RNC responds to Trump threat on independent bid, accusations of stacking debate audience

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Fox News:

Donald Trump’s latest round of threats for an independent bid for the White House will not scare the GOP, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus told Fox News on Tuesday.

 

Priebus also pushed back on claims the audience at Saturday’s South Carolina debate was unfairly stacked with big money donors who booed the billionaire businessman.

 

“The issue with the pledge is simply that if you are going to run as a Republican and avail yourself of the process, come to the convention, you ought to be able to say 'I’m going to support the Republican Party,'” Priebus said during an appearance on “On the Record with Greta Van Susteren.” “That’s pretty fair. I think it’s pretty standard and I am not worried about this whatsoever.”

 

Last summer, Trump flirted with the possibility of an independent run, but in September signed a “loyalty pledge” that committed him to the Republican Party’s nominating process. The GOP front-runner said he would honor the agreement as long as Republicans treated him fairly -- something he now claims isn’t happening.

 

“The RNC better get its act together,” Trump said at a campaign stop in South Carolina. “I signed a pledge. But the pledge isn’t being honored by them.”

 

On Monday, Trump also threatened to sue his closest rival in the race -- Texas Sen. Ted Cruz -- about his Canadian birth if Cruz does not retract alleged “lies” about Trump’s policy positions. He demanded the RNC intervene, and said if they didn’t, they’d be violating the pledge he signed in September.

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Going rogue?

 

[Valin]

 

“The RNC better get its act together,” Trump said at a campaign stop in South Carolina. “I signed a pledge. But the pledge isn’t being honored by them.”

 

 

[Draggingtree]

HUMOR

Statement Of Donald J. Trump On Eve Of Huge Victory

May Great Leader Donald J. Trump live forever and crush the enemies of the people.

By Patrick Popehat FEBRUARY 18, 2016

(Pyongyang) — Great Leader Donald J. Trump today addressed the peoples of Nevada and South Carolina from the podium of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” stating that for too long, America has been a nation of losers, and not of winners. Marshal Trump blamed America’s sorry state on the vile machinations of dummies, cheats, low-energy people, liars, false Christians, and jackals, chief among them thrice-accursed traitor for all times Ted Cruz, whose name shall be uttered in damnation forevermore.

“Ted Cruz’s wicked ambition has led him to slander so many people, as the leader of a faction of dung-eating gangsters and despicable criminals, hoping to seize power and use it for his own unspeakable ends,” said Great Leader Donald J. Trump, “that I can’t believe anyone hasn’t seen through his lies. He lies about Dr. Ben Carson. He lies about Marco Rubio. And now he’s lying about me!” thundered Generalissimo Trump to the acclaim of ordinary workers and peasants throughout South Carolina

http://thefederalist.com/2016/02/18/statement-of-donald-j-trump-on-eve-of-huge-victory/

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Donald Trump Was For Invading Iraq Before He Was Against It

By: streiff (Diary) | February 18th, 2016 at 10:17 AM

Last night at the disreputable MSNBC townhall in South Carolina, Donald Trump amplified …that goes without saying… on his self-proclaimed role as prophet of doom about the invasion of Iraq. I’m only giving you this extended bit of the transcript so you can see for yourself the utterly feckless way that Joe Scarborough let Donald Trump get away with all manner of crap:

 

TRUMP: But he didn’t have weapons of mass destruction. Now, the only question is did the government know he didn’t? Why did they go in — look, Iraq did not knock down and the Iraqis did not knock down the World Trade Center —

http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2016/02/18/donald-trump-invading-iraq/