Trump won’t run
By D.J. McGuire | Monday, May 16th, 2011 | International, PoliticsDonald Trump announced that he would not run for President (NR - Primary Events):
I have spent the past several months unofficially campaigning and recognize that running for public office cannot be done half heartedly. Ultimately, however, business is my greatest passion and I am not ready to leave the private sector.
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I look forward to supporting the candidate who is the most qualified to help us tackle our country’s most important issues and am hopeful that, when this person emerges, he or she will have the courage to take on the challenges of the Office and be the agent of change that this country so desperately needs.
Say what you will (and many will do just that), but Trump was the first aspirant in this cycle to bring attention to the danger of the Chinese Communist Party. His instincts pushed the conversation to economics over geopolitics (the case is much stronger in the latter), but they also cracked the “enagement” consensus. For that, if nothing else, we should all be grateful.
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6 Responses to "Trump won’t run"
D.J.-What Republicans should be most grateful to Trump for is not running. He’s have just been sucking oxygen away from the campaigns of serious candidates who might win. Granted, at this point, among the announced GOP candidates, I think that description only applies to Pawlenty.
Exhale.. (sigh) Close call..
Guessing he didn’t want to make his finances public..
No, he just didn’t want to be fired.
D. J.,
Really?
The most interesting thing about this whole Trumped-up candidacy (sorry, couldn’t resist) was how the MSM and even people like D. J. treated this media clown like a serious political leader.
C’mon, D. J. You can find lots of more credible public figures than Trump who have been warning us for years of the impending economic crisis of the Chinese calling in our debt or selling it for pennies on the dollar. Donald Trump is an airhead who blurts out anything that he has heard someone else more intelligent say and that he thinks will have mass audience appeal.
Trump was a stalking horse; I am not surprised that you guys here couldn’t see that.
He has “withdrawn” because his mission was accomplished: draw out birthers and discredit them, then abandon them, and hopefully drive another wedge into the Tea Party. This is the same Trump who gave Rahm $50,000.00 towards his Chicago mayoral campaign.
Politics anymore is all about the Tea Party movement, which could and probably should be renamed The Liberty Movement. The right is “courting” the Tea Party, and the left (most recently, Trump) wants to discredit us. Eventually we will realize that our destiny as a third party is calling us, and that will be the end of the old guard global police state republicans.
I can’t wait.
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