Trump: I'm Not Doing the Debate on Monday, and Also, There'll Be Riots If I'm Not the Nominee

He's too busy giving a "major speech" on Monday to whoever it is he has to schedule a speech for on Monday.

“Nobody told me about debates. As you saw I thought the last debate on CNN was the last debate," Trump said on Wednesday morning.

"I'm doing a major speech in front of a very important group of people that night," Trump said, adding that it had been "scheduled a while ago."

"I think it's enough," he added, about the dozen debates the Republican candidates have participated in so far.

I saw that interview. I don't think he actually mentioned who this very important group of people were. It turns out it's AIPAC, which is having a conference from Sunday through Tuesday. I'm pretty sure they could move his speech from one day to another.

But of course Trump just doesn't want to do the debate -- for obvious reasons.

And then he started talking about his own riots.

"I think we'll win before getting to the convention, but I can tell you, if we didn’t and if we're 20 votes short or if we’re 100 short and we’re at 1,100 and somebody else is at 500 or 400 cause we’re way ahead of everybody, I don't think you can say that we don't get it automatically," Trump said on CNN on Wednesday. "I think you'd have riots."

"I wouldn't lead it, but I think bad things would happen," Trump said, adding the outcome would "disenfranchise" his supporters.

Nice Reichtag you got here. Be a shame if somethin' 'appened to it.

I love being threatened.

If Obama said something like this -- if he said, "If my Supreme Court nominee isn't given an up or down vote, I think we'd have riots; I wouldn't lead it, but I think bad things would happen; that would disenfranchise my voters" -- what would you say about that?

Would you nod along and say "You tell 'em, Obama. You rattle that saber about the mob uprisings you could stir."

Or would you say: "Why does this shady interloper believe he has the right to threaten me?"

Well, I guess having one standard is a pussy thing now.

posted by Ace at 10:57 AM

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