Subject: 2016 GOP HIT on HRC
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Date: Wed, 4 May 2016 06:15:06 -0700

Donald Trump on Morning Joe
5/4/16 6:20 AM
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>> It's just words, just another politician talking. Bernie Sanders said about Hillary Clinton she's got poor judgment. He also said she's unqualified. I won't even go there. Bernie Sanders said she's got poor judgment, and she does. Look at the e-mail scandal. She shouldn't even be allowed to run.
You know that, Joe knows that, and everybody knows that she's only being protected by the Democrats. She should not be allowed to run in the election. She should suffer like other people have suffered who have done far less than she has. You look at so many, I won't even mention names anymore. You look at so many people who have done far less than her, the same subject matter, and it's been a horror show. Here she is running for president like nothing happened. She shouldn't even be allowed to run. You know that.

>> I got a tweet last night when I asked about Republicans for Hillary, they start hate tweeting me. What about Democrats for Donald Trump. I'll ask you about Democrats for Donald Trump because that is how, sir, I think you see you could remake the map. I want to ask you about something you said last night. You said I love winning with the women. The media gives you short shrift. You don't need to with all women but married women.
You need to turn around dismal poll numbers with the kinds of women you need to bring around. >>Ening ole, thank you, say hello to your parents. I really appreciate them.

>> I don't shoot from the hip. I will say this, the recent victories in Pennsylvania, new York, all over, Maryland, kailua-kona, all up and down, one after another, I was so strong with women. I won women every single time by massive majoriies.
In fact, very close to the men. Supposedly I'm doing extremely well with men. Much, much better than Hillary. That's her weakness. I'm doing really well with the men. I was doing well in the last seven or eight states. I was doing just as well, in one case better with women. They want to see a secure country. I'm going to do better. I'm going to bring jobs back. Hillary doesn't know anything about jobs. Her husband signed nafta. Nafta is the single worst economic thing that's happened to this country that I can think of. It sucked the jobs and sucked the money right out of our country. We're going to make big changes.

>> First of all, Ed Rollins has been tremendous. We talked about Kraut hammer, they have problems, George well that nobody listens to or reads. I'm going to be making a decision over the next week. The question is, I do love self-funding. I don't want anything for myself.
We do need money for the party. The party will come together. I don't think it's imperative the entire party come together. I don't want everybody. I don't even want certain people that were extraordinarily -- let them go their own way. Let them wait eight years or 16 years, I think we're going to have a great success against probably Hillary because the system is totally rigged against Bernie, totally rigged against him. So probably we're going to have Hillary.

Transcript:

>> Congratulations. Hey, Donald, why don't you just admit to everybody you never saw this coming. Seriously, you have to be surprised yourself at how this played out.
>> Well, I'm happy how it played out. We had 17 people. That was a lot of people. Some people said it was the finest group of talent ever assembled by any party at any time. I was watching that before I announced, and I said, wow, what am I doing. It was talent. Some were very talented quite frankly. It worked out this way so I'm happy about it.
>> You brutalized a lot of them. Jeb Bush, low energy. Ted Cruz, lyin' Ted Cruz. We can go down the list. How do you know, especially after yesterday, how do you get Ted Cruz to support you. Yesterday you were talking about Lee Harvey Oswald. How do you unite the party today?
>> I've gotten a lot of calls from people who were far more brutal than Ted was. I said to them, how can you do that after what I said. They said, don't worry about. It's not a problem. They are politicians. It's talk. I've had calls -- I'll have to tell you about them, calls really wanting to get on immediately. This was a week ago or two weeks ago.
>> Do you care if Ted Cruz endorses you.
>> I think it would be nice. I've been saying for a long time that there's some people I almost don't want their endorsement, Republicans, because it was too rough and they were too nasty.

[6:21:44 AM]

I don't think it's going to matter frankly. It's going to be me. I am a Republican. I'll do a good job. I'll do a great job on trade and the economy and bringing jobs back. I'll do great on the military.
>> What do you say about George well, he ran a Coln THA said it's conservative's duty you win all 50 states.
>> George is a loserf he's a dour guy. Very few people listen to him. I never want to support -- he's been writing these columns for a year, every since I announced. You know, I had a run-in with him, I didn't want to go to one of his speeches at mar largo. I find him to be a dull person, dull. I never thought I would be in politics or run for office. I said, I just don't want to go. He wanted me to go. It was one of those things. He never forgot it. He's a nasty guy, a very nasty guy. Nobody reads him. He has no influence. If he had influence, I wouldn't be talking to you, Joe. Let's face it, the guy writes a bad column every time he writes a column. I don't know how often he writes them, I don't really know. Others, grout hammer, all he does is bash me. He wanted the war. He talked about trump is tough, he'll have a fast trigger. I'll have the slowest trigger. I'll prepared the military.
>> The great irony, Mika, we've said this before. We're actually going into the general election where we have the democratic candidate that's going to support intervention IST more than the Republican nominee.

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>> Seems that way.
>> I watched him last night, talking about trump may be quick temperamentally. He's the one pushing for years the war in Iraq, which was a total disaster and I didn't want to do it. As a civilian I was totally against it. It was one of the worst decisions in the history of our country, by the way, perhaps the worst. They talk about me with temperament. We need a strong temperament right now. The world is laughing at us. We need a very strong temperament.
>> Let's look ahead, the general asked Andrea Mitchell if you were qualified to be commander in chief.
>> Well, he's given no indication he understands the gravity of the decisions that go with being commander in chief. That will be a big part of my campaign. At some point, he's going to have to be held to the standard we hold to somebody running for commander in chief. What is it you know? What is it you've done in what is it you're proposing to do commander in chief? So far we haven't seen any of that. We've seen a the lo of rhetoric, insults. He's an equal opportunity insulter. But when it comes down to making this really important decision, it's been my experience people in our country say to themselves, wait a minute, what do I think is the best choice? The best choice for me, my family, my jobs, my income, my future. And I think absent some major change in how he is presenting himself and what he is saying, that's going to be a pretty high bar for him to get over.
>> So Donald, she did not mince words, what's your response?
>> It's just words, just another politician talking. Bernie Sanders said about Hillary Clinton she's got poor judgment. He also said she's unqualified. I won't even go there. Bernie Sanders said she's got poor judgment, and she does. Look at the e-mail scandal. She shouldn't even be allowed to run.
You know that, Joe knows that, and everybody knows that she's only being protected by the Democrats. She should not be allowed to run in the election. She should suffer like other people have suffered who have done far less than she has. You look at so many, I won't even mention names anymore. You look at so many people who have done far less than her, the same subject matter, and it's been a horror show. Here she is running for president like nothing happened. She shouldn't even be allowed to run. You know that.
>> Hey, Donald, it's Willie. Congratulations on your win again last night.
>> Thank you.
>> I want to ask you a couple of questions about some issues you've raised during this campaign. A lot of people think you've said some things to win the Republican party and you don't believe and could change as you go to a general. Do you still believe muslims should be banned from entering the country until we figure out what's doing on, as I said.
>> We have to be very vigilant, find out what's going on. We have major, major problems. Nobody wants to talk about it. We have a president that won't mention radical islamic terrorism, he won't mention it. Even though it's obvious terrible things are happening. We have to be extremely careful, vigilant. Yes, we have to find out what the hell is going on.
>> The general election, assuming you make that, you'll raise another issue.
>> I don't know if it hurts me. I don't care it hurts me. I'm doing the right thing when I do this. Whether it's Muslim ornything else, I have to do the right thing. That's the way I've been guided. When Joe said it's a little bit surprising, and I did see last night the first time in the history of our country where this has happened, where really a civilian in the truest sense got the nomination of a major party. I've been guided by common sense, by what's right. You see what's happening. We have to be careful. We're allowing thousands of people to come into our country, thousands and thousands of people being placed all over the country that frankly nobody knows who they are.

[6:28:02 AM]

They don't have documentation in many cases. In most cases. We don't know what we're doing. Let's see what happens. This could be a very serious problem for the future. If you look at what's happening all over Europe, with the migration. Look at what's happening. It's terrible what they have done to some of these countries of they are going to destroy -- they are destroying Europe. I'm not going to let that happen to the United States.
>> As we go to the general, proposal for Muslim ban stands. What about what you told Chris Matthews a few weeks ago that women who get abortions should be punished. Do you still believe that to be.
>> He was asking just a question in theory. I talked about it only from that standpoint. Of course not. That was done, I guess it was theoretically. He was asking a rhetorical question and I gave an answer. People from academic standpoint and answered rhetorically said that answer was unbelievable academic afterwards. Of course not. I said that afterwards. Everybody understands that.
>> So Donald, there are two family members around the set that are very happy this morning. My brother is extraordinarily happy.
>> He's a great guy, by the way.
>> George brutalized me for nine months whenever I criticized you. And Nicole actually had to top going home for a while, her parents.
>> I got a tweet last night when I asked about Republicans for Hillary, they start hate tweeting me. What about Democrats for Donald Trump. I'll ask you about Democrats for Donald Trump because that is how, sir, I think you see you could remake the map. I want to ask you about something you said last night. You said I love winning with the women. The media gives you short shrift. You don't need to with all women but married women.
You need to turn around dismal poll numbers with the kinds of women you need to bring around. >>Ening ole, thank you, say hello to your parents. I really appreciate them.
>> You just made your day.
>> I'll tell you what, we do have tremendous numbers of Democrats. You see that in the open runs. We have tremendous numbers of Democrats who have voted for me. In fact, New York, which is closed, they are saying some of the people in the polling booths interviewed by local television, they said all the year we've been here, one 25 years, the other 40 years at the booth, most incredible thing I've seen, people came in Democrats, we want to vote for Donald Trump. You weren't allowed to do that. They were saying hundreds and hundreds of people were coming in that were registered Democrats that wanted to vote for Donald Trump. They said they have never seen that and make of them have been working in the polling booth 40 years. As far as women are concerned, they want to see strength in our military. They want to see strength for our border. They want to see the country protected. We have a military that's being decimated. We have a military that is totally ill prepared, and in many cases ill equipped. When general left six months ago, he said never has our military been so ill prepared or something to that effect. I will tell you, women wan to see strength, a strong military.
>> They want someone steady. I see women voters see you shoot from the hip in a way that makes them nervous.
>> Actually I don't shoot from the hip?
>> No?
>> I don't shoot from the hip. I will say this, the recent victories in Pennsylvania, new York, all over, Maryland, kailua-kona, all up and down, one after another, I was so strong with women. I won women every single time by massive majoriies.
In fact, very close to the men. Supposedly I'm doing extremely well with men. Much, much better than Hillary. That's her weakness. I'm doing really well with the men. I was doing well in the last seven or eight states. I was doing just as well, in one case better with women. They want to see a secure country. I'm going to do better. I'm going to bring jobs back. Hillary doesn't know anything about jobs. Her husband signed nafta. Nafta is the single worst economic thing that's happened to this country that I can think of. It sucked the jobs and sucked the money right out of our country. We're going to make big changes.
>> John heilemann, you're next. John heilemann, again, this is a remarkable general election where you're going to have a Republican nominee more populist on trade and more of a populist on intervention, military intervention than the democratic nominee. You talk about like the Obama people say, the deck is being reshuffled. We'll see how that shakes out but I want to ask a question. Good morning, Donald.
>> Good morning.
>> You're heading down an election by most reckoning going to cost a billion dollars in the campaign. You've been proud about being self-funded. You have people talking about pro trump super PACS. As you head into the general election are you going to welcome the support of super PACS.
>> First of all, Ed Rollins has been tremendous. We talked about Kraut hammer, they have problems, George well that nobody listens to or reads. I'm going to be making a decision over the next week. The question is, I do love self-funding. I don't want anything for myself.
We do need money for the party. The party will come together. I don't think it's imperative the entire party come together. I don't want everybody. I don't even want certain people that were extraordinarily -- let them go their own way. Let them wait eight years or 16 years, I think we're going to have a great success against probably Hillary because the system is totally rigged against Bernie, totally rigged against him. So probably we're going to have Hillary. And I will make a decision fairly soon as to that. Do I want to sell a couple of buildings and self-fund? I don't know that I want to do that necessarily but I really won't be asking for money for myself, I'll be asking money for the party. Really, it's something we're going to start on right away. I got a call last night from reince priebus. It's something we're going to start on now.
>> Willie has an important question.
>> Before you go, I know you've got to run, we confirmed at NBC news your campaign started to vet vice presidential candidates. Who are the names you're looking at?
>> It's too soon. I just don't want to do it. I think a lot of people are talking about certain names, certainly those are the names we're thinking of.
>> Can you give us one or two.
>> I think I will say I probably will go the political route. I have the business, let's call it talents. I think I'll probably go political route, somebody that can help me with legislation, somebody that can get things passed. Somebody that's been friends with senators and congressman, so we don't have to go the executive order route as much as Obama did, where he can't get anything approved so he just keeps signing executive orders. But more than likely, I would go the political route.
>> So not a general. A lot of people proposed a military leader.
>> Well, it's something I thought of, and there's one person I think is very good. I really want to -- I think more likely I'm inclined to go -- speaking of general, I think one of my strengths -- one of my strengths is economy and jobs.

[6:36:20 AM]

We're going to make great trade deals. We're going to reverse it. Right now we're a laughingstock all over the world with the dumb deals we make. One of my really great strengths will be the military, will be getting us out and winning and getting us out of the mess we're in in the Middle East. We're up to almost $4 trillion of spending and thousands and thousands of lives, more importantly. But I think it will be -- end up being a strength. So we'll see what happens.
>> Donald, congratulations on what even your sharpest detractors would have to call a truly historic run, unprecedented in our lifetime. It's really incredible.
Lauren Hendricks