Posted on 04/16/2011 8:59:59 AM PDT by ejdrapes
(CNN) – Business mogul Donald Trump told CNN Wednesday House Speaker Nancy Pelosi should have sought to impeach President Bush when she had the chance. In an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, Trump said the president and his administration deliberately lied about the Iraq war, and congressional Democrats missed an opportunity to impeach him when the party took control of Congress in 2006. "I was surprised that she didn't do more in terms of Bush and going after Bush," Trump said. "It was almost - it just seemed like she was going to really look to impeach Bush and get him out of office, which personally I think would have been a wonderful thing." Pressed why he feels Bush deserved the punishment faced by only two other commanders-in-chief, Trump said the president misled the country in the run-up to the Iraq war, and that his actions were considerably more objectionable than those which led to the impeachment of former President Bill Clinton. "He lied. He got us into the war with lies," Trump said. And I mean - look at the trouble Bill Clinton got into with something that was totally unimportant. And they tried to impeach him, which was nonsense. And yet Bush got us into this horrible war with lies, by lying, by saying they had weapons of mass destruction, by saying all sorts of things that turned out not to be true." Trump: I wanted Bush impeached
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Trump may not like Obama and his non-leadership but he is not what the Republicans need on their ticket. He is a liberal and doing this for some alternative purpose..I would not be surprised if he is in it to help the Demoncrats win in 2012. I do NOT trust him at all. Why some of you all do is rather discouraging. Your past speaks what you are in your heart. He is wishy washy and principles that make a man great..he lacks. And please...his personal life is horrible. He dumps his wife’s when they get middle-aged. Not a real nice guy.
With the wimp version of Bush we had by 2008; it would have been better had he been replaced by Dick Cheney. The interviewer seems to not understand. Bush went to Iraq and didn’t take the oil. Trump would have at least raped Iraq for the resources if we were going to have troops there. I agree, that sounds like a good idea. Perhaps, less should be taken out of context. I certainly took that out of context and got a different outcome.
Harriet meyers anyone?
Trump’s own audio clips from Mark Levin show.
Devastating in my opinion, and I’m sad to say they were a real eye-opener to me. Decide for yourself. This is really, really not good.
http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2011/04/sound-trumpet.html
“He has no shot towin the nomination.” yeah, okay. Neither did Bill Clinton or Barak Obama. Yet look where we are.
Trump’s own audio clips from Mark Levin show.
Devastating in my opinion, and I’m sad to say they were a real eye-opener to me. Decide for yourself. This is really, really not good.
http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2011/04/sound-trumpet.html
That doesn’t look like the one that follows me :)
I do not believe that Bush should have been impeached over Iraq. He was not lying, he was fooled by Saddam Hussein. I will not refuse to vote for someone because they feel the opposite is true. I cannot see myself voting for Trump however (primary) because he just does not “feel” like a serious (or any other kind) of a conservative. Sort of like Bush.
Fool me once....
Ditto. Problem was.....the Congress din’t want anything done about the invasion either.
Im no fan of Bush, but I don't believe a lot of what I see in defense of liberal Donald Trump.
Donald Trump is a lifelong liberal. Only now when he wants your vote does he pretend to be conservative. There are many who just don't seem to care as they have bought into his ruse. But this is what they are supporting.
1. Trump has been a liberal Democrat most of his adult life, registering as a Republican as recently as 2009.
2. Trump has contributed generously to some of the most far left democrats in politics including Hillary Clinton (D-NY), Charles Schumer (D-NY), Terry McAuliffe (D-VA) Anthony Weiner (D-NY), Ted Kennedy (D-MA), Harry Reid (D-NV), Governor Ed Rendell (D-PA), California state attorney general Kamala Harris (D-CA), Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel (D-IL), and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
3. Trump is a crony capitalist, explaining his large contributions to democrats as a necessary tool to conducting business. He apparently believes buying the votes of politicians is an acceptable way of doing business. That, by definition is political corruption. But liberal Donald Trump is all for it.
4. Trump supported the ban on "assault weapons", even though there is no such thing as an "assault weapon". Far left anti-gun democrats wanted to ban gun ownership completely. Unable to accomplish that goal they created the term "assault weapon" and applied their own definition for the term so they could ban guns based solely on cosmetic appearances. Being the gullible liberal that he is, Trump both fell for the scheme and supported the ban.
5. As recently as 2013 Trump praised former NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg for "Putting his money where his mouth is" in trying to take guns from law-abiding citizens. Michael Bloomberg has spent tens of millions in his quest to disarm America and Donald Trump praised him for it.
6. Trump has been pro-abortion until which time he flirted with running for president. He now claims he no longer is. Believe his campaign rhetoric if you will, but his history says otherwise.
7. While he may claim to be an opponent of Obamacare, Trump is an advocate of single-payer socialized healthcare similar to what is in place in Canada. Yes, Trump supports the worst version of socialized healthcare. He has said, "The Canadian plan also helps Canadians live longer and healthier than America. We need, as a nation, to reexamine the single-payer plan, as many individual states are doing. While we work out details of a new single-payer plan, there are a number of ways to make the health care system now in place work more efficiently."
8. Trump believes in using eminent domain for the taking of private property from US citizens for his personal gain. He proved this when he tried exploiting such laws to take elderly widow Vera Coking's property so he could build a parking lot for limousines. Fortunately, the widow prevailed. He also said he supported the United States Supreme Court's Kelo decision which resulted in the taking of private land from a private party so Pfizer Pharmaceuticals could build a plant. That family lost their land and to date nothing has been built on it. It should be noted that conservatives Rehnquist, Thomas and Scalia all voted against this rotten scheme. Liberals on the court supported it, as did liberal Donald Trump.
9. Trump has said the economy does better under democrat control (we're $18 trillion in debt and climbing thanks to the dems). He also said George W. Bush was the worst president this country has ever had. Worse than the lying rapist Bill Clinton? In the mind of Donald Trump, that answer is YES because he has also said of the past four presidents, Bill Clinton was his favorite.
10. As of 2009, Donald Trump is a registered Republican. But in an interview with CNN's Wolfe Blitzer, Trump said, "I probably identify more as a democrat." His record above lends credence to that comment. You are supporting and putting your trust in a liberal.
11. And as we see now Trump was all for impeaching a Republican president because he "lied about WMDs" while he said the lying, impeached rapist Bill Clinton was his "favorite president of the last 4".
Summed up, while Donald Trump may be saying and doing things that appeal to conservatives, he is a lifelong liberal democrat who only now claims to be conservative. That considered, he is just like any other liberal in that he cannot be trusted.
IATZ.
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