Subject: FW: TrackerBASE Report: Donald Trump Interview with Wolf Blitzer 1/1/2007
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Subject: TrackerBASE Report: Donald Trump Interview with Wolf Blitzer 1/1/2007

TO:  Powerhouse

FROM: Daniel Schiller

Location: CNN/Real Clear Politics

Date:  2007

RE: Donald Trump interview with Wolf Blitzer 2007

Event Details:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/09/11/donald_trump_in_2007_iraq_war_based_on_lies_country_will_explode_the_day_we_pull_out.html

Attendees/Audience: CNN viewers.

Summary of Event: Donald Trump appeared with Wolf Blitzer to discuss the war in Iraq and various issues surrounding the Bush administration in 2007. Trump blames Bush, Donald Rumsfeld and other advisors for missteps in Iraq, calling them “a disaster,”, advocates pulling out of Iraq, and states that “everything in Washington has been a lie.”

Key Points:

0:02 Wolf: Give us your view, is there a way out?  DT: The war is a catastrophe, nothing less. Such a shame this took place; gained a lot of respect for Bush I because he had sense not to keep going in Iraq. Like or dislike Hussein, he hated terrorists, shot and killed terrorists and now it’s a breeding ground for terrorists.

Wolf: Who do you blame?  DT: Our current president. Obviously Rumsfeld was a disaster; Rice a lovely woman but she never makes a deal; she gets off the plane and waves and gets back on, no deal ever happens.

Wolf: Cheney?   DT: Very hawkish guy; just said war was going fantastic a few months ago; it’s very sad. I don’t know if they’re bad people or what but they got us into a mess; one of the great catastrophes. People around the world hate us, the Europeans hate us. Germany, England, places we didn’t have problems all hate the Americans. We had a chance to be the most popular nation in the world after 9/11 and we blew it. We had sympathy and love and we blew it.

2:18  Wolf: How does US get out of this?  DT: Get out, that’s how you get out. Declare victory and leave. Their in a civil war over there, nothing we can do; it’ll go to Iran and other countries. The day we leave anyway it’s all gonna blow up. Saddam will a nice person compared to the man that takes over, and it will be a man not a woman.Get out now because you’re just wasting time and lives. No one talks about vets coming back with missing limbs. I let the returning vets come to the premises in Mar a Lago on Mondays and you see the tears coming down their faces. This war is a horrible thing. Bush says he’s religious but 400K have died, millions maimed and injured, what’s going on? The day we pull out it’ll explode.

4:31 Wolf: What do you think of these scandals unfolding in Washington- attorney general Gonzales etc.?  DT: “Everything in Washington has been a lie.” WMDs was a total lie; a way to attack Iraq which he thought would be easy and it was the opposite. He reads 60 books a year? Do you think the president reads a book a week? I don’t think so. He doesn’t watch television; does anybody believe that? Whole scandal with US attorneys and they’re finding emails; it’s proving to be a lie. It’s all a big lie.

Digitized Video File Label:  070101_DHS_229

Clip Labels:  070101_DHS_229_A