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Saturday, April 16, 2011

Karl Rove: Birther Issue Turned Donald Trump Into A ‘Joke Candidate’ (Mediaite)

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by Frances Martel
April 16th, 2011

Reality TV and real estate personality Donald Trump may be as far as nine points ahead in the latest GOP 2012 polls, but that doesn’t mean the Republican establishment is ready to embrace him with open arms. On last night’s On the Record, Karl Rove did his best to distance the party from the Donald, telling Greta Van Susteren that his “weird conspiracy theories” about President Obama’s birth certificate made him a “joke candidate.”


After a lengthy discussion about the current budget battle in Congress in which Rove claimed Republicans had attained victory, if only because the federal government’s budget authority had been reduced by $60 billion, Van Susteren questioned Rove on Trump’s impact on the Republican Party. Rove refused to answer whether Trump “hurt” the Party, noting instead that his obsession with President Obama’s birth certificate “hurts Donald Trump.” “He was an interested candidate who had a business background and could have contributed to dialogue,” Rove lamented, adding that making the birth certificate a centerpiece of his campaign delegitimized him. “He’s off there in the nutty right, and is not an inconsequential candidate,” Rove concluded, adding that “the guy is smarter than this” and he was “sorry to see it happen.” He also denounced claims that President Obama didn’t go to school, citing a friend who was a classmate of the President’s, and the conspiracy theory about the newspaper reports in Hawaii.

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The New York Observer’s Trump Problem (Gawker.com)

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By John Cook

Pouty fathead Donald Trump is a tailor-made character for the New York Observer, which purports to monitor Manhattan's smug oligarchy with a gimlet-eyed detachment. And his semi-coherent presidential grumblings, which count as news just about everywhere else, make ideal grist for the Observer's mill. Too bad he's the owner's father-in-law.


Here's a sentence that someone ought to write about Trump: "The Donald's incredible bullshit machine keeps churning up the landscape, spewing forth a plume of chutzpah that might have made even P.T. Barnum a bit queasy."

Actually, that was written about Trump, and published in the Observer, 13 years ago.

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Donald Trump: ‘I’ve Always Had a Great Relationship With The Blacks’ (Mediaite)

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by Colby Hall
April 14th, 2011

Donald Trump recently granted an interview with NY Post editor Fred Dicker in which he most notably denied reports that he’d be announcing his presidential plans during the season finale of his reality show Celebrity Apprentice. But perhaps the other noteworthy bon mot to come from the lengthy and candid interview was Trump’s assertion that he’s always enjoyed a great relationship with “the blacks.” Efforts to confirm Trump’s statement were fruitless as we could not find one individual who could speak on behalf of “the blacks.”

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“Best Wishes, Donald Trump”: A Future President’s Letter to Vanity Fair (Vanity Fair)

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April 11, 2011 
 
It was with great delight and a sense of kinship that we at Vanity Fair read Donald Trump’s letter to the editor of The New York Times. Writing in response to Gail Collins’s April 2 column, “Donald Trump Gets Weirder,” the petty casino fauxgul and insincere 2012 presidential contender took a few grammatically daring swipes at the columnist (“Her storytelling ability and word usage [coming from me, who has written many best-sellers] is not at a very high level”) and repeated his latest cri de coeur, Birtherism.

We, too, are recent beneficiaries of Trump’s editorial suggestions. On March 24, Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter received a packet of documents from Trump containing a print-out of a VF Daily blog post from the week prior (shown below), several articles from blogs and newspapers concerning the ratings of Celebrity Apprentice and Trump’s presidential aspirations, and a debossed “DONALD J. TRUMP” note card of surprisingly thin paper stock.

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Donald Trump: White House 'sideshow' diss proves Obama sees me as threat in 2012 (New York Daily News)

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Monday, April 11th 2011, 3:42 PM

Despite what everyone is saying, Donald Trump insists he isn't clowning around.

After being dismissed by the White House as a "sideshow" circus freak, Trump said Monday the comments are proof positive that President Obama views him as a real threat in 2012.

"I have obviously touched a nerve. They don't talk about any other candidate. I know for a fact they're very concerned with me," Trump told The Daily News.

Trump's embrace of crackpot conspiracy theories about Obama's place of birth earned him a harsh rebuke Sunday from a top White House aide.

"There is zero chance that Donald Trump would ever be hired by the American people," said Obama's right-hand man, David Plouffe. "It's a sideshow."

Trump said he wasn't entirely pleased to see his mug dressed up in clown make-up on the front page of The News as a result.

"I thought it was unfortunate that The Daily News would do something like that," he said.
 


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