Donald Trump CNN interview: Bush should have been impeached - trusts Palin to run the economy

[sabra]

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/15/trump-i-wanted-bush-impeached/

(CNN) – Business mogul Donald Trump told CNN Wednesday House Speaker Nancy Pelosi should have sought to impeach President Bush when she had the chance.

In an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, Trump said the president and his administration deliberately lied about the Iraq war, and congressional Democrats missed an opportunity to impeach him when the party took control of Congress in 2006.

"I was surprised that she didn't do more in terms of Bush and going after Bush," Trump said. "It was almost — it just seemed like she was going to really look to impeach Bush and get him out of office, which personally I think would have been a wonderful thing."

...

"He lied. He got us into the war with lies," Trump said. And I mean — look at the trouble Bill Clinton got into with something that was totally unimportant. And they tried to impeach him, which was nonsense. And yet Bush got us into this horrible war with lies, by lying, by saying they had weapons of mass destruction, by saying all sorts of things that turned out not to be true."

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Trump praised Republican VP Sarah Palin, whom he first met Tuesday night at a New York fundraiser, and said he would trust her to run the economy.

"I can only go by the people of Alaska," she said. "She's got the highest rating in the whole Unites States, as being the most popular governor."

:crazy:

[ErinBerin84]

1. newsflash to The Donald.

She is no longer the "most popular governor" with the highest rating. Sad, but true. The rating has dropped since people, you know, started finding out who the heck she is, since not even many in Alaska knew apparently.

[soccermomforobama]

2. no offense meant

but Trump has always been a skirt chaser so I take what he says about Palin with a grain of salt because I honestly do not think he sees her more than a pretty face.

[Cha]

16. His comments would verify that.

[ikojo]

3. Of course he likes Sarah Palin...he

was to nail Sarah Palin. He is a joke. Go away.

[jazzjunkysue]

4. So hire the bimbo yourself, Don. I don't want her.

Go ahead: Put her in charge of one of your companies. let us all know how it goes...

[cynatnite]

5. He's got a thing for Palin. n/t

[SuperTrouper]

6. Can someone call Rosie to put him in his place?

[no_hypocrisy]

7. Trump uses the criteria of popularity by which to base his opinions.

If * were more popular right now, Trump would be trumpeting about what a winner we have as a president. And this confuses me for his inconsistency: He trusts Palin to run the economy b/c of her popularity in Alaska??? She wouldn't make it past the second episode of The Appentrice. He wouldn't let her answer the receptionist's phone in his office.

[Sodan]

12. Well, Palin isn't popular. He's right about Bush/Pelosi though.

[nomaco-10]

8. donald trump is another media ho that can't be deemed as ....

"irrelevant" soon enough to suit me. Another self absorbed, greedy, stuck in the eighties, camera whoring, mid life crisis crook with a bad combover.

Go away donald. just go away. oh, and take rudy with you.

[Vinca]

9. The Donald is not thinking with his head. Schwing!

:rofl:

[ShortnFiery]

17. No, The Donald is thinking with the small head.

:P :yoiks:

[CJCRANE]

10. Um...doesn't Palin's LACK of popularity

in the rest of the United States matter more than her popularity in Alaska?

:shrug:

The Donald is a bit hit and miss as usual.

[Schulzz]

11. That's because Palin could see a bank from her office in Alaska.

So she is an expert.

[Blu Dahlia]

13. he judges women by appearance. he is one sexist mofo !

Check out an Apprentice re run.

[nomaco-10]

22. The creepy comments he made about his own daughter....

on The View made a whole lot of people very uncomfotable at the time. He is extreme sleaze to the nth degree.

[Cha]

24. Didn't know that...trump is a hasbeen and will

go down further with the fucktard mccain and his equally Ethically Challenged siderobot.

[Ganja Ninja]

14. Another guy born on 3rd base and thought he hit a triple.

[Cha]

15. So Trump really is that gawd damn dumb.

"mccain-palin is the only national ticket where "both candidates were found to have violated ethics standards before a national election."

"A HISTORIC TICKET.... Now that Sarah Palin has been found to have abused her powers, violated state ethics, and lied about it, I did a little digging and found an interesting historical footnote.

The McCain/Palin ticket is the first in American history in which both candidates were found to have violated ethics standards before a national election.

McCain, of course, was admonished by Senate Ethics Committee "for exercising 'poor judgment' for intervening" with federal regulators on behalf of Charles Keating, as part of the infamous Keating Five scandal.

And now McCain's running mate has also been found to have violated state ethics laws and abused the powers of her office, as part of the "Troopergate" scandal.

"The nation has had 102 major-party tickets covering 51 presidential elections over more than two centuries. And we've never had a ticket in which both candidates on the same ticket were responsible for ethics violations before a national election. McCain/Palin is the first."

It makes the whole "reform" pitch a little more difficult, doesn't it?"

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[ShortnFiery]

20. Blame it on the new, low dose daily Cialis? You BetCha!

:crazy: :silly:

[nam78_two]

18. Sarah Palin is going to end up with her own reality show

at the end of all this and that is probably what she is best suited for.

[LSK]

19. I recall Trump going around the countries promoting real estate to get rich

He is one of the fuckers responsible for this mess IMO.

[mitchum]

21. "The short-fingered vulgarian" should let her run one of his companies then

[Arrowhead2k1]

23. That guy is fucked in the head. One minute he sounds like Kucinich, the next he's Limbaugh...

What a nutball. I guess he just doesn't want his taxes to get raised, greedy SOB.

[question everything]

25. I was surprised that he said that we had 8 years of stupdity

and that he would give Bush F-

Donald Trump??

[sampsonblk]

26. He's half right

Our side had a responsibility to at least attempt to impeach Bush. Instead, its left for history to judge him. And because we did nothing, I believe history will give our party a share of the blame.

[Hugabear]

27. In a perfect world, we should be able to confiscate much of Trump's wealth

There is no fucking way that anyone needs all that extravagant wealth. It's absolutely CRIMINAL for people to sit on that much money, knowing that they will NEVER be able to spend it all, when there are so many people in this country and around the world who can't afford to feed their families.

[bluedawg12]

28. Donald tell your little donnie: "You're fired!"

He thinks with his little donnie too much.

[TankLV]

29. wow - comming from a man who has gone thru - what - FOUR BANKRUPTCIES, this is BIG!!!

I wonder what all the SMALL BUSINESSES he's stiffed feel about his "expertise"?!!!