TRUMP PREDICTS RIOTS IF FORCES CONSPIRE TO ROB HIM OF THE ELECTION
BY DAN VALENTI
PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY
(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THURSDAY, MARCH 17, ST. PATTY’S DAY, 2016) — Erin, go braless, as they used to say back in the Green Day. Just stay away from green beer. Anyone who drinks green beer on St. Patty’s Day comes off as an amateur. Have fun!
The Donald Trump Phenomenon ranks as one of the most important political developments of THE PLANET‘s lifetime. Discounting war, Korea and Vietnam especially, the only other two in the running are the McCarthy hearings of the mid-50s and Watergate in the mid-70s. Trump came out of nowhere this summer and tapped into the pulse of an angry America life no other “politician” in our lifetime. Trump is the anti-candidate, a self-funded maverick whose vast experience comes not from the political arena but from The Dreaded Private Sector.
To keep THE PLANET readers up to date on history in the making, we share this article by a colleague. You may have missed it. The column includes some interesting links. It will go well with a boiled corned beef and cabbage dinner.
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By J. Freedom du Lac
The Washington Post
Special to Planet Valenti News and Commentary
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said Wednesday that a contested GOP convention could be a disaster if he goes to Cleveland a few delegates shy of 1,237 — and doesn’t leave as the party’s nominee.
“I think you’d have riots,” Trump said on CNN.
Noting that he’s “representing many millions of people,” Trump told host Chris Cuomo: “If you disenfranchise those people, and you say, ‘I’m sorry, you’re 100 votes short’ … I think you’d have problems like you’ve never seen before. I think bad things would happen.”
The billionaire businessman emphasized, though, that he expects to secure the 1,237 delegates needed to win the party’s nomination ahead of the Republican National Convention in July.
“I’m a closer,” he said. “I get things closed.”
[The Stop Trump movement’s last realistic hope is now a contested convention in Cleveland]
Trump woke up Wednesday with 621 delegates.
He walloped Sen. Marco Rubio in the first-term senator’s home state of Florida on Tuesday, forcing Rubio from the race. He also won in Illinois and North Carolina, extending his lead over Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas as the once-unwieldy nominating contest narrowed to a three-person brawl with Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who won his home state’s primary.
“I did well in Ohio, but I was running against a popular governor,” Trump said Wednesday. He added: “I ran out of a little bit of time. I think if I had a day or two more, it would have been perhaps a little bit different.”
Trump and Cruz are in a dead heat in Missouri, which was still too close to call on the morning after the Republican primary. The state has 52 Republican delegates.
“We started out with 17 people; we’re down to three,” Trump said on CNN. “But this has been a nasty one; I guess that’s why your ratings are as high as they’ve ever been.”
In a remarkable campaign fueled by anger, Trump has been under steady attack — by rival Republicans, by the Democratic candidates, by progressives, by super PACs determined to derail his candidacy, and by the president, who has twice taken shots at the GOP front-runner in recent days.
[President Obama’s brutal assessment of the rise of Donald Trump]
The tone and tenor of of the campaign will eventually shift away from divisiveness and Trump will make peace with the Republican Party, he suggested Wednesday.
“I think there’s a natural healing process, once the battle is over, once the war is over,” Trump said. “I’ve gotten along with people all my life; this is actually a little unusual…. I think it will happen again.”
He added: “We have to win, and as we win, people will forget and they will feel better. That’s the way life is. After we put it away, a lot of feelings will be soothed.”
But, Trump said in a subsequent interview on MSNBC: “We don’t want to lose the edge. We still have two people left.”
[Donald Trump holds a press conference — and doesn’t take any questions]
Asked Wednesday whether he’d consider Rubio for vice president, Trump deflected the question, telling MSNBC: “It’s just too early.”
Trump noted that he liked Rubio — “until about three weeks ago, when he started getting nasty…. I was very surprised when he started doing his Don Rickles routine on me.”
But, he said later on Fox News: “My whole life people have plotted against me, and I’m doing very well.”
Speaking by telephone on “Fox & Friends,” Trump said he plans to skip the channel’s March 21 debate in Salt Lake City to deliver a previously scheduled speech at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference in Washington.
Trump told Fox that he’ll be delivering “a major speech in front of a very important group of people that night; it was scheduled a while ago.” He said he can’t and won’t reconsider that commitment.
The Fox News debate was announced this week, and Trump said Wednesday that it came as a surprise.
“I thought the last debate on CNN was the last debate,” he said. “I think we’ve had enough debates. How many times can the same people ask you the same question?”
He added: “I don’t mind the process of debating; it turned out that I do it well…. But I think we’ve had enough.”
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“But public opinion has a way of changing.” — The Minister, to Alex, in Stanley Kubrick‘s A Clockwork Orange, (1972).
“OPEN THE WINDOWS, AUNT MILLIE.
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Trump is immune, he’s unbelievable, unbeatable, and untouchable, the only one who can stop him is himself.
And he may stop himself. Common sense should be telling him to tone it down. I cannot believe the choices the republican party has put forth. Is this really the best they can do?
And Hillary is establishment. I do like Bernie. But if it comes down to Hillary or what I am seeing so far on the other side I may not even vote. Is it too late for an Independent to come out of the woodwork?
Trump all the way baby!
All the candidates are pretty poor on both sides. Obama didn’t really set the bar to high.
A brokered convention would prove once and for all time that your vote does not matter.
The people don’t elect the President. The game is rigged.
On the Democrat side look at how they rig it. Super Delegates.
Many of whom are lobbyists. Even in States where Bernie won by a landslide, Hillary walks away with the delegates. Its all phoney.
You only have the illusion that you elect the President. Fact is you don’t. Your vote only matters when you vote for one of the staged puppets.
The game is rigged. Its a good old boys club and you ain’t in it.
A Trump Presidency would show the voting process is honest. You won’t see that. The United States government has been overtaken.
Your vote, in the end, really doesn’t matter even without a brokered convention, thanks to the Electoral College system. Only a handful of states now decide who gets ‘elected,’ and the new president doesn’t even have to win the most votes nationally to take office. If you live in Ohio, Florida, Texas, California, New York and a few other states, your vote does in some way count, but here? Nope. Your vote just drops Electoral College votes into the Democratic candidate (with minor exceptions for Reagan in 1984 and Eisenhower in 52 and 56).
Thanks, BULL. On the ball, as always, especially with the historical perspective.
There are always other candidates. I will vote Libertarian. There’s a Green candidate I think and you can write in someone. It’s important to vote.
Gary Johnson, former Az Gov., is Libertarian candidate and is preferable to the Jackass and RINO herds.
Don’t feel the Bern. Feel the Johnson.
Donald Trump sees how angry people are. The people have been constantly lied to for the last 16 years of the last two Presidents. They have seen our economy flushed down the toilet. They have witnessed the Wall street bankers get filthy rich while their buying power seriously stripped. They have seen their jobs shipping overseas. They see this country being flooded with illegal aliens.
If their votes are stolen and given to someone else, it may very well turn violent. Trump is a brilliant man.
A brokered convention where they give Trump’s millions of votes to someone like Mitt Romney, Jebb Bush or Paul Ryan, will end the Republican Party.
Hillary thinks by stealing Bernie Sanders votes through super delegates will bring Bernie’s voters to her in the general election. It won’t. It will send Bernie’s voters to Trump.
The one thing this election is doing is waking up people as to what is really going on in this country. Yes people are angry. They want their country back.
Excellent points, TOM, in which you hit at a key factor: Turnout. Trump has driven participation in the GOP nomination process through the roof. His very presence in the race will do the same in the general election, from people who love him, hate him, and all in between. What is not to like about high turnouts?
Trump is after the H-Beast already.
Lets see the MSM and RNC/DNC spin this one!!!!!:
This is what Trump tweeted moments ago.
Hillary Clinton has been involved in corruption for most of her professional life!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 18, 2016
Seen the Wizzard of OZ?
What happens when you pour water on a Witch?
Only a sliver of the people voted. In a general election the Donald will be buried.
Because Hillary is such an honest candidate. We can trust her with national security because she did such a good job with top secret information on her server. Her character is questionable and having Bill in the White House again. No thank you!!!
Based on what? Based on the “politics as usual” analysis. Tell you what, THOM, you can throw out those analyses, because TRUMP CHANGES EVERYTHING. The old “rules” aren’t working. His Phenomenon has proven that.
Speaking of riots some of those nice city thugs are going to riot against Trump regardless. Laws are of no concern.
They have been vocal in their threats but the MSM has ignored the story.
To give you an idea of these peoples mentality:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/03/16/how-else-was-he-gonna-get-his-money-relatives-outraged-after-homeowner-shoots-kills-burglary-suspect/
Hmmm…read the article. Nothing to do with Trump or riots or campaigns. Who are ‘these peoples’ Trapper?
The same animals that rioted in Ferguson and Baltimore. There are LOTS of them, and when the welfare teat runs dry SHTF.
It is going be to a long hot summer. Hope you are not in a city.
Wait till I get of that pencil neck geek Kim Jong-un, he’ll be toast! Hey, why did the chicken cross the road? Answer: To
escape North Korea’s long range missiles.
“Pencil-necked geek.” Brings back memories, but have you seen Brutha Kim lately. Looks like the Michelin Tire Man. He’s more like a “bazooka-necked geek.”
Trump has no safety net for his Deals. Especially if they Don’t go through.
Just do what Sotero does, have the Fed cut down some trees, make Crane Co print up worthless greenbacks.
Let your kids worry about it
Donald Trump! Nobody else!
Berney Sanders is a Socialist with Communist agenda.
Hillary might be jailed soon.