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Subscribe to RSSDonald Trump withdrew Tuesday as the moderator of a debate planned for later this month in Iowa, citing his interest in possibly still running for president as an independent.
Trump pulled out of a debate he had planned to host along with the conservative magazine Newsmax, scheduled for Dec. 27, just days before the Iowa caucuses. All the GOP presidential candidates save for Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum said they would not participate.
"The Republican Party candidates are very concerned that sometime after the final episode of The Apprentice, on May 20th, when the equal time provisions are no longer applicable to me, I will announce my candidacy for President of the United States as an Independent and that, unless I conclusively agree not to run as an Independent, they will not agree to attend or be a part of the Newsmax debate scheduled for December 27, 2011," Trump said in a statement. "It is very important to me that the right Republican candidate be chosen to defeat the failed and very destructive Obama Administration, but if that Republican, in my opinion, is not the right candidate, I am not willing to give up my right to run as an Independent candidate. Therefore, so that there is no conflict of interest within the Republican Party, I have decided not to be the moderator of the Newsmax debate. The American people are embarrassed by the gridlock currently taking place in Washington. I must leave all of my options open because, above all else, we must make America great again!"
It's not clear whether any debate with Newsmax will go forward at all. Trump thanked Gingrich and Santorum for their willingness to participate nonetheless.
"I would like to thank Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum for having the courage, conviction, and confidence to immediately accept being a part of the Newsmax debate. I believe this would not only have been the most watched debate, but also the most substantive and interesting debate!" he said.
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Who the hell does John Galt think he is ?
John Galt can kiss our collective ass*s.
We are not impressed. We are not his slaves,...and we have no interest in attending the parties he throws in his own honor (the pompous self-serving jack*ss).
and in closing, OINK, SOOEY, PIG!
Donald Trump" "You're fired"
Trump is a self loving Blow Hard... He's had more bankruptcies than I have had bank accounts. Also more wives, which goes to his character or lack there of...
He's a clown and carnavil barker... If it were not for his father's money, trump would be unknown....
No surprise. No one was going to show up for the debate moderated by a controlling, impulsive narcissist.
P.T. Trump has seen the writing on the wall. DAH! The Republicans want someone reputable and knowledgeable concerning the issues not a grand stander and publicity hound. P.T. should invest some of his supposed millions in purchasing a circus. He'd fit right being the ringmaster. Then after the show he could shovel elephant dung and sell it as fertilizer for gardens. With his line of BS he's probably do well at it.
Trump is delusory. The Republican candidates are not concerned that he may run as an independent. They did not boycott his planned debate because he refused to promise not to run. They boycotted it because it was irrelevant. Furthermore, President Obama has not "failed." Considering the obstructive Republicans he has had to deal with, who have no problem with holding the United States hostage, he is doing really well.
Trump and Perry have a lot in common - one is all hat and no cattle, and he other is all hair on a rattle.
And why does anyone care about Trump in the first place. Or why would anyone trust a real estate developer who trades in an old wife like a car dealership. Its a poor reflection of the character of the US
I guess they'll have to dredge up some other vacuous moron to run the show, then.
Are you suggesting media people?? From Msnbc???
I have to chuckle at the vast majority of comments to any story about Conservatives, carried on MSNBC.
They come off like a bunch of clamoring school kids, patting each other on the back and jumping up and down, while they try to outdo each other in spouting the more spiteful memorized rants, from the Liberal's training manual (better known as the "Kool-Aid Primer).
Trump is a clown. He is so worried about Obama not being a citizen. Why dont he worrie about finding a wife that can spead english first before he worries about Obama. Thats exactly what we needed a first lady who can barely speak englist hes a clown.
For you christan conservatives...don't you remember this...this goes for rich Gingrich too
Matthew 13:22 The one who received the seed that fell among the thorns is the man who hears the
word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke it,
making it unfruitful
it is a shame the selection we havew to run for presdent. just put their names in a hat and draw one. all the same. l the news have failed by being controled by the goverment. any time there has been a country overturned by rebels, the news, radio stations, and tv stations is the first weapon they use. our news is bought, and will not report true facts. we need good information to correct our problems and the longer we say everthing is great the worse it gets. we are getting beyound repair.