Donald Trump Secretly Told The New York Times What He Really Thinks About Immigration

[brooklynite]

Source: BuzzFeed

The New York Times is sitting on an audio recording that some of its staff believes could deal a serious blow to Donald Trump who, in an off-the-record meeting with the newspaper, called into question whether he would stand by his own immigration views.

Trump visited the paper's Manhattan headquarters on Tuesday, Jan. 5, part of a round of editorial board meetings that — as is traditional — the Democratic candidates for president and some of the Republicans attended. The meetings, conducted partly on the record and partly off the record in a 13th floor conference room, give candidates a chance to make their pitch for the paper's endorsement.

Read more: http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/trump-tape?utm_term=.euRDB7GW4#.fbykd6De3

[elleng]

1. 'On Saturday, columnist Gail Collins, one of the attendees at the meeting

(which also included editor-in-chief Dean Baquet), floated a bit of speculation in her column:

The most optimistic analysis of Trump as a presidential candidate is that he just doesn’t believe in positions, except the ones you adopt for strategic purposes when you’re making a deal. So you obviously can’t explain how you’re going to deport 11 million undocumented immigrants, because it’s going to be the first bid in some future monster negotiation session.

Sources familiar with the recording and transcript — which have reached near-mythical status at the Times — tell me that the second sentence is a bit more than speculation. It reflects, instead, something Trump said about the flexibility of his hard-line anti-immigration stance.'

[blm]

2. That's what I've observed with the Trumpster, too.

He'll say whatever he believes the Idiocracy wants to hear out loud.

[DJ13]

3. he just doesn’t believe in positions, except the ones you adopt for strategic purposes

He and Hillary are closer in beliefs than we thought.

[Nitram]

4. Knew it was coming. The gratuitous sly dig at Clinton in a discussion of Trump.

Just can't help yourselves, can you?

[winstars]

5. This place is really starting to suck... Such petty BS... Almost every thread... Very boring...

I like Bernie a lot and always have and always will. And I will definitely and proudly vote for him if he gets the nomination. Because I am a Democrat first and foremost...

But it seems that a very small part of his supporters around here are, I'm sorry, I can't say it any differently,

fucking assholes...

[Nitram]

6. Well said, winstars.

I too like bBernie, and will vote for him if he wins the nomination. But please, Bernie, save me from your supporters.

[RBInMaine]

7. These snarky smarmy asshole-ish digs are really getting old. Time to grow up.

[DJ13]

8. Truth hurts?