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time*treat — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 14:55:40 GMT

This election is looking, to me, like the 2004 election. Mr. Obama was put there for a purpose and if that thing has not happened before the election, he stands a very good chance of being re-elected ... no matter who runs on the GOP side.

Comment #1

JAP69 — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:51:56 GMT

Trump has a lot of financial interest where he works with individuals of all political beliefs. So he treads lightly on what he says. May just be a person who can work with politicans. He may go after the individual but not the political party of the individual.

Original Blog Entry: Donald Trump slams Obama says he has a great relationship the blacks

truesee — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 12:58:05 GMT

Donald Trump slams Barack Obama, claims 'great relationship with blacks,' praises Gov. Andrew Cuomo

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Thursday, April 14th 2011, 12:34 PM

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Donald Trump has been busy touting his possible presidential run.

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Trump praised New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo...

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...while taking aim at President Obama.

Donald Trump unleashed more withering scorn for President Obama Thursday - but insisted it had nothing to do with race because he has a great relationship with the blacks.

Trump said he was dismayed by Obama's strong support within the African-American community.

I know many Obama supporters, Trump said on Albany's Talk 1300 radio. I have a great relationship with the blacks but unfortunately the \[poll\] numbers that you cite are very, very frightening numbers.

Trump also said that he loves the Tea Party and would want to run for President on the Republican ticket, but had unabashed praise for newly-elected Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

I think he is doing terrific job, setting a great example. He's doing it with style and with class and I'm very proud of him.

I think he is doing a great job, Trump added.

Trump's threat of a presidential run has been largely built around him loudly trumpeting discredited theories about Obama's origins, but he appears to be trying to broaden his message.

I look at the country. It's never been worse. It's run at a level that I've never seen anything like it. This is Jimmy Carter-esqe. I'm very seriously considering \[running\] and I'll make my decision sometime prior to June, he said.

Trump said he was looking forward to speaking at a Tea Party rally in Florida this weekend and said the rise of the group was a great thing for America.

I'm big fan of the Tea Party because I really think they've provided a great service. It made people understand what is going on. It made people open their eyes, he said.

Trump tamped down reports that he would crassly use the finale of his TV show, Celebrity Apprentice, to announce whether he would run - saying that it would violate election laws.

But his office later put out a statement hinting that he may use his show as a platform of sorts.

On the May 22nd Season Finale of Celebrity Apprentice, Mr. Trump may announce the time and place of a press conference at which time he will make a statement as to whether or not he will run for President of the United States, the statement read.

The White House has dismissed the noise about a Trump candidacy as a sideshow, and said he had zero chance of winning.

Trump insists he is Obama's worst nightmare.

The one person they don't want to run against is me because I tell it like it is, he said.

Still, Trump continues to trumpet debunked birther theories about Obama being born in Kenya.

Why doesn't he give his birth certificate? Why doesn't he show it. Why are there no records in the hospital, why does his grandmother say he was born in Kenya, he said.

Obama has made public a certificate saying he was born in a Hawaii hospital and has pointed to newspaper announcements of his birth in Honolulu newspapers as proof he was born there.

Numerous birther blogs have repeated the claim that Obama's grandmother said he was born in Kenya, but she says she has never said that.

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