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CARSON CITY -- Donald Trump plans to speak to Republican activists in Las Vegas next week as he flirts with the idea of running for president.
The owner of the Trump International Hotel and Tower on the Strip has been making headlines lately by leading other potential GOP presidential candidates in several polls .
Trump is scheduled to speak to several GOP women's groups on April 28 at Treasure Island, a person familiar with his schedule said Tuesday. More than 200 Republicans are expected at the event, which will run from about 5:30 p.m. until 7:30 p.m.
Betty Rumford, president of the Spring Mountain Republican Women's club, confirmed that her group was involved in organizing the event along with four other GOP clubs.
"I think there will be great interest in him and all the other possible presidential candidates," Rumford said. "We want to give everyone a shot. And we'd like the people of Las Vegas to hear their messages, what they have to say, as they come through Nevada."
Nevada stands to play an important early role in winnowing the field of GOP presidential candidates. The state's Republican presidential caucus will be the third early voting test of candidates in February 2012 after the Iowa caucus and the New Hampshire primary.
And Republicans from across the West will meet at a conference this fall in Las Vegas where CNN is scheduled to moderate a nationally televised GOP presidential debate. A straw poll is planned at the end of the conference as candidates compete for the GOP nomination.
Trump is among at least half a dozen Republicans who have been targeting Nevada with visits so far this year. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour and former Pennsylvania Congressman Rick Santorum recently visited the state.
Pawlenty was in Las Vegas on Tuesday to meet privately with potential donors to his campaign. His spokesman Alex Conant described the gatherings as "finance meetings." Pawlenty has been working quietly and steadily behind the scenes in Nevada to build up support, both political and financial.
Trump already is scheduled to be in Las Vegas next week to help his billionaire buddy Steve Wynn celebrate his April 30 wedding to Andrea Hissom, a British divorcee.
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paul.J,
You are just like a typical man who always wants to back the hothead, bossy "mafia type" of leader. You guys always go for the rough and tough in everything. Donald Trump is not experienced in politics. He's the right guy, huh? HAHAHAHA! That's just too funny. I guess in your book, he's rich and he is a Republican, so that is enough. In truth, you have no idea who he is, and neither do I. If you want him to win, goody for you, but you're not a psychic to say for sure that choosing Trump is definitely the best decision anyone can make.
Trump's so 'investigators' turn out to be Jerome Corsi, the discredited conspiracy theorist, & Joseph Farah of bogus news site WorldNet Daily, according to an article at Politico they call Donald Trump on a daily basis to supply him with talking points
Trump in the only candidate in this race who shows the leadership qualility we need in this country right now. He is exactly right when he says we are getting ripped off, by China, OPEC, Iraq and others. He said hey, we paid 1.5 billion for Iraq, lets get our money back with interest...that sounds pretty reasonable to me...China manipulates their currency to hurt us, so lets tax their imports, ...sounds like a solution that willl bring the Chinese to the table for a better deal for the USA...Trump says Libya, send all their oil to China, but we we are in there , and China is not...so lets take some of that Libya oil to pay ourselves back....Our negotiators and diplomats have SOLD THE USA OUT for decades, and its time for the USA to start getting its money, its jobs, and its due back...Trump is the ONLY one in the race with a long track record of success...some failures, who hasnt, but mostly success....and the attitude and savey in business and in negotiating deals to put the USA back onthe right track. He has my vote, and he will set things right...its about time we got a hard nose guy in the Whitehouse, instead of all these people who have never done anything but politics and law...they are just social maggets...with no PRODUCTION...Trump has created jobs, built buildings, done deals...hes the right guy, right now.
EGOMANIAC IS THE DONALD
The Donald is not stupid. For instance, he's appointed EXPERIENCED investigators to go to Hawaii to ferret out the secrets behind Obama's birth certificate.
In fact, these are the very same investigators hired by OJ Simpson to discover who was actually behind the Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman murders.
YES, I said it. There is more to Washington than being smart... or being a BUSINESSMAN... or being a billionnaire... especially a "smug" billionnaire. Washington has its own community, like a club and an outsider can't just come to town, call people idiots and demand respect. He'll likely have to earn it over time. From what I know about Trump, I can't picture him getting along with a lot of people there. Whenever he has been publicly criticized in recent years, he never took the high road. He had to hit back -- hard! Once he gets going, he just goes bonkers. If he thinks he's going to be the "new guy" who is the Great Messiah in Washington, well, I think he is going to be sadly mistaken. His tremendous ego will likely become a problem. Sometimes he can't control his big mouth and it could get us into serious trouble, especially when dealing with other nations. But then, businesspeople tend to support their own. That's why so many wealthy folks are already behind Donald Trump. I've heard people say again and again that President Obama lacked experience. What kind of political experience does Donald Trump have? Seriously? Real estate was a lucrative business for many people. Part of Trump's success was because of his line of work. Btw, I want to know how he got started in real estate. Did he come from nothing, like Oprah? Or, did he get a head start and a lot of help from his family? I'm suddenly curious. If Donald Trump runs for office and does well, his supporters will completely overlook his inexperience. We've gone back and forth between the parties, and nobody seems to have all the answers. Be careful what you wish for. When it sounds too good to be true, it usually is. You might get it and regret it. Or you might be jumping from the frying pan into the fire.
Isikoff also said he asked Trump if he thought the state of Hawaii was lying in regards to Obama being born there, and he did not answer the question.
Trump University: No Longer A University?
04-19-10
New York's Department of Education has come close to saying "You're fired" to Donald Trump.
Turns out the mogul's self-named university is a less-than-collegiate.
In a letter obtained by the New York Daily News, state educrats railed on Trump for using the term "university" to describe his online school, calling its use of the name misleading and even illegal.
This isn't the first setback for the self-described "Ivy-League quality" school. The Daily News reports:
Adding to Trump's woes, the for-profit firm that promises to teach wanna-be billionaires the secrets of deal-making was hit with a D-minus rating by the Better Business Bureau in January.
A Trump college official said that the school would cooperate with authorities and consider changing its name to the less august Trump Education.
Meanwhile, Trump himself continues to enlighten his followers. On the university's Facebook page, he's posted an essay about how golf helps him stay successful.
The NBC segment also touched on some of Trump's real estate deals, such as one in Tampa Bay, Florida that fell apart and prompted dozens of lawsuits from investors. And it also mentioned a little-known Trump venture, Trump University, an online seminar series that was eventually forced to remove "University" from its name by the state of New York because, well, it wasn't really a university at all.
Donald Trump brushed aside questions about his business record in an interview
with NBC Nightly News on Tuesday, saying that he gets paid millions of dollars
"because of my genius."
NBC's Michael Isikoff probed Trump about several of his business deals that have
gone sour, most notably the hotel and casino venture in Atlantic City which
bears his name that has filed for bankruptcy protection three times. Trump
deflected that question, saying that he was not in charge of day to day
management.
"I was chairman but I didn't run the company," Trump said. "I had nothing to do
with running the company."
But Isikoff pressed him further, asking why then was he paid $2 million from a
failing casino.
"Because of my genius," Trump responded.