" Sarah, thank you very much, is she great?" " Making their way, wow," "I have never seen anything like this before." "I don't know how close they are, let's just obviously stay on these live pictures and see if these men are going to cross over and head..." " Never a stranger to the spotlight, business tycoon and former reality TV star Donald Trump, has been a lightning rod for controversy as far back as some can remember." "But how did it come to this?" "After years of hinting at presidential aspirations, on December 15th, 2014, Trump finally announced that he was seriously considering a run for the office of President of the United States and would make his final decision before the coming Spring." " Maybe getting into politics as a candidate?" "Running for president, or you're not sure yet?" " Well, you know I've been building buildings all my life, we've done a great job, as you understand." "And one thing about David, if he didn't think we did a good job," "I wouldn't be here tonight, that I can tell you." "But we've done a good job and I am considering it very strongly." " Already a fixture on the conservative speaking circuit, having delivered keynote speeches at the 2012 North Carolina State Republican Party Convention, and 2014 National Press Club Luncheon," "Trump had been regarded by many on the political landscape as nothing more than a meddling gate crasher, more entertaining side show than legitimate political threat, but as evidenced throughout his years in the public eye, the resolve of one Donald J Trump" "is not something to be underestimated." "In 2015, shunning the big money overtures of network television," "Trump dove straight into the presidential fray, with a headstrong verve and tenacity, previously reserved for his real estate and financial dealings." "Employing a take no prisoners approach aimed directly at the heart of America and the working men and women who call it home." " And they said, recently, like a few months ago, they said please, please don't run, we renewed The Apprentice, it did great, we had a good last season, even after 12 years, 14 seasons" " His campaign slogan was clear and concise." "Striking a chord with many throughout a deeply divided land." "Make American Great Again." " Make America great again, that I can tell you." "That I can tell you." " Born on June 14th, 1946 in Queens, New York," "Donald John Trump was the fourth of five children." "Donald's father, Fred Trump, would go on to set the stage for his son, by becoming one of New York's premiere real estate developers." "Enrolled in the New York Military Academy at age 13," "Trump would later state that the NYMA gave him more military training than a lot of the guys who go into the military." "Graduating in 1968 from the University of Pennsylvania's" "Wharton School of Business with a bachelors degree," "Trump was unsuccessful in his first foray into show business, as co-producer of the 1970 Broadway flop Paris Is Out." "By 1971, he joined his father in the family business, and relocated to Manhattan, where he began to oversee multimillion dollar construction projects, eventually creating the world famous" "Trump Tower, Trump Taj Mahal, and Trump International Ocean Club Hotel and Tower, among others, as well as acquiring and developing several million square feet of prime Manhattan real estate." "In 1982, Trump was featured on the initial Forbes list of wealth, with an estimated personal value of 200 million dollars." "Later in the 80s, he acted as financial advisor for then world heavy weight boxing champion Mike Tyson, who would return the favor years later, by public endorsing Trump as a presidential candidate." " He should be President of the United States, that what he should be, he should be President of the United States." "Why are people mad at the people?" "Because this who the people want to be president." " For nearly 20 years," "Trump was the owner or partial owner of the" "Miss Universe, Miss USA and Miss Teen USA beauty pageant." "And made several pro wrestling appearances." "Culminating in his 2013 induction into the WWE Hall of Frame, proving that the mogul's innate flare for show biz hadn't faded in the glow of his wide ranging entrepreneurial accomplishments." " The hostile take over of Donald Trump on Vince McMan has happened." " At a Janesville campaign rally, former Miss Wisconsin, Melissa Young, appeared to thank Trump for all his work and for changing her life." "It was a rare and public emotional moment as Trump left the stage to embrace Young, who revealed she was battling terminal cancer." "In 2015 Donald Trump the author, added to his long list of published books, with perhaps his most important title to date," "Crippled America, How to Make America Great Again, released by Simon and Schuster." "The book would lay bare the candidates ideas on the current state of his country and serve as a siren to those running opposite him." "As with everything he undertook, the message was big, uncompromising, and in your face." "Losing wasn't going to be on his agenda." "And being anything less than extraordinary simply wasn't in his DNA as an American." " We wrote a book and the title," "Crippled America, is very tough, but unfortunately we have to do what we have to do and I think one of the reasons we've been doing so well in the campaign is because we tell it like it is," "we tell the truth and America is crippled." "We owe 17 and now 18 and now it's actually very soon going to be 19 trillion dollars in debt." " From the outset," "Trump stayed true to his rebellious reputation, making himself available to mainstream and fringe media outlets alike." "As evidenced by his no holds barred one on one interview with controversial truther Alex Jones, of Info Wars." " Iran is getting the oil, everybody's getting everything but us, so we lost thousands of soldiers, we spent two trillion dollars in Iraq, we have wounded warriors, that I love, all over the place" "and what did we get out of it Alex?" "We have nothing, we have nothing." " Now the French and the Germans are getting the oil and the Iranians are getting the oil." " And you know who the number one customer for the oil is?" "Guess what?" "China." " That's right." " How smart is China?" "They outsmart us on every level, militarily, the outsmart us on trade, like we're losing, we have a 450 billion dollar trade deficit with China." " Appearing on the Today Show," "Trump outlined his commitment to bring jobs back to America, strengthen the US military, and bring an end to open boarder chaos in the southern states." " When people see that I'm going to bring jobs back to this country, when they see that I'm going to strengthen up the military, when they see that I'm going to have strong boarders like nobody else can have," "and we will build the wall, and Mexico will pay for the wall, by the way." "But when they see that we're getting rid of Obamacare, which is a total disaster, and we're going to be replacing it with something good." "When they see we're going to get rid of Common Core, which is also, likewise, a total catastrophe, and we'll bring in education locally, so it can be run by local communities and the parents of the children," "and it's going to be wonderful and beautiful and much better." "When they see what we're going to do, and maybe above all, when they see we are going to make some of the great trade deals." "Every deal we have is a total disaster." "Our country is losing a fortune." " In August of 2016, the already larger than life Trump, entered the presidential debates in grand fashion, stymieing and neutralizing early front runners and opponents like Jeb Bush, Chris Christie," "Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Ben Carson, and Rand Paul, all while making for arresting spectacle." "The viewing public was undeniably engaged, and the 2016 Republican Presidential Debates delivered their highest network ratings in years, surging to a 16.9 million strong viewing audience." "Trump made it look simple." "Dispatching more experienced politicians with relative ease, in a straight talking every man style that wasn't the norm in Washington." " First of all, Rand Paul shouldn't even be on this stage, he's number 11, he's got 1% in the polls, and how he got up here, there's far too many people anyway," "as far as temperament, and we all know that, as far as temperament, I think I have a great temperament." "I've built a phenomenal business with incredible iconic assets." " This is a tough business to run for President." " Oh, I know you're a tough guy Jeb, I know." " And we need to have a leader that is principled." " Real tough." " You're never going to be President of the United States." " You're real tough, Jeb." " By insulting your way to the presidency." " Well let's see, I'm at 42 and you're at three, so so far I'm doing better." " Doesn't matter." " The single biggest liar, you probably are worse than Jeb Bush." "You are the single biggest liar." "This guy lied, let me just tell you, this guy lied about Ben Carson when he took votes away from Ben Carson in Iowa and he just continues." "This guy will say anything, nasty guy, now I know why he doesn't have one endorsement from any of his colleagues." " Alright John, I get to respond." " Pick from the buffet there." " He's a nasty guy." " Donald has this weird pattern, when you point to his own record, he screams liar, liar, liar." "If you want to go and" " Where did I support it?" " If you want to go" " Ted, where did" "I support it?" " If you want to go and watch the video, go to our website Tedcruz.org." " Where did I support it, Ted?" " Out of Donald's" " Don't tell me about a video." "own mouth, when we were back" " Where did I support it?" "We have a country where to assimilate, you have to speak English and I think that where he was and the way it came out didn't sound right to me." "We have to have assimilation to have a country." "We have to have assimilation." "I'm not the first one to say this, Dana." "We've had many people over the years, for many, many years saying the same thing." "This is a country where we speak English, not Spanish." " So hotly contested were these debates, that not even fox news moderator Megan Kelly, could avoid mixing it up with the ever blunt candidate, Trump." "Resulting in some entertainingly off the cuff moments." " You've called women you don't like fat pigs, dogs, slobs, and disgusting animals." "Your twitter account" " Only Rosie O'Donnell." " No, it wasn't." "Your Twitter account" " Thank you." " For the record, it was well beyond Rosie O'Donnell." " Yes, I'm sure it was." " Your twitter account has several disparaging comments about women's looks." "You once told a contestant on Celebrity Apprentice that it would be a pretty picture to see her on her knees." "Does that sound to you like the temperament of a man we should elect as president and how will you answer the charge with Hillary Clinton, who is likely to be the Democratic nominee, that you are part of the war on women?" " I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct." "I've been" "I've been challenged by so many people and I don't frankly have time for total political correctness." "And to be honest with you, this country doesn't have time either." "This country is in big trouble." "We don't win anymore, we lose to China, we lose to Mexico, both in trade and at the boarder, we lose to everybody." "And frankly, what I say and often times, it's fun, it's kidding, we have a good time, what I say is what I say." "And honestly Megan, if you don't like it, I'm sorry." "I've been very nice to you, although I could probably maybe not be, based on the way you have treated me." "But I wouldn't do that." " Speaking on Capitol Hill in September," "Trump took president Obama directly to task for his controversial Iran deal and informed the gathered crowd exactly how he'd negotiate America's dealings abroad." " We are led by very, very stupid people." "Very, very stupid people." "We cannot let it continue." "We are a country that owes 19 trillion dollars, we lose everywhere, we lose militarily, we can't beat ISIS, give me a break." "We can't beat anybody." "Our vets are being treated horribly." "It will change." "We will have so much winning, if I get elected." "That you may get bored with winning." "Believe me." "I agree, you'll never get bored with winning." "We never get bored." "We are going to turn this country around." "We are going start winning bigly, or in trade, militarily, we're going to build up our military, we're going to have such a strong military that nobody, nobody is gonna mess with us." "We're not going to have to use it." " Talking to Fox business in October," "Trump detailed his plans to repeal Obamacare, a plan which had deeply divided much of the nation." " I would repeal Obamacare instantaneously and replace it with something much better, privately done, we get rid of the lines, the artificial lines around each state, so that insurance companies can compete with each other." "The insurance companies have made a fortune on Obamacare." "I would get rid of Obamacare and replace it with something much better." " Speaking to CNN's Erin Burnett in November," "Trump delivered his typically unfiltered views on immigration, taking particular aim at republican opponents, like Marco Rubio." " On this one point though, of deporting 11 million people, even Marco Rubio said today, this morning it can't be done." " What do you mean even Marco Rubio?" "Marco Rubio is in favor of amnesty, he was a member of the Gang of Eight." "He was always in favor of amnesty." "He was in favor of people pouring into the country." "Then what happened is when people found that out, he sank like a rock in the water." " He says is for anyone with a criminal record, people like that being deported." " Now he's saying things differently." " Which is something that you would support." " Erin, he's much different now than he was in the past, OK?" "He's much different." "Now, as far as criminal, they're going to be out so fast." "If I win, you know, we have tremendous problems." "I just gave you an article where an illegal alien ran over today." " In Dallas." " In Texas." " A policeman, three times, just kept running him over." "Look, we have problems." " Appearing at a March rally in Ohio," "Trump made the case for why he'd make a better president than his party rivals." "Electrifying the enthusiastic crowd that had gathered to greet him in a festive airport hanger, as he exited his plane." " Right over there, Eaton Corp, going to Mexico, right over there, Ford, going to Mexico, then he pointed over here, he pointed to two or three other places and I said, "Wow, that's sad."" "And that's what's happening, folks." "That's what's happening." "With me, it's not gonna happen anymore." "We're not going to be the dummies any more." "You're losing your jobs, you're losing your income, you're losing your factories." "They're going to China, they're going to Mexico." "Japan is killing us with the cars." "Now it's Vietnam, it's India, it's everybody." "We don't make good deals anymore." "We don't win anymore." "If you think, we don't win anymore." "Where do we win?" "We lose on trade, we lose with the military." "We can't beat ISIS, we can't beat ISIS." "Here we have military and we can't beat ISIS." "We don't want to use our military." "We don't know how to win anymore." "It's not even in our culture anymore." "You know, the old expression to the victor belong the spoils, right?" "We should have never gone in, and I did not want to go in, believe me," "I said you're going to destabilize the entire middle east, but they went into Iraq, it was a mistake." "They went in, mistake." "Now, Obama gets out the way he got out was so bad." "He puts out a date, the enemy says wow." "They couldn't even believe it, I guarantee you." "He puts out a date when we're leaving." "Bad thing to do, in all fairness, we shouldn't have been there, but we should have left some troops behind so that what happened wouldn't happen." "So Iran is taking over as you stand here," "Iran is taking over Iraq." "Iraq has the second largest oil reserves it the world." "So the Iran deal, I used to say one of the greatest deals I've ever seen is the Iran deal, but actually the greatest deal I've ever seen is what happened just now, Iran is taking over Iraq." "Second largest oil reserves in the world." "That's the greatest deal." "They've been fighting with Iraq forever, forever." "And they go 10 feet one way, 10 feet the other way, 10 feet then they rest." "Then they go again, for years, and years, and years, they fought." "But they were the same." "They were equal military strength." "Saddam Hussein would drop gas." "They'd complain, they'd drop gas." "This is what, this went on forever." "And then we obliterated one of the two powers, and it was obvious, to me it was obvious." "And I said don't do it." "You're going to destabilize." "Now Iran is taking over Iraq." "Iran is going in with Yemen." "Now, they don't want Yemen, what they like is that long big beautiful boarder that separates Yemen from Saudi Arabia." "And I've been really pretty good on these predictions." "You know what, I wrote a book in the year 2000." "The America That We Deserve." "I mentioned in the book Osama bin Laden." "And everyone said, don't forget, that was a year and a half before the World Trade Center came down." "And everyone said, I don't believe it." "One of the big announcers in the morning, great guy, he said, wait a minute, because they brought their books, they said Trump was talking about Osama bin Laden before he knocked down the World Trade Center." "And the guy said no way, no way, let me see, and they looked at the book, that's right." "That's what I did, we had to take him out." "We had opportunities to take him out." "So I'm pretty good at the prognostication." "And I'll tell you, and a lot of you are supporters, and you were supporters before" "I did this whole crazy political thing." "OK, we've been supporters and friends for a long time, but you've seen." "I said take the oil." "I didn't want to be there, but now we're there." "I said you're going to leave, take the oil, take the oil." "I kept saying it." "And they said you can't take the oil, what a terrible thing, this is a sovereign country." "This is a country who was blown off the face of the Earth." "Sovereign." "You had the leaders that we left behind were totally corrupt, they were totally corrupt." "Horrible." "Horrible." "These were corrupt people." "That's what happened with ISIS." "They wouldn't include these people and ISIS turned out and ISIS turned out to be a lot tougher and a lot smarter than the people we chose." "They didn't include them." "So who has the oil?" "Iran has the oil and ISIS has the oil." "What do we have?" "We spent years there." "Two trillion dollars it cost, two trillion, thousands of lives, wounded warriors, who we all love, all over the place." "What do we have?" "We have nothing." "If our leaders would have gone away, elect them president, tell them to go away to the beach, and just sun themselves for four years, we would have been better off." "Now, Saddam Hussein was not a good person." "Who cares?" "I'll tell you what he was great at." "Killing terrorists." "He would kill terrorists." "Now Iraq is Harvard University for terrorists." "You go to Iraq, you want to be a terrorist, you go to Iraq." "It's Harvard, that's what they do." "They kill, we don't do, they develop terrorists all over the place now." "It is far worse than it was before we started." "Now, in the meantime, we have our country, it's crumbling." "You look at our airports, you look at our hospitals, you look at our roads and our highways, you look at our bridges, they'll falling down, you look at our schools." "Our country is falling apart, we've become third world in many respects." "Nobody can negotiate trade deals like me." "We are going to take the 400 billion a year that we're losing with China, that's going to be turned around." "The 75 billion dollars a year that we're short on with Japan." "The 50 billion dollars a year that we lose to Mexico, and that's right, there will be a wall built, it will go up, it will be built, and people will come into the country legally." "So I mean, I'm much different than, you look at Marco Rubio, very, very weak on illegal immigration." "You look at Ben, he's very weak on immigration and wants to get rid of Medicare, I mean," "Ben wants to get rid of Medicare, you can't get rid of Medicare." "It would be a horrible thing to get rid of, it actually works, you get rid of the fraud, waste, and abuse, it works." "So when a man is weak on immigration and wants to get rid of Medicare," "I don't know how he stays there." "So today we had a lot of news and it was all good, it never gets reported properly by these people back here, look at all those press." "You know, I've learned two things, more than anything else." "How smart the people are and how bad and dishonest the press is." "Because it is really dishonest." "It is really, really dishonest." "So we had a lot of polls coming out today and they were really good." "That's right, you're my man." "That's right." "So we had a Monmouth Poll, very highly respected," "Trump 41..." "Cruz 14..." "And everyone else much lower." "I mean, some lower." "So I heard today when they announced the poll, 41 to 14 and I like Cruz, good guy, but I heard, here's how they announced, Cruz surging." "So when I heard, this was on television, Cruz surging, so I said oh, I don't know, that sounds bad to me." "Coming up Cruz surging." "Then they say the Monmouth Poll was just done," "Cruz is surging, Trump 41, Cruz 14." "I said, wait a minute, what's going on?" "I tell you what, they are the most dishonest people." "Then, then you know about CNN," "CNN came out just recently 36 to 16," "Gravis Poll, highly respected." "42 to 16 to 12 to 11." "So then today, it was very interesting, because I did have one poll in Iowa." "Which I never expect to get." "I can't stand the paper, it's a horrible paper." "Des Moines Register, it's terrible." "You know, of course I would never say they do this, but they have a very small sample, if they take about ten votes and put them in their pocket, it's a, you under stand that." "So Des Moines Register was 21, 31 all of a sudden it was like the biggest story I've ever seen, OK?" "That was just Iowa, don't worry about it." "We love Iowa, but I think we're doing great in Iowa, and I expect to win Iowa, we think we're going to do great in Iowa." "I get by far the biggest crowds and..." "Ok." "So then we had a CNN poll, so CNN today was talking about a poll that wasn't theirs." "And I kept saying why don't they talk about a poll that's theirs." "So they just did this poll, it's a new poll." "CNN in Iowa, Trump 33, Cruz 20 and then everyone else much" "So we actually sent a couple of emails, started to tweet a little bit, you know the Twitter is great when you have between, five and 10 and 13, we have so many people." "We have millions." "So we started to tweet, we said, why is CNN not playing their poll?" "It's their poll." "So if anybody has an idea, please let me know before the evening ends." "Then we had a Fox News Poll, which was a pretty good poll, it was pretty much tied." "Then we had Quinnipiac." "And Quinnipiac was 28 Trump, 27 Cruz, in other words we won, they call it a tie, they say it was tied." "I mean sort of when..." "You know the bottom line?" "I think we're going to win Iowa." "I think we're going to win New Hampshire big." "I think that, frankly, if we win Iowa, we run the table." "I think frankly, if we win New Hampshire, which we're way, way, way up and South Carolina's been unbelievable and by the way, in Nevada, in Nevada we're winning big, big, big." "We're winning in Florida, we're winning everywhere, so I just want to let you know, this is not going to be a waste of anybody's time, believe me." "This is going to be something special." "Do I hear some noise over there, yes I do." "Bye, bye." "You know, look at all those cameras turned over there, they turn, they only turn when there's a protester, they never..." "No they are the worst." "They only turn when there's a protester, they never ever turn unless there's a protester." "Yeah, get them out of here please." "Please, please, thank you." "Get them out." "What is our country coming to, it's unbelievable." "No, it's unbelievable." "You know the truth though, I'll be honest." "We should have been doing that for the last seven years," "I give them credit." "I don't know why we don't." "I don't know why we don't." "We have a silent majority that's actually a noisy majority but we should have been doing what they're doing for the last seven years." "Because what's happening to our country is a disgrace." "It's a disgrace." "So alright, thank you, good job." " We love you Trump!" " I love you too." "I love you, I do love you." "That's why I'm doing this." "I had such a nice life, I had such an easy life, now I'm doing this, give me a break." "We're going to make America great again, folks." "We're going to make America great." "And with me, there's no super PACs, there's no phony money all over the place, we're funding, I'm funding my campaign." "You gotta see this." "These people, 125 million dollar super PAC," "I guarantee you, whoever it is, you know who it is, right?" "But there are many of them, there are many of them." "They have all of this money in super PACs, then super PACs totally control the candidate." "They totally control the candidate." "If they want something, they get something." "And if it's not to your benefit, they couldn't care less." "They don't care, believe me." "And that's what's sick about the system." "And frankly, six months ago I was on the other side," "I was like the fair haired boy." "I gave 350,000 to the Republican Governors Association," "I was on the other side." "I was like establishment, can you believe it?" "Now I'm a politician?" "I hate the term." "I'm a politician." "I'll never be a politician, I don't wanna be." "Don't want to be a politician." "They had one case, where a super PAC, for a nice guy, he's a nice guy so I'm not going to mention his name, but it was on the front page of the Los Angeles Times," "a super PAC raised 6 million dollars." "By the time everybody took their slice and their cut, they were left with 140,000 dollars for the campaign." "Think of it." "Now, that's a pretty good business, you guys ought to try it sometime." "Pretty good." " At a Wisconsin town hall meeting in April," "Trump galvanized the local crowd with his positions on NATO, international security, trade agreements, and America's ever spiraling national debt." " And you know, our theme, Make America Great Again." "Folks, we're going to make it so great." "But here's what I want to explain." "We always have a problem, it's a problem in translation, because the press is so totally dishonest." "I mean, you have no idea." "No, no, you have no idea." "It's amazing how smart the people are, they are and he's saying you got that right." "Look, the people get it, they are really, really dishonest." "They'll put like one tenth of a sentence in, they'll cut you off, and worse are cameras." "I always used to say I love doing television." "Because if you do television, it's there." "Well, then they show like a tiny piece of a clip." "It's almost worse than the way they write." "But the press is very dishonest." "So let me just tell you what happened." "So you know NAFTA's been a total disaster right, it's drained businesses." "Well, now we have a new one called TPP," "Transpacific Partnership." "It is so bad, it's worse than NAFTA." "It's worse than NAFTA." "It will drain Wisconsin." "It will drain the United States." "We're doing it with various countries," "All put together a 7,000 page document that I almost guarantee you nobody in our country has ever read, and those countries, from Asia mostly, are all every word is like studied and analyzed and we just sign it." "First of all, we shouldn't sign with 12 countries." "We should sign one, two, three, four, and we reward the good countries, this way the bad countries come in and they take advantage of the good countries, it's too complicated." "It's a stupid deal." "Ted Cruz is totally in favor of it, because people want him to be in favor of it." "Kasich, who voted for NAFTA, is in favor of it because people say you're going to vote for that deal, you're in favor of it, because they support him and he has no choice." "And that deal is a horrible deal." "And you have liberals that want it." "And you have conservatives and then you have plenty of people in congress that don't want it." "OK, but those are the ones that are being honest." "And the biggest single point of the deal is monetary manipulation, devaluation of the currency." "And that's how China and many other countries, take the most advantage of, is devaluation of their currency." "They kill us." "This year we're going to have a 500 billion dollar trade deficit with China." "Then somebody will say, so look," "I'm really a good businessman, I'm so good at business, you people are going to be so rich so fast, you don't even..." "You don't know how rich you're going to be." "We're going to go from a debtor nation, it's going to , you're going to say, wow, what happened?" "But look, look, you have Ted Cruz that refused to approve" "any language on devaluation." "Any language on monetary manipulation." "That's where they beat us, folks." "They devalue their currency so much and then we see our dollar holding and going up, they want our dollar to go up, it sounds good, but in the mean time, Komatsu is killing Caterpillar." "In the meantime, China, look what they're doing, they're draining our businesses, look at what's going on and look at what's going on with Mexico." "Mexico is taking our businesses, not only for devaluation, for a lot of other reasons." "The biggest is that our politicians don't know what the hell they're doing." "Or contributions, OK." "So look, look, we are going to change things, and that's big money, those are trade deals." "I have Carl Icahn, great, great businessman, we have the greatest business people in the world in this country, but we don't use them." "We use political hacks, third rate political slobs, to negotiate with the smartest people in China." "The smartest people in Japan." "And we have all the cards, people don't realize it." "Without our money, with out this big pot of money that's being drained out of your pocket." "And by the way, just I have to do this, because I just feel I have to," "I want to read you some statistics." "And you know, you're going to say, oh, we'll you're going to know about it." "So where am I talking about?" "20% of the manufacturing jobs have left since 2000, you know where that is?" "Wisconsin." "According to the Journal, the Journal Sentinel," "Wisconsin chronically logs, now look at this," "Wisconsin chronically lags the rest of the United States in job creation." "That's not what you hear." "Here's what happened with Scott Walker, and I can only say this because," "I couldn't ask for his endorsement." "I mean, what I did to that poor guy." "Man, no what I did to him." "And he's a nice person, but who cares?" "I don't care if he's nice." "I want to make our country rich and good again." "We put out a statement today, we watched this and it's impossible to watch this gross incompetence that I watched last night." "And we put out a statement a little while ago." "And these people are going crazy." "They won't report it properly." "Should I read you the statement?" "Donald J Trump is calling for, now you gotta listen to this, because this is pretty heavy stuff and it's common sense and we have to do it." "Remember the poll numbers." "25%, 51%, remember the poll numbers," "OK, so remember this, so listen," "Donald J Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what the hell is going on." "We have no choice." "We have no choice." "We have no choice." "According to Pew Research, among others, there is a great hatred toward Americans, by large segments of the Muslim population." "Most recently, a poll from Center for Security Policy released data showing 25% of those polled agreed that violence against Americans," "these are people that are here, by the way." "The people are here." "25, not one percent, by the way, one percent would be unacceptable." "One percent is unacceptable." "25% of those polled agreed that violence against" "Americans here in the United States is justified," "as part of the global jihad." "They want to change your religion." "I don't think so, I don't think so, I don't think so." "Not going to happen." "As part of the global jihad." "And 51% of those polled agreed that Muslims in America should have the choice of being governed according to sharia." "You know what sharia is?" "51%." "Sharia authorizes and I, look this is, I mean, it's terrible," "Sharia authorizes such atrocities as murder against non-believers who won't convert, beheadings and more unthinkable acts," "that pose great harm to Americans, especially women." "I mean, you look, especially women." "Tough stuff." "And we have a president that won't even mention the term." "And you're talking about numbers like this." "Mr. Trump stated, without looking at the various polling data, it's obvious to anybody that hatred is beyond comprehension." "Of such a big portion." "Where the hatred comes from, and why we will have to determine." "We're going to have to figure it out." "We have to figure it out, we can't live like this, it's going to get worse and worse." "You're going to have more World Trade Centers." "It's going to get worse and worse, folks." "We can be politically correct and we can be stupid, but it's going to get worse and worse." "Until we are able to determine and understand this problem and the dangerous threat it imposes, our country cannot be the victim of horrendous attacks" "by people that believe only in jihad." "These are people who only believe in jihad." "They don't want our system, they don't want our system." "And have no sense of reason or respect for human life." "They have no respect for human life." " As the weeks rolled on, the other republican hopefuls fell away one by one, suspending their campaigns and returning to the drawing board, as the Trump train continued gaining steam from coast to coast." "Finally, with only Texas Ted Cruz, and Ohio's John Kasich left standing against him," "Trump appeared at the Pennsylvania rally addressing a public pact between his two rivals, wherein they agreed not to campaign against one another in remaining states in an effort to block Trump from steam rolling to the party's nomination." " So I went on." "Senator Cruz has done very poorly, especially with getting votes, he can't get votes." "And after his New York performance, which was a total disaster, he as in a free fall." "And you know, he reacts very badly under pressure, he chokes under pressure, boy does it choke like a dog." "Also, approximately 80%, which is true, it might be high, approximately 80% of the Republican Party, right now," "because I actually think the 20% is high, is against him and against Kasich, it's even worse." "Now, Kasich, he's only got yeah, one state out of 41." "So he's one for 41." "I'll tell you something, I had a dirty poll given to me." "Florida and Ohio were being done at the same time, right?" "And I was winning Florida by a lot, even though I was running against actually a good guy," "Marco Rubio, by this time, Bush had dropped out." "And you know, it was set up." "Because when they heard that" "Trump was running, they changed it." "Because let me tell you, we have a rigged system." "We have a corrupt system." "This whole thing with the delegates is ridiculous and you have to go out and you have to get your beautiful delegate card and you have to vote for your delegates." "The delegates, it's crazy." "You know, it would be nice if you could just go out and vote." "We can win this state, I mean we're way up in the polls, don't let that fool you, go out tomorrow and vote." "Don't let it fool you." "But here's the story." "And they just said, Mr. Trump, when you go up there, can you please tell them to take their card, vote for the Trump delegates." "I said, that's not like a cool thing to say during a speech." "Vote for the Trump delegates." "OK, now I've done my job." "You know, it would be nice if you could just vote and just be done with it." "But the system is so complicated." "Now we have a great head of the republican party, so we're very lucky." "And we have some great people and we have some amazing delegates and they're going to do a great job." "But here's the story, here's the story." "Thank you, I love you too, look at this guy." "Alright." "And you know, the Kasich thing is interesting because here's a guy that just says I'm going to stay." "Like a stubborn, like if you have a child who's a spoiled brat, where they go, I don't care daddy, get out of the room daddy, I don't care." "This is like a spoiled guy." "If you look at it, Ben Carson, who has endorsed me, did much better, I mean he was tough." "And Ben Carson, Dr. Ben Carson, great, he did better." "Chris Christie, who endorsed me, did better." "Marco Rubio did much better." "I mean, you look at Marco Rubio, he has more delegates right now than Kasich has" "and he's been in the race for a shorter period of time." "It's just a guy that said, I don't care, I'm staying." "And then you see him eating in the morning." "Do you ever see, I have never seen!" "He's stuffing pancakes in his mouth like this." "And I'm always telling my boy, take small bites, Barron, little tiny bites." "And yesterday he said," ""Daddy, who is that guy on television?" ""That's disgusting."" "Do you ever see?" "Then they talk about presidential, oh I see, he's presidential." "He puts pancakes this big in his mouth and he's shoving them in." "This is not a presidential person." "Look, look, Marco Rubio has more delegates." "But you have many, I mean, Jeb Bush could have stayed, a lot of people could have just said, "I don't care!"" "They have no path to victory, folks." "And I'm going to win on the first ballot," "I don't care about what's going on with the second." "You know, they, the press, I don't care" "I don't care." "It's a crooked system, so how would you like to have this?" "Trump wins by four or five million votes." "You see California, I'm at 49%." "We're going out to Indiana and the people of Indiana are smart." "And the people of Indiana know that" "I've been speaking about for four months, the horrible treatment that Carrier air conditioning gave to the people that worked for them and to the people of Indianapolis, Indiana, where they said, you're all fired," "every one of you are fired, we're moving to Mexico." "Finally, it was time for the crucial Indiana primaries." "And though Donald Trump's ideologies had done nothing but garner more and more support on the campaign trail, the outcome was even more striking and decisive than anyone could have predicted." " I've got it right from you folks, OK?" "60,000, in fact, two weeks ago it was 55,000, now it's 60,000 negative ads," "most of which are absolutely false and disgusting, and I said, how can anybody endure this?" "I had one evening two nights ago where literally they had five ads on in between segments" "of a show that I was watching." "And I said, that's just incredible." "And the people are so smart, they don't buy it, they get it and tremendous" "Tremendous amounts of money were spent, millions of millions of dollars, and they were comparing it, they think it was probably eight million dollars was spent against me and we spent 900,000 dollars, so, I mean to me," "that's the way it's supposed to be." "That's something that makes me feel really, really very good and now we're going to Nebraska, where I have, I just hear we're doing really wonderfully," "I look forward to that very much and West Virginia and we're going to get those miners back to work, I'll tell you what." "We're going to get those miners back to work." "We're not going to be Hillary Clinton, and I watched her three or four weeks ago when she was talking about the miners as if they were just numbers and she was talking about she wants the mines closed and she will never let them work again." "Let me tell you, the miners in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, which was so great to me last week," "Ohio, and all over, they're going to start go work again, believe me, you're going to be proud again to be miners." "So we'll be going there." "I must say, this tremendous run that we've had, started with New York, where we had almost 62%, and don't forget, that's with three people, so 62% with two people is a massive landslide," "but 63%, almost, just a little over 62, when you have that kind of a number with three people, it's actually unheard of." "And all throughout, it was 17 people, then 15, then 12 and you know, it's tremendous." "And we were getting very high numbers." "And some of the numbers, in my opinion, that I got in the early stages were, when a state with 32% but there were 14 people," "I think that might be actually more and better than getting 62% in New York, but we never got credit for that, but now we don't need the credit, because we're going after Hillary Clinton, she will not" "She will not be a great president, she will not be a good president, she will be a poor president." "She doesn't understand trade, her husband signed perhaps in the history of the world, the single worst trade deal ever done." "It's called NAFTA." "And I was witness to the carnage over the last six weeks especially." "Now, I've known Syracuse and I've known Poughkeepsie and I've known all of the different places that I visited in New York and then Pennsylvania and then Maryland, which treated me so great and the people are incredible," "and all of the different states, Connecticut." "And I've witnessed what it's done, really first hand." "And it has been, indeed, carnage." "And we're going to change it around." "We're not going to let Carrier and all of these companies just think that they can move, go to another country, make their products, sell it back to us, and we get only one thing, we get unemployment." "Not going to happen any more, folks." "Not going to happen anymore." " Following his resounding primary victory," "Trump appeared before a rockest West Virginia crowd and wasted no time targeting Democratic front runner" "Hillary Clinton's stance on eliminating the American coal industry." "The reaction was understandably electric." " But the miners don't want to leave anyway, is that right, you want to stay here?" "You want to open the mines." "We're going to open the mine." "I see over here Trump digs coal, look at that," "Trump digs coal, that's true." "That's true, I do." "So I've always been fascinated by it," "I've been fascinated by the whole sequence of doing it." "It's incredible the engineering now that's involved and the safety and all that's taken place over the last number of years, especially over the last ten years." "And all of it's getting safe and has it gets safe, they're taking it away from you in a different way." "And I just think you're amazing people and you watch what happens, if I win, we're going to bring those miners back, you're going to be so proud of your president, you're going to be so proud of your country." "You watch." "And the other night, you know we had a big night, we won Indiana." "And that was a great night." "And I had so much help, Bobby Knight, boy did he help me, wow, Bobby Knight." "And we had Lou Holtz and we had the great coach from Purdue, we had a lot of people, Digger Phelps, but I'll tell you Bobby went, and he called me like a year ago, and Bobby is Indiana," "he won 900 games, won three championships, won the Olympics, won the Pan Am Games." "And about a year ago, before I was going to run, because I've been doing this like for nine and a half, 10 months." "Before I really made up my mind," "I get a call from Bobby Knight, who I had never met, but I know Bobby Knight." "He's tough, he's smart, and he knows how to win, that's a good combination, right?" "By the way, that's what the country needs." "And he calls me up and I recognize his voice immediately because, "Mr. Trump, this is Bobby Knight, I hope you run."" "I said, "Bobby, run for what?"" "OK, because I'm telling you," "I was three or four months away." "He said, "I hope you run, Mr. Trump." ""You run for president, you are going to" ""make this country great again, I've been following."" "And you know what he is, he's an expert on talent." "He's talent." "And he said, he said, "I just hope you run."" "I said, "Well, you know, Bobby, I really appreciate it," ""I haven't made up my mind yet," ""but I'd love your number and let me call you back if," ""you know, if I decide to run."" "He said, "Well, you have my support, call me back."" "So, you know, a lot of time goes by." "And then the races and I'm winning and winning and doing really great, but it's, you've been hearing me say, it's a rigged system." "But now I don't say it anymore because I won, OK, it's true." "Now I don't care." "I don't care." "And the only way I won way I won by such big margins, because it is a rigged system." "But the only way you can just, it's like a boxer, you gotta knock him out, then you can worry about the judges." "But, but it's true, I tell that story." "You knock them out and you don't have to worry about the judges, right?" "And I won by so much and what happened with Bobby is a friend of mine from Indiana, the Hilbert's." "I said who would be a good endorsement?" "Because it was so long ago that Bobby called." "He said, "Well, Bobby Knight would be" ""the greatest endorsement you could get," ""but you know, I doubt you could get Bobby Knight."" "I said, "I think I can!"" "So I'm sitting at my desk and I'm looking through all this stuff." "I didn't put in iPhones right, I like the notes better, right, you know, the old fashion, bop, bop, bop, put it under a pile of stuff, right?" "And I'm sitting at my desk and I look and there it is, Bobby Knight." "And I call him up and he picks up the phone and we're just about ready to go to Indiana and he goes, "I've been waiting for you to call."" "I said, "That's right, Bobby, you're gonna--"" "Up for growth, they came to my office, they asked me for a million dollars," "I said I'm not interested and then they advertised against me, can you believe that?" "It's called welcome to the world of politics." "So I'm looking and one ad after another and I say to my people, there's no way we can win, they spent nine million dollars or so, they had thousands of these ads in Indiana." "I called my people, I said there's no way." "I just watched a program and at intermission, they had four ads, all negative ads to Trump and my guy said, "No, you're going to win."" "I said, "Alright, let's see."" "And we won in Indiana in a landslide, it was amazing." "It was amazing." "And Bobby and all of the guys, they were incredible." "That endorsement though, was an amazing endorsement, because he's revered in Indiana and outside of Indiana, they know who Bobby Knight is because he's generally speaking beat your basketball teams, you know it's one of those things, so that was great." "And then a couple of weeks before that," "I won New York in a landslide, and New York is good, won everything." "And the nice part about New York is they know me well and the same thing with the ads." "Negative ads, negative ads." "You know that thing, never Trump, you know why it's never Trump?" "Because I'm going to stop the gravy train for all these consultants and all of these people" "that are ripping off our country." "It's called the gravy train." "So never Trump, by the way, a lot of these never Trumps are calling up, "Mr. Trump, I admire you greatly, sir," ""We'd love to join the campaign."" "I said, "Didn't you do a horrible ad at me two weeks ago?" ""And weren't you on a show where you said horrible things?"" "I said, "How do you pivot from that to" ""saying you think I'm a wonderful person?"" "He said, "No problem, sir, you know why?" ""Politicians, they can do that."" "I have hard time doing it, they can do it." "So now it's really caught on and everyone's happy and then we had, as you know, two weeks ago we had five, we had Maryland, which was unbelievable, all victories by landslides." "We had Maryland, Pennsylvania, where the miners are there and the miners there are just absolutely, they're dying for work." "They're dying for work and they're great people." "They're great people." "I don't know if they're as good as the West Virginia miners, what do you think, I don't know." "I don't know, I don't know, I don't know who's better." "I don't know, they're damn good." "But they're great people and dying for work." "And I was in Pittsburgh and I was around Pennsylvania, so we won Pennsylvania, we won Connecticut, and in Connecticut, I won everything from" "Greenwich to the poorest areas." "They said, "He won Greenwich, we have very wealthy people," ""and he won the poorest areas, won everything."" "I won with men, I won with women." "Very important, what?" "These people." "You know, the media is the most dishonest group of people, but boy they're killing me with the women." "And I think I'm doing great." "You know, every state I've won with women, bigly." "So I've won with men and women." "I've won with rich and poor, highly educated and less than highly educated." "White, African American, we've won with every category." "So I won the five states." "And then I won Indiana, so we won all of the stuff." "And then it was all of a sudden like they just had enough, they couldn't stand Trump winning." "And they couldn't stand the fact that a person that has never done this politically before and a person that's self funding his campaign," "I don't take the contributions." "And by the way, for the general election," "I'm going to help raise money for the party and they'll work with us, but we're going to need, you know I hear the Democrats are going to raise two billion dollars, you believe it?" "This is politics, two billion dollars." "And I'm also going to put in a lot of money in the general, but we're helping to raise money, we have a great group and we're raising money for the party and we're going to get a lot of" "other people elected with us, I will tell you." "So it's been amazing folks, it's been amazing." "And that's when, I mean this was going to be next, and I really wanted to come here and I just didn't have the heart to say thanks a lot West Virginia, you know, I didn't have the heart." "I have, by the way, I have a team of people that were so great and they were so disappointed that I won early, they wanted to win like now, so they get a little of the credit." "I said, "Hey, we just picked up all the delegates," ""we don't have to do anything, right?"" "But I just glad to be here, because I love you people." "The real people." "You're the real, real people, you make this country great." "Remember that, you make this country great." "If they didn't have ridiculous regulations that put you out of business, if they didn't have these ridiculous rules and regulations that make it impossible for you to compete, so we're going to take that all off the tables folks" "and you better do well and you better compete and make me proud of you, OK?" "You'll be proud of me." "But make me proud of you." "Speaking to ABC News," "George Stephanopoulos after the big win," "Trump addressed the well publicized divisions within the Republican party." "His ideas on finding unity with house speaker Paul Ryan and again, his plan to bolster America's diminished position in international trade." " Paul Ryan's different, he's the Speaker of the House, he's the highest ranking elected" "Republican in the country right now, and he's the Chairmen of the Convention." "Back in March, you said he'd pay a price if he didn't get along with you, what is that price?" " Well, we're going to see what happens." "He wants to meet, he'd like to meet, and I think we're meeting on Thursday and we'll just see what happens, it's just more drama, but I think it's a mistake not to do this, we want to bring the party together," "does the party have to be together?" "Does it have to be unified?" "I'm very different than everybody else, perhaps that's ever run for office," "I actually don't think so." "I think that" " It doesn't have to be unified?" " No, I don't think so," "I think it would be better if it were unified," "I think it would be, there would be something good about it, but I don't think it actually has to be unified in the traditional sense." "I'm going to do what I have to do," "I have millions of people that voted for me because I have strong boarders, because I want strong trade, I want good trade." "I want trade, I don't want to be an isolationist, but what's happening with China, what's happening with Japan, what's happening with Mexico, is just absolutely eating our lunch, it's a shame, it's terrible." "So I have to stay true to my principles also." "And I'm a conservative, but don't forget, this is called the Republican Party, it's not called the conservative party, you know there are conservative parties, it's called the Republican Party." "I am a conservative." " It was Plato who said," ""The measure of a man is what he does with power,"" "and after a lifetime in the spotlight, entrepreneur, developer, financier, TV star," "and now presidential candidate Donald Trump, has managed to rally a majority of Americans behind a simple, yet powerful idea." "That we can all be great again."