DONALD J. TRUMP ON THE STAKES
OF THE ELECTION
Today I‘d like to share my thoughts about
the stakes in this election.
People have asked me why I am running for
President.
I have built an amazing business that I
love and I get to work side-by-side with my children every day.
We come to work together and turn visions
into reality.
We think big, and then we make it happen.
I love what I do, and I am grateful beyond
words to the nation that has allowed me to do it.
So when people ask me why I am running, I
quickly answer: I am running to give back to this country which has been so
good to me.
When I see the crumbling roads and
bridges, or the dilapidated airports, or the factories moving overseas to
Mexico, or to other countries, I know these problems can all be fixed, but not
by Hillary Clinton – only by me.
The fact is, we can come back bigger
and better and stronger than ever before --Jobs,
jobs, jobs!
Everywhere I look, I see the possibilities
of what our country could be. But we can’t solve any of these problems by
relying on the politicians who created them.
We will never be able to fix a rigged
system by counting on the same people who rigged it in the first place.
The insiders wrote the rules of the game
to keep themselves in power and in the money.
That’s why we’re asking Bernie Sanders’
voters to join our movement: so together we can fix the system for ALL
Americans. Importantly, this includes fixing all of our many
disastrous trade deals.
Because it’s not just the political system
that’s rigged. It’s the whole economy.
It’s rigged by big donors who want to keep
down wages.
It’s rigged by big businesses who want to
leave our country, fire our workers, and sell their products back into the U.S.
with absolutely no consequences for them.
It’s rigged by bureaucrats who are
trapping kids in failing schools.
It’s rigged against you, the American
people.
Hillary Clinton who, as most people know,
is a world class liar –just look at her pathetic email and server
statements, or her phony landing in Bosnia where she said she was under attack
but the attack turned out to be young girls handing her flowers, a total
self-serving lie.
Brian Williams’ career was destroyed for
saying far less.
Yesterday, she even tried to attack me and
my many businesses. But here is the bottom line: I started off in Brooklyn New
York, not so long ago, with a small loan and built a business worth over 10
billion dollars. I have always had a talent for building businesses and,
importantly, creating jobs. That is a talent our country desperately needs.
I am running for President to end the
unfairness and to put you, the American worker, first.
We are going to put America First, and we
are going to Make America Great again.
This election will decide
whether we are ruled by the people, or by the politicians.
Here is my promise to the American voter:
If I am elected President, I will
end the special interest monopoly in Washington, D.C.
The other candidate in this race has spent
her entire life making money for special interests – and
taking money from special interests.
Hillary Clinton has perfected the politics
of personal profit and theft.
She ran the State Department like her own
personal hedge fund – doing favors for oppressive regimes, and many others, in
exchange for cash.
Then, when she left, she made $21.6
million giving speeches to Wall Street banks and other special interests – in
less than 2 years – secret speeches that she does not want to reveal to the
public.
Together, she and Bill made $153 million
giving speeches to lobbyists, CEOs, and foreign governments in the years since
2001.
They totally own her, and that will never
change.
The choice in this election is a choice
between taking our government back from the special interests, or surrendering
our last scrap of independence to their total and complete control.
Those are the
stakes.
Hillary Clinton wants to be President. But
she doesn't have the temperament, or, as Bernie Sanders' said, the judgement,
to be president.
She believes she is entitled to the
office.
Her campaign slogan is “I’m with her.”
You know what my response to that is? I’m
with you: the American people.
She thinks it’s all about her.
I know it’s
all about you – I know it’s all about making America Great
Again for All Americans.
Our country lost its way when
we stopped putting the American people first.
We got here because we switched from a
policy of Americanism – focusing on what’s good for America’s middle class – to
a policy of globalism, focusing on how to make money for large corporations who
can move their wealth and workers to foreign countries all to the detriment of
the American worker and the American economy.
We reward
companies for offshoring, and we punish companies for doing business in America
and keeping our workers employed.
This is not a
rising tide that lifts all boats.
This is a wave
of globalization that wipes out our middle class and our jobs.
We need to reform our economic system so
that, once again, we can all succeed together, and America can become rich
again.
That’s what we mean by America First.
Our country will be better off when we
start making our own products again, bringing our once great manufacturing
capabilities back to our shores.
Our Founders understood this.
One of the first major bills signed by
George Washington called for “the encouragement and protection of
manufactur[ing]” in America.
Our first Republican President, Abraham
Lincoln, warned us by saying:
“The abandonment of the protective policy
by the American government will produce want and ruin among our people.”
I have visited the cities and towns across
America and seen the devastation caused by the trade policies of Bill and
Hillary Clinton.
Hillary Clinton supported Bill Clinton’s
disastrous NAFTA, just like she supported China’s entrance into the World Trade
Organization.
We’ve lost nearly one-third of our
manufacturing jobs since these two Hillary-backed agreements were signed.
Our trade deficit with China soared 40%
during Hillary Clinton’s time as Secretary of State -- a disgraceful
performance for which she should not be congratulated, but rather scorned.
Then she let China steal hundreds of
billions of dollars in our intellectual property – a crime which is continuing
to this day.
Hillary Clinton gave China millions of our
best jobs, and effectively let China completely rebuild itself.
In return, Hillary Clinton got rich!
The book Clinton Cash, by Peter
Schweitzer, documents how Bill and Hillary used the State Department to enrich
their family at America’s expense.
She gets rich making you poor.
Here is a quote from the book: “At the
center of US policy toward China was Hillary Clinton…at this critical time for
US-china relations, Bill Clinton gave a number of speeches that were
underwritten by the Chinese government and its supporters.”
These funds were paid to the Clinton bank
account while Hillary was negotiating with China on behalf of the United
States.
She sold out our workers, and our country,
for Beijing.
Hillary Clinton has also been the biggest
promoter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which will ship millions more of our
jobs overseas – and give up Congressional power to an international foreign
commission.
Now, because I have pointed out why it
would be such a disastrous deal, she is pretending that she is against it. She
has even deleted this record of total support from her book – deletion is something
she is very good at -- (at least 30,000 emails are missing.)
But this latest Clinton cover-up doesn’t
change anything: if she is elected president,she will adopt the
Trans-Pacific Partnership, and we will lose millions of jobs and our
economic independence for good. She will do this, just as she has betrayed the
American worker on trade at every single stage of her career – and it will be
even worse than the Clintons’ NAFTA deal.
I want trade deals, but they have to be
great for the United States and our workers.
We don't make
great deals anymore, but we will once I become president.
It’s not just our economy
that’s been corrupted, but our foreign policy too.
The Hillary
Clinton foreign policy has cost America thousands of lives and trillions of dollars
– and unleashed ISIS across the world.
No Secretary of State has been more wrong,
more often, and in more places than Hillary Clinton.
Her decisions spread death, destruction
and terrorism everywhere she touched.
Among the victims is our late Ambassador,
Chris Stevens. He was left helpless to die as Hillary Clinton soundly slept in
her bed -- that's right, when the phone rang at
3 o'clock in the morning, she was
sleeping.
Ambassador Stevens and his staff in Libya
made hundreds of requests for security.
Hillary Clinton’s State Department refused
them all.
She started the war that put him in Libya,
denied him the security he asked for, then left him there to die.
To cover her tracks, Hillary lied about a
video being the cause of his death.
Here is what one of the victim’s mothers
had to say:
“I want the whole world to know it: she
lied to my face, and you don’t want this person to be president.”
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In 2009, before Hillary Clinton was sworn
in, it was a different world.
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Libya was cooperating.
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Iraq was seeing a reduction in violence.
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Syria was under control.
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Iran was being choked by sanctions.
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Egypt was governed by a friendly regime
that honored its peace treaty with Israel.
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ISIS wasn’t even on the map.
Fast forward to 2013: In just four years, Secretary
Clinton managed to almost single-handedly destabilize the entire Middle East.
Her invasion of Libya handed the country
over to the ISIS barbarians.
Thanks to Hillary Clinton, Iran is now the
dominant Islamic power in the Middle East, and on the road to nuclear weapons.
Hillary Clinton’s support for violent
regime change in Syria has thrown the country into one of the bloodiest civil
wars anyone has ever seen – while giving ISIS a launching pad for terrorism
against the West.
She helped force out a friendly regime in
Egypt and replace it with the radical Muslim Brotherhood. The Egyptian military
has retaken control, but Clinton has opened the Pandora’s box of radical Islam.
Then, there was the disastrous strategy of
announcing our departure date from Iraq, handing large parts of the country
over to ISIS killers.
ISIS threatens us today because of the
decisions Hillary Clinton has made.
ISIS also threatens peaceful Muslims
across the Middle East, and peaceful Muslims across the world, who have been terribly
victimized by horrible brutality – and who only want to raise their kids in
peace and safety.
In short, Hillary Clinton’s tryout for the
presidency has produced one deadly foreign policy disaster after another.
It all started with her bad judgment in
supporting the War in Iraq in the first place.
Though I was not in government service, I
was among the earliest to criticize the rush to war, and yes, even before the
war ever started.
But Hillary Clinton learned nothing from
Iraq, because when she got into power, she couldn’t wait to rush us off to war
in Libya.
She lacks the temperament, the judgment
and the competence to lead.
In the words of a Secret Service agent
posted outside the Oval Office:
“She simply lacks the integrity and
temperament to serve in the office…from the bottom of my soul, I know this to
be true…Her leadership style – volcanic, impulsive…disdainful of the rules set
for everyone else – hasn’t changed a bit.”
Perhaps the most terrifying thing about
Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy is that she refuses to acknowledge the threat
posed by Radical Islam.
In fact, Hillary Clinton supports a
radical 550% increase in Syrian refugees coming into the United States, and that's
an increase over President Obama's already very high number.
Under her plan, we would admit hundreds of
thousands of refugees from the most dangerous countries on Earth – with no way
to screen who they are or what they believe.
Already, hundreds of recent immigrants and
their children have been convicted of terrorist activity inside the U.S.
The father of the Orlando shooter was a
Taliban supporter from Afghanistan, one of the
most repressive anti-gay and anti-women
regimes on Earth.
I only want to admit people who share our
values and love our people.
Hillary Clinton wants to bring in people
who believe women should be enslaved
and gays put to death.
Maybe her motivation lies among the more
than 1,000 foreign donations Hillary failed to disclose while at the State
Department.
Hillary Clinton may be the most
corrupt person ever to seek the presidency.
Here is some
more of what we learned from the book,
Clinton Cash:
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A foreign telecom giant faced possible State Department
sanctions for providing technology to Iran, and other oppressive regimes.
So what did this company do? For the first time ever, they decided to pay Bill
Clinton $750,000 for a single speech. The Clintons got their cash, the telecom
company escaped sanctions.
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Hillary Clinton’s State Department approved the transfer of 20%
of America’s uranium holdings to Russia, while 9 investors in the deal funneled
$145 million to the Clinton Foundation.
Hillary Clinton
appointed a top donor to a national security board with top secret access –
even though he had no national security credentials.
Hillary Clinton
accepted $58,000 in jewelry from the government of Brunei when she was
Secretary of State – plus millions more for her foundation. The Sultan of
Brunei has pushed oppressive Sharia law, including the punishment of death by
stoning for being gay. The government of Brunei also stands to be one of the
biggest beneficiaries of Hillary’s Trans-Pacific Partnership, which she would
absolutely approve if given the chance.
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Hillary Clinton took up to $25 million from Saudi Arabia, where
being gay is also punishable by death.
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Hillary took millions from Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and many other
countries that horribly abuse women and LGBT citizens.
To cover-up her
corrupt dealings, Hillary Clinton illegally stashed her State Department emails
on a private server.
Her server was easily hacked by foreign
governments – perhaps even by her financial backers in Communist China –
putting all of America in danger.
Then there are the 33,000 emails she
deleted.
While we may not know what is in those
deleted emails, our enemies probably do.
So they probably now have a blackmail file
over someone who wants to be President of the United States.
This fact alone disqualifies her from the
Presidency.
We can’t hand over our government to
someone whose deepest, darkest secrets may be in the hands of our enemies.
National security is also
immigration security –and Hillary wants neither.
Hillary Clinton has put forward the most
radical immigration platform in the history of the United States.
She has pledged to grant mass amnesty and
in her first 100 days, end virtually all immigration enforcement, and thus
create totally open borders in the United States
The first victims of her radical policies
will be poor African-American and Hispanic workers who need jobs. They are the
ones she will hurt the most.
Let me share with you a letter our
campaign received from Mary Ann Mendoza.
She lost her amazing son, Police Sergeant
Brandon Mendoza, after he was killed by an illegal immigrant because of the
open borders policies supported by Hillary Clinton.
Sadly, the Mendoza family is just one of
thousands who have suffered the same fate.
Here is an excerpt from Mrs. Mendoza’s
letter:
“Hillary Clinton, who already has the
blood of so many on her hands, is now announcing that she is willing to put
each and every one of our lives in harms’ way – an open door policy to
criminals and terrorists to enter our country. Hillary is not concerned about
you or I, she is only concerned about the power the presidency would bring to
her. She needs to go to prison to pay for the crimes she has already committed
against this country.”
Hillary also wants to spend hundreds of
billions to resettle Middle Eastern refugees in the United States, on top of
the current record level of immigration.
For the amount of money Hillary Clinton
would like to spend on refugees, we could rebuild every inner city in America.
Hillary’s Wall Street immigration agenda
will keep immigrant communities poor, and unemployed Americans out of work. She
can’t claim to care about African-American and Hispanic workers when she wants
to bring in millions of new low-wage workers to compete against them.
Here are a few things a Trump
Administration will do for America in the first 100 days:
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Appoint judges who will uphold the Constitution. Hillary
Clinton’s radical judges will virtually abolish the 2nd amendment.
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Change immigration rules to give unemployed Americans an
opportunity to fill good-paying jobs
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Stand up to countries that cheat on trade, of which there are
many
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Cancel rules and regulations that send jobs overseas
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Lift restrictions on energy production
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Repeal and replace job-killing Obamacare -- it is a disaster.
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Pass massive tax reform to create millions of new jobs.
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Impose tough new ethics rules to restore dignity to the Office
of Secretary of State.
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There is one common theme in all of these
reforms.
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It’s going to be America First.
This is why the stakes in
November are so great.
On election day, the politicians stand
trial before the people.
The voters are the jury. Their ballots are
the verdict. We don’t need or want another Clinton or Obama.
Come
November, the American people will have a chance to issue a verdict on the
politicians that have sacrificed their security, betrayed their prosperity, and
sold out their country.
They
will have a chance to vote for a new agenda with big dreams, bold ideas and
enormous possibilities for the American people.
Hillary Clinton’s message is old and
tired. Her message is that can’t change.
My message is that things have to change –
and this is our one chance do it. This is our last chance to do it.
Americans are the people that tamed the
West, that dug out the Panama Canal, that sent satellites across the solar
system, that built the great dams, and so much more.
Then we started thinking small.
We stopped believing in what America could
do, and became reliant on other countries, other people, and other
institutions.
We lost our sense of purpose, and daring.
But that’s not who we are.
Come this November, we can bring America
back – bigger and better, and stronger than ever.
We will build the greatest infrastructure on
the planet earth – the roads and railways and airports of tomorrow.
Our military will have the best technology
and finest equipment – we will bring it back all the way.
Massive new factories will come roaring
into our country – breathing life and hope into our communities.
Inner cities, which have been horribly
abused by Hillary Clinton and the Democrat Party, will finally be rebuilt.
Construction is what I know -- nobody
knows it better.
The real wages for our workers have not
been raised for 18 years -- but these wages will start going up, along with the
new jobs. Hillary’s massive taxation, regulation and open borders will destroy
jobs and drive down wages for everyone.
We are also going to be supporting our
police and law enforcement -- we can never forget the great job they do.
I am also going to appoint great Supreme
Court Justices.
Our country is going to start working
again.
People are going to start working again.
Parents are going to start dreaming big
for their children again – including parents in our inner cities.
Americans are going to start believing in
the future or our country.
We are going to make America rich again.
We are going to make America safe again.
We are going to make America Great Again –
and Great Again For EVERYONE.
