Subject: FW: TrackerBASE Report: PRES Donald Trump- Family Leadership Summit 2013 8/10/2013
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Subject: TrackerBASE Report: PRES Donald Trump- Family Leadership Summit 2013 8/10/2013

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FROM: Colin J Smith

Location: Ames, IA

Date: 8/10/13

RE: [OLD] Donald Trump- Family Leadership Summit- 2013-08-10
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Event Details:  http://www.c-span.org/video/?314514-3/donald-trump-remarks

Attendees/Audience: Trump, Bob Vanderplaats, and thousands of attendees

Press: C-Span

Summary of Event: Trump spoke at the Family Leadership Summit in ‘13 and gave a what would become his standard rambling rally speech. He highlighted his conservatism stating he was against abortion and against same sex marriage. He hit on the economic isolationism he always talks about.

Key Points: Clip A:

0:00 Thank you, it’s my honor, Bob Vanderplaats has been a long term friend of me. (Shows picture of his confirmation) That’s my real hair and that’s my real hair. It’s an honor to be here, I like IA because Iowans are hard workers, something we need more of. We need people who work and leadership that’s smart. We’re a free trade country, but it’s not really free trade due to currency manipulation by countries like China. Free trade is really bad for us when our leadership isn’t good. A few years ago the word trillion didn’t even exist, but now we’ve got $17T in debt. I have made a lot of money on the stock market because it’s a false economy, they’re just giving away money. They say the unemployment rate is 7.4% but it’s closer to 15%. People stop looking for work and that’s why the unemployment rate goes down. Our country is in serious trouble, we have problems like never before. We have jobs disappearing. The GOP is in trouble, we have upcoming elections we have to win, we need to defeat ACA. When I see all the GOP senators so opposed to ACA like Senator Cruz, you have to give them credit.

5:00 We have tremendous potential, need to solve some issues. I was listening to Bob, he’s right you need border security. People come and stay, when you come legally on a green card they go when their time is up. You either have a country or you don’t. It starts with border security. You can’t continue to do what we’re doing now. In immigration you have to do the right thing, it’s got to be done in a smart and methodical method. I hear about 11 million illegal immigrants, could be ore, everyone of those people if they are allowed to vote will vote Dem. Whether Rubio leads the fight or not, they’ll be voting Dem. They love this issue, do what’s right but be careful because it could be death for the GOP. Immigration is complicated, so many levels of fairness and unfairness. When you look at what’s going on with entitlements, GOP wants to do something, the way you solve Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security is to develop a strong economy and nation. China is taking our jobs, among other nations. You have to do something properly, when it comes to the economy, if we could rev it up. We could take back our jobs, saying China’s not going to manipulate currency. They do it better than anyone, we have better products, I’m building all over the world. My Post Office project in DC will put people to work, help them with child care.

10:00 When was the last time you saw bridges being built, it doesn’t happen here, but it’s going on in China. When I speak of China, they want anything Trump and I knock the hell out of them, they respect it. President of China comes over and we honor him at a state dinner. I’d buy him a McDonald’s and tell him if he’s not going to fix this stuff he can just go home. We’re losing jobs by the millions, we don’t manufacture anymore. They take the secrets, the plans for our products and build over there. Why aren’t we doing this? Why aren’t we taxing them to make their products more expensive? It would never go into effect because they’d stop manipulating the currency. Every time N Korea acts up, S Korea asks us for protection. I have many friends in S Korea, they can’t believe they get free protection. We send our military over there, what do we get out of it? I bought thousands of TVs from Korea, they don’t really build them here. It’s wonderful to protect S Korea, but they should pay us. Even conservative politicians, I’m friendly with all politicians, I hear these people asking how I say these things? They say that’s what the mafia says, we want money for protection. I say give me a break, so we spend billions on protecting other countries and we get nothing.

15:00 S Korea is making a fortune, they’re the ones making the big tankers and transport ships. Mexico will be our biggest, importing half our stuff from Mexico. There’s some places where the whole factory goes to Mexico and they get a subsidy from us. There’s such a lack of intelligence. It’s either dishonesty or stupidity, probably a combination of both. Look at places like N Dakota, technology has shown we’re rich again, but we can’t get it because of environmentalists. I do well with them, I get environmental awards. We can’t take this wealth out of the ground that would take care of entitlements. When I considered running, I got great poll numbers. Nothing changes, people agree with me but nothing changes. When I was thinking of running, I have a slogan “Make America Great Again.” China will soon become the economic power of the world in 2016. It’s interesting because I like Mitt Romney, but I don’t get what happened with his campaign, it was an unloseable election. It’s hard for me to run for office because I have so many things, I have my kids, when you’re a politician you only have gain from running. When I backed Romney, he was thankful, and they wanted me to do campaigns in other states, I did some great robocalls. “If you’re listening, would you please back Mitt Romney.”

20:00 Every state they asked me to go to they won in the primaries, but when it came to the general I think they thought I was too controversial. I didn’t need to go to FL to talk about Romney, I’m used to talking about myself. It’s hard for me to build up someone else. The first debate looked good but it went downhill. The worst part of Benghazi is that there was no retribution and I hear we know who the people were. These wonderful rebels like “Gone with the Wind.” the way they killed him was beyond brutal. We don’t have retribution. That’s unacceptable. So Mitt ran, something happened, Benghazi was brought up and Mitt said Obama was handling it well. Rove spent $400M on ads and didn’t win an election and they were terrible ads, I should know. Do you remember the ad of Obama speaking in Germany and they said we don’t want a rockstar as president, I thought Obama made that ad, you made it. We do want a rockstar as president, we want someone who’s great. Hundreds of millions thrown out the window like nothing. The GOP needs to get smart. I’m a very conservative Republican, I’m pro-life, traditional marriage, and second amendment 100%. They want to take away guns, but they’re not going to be taken from the bad guys. I have smart friends who disagree with me, I don’t understand them, how can they disagree?

25:00 The lives wasted in Iraq on both sides, $1.5B, while our bridges are falling down. The Chinese are building the Bay Bridge in CA. You go to our major airports, other countries have great airports, you come home and it’s broken down and disgusting. What are we doing? We’ve made other countries rich. We rebuilt China. Take our best airport, it’s not as good as their worst airport. I love Apple, but it’s all made in China. The new guy at Apple apologizes to the Chinese. When you look at our leadership, the lack of intelligence and coherence. The GOP will have a tough election, Hillary will probably be the nominee and it will be a tougher race than the last one. Someone will have to emerge who’s smart and tough. The GOP have to do what’s right, if they don’t pick the right person, the perfect person, they’re going to get drugged in the next election. This country has to be brought back from the edge, before it’s too late. The GOP needs to be tough, smart, and fast. We have a country that has to be brought back through great leadership, if we don’t pick the right person we might be in permanent trouble.

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