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UCmeNdc

(9,600 posts)
Fri Sep 4, 2015, 04:25 AM Sep 2015

Trump complains about ‘gotcha question’ again after blowing answer on Middle East issues

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump did not take kindly in a radio interview on Thursday to being asked to identify the affiliations of various militant leaders in the Middle East, saying the host was asking “a gotcha question”.

Discussing Islamist extremism, conservative talk-radio host Hugh Hewitt told Trump he was looking for the next president to know who the leaders of major militant groups were, naming the heads of Islamic State, Hezbollah, al Qaeda and its Nusra Front wing in Syria.

“Do you know the players without a scorecard, yet, Donald Trump?” asked Hewitt, who will co-moderate the next official Republican presidential debate on Sept. 16 in California.

“No, you know, I’ll tell you honestly, I think by the time we get to office, they’ll all be changed. They’ll be all gone,” Trump replied.

“You know, those are like history questions. ‘Do you know this one, do you know that one?'” added the billionaire real estate mogul, who has risen to the top of the polls in a crowded Republican field more than a year before the November 2016 election.


http://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/trump-complains-about-gotcha-question-again-after-blowing-answer-on-middle-east-issues/

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Trump complains about ‘gotcha question’ again after blowing answer on Middle East issues (Original Post) UCmeNdc Sep 2015 OP
"... those are like history questions." Jim__ Sep 2015 #1

Jim__

(14,076 posts)
1. "... those are like history questions."
Fri Sep 4, 2015, 04:52 AM
Sep 2015

Sure. And what possible use could a knowledge of history be to the president of the United States? You know, what's that got to do with making yooge deals, or deporting illegal immigrants?

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