from entering America and he’s going to build a giant wall on the southern border they just aren’t going to buy Ted Cruz calling him a liberal.
The issue is that since most of his real wealth is tied up in large and prominent real estate holdings putting them in a blind trust really does nothing. He will still know what properties he controls and it’s not easy to unload and switch up most of those. Plus since the Trump organization’s business is in real estate it wouldn’t make sense for them to do so. He’s said he’ll turn over operations to his children and I suspect that’s all he’d do.
Unlike prior rich candidates in recent memory (like Romney) who had large wealth in securities and other instruments that could easily be put in a blind trust and the President probably wouldn’t have a good idea what was in there after awhile, with Trump that approach isn’t realistic.
FWIW Obama never put his assets in a blind trust for a very different reason, he’s mostly invested his money in index funds which index large swathes of the market and treasury bonds. He said that those sort of funds aren’t subject to being easily manipulated by the President so it made no sense to put them in a blind trust–and he’s right, and plus who cares if Obama was working to make the S&P 500 go up so his index fund goes up? The S&P 500 going up is one barometer of a healthy economy and part of the President’s vague economic responsibilities anyway.
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The issue is that since most of his real wealth is tied up in large and prominent real estate holdings putting them in a blind trust really does nothing. He will still know what properties he controls and it’s not easy to unload and switch up most of those. …QUOTE]
So what? He’ll just pay lip service to the law and do whatever his attorneys tell him is the absolute minimum level of compliance.
Sarah Palin? Seriously you guys are so unimaginative when predicting a VP for Trump or any candidate. Putting aside all of her weaknesses and flaws, Donald still will not choose her. She was already a VP candidate and it has never happened that a former one, including those on a losing ticket, are tapped by another presidential candidate for VP again. It’s unheard of, at least in modern times.
Donald Trump has p,entry of governors, senators and what not to tap into.
Re his “Road to Damascus” conversion on abortion, I just saw a snippet of a 1998 interview:
So it’s not the craziest flip flop ever.
Yes, this is exactly what I have been telling people. The attacks from Cruz calling him a liberal are going to fall flat because people know liberals dont say the kinds of outrageous things Trump says.
For the record, I don’t think that Donald Trump is a Democratic plant and that they are conspiring to destroy the GOP from the inside. But, that said, I don’t think this would be playing out much differently if that were actually happening.
Is this really true? Maybe the information was wrong or out of date, but I’ve read many things going back several years (and as recent as last year, during this election cycle) that his claim of being a “Real Estate” mogul is completely false, he doesn’t own much, and isn’t even one of the bigger real estate guys in his own zip code. Most real estate guys would laugh at the mention of his name and claims of being a Real Estate tycoon.
I thought the story went something like this: Almost all his attempts at making real estate deals were huge failures. His companies went bankrupt several times. So, he and his advisors realized that the best way for him to make money was to license his name for entertainment deals and to other developers for their properties, and he has no stake in the deals. He’s made more money off The Apprentice than real estate. People pay him millions to put his name on their property, then when they get foreclosed, he owes nothing and keeps his fee. He gets paid off Trump cologne and mattresses, and whatever. Surely, he never owned Trump University or actually participated in MLM schemes- those people paid him fees to use his name, though.
Trump’s biggest real estate asset is his name.
He’s not a liberal. He just has no consistent political philosophy. Unless maybe you call him a “corporatist” or something.
I am really puzzled by people who claim he’s conservative or any sort of free-marketer or anything like that, though. He supports big government, opposes private property rights (expect for corporations) and on and on.
I think I would argue that Trump’s biggest real estate asset is actually his father’s name. He’s the one who initiated the real estate empire, after all.
We can alllllll hope! He drops out, endorses Hillary and releases his new book, “How I Destroyed the GOP!”
That would be entertaining but probably really bad for her. Better to keep it a secret op all the way through.