Donald Trump Wants To Fire The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter

Picture by Tyler Rogoway 

Donald Trump introduces one of his new ideas about defensive policies. He mentions how he wants to get rid and fire the F-35 because during one of the test flights it turned into poor outcome;  he does not want our society to waste any more money, billions he says, on these little things and that "our existing planes are better." However, he also mentions that he wants to have the strongest and best military every during his presidency,  so people are unsure of what Trump really wants and unsure if his decisions are really thought through clearly. As the presidential campaign continues, we see more and more of Trump and figure out his personality and actions.

http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/donald-trump-wants-to-fire-the-f-35-joint-strike-fighte-1739661015

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For the first time Donald Trump is not  leading in first place in the polls

Carson and Trump have been running consistently neck-and-neck since the start of September -- with other candidates struggling to keep pace. However Donald Trump has been the number one in the polls for the republican party since June. Two polls released Thursday and Friday showed Trump slipping to second place in Iowa with 20% and 19% of support, respectively, while Carson surged to first place with 28% in both polls. Carson won the support of 26% of Republican primary voters, compared to 22% who are backing Trump, according to CBS news/ New York Times. Though within the poll's margin of error, it marks the first time since the billionaire businessman's dominant rise over the summer where he has been bumped from the top spot nationally. 

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/23/politics/donald-trump-ben-carson-iowa-polls-immigration/

Trump vows to make Mexico pay for "Great Wall"

Donald trump said tonight in the GOP presidential debate that:

 "We're going to do a wall; we're going to have a big, fat beautiful door on the wall; we're going to have people come in, but they're going to come in legally." 

On top of this Trump said he is going to make the Mexican leaders pay for this wall and that he is going to make sure that people only get into this country legally. Trump even went as far as saying that the Mexican Leaders are 'sharper' than our American leaders. Trump says the wall will keep out the "rapist, and crime comitters" that mexico currently "sends" to the United States.

Week 5: Donald Trump Reporting

Newsworthy Moment:

Trump no longer stands atop the national rankings among GOP presidential contenders. According to a CBS News/New York Times poll, Carson holds the support of 26% of GOP voters, compared to Trump who now sits at 22%. While the 4-point difference is between the poll's margin of error, for the first time in nearly 5 months Trump sits at second place in the Republican field while Ben Carson continues to surge. (CNN)

Link to full story:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/27/politics/ben-carson-donald-trump-cbs-poll/

In other news, the Republican field prepares for tomorrow's debate. The debate will be held at the University of Colorado Boulder, and will be televised on CNBC starting at 5pm PT. Trump will have to rile up voters watching at home if he wants to regain some ground in the national poll, and as Trump currently stands in 2nd place, his performance in tomorrow's debate will play a big role in the race for the GOP nomination.

Story about tomorrow's debate: 

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/10/27/republican-presidential-debate-comes-to-boulder-wednesday/74712458/

Movement in Polls:

As mentioned earlier, Trump now sits in 2nd place nationally behind Ben Carson in the GOP power rankings. See the first story in this report for more details.

Fundraising:

No news regarding fundraising this week. Trump continues to claim that he's turning down millions of dollars for his quote "self-funded campaign". "Everybody's offering me money, and I don't want it". Trump said this at a dinner in Massachusetts back in August.

CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/28/politics/donald-trump-fundraiser-norwood-boston/

Positions:

No new headline positions from Trump this week. However, since this report is being published on Tuesday, and it's still early in the week, the Trump Team will post any breaking news regarding Trump and any new, loud positions up until Friday night. This being said, Trump may offer a new position in order to seek approval during tomorrow night's debate, but that's just speculation.

Challenges this Week:

Trump faces two daunting challenges this week. One, impressing voters during tomorrow night's debate, and two, gaining approval these next few days in order to make up ground on the national GOP level. It'll be interesting to see next week's poll results. Will nothing change? Will Carson extend his new found lead, or will Trump gain back ground? We'll have to wait and see what happens next, starting with tomorrow night's Republican debate.

Aversion to Fundraising, Donald Trump Still Rakes in Millions

As the election continues to progress on, one of the main topics that is very high in the elections is towards the strengths and weaknesses of the fundraising in a presidential campaign. Donald Trump is a very wealthy man, but it is seen that he does not contribute to donation as much as the other presidential candidates but instead uses his own money for his own benefits and self-funding himself in this campaign. Yes he is intelligent in using his money to his own benefits but I believe the weakness in him is that people are wanting to see more donations from him because of his wealth. 

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/averse-to-fundraising-donald-trump-still-rakes-in-millions/

Super PAC supporting Trump shuts down

A super PAC with ties to Donald Trump's presidential campaign is shutting down in an effort to put an end to building questions about the closeness of the two operations. The "Make America Great Again" super PAC, which had been collecting donations to support Trump's presidential candidacy, will stop its fundraising activity, according to Mike Ciletti, who formed the group in Colorado in July. 

Ciletti mentioned, "the focus should be on the issues and candidates." He added, "People are making an issue out of me knowing people on the Trump campaign as somehow that is newsworthy." "Personally I support Mr. Trump, otherwise I would not have started the super PAC." However, to honor Mr. Trump's wishes, Ciletti states, "I am closing my super PAC and will wait for the primary to reach Colorado to have an impact on the race." 

Mr. Trump routinely says that he is funding his own race, and that while people are offering him “millions,” he doesn’t want to accept it. In addition to Trump's disavowel, he asked all donations made to them be returned to the donors, and he called on all of the candidates to do the same thing and disavow their super PACs.

Read more: 
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/super-pac-supporting-donald-trump-to-shut-down/
http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/10/22/super-pac-raising-money-for-donald-j-trump-to-shut-down/?_r=0

Week 4: Donald Trump Reporting

Headlines:

• A tweet mocking Iowans was re-tweeted from the Trump twitter page (try saying that three times fast). Speculation suggests that one of Donald's campaign advisors re-tweeted the tweet, but others claim that Donald Trump's twitter account could have been hacked. Either way, Carson now leads Trump in the polls in the state of Iowa. 

Source: 

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/10/23/donald-trump-in-tempest-over-tweet-about-iowans/?_r=0

Polls:

• As mentioned earlier, Carson now leads Trump in the polls in Iowa. However, Trump still seems to hold a strong lead across the GOP-voting nation.

Source: 

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/iowa-poll/caucus/2015/10/23/ben-carson-charges-9-points-ahead-of-donald-trump-iowa-poll-gop/74278414/

As usual, little news regarding Trump's fundraising as he, or at least he says, is funding his own campaign. Very little new positions offered as well, but I found this interview on CNBC interesting. Trump is very confident going into this election, as he's comparing himself to "Superman".

CNBC interview: http://www.cnbc.com/2015/10/23/is-the-long-awaited-trump-fade-finally-here.html

Future Challenges:

• Carson is hot on Trump's heels. If Donald wants to secure the GOP nomination, he's going to have to ensure that he's the #1 Republican candidate heading into 2016.

Donald Trump Leads in Expectations, Shows Strength on Polls

Even though Trump is moving up in the Polls and getting more votes than any other republican candidate he is on thin ice. Roughly equal numbers of leaned Republicans say the more they hear about Trump the less they like him, compared with liking him more.  When Trumps opinions are so straight up and bias, one thing that he can say can change all of his voters opinions about him. If he continues to speak more without a filter he may have to pay for the price, resulting in the change of the percentages in his polls.





http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-leads-expectations-shows-strength-attributes-poll/story?id=34599211

Trump: Bush did 9/11

After being an a twitter war with Jeb Bush, Trump said that George W. Bush is partly to blame because 9/11 happened on his watch and he did not do enough to keep us safe. When swarmed by media Trump was unprecedentedly quiet when being asked several questions by media outlets a strong sway in the opposite direction of Donald who always seems to enjoy going on a tangent and speaking his mind. Marked a "truther" by the white house press secretary of George W. Bush or someone who believes that the government was behind the attacks on September 11th. The backlash did not stop there, Trump was asked if every bad event that has happened during the Obama administration is the presidents fault. Trump failed to answer any of the questions. Trump simply said we "need a leader" something he claims we don't have right now.

Source

Donald Trump CNN Debate Highlights

Strong Donald Trump demonstrates his strong power and his beliefs in his capabilities of changing this country. He is very confident in his ideas and demonstrates good judgment. However, can be negative towards his other candidates and strongly wants to be correct.

The politically incorrect Donald Trump in politics, creates chaos during interview on Fox News

“He apologized like a little baby, like a disgusting, little, weak, pathetic baby, and that’s the problem with our country.

During an interview on Fox News, Donald Trump makes a very rude and not president like comment. We all know that Donald Trump is not a candidate known for being nice, however many believe that he has crossed the line this week. Trump makes a comment about O'Malley and his way of responding to a comment. O'Malley apologized for using the words "white" during a protest for Black Lives Matter. When Trump heard about this he was overheated and overwhelmed. He argued that black lives matter and so do white lives. "This is a problem with our country". What Trump was referring to was, why is our country so apologetic and that we need to be more straight forward with our words, however many citizens can argue that Trump crossed the line with his comment and that was not political like at all. If Trump wants to continue being high in the polls then he cannot say things like these and many people refer to Trumps speeches as hate speeches, and that's definitely not something that you want potential registered voters  to say about you. But, many citizens do appreciate Trumps honestly and will vote for him because he speaks his mind and won't back down no matter what gets into his way. 

http://national.suntimes.com/national-world-news/7/72/1685929/donald-trump-most-quotable-moments-this-week

WEEK 3 REPORTING-DONALD TRUMP

Headlines:

Donald Trump and Ben Carson both filed complaints to CNBC, which hosts the next Republican presidential debate on October 28th. What's strange is that Trump and Carson filed their complaints together under one letter, despite camp Trump and camp Carson being rival campaigns. One of the complaints was that the debate should be shortened to 2 hours, as opposed to the last debate which took nearly 3 hours. Trump even threatened to pull out of the next debate, though some critics argue that this was merely another statement to get the media riled up.

Polls:

According to the latest poll, Trump leads the GOP at 36%, with Ben Carson trailing in second at 18%. Trump and Carson are the only 2 candidates who have approval percentages in the double-digits. Still, this means that Trump currently holds a whopping 18-point lead over Carson.

No news regarding fundraising or new positions, aside from Trump and Carson trying to "boycott" the next GOP debate.

Future Challenges:

Despite receiving constant media attention, Trump will have to show in the next few weeks how he's qualified to be president. Debates can bring about major changes in polling, so if Trump wants to hold his lead, he's going to (at least eventually) have to show Americans that he's intelligent enough to serve as commander-in-chief. Also, Trump will have to demonstrate that he can hold his tongue, because if there's any part of Donald Trump that's going to lose him this election, it's his mouth.

Sources:

CNN-Debate Complaints 

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/15/politics/trump-carson-cnbc-republican-debate-threaten-pullout/

The Blaze, reacting to "Morning Joe" (MSNBC)

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/10/15/watch-msnbc-panels-reaction-to-latest-round-of-polls-showing-donald-trump-dominating-key-states-big-issues/

This is Ben Jacot, reporting for the Artime Gazette, The Trump Team.

Trump's Campaigning Strategy....

Campaign in Treasure Island Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada on Thursday.

As election time draws closer, we are all wondering why we haven't seen Trump's Presidential Election ads on television, or anywhere for that matter. According to recent reporters, like Maggie Haderman, and Bill Barrow, Trump has unlimited FREE media-coverage. Compared to his opponents, this is currently working for Trump, because he is leading the Republican Nomination polls with a +6.0 spread. Since the last filing of Campaign finances Trump has only spent "$2 million of his own money on his self-financed bid for office."(Haderman, P.19) However, according to Barrow, Trump claims that he has several television ads, ready to run "if he has to." Barrow writes "He said he'd initially planned to spend $20 million on advertising by this point, but argued there has been no need; he pointed to free media attention."(Barrow, P.5) Many claim Trump will get southern votes, because this is where voters tend to be more conservative, and most "distrustful" of central government. As the election goes on, Trump will have to soon use those ads, and start putting his campaign fund to use, if he's serious about becoming President. Media coverage alone isn't enough to put him in office, and most of it is slander, so why he hasn't put forth more effort towards campaigning is beyond me.

Read more here: http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2015/10/10/3848031/donald-trump-brash-new-yorker.html#storylink=cpy

"Trump, brash New Yorker, Builds Up Southern campaign" by Bill Barrow

"From Donald Trump, Hints of a Campaign Exit Strategy" by Maggie Haberman

Week 2 Reporting-Donald Trump

In the news:

According to a piece by the New York Times, Trump has been dropping hints on several news media programs regarding how and why he would exit a presidential race. Despite explicitly stating on MSNBC on Friday that he would indefinitley remain in the presidential race, these latest developments as a trend have caught the media's attention. Would Donald Trump consider dropping out of the race as 2016 rolls around? It's not likely, but it's certainly an open possibility.

Source NY Times, link to article: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/10/us/politics/donald-trump-presidential-race.html?_r=0

Polling:

While Trump has remained fairly neutral in the polls, his lead against Ben Carson is shrinking. Trump and Carson are the only two GOP candidates who have double-digit support, and Carson has been rising in the polls as of recently, largely due to Bush's latest comments regarding the shooting at Umpqua CC.

Source CNN, link to article: http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/09/politics/donald-trump-ben-carson-poll-hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders/

Fundraising Strength:

While no major news has developed this week, Trump has raised $1.9 million thus far towards his campaign. This figure is relatively smaller compared to his GOP rivals, however Trump has referenced to funding his own campaign. Trump can financially pull this off, as his net worth is near $10 billion, which is way, way more than anyone else in the field running for president. 

Source Inside Gov, link to article: http://presidential-candidates.insidegov.com/l/70/Donald-Trump

Positions and Challenges:

Trump mentioned to "Face the Nation" (CBS) that he would be "okay" with Paul Ryan becoming house speaker. At the moment, this development means very little considering that Ryan has not completely expressed interest in the job. What is significant is Trump's rivalry with Bush. According to a CNN article, the two candidates could not be further apart. Trump prefers firing up crowds with energy and angry enthusiasm while Bush prefers "civility". I believe in the next few weeks Trump will have a tough time convincing the American voters that he is truly qualified and intelligent enough to serve as president. Firing up crowds in Iowa is a long ways away from respectfully cooperating with other countries in regards to international peace and foreign policy in general, an important duty that a competent president will have to take on if elected.

Sources: Face the Nation article/video link: 

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-id-be-okay-with-paul-ryan-as-house-speaker-election-2016/

CNN article on Trump vs. Bush (this is a good one!) link: 

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/09/politics/donald-trump-jeb-bush-iowa/

That does it for this week's reporting on Donald Trump. I'm Ben Jacot and you're reading the Trump Team section of The Artime Gazette.

Trump, Baffling Europeans and Americans alike

Europeans from many different parts of Europe are baffled today by the pure fact that Donald Trump is running for president of the United States of America, not to mention that he is actually a leading candidate in the Republican party. People are worried and shocked that Trump is running for president and is serious about it too. Europeans fear that if Trump becomes president he would offend too many world leaders. Many believe that Trump is just someone who seeks attention. Some people go as far to say that Trump could ruin foreigh relations with their country if he was elected president.

Source

One of Donald Trumps most controversial positions deals with Immigration 

When Donald Trump first announced that he was running for president, he took the stance that all illegal immigrants need to be deported back into Mexico. He also stated that we need to build a big wall resembling the great wall of China, he joked that it would have a door. According to Donald Trump "They're bringing drugs. They are bringing crime, they're rapists." However, immigration has played a big impact in the United States, causing panic among farmers and employers of the illegal aliens. Also, depression of wages may occur and the biggest problem that Trump deems probable is the high levels of crime that is brought by illegals. Even though Trump's views are extreme, one thing is for sure; he has successfully persuaded many Americans to consider the importance of Immigration policy in America.