They can’t avoid letting the truth slip out, can they?
Donald Trump bragged Thursday night that he could buy
politicians — even the ones sharing the stage with him at a Republican
presidential debate. Trump was asked about something he said in a previous
interview: “When you give, they do whatever the hell you want them to do.”
“You’d better believe it,” Trump said. “If I ask them, if I
need them, you know, most of the people on this stage I’ve given to, just so
you understand, a lot of money.”
The real estate tycoon continued: “I was a
businessman. I give to everybody. When they call, I give. And you know what?
When I need something from them, two years later, three years later, I call
them, and they are there for me.” Trump said: “With Hillary Clinton, I said be
at my wedding and she came to my wedding. You know why? She didn’t have a
choice because I gave. I gave to a foundation that, frankly, that foundation is
supposed to do good.”
Cruz, Rubio, Walker, Jeb Bush and Carly Fiorina attended
a private meeting of elite campaign donors at a retreat in Southern California
organized by Koch Industries chief executive Charles Koch. At the time Trump
tweeted: “I wish good luck to all of the Republican candidates that traveled to
California to beg for money etc. from the Koch Brothers. Puppets?”
Trump had explained, giving money to politicians bought him
access and relationships, which he could leverage down the road in the form of
favors. Earlier in the debate, Sen. Rand Paul, had stated that Trump “buys and
sells politicians of all stripes.” He wasn’t so much complaining that big
donors like Trump can buy and sell politicians as grumbling that Trump should
only purchase Republicans. Trump, indicating toward Paul, responded: “Well, I’ve
given him plenty of money.”
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee stated that “The problem
is we have a Wall Street-to-Washington access of power that has controlled the
political climate.” He continued: “The donor class feeds the political class
who does the dance that the donor class wants.”
Ted Cruz, said that there are many “career politicians in
both parties who get in bed with the lobbyists and special interests.”
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