Posted on 08/23/2015 11:21:18 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” host George Stephanopoulos grilled Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on his plan to deport the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants.
Exchange as follows:
STEPHANOPOULOS: From the American action conservative group they say the federal government would have to spend roughly $400 billion to $600 billion to address the 11.2 million undocumented immigrants. Each immigrant would have to be apprehended, detained, legally processed and transported to his or her home country, in turn this would shrink the labor force by 11 million and reduce the real GDP by 1.6 trillion dollars. Are you willing to pay that price and where are you going to get the money?
TRUMP: First of all they’re wrong and Jeb Bush is a low energy person and wouldn’t be able to do it. He says they come as an act of love. People coming and many of them you look at what’s happening with the crime, many of them are really causing tremendous problems and they would be out really fast. Immediately.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Mr. Trump. they’re saying $406 billion and would require big government apparatus to take everybody down. If you don’t think those numbers are right how much will it cost and where will you get the money.”
TRUMP: It’s costing us $130 billion a year and that’s peanuts compared to what the real cost is, George. The way we have it now. You have so many illegals. We don’t even know how many. I hear 11 million. I hear 30 million. The government has no idea. We have lost control of our country. We’ve lost control of our borders. The government has no idea how many illegals are here. I’ve been hearing 11 billion for five years then I heard 30. nobody has any idea.”
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Democrats are never grilled on specifics. Only the GOP front runners get that treatment.
Pray America is waking from the slumber.
It is actually much easier than that. Enforce e-verify for all jobs, and instead of monetary penalties on violators, institute a prison time for any CEO found violating the law. Then CEO’s will enforce the deportation instead of the tax payers.
You can’t move anybody to the front of the pack, UNLESS they can resonate with people. Trump is resonating and connecting, others are not. Why does this simple fact in political realities eludes you?
You don’t need an army of handlers. But the follow up question are a given. If he keeps repeating the same old general ideas, he’d be seen as an empty suit. For Trump this is one big reality show. He can take his Trump brand global like Coca Cola and Nike without paying a penny on advertisement. Fools are falling for him because he has hit on a burning issue. He is right. But simply stating the issues without knowing how he plans to get there is not helpful. A majority of Republicans are on record as not willing vote for Trump. It’s about 2%-3% of the electorate that decides the election, and given Trump’s negatives he cannot win, in an election we all agree, we MUST win.
>>You don’t need an army of handlers. But the follow up question are a given. If he keeps repeating the same old general ideas, he’d be seen as an empty suit. For Trump this is one big reality show. He can take his Trump brand global like Coca Cola and Nike without paying a penny on advertisement. Fools are falling for him because he has hit on a burning issue. He is right. But simply stating the issues without knowing how he plans to get there is not helpful. A majority of Republicans are on record as not willing vote for Trump. It’s about 2%-3% of the electorate that decides the election, and given Trump’s negatives he cannot win, in an election we all agree, we MUST win.
1) You don’t win friends by calling people fools.
2) Your candidate could pull ahead by doing what Trump is doing AND being that candidate of substance that you seem to think actually exists in modern American politics.
But the truth is that there is no candidate of substance because the poorly-educated masses can’t handle substance. They want Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho and that’s who they are going to get. But, compared to the rest of the mealy-mouthed field of cowards, even Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho sounds like a good idea right now.
We are a nation is deep sh!t. We need a leader with a vision and not a detail-oriented guy. We need a butt-kicker and not a butt-kisser (or a cheek-spreader, as our Congressional leadership tends to be).
I'll admit I'm puzzled too.
Why has he chosen to hold back?
Strange choice on his part.
This is like watching a repeat of 2008 here on Free Republic...when so many were mad that people weren’t all gung-ho about Fred Thompson. Not resonating is a good way to describe it.
this is exactly what i’ve been telling my friends as well. i am surprised someone in the inner circles of the campaign hasn’t advised him on this. this question should be laughed at at in a ridiculing way. respond by “you’ve got to be kidding” kind of way. my answer....you damn sure didn’t ask obama for specifics to “hope and change” or “fundamentally transform America” did you. i will issue all my plans in detail but not this early in the campaign. next question....steffi.
I agree with you. But first we must have a candidate who can win. The William Buckley principle is that we elect the “most conservative” and “one who can win.” Trump is neither. Trump is playing us just like he does the viewers on The Apprentice. This is a global “reality” show for him, but not for us. Let’s face it. He has given wads of cash to Hillary; to Blasio, to the snake who is the Virginia governor, he is all over the place on Planned Parenthood; has said squat on gay marriage (which just a fe weeks ago was burning up the pages of FreeRepublic) and now he goes on national TV and cannot articulate a coherent plan on how he proposes to implement his signature issue. He tells Christian Evangelicals that he does not need forgiveness for anything he has done. Great!
I was one of those admirers of Fred Thompson in 2008. And disliked McCain more than all others running. However Thompson simply failed to resonate with voters.
In 2016, Ted Cruz would be my top choice at this point. But I am a realist, and that is why going for Trump at this stage. If Trump drops out, I will bet half of my social security check that Cruz can not overtake Bush’s money and organization.
As for Republicans, two in three say Trump can win next November, per latest poll. Your opinion has less weight in my mind than a nationwide poll.
Yep. Cruz is still polling at 4%.
I truly despise Stephie. He and rest could not care less about illegal immigrants. They just want the votes.
You first. Tell all the world what you have had to ask God’s forgiveness for. We’re waiting. That would just give the media something else to blather over for weeks on end. Or have you forgotten the Jimmy Carter famous quote: He lusted in his heart. Come on - you are grasping at straws, and you know it. He also gave WADS of cash to Rick Perry, Scott Walker, Rand Paul, George W. Bush, Judge Jeanine, Chris Christie, and the list goes on. SO, there goes another futile argument on your part. You can’t wrap your head around the fact that he is a businessman and that is what they do. You also don’t realize he lives in a very blue state. He also supported Rudy for Mayor. So, get off your soapbox - if Cruz is meant to win - he will - if not -then nothing you can say will change that fact. So, a candidate has to say squat about gay marriage? Is Ted going to change the Supreme Court ruling? NO! You are ridiculous.
That was a grillin’??? Not in my neck of the woods...Trump handled it very well...
Bill Clinton’s Butt Boy grills Trump
Can you refer me to a single national poll or a single Republican poll that contradicts these facts:
(1) Trump is not winning nationally, or among registered republicans.
(2) Many republicans say they will never vote for him
(3) He has massive negatives among women.
With about 2%-3% of the vote deciding national elections, do you seriously think Trump can win? Doesn’t it occur to you this is one big Wizard of Oz? This is the Trump brand in steroids trying to make the Trump name a global brand like Coca Cola and Nike without spending dime on advertisements?
Can’t we stop for a minute and ask are we being taken for fools?
>>But first we must have a candidate who can win. The William Buckley principle is that we elect the “most conservative” and “one who can win.”
In modern politics, we take that as “one who can win” and we give up on the “most conservative” part. And then, guess what? “The one who can win” doesn’t win.
It isn’t 1980 anymore. The Left-Right/Liberal-Conservative paradigm is as dead as Buckley. The Progressives have won. Our task now is to minimize the damage, and that damage is caused by the immigration of anti-American people (illegals and muslims). The snooty high-brow conservatism of Buckley is worthless in this day. In fact, his form of “I know better than you dirty little people” conservatism is what helped to create the Rise of the RINOs.
Maybe he will.
Blah, blah, blah.
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