Subject: 2016 GOP HIT on HRC
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Date: Wed, 4 May 2016 06:38:00 -0700

Donald Trump on Fox & Friends
5/4/16 7:35 AM
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I think we'll beat Hillary Clinton. She's horrible on the economy, horrible on jobs. She is really horrible on the military. Look what she's done with the military and her decisions were terrible. You know what, Bernie Sanders says she suffers from poor judgment. I think I may be using that line a little bit over the next number of months.

Hillary Clinton as you know, she says she wants to put the coal miners out of business never to work again. I don't know how she can go to West Virginia. I mean -- that must have been uncomfortable.

>> That wasn't misstatement. It's all political talk. I thought I knew a lot about politicians, I have never seen anything the way three keep talking and Hillary Clinton made a statement. It was a horrible statement. I watched it live actually. I said, wow. That is a horrible statement for the coal industry and for the miners. More importantly. And let me just tell you, we are going to put the miners back to work. And in China, they take our coal and they burn the coal. They don't clean the coal, by the way. We'll have great, clean coal. We'll have an amazing mining business.

>> Well, you know, we just got the Rasmussen poll come out yesterday and it shows that I'm leading Hillary Clinton 41 to 39, and I think I'm going to do very well. I'll just have to remember the people that frankly are, you know, they don't have that -- whatever it is. You know, honestly I think we'll win. I think she's horrible on the economy. She's horrible on jobs. She is terrible on the military.
>> Right.
>> I think we're going to win. I think we're going to beat Hillary. Remember what she said about the vets. The vets are being taken care of beautifully and then two weeks later she retracts --

Transcript:

>> Yep, Donald Trump join us right now on the phone. Good morning.
>> Good morning.
>> So that guy we just saw at the podium there was different. You were referring to Ted Cruz not as lyin' Ted, which you had throughout the campaign --
>> Tweeted earlier, hours before.
>> You called him a hell of a competitor. A tough, smart guy. Tell us about the transition from lyin' Ted to that guy.
>> Well, it's called competition, I guess. It was a tough race. He was a very tough competitor honestly. Lyin' Ted is now -- we will now put that aside. I really respected the job. He was a very tough competitor and I said that last night. I was surprised that he left actually. There was no path in my opinion. But I was very -- I still thought he was going to the end. I just heard that he was going to the end, and then an hour before I got rumors that he was going to leave the race so I was a little surprised.
>> Is that why you waited longer to come out on stage? We were watching at our house. I have to get ready for bed, but when he comes out, I told my husband, let me know and I'm coming out to the living room to watch.
>> I actually did. I wanted to see what he was going to say because of these rumors going around. You know, if he were, I obviously would have made a bunch of different speeches than if he were in.
>> Were you shocked he dropped out?
>> Yeah, I was surprised. I know Ted, but he did the right thing for himself and for the family and for the party. I think he did a great thing. You know, now we'll unify the party. We're going to get people together. I don't necessarily want everybody if you want to know the truth, I think I'm different as a candidate than most. But you know when things are said by certain people it's unnecessary -- it wouldn't make any difference.

[7:37:02 AM]

I think we'll beat Hillary Clinton. She's horrible on the economy, horrible on jobs. She is really horrible on the military. Look what she's done with the military and her decisions were terrible. You know what, Bernie Sanders says she suffers from poor judgment. I think I may be using that line a little bit over the next number of months.
>> Well, she can't focus on you because Bernie Sanders won last night and is about to win west Virginia and so he's not going away if you listen to him. I know you have your other challenges straight ahead, for example, setting up a nationwide fund-raising apparatus because you did loan your money -- loan money to your campaign.
>> Yeah.
>> To get the nomination. But is it true, Donald Trump, that you will look to raise funds for the general?
>> I think it's most likely that I will because, you know, you're talking about a billion dollars or a billion and a half dollars.
>> Well, you've got it.
>> I do have it. Well, all I have to do is sell a building. But I think that probably I'm looking -- I'm not looking for myself, I'm looking for the party. Where the party, you know, is going to receive a lot of money. So the party can compete. Including its senate races, including its congressional races. And, you know, I think that's a very big part of it. That's a big part of what I want to do. I want to raise a lot of money for the party itself.
>> You're hiring and how -- what are you looking for?
>> Looking for in what?
>> What are you looking -- you said you're hiring people. In terms of staffing, what type of people are you looking for?
>> Oh, yeah, we'll have great -- we already have a great staff. I mean, I have a great group of people. I have a terrific staff and now obviously we have to build it up, because we'll be going all over the country. We'll be working in areas that would have been different. Some of the areas that we were going, I'm going to west Virginia, I'm going and we're going to put the miners back to work by the way. The coal miners and the miners of West Virginia and Pennsylvania and Ohio and all of these places where it's just been -- they have been devastated as an industry, they're going to be put back to work, and they're going to love their jobs again. You know, they have tremendous spirit, the miners.

[7:39:03 AM]

I have seen it over the years, they have unbelievable spirit and they'll be happy with Donald Trump.
>> So you want to focus on clean coal rather than no coal?
>> I want clean coal. We'll have clean coal and plenty of it. We send coal -- well, first of all T coal industry is being decimated and many great people are out of work and they can't get back into work. Hillary Clinton as you know, she says she wants to put the coal miners out of business never to work again. I don't know how she can go to West Virginia. I mean -- that must have been uncomfortable.
>> She said --
>> We'll put them back to work.
>> She said that in March that she was going to put the whole coal industry out of business. Well, then she goes to west Virginia and she sits down with the group of individuals and one of the guys there said I was a coal miner, I lost my job. How can you tell -- how can you say you're for the American people when you're taking jobs away and you want to shut down my industry? I think we have a sound bite of that. Do we have a sound bite? Let's listen to this and get your reaction.
>> When you make comments like we're going to put a lot of coal miners out of jobs, these are the kind of people that you're affecting. This is my family.
>> I don't know how to explain it other than what I said was totally out of context from what I meant because I have been talking about helping coal country for a very long time. It was a misstatement because what I was saying is that the way things are going now, we will continue to lose jobs.
>> Yeah, now that's she's in West Virginia she was misstating things earlier.
>> That wasn't misstatement. It's all political talk. I thought I knew a lot about politicians, I have never seen anything the way three keep talking and Hillary Clinton made a statement. It was a horrible statement. I watched it live actually. I said, wow. That is a horrible statement for the coal industry and for the miners. More importantly. And let me just tell you, we are going to put the miners back to work. And in China, they take our coal and they burn the coal. They don't clean the coal, by the way. We'll have great, clean coal. We'll have an amazing mining business.

[7:41:07 AM]

Around you know, I have know -- and you know I have noticed over the years, I have known many miners over the years. They have tremendous spirit. The spirit they have, they love their industry. They love getting into the mines. I don't know if I'd love to do it. I don't think you guys would like it, but they love it.
>> I think you gave us a preview of what you'll say in west Virginia later on. Let me ask you about this. You were talking about politicians. A lot of Republican politicians, senators and congressmen and governors are going, well if Donald Trump is at the top of the ticket, we're all dead. What's your message to them?
>> Well, you know, we just got the Rasmussen poll come out yesterday and it shows that I'm leading Hillary Clinton 41 to 39, and I think I'm going to do very well. I'll just have to remember the people that frankly are, you know, they don't have that -- whatever it is. You know, honestly I think we'll win. I think she's horrible on the economy. She's horrible on jobs. She is terrible on the military.
>> Right.
>> I think we're going to win. I think we're going to beat Hillary. Remember what she said about the vets. The vets are being taken care of beautifully and then two weeks later she retracts --
>> You're telling the Republicans, the senators and the congressmen, fall in line. Because the trump train is going to win?
>> We're going to win. We're going to win and we have tremendous support. And people have been calling -- I actually told Brian and I told you, Steve, over the last couple of weeks I'm getting calls from people that have said such terrible things about me and now they want to join. Yesterday, I got one from somebody that was on your show and other shows and -- it was unbelievable how who are my -- now he calls, don, I want to join your team, is that okay? I actually asked him, how do you that? How do you pivot? But, you know, they're all wanting to join. We'll see what happens.
>> Can you give us name because Bobby Jindal said listen, he was an opponent of mine, but I'll support him.
>> That was very nice. He came a long way back. Everybody is.
>> Right. Do you see Marco Rubio, is he one of the people who reached out to you?
>> Well, he's been very nice. I will say I have had a conversation with him.

[7:43:08 AM]

He's been terrific and he's a talented young guy and he's got a great future in my opinion.
>> Are you considering him for vp?
>> Well, I'm considering a lot of people, to be honest. I'll let you guys know. But I'm considering a lot of people. We want to have great at every level, whether it's vp or anything else.
>> Have you spoken to Ted Cruz since he dropped out?
>> I have not.
>> Are you going to try to call him?
>> I might. I mean, look, I respect Ted a lot and again, he was a very, very tough competitor. He was in there really pitching right up until the end. Maybe that's why I'm surprised he dropped out, but he did the right thing for himself and the party. It was a great decision.
>> I'm fascinated by the women in your life. I'd love to sit down with them. Hopefully you can convince them to talk to me.
>> That would be a great

Lauren Hendricks