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With Birther Issue Resolved, Trump to Set Sights on China and Taxes – HUMAN EVENTS

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  April 27th, 2011 at 04:50 PM  | 

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My colleague Tony Lee has the latest on Donald Trump.

Trump isn’t going to let China go.

Potential 2012 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump essentially forced President Obama to release his long form birth certificate today.

With that issue resolved, Trump is likely to focus his sights on policy, such as on China and taxes.

Yesterday, Trump signed Grover Norquist’s Americans For Tax Reform’s “no new taxes” pledge, but not before adding a twist befitting Trump.

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  • housewindsor

    that his clothing line is apparently made in China. Ugh, I feel sick.

  • aesthete

    China is China’s worst enemy, not ours: its policies and tyranny are tying up the growth of the largest country in the world, and keeping China a third-world country with a handful of first-world cities, instead of a first-world country. Cutting off trade with China does nothing for us, will hurt our economy, and will destabilize a country whose stability is a net plus for our interests in the region. Trump is a frakking idiot for not seeing that from an economic standpoint, we are our worst enemy, not other countries.

  • speaksoftly124

    I’m no fan of trump. The birther issue was resolved long before he brought it back up, and appears, to me at least, to be just a cynical attempt to boost his own ego and court the fringe people who buy into those conspiracy theories.

    Now, onto his pledge, his edit doesn’t make any sense. You can’t tax a foreign country. You can tax imports from that country, but that is an economic no-no, or you can tax companies that send jobs overseas, but weren’t the democrats proposing the same thing? sounds like a potentially good idea, but I haven’t really looked into it.

    Anyway, my point is that it makes no sense and he is a huge windbag.

  • jamestroy

    This latest birth certificate is proven to be yet another fraudulent document by the white house and Obama. So how is this issue resolved???

    h ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xNKLsGeLEw

    h ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pt7oi2qfxlY

    ?’Comment on Smoking Gun ‘Submitted by Ohiowordguy on Wed, 2011-04-27 14:22.
    I noticed the possible “layers” in this document almost immediately. When I had the .pdf file of the BC open in my browser then used Command + Tab (on an Apple computer), to switch to another app, I noticed that the majority of the text disappeared. I recreated the effect numerous times. As others have suggested, when you open the BC in Acrobat (full version) and strip out the “Metadata” and “Deleted or cropped content” this SAME EXACT TEXT disappears leaving only a few bits of type, date stamps and all or part of three signatures: his mother, the attendant and the local registrar. Also, some of the digits used in the Aug. 8, 1961 date stamp disappear. The full background and the April 25, 2011 stamp remain. I am making no “birther” claims, but CLEARLY this document has been altered. If it had been photographed or scanned, the pixels containing all the information (the document background, the type, the signatures, date stamps and the check marks) would be part of ONE pixelated image. As someone who uses Photoshop/Adobe Creative Suite daily, it is my belief that had the BC been scanned or photographed, the layering would not happen. Again, I am making NO “birther” claims or conclusions. But I believe this document has been altered.”

  • http://slcliberty.blogivists.com randy streu

    Go here. Learn.

    http://www.redstate.com/erick/2011/04/27/barack-obama-to-release-his-long-form-birth-certificate/#comment-107244

  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    I’ve been… cleared.

  • Menlo

    The Senate has for at least a decade been almost unanimously pro-China, while the House has always had a pro-China majority. I’d be interested in hearing exactly how he proposes anything be changed given the lack of support from either party in either house of Congress. I think most people realize that he’s putting on a show (which he can do) and would not lift a finger to cut Chinese imports.

    Like I said before, if he were serious, he would run for the Senate. There might even be a state where he would be electable.

  • Return to Revolution

    Trump is going to get tough with China for freeloading and taking advantage. I should’ve known, if only it weren’t for China, we’d be fiscally responsible and wouldn’t have a spending problem. Since he’s going to be so tough, I’m sure he will really crack down on entitlements and the worst of the spending.

    Thank you Mr Trump, if I ever get in trouble with a loan shark, I’ll just get tough on him and tell him to stop freeloading.
    What a moron.

  • tankertodd

    I’m pretty sure that’s what he said. Of course to do that you have to be ready for China to use our debt as a weapon. China may have already bought us. But curtailing trade with China certainly would bolster American-made goods.
    I’m a free trader but the Chinese don’t practice free trade. Over time the US dollars in China are supposed to flow back to us because holding them is less advantageous then spending them, given a currency valuation based on free trade. But China manipulates its currency. Of course we manipulate ours.
    All in all, I like that he’s addressing the subject. This could be Trump’s differentiator, or a xenophobic play.

  • http://xmmlbchat.blogspot.com katesmith

    Taqiyya Grover Norquist turns up in quite a few articles these days. He’s not interested in saving this country, only in getting publicity for himself. He says we can’t stop ethanol subsidies (which are killing people) because it would be a tax increase. Then his buddy Coburn says Norquist is “chief cleric of sharia tax law.” Not saying Coburn is the final arbiter of the world, but this isn’t something to be joked about. I understand I am the cavalry and all, but I thought it was worth mentioning.

  • http://xmmlbchat.blogspot.com katesmith

    “Coburn charges that the tax pledge, as interpreted by Norquist, is inflexible, and Coburn’s spokesman now labels Norquist the “chief cleric of sharia tax law.”"…4/15/11

  • Menlo

    Last I checked, Presidents do not enact tariffs. That’s why I explained about the record of the house and senate, and that’s why I said Trump would run for the Senate if he really meant it.

    Does he have some trick up his sleeve to change a consistent ten-year legislative record of significant majorities of both parties? I think not.

  • ohiohistorian

    Remember how McCain was the media and liberal darling of 2008, and how he got all the press time? How all the Republicans were deprived of any oxygen until the nomination? And then, all the liberals (even General Colin Powell, who called him something like the perfect Republican candidate) came out in favor of Obama?

    The only question in my mind has been whether this same “darling” would be Trump, or Bloomberg, or maybe even both. Well, it is headed that way again.

    Republicans need to stand up a decent candidate who can win. Sorry, libertarians, DR. Ron Paul cannot win. He is abrasive, he is petty, and he is isolationist. None of which endear him to voters. So we need to clear the field of the usual (Huckabump included) and find a candidate. Don’t know if it will be Pawlenty or someone like him, but we don’t need Trump, DR. Ron Paul, or any of the usual suspects.

  • ohiohistorian

    Should have said Huckabump AND Romney

  • johna650

    After 3 years of refusing to release the most basic details of his career prior to assuming the Presidency Hussein blinked and released his purported long form birth certificate. The birth certificate merely confirms he was born to a teen age mother and a Kenyan national and that alone may be grounds for his being ineligible for the Presidency. Now, Hussein will be fully vetted. The public and the responsible media will demand and will eventually obtain such documents as the passport on which he traveled to Pakistan and his applications to Columbia and Harvard. So much to yet explain, Mr.President.
    It was Donald Trump who demanded and was obeyed. Trump accomplished what the states, the congress, the media, the courts could not accomplish. This is the forceful 21st Century leader that will put the socialists back in their cave, and the man who will bring jobs back to the USA, who will quickly tame OPEC and will get us reimbursed for the 1.5 trillion we have spent in Iraq. The day he is elected the price of gas will drop by 50%. The American slide to 2nd class status will be halted. Trump will not eviscerate Medicare. He will not destroy the social safety net built over the past 60 years, and he will not destroy organized labor. Instead, he will solve our financial problems with his powerful Will and bring unbelievable prosperity to all Americans. He will become our Churchill. Trump is a Giant! You Lilliputians had better stand back.

  • http://slcliberty.blogivists.com randy streu

    I can see you aren’t long for RedState.

  • Marcus_Traianus

    Trump may be an idiot, but at least he has a pair of stones. I suspect that is why he is polling so high.

    I would never support Trump for any public office and he could never win POTUS. Never. In fact he would destroy our chances to beat Obama. But wimpy guys like Romney, Gingrich and Pawlenty should take notice.

    People want Obama to be challenged. They want his opponent to be a bulldog who talks tough, means what he says, has principles, sticks to them no matter what and addresses the contemptible liberal press with the demeaning, biting intellectual disdain they deserve.

    No self respecting conservative can stomach mealy-mouthed, weak, ineffectual, back-door politicians and manipulative crybabies like Boehner, Cantor and McConnell. Frankly, they make me want to wretch. In fact I submit they are models of what failure looks like.

    Ditto the initial dithering, positioning and make-up the current crop of potential Republican nominees is putting on.

    A real man is guided by principle and thus never needs a script. He is ready for a fight (metaphorically or otherwise) at the hint of an insult against his honor. He is ready to stand his ground and never surrender principle. He is not afraid to buck the “status quo” or popular conventions in the name of common sense and righteous cause. He will never retreat from a fight and die for the cause.

    Find me that person and we have our nominee. Right now, he/she isn’t on the radar.

  • ohiohistorian

    She seems to fit your description. She may be the sole national Republican with “stones” right now; The Donald is a poseur as a Republican. Just like Bloomberg, Giuliani, and Romney, they see the world as needing more government involvement, not less, The rest (may Rand Paul excepted) seem to be playing “get along”. Even Ryan’s budget still sticks us with $6trillion MORE debt.

  • Marcus_Traianus

    I think Ms. Palin is doing a great, effective job where she is right now. In fact, I don’t think anyone else can fill that void- fighting from outside the establishment.

    I won’t insult her by saying she has stones. But, OK, I just said it. Our current crop of potential nominees should be wearing dresses.

    Upon her entrance into the race, and therefore absence from that role- who fills it? Nobody in my opinion. Now you have a national anti-establishment movement independent of party mechanisms without a leader. Does it fall apart? Does it have the same effective nature and influence on key officials? I doubt it.

  • snowshooze

    Doing it well, and I agree with Marcus.
    She would have to be nuts to want to go back into the blender, wind up making less money, taking on a million headaches and throwing her personal life back on the chopping block.
    I hope she sticks with it.