lican candidates — Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann, and Rick Santorum — beat a path to his office door in Trump Tower in search of his endorsement. Trump particularly liked Perry and Gingrich, but
when they failed to muster strong support, he held off a full endorsement. He told friends he had little use for Bachmann, who he said couldn’t be fully trusted and described as “disloyal.” So he kept com- ing back to the idea of supporting Mitt. “I had never met Mitt before he came up to Trump
Tower,” The Donald said, “and I was inclined not to be in his corner. But in person, he is a much different
guy than he is in public. He’s warm and engaging. As I wrote in my book, Time to Get Tough, Mitt has been criticized for changing his opinions, or flip-flop- ping. But smart people learn things, so they change their minds. Only stupid people never change their minds.” Of course, Trump’s involvement in GOP politics
has not escaped ridicule from the left. Some pundits said he “overshadowed” Romney on the campaign trail. The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart joked that Trump’s decision to bow out of a presidential run left a “mo- gul-shaped hole” in his heart. But as much as he loves the limelight, Trump waxes serious when the topic turns to his motivations. “Listen,” Trump says, “I’m doing this because I
Military Strength Trump describes himself as “the world’s
greatest hawk” and a “big believer in the military.” But he says the United States has squandered its power by getting dragged into conflicts abroad. America should end the war in Afghanistan as
soon as possible, without giving enemies a fixed deadline the way President Obama did. The United States needs to rebuild its own country, rather than fixing other nations. “Why aren’t we building roads in New Jersey coming into Manhattan? You come into Manhattan on roads that look like we’re a Third World country,” he says. — David A. Patten
think our country is in serious trouble, and it can do better if it has proper leadership. But America today is missing quality leadership, and foreign countries have quickly realized this. America is becoming the laughingstock of the world. Countries like China, In- dia, Mexico, and the OPEC nations view our leaders as weak and ineffective, and we have repeatedly been taken advantage of. “Under President Obama, we have [reached] $16
trillion in debt and we’re heading to $21 trillion. That’s unsustainable. The United States will be like Greece. And it’s Obama’s fault. He doesn’t like busi- ness. I’m not sure he’s a Marxist, but he has a social- ist mentality.” It’s not a message political elites want to hear. But
it may ring true to blue-collar workers in places like Eau Claire, Wis., and Burlington, Iowa. And those could be the places where the election of 2012 is decided.
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rump has been the biggest thorn in the president’s side over the so-called “birther” controversy. Following a high- profile drumbeat that went on for months,
Obama finally released a birth certificate last April indicating he was not born in Kenya as some on the right had stubbornly suspected. Trump subsequently has stated that he wants to
focus on other issues like China and Obama’s dismal record on jobs, but he says it’s the media that keeps asking questions about the birther issue, while he wants to focus on a broader point: Obama has failed to deliver on his 2008 pledge to make government more open and accountable. “Obama was supposed to be the most transparent president, but it turns out
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