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TRUMP AND THE WASHINGTON POST - If you can manage it, you should read
the entire transcript of Donald Trump's interview with the Washington
Post editorial board. It is, as ever, mostly a discursive Trumpian
world salad in which the GOP front-runner hardly ever answers a
question with anything close to real substance. Here are a couple of
our favorite moments. ..

Trump asked for specifics on his desire to "loosen up" libel laws :
"I'd have to get my lawyers in to tell you, but I would loosen them
up. I would loosen them up. If The Washington Post writes badly about
me - and they do, they don't write good. ... I'm not looking for bad
for our country. I'm a very rational person, I'm a very sane person.
I'm not looking for bad."

Trump on what he would do about urban decay and racial tension: "When
you look at the Ferguson problems and the Baltimore problems and the
Detroit problems. And you know there's a lack of spirit. I actually
think I'd be a great cheerleader - beyond other things, the other
things that I'd do - I actually think I'd be a great cheerleader for
the country."

Trump on talking about his anatomy during a debate: "This was not me.
This was Rubio that said, 'He has small hands and you know what that
means.' Okay? So, he started it."

Trump asked if he would use a nuclear weapon against ISIS: "I don't
want to use, I don't want to start the process of nuclear. Remember
the one thing that everybody has said, I'm a counterpuncher. Rubio hit
me. Bush hit me. When I said low energy, he's a low-energy individual,
he hit me first. I spent, by the way he spent 18 million dollars'
worth of negative ads on me."

Post publisher Fred Ryan: "This is about ISIS. You would not use a
tactical nuclear weapon against ISIS?"

Trump: "I'll tell you one thing, this is a very good looking group of
people here. Could I just go around so I know who the hell I'm talking
to?" Full transcript: http://wapo.st/1VxTCNV


Eric D. Schwerin
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