If Trump gets stripped at the convention-(DON'T BLAME THE ESTABLISHMENT)

[Kirkland Laing]

Mother Jones NY Magazine and Think Progress....well at least your sources aren't horribly biased

They're full of facts Lyle. They're not opinion pieces. If you'd like to take issue with any of the facts in the articles then go ahead.

Oh you expect me to read your links when you won't even watch the videos I post?


The Mother Jones piece is pure speculation and makes the "author" of that article if you can even call him that, he wrote A (singular) paragraph as commentary on an interview Trump did with the Washington Post which has burned it's bridge with Donald Trump so could he have been misquoted or taken out of context by the Washington Post reporter? Quite possibly. Or could Trump have just said something off the cuff and not thought too hard about it seeing how it's only a hypothetical at this point, yes, that too is quite likely.

I've got no idea why you would like to discuss Sam Brownback but whatever, I'll do these as well.
Forbes Welcome

It's much faster to read things than it is to watch a video.

The Mother Jones article gives direct quotes from a transcript of an interview Trump did, the specific bit was asking him questions about a previous TV interview he did where he said he'd take Iraq's oil.

DIEHL: And could I ask you about ISIS, speaking of making commitments, because you talked recently about possibly sending 20 or 30,000 troops and—
TRUMP: No I didn’t, oh no no no, okay, I know what you’re saying....I didn’t say send 20,000. I said, well the generals are saying you’d need because they, what would it take to wipe out ISIS, I said pretty much exactly this, I said the generals, the military is saying you would need 20- to 30,000 troops, but I didn’t say that I would send them.
DIEHL: If they said that, would you go along with that and send the troops?
TRUMP: I find it hard to go along with—I mention that as an example because it’s so much....We should have never been in Iraq. It...was one of the worst decisions ever made in the history of our country. We then got out badly, then after we got out, I said, “Keep the oil. If we don’t keep it Iran’s going to get it.” And it turns out Iran and ISIS basically—



HIATT: How do you keep it without troops, how do you defend the oil?
TRUMP: You would... You would, well for that— for that, I would circle it. I would defend those areas.
HIATT: With U.S. troops?
TRUMP: Yeah, I would defend the areas with the oil.


Now Lyle, that was realeased as a transcript and also when Trump complaine dhe was misquoted by the dastardly Washington Post in another part of the interview they released the audio recording to prove him wrong. The same thing -- Trump complaining he'd been misquoted or taken out of context followed by the media outlet then releasing the tape to prove he wasn't -- has happened half a dozen times now, most recently last week.

Exactly how has Trunp been misquoted here or taken out of context, hmmm? Especially when he's made this "take the oil" statement about not only Iraq but Syria and Libya on numerous occasions, lots of them on TV! Here are some videos for you to watch:

https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...p+take+the+oil


He's been threatening to tkae the oil from various Middle eastern countries for months now. So difficult to claim he's out of contrext or doesn't mane it or whatever.

Also, too, here's a map of where the poil is in Iraq.



That area takes in Basra, Samarra, Najaf, Mosul, Irbil, Baghdad, basically every big Iraqi population centre. You've got to figure the people living there would be a little bit pissed off about the Great Satan invasding them yet again and stealing the source of 95% of their economy. They'd probably need quite a bit of policing. So how many troops to even attempt that? Closer to 200 000 than 20 000.