WASHINGTON – Republican front-runner Donald Trump refused Sunday to rule out a third-party presidential run, as he vowed to bring back waterboarding as an interrogation technique for suspected terrorists.
Backing away from a signed pledge he made in September to support the Republican nominee, Trump told “This Week,’ that’s he’s now taking a wait and see approach on whether to run as an independent.
“I will see what happens. I have to be treated fairly,” he said.
His comments comes as fresh polling shows Trump is the undisputed Republican front-runner — even as establishment Republicans are plotting attacks to take him down.
“If I’m treated fairly, I’m fine,” Trump said. “All I want … is a level playing field.”
Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s super PAC plans a $2.5 million negative campaign against Trump, while other GOP establishment officials are plotting a “guerrilla campaign” backed by secret donors to “destroy” Trump, The Wall Street Journal reports.
From the start, the billionaire mogul had threatened to not support the Republican presidential candidate and challenge the nominee as an independent candidate.
But the GOP leadership successfully pressured Trump in September to sign a pledge of allegiance to the party.
Trump held up the signed promise at the time and said: “I will be totally pledging my allegiance to the Republican Party and the conservative principle for which it stands.”
Meanwhile Sunday, Trump made a case to bring back waterboarding.
“I would bring it back, yes,” Mr. Trump said. “I think waterboarding is peanuts compared to what they’re doing to us, what they did to James Foley when they chopped off his head.”
He also said he’d support tracking Muslims in the US.
“I definitely want a database and other checks and balances. We want to go with watch lists. We want to go with databases,” he said.
The real estate tycoon also doubled down on his assertion thousands of Arabs in New Jersey cheered the World Trade Center’s collapse on 9/11 despite police disputing that account.
“It did happen,” Trump insisted.
In the wake of the ISIS attacks on Paris, Trump’s tough talk to take out the terrorists have played well in polls. He took a jab at Clinton, saying that unlike him, she doesn’t have the “strength or stamina” to be commander-in-chief.
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I have a feeling that threat of running as an independent has more to do with Rinse knocking Kasich back into line.
The waterboarding thing is sure to get him a 5 - 10 point bump.
And, of course, the Lefties are in a tailspin.
Did anyone see the 2020 show with Trump? It was practically a campaign commercial for him from Barbara Walters. I thought he came off very well, and in a way that should give a lot of us with fears about him some confidence. Meeting his family made him seem much more grounded, reality-based, and principled than his public persona tends to show. He has a long history of being exactly who he is, and practicing what he preaches. He's certainly a doer, and that's something rare these days in politics. His biggest shortcoming, I think, is that he doesn't really express himself that well, but that is often not what doers practice a lot. And I'm a big fan of substance over style. I still fear that Trump will put Trump first, and an independent run would be a total betrayal. He picked a team, he needs to play for that team through the championship, or get out now. If he's our douche bag, then I don't want to find out it belonged to someone else and we were just borrowing it.
Bags I am pretty confident he is going to win the nomination. So the third party thing is moot.
Man, party faithfuls and true conservatives are hating this. Hating this with the burning passion of a thousand red giant suns gone supernova at once.
And that's not as fun as it sounds. They become obnoxious. Then compound their obnoxious obsession by making a game of it. i.e., "Trump followers remind me of ______ (something ridiculous)." They must be muted.
Then so many are muted nobody is left, and you go, holy s I made everyone shut up, in a way. Everyone.
So I turn them off mute and listen again and there they go again exercising their gnawing obsession again and intolerably again so mute for them again and you go, man these cycles sure can be cyclical sometimes.
We photographer types are fraught with considerations.
The lens must be clean, the focus good, the technical things that people don't like, but other things too like batteries charged up, cell phone charged up, card reader works, external computer memory works, camera memory has sufficient capacity.
I bought an 8G card with the camera and it's never been filled. I've taken thousands of photos in raw. I recall at the time thinking, my goodness, this capacity is astounding. And it is.
But now I really need to be on the ball with keeping batteries charged and both cell phone and camera set up properly and working or else hundreds of photos are lost, up to 300 photos at a time could be forfeited. And during a transition I need to switch out memory cards and get going processing while the camera is still clicking away. That means a new memory card. Through the handy-dandy Lem's comonocreerendios Amazon portal, I bought a new card at 4X that capacity, and apparently "hyper" fast, for only $20.00.
Is that amazing or what? It's a tiny sd memory card. It totalmente sopla mi mente.
The problem a lot of people have with Trump is how he sounds, and the image that suggests. That's really it. If you look at the substance of the man: not known to drink, drugs, cheat, steal, or lie as far as I can tell. By all accounts his one vice seems to be he's a workaholic. We could use someone who tries and works the job at hand instead of spending 8 years working partisan politics, developing his image, and his post Presidency career. Trump would have no need for that.
I notice that Democrat Presidents tend to use the job as a stepping stone to a very public retirement, where as Republicans tend to go home and mind their own business. You may feel that the public thing is more admirable, but it definitely forces you to handle the job differently - being careful about image, whose feet you step on, and whose you massage.
I notice that Democrat Presidents tend to use the job as a stepping stone to a very public retirement, where as Republicans tend to go home and mind their own business.
The worst is yet to come. Obama is poised to become the world's community organizer, pitting races against one another on a global scale and working "from the inside" to ensure that America is kept down, no matter who is elected. His shortlist of planned Presidential pardons will be his biggest tell.
We already had one ex-pres who went around certifying fraud elections and sucking up to evil regimes, but at least he knew how to swing a hammer and drive a nail. Maybe with Obama we'll get Fairways for Humanity.
This is a great tweet, one that I'm going to make much use of whenever these topics of anti-Western Islamic aggression come up:
https://twitter.com/aliamjadrizvi/status/651762400639627264
Told you. I told you all he would do this and he's going to. The GOP can't stand it.
I was disappointed in Trump when they asked him to sign the statement that he would support who wins the nomination if it wasn't him, that he didn't make the higher ups who came up with this idea, that if Trump wins, they would support him.
The Donald says what he means and means what he says . he is not intimidated by the MSM. That is what is driving everyone crazy. I stopped reading what they are saying in the press. As bagoh20 said he works hard and has accomplished a lot in life.
He built a great company why not see what he can do for us
Trump should stop threatening to run as a third party candidate when the country clubbers and other such RINOs stop threatening to stay home or vote for someone else on election day if Trump is the nominee. That door swings both ways.
"I notice that Democrat Presidents tend to use the job as a stepping stone to a very public retirement, where as Republicans tend to go home and mind their own business."
Yep. Carter and Clinton are still in the public eye. Ford retired to Palm Springs and after the 1980 convention was never heard of again. what is bush ii doing? mountain biking?
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