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I had thought Trump running again was just him being his usual blowhard self, trotting out for a bit more fame before another reality show season. Now I’m not so sure, as he has definitely burned some bridges with his outrageous comments. I don’t think he is so stupid as to think he could win the Repug nomination. Anywho, I thought this article was interesting. Could Trump be actually making plans to do a repeat of 1992 like Perot? It is an interesting thought, to have him pealing off enough Repug dimwits, to virtually guaranty a Clinton win (or possibly whoever the Dums pick). I didn’t know Trump has been involved with the Clintons, then again I have never really paid much attention to him.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/420981/donald-trump-third-party-spoiler
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/420981/donald-trump-third-party-spoiler
Several other attendees also worry that Trump is egging on the GOP establishment to treat him so badly that he will have an excuse to run against it again in 2016. “The base is mad at the GOP leadership in Congress, worried conservative issues are getting ignored in the campaign, and fed up with political correctness,” Floyd Brown, president of the conservative Western Center for Journalism, told me. “If he moved to a third-party candidacy, many of his followers would be there with him.”
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But for many years Trump has been far more positive about Clinton. Hillary Clinton attended Trump’s 2005 wedding (and her husband Bill attended the wedding reception), and he has showered her Senate campaigns with contributions on four separate occasions. In 2012, after Clinton had been secretary of state for over three years, he told Fox News that she was a “terrific woman.”