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Subject: TrackerBASE Report: Donald Trump the Brody file CBN 04/12/11 4/12/2011

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FROM: Christopher van Leeuwen

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Date: 04/12/11

RE: Donald Trump the Brody file CBN 04/12/11

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Event Details: http://www1.cbn.com/content/brody-file-april-12-2011

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Summary of Event: Donald Trump was on the Brody file April 12, 2011. The interview was heavily edited with some flash cuts in the middle of answers, even though many of the answers were still word salads, during the interview he stated that drugs and alcohol are all the same problem. He stated that the reason he switched to pro life was because a friend made a choice to not have an abortion. He stated that his position on civil unions was not fully formed but didn't want it and friends on anyone's rights, he also said the reason his first two marriages didn't work is because he works hard.

Key Points:

2:00 Q: one of the defining moments you mentioned in your life was the passing of your brother?

Donald Trump: I had two brothers, now I have 1, 2 sisters family of five, had a brother named Fred fabulous guy best looking guy, he love life he you love people get everything going for them but when he went to college for some reason he started drinking that was before the drug age and other things, but essentially it's all one big problem, but he drank, and the smoke also any drink a lot, and he ultimately died of alcoholism. What I do with my children from the time they're old enough to listen to me from a very young age I would say no drinking at all, no drugs no smoking, I even say no coffee, now I say no tattoos and be nicer people than get tattoos awarding to do.

Q: how do you see God? From what happened your brother and how things are today in your views on God?

DT: I believe in God, I am Christian, I believe very strongly in God, the Bible is one of the is not…  it is the book, it is the thing, I was raised in a give your picture down right now, a picture of me at first Presbyterian Church of Jamaica Queens, I'm a Protestant Presbyterian, and I've had a good relationship with the church over the years, I think religion is a wonderful thing, I think my religion is a wonderful religion.

Q: is it true that people send you all these Bibles? Where are all those Bibles now?

DT: we keep them in a certain place, a very nice place, men like this credible location ahead and you can keep most of your belongings are, there is no way would do anything negative to a Bible, so we do is we keep all the Bibles, I would have a fear of doing something other than very positive, I store them and keep them and sometimes given away to other people, but I do get sent a lot of Bibles. And I like that I think that's great.

5:00 Q: your mom was a devout Christian and this line it was coat that she said trust in God and be true to yourself…

DT: she was very religious she would go to church like every Sunday, and Easter was a very big day for her,

Q: do you actively go to church?

DT: I go as much as I can, always on Easter and Christmas, always on Easter, always when there's a major occasion, during the Sunday's I will go as I can.

Q: there even to local leaders Ralph Reed Tony Perkins, they say there intrigued by your candidacy, mainstream media has a conniption about this, how could they be possibly interested in a leader like Donald Trump?

6:00 DT: I recently spoke to Ralph Reed and Tony Perkins, and I was really impressed, and I saw a nice quotes from both of them, and from few others, and I was very impressed, they are smart people they want to pick someone is going to win, you can't get so caught up in social issues, you have to pick somebody who's so good on social issues but is going to be decimated by Barack Obama, it's wonderful to say to here is someone who is wonderful in every way who goes to church every day, forget just Sunday, but he is going to lose, that doesn’t help.

7:00 Q: evangelicals want to feel they have some of his solid on these issues, and as always you do cut move on.

DT: I am a very honorable guy, I am pro-life but I change my views a number of years ago, one of the reasons I change is a friend of mine his wife is pregnant, and he was going to… He didn't really want the baby, he was crying when he told his story, for some reason because they didn't have the right timing, they ended up having up the baby, now the baby's the apple of his life, the greatest thing he says ever happened to him, and I heard this and some of the stories and I am pro-life

Q: so the stories change your views?

DT:  they change my views yeah absolutely.

Q: I know you're against gay marriage but what about civil unions?

DT: I live in New York and know many gay people, tremendous people, to be honest with you as far as civil unions are concerned I haven’t totally formed my opinion, but there can be no discrimination against gays, I'm against gay marriage and took a lot of heat for that, will a lot of heat on one side the other saying isn't that wonderful, I don't consider it wonderful, I don't consider good bad or indifferent but I am against gay marriage.

Q: Evangelicals watching this may be intrigued by Donald Trump but not completely sold on a myriad of different reasons from your past.

DT: I think I have a good past, I've had great success, is that a lot of things, you can look at I had the two failed marriages, and when you look at a failed marriage, in so much 56 57%, but I am a very hard worker, and I've always said it's very difficult for a woman to be married to me because I work.

9:10 Q: what have you learned in those two failed marriages?

DT: the message is that you do need to devote the requisite time to your marriage, but the thing you really you know, it's socially perhaps not the greatest thing to say, this country needs time also, our great country the United States needs time of its leader, and if it's not given that time, and if intelligent decisions are made quickly, it will no longer be the great country, that we knew.

14:04 Q: your appeal to the tea party is that you don't mince words?

DT: I am very proud of the tea party, I think the tea parties done a great service for this country, because it made people think, they want costs down, they want since brought back the government, and if nothing else is important message

Q: your campaign slogan could be Barack Obama, you're fired?

DT: frankly it is somewhat of an actual, you know I want to keep it at a high level, assuming I run a make a decision sometime prior to June, based on polls and some other things people are saying they want me to run.8

Q: everyone talks about Iowa New Hampshire South Carolina, DC this is a traditional path forward you mix it up?

DT: I see Iowa, and I see New Hampshire, and I see South Carolina, and I see the traditional path absolutely, people of Iowa are great, they are hard-working people, they really go out there and get it.

Q: and I was able to see people press the flesh see them have a conversation?

DT: I would be willing to do that, I'm not actually serves the most important thing, they say you need to go into homes and, and I'm willing to do that if I have to, I really think the people of Iowa weather very smart people they get it, but I think you necessarily have to go into every Buddy's home, certain of the candidates can do that because they don't have a job, so they can walk and everybody's house,,I'm running this huge company.

15:40 Q: you said on or rally that there is a Muslim problem in this country, what do you exactly mean by that?

DT: I think people want the truth, I think they're tired of politicians, they're tired of politically correct stuff, though I could've said absolutely not bill there is no Muslim problem everything is wonderful just forget about the World Trade Center problem bop bop bop bop bop. You have to speak the truth, we become so politically correct of this country is falling apart.

16:00 Q: many of the evangelical concerns are the basic teachings of the Quran should? Do you have problems with some of those teachings?

DT: I'm certainly not an expert to put it mildly, but there's something there that teaches some very negative vibe, I mean things that are happening when you look at people blowing up all over the streets of some of the countries over in the Middle East, just blowing up a supermarket with not even soldiers just people (flash cut), there's a lot of hatred there, I don't know if that's from the Quran or someplace else.

Q: rethink your biggest liabilities going to be?

DT: I don't know some people may not like me, I do speak the truth therefore I'm a little on the blunt side, I may not be politically correct but I think I am, I am very truthful.(flash cut) I think maybe my bluntness.

Q: so some people just can't handle it?

Dt: some people may not be able to handle it.

19:35 Q: what you say to the critics in the mainstream media who dismiss you as lots of different terms, eye candy, flash in the pan, he's not serious, it will never happen?

DT: one nice thing about the polls is, most who are out of work political consultants who can't find a job, heard one other night saying Trump won't run, he's not serious, he beats everyone in the polls but he's not serious. Well if I wasn't seriously wouldn't be sitting here with you.

24:30 TD: I would much prefer not even needing to think about running for president, I would much prefer that Barack Obama was a great president, but is not a great president, he's one of our worst presidents ever, and something has to be done, words only going to get worse, if we have missed president for another four years this country is really maybe going to be probably in the worst shape it's ever been, but I can't even think to tell you how with another four years of this.

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