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Why Focus on Character?
00:04:20
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| Here is my clearer moment. | |
| Virtually every attack on the president, especially by people who are Republican or conservative, the never-Trumpers, is about his character. | |
| Why do they focus on his character? | |
| I'll talk about the character issue momentarily, but why do they focus on his character? | |
| If a president is a good president, it is not our business to focus on the character of the president. | |
| It's our business to focus on the policies of the president. | |
| Do you know the character of any previous president? | |
| Do any of you? | |
| I mean, think about it. | |
| It's almost not even discussed. | |
| You know the character of Lyndon Johnson? | |
| You know the character of John F. Kennedy? | |
| You know the character of George W. Bush? | |
| I mean, it's a very complex question, the character of a human being. | |
| You have to know somebody really, really well. | |
| I never attacked Barack Obama's character, not once. | |
| Not once. | |
| I said he was the most destructive president of my lifetime, but that's because of his policies. | |
| I have zero idea about his character. | |
| Truly, I have zero idea. | |
| I have no idea. | |
| Maybe his wife does, maybe his intimates do, maybe God does, but I don't. | |
| He may be personally honorable and charitable in every sense of that word. | |
| And honest, I mean, maybe all these things. | |
| He was a terrible president. | |
| The country is worse off because he was president of the United States. | |
| That's my belief. | |
| Obviously, others think he made magnificent contributions. | |
| Their one example, I think, or their biggest example, not one, is the extending of the government into health care ever more than before. | |
| Every person that I know who was affected by Obamacare has been adversely affected. | |
| Every single person, including family members. | |
| People who have insurance through their company have not been affected. | |
| Everyone I know who had personal insurance, including young people, has been negatively affected by Obamacare. | |
| Maybe I know, maybe everybody that I know that has been affected is a fluke, is an outlier. | |
| It's possible. | |
| But anyway, the Iran deal was a disgrace. | |
| His vote at the end, anti-Israel. | |
| First anti-Israel vote on the Security Council, as I recall, by an American president. | |
| And if you don't understand that that is a litmus test, then your moral compass is broken. | |
| To think that Israel is the villain in the Middle East makes you a moron. | |
| Okay? | |
| Or an anti-Semite. | |
| Not necessarily an anti-Semite. | |
| I said or. | |
| Or a moral moron. | |
| Anyway, why the obsession with his character? | |
| Because all the Never Trumpers can't attack his policies. | |
| That's the clarity that I realized. | |
| What a cheap, cheap, cheap tactic. | |
| It speaks so poorly of these never Trumpers some of whom I really like All of a sudden these people are character assessors from afar Oh, we know, we know his character. | |
| Even let's say you do. | |
| That's what matters in a President of the United States? | |
| What you think of the person's character? | |
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Do You Understand?
00:01:08
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| Based on what exactly? | |
| The, what is it, Planet, was it Planet Hollywood? | |
| What is it called again? | |
| Not Planet Hollywood. | |
| The tape. | |
| Access Hollywood? | |
| Yes. | |
| The word planet does not belong there? | |
| I stuck it in? | |
| Planet Hollywood is a restaurant. | |
| Okay, so therefore what? | |
| I can't believe... | |
| No, no, no. | |
| The way you said it to me was disrespectful. | |
| I can't believe that. | |
| Planet Hollywood is a restaurant. | |
| Did you hear the tone with which he said that? | |
| Access Hollywood. - Good. | |
| Do you understand how you don't think clearly if you think that you know people's character by what they say privately? | |
| Do you understand you don't think clearly? | |
| There is something wrong with you. | |
| You are malfunctioning in the moral sphere. | |
| You know nothing about a human being by what they say privately. | |