Donald Trump may be well known for his business savvy, but he’s started building the idea of his political run long before announcing it.
Trump began by telling the people who were there that he wouldn’t run for president in 1988, which disappointed some, especially Dunbar. Then Trump railed, with no notes, and for roughly the next half hour, about Japan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Washington, Wall Street, politicians, economists and “nice people” of whom he had “had enough,” he said. This country was facing “disaster” and was “being kicked around.” Other countries were “laughing at us.”
“It makes me sick,” Trump said.
“If the right man doesn’t get into office,” he warned the Rotarians, “you’re going to see a catastrophe in this country in the next four years like you’re never going to believe. And then you’ll be begging for the right man.”
Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign is often derided as a seat-of-the-pants affair, driven by publicity and surrounded by a fog of improvised policy ideas. But to an extent that would shock anyone who wasn’t there, Trump’s speech in 1987 forecast exactly the worldview that would catapult him to surprise GOP front-runner status in this year’s race. His speech was nativist and isolationist, an angry, gloomy rant about America losing out in a dangerous world. His message of failure—American failure—has been remarkably constant since that moment 28 years ago, with one twist: Back then, the sitting president wasn’t Barack Obama. It was Ronald Reagan.
When Donald Trump Became a Celebrity
In the 1980s, the real-estate developer stepped out onto the national stage—and in interviews with the press, showed a different side of his personality.
Strange as it seems now, Trump repeatedly refused to disclose or speculate about his net worth in a 1987 interview with David Letterman. “You won’t put a figure on it?” the comedian repeatedly presses. “Never have, never would,” Trump says. He seems embarrassed by the question of how much money he is actually worth.
Late Night with David Letterman - 11/10/1988
[LETTERMAN]
“Uh, and politics. We talked about this last time. Any interest in any kind of appointment or commission or position with this administration or something down the..down the road a ways?”
[TRUMP]
“Well..I always had. I was.. I was uh I hope helpful to George Bush. I've always had interest in politics, but I don’t see myself running. I really at this point david i really enjoy too much of what I’m doing. I really love what I'm doing.”
[LETTERMAN]
“Yeah..Yeah, but again, if you're tired of this and it looked like people ..im..im talking about maybe in 8 years.. in 12 years?”
[TRUMP]
“Well, I'm not sure you want to see the United States become a winner? Do you want to see the United States become a winner David? Huh?”
[LETTERMAN]
“Of course we wanna see ..the United States is and has always been a winner for my money Don.”
[TRUMP]
“That was pretty good.”
On the Oprah Winfrey Show in 1988, Trump complemented presidential candidates George H.W. Bush, Michael Dukakis, and Jessie Jackson, complained that Japan is beating the United States, and declared that while he didn’t plan to run for president, he wouldn’t rule it out (and would probably win the office if he were to mount a candidacy). “I really am tired of seeing what’s happening with this country,” he said, “how we’re really making other people live like kings, and we’re not.”
In 1988, Trump attended the Republican National Convention as a guest of Vice President George H.W. Bush, whom he supported in that year’s presidential contest. While there, the businessman sat down with Larry King for a CNN interview.
“Are you a Bush Republican?” King asked.
“No,” Trump answered. “The people that I do best with drive the taxis. You know, wealthy people don’t like me because I’m competing with them all the time. And I like to win. I go down the streets of New York and the people that really like me are the workers.”
The Birth of a Campaign
Every critic, every detractor, will have to bow down to President Trump. It’s everyone who’s ever doubted Donald, who ever disagreed, whoever challenged him. It is the ultimate revenge to become the most powerful man in the universe.
Friday Sep 23, 2016
From Yahoo News:
President Obama says the rise of Donald Trump can be traced back to 2008, when then-GOP presidential nominee John McCain chose a little-known Alaska governor as his running mate.
“I see a straight line from the announcement of Sarah Palin as the vice presidential nominee to what we see today in Donald Trump,” Obama said in a wide-ranging interview with New York magazine published Sunday night. “The emergence of the Freedom Caucus, the tea party, and the shift in the center of gravity for the Republican Party.”
“Whether that changes, I think, will depend in part on the outcome of this election,” Obama continued, “but it’s also going to depend on the degree of self-reflection inside the Republican Party. There have been at least a couple of other times that I’ve said confidently that the fever is going to have to break, but it just seems to get worse.”
“The moods that I think Sarah Palin had captured during the election increasingly were representative of the Republican activist base, its core,” Obama said while reflecting on his first year in office. “It might not have been representative of Republicans across the country, but it meant that [House Republican leader] John Boehner or [then-Senate Minority Leader] Mitch McConnell had to worry about that mood inside their party that felt that, ‘No, we shouldn’t cooperate with Obama, we shouldn’t cooperate with Democrats’ — that it represents compromise, weakness, and that the broader character of America is at stake, regardless of whatever policy arguments might be made.”
Trump receives Palin’s endorsement in Ames, Iowa, Jan. 19, 2016. (Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images)
As a result, Obama said, the ability for future presidents to get things done “is going to be primarily dependent on how many votes we’ve got in each chamber and our ability to move public opinion.”
“It is not, these days, going to be as dependent on classic dealmaking between Democrats and Republicans,” Obama said, “playing enough golf or drinking enough Scotch with members [of Congress]. … What matters is that all [Trump’s] constituencies or [Palin’s] constituencies are watching Fox News and listening to Rush [Limbaugh], and they’re going to pay a price if they’re seen as being too cozy with a Democratic president.”
The line between Palin and Trump was visible in January, when she endorsed Trump before the Iowa caucuses.
“No more pussyfootin’ around!” Palin said. “Are you ready for a commander in chief, you ready for a commander in chief who will let our warriors do their job and go kick ISIS ass? Ready for someone who will secure our borders, to secure our jobs, and to secure our homes? Ready to make America great again, are you ready to stump for Trump? I’m here to support the next president of the United States, Donald Trump.”
During the GOP primaries, Palin stumped for Trump several times but has since largely disappeared from view. Unlike most of Trump’s surrogates, she did not appear at the Republican National Convention in July.
Donald Trump kicked off his political career when the Birther Movement was in full-swing.
To fully understand this, we must go back to the Genesis of this theory.
As reported in Politico:
After years of denying the legitimacy of Barack Obama’s presidency, it was only in the midst of his own presidential campaign that Donald Trump began falsely claiming Hillary Clinton was the true progenitor of the “birther” conspiracy theory claiming Obama was not born in the United States.
But that’s swapping one discredited claim for another. Numerous fact checks, reports and interviews — in 2008 and 2011, when Trump revived the controversy — revealed that although some Clinton supporters circulated rumors about Obama’s citizenship, the campaign and Clinton herself never trafficked in it.
“There has never been evidence that Clinton or her campaign started the birther rumors,” said Ben Smith, editor in chief of BuzzFeed, who as a POLITICO reporter in 2011 linked the origin of the “birther” movement to a fringe politician in Illinois. Some hardcore Clinton backers circulated the rumors in 2008, but the campaign itself steered clear.
“As we reported, some of her supporters flirted with the idea in 2008 — but it has its origins in the fever swamps beginning in Illinois in 2004,” he said.
In fact, birtherism, as it’s been called, reportedly began with innuendo by serial Illinois political candidate Andy Martin, who painted Obama as a closet Muslim in 2004. That spiraled into a concerted effort by conspiracy theorists to raise doubts about Obama’s birthplace and religion — and essentially paint him as un-American.
Martin, who briefly launched a little-noticed presidential campaign last year, has disavowed the movement he’s often credited with starting, though he still foments similarly discredited doubts about Obama’s religion.
Birtherism reportedly began with innuendo by serial Illinois political candidate Andy Martin, who painted Obama as a closet Muslim in 2004. | AP Photo
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During a March 23, 2011 appearance on The View, Trump sparred with Whoopi Goldberg and Barbara Walters about Obama’s birth.
“Why doesn’t he show his birth certificate?” Trump said. “I wish he would because I think it’s a terrible pall that’s hanging over him … There’s something on that birth certificate that he doesn’t like.”
When panelists asked Trump why George W. Bush was never asked to produce his birth certificate, Trump added, “I’m not saying I’m a fan of George Bush. You know that better than anybody. But George Bush was born in this country.”
They've left out an important bit of information.
In October of 2008, Andy Martin eventually realized that he was deceived and has since come to the conclusion that he was wrong. The focus should have been on his father, Frank Marshall Davis.
Donald Trump in 2011 seized on this to attract attention. He built his base by pushing the same distracting theory that Barack Obama was born in Kenya.
“Every day I wake up determined to deliver for the people I have met all across this nation that have been ignored, neglected and abandoned. … These are people who work hard but no longer have a voice,” Trump said. “I am your voice.” --Donald Trump, July 2016
He didn’stop there. He continued to push this from that point on.
FactCheck.org:
On Aug. 6, 2012, Trump tweeted that an “extremely credible source” told him the president’s birth certificate “is a fraud.”
An 'extremely credible source' has called my office and told me that @BarackObama's birth certificate is a fraud.
3:23 PM - 6 Aug 2012
On Dec. 12, 2013, Trump tweeted about the death of Loretta Fuddy, the Hawaii health director who approved the release of Obama’s long-form birth certificate in 2011. Trump used quotes around “birth certificate” and implied that Fuddy’s death was part of the birther conspiracy.
How amazing, the State Health Director who verified copies of Obama’s “birth certificate” died in plane crash today. All others lived
3:32 PM - 12 Dec 2013
The autopsy revealed that the 65-year-old woman died of an irregular heartbeat from the stress of the crash, as the Associated Press reported.
On Sept. 6, 2014, Trump was on Twitter again, urging hackers to “hack Obama’s college records (destroyed?) and check ‘place of birth.’”
Attention all hackers: You are hacking everything else so please hack Obama's college records (destroyed?) and check "place of birth"
5:06 AM - 6 Sep 2014
The timeline of the Birth Certificate non-issue itself is even more extensive. At one point he He tried presenting a fake Birth Certificate.
Even after he won the Republican Nomination, he's still using it to distract the masses that think he can save them from the coming World Government.
"Inarguably, Donald J. Trump is a closer," a campaign statement says, who "successfully obtained President Obama's birth certificate when others could not."
Obama and Hillary made sure to play their part and make Trump and those who fell for this Kansas City Shuffle look like complete fools.
“For five years he has led the birther movement to delegitimize our first black president. His campaign was founded on this outrageous lie. There is no erasing it in history.”
--Hillary Clinton
“I was pretty confident about where I was born..." “I am shocked that a question like that has come up at a time when we have so many other things to do,” Obama said with evident annoyance in the Oval Office, before adding, “I’m not that shocked, actually; it’s fairly typical.”
--President Barack Obama
Just to make this even more clear that this was to deceive the right. It was not Hillary Clinton that started it, as you just read above. Even though he has claimed to have sent investigators out to find the ‘Real Birth Certificate’, there’s no evidence to suggest that he actually ever did.
Trump also neglects to remind his base that there’s no law forbidding the election of a Muslim President. Furthermore, the Constitution explicitly forbids the testing of one's religion as a qualifier:
The No Religious Test Clause of the United States Constitution is a clause within Article VI, Clause 3:
The No Religious Test Clause of the United States Constitution is a clause within Article VI, Clause 3:
"The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States."
Now he’s still trolling his base by having a ‘Birther’ introduce him while rejecting the Birther Movement.
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The irony in this is overwhelming. This goes into the deception of Patriotism.
We’ll get into that later on…
This is all happened before he even publicly announced that he was running for office.
What’s even interesting are the reports that hit the news concerning a phone call that took place between Bill Clinton and Donald Trump.
From a report in Time Magazine:
Former President Bill Clinton privately called Donald Trump in late May when the real estate mogul was on the verge of announcing his 2016 bid for the presidency, the Washington Post reported, citing four Trump confidants and one Hillary Clinton campaign associate—all wishing to remain anonymous.
Bill Clinton’s personal office confirmed that the call occurred, telling the New York Times “that Mr. Trump reached out to President Clinton a few times.”
“President Clinton returned his call in late May,” the aide told the Times. “And, that while we don’t make it a practice to discuss the president’s private conversations, we can tell you that the presidential race was not discussed.”
08/05/2015
Do they expect us to believe that the most important decision in Donald Trump’s life did not come up in a phone conversation with the Former President of the United States Bill Clinton?
Why would Bill Clinton be calling Donald Trump about anything?
Election 2016 Part 04: The Clinton Connection
http://globalistnews.blogspot.com/2016/11/election-2016-part-04-clinton-connection.html
Election 2016 Part 04: The Clinton Connection
http://globalistnews.blogspot.com/2016/11/election-2016-part-04-clinton-connection.html
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