Subject: Trump on Imus in the Morning
From: "Sarge, Matthew" <[email-masked]>
To: Comm_D <[email-masked]>
Cc: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 07:29:38 -0700

h/t Matt
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See exchange on POWs and McCain

-          TRUMP: "Some people like what I said, to know the truth. There are many people who like what I said. After I said that, my poll numbers went up seven points."

Trump on Imus in the Morning:

We will raise a lot of money. $1 billion or $1.5 billion.

-          I spend less than anybody else

-          I know how to spend it. Maybe that's why people like me

Putting yourself in a position to take money from people and groups that will expect things?

-          "Well they are really paying-any money  is going to be paid to the party. So I'm not taking money, but the party will take money, and the party will support me and other people."

-          The party will also be spending on Senators, etc.

Meeting with Paul Ryan? Just you and him? Or Staff?

-          Don't know him. Only met him one time

-          "Might be" just him and I. But he probably has a few people that he feels comfortable having

-          He probably wants to get to know me a little bit

You should offer him VP slot to throw him off

-          He wouldn't want it

-          Speaker slot was already hard enough to fill

Tyson said "everybody has a plan until they get punched." Clintons didn't expect Bernie challenge. Are they prepared?

-          HRC can't make great trade deals

-          Libya, Benghazi were a disaster. So many things she handled so badly

-          She wants to abolish the 2nd amendment. She essentially wants to abolish the 2nd amendment and take guns away

-          I will eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse. Other countries are ripping us off

When you get to Oval Office, will you find that things are harder to get done than expected?

-          There will be some of that.

-          But I've been involved in politics at the highest level for a long time, just not on this side

-          Obama can't get things done

What level of income represents the middle class?

-          One way to describe is people that have been absolutely disenfranchised

-          Different levels in different places

-          In NYC, middle class person would be considered wealthy in other cities

-          Have to be consequences for companies leaving

John McCain wants apology for the POWs?

-          I've actually done that

-          I like John McCain. McCain is a hero.

-          All POWs are heros, whether or not they are captured

Do you regret saying that [about McCain]?

-          "I like not to regret anything"

-          "What I said, frankly, is what I said. Some people like what I said, to know the truth. There are many people who like what I said. After I said that, my poll numbers went up seven points."

Someone who avoided draft through deferments shouldn't say that?

-          College deferments. Great lottery numbers

-          I do feel bad... that's why I was involved in building Vietnam memorial in NY

-          Vietnam War was a mistake. Just like Iraq

Family's role in your campaign. Role in your administration?

-          Probably not

-          A little thing called nepotism that is not very good

-          They will be running the business

Obama going to Hiroshima.

-          He should not apologize.

-          His going there does not bother me

-          Reminds people of the tremendous power of nuclear

-          Should not apologize in any way, shape, or form