Subject: 2016 GOP HIT on HRC
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Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 06:10:26 -0700

Donald Trump on Today Show
4/28/16 7:00 PM
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>> Ted Cruz says Carly Fiorina is his running mate if he gets the nomination. Gets headlines. You on the other hand seem to say things that alienate women voters. You say Hillary Clinton is still playing the woman card and if she were a man she would only have 2% of the vote.
DT: Nobody respects women more than I do. I am not playing the woman's card. She's playing the woman's card. Everything she says is about the woman's card. Frankly all I'm doing is stating the obvious. Without the woman's card she wouldn't even be --
>> Are you saying women in this country vote simply on gender?
DT: I don't think they vote on gender, no. I think they vote for jobs and security. That's why I'm doing so well, that's why I'm leading the Republicans a lot. In all the elections I won on Tuesday night, which is five states. And then, of course, New York the week before. I'm winning them one after another now and building up tremendous numbers and tremendous numbers of delegates and millions and millions of voters. In all of those exit polls, I led with women and I led with women by tremendous margins overall other candidates.
>> But, Mr. Trump, for you to say if she were not a woman, she would be getting 5% suggests the only thing she has going for her is that she was a woman, not that she was a former senator, former secretary of state and lawyer. Do you understand why people find that to be kind of a demeaning comment?
DT: I find it to be a true comment. The only thing she has got going is she's a woman.
She has done a terrible job in so many ways. Look at Libya. Look at some of the things that she's done that are absolutely disaster Russ. Disastrous. The primary thing she has going is that she's a woman. She's playing that card like I've not seen anybody play it before.

Notes:

>>> Let's talk now to Donald Trump about this. He is on the phone. Good morning.
>> Good morning.
>> Ted Cruz says Carly Fiorina is his running mate if he gets the nomination. Gets headlines. You on the other hand seem to say things that alienate women voters. You say Hillary Clinton is still playing the woman card and if she were a man she would only have 2% of the vote.
>> Nobody respects women more than I do. I am not playing the woman's card. She's playing the woman's card. Everything she says is about the woman's card. Frankly all I'm doing is stating the obvious. Without the woman's card she wouldn't even be --
>> Are you saying women in this country vote simply on gender?
>> I don't think they vote on gender, no. I think they vote for jobs and security. That's why I'm doing so well, that's why I'm leading the Republicans a lot. In all the elections I won on Tuesday night, which is five states. And then, of course, New York the week before. I'm winning them one after another now and building up tremendous numbers and tremendous numbers of delegates and millions and millions of voters. In all of those exit polls, I led with women and I led with women by tremendous margins overall other candidates.
>> But, Mr. Trump, for you to say if she were not a woman, she would be getting 5% suggests the only thing she has going for her is that she was a woman, not that she was a former senator, former secretary of state and lawyer. Do you understand why people find that to be kind of a demeaning comment?
DT: I find it to be a true comment. The only thing she has got going is she's a woman.
She has done a terrible job in so many ways. Look at Libya. Look at some of the things that she's done that are absolutely disaster Russ. Disastrous. The primary thing she has going is that she's a woman. She's playing that card like I've not seen anybody play it before.
>> Let me ask you about your foreign policy speech yesterday, Mr. Trump. What's very interesting is what was not in the speech. You didn't talk about the wall with Mexico. You didn't talk about supporting 11 million undocumented immigrants. You didn't talk about restoring torture. You didn't talk about possibly allowing Japan, South Korea or Saudi Arabia to have nuclear weapons. Are you backing off some of the key tenents?
>> No, not at all. I'll be doing a big speech on immigration and I'll talk more about that in the form of immigration, the wall, undocumented immigrants having to be brought out of the country. We will do that. It's never been a worse situation than we have right now. You look at the crime. You look at the tremendous impact they have on our country economically. You look at what's coming across the border. I consider that immigration as opposed to foreign policy. And I'm going to be doing a policy speech on immigration fairly soon.
>> Let's talk about ISIS. You said in your speech yesterday that they will be gone very quickly in a trump administration. So, can you be more specific? Are you envisioning a massive ground troop presence in Syria and Iraq to get rid of ISIS? It seems that would be necessary if you want to get rid of them quickly.
>> Well, one of the tenets of my speech yesterday -- it's gotten great reviews, as you know, was unpredictability.
>> People are casting votes. They should know whether that means a massive military presence in the Middle East.
>> Savannah, if I get elected president, I don't want ISIS to know what I'm going to be doing.
>> What about the American voters?
>> I don't like the idea. And psychologically, we need to -- and as a country, we need to -- when president Obama announced we're sending 250 soldiers, when he announced previous to that, we're sending 50 soldiers and he announces it to the world, they have a target on their back. He shouldn't be announcing that. He shouldn't be talking about what he's doing militarily. The enemy is watching every move we say, every move we do militarily, we announce what we're doing and they prepare for it. I don't want that. One of the big tenets of my speech yesterday was the fact that I said -- and very, very strongly -- we need unpredictability. We need to be unpredictable. We're so totally predictable, Matt.
>> Some American voters might be nervous that this call for unpredictability is actually a way of masking an understanding of the issues or grasp of the details.
>> Well, I have a total grasp of the details far greater than just about anybody else. That, I can tell you. When I said take the oil -- I've been saying it for a long time -- I didn't want to tell that. But yourselves and everybody else has been saying tell us what it is. Tell us what it is. After three months I said take the oil. Now I would have preferred not doing that. Politically, I really had to. It got to the point where people had to know. I would have preferred not saying take the oil. You go in, you surprise them. Now fortified oil reserves and they're prepared. We'll still take the oil and we should be taking the oil and we're not.
>> Would you rule out the use of nuclear weapons in the fight against ISIS?
>> I don't want to rule out anything. I will be the last to use nuclear weapons. It's a horror to use nuclear weapons. The power of weaponry today is the single greatest problem that our world has. It's not global warming, like our president said. It's the power of weapons, in particular nuclear. I will be the last to use it. I will not be a happy trigger like some people might be. I will be the last. But I will never, ever rule it out.
>> Donald Trump.
>> Thank you very much. Got to leave it there.

Lauren Hendricks