Thread: Donald Trump Releases Attack Video Against Mitt Romney

March 2, 2016 11:34 PM

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Donald Trump is going after Mitt Romney once again after the former Republican presidential nominee announced plans to speak on the “state of the 2016 presidential race” Thursday in Utah.

Trump released an attack video on his Facebook targeting Romney, showing the former Massachusetts governor flip-flopping on issues such as immigration, health care, abortion, the TARP bailouts and global warming.

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“Failed Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney is having a news conference tomorrow to criticize me. Just another desperate move by the man who should have easily beaten Barrack Obama,” Trump tweeted, spelling the president’s name wrong.

Donald J. Trump ✔ ‎@realDonaldTrump
Failed Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney is having a news conference tomorrow to criticize me. (1/2)
3:34 PM - 2 Mar 2016

Donald J. Trump ✔ ‎@realDonaldTrump
Just another desperate move by the man who should have easily beaten Barrack Obama. (2/2)
3:34 PM - 2 Mar 2016

He later tweeted, “Looks like a two-time failed candidate Mitt Romney is going to be telling Republicans how to get elected. Not a good messenger!”

Donald J. Trump ✔ ‎@realDonaldTrump
Looks like two-time failed candidate Mitt Romney is going to be telling Republicans how to get elected. Not a good messenger!
7:33 PM - 2 Mar 2016

Trump went after the former GOP candidate last month, calling Romney a “fool” after he insinuated a possible “bombshell” in Trump’s tax returns.

Romney’s speech Thursday will take place at the Hinckley Institute of Politics at the University of Utah at 11:30 a.m.

Romney announced in January 2015 that he would not be running for president for a third time after flirting with the idea.

CBS News political director and “Face the Nation” anchor John Dickerson told “CBS Evening News” Wednesday that stopping Trump from capturing the Republican nomination is “a long shot.”

“I asked someone involved in the anti-Trump effort to rank the Republican panic on a scale of one to 10, and he said 11. But harnessing that panic requires politicians and party regulars to organize themselves quickly, and there’s no leader in this effort,” Dickerson said. “It requires them to take a big risk. Normally they don’t like to be on the wrong side of public opinion. And there’s no guarantee [it will work] – attacks from establishment could very well make Trump stronger.”

However, an outside group is rushing to raise millions of dollars to stop Trump from becoming the Republican nominee.

Former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu and Meg Whitman, the chief executive officer of Hewlett Packard, are among the Republican leaders now with Our Principles. The super political action committee had limited fundraising success in earlier weeks, drawing almost all of its funding from the billionaire Ricketts family. The group has spent about $1.5 million on paid television and radio media, most of it ahead of Iowa’s primary caucuses.

“Donors feel guilty they didn’t get active earlier,” Sununu tells The Associated Press.

The plan for Republicans who want to stop Trump is to deny him enough delegates to win the nomination outright, he says.

“Frankly, at this point we want anyone but Trump,” Sununu says of who should become the nominee. “The goal is this: Let’s get to the convention in Cleveland and figure it out there.”

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., has said that Trump will not get to the magic number of 1,237 delegates for the Republican nomination.

Trump has now won 11 Republican presidential contests and is up to 326 delegates.

“We are going to be a much finer party, we’re going to be a unified party, and we are going to be a much bigger party — our party is expanding,” Trump said during a news conference Tuesday night. “I think we’re going to be more inclusive, more unified, and I think we’re going to be a much bigger party in November.”

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Former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu and Meg Whitman, the chief executive officer of Hewlett Packard, are among the Republican leaders now with Our Principles. The super political action committee had limited fundraising success in earlier weeks, drawing almost all of its funding from the billionaire Ricketts family. The group has spent about $1.5 million on paid television and radio media, most of it ahead of Iowa’s primary caucuses.

“Donors feel guilty they didn’t get active earlier,” Sununu tells The Associated Press.

Sununu is the epitome of the term establishment JMO


Jeb Bush’s Curious Praise for John Sununu Raises Red Flags


AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster

by DAN RIEHL
17 Mar 2015Washington, DC

A New Hampshire-based tweet from prospective 2016 candidate Jeb Bush seemed harmless enough, but with two past presidents in his immediate family, associations may matter more when it comes to Jeb Bush — including who he informally claims to be taking advice from.

Great to see Governor Sununu in Hampton Falls this morning. Great advice from a great man! #nhpolitics. pic.twitter.com/9uLhiCWAnZ
— Jeb Bush (@JebBush) March 14, 2015

It didn’t take long for critics to pounce in response to the tweet.

A quick look at Sununu’s Wikipedia page and some recent history gave critics, left and right, all the ammunition they needed.

Sununu was the first White House Chief of Staff for George H. W. Bush, serving from 1989 to 1991.
Sununu is considered to have engineered Bush’s mid-term abandonment of his 1988 campaign promise of “no new taxes”.
Sununu is responsible for recommending David Souter to President George H. W. Bush for appointment to the Supreme Court of the United States.

If Bush I was the end of Reaganism for the GOP, Sununu was one of the chief architects of said end.

Eventually, Bush asked him to resign, which is a nice way to say fired when you work in the White House. Sununu also isn’t thought to have done Mitt romney much good in 2012, among other things being hit with charges of racism for some of his remarks — asThe Washington Post reported at the time: “Top Romney aide Sununu suggests Powell endorsed Obama because he’s black.”

Sununu was eventually forced to backtrack on that particular comment.

Update 12:15 a.m.: Sununu, in a statement released by the Romney campaign, is now backing off his assertion.
“Colin Powell is a friend, and I respect the endorsement decision he made, and I do not doubt that it was based on anything but his support of the President’s policies,” Sununu said. “Piers Morgan’s question was whether Colin Powell should leave the party, and I don’t think he should.”

Sununu angered some when he was the only governor of a U.S. state not to call for repeal of the controversial UN General Assembly Resolution 3379 (“Zionism is Racism”). He later reversed his position on this issue and supported the Republicans’ pro-Israel 1988 platform.

However valid, Sununu repeatedly left the door open for the left to pounce on Romney with the race card — and they did just that.

Here’s a bit more from the Sununu controversy highlight reel. If this is the mark of “a great man” offering great advice in Jeb Bush’s mind, he may not last very long in the coming primary.

As White House Chief of Staff, Sununu reportedly took personal trips, for skiing and other purposes, and classified them as official, for purposes such as conservation or promoting the Thousand Points of Light. The Washington Post wrote that Sununu’s jets “took him to fat-cat Republican fund-raisers, ski lodges, golf resorts and even his dentist in Boston.” Sununu had paid the government only $892 for his more than $615,000 worth of military jet travel. Sununu said that his use of the jets was necessary because he had to be near a telephone at all times for reasons of national security. Sununu became the subject of much late-night television humor over the incident. Sununu worsened the situation shortly afterwards when, after leaking rumors of financial difficulties in his family, he traveled to a rare stamp auction at Christie’s auction house in New York City from Washington in a government limousine, spending $5,000 on rare stamps. Sununu then sent the car and driver back to Washington unoccupied while he returned on a corporate jet. In the course of one week, 45 newspapers ran editorials on Sununu, nearly all of them critical of his actions. Sununu resigned his White House post on December 4, 1991.

Sununu repaid over $47,000 to the government for the flights on the orders of White House counsel C. Boyden Gray, with the help of the Republican Party. However, the reimbursements were at commercial rates, which are about one-tenth the cost of the actual flights; one ski trip to Vail, Colorado alone had cost taxpayers $86,330.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...ses-red-flags/

Business[edit]

From 1963 until 1983, he served as President of JHS Engineering Company and Thermal Research Inc. In addition, he helped establish and served as chief engineer for Astro Dynamics Inc. from 1960 until 1965.
Sununu is President of JHS Associates, Ltd. and is a partner in Trinity International Partners, a private financial firm.
Sununu is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a member of the Board of Trustees for the George (H.W.) Bush Presidential Library Foundation.
He is also a member of Honorary Council of Advisors for U.S.-Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce (USACC).^[12]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_H...#Controversies

This is interesting.

U.S.-Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce

The United States - Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce (USACC) is a not-for-profit lobbying group aiming to develop long-term business ties between the firms in the United States and Azerbaijan and attract US investment to Azerbaijan Republic.^[1][2]

Leadership[edit]

The Chamber is chaired by T. Don Stacy, co-chaired by James A. Baker, IV (Baker Botts, LLP) and Reza Vaziri (R.V. Investment Group).
Honorary Council of Advisors include former Secretary of State James Baker III, former National Security Advisor to U.S. President Zbigniew Brzezinski, former Secretary of State and Assistant to U.S President on National Security Affairs Henry Kissinger, former Assistant to U.S. President on National Security Affairs Brent Scowcroft, former Chief of Staff to the U.S. President, John Sununu.

Board of directors[edit]

• Shapoor Ansari, MD,^[4]
• Halim Ates, CEO, Telia Sonera ^[5]
• Farhad Azima, Chairman and CEO, Aviation Leasing Group ^[6]
• Scott Blacklin, Vice President, Cisco Systems ^[7]
• Betty Blair, Editor, Azerbaijan International ^[8]
• Jahangir Hajiyev, Chairman, International Bank of Azerbaijan ^[9]
• Albert Marchetti, Vice President, Hess Corporation ^[10]
• Greg Saunders, Director, International Affairs, BP ^[11]
• Diana L. Sedney, Manager, International Government Relations, Chevron ^[12]
• Michael White, Azerbaijan Country Manager, ExxonMobil ^[13]
• Gregory K. Williams, Strategic Security Manager, Coca-Cola Bottling Co. ^[14]
• Ali Agan, CEO, Azercell Telekom ^[15]
• Ian M. Davis, Vice President, Occidental Petroleum Corporation ^[16]
• Robert Moran, Vice President, Halliburton ^[17]

Former directors include former Vice President of the United States, Dick Cheney and former Deputy Secretary of State, Richard Armitage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.-A...er_of_Commerce