Thread: Rep. Steve King Says He ‘Knows Things’ About Trump Endorsements

Rep. Steve King Says He ‘Knows Things’ About Trump Endorsements
KERRY PICKET
Reporter

01/31/2016

​Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, speaks with reporters as he leaves the House Republican Conference meeting in the basement of the Capitol on Friday, Oct. 4, 2013. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

AMES, Iowa — Rep. Steve King , an Iowa Republican and Ted Cruz supporter, says Donald Trump bought his endorsements. Trump recently received high profile endorsements from Maricopa County Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, and Liberty University president Jerry Falwell, Jr.

King reiterated his statement about the endorsements to the Daily Caller on Saturday during a Cruz rally at the Gateway Hotel and stressed that he “knows things.”

“He has, from a regular person’s perspective, unlimited resources and he’s willing to use whatever access he has in order to get the endorsements that he wants,” King explained.

“Among those are the assets that we would naturally think of, including the attraction that might be for, oh who knows, a reality TV show, a job in the Trump machine,” he said.

King added: “There’s fame and fortune, and there’s also the fear factor of retribution, which Donald Trump has not been shy about delivering against people. So all of that affects a person’s judgment under those circumstances.”

The conservative Iowa congressman would not get specific, but would only say, “I know things, but I’m saying what is appropriate, so that people will know enough, and I’m wanting to keep this on as high a plane as I can, but I don’t think my conscience can allow me from not saying anything.”

http://dailycaller.com/2016/01/31/re...-endorsements/

Well, no candidate can buy ALIPAC! Our endorsements and loyalties are NOT FOR SALE here!

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I really appreciate Steve King's integrity to follow his conscience. It seems so few politicians have the backbone to do that anymore.

Sounds like sour grapes to me. Not very manly, Steve King. Aren't you proud of the endorsements your candidate has? Apparently not so much. Shame.

Sarah Palin: Steve King Suffers ‘Potomac Fever’ Suggesting Donald Trump Pays for Support



by ALEX SWOYER
1 Feb 2016Washington, DC
580 comments

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who endorsed GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, told supporters at his campaign rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Monday that “you find out who your friends are” in politics.

Palin went on to criticize Rep. Steve King (R-IA), who endorsed Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), for alleging that she was paid to support Trump.

“Steve King – friend of mine – I thought,” Palin began. “Here I see that just a bit ago he is accusing me on MSNBC – first, MSNBC really? – of selling my support to Mr. Trump. This is why when you read things like this, people don’t really like politics.”

“He knows it isn’t true,” she said of King, adding, “That just doesn’t sound like the heartland of America,” referencing where King is from in Iowa.

She suggested he spent too much time in Washington, D.C., and has “Potomac fever.”

“His accusations here are way off base,” Palin charged. “Listen up, Steve King. … Mr. Trump did make me a promise, and I will be better off when it is fulfilled. … That is why I am here today. I’m collecting on the promise. Mr. Trump promised me he will make America great again!”

http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...s-for-support/

Steve King has really stepped into it, big time. Low-rent unbelievable. Desperation Shines! He's endorsed the wrong guy and is stooping lower than low to try to make it pay off for him.

If he "know$ thing$" he should just come out and say it, although I perceive it as a non-event either way. Cruz himself admits that if Trump takes Iowa and NH, he may be hard to catch. Sounds like now would be an opportune time for King to divulge what he knows, if indeed he does know something. It may not even matter at all next week.

Sessions endorsement matters and the only thing between Sessions and Trump is MILLER. Nice move!

by TONY LEE
1 Feb 2016

On Monday afternoon, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) refused to directly answer whether he had any evidence whatsoever that Donald Trump bought former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s endorsement.

In a Monday appearance on left-wing MSNBC of all networks, King asserted that Palin sold her endorsement to Trump. CNN’s Jake Tapper said “that’s an explosive charge” and asked, “do you have evidence of this?”

King never gave a reply. Tapper, who will never be mistaken for the late Tim Russert, never pressed him and let him ramble.

Instead, King said he was directly responding to a question about why Palin may have supported to Trump. King said he still believed that Palin’s ideology align’s more closely with Cruz and insisted that he did not want to get in a fight with Palin. He said he knew that Trump could be “persuasive” and talked about his “star factor” and “resource factor.” He said that when “asked a direct question, I give as direct an answer I can.”

But when Tapper directly asked him about whether he had any evidence, King never answered the question.

While introducing Trump at a Cedar Rapids event, Palin blasted King by saying King’s lie is ““why people don’t really like politics,” which people rightfully think is a “dirty business” where people say things they know are untrue.

“Why would a good conservative like Steve King want to say something he knows isn’t true?” Palin asked. “That doesn’t sound like the heartland of America.”

Palin accused King of having “Potomac fever” and said maybe he has forgotten his heart in the heartland. She even said perhaps King has been “huffing ethanol” in the corn fields.

Palin said the only promise Trump made to her was to “make America Great Again.” She made it clear that she endorsed Trump because he is in the perfect position to “tell the Washington good old boys that the status quo is going to go.”Palin said that both political establishments are in “such a panic” because Trump will put them out of business and told the audience that when both political establishments hate you, “you know America loves you.”

http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...02/01/2916938/

This was a terrible thing King did. A member of the US Congress spreading a lie like this in a Presidential election 2 days before the Iowa Caucus? He has not heard the end of this one.

I hope that this is not reminiscent of Harry Reid's tax accusation against Romney.