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    Trump says he's prepared to spend $1 BILLION on campaign

    Trump says he's prepared to spend $1 billion on campaign

    By Eugene Scott, CNN
    Updated 8:00 PM ET, Sat August 15, 2015



    Trump: 'I love the people of Iowa' 00:57

    Story highlights


    • "I make $400 million a year, so what difference does it make?" Trump asked
    • Trump also said he had just put out a position paper on immigration


    Des Moines, Iowa (CNN)Donald Trump said Saturday that he's prepared to spend $1 billion on his campaign if necessary.

    "It's irrelevant," he said when asked by CNN's Jeremy Diamond outside the Iowa State Fair on how much he has spent so far on his campaign. "I make $400 million a year, so what difference does it make? What I want to do is make the country great."

    Pressed again later in the afternoon if he would spend up to $1 billion, Trump was more definitive: "If necessary, I will spend it, yes."


    Trump said he does not have to worry about pleasing lobbyists like other candidates because his race is self-funded. The businessman said he recently turned down $5 million from a lobbyist wanting to contribute to his campaign.


    The bombastic billionaire, who has claimed he's worth $10 billion, has given to candidates in the past -- including Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton -- so, according to him, they will do his bidding.


    That's why he said Saturday the more than $100 million raised by former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush will make him a "puppet" controlled by his donors.


    Trump also said outside the fair that he had just put out a position paper on immigration, which will be revealed on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday morning. On Friday, Trump said he was going to release detailed proposals on immigration and overhauling the tax code next month.


    The immigration plan will include Trump's oft-repeated pledge to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico.


    "Nobody is going through my wall. It's going to be strong. It's going to be solid," he said.


    Some of Trump's previous statements on immigration -- including ones in which he said Mexico was sending rapists and murderers to the U.S. -- have resulted in criticism of the real estate mogul, but he insisted Saturday he's made no mistakes during his campaign.


    "The people understood it," he said.

    http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/15/politi...ing/index.html

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    I'm glad he's willing to do that, but he shouldn't have to do that. Voters who support him need to donate to his campaign and small and medium sized businesses also need to contribute. And if he'll support the FairTax, many of those businesses will start forwarding money to his campaign faster than we can count them as will many ordinary Americans who are fed up with the Income Tax Nanny Police State.
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    His commitment to finance his own campaign and not be part of the Washington pay back machine has establishment Republicans and all of the strap hangers that make a living as influence peddlers very uncomfortable. Washington has turned into a a nest of money grubbers from both parties that live off of the largess of government. JMO

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    Quote Originally Posted by Newmexican View Post
    His commitment to finance his own campaign and not be part of the Washington pay back machine has establishment Republicans and all of the strap hangers that make a living as influence peddlers very uncomfortable. Washington has turned into a a nest of money grubbers from both parties that live off of the largess of government. JMO
    Yes, that is so true, but at some point, those who support him need to send in some money so the pundits can't claim that he bought his own election. This is an important election, an historic election, an election where Americans will probably choose the leader that either saves us or destroys us, and in such an election there needs to be a long line of voters not lobbyists or PACS but individual voters who send in to show that it really was an election of the people both by votes and contributions to support the campaign of the winning candidate. Now is probably a little too soon, we need see more policies and so forth, maybe even another debate or two, but soon American Voters need to put some money where their votes will be later on.
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    Trump wants money from Mideast countries supported by US

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    WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is outlining a foreign policy in which the United States would put ground troops in the fight against Islamic State militants and demand money from Middle East countries supported by the U.S.

    In a wide-ranging interview that aired Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press," the billionaire businessman and former reality TV star says he would consider shutting down the federal government over funding for Planned Parenthood. He says he isn't sure whether he has donated money to the organization in the past but adds that he would oppose providing federal funds if it continues providing abortion services.

    Trump says he would ask nominees to the Supreme Court about their views on abortion and would take their views into consideration as he made a decision on whom to nominate. He says he opposes abortion
    except in case of rape, incest and to save the life of the mother.


    Calling the nuclear agreement forged between Iran and world powers including the U.S. "a bad deal," Trump says that Iran will have nuclear weapons and take over parts of the world. "And I think it's going to lead to nuclear holocaust," he said. Instead of tearing up the deal, he said he would "police" it, and he called Secretary of State John Kerry "incompetent" for negotiating the agreement.


    On defeating Islamic State militants, Trump said the key is to take away their wealth by taking back the oil fields under their control in Iraq. Told by "Meet the Press" host Chuck Todd that such a move could require ground troops, Trump responded, "That's OK." He said the Iraqis should be given "something" from their oil fields but, in an apparent reference to Iraq War veterans, "we should definitely take back money for our soldiers."


    "We've had soldiers that were so badly hurt and killed," he said. "I want their families to get something. Wounded warriors all over the place. They got nothing. And they can't even say we had a victory.


    Trump in the past has accused Saudi Arabia of being the world's biggest funder of terrorism. On Sunday, he said the Gulf nation should be paying the U.S. because it wouldn't exist without American support. And, Trump said, the only reason the U.S. supports Saudi Arabia is because it needs the oil.


    "Now, we don't need the oil so much," he said in an apparent reference to U.S. oil and gas production. "And if we let our people really go, we wouldn't need the oil at all. And we could let everybody else fight it out."

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    Trump said Saudi Arabia is going to need help fighting against the kinds of militants who have targeted neighboring Yemen. He said he would assist the Saudis in that event, albeit reluctantly and for a price.

    "We defend Saudi Arabia. We send our ships. We send our planes.

    Every time there's a little ruckus, we send those ships and those planes. We get nothing. Why? They're making a billion a day. We get nothing. And this is the problem with the world," he said.


    Ask who he talks to for military advice, Trump said he watches the news shows and cited former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton ("a tough cookie") and retired Army Col. Jack Jacobs ("a good guy") as two examples of people who impress him.


    On other issues, Trump said he:

    —Wants to end birthright citizenship, rescind President Barack Obama's executive orders on immigration and deport those in the U.S. illegally while providing an expedited return process for "the good ones."

    "We have to make a whole new set of standards. And when people come in, they have to come in legally," he said.


    —Is "fine" with affirmative action. "We've lived with it for a long time. And I lived with it for a long time. And I've had great relationships with lots of people. So I'm fine with it."


    —Doesn't think a private company should be able to fire an employee for being gay.


    —Wants to keep the minimum wage at current levels. "I want to compete with the rest of the world. What I do want to do is bring in jobs so much so that people don't have to live on minimum wage."


    —Would ban lobbyists from his administration for three to four years after they've left lobbying firms; he called President Barack Obama's effort to impose a ban on lobbyists "a pretty good idea."

    http://news.yahoo.com/trump-wants-mo...130027587.html

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