Republican candidate Donald Trump addressed the FreedomFest conference in Las Vegas, telling delegates of his underestimated wealth, his passion for securing America’s border, the slanted portrayal of him in the mainstream media and how he believes that China and Mexico have “smarter leaders” than the United States.

Some libertarians, who the conference is aimed at, believed that Trump would receive a hostile reception at FreedomFest. But the crowd was generally supportive, or at least open-minded, to Trump’s run. One delegate told Breitbart London, “He doesn’t pretend to be anything. People were surprisingly supportive of him.”

Trump began with a few jokes, including one about speaking at the Biltmore resort in Arizona tonight, which. he says can no longer accommodate his event because of extraordinary demand from thousands of members of the public. “I’d have to do outside… and my hair would fly around… but it is my real hair.”

The crowd warmed, giving him the opportunity to lunge into an unscripted, no-notes speech about the biased media, his political opponents, and even companies like Univision and NBC who have attacked Trump publicly, severing links with his companies.

And despite his impassioned plea for treating American veterans better – which drew massive applause – the most moving moment was when he invited Jamiel Shaw Sr. on stage. Shaw Sr’s son was murdered in 2008 in a black neighbourhood by an illegal immigrant. He took multiple gun shots to the head and chest, and Shaw Sr mimicked his son’s dying moments on stage, putting his hands up to his face. He called it “the original hands up, don’t shoot”.

Shaw Sr said that Mr Trump’s interventions on the issue were pivotal, effectively endorsing his candidacy on stage. He said: “I trust Donald Trump because if he can put himself out there like that… for us… then I can trust him.”

Trump told the audience that one of the things that came out of the press conference last night, was that the police were strong and good until they found out it was an illegal immigrant who had killed Shaw Sr’s son – they took it easy on the perpetrator from then on.

The majority of Trump’s speech was based on business, wealth creation, trade negotiation, and immigration.

On his own business, he warned his political opponents and detractors that when his FEC filings are published next week they’ll find, “I’m much richer [than people think]… you’ll see next week,” he said.

On wealth creation and jobs, he spoke passionately about how there should be more jobs in the U.S., instead of calling a company’s customer service line and ending up with someone in New Delhi.

On trade negotiation, he warned that Mexican, Chinese, and Iranian negotiators were much smarter than our own, particularly picking on Carolyn Kennedy, Obama-appointee to the Ambassadorship to Japan. He said that Obama’s appointees were getting killed in the field of negotiation, and that he could do a better job. “I know people… horrible people… you wouldn’t want to have dinner with… but they’re great at what they do [negotiate]”

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On immigration, he talked up a wall for the U.S.-Mexico border, and directly accused the Mexican government of intentionally, “sending us their problems.”

“I love the Mexican people… The problem is their leaders are much smarter than ours…” he repined. “I love people to come into the country legally,” he said, before attacking a commonly held libertarian viewpoint that illegal immigration is to be tolerated.

Trump spoke of how Tea Party supporters have been disparaged for years: “The Tea Party has such power and they always get trivialized… that’s what’s happening with me.” He mentioned later on that his comments are only ever half reported. He focused particularly on the mainstream media which claimed he said, “the American Dream is dead,” without adding the next sentence he said at the time – about his plans to make it bigger, stronger, and better than ever.

Meanwhile, he noted, Hillary Clinton is being subpoenaed by the United States Congress and still somehow failed to disclose her e-mails. She was “the worst secretary of state in the history of the country,” he boomed – claiming that she would not bring back trade or jobs.

But he saved he best of his excoriating remarks for President Obama, “Obama gets along with nobody. The whole world hates us [as a result of him]”

In a clear attack against the political establishment, including Republican candidate Jeb Bush, he said, “Every single person who gave Jeb Bush and Hillary money has something lined up and it’s not necessarily and probably not at all to the benefit of [the American people]. Special interests, lobbyists, donors, they all get something.” He told how his own personal wealth would mean he didn’t owe donors anything – he pointed to Jeb as an example of where a candidate or president could be steered by the money men and women behind him.

He closed on questions from the audience, one of them from a Mexican immigrant who attacked his policy on building a wall across the border. Trump doesn’t handle criticism all that well, but his argument stacked up enough that his talking over the question didn’t matter to most in the audience: “I would build a wall between this country and Mexico… I would encourage legal immigration… but what I don’t encourage is people coming here illegally.”

His takeaway was simple: “I’m going to bring back our jobs, and I thought that was going to be my strength. And it is my strength. But we have to secure the border.”

“We don’t have victories anymore, we used to have victories, and my whole thing is I’m going to make America great again.” source

The Donald’s Hate Trumps All in Race for White House

By Scott Galindez, Reader Supported News

11 July 15

overage of the presidential election has become Trump, more Trump, and Trump all the time. We all know that while it is good TV, the media could ignore him the same way they ignore candidates they think don’t have a shot to win. When is the last time you saw a story on CNN or any other network about John Kasich, who is running for president? I do sometimes hear the Ohio governor mentioned in speculation about who will be left out of the GOP debates. Usually they say Trump will be in and Kasich will be out, so if it weren’t for Trump we wouldn’t hear anything about Kasich.

Hillary Clinton gave her first national interview of the campaign and the only thing I see reported about it is that she didn’t attack Trump but instead turned her fire to Jeb Bush on immigration. So once again it’s part of the infatuation with Trump that is the lead-in to that story.

The Donald has certainly captured the attention of the birthers and the other wackos you see carrying the crazy signs at Tea Party rallies. He probably has the support of the militia types, who think their way of life is at risk because of immigration. I wonder if, in a field of 17, consolidating that crowd is enough to put Trump at the top of the GOP field. Perhaps the solution to Trump will be a fast thinning of the field.

It won’t really help for the less-than-one-percenters to leave, but if a bunch of the less-than-5-percenters throw in the towel, the influence of the extreme wackos will be dampened. I use the term “extreme” wackos because, while we think Ted Cruz, Lyndsey Graham, and others are nuts in their own right, they do have a stronger grip on reality than members of the Michigan Militia and the tin hat-wearing conspiracy nuts out there.

The reality is that Donald will do well in a 17-candidate field, but will fade when the race gets down to 5 or 6. Trump will also help the Democrats, as he will expose how many lunatics are in the Republican Party. Get your popcorn ready and just sit back and watch the Republicans implode while the Democrats have a reasonable debate on the issues that matter. The Democrats are aiming their fire at the right targets – “the billionaire class,” as Bernie Sanders likes to say.

If the Democrats stay out of the mud that Trump is creating and let the GOP wrestle in it, they will come away in great shape. So here is what you may have missed that happened in Iowa since The Donald sucked all the oxygen out of the presidential race.

Ted Cruz

Following the Supreme Court decisions that caused many heads to explode in the right wing of the Republican Party, Senator Cruz, who was a clerk for Justice William Rehnquist, abandoned his often stated defense of the Constitution. Cruz promised to push through a Constitutional Amendment to force Supreme Court justices to face retention elections every 10 years. Just think about how much money would flow into Antonin Scalia’s super pac.

Yup, that’s what we need, Supreme Court justices campaigning every 10 years to keep their seat. Hmm, wait a minute, maybe Cruz should think that through: if more Democrats vote in every national election now, Scalia and Thomas could be toast. No, it’s a bad idea, but …

Cruz is also longing for a return to the days of Ronald Reagan. Twice in his new stump speech, in a half full auditorium in Des Moines that Bernie Sanders packed to the rafters, Cruz talked about the Iranian government releasing the hostages within hours of Reagan being sworn in as president. Cruz failed to mention that the Reagan administration sold weapons to Iran to get those hostages released. Cruz also bashed Obama for “negotiating with the enemy” (Iran). I don’t know about you, but negotiating a deal to keep Iran from getting a nuclear weapon seems like a good thing to me, when compared to selling arms for hostages.

Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton made her second trip to Iowa since her big announcement and held one public event and a house party. I have to give Clinton props for taking questions from the crowd at her public event at the Iowa City Public Library. 350 people were able to get inside, while the Des Moines Register reported that “scores” were turned away. Clinton also gave her first national media interview and promised more to come. I will hold my tongue.

Next Week

To be honest, since Bernie Sanders stormed through Iowa last week, Hillary Clinton’s event has been the only one of note here. It was a slow week, but that will change next week. All of the Democratic candidates will be on the same stage on Friday in Cedar Rapids. The Annual Hall of Fame dinner will take place in Cedar Rapids. It is a fundraiser for the Iowa Democratic Party. Only Martin O’Malley and Jim Webb have shared the same stage so far in this election cycle, so it will be interesting to see the reaction of the most active Democrats when all the candidates are together.

Many of the Republicans will be sharing the same stage the next day in Ames, Iowa. Ben Carson, Sen. Ted Cruz, former governor Mike Huckabee, Sen. Lindsey Graham, Gov. Bobby Jindal, former governor Rick Perry, Sen. Marco Rubio, former senator Rick Santorum, businessman Donald Trump, and Gov. Scott Walker will speak at the 2015 Family Leadership Summit.

So it will be an interesting week. I’ll bet the Family Leadership Summit will get all the headlines, although Bernie and Hillary in the same room should get some. Those headlines will last a day, and then they will be trumped by The Donald.  source

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