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[h=2]He's lovin' it! Trump celebrates clinching the Republican nomination with McDonald's takeout on his private jet as he mocks Clinton for not being able to 'close the deal' [/h]

Donald Trump on Thursday reached the number of delegates needed to clinch the Republican nomination for president after a handful of 'unbound' delegates pledged their support. He celebrated at a campaign stop in Bismarck, North Dakota - and crowed that Hillary Clinton could not 'close the deal' in the same way. He needed 1,237 to secure the nomination at the convention in Cleveland - and today Fargo, N.D., small business owner John Trandem declared his support and that made Trump the winner. Clinton is still fighting Bernie Sanders for the Democratic nomination but Trump has no Republican opponents.

 

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[h=1]He's lovin' it! Trump celebrates clinching the Republican nomination with McDonald's takeout on his private jet as he mocks Clinton for not being able to 'close the deal'[/h]

• Donald Trump now has 1,238 delegates in the latest Associated Press tally of primary results and the intentions of the other party delegates
• He needed 1,237 to secure nomination - and will get more in the next Super Tuesday election, on 7 June, when 303 delegates are in play
• Cleveland convention will now be a coronation for Trump with just one ballot confirming his status as candidate
• Trump was put into majority status by 'unbound delegates'
• One told Associated Press: 'He has touched a part of our electorate that doesn't like where our country is.'

By DAVID MARTOSKO, US POLITICAL EDITOR FOR DAILYMAIL.COM IN BISMARCK, N.D. and ASSOCIATED PRESS
PUBLISHED: 15:20, 26 May 2016 | UPDATED: 23:42, 26 May 2016





Donald Trump on Thursday reached the number of delegates needed to clinch the Republican nomination for president, completing an unlikely rise that has upended the political landscape and sets the stage for a bitter fall campaign.
And he celebrated with McDonald's takeout and Diet Coke on his private plane - after a swipe at his rival Hillary Clinton for being unable to secure the Democratic nomination.
During a press conference Thursday in North Dakota, Trump said he was 'honored' by the help he received from a handful of local delegates who gave him a majority.
'I'm so honored by these people! They had such great sense!' Trump beamed.
He fielded questions from reporters in front of a group of 20 state lawmakers, most of whom will be delegates to the Republican National Convention.
'The folks behind me got us right over the top,' he said.
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He's done it: Trump captioned the picture of himself eating McDonald's on his plane 'celebrating 1237' - the number of delegates he now has supporting him at the Cleveland convention

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On his way: Donald Trump, who campaigned in North Dakota after the Associated Press found he had enough delegates to clinch the official nomination

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Man who got him there: John Trandem a small business owner from North Dakota, was the 1,237th delegate to pledge his support for Donald Trump - tipping ihm into a majority

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Speaking: 'Here I am watching Hillary fight, and she can't close the deal,' Donald Trump said. 'We've had tremendous support from almost everybody.'

One, John Trandem, said he was Trump's 1,238th pledged delegate – the one who put him over the top and cemented the presidential nomination.
Ben Koppelman, a state senator standing behind him, joked that he and Trandem were on the phone accepting their slots in the GOP convention delegation at the same time, so he might have been the clincher
Trump shook hands with Trandem - after crowing that Clinton can't do the same.
'Here I am watching Hillary fight, and she can't close the deal,' he told reporters. 'We've had tremendous support from almost everybody.'
Trump was in Bismarck to deliver a rally speech at the Bismarck Event Center on the sidelines of the Williston Basin Petroleum Conference, an annual convention of oil and gas magnates.
The Associated Press spoke with Oklahoma GOP chairwoman Pam Pollard, another of the final few delegates who clinched the primary contest for the billionaire real estate executive.
'I think he has touched a part of our electorate that doesn't like where our country is,' Pollard said. 'I have no problem supporting Mr. Trump.'

It takes 1,237 delegates to win the Republican nomination for president. Trump has reached 1,238. With 303 delegates at stake in five state primaries on June 7, Trump will easily pad his total, avoiding a contested convention in Cleveland in July.



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Is she ready? Hillary Clinton has still to knock Bernie Sanders out of the Democratic race, prompting her to be mocked by a triumphant Donald Trump


.Trump, a political neophyte who for years delivered caustic commentary on the state of the nation from the sidelines but had never run for office, fought off 16 other Republican contenders in an often ugly primary race.Many on the right have been slow to warm to Trump, wary of his conservative bona fides. Others worry about Trump's crass personality and the lewd comments he's made about women.
But millions of grassroots activists, many who have been outsiders to the political process, have embraced Trump as a plain-speaking populist who is not afraid to offend.
Steve House, chairman of the Colorado Republican Party and an unbound delegate who confirmed his support of Trump to AP, said he likes the billionaire's background as a businessman.
'Leadership is leadership,' House said. 'If he can surround himself with the political talent, I think he will be fine.'
Others who confirmed their decision to back Trump were more tepid, saying they are supporting him out of a sense of obligation because he won their state's primary.
Cameron Linton of Pittsburgh said he will back Trump on the first ballot since he won the presidential primary vote in Linton's congressional district..


'If there's a second ballot I won't vote for Donald Trump,' Linton said. 'He's ridiculous. There's no other way to say it.'
The delegate who gave Trump his majority was John Trandem , of Fargo, North Dakota.
He wanted to be the delegate who would put Donald Trump over the top, giving him enough delegates to clinch the Republican presidential nomination.
But when he was contacted by an Associated Press reporter, the AP delegate count stood at 1,235 - two delegates short.
'I'm happy to be No. 1,237,' said Trandem, a small business owner from North Dakota. 'But I won't commit until you're at 1,236.'
Trandem handed the phone to another delegate, Dakota state Rep. Ben Koppleman, who was riding with him.
After Koppleman confirmed he was committed to Trump, Trandem took the phone back.
'Are you at 1,236?' he asked. Yes, he was told. 'Then I'm the one!'
Trump's path to the Republican presidential nomination began with an escalator ride.
Trump and his wife, Melania, descended an escalator into the basement lobby of the Trump Tower on June 16, 2015, for an announcement many observers said would never come: The celebrity real estate developer, who had flirted with running for office in the past, would announce that he was launching his campaign for the GOP presidential nomination.
That speech set the tone for the candidate's ability to dominate the headlines with provocative statements, insults and hyperbole. He called Mexicans 'rapists,' promised to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico and ban Muslims from the U.S. for an indeterminate time.
He put down women based on their looks. And he unleashed an uncanny marketing ability in which he deduced his critics' weak points and distilled those to nicknames that stuck.
'Little Marco' Rubio, 'Weak' Jeb Bush and 'Lyin' Ted' Cruz, among others, all were forced into primarily reacting to Trump. They fell one-by-one — leaving Trump sole survivor of a riotous Republican primary.


.His rallies became must-see events and magnets for free publicity. Onstage, he dispensed populism that drew thousands of supporters, many wearing his trademark 'Make America Great Again' hat and chanting, 'Build the wall!'
The events drew protests too - with demonstrators sometimes being forcibly ejected from the proceedings. One rally in Chicago was cancelled after thousands of demonstrators surrounded the venue and the Secret Service could no longer vouch for the candidate's safety.
When voting started, Trump was not so fast out of the gate.
He lost the Iowa caucuses in February, falling behind Cruz and barely edging Rubio for second. He recovered in New Hampshire.
From there he and Cruz fiercely engaged, with Trump winning some and losing some but one way or another dominating the rest of the primary season - in votes or at least in attention - and ultimately in delegates.
All the while, Republican leaders declared themselves appalled by Trump's rise. Conservatives called the onetime Democrat a fraud.
But they failed, ultimately, to block him. Republican leaders slowly, warily, began meeting with Trump and his staff. And he began winning endorsements from a few members of Congress.
As with other aspects of his campaign, Trump upended the traditional role of money in the race.
He incurred relatively low campaign costs — just $57 million through the end of April. He covered most of it with at least $43 million of his own money loaned to the campaign.
He spent less than $21 million on paid television and radio commercials. That's about one-quarter of what Jeb Bush and his allies spent on TV.
Bush dropped out of the race three months ago, after disappointing results in South Carolina.
Trump, 69, the son of a New York City real estate magnate, had risen to fame in the 1980s and 1990s, overseeing major real estate deals, watching his financial fortunes rise, then fall, hosting 'The Apprentice' TV show and authoring more than a dozen books.


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[h=2]'She's got a big mouth': Trump goes after Elizabeth Warren after he clinches GOP nomination and calls her 'Pocahontas' as Native American reporter complains [/h] NEW 'Who, Pocahontas?' he mocked when a reporter mentioned Warren's attacks on him, referring to her self-description as Native American based on a claim of 1/32 Cherokee heritage. After a Native American blogger shouted that he was being 'very offensive,' Trump said he was 'sorry about that' - and immediately called her 'Pocahontas' again. Trump clobbered Warren, rumored to be among Hillary Clinton's possible VP picks, as a do-nothing senator: 'She's a woman that's been very ineffective - other than she's got a big mouth.'

 

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[h=6]- MAY 26, 2016 -[/h][h=1]DONALD TRUMP HAS OFFICIALLY CLINCHED THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATION, PER AP. HERE’S HOW.[/h]The Washington Post
On Thursday morning, the AP announced that, per its calculations, Trump had clinched the nomination. "Trump was put over the top in the Associated Press delegate count by a small number of the party's unbound delegates who told the AP they would support him at the convention," the AP reports.
Somewhat amazingly, Donald Trump has managed to get this close to clinching the Republican nomination before voting on June 7 in California and New Jersey, the two biggest remaining states. It's an outcome that a little over a month ago would have seemed completely impossible, but a string of big wins combined with his remaining competitors leaving the field prompted a tsunami of delegates to fall into place in short order.
Before April 19, the day of the New York primary, Trump needed more than two-thirds of the remaining bound delegates to clinch the nomination before the convention. This was in the wake of Ted Cruz's big win in Wisconsin, and that percentage seemed prohibitive.
Then Trump crushed Cruz and John Kasich in New York, winning every county (save Manhattan) and nearly every congressional district with a majority. The next week, he King-Konged across the rest of the northeastern states, winning 111 of 118 delegates. Finally, in the first contest this month, he won every delegate in Indiana, booting Cruz and Kasich and becoming the presumptive nominee.
Trump won't win every delegate in Washington state, which held its primary Tuesday, thanks to the state's weird rules. (Washington uses proportional allocation of delegates — but relative to every vote cast. Since no one but Trump hit the 20 percent threshold for delegates, Trump's 75-plus percent of the vote (as of writing) will get him 75-plus percent of the 14 statewide delegates — just shy of the total haul.) But he'll win nearly all of them.
Looking only at bound delegates — those who have to vote for him at the convention — Trump needs only about 28 percent of the remaining delegates to clinch the nomination. That's a number that's so low that it's essentially a gimme; he'll probably clinch the nomination with pledged delegates before the sun sets in California in two weeks.
But, again, that's only pledged delegates. That was an important distinction way back in the there-will-be-a-contested-convention days, because Trump couldn't be confident that unpledged delegates would actually vote for him once they got to the convention floor and party elders started twisting their arms and giving them noogies. With the establishment now falling all over itself to make nice with Trump, though, we can feel more confident looping Trump's unbound delegates in the mix. They could change their minds, but they're a lot less likely to than they were a month ago.
The go-to on up-to-the-minnute delegate math is Daniel Nichanian. And here's what Nichanian has to say.
Those two caveats are important ones. The first is that he's using CNN's estimate of Pennsylvania's large pool of unbound delegates, a figure that the Associated Press's numbers put at 40 on Wednesday. It was an increase to this figure, after conversations with unpledged delegates, that prompted the AP to call the race on Thursday.
The bigger part of Nichanian's assumption, though, is the Iowa delegates. As you should have learned by now, each state sets its own rules for how to allocate delegates to the Republican convention. In some cases, the initial delegate counts change after voting is held. In Alaska, for example, delegates are redistributed if a candidate drops out. In Iowa, delegates are bound to candidates unless they aren't actually eligible for the ballot at the convention.
The party has a rule (Rule 40) which states that a candidate must have won a majority of delegates in eight contests to be eligible for the ballot. So far, only Trump and Cruz have hit that mark. If Cruz isn't on the ballot (which is to say, if he is isn't formally nominated) Trump gets all of Iowa's delegates. Per Nichanian's count, that would add 23 delegates to Trump's total — and put him over the 1,237 delegates he needs to clinch.
But that requires two however-likely theoreticals (unbound delegates staying committed and Cruz not appearing on the ballot). By June 7, it won't matter. Trump will win New Jersey and California, at the least giving him more than enough bound delegates to clinch without any gymnastics. Again, what's remarkable is that we're even talking about how close he is to clinching prior to the last day of voting. Only a few weeks ago, Trump's campaign suggested that he'd win more than 1,400 delegates, a number that at the time seemed hard to believe.
Now it seems inevitable. Once again, Trump has proven the skeptics wrong.

 

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[h=6]- MAY 26, 2016 -[/h][h=1]INSIDE THE QUIRKY CAMPAIGN HEADQUARTERS OF TRUMP, CLINTON AND SANDERS[/h]TIME
With its color-coded floor plan and handmade signs hanging from the ceiling, Hillary Clinton’s campaign headquarters sprawls across a maze of cubicles and shared desks filling two floors of a Brooklyn office tower. Defined by youth, ambition and smarts, the largely millennial crew here is the most advanced digital, policy, analytics and communications operation since Barack Obama mounted a $1 billion-effort in 2012.
But in a season that has upended all the rules, such strength can also be a weakness. Overwhelming force can turn unwieldy, and Clinton’s aides have struggled for a year to battle insurgent foes Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, who operate out of makeshift offices built less around corporate flow plans than a never-ending focus on letting the candidates do exactly what they want.
Consider the challenge of a tweet: Clinton’s communications staff alone—at least 35 people—is easily larger than the Trump campaign’s entire headquarters staff. When Hillary Clinton tweets, a handful of departments, and the candidate herself, needs to sign off. “It’s like the post office,” said one top Obama veteran.
Trump, for better and worse, has none of these worries. He just dictates his online missives to an aide. If it’s late at night, he will pound them out himself from a smartphone in his bedroom. His staff sometimes finds out about his latest viral rocket with the rest of the country.
In contrast to Clinton’s machine, the Trump campaign is run from folding tables and wall collages that fill a few rooms in an unfinished commercial space at Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue, some of the priciest real estate in the world. Everything about the place, hidden behind a plain white door off the brass-and-marble atrium in Trump Tower, appears at odds with the candidate’s all-luxury, all-the-time public persona. There is dust, exposed ceilings, clutter and about two dozen staffers and volunteers on any given day. Young aides, their ties firmly cinched with Windsor knots, move between piles of bumper stickers and campaign signs, and work amid stacks of unopened mail and cheeky cardboard cutouts of the man himself. For relief, they take turns riding on a gold hoverboard.
The raffish office is a point of pride for Trump’s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, who pledged to the candidate when he was hired in late 2014 that he’d spend Trump’s vast fortune like it was his own. That ethos still infects every part of the campaign. Eschewing most traditional tactics like television ads, field organizing and large data operations, Trump has steadfastly resisted calls to expand his operation, or its real estate, for the general election.
Trump campaign strategist Paul Manafort pushed to professionalize the team by bringing on a host of veteran operatives at a new office outside Washington, that plan was quashed by Lewandowski. A let Donald Trump be Donald Trump quote placard sits near his desk—a gift from the New York staffers.
Some GOP officials think this may come back to haunt Trump down the stretch. His plan to rely heavily on the Republican National Committee to do the heavy lifting of campaign mechanics has never been tried before. “Regardless of whom a candidate is trying to appeal to, they need to have the fundamentals,” says former RNC chief of staff Mike Shields, referring to the field and outreach programs Trump hasn’t developed. “Donald Trump is going to have to rely on the RNC for the vast majority of his mechanics more than any candidate in recent history.”
Far from the hustle and fury of Brooklyn and Manhattan, Bernie Sanders has run his campaign out of an office on a cobblestone street not far from his home in Burlington, Vt., where bagels are delivered once a week. Though his campaign is by some counts the most free-spending of any this cycle, most of that money has gone directly to field organizing and television advertising, leaving the headquarters with the feel of a small-town dentist’s office. Since Sanders’ big February victory in New Hampshire, most of his senior aides, meanwhile, have been telecommuting or making use of a separate row-house space in Washington, D.C., near Sanders’ Senate office.
Campaign headquarters have never won or lost a presidential campaign. But floor plans and their contents can be telling representations of the candidates themselves, windows into how they would likely govern if they won the White House. For Clinton, the Brooklyn stack is a reminder of the deliberate process that would no doubt rule her Administration as it has her campaign. Trump has set up his command post in one of his own buildings, which tells a lot about his preferences. And for Sanders, the most important piece of real estate would be not behind a door but on the yellow legal pads where he jots down his thoughts every day.

 

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[h=6]- MAY 26, 2016 -[/h][h=1]DONALD J. TRUMP FORMAL POLICY ADDRESS ON ENERGY[/h]Today Donald J. Trump spoke to thousands at the Williston Basin Petroleum Conference in Bismarck, North Dakota after clinching the GOP nomination for President of the United States. During his speech, for which he received many standing ovations, Mr. Trump took strong positions to reduce and eliminate all barriers to responsible energy production in order to create millions of new good-paying jobs, use energy production to rebuild our infrastructure and our inner cities and to reduce our debt. Mr. Trump outlined an "America First" agenda offering a significant contrast to Hillary Clinton's "Donor First" agenda that will make the special interests rich and continue to decimate the lower and middle classes. The transcript of the remarks can be viewed via the link below.

Donald J. Trump Formal Policy Address on Energy:https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/an-america-first-energy-plan

 

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[h=6]MAY 25, 2016 -[/h][h=1]TRUMP CAMPAIGN STATEMENT REGARDING RICK WILEY DEPARTURE[/h]Rick Wiley was hired on a short-term basis as a consultant until the campaign was running full steam. It is now doing better than ever, we are leading in the polls, and we have many exciting events ready to go, far ahead of schedule, while Hillary continues her long, boring quest against Bernie. We would like to thank Rick for helping us during this transition period.

 

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[h=2]Consolation prize: GOP bigwigs urge Marco Rubio to reverse course and run for his Senate seat after he gave it up to run for president [/h]

Now that Sen. Marco Rubio's White House dreams have been dashed, he's facing increasing pressure to stay put in the Senate. So far the Florida politician hasn't budged.

 

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Today we, together, won the Republican Nomination for President! https://www.instagram.com/p/BF41LOUmhRp/

 

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[h=1]State of the 2016 race: Trump looks to take over America after conquering GOP[/h]


He took a wrecking ball to the political establishment as he got more primary votes than any Republican in modern history – all with no political experience



Impossible, unthinkable, probable and now inevitable – Donald Trump has swept through American politics like a hurricane, upending conventional wisdom and trailing destruction in his wake. On Thursday, the ultimate celebrity candidateclinched the Republican nomination for president, setting up what could be one of the ugliest general elections in memory.



Trump reached the magic number of delegates needed after a small number of the party’s unbound delegates told the Associated Press they would support him at the Republican National Convention in July. With zero political experience, Trump knocked out 16 rivals including governors and senators as he grabbed more primary votes than any Republican in modern history.


Asked at a press conference in Bismarck, North Dakota, how it felt to reach the magic number, Trump said: “I’m so honored. I’m so honored by these people; they had such great sense.” Earlier he remarked: “We were supposed to be going into July ... and here I am watching Hillary and she can’t close the deal.”


His hostile takeover of the party complete, the bombastic, swaggering, at times crass billionaire now hopes to complete a takeover of America itself. The 69-year-old will almost certainly face Democrat Hillary Clinton, 68, in the November election. The pair are running neck and neck in opinion polls.
Pundits who laughingly dismissed Trump as a buffoon when he entered the race nearly a year ago are not laughing now.

“It’s not only unprecedented but unfathomable,” said Rich Galen, former press secretary to vice-president Dan Quayle. “If you’d written a novel based on what’s happened since last June, you’d have had to self-publish because no publishing house would have touched it.”


Many Americans, and observers around the world, have watched the resistible rise of Trump with consternation just eight years after the US elected its first black president. Some believe that he embodies a racially charged backlash against Barack Obama and the last gasp of white men against the nation’s diversifying demographic. One theory holds that he is merely putting into plain, populist language what rightwing Republicans have been saying in code for years.



Trump demolished the Republican field, throwing out nicknames that stuck: “Little Marco” Rubio, “Low energy” Jeb Bush and “Lyin’ Ted” Cruz. Some tried to rise above him, and others tried to wrestle him in the mud; all fell in their turn. Questions have been raised over the culpability of the media in giving him millions of dollars’ worth of free publicity; his campaign costs were a relatively low $57m by the end of April.


Trump has fired up his base, and infuriated liberal opponents, by promising to build a wall along the Mexican border, round up and deport 11 million illegal immigrants, and impose a temporary ban on Muslims entering the country because of fear of terrorism.




David Smith in Washington
Thursday 26 May 2016 20.03 BST

 

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[h=6]- MAY 26, 2016 -[/h][h=1]​AN AMERICA FIRST ENERGY PLAN[/h]I’m delighted to be in North Dakota, a state at the forefront of a new energy revolution.
Oil and natural gas production is up significantly in the last decade. Our oil imports have been cut in half.
But all this occurred in spite of massive new bureaucratic and political barriers.
President Obama has done everything he can to get in the way of American energy. He’s made life much more difficult for North Dakota, as costly regulation makes it harder and harder to turn a profit.
If Hillary Clinton is in charge, things will get much worse. She will shut down energy production across this country.
Millions of jobs, and trillions of dollars of wealth, will be destroyed as a result.
That is why our choice this November is so crucial.
Here’s what it comes down to.
Wealth versus poverty.
North Dakota shows how energy exploration creates shared prosperity. Better schools. More funding for infrastructure. Higher wages. Lower unemployment.
Things we’ve been missing.
It’s a choice between sharing in this great energy wealth, or sharing in the poverty promised by Hillary Clinton.
You don’t have to take my word for it. Just listen to Hillary Clinton’s own words. She has declared war on the American worker.
Here is what Hillary Clinton said earlier this year: “We are going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of work.”
She wants to shut down the coal mines.
And if Crooked Hillary can shut down the mines, she can shut down your business too.
Let me tell you how President Obama Undermined Our Middle Class
President Obama’s stated intent is to eliminate oil and natural gas production in America.
His policy is death by a thousand cuts through an onslaught of regulations.
The Environmental Protection Agency’s use of totalitarian tactics forces energy operators in North Dakota into paying unprecedented multi-billion dollar fines before a penalty is even confirmed.
Government misconduct goes on and on:

• The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against seven North Dakota oil companies for the deaths of 28 birds while the Administration fast-tracked wind projects that kill more than 1 million birds a year.
• The U.S Fish and Wildlife Service abuses the Endangered Species Act to restrict oil and gas exploration.
• Adding to the pain, President Obama now proposes a $10-per-barrel tax on American-produced oil in the middle of a downturn.
  
  At the same time President Obama lifts economic sanctions on Iran, he imposes economic sanctions on America. He has allowed this country to hit the lowest oil rig count since 1999, producing thousands of layoffs.

America’s incredible energy potential remains untapped. It is a totally self-inflicted wound.
Under my presidency, we will accomplish complete American energy independence.
Imagine a world in which our foes, and the oil cartels, can no longer use energy as a weapon.
But President Obama has done everything he can to keep us dependent on others. Let me list some of the good energy projects he killed.
He rejected the Keystone XL Pipeline despite the fact that:

• It would create and support more than 42,000 jobs.
• His own State Department concluded that it would be the safest pipeline ever built in the United States.
• And it would have no significant impact on the environment.
• Yet, even as he rejected this America-Canada pipeline, he made a deal that allows Iran to transport more oil through its pipeline that would have ever flowed through Keystone –with no environmental review.

President Obama has done everything he can to kill the coal industry. Here are a few of President Obama’s decrees:

Regulations that shut down hundreds of coal-fired power plants and block the construction of new ones.

A prohibition against coal production on federal land.
Draconian climate rules that, unless stopped, would effectively bypass Congress to impose job-killing cap-and-trade.
President Obama has aggressively blocked the production of oil & natural gas:

• He’s taken a huge percentage of the Alaska National Petroleum Reserve off the table
• Oil and natural gas production on federal lands is down 10%.
• 87% of available land in the Outer Continental Shelf has been put off limits.
• Atlantic Lease sales were closed down too – despite the fact that they would create 280,000 jobs and $23.5 billion in economic activity.
• President Obama entered the United States into the Paris Climate Accords – unilaterally, and without the permission of Congress. This agreement gives foreign bureaucrats control over how much energy we use right here in America.

These actions have denied millions of Americans access to the energy wealth sitting under our feet.
This is your treasure, and you – the American People – are entitled to share in the riches.
President Obama’s anti-energy orders have also weakened our security, by keeping us reliant on foreign sources of energy.
Every dollar of energy we don’t explore here, is a dollar of energy that makes someone else rich over there.
If President Obama wanted to weaken America he couldn’t have done a better job.
As bad as President Obama is, Hillary Clinton will be worse.

• She will escalate the war against American energy, and unleash the EPA to control every aspect of our lives.
• She declared that “we’ve got to move away from coal and all the other fossil fuels,” locking away trillions in American wealth.
• In March, Hillary Clinton said: “by the time we get through all of my conditions, I do not think there will be many places in America where fracking will continue to take place.” Keep in mind, shale energy production could add 2 million jobs in 7 years.

Yet, while Hillary Clinton doesn’t want American energy, she is strongly in favor of foreign energy. Here is what she told China as Secretary of State:

• “American experts and Chinese experts will work to develop China’s natural gas resources. Imagine what it would mean for China if China unleashed its own natural gas resources so you are not dependent on foreign oil.”

Hillary Clinton has her priorities wrong. But we are going to turn all of that around.

A Trump Administration will develop an America First energy plan. Here is how this plan will make America Wealthy Again:

• American energy dominance will be declared a strategic economic and foreign policy goal of the United States.
• America has 1.5 times as much oil as the combined proven resources of all OPEC countries; we have more Natural Gas than Russia, Iran, Qatar and Saudi Arabia Combined; we have three times more coal than Russia. Our total untapped oil and gas reserves on federal lands equal an estimated $50 trillion.
• We will become, and stay, totally independent of any need to import energy from the OPEC cartel or any nations hostile to our interests.
• At the same time, we will work with our Gulf allies to develop a positive energy relationship as part of our anti-terrorism strategy.
• We will use the revenues from energy production to rebuild our roads, schools, bridges and public infrastructure. Cheaper energy will also boost American agriculture.
• We will get the bureaucracy out of the way of innovation, so we can pursue all forms of energy. This includes renewable energies and the technologies of the future. It includes nuclear, wind and solar energy – but not to the exclusion of other energy. The government should not pick winners and losers. Instead, it should remove obstacles to exploration. Any market has ups and downs, but lifting these draconian barriers will ensure that we are no longer at the mercy of global markets.

A Trump Administration will focus on real environmental challenges, not phony ones:

• We will reject Hillary Clinton’s poverty-expansion agenda that enriches her friends and makes everyone else poor.
• We’ll solve real environmental problems in our communities like the need for clean and safe drinking water. President Obama actually tried to cut the funding for our drinking water infrastructure – even as he pushed to increase funding for his EPA bureaucrats.
• American workers will be the ones building this new infrastructure.

Here is my 100-day action plan:

• We’re going to rescind all the job-destroying Obama executive actions including the Climate Action Plan and the Waters of the U.S. rule.
• We’re going to save the coal industry and other industries threatened by Hillary Clinton’s extremist agenda.
• I’m going to ask Trans Canada to renew its permit application for the Keystone Pipeline.
• We’re going to lift moratoriums on energy production in federal areas
• We’re going to revoke policies that impose unwarranted restrictions on new drilling technologies. These technologies create millions of jobs with a smaller footprint than ever before.
• We’re going to cancel the Paris Climate Agreement and stop all payments of U.S. tax dollars to U.N. global warming programs.
• Any regulation that is outdated, unnecessary, bad for workers, or contrary to the national interest will be scrapped. We will also eliminate duplication, provide regulatory certainty, and trust local officials and local residents.
• Any future regulation will go through a simple test: is this regulation good for the American worker? If it doesn’t pass this test, the rule will not be approved.

Policy decisions will be public and transparent. They won’t be made on Hillary’s private email account.
We’re going to do all this while taking proper regard for rational environmental concerns. We are going to conserve our beautiful natural habitats, reserves and resources.
In a Trump Administration, political activists with extreme agendas will no longer write the rules. Instead, we will work with conservationists whose only agenda is protecting nature.
From an environmental standpoint, my priorities are very simple: clean air and clean water.
My America First energy plan will do for the American People what Hillary Clinton will never do: create real jobs and real wage growth.
According to the Institute for Energy Research, lifting the restrictions on American energy will create a flood of new jobs:

• Almost a $700 billion increase in annual economic output over the next 30 years.
• More than a $30 billion increase in annual wages over the next 7 years.
• Over the next four decades, more than $20 trillion in additional economic activity and $6 trillion in new tax revenue.

The oil and natural gas industry supports 10 million high-paying Americans jobs and can create another 400,000 new jobs per year. This exploration will also create a resurgence in American manufacturing -- dramatically reducing both our trade deficit and our budget deficit.
Compare this future to Hillary Clinton’s Venezuela-style politics of poverty.
If you think about it, not one idea Hillary Clinton has will actually create a single net job or create a single new dollar to put in workers’ pockets.
In fact, every idea Hillary has will make jobs disappear.
Hillary Clinton’s agenda is job destruction. My agenda is job creation.
She wants to tax and regulate our workers to the point of extinction.
She wants terrible trade deals, like NAFTA, signed by her husband, that will empty out our manufacturing.
During her time as Secretary of State, she surrendered to China – allowing them to steal hundreds of billions of dollars in our intellectual property.
She let them devalue their currency and add more than a trillion dollars to our trade deficit.
Then there was Libya.
Secretary Clinton’s reckless Libya invasion handed the country over to ISIS, which now controls the oil.
The Middle East that Clinton inherited was far less dangerous than the Middle East she left us with today.
Her reckless decisions in Iraq, Libya, Iran, Egypt and Syria have made the Middle East more unstable than ever before.
The Hillary Clinton foreign policy legacy is chaos.
Hillary Clinton also wants totally open borders in America, which would further plunge our workers into poverty.
Hillary’s open borders agenda means a young single mom living in poverty would have to compete for a job or a raise against millions of lower-wage workers rushing into the country, but she doesn’t care.
My agenda will be accomplished through a series of reforms that put America First:

• Energy reform that creates trillions in new wealth.
• Immigration reform that protects our borders and defends our workers.
• Tax reform that brings millions of new jobs to America.
• Regulation reform that eliminates stupid rules that send our jobs overseas.
• Welfare reform that requires employers to recruit from the unemployment office – not the immigration office.
• Trade reform that brings back our manufacturing jobs and stands up to countries that cheat.

There is one more thing we must do to make America wealthy again: we have to make our communities safe again.
Violent crime is rising in major cities across the country. This is unacceptable. Every parent has the right to raise their kids in safety.
When we put political correctness before justice, we hurt those who have the least. It undermines their schools, slashes the value of their homes, and drives away their jobs.
Crime is a stealth tax on the poor.
To those living in fear, I say: help is coming. A Trump Administration will return law and order toAmerica. Security is not something that should only be enjoyed by the rich and powerful.
By the way, I was endorsed by the National Rifle Association, and we are not going to let Hillary Clinton abolish the 2nd amendment, either.
My reform agenda is going to bring wealth and security to the poorest communities in this country.
What does Hillary have to offer the poor but more of the same?
In Chicago, for instance, one-fourth of young Hispanics and one-third of young African-Americans are unemployed.
My message today to all the people trapped in poverty is this: politicians like Hillary Clinton have failed you.
They have used you.
You need something new. I am the only who will deliver it.
We are going to put America back to work.
We are going to put people before government.
We are going to rebuild our inner cities.
We are going to make you and your family safe, secure and prosperous.
The choice in November is a choice between a Clinton Agenda that puts Donors First – or a new agenda that puts America First.
It is a choice between a Clinton government of, by and for the powerful – or a return to government of, by and for the people.
It is a choice between certain decline, or a revival of America’s promise.
The people in charge of our government say things can’t change.
I am here to tell you that things have to change.
They want you to keep trusting the same people who’ve betrayed you.
I am here to tell you that if you keep supporting those who’ve let you down, then you will keep getting let down for the rest of your life.
I am prepared to kick the special interests out of Washington, D.C. and to hand their seat of power over to you.
It’s about time.
Together, we will put the American people first again.
We will make our communities wealthy again.
We will make our cities safe again.
We will make our country strong again.
Ladies and Gentlemen: We will make America Great Again.

 

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Just saw this thread.
Great job Superbeets.

 

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[h=6]- MAY 27, 2016 -[/h][h=1]​DONALD J. TRUMP STATEMENT ON DEBATING BERNIE SANDERS[/h]Based on the fact that the Democratic nominating process is totally rigged and Crooked Hillary Clinton and Deborah Wasserman Schultz will not allow Bernie Sanders to win, and now that I am the presumptive Republican nominee, it seems inappropriate that I would debate the second place finisher. Likewise, the networks want to make a killing on these events and are not proving to be too generous to charitable causes, in this case, women’s health issues. Therefore, as much as I want to debate Bernie Sanders - and it would be an easy payday - I will wait to debate the first place finisher in the Democratic Party, probably Crooked Hillary Clinton, or whoever it may be.

 

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.@SanDiegoPD- Fantastic job on handling the thugs who tried to disrupt our very peaceful and well attended rally. Greatly appreciated!

 

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Thank you @BillyJoel- many friends just told me you gave a very kind shoutout at MSG. Appreciate it- love your music!

 

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Wow- 25,000 in San Diego, California!Thank you!! #Trump2016

 

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"Why would Obama cut a deal with Iran to lift sanctions while refusing to lift our own domestic sanctions on oil exports? He could have lifted America's 40-year-old ban on crude oil exports with the stroke of a pen," Hamm said. "Instead, he has allowed this industry ... suffer hundreds of thousands of layoffs. Hillary Clinton has made it clear she will continue Obama's war on fossil fuels — and American jobs. I'm confident that Donald Trump will save American industry and innovation from the stranglehold of burdensome regulations and allow this nation to compete on the world stage."

Calling Trump a champion for American energy, Hamm said under a Trump presidency, the oil and natural gas industry alone would create "millions of jobs, billions in annual wage increases and trillions in additional economic activity and tax revenue right here at home. He would unleash the nation's pent-up potential and allow us to once again become the economic growth engine of the world for decades and beyond and power America to make it great once again."
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/27/energy-speech-leaves-north-dakotans-drunk-on-trump.html

 

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Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump 1h1 hour ago
I am always on the front page of the failing @nytimes, but when I won the GOP nomination, I'm in the back of the paper. Very dishonest!

Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump 1h1 hour ago
The failing @nytimes wrote a story about my management style & that I don't have many people. I have 73, Hillary has 800- & I'm beating her.