Subject: FW: TrackerBASE Report: Donald Trump at CPAC (02-11-2011) 2/11/2011
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Subject: TrackerBASE Report: Donald Trump at CPAC (02-11-2011) 2/11/2011

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TO:  PRES Tracking

FROM: Bill Chan

Location: Washington, D.C.

Date:  05-09-2016

RE: Donald Trump at CPAC (02-11-2011)

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Event Details: Donald Trump surprise appearance at CPAC in Washington, D.C. on February 11, 2011.

Attendees/Audience: CPAC attendees

Press: Livestream captured via C-SPAN2

Summary of Event: Trump talks about potentially running for president in 2012. Talks a bunch about wars, and how he’s won wars. Talks about China, OPEC, Somali pirates. Trump says Ron Paul can never be president.

Key Points:

00:30 someone in the audience says “You’re hired” Trump says the same thing back.

00:40 Let me being by thanking CPAC, it’s a wonderful forum and an honor to be here. While I’m not at this time a candidate for presidency, but I will decide by June. Reason I’m thinking about it is the US has become a whipping post, other countries are not treating us properly. America is missing leadership and foreign countries are realizing this. This is why America is becoming a laughing stock. I’ve said on numerous occasions, S. Korea, China, OPEC nations, etc view our nation as weak and have repeatedly taken advantage to the tune of $100s of billions a year.

02:24 Over the years I’ve participated in many battles. I nearly come out victorious every single time. I’ve beaten many companies and people, I’ve won many wars. I have fairly but intelligently won many billion dollars, which is both a scorecard and acknowledgement of my abilities. Little different than what you’ve been hearing. During my lifetime, I’ve always been told a person of great accomplishment can’t run for office because they have too many enemies, smart and not so smart, strewn across the highways to success. People who have been in wars…life is pleasant but it can be war. People who have been in wars even though successful, leave themselves open to great criticism from many they beat and those who watched the battles. This person who is successful and runs for office is rarely tested because most successful people don’t want to be scrutinized or abused. That’s why we don’t have the people we should have running for office. But this is the kind of person we need now.

04:18 Our current president came out of no where. The people that went to school with him didn’t know him, never saw him. With no track record, there’s nothing to criticize. He’s a wonderful guy, nice man, but nothing to criticize. He didn’t go to war, he didn’t battle with anyone, no one knew who he was. Business Week Magazine said, in a vote of it’s readers, Trump was the world’s most competitive business person w Bill Gates #2, Warren Buffet #3. We don’t have free trade. We don’t have fair trade. I’m a fair trade believer. I love open markets. But not when China is manipulating their currency. I can tell you I’m a big buyer of products. So many of those products unfortunately come from China. We’re rebuilding China. They are building the greatest airports. Doing it because we buy so much of their products. We buy because their currency is so low. Makes it almost impossible for our countries to compete. We make a better product.

07:03 Considering the condition the US is in, we need a competitive, highly competent person or we’ll be in serious trouble very quickly. I’ve said on numerous occasions, we should watch China and OPEC, they are truly ripping us. $4.50 for gas, it’s going to go much higher folks. We have no one who calls OPEC, and say, “That price better get lower and fast.” We have no one that does that. They have free reign, there was a small leak in Alaska, lasted like half a day, OPEC announces the prices go up. Any time there is a little problem they announce that, no one says anything. You have to watch OPEC. Tell them the prices are coming down. We won’t be paying $7, $8, $9, which in a few years you will be paying. Germany is buying the NYSE. A major company in Germany is buying the NYSE. Somali pirates, give me one good admiral and a couple ships, we’d blast them out of the water so fast.

09:50 I have a reputation for telling it like it is. I’ve had a lot of great victories. I may be willing to put that to work. I wish there was a candidate that I loved. Ron Paul can not get elected by the way. Sorry. I like Ron Paul, I think he’s a good guy. He just has zero chance of getting elected, you have to win an election. I can tell you this, if I run, and if I win, this country will be respected again. I graduated from Wharton as well as military school. Academic background has shaped my relationships, tactics and strategies…I’m well acquainted, also well acquainted with winning, that’s what this country needs.

12:15 I’m pro-life. I’m against gun control. And I will fight to end Obamacare and replace it. Replace it with something that makes sense for people with businesses and not bankrupt the country. If I decide to run I will not be raising taxes, will take in hundreds of millions from countries that are screwing us, will be creating vast numbers of productive jobs, and will rebuild our country so that we can be proud. Our country will be great again.

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