Trump makes Republican loyalty pledge
- 9 years ago
Republican frontrunner for president and brash billionaire Donald Trump acknowledged in an interview with conservative talk-radio host Hugh Hewitt, it "won’t take me long" to know the difference between the players in the Middle East, including Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.
"Do you know the players without a scorecard yet, Donald Trump?"
asked Hewitt, who told Trump that the next president should know the leaders of Middle Eastern militant groups.
"No, you know, I’ll tell you honestly, I think by the time we get to office, they’ll all be changed.
They’ll be all gone," Trump replied.
Pushing Trump on the question Hewitt asked him "so the difference between Hezbollah and Hamas does not matter to you yet, but it will?"
"It will when it’s appropriate.
I will know more about it than you know, and believe me, it won’t take me long," Trump replied, adding that "of course I don’t know them.
I’ve never met them.
I haven’t been, you know, in a position to meet them.
If, if they’re still there, which is unlikely in many cases, but if they’re still there, I will know them better than I know you."
"Do you know the players without a scorecard yet, Donald Trump?"
asked Hewitt, who told Trump that the next president should know the leaders of Middle Eastern militant groups.
"No, you know, I’ll tell you honestly, I think by the time we get to office, they’ll all be changed.
They’ll be all gone," Trump replied.
Pushing Trump on the question Hewitt asked him "so the difference between Hezbollah and Hamas does not matter to you yet, but it will?"
"It will when it’s appropriate.
I will know more about it than you know, and believe me, it won’t take me long," Trump replied, adding that "of course I don’t know them.
I’ve never met them.
I haven’t been, you know, in a position to meet them.
If, if they’re still there, which is unlikely in many cases, but if they’re still there, I will know them better than I know you."