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Trump: It Was My Idea that Bin Laden Was in Pakistan

From a CNN report about the speech Donald Trump delivered today in New Hampshire:

During his second trip to the early presidential contest state of New Hampshire, the famously confident Trump said he appeared on television “a few weeks ago” saying bin Laden was in Pakistan but that “nobody else picked it up.”

“You tell them (Pakistan) we’re not giving you any money unless you hand over to us Osama bin Laden and everybody looked at me like eh, nobody else picked it up,” Trump told a crowd at the Chamber of Commerce Nashua Expo. “That’s what I hate about politics. You know when I buy a piece of real estate I own it, OK? When you come up with a good idea in politics, if they like it they take it and they say I have an idea and you know, by that time most people forgot it was Trump’s idea so Trump doesn’t get any credit. I love to get credit.”

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   05/11/11 21:23

He's campaigning for the Trump/Gore ticket.

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brian shrive
   05/12/11 10:28

Trump's use of property ownership is a great metaphor. To continue the metaphor: Obama merely exercised eminent domain over Trump's idea. Surely Trump has no problem with a big fish using eminent domain to take property from a smaller fish?

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