Donald Trump asserts Oswald acted alone

[Douglas Caddy]

Donald Trump Repudiates David Duke, Says Lee Harvey Oswald Acted Alone
By Chuck Ross
The Daily Caller
August 26, 2015

http://dailycaller.com/2015/08/26/donald-trump-repudiates-david-duke-says-lee-harvey-oswald-acted-alone/#ixzz3kiMwbx7a

Edited September 3, 2015 by Douglas Caddy

[Roger DeLaria]

I'm not surprised he'd spout the company line. He pulled a nice little flip-flop when he said: “I believe he acted alone,” Trump said of Oswald. “I think he probably acted alone.”

Edited September 4, 2015 by Roger DeLaria

[David Andrews]

"Well, he would say that, wouldn't he." -- Mandy Rice-Davies

[Jon G. Tidd]

Trump is not part of the Republican Establishment. Or any other Establishment. He's unpredictable. In a way, he's like JFK: he can't be bought or sold, and he'll say what he needs to say to get elected president.

Republican professionals generally despise Trump. Trump wears the R-label but doesn't join in the R-chorus.

Democrats dislike Trump, whom they view as a sexist racist.

Trump is like Reagan in that he appeals directly to American voters. Not to pols; not to the press.

It's easy to dismiss Trump. I've done it a few times this year. Yet if Trump were elected president, I think he'd be like JFK in terms of not being beholden to the Establishment. I like that thought.

[David Andrews]

Trump is the clown the GOP put out this year, so that in the future they can introduce a moderate candidate who will score in the debates and win the nomination. Trump gets paid off for this charade, if only in barter.

It's like when they used to put out aspartame-vanilla Bob Dole, and then eclipse him with a salable, winnable candidate. Only now, they've taken the US rectal temp and decided to put forth a rabble-rouser as a sacrifice, or rather Judas-goat. Trump's withdrawal is forewritten, bet on it in Vegas.

Trump, Rand Paul and Chris Christie in a GOP debate - Jesus, it was like a clown car emptying out. So please consider my motto: Sometimes things are just as naked as they appear.

Edited September 5, 2015 by David Andrews

[Ramon F. Herrera]

Trump is the clown the GOP put out this year, so that in the future they can introduce a moderate candidate who will score in the debates and win the nomination. Trump gets paid off for this charade, if only in barter.

It's like when they used to put out aspartame-vanilla Bob Dole, and then eclipse him with a salable, winnable candidate.

Are you saying that the GOP has 17 candidates and 1 mind?

Was Mr. Dole aware that he was some sort of sacrificial lamb, an investment in the future?

[Brian Schmidt]

People, IMO, have a great misconception of Trump and what he represents. He's certainly not being pushed by the GOP--even for strategic means--quite the opposite. The establishment really is afraid of him. Aside from his outrageous persona and extreme stance on immigration and tough-guy foreign policy rhetoric, he IS the moderate. His views on preserving Social Security, investing in infrastructure, rewriting our trade policies, campaign finance reform, etc. are very much out of line with wealthy conservative donors and position him as the populist candidate. I think this article's analysis is fairly accurate: http://www.vox.com/2015/8/28/9217633/why-people-like-donald-trump

Edited September 5, 2015 by Brian Schmidt

[David Andrews]

Trump is the clown the GOP put out this year, so that in the future they can introduce a moderate candidate who will score in the debates and win the nomination. Trump gets paid off for this charade, if only in barter.

It's like when they used to put out aspartame-vanilla Bob Dole, and then eclipse him with a salable, winnable candidate.

Are you saying that the GOP has 17 candidates and 1 mind?

Was Mr. Dole aware that he was some sort of sacrificial lamb, an investment in the future?

Bob Dole? Yeah, I think he was. He ran more than once, with no nomination and no tears.

We'll see Trump as nominee in the year they actually start playing The Hunger Games on live TV.

Trump, Rand Paul and Chris Christie - three angry blabberers designed to make us grateful for the "emergence" of a "respectable" and moderate GOP candidate/nominee. Too bad Bob Dole isn't here; 2016 could have been his year.

Edited September 5, 2015 by David Andrews

[James DiEugenio]

Dole did run and win the GOP nomination in 1996 and lost to Clinton in the fall election.

As per Trump, I think the Oswald statement shows just how much he has curtailed and altered his persona to get a lead. I don't think he actually believes that, just like I don't think he actually believes the whole "round them up and send them back" about illegals. See, as many have noted, back when he was thinking of saving the Reform party, he was much more of a Ross Perot type.

The problem with his new candidacy, as a few have pointed out, is that it has a definite ceiling. Trump cannot get very much further than where he is with it. Which is one reason Roger Stone left.

Edited September 5, 2015 by James DiEugenio

[David Andrews]

Mr. DiEugenio is, of course, correct about Bob Dole.

Edited September 5, 2015 by David Andrews

[Don Jeffries]

Trump saying Oswald acted alone was about as predictable as it gets. No candidate is going to be allowed to say otherwise, or to express doubt over the official story of 9/11 or any other event. Like Jim D., I suspect Trump knows there was a conspiracy. After all, Roger Stone was running his campaign and Jesse Ventura is a long time friend who said he'd be proud to be Trump's V.P.

As I wrote recently on my blog https://donaldjeffries.wordpress.com/2015/08/29/our-bipartisan-foreign-policy-is-all-war-no-peace/ once the concept of a "bipartisan foreign policy" was sold to the sheeple, any pro-peace candidate from either of the major parties became an impossibility. After all, if we're perpetually at "war," and all politicians swear to a "bipartisan" approach on foreign affairs, no candidate can be expected to criticize that "war." Look at what happened to Bradley Manning, for simply exposing wrongdoing.

I've agreed with much of the populist-tinged rhetoric from Trump, but have a hard time taking him seriously. The only candidate in either party who is not an extreme warmonger is Rand Paul. Coincidentally or not, Paul's poll numbers have been the most negatively impacted from Trump's ascension to the top of the heap. I've never trusted these pre-election polls, and simply refuse to believe that Paul has less support than the likes of Carson, Kasich, Fiorina, Christie, etc.

As always when it comes to elections, we really have no choices.

[Bernie Laverick]

Trump is not part of the Republican Establishment. Or any other Establishment. He's unpredictable. In a way, he's like JFK: he can't be bought or sold, and he'll say what he needs to say to get elected president.

Republican professionals generally despise Trump. Trump wears the R-label but doesn't join in the R-chorus.

Democrats dislike Trump, whom they view as a sexist racist.

Trump is like Reagan in that he appeals directly to American voters. Not to pols; not to the press.

It's easy to dismiss Trump. I've done it a few times this year. Yet if Trump were elected president, I think he'd be like JFK in terms of not being beholden to the Establishment. I like that thought.

Trump is not part of the Republican Establishment.

Probably the most naïve statement I have ever seen on this forum, trumped only by the idea that he was in any way "like JFK".

This is where a lot of us go wrong. Start with 2 + 2 = 5 and you will never get to the bottom of anything.

It was precisely people like Trump who wanted JFK, and all he stood for, assassinated! If you can't see that now, you have zero chance of understanding who would have wanted him dead then! So you reckon Trump would be working for world peace and taking on powerful vested interests? Really?

I note that there are a lot of posters on this forum (and I have to say, it's mainly American members) who full on support the neo con de-regulated capitalist free market and all that implies.

It makes you wonder why they want to spend any time on who killed some "Commie pig" in 1963.

I'm sure they have their reasons....

[James DiEugenio]

Don, although I generally agree with your statement, there is an exception.

In the 1992 election, after JFK came out, Al Gore said in a televised interview that he thought the case was a conspiracy. To my knowledge, unlike Clinton, he never took that back. Clinton in his usual, "I didn't inhale" way, said he had some serious questions about the case. (After he was elected, he asked the number three guy in the Justice Department to find out Who KIlled JFK?")

But Gore knew what he was talking about. Why?

When he first came to Washington as a congressman, his father knew Bud Fensterwald. Both of the families were upper class Tennessee crust. Bud called up young Al and asked him to come by his office. He told him he wanted him to stop by every Friday before he flew back to Tennessee. He just wanted him to look at a few documents he would have laid out on a table for him to read. He would not comment on them himself beyond telling him, if he needed to, where the document came from and when it originated. Gore did this for a year.

After one year, Gore told Bud, that was enough: "You are correct. It was a conspiracy."

That was in the seventies. In the nineties, when he was in the White House, I know someone who visited there at the time who had worked for the HSCA. This person told me that Gore was still very keen on the subject and wanted to talk about it more in public. But he was muzzled by his handlers.

Edited September 6, 2015 by James DiEugenio

[Kathleen Collins]

Trump said "probably alone." He's playing it safe on that issue. What can he do about it? Any of us?. Kennedy was killed 51 years ago. There's nothing he can do about it. So he plays it safe. I didn't like hearing about his statement and I know Jesse Ventura won't be his VP. Guess what: I'm still voting for Trump. Keep the money in this country, not overseas.

Kathy C

[Bernie Laverick]

Trump said "probably alone." He's playing it safe on that issue. What can he do about it? Any of us?. Kennedy was killed 51 years ago. There's nothing he can do about it. So he plays it safe. I didn't like hearing about his statement and I know Jesse Ventura won't be his VP. Guess what: I'm still voting for Trump. Keep the money in this country, not overseas.

Kathy C

And as if to prove my above point.

I find it depressing that so many on here who seemingly want to expose the dark shady forces behind the assassination of JFK are themselves completely hooked on the very people who benefit from those dark shady forces. JFK's killers worked for people like Trump.

When, in my mind's eye, I try and conjure up a composite image of the type of ultra rich person who would go to extreme and murderous lengths to "keep the money", Donald Trump's face shines brightly back at me.

He's just what America needs right now, a racist sexist bigot with too much money and too much power.

It's odd that folk go on a public forum dedicated to teasing out the many intricate details of the political corruption at the heart of America in 1963... yet act as cheerleaders for the corrupt political elite of today.