Posted on 04/03/2016 4:11:35 PM PDT by Steelfish
Trump Tries the Art of Intimidation
by JOHN FUND April 3, 2016
Seven months ago, after he signed a pledge to support whoever won the GOP nomination, Donald Trump said, “I see no circumstances under which I would tear up that pledge.” That was then. Today we see a different Trump. On Sunday, he told Chris Wallace of Fox News that while he wanted “to run as a Republican,” he wouldn’t rule out an independent or third-party race this fall. “We’re going to have to see how I was treated,” he warned. GOP leaders should have known better than to have taken his pledge seriously.
As the Associated Press pointed out in September 2015, his record on honoring contracts is at best spotty: When lender Boston Safe Deposit & Trust refused to extend the mortgage on his Palm Beach resort, Mar-a-Lago, he ceased making loan payments until the bank capitulated in 1992. In his book The Art of the Comeback, Trump proudly recounts forcing his unpaid lenders to choose between fighting him in bankruptcy court or cutting him an additional $65 million check. Afraid of losing their jobs, the bankers folded, Trump says. (snip)
As Donald Trump piles up more rookie campaign mistakes and his momentum stalls, he is clearly developing a Plan B for the Cleveland convention. Call it “The Art of Intimidation.”
Republican leaders shouldn’t twist convention rules in Cleveland to block Trump’s nomination. Nor should they disrespect his voters. But they also should call out the veiled threats from Team Trump for what they are: a form of political blackmail. And no party seeking a mandate to govern should surrender to such lowball tactics
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No one committed at the town hall. Why single out trump?
Because John Fund is a vapid, boring, faceless neocon hack.
If they steal the nomination, Trump will walk and so will we.
Do ya blame him? The corrupt DC gang is plotting to thwart the nominee. Trump knows how to play hardball against these thugs.
Wow - after seven years of deafening silence of the past seven years NRO comes out fighting against their own guy.
Never spend time with Steelfish junk.
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Wasn’t that before everyone ganged up on him?
Why wouldn't he say that. GOPe has tried harder to beat Trump than any Democrat in my lifetime.
He’s such a cement head. It’s called setting the foundation for negotiation.
Umm.. Many in GOP saying they’d vote for Hillary. Principled conservatism at its finest /s
We sure will. I have had it with the GOP.
Sorry to rattle your delicate echo chamber.
Predictable Trumpism. Unable to deal with the point of the article. Trump is so lucky with his Trumpkins and explains why he said he “loves the least educated.” Maybe that’s how we make America great again.
From the menstrual Rag of a publication that called for the death of White blue collar worker towns.
Good luck with that. A majority of states have sore loser laws. Those laws will prevent him from being on the ballot.
The GOP had better watch its step.
Because Trump is a mere commoner running for President thus NR has a sacred duty to disparage him as much as they can for as long as then can with every fiber in their being.
Thus NR is now where people go to get a clear idea of what is going on...NOT! Its where people that hate Trump go for emotional support.
And a "fresh face" from the GOPe as the nominee will be on the ballot, but with almost no checks next to their silly name.
You must own something before it can be stolen. If he receives the required number of delegate votes, he will be the nominee. If he doesn't, he will not.
A sense of entitlement is not recognized as ownership and to give him the nomination without winning it would divide the party just as much or more than him walking out. If we are going to loose the general election, I would just as soon do it with someone else rather than a 70 year old man-child stomping his feet and holding his breath every time he fails to get his way.
If Cruz or Kasich or Ryan get it, we’re done.
Never has there been an elections where candidates stay in just to deprive the frontrunner. Now that’s usually because the establishment has ownership of the frontrunner. But for candidates to stay in past the point of a possible win is just to keep the frontrunner from getting the magic number.
But that frontrunner has the majority of votes and delegates, votes from people who thought it meant something. To play games to get a nominee who didn’t get the most votes is indeed stealing it.
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