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"It was like a retweet," said Trump, the most prolific tweeter to have ever run for president. "I would never say a word like that — by the way, can I tell you what? The audience went crazy. Standing ovation. Five thousand people went nuts, they loved it. You know, we’re having fun.”

TPRJones wrote:Well, he sort of owned it but not really. I'd rather he responded something like "What are you asking me? Cruz is a pussy. I think that's a statement that stands well on it's own, you don't need me to explain it to you."

"A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian," Francis said in answer to a specific question about Trump's views. "This is not in the gospel."
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"A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian," Francis said in answer to a specific question about Trump's views. "This is not in the gospel."

GORDON wrote:Thank God we don't govern according to a holy book like some other religions I've heard about.

he's in charge of an organization that supported the Nazis.

Summi Pontificatus was the first papal encyclical issued by Pope Pius XII, in October 1939 and established some of the themes of his pontificate. During the drafting of the letter, the Second World War commenced with the German/Soviet invasion of Catholic Poland—the "dread tempest of war is already raging despite all Our efforts to avert it". The papal letter denounced anti-semitism, war, totalitarianism, the attack on Poland and the Nazi persecution of the Church.
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According to Hitler biographer John Toland, following the November 1939 assassination attempt by Johann Georg Elser, Hitler said Pius would have wanted the plot to succeed: "he's no friend of mine".
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Pius warned the Allies of the planned German invasion of the Low Countries in 1940.
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When in 1940, the Nazi Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop led the only senior Nazi delegation permitted an audience with Pius XII and asked why the Pope had sided with the Allies, Pius replied with a list of recent Nazi atrocities and religious persecutions committed against Christians and Jews, in Germany, and in Poland, leading the New York Times to headline its report "Jews Rights Defended" and write of "burning words he spoke to Herr Ribbentrop about religious persecution".
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In 1941, Pius XII interpreted Divini Redemptoris, an encyclical of Pope Pius XI, which forbade Catholics to help communists, as not applying to military assistance to the Soviet Union. This interpretation assuaged American Roman Catholics who had previously opposed Lend-Lease arrangements with the Soviet Union.

A few hours after Trump called for a boycott of Apple products until the company unlocks the phone of San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook, his official campaign store inside the North Charleston Convention Center was using several Apple iPads to ring up sales for campaign swag.

"Boycott Apple, we want the secrets," Trump said at a rally earlier in the day. "They don't want to open up the phones, give me a break, why wouldn't they want to do it?"

"The phone is owned by the government. What are they doing?" Trump continued, referring to Apple CEO Tim Cook's resistance to comply with a judge's order to help the FBI access encrypted data on Farook's locked phone.

In the early 1900s, he recounted, Gen. John J. Pershing, known as Black Jack, captured 50 terrorists, dipped 50 bullets in pigs’ blood and had his soldiers execute 49 of the men. “The 50th person, he said, ‘You go back to your people and you tell them what happened,’ ’’ Mr. Trump said. “And for 25 years there wasn’t a problem.’’

"I have to say that we are not, I am not going to pay for that f***ing wall,"
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"I am not. And he should know that. And I am not going to apologize," Fox added.

Leisher wrote:Be careful what you say about President Trump. He seems like he'll have the secret police track down and murder his critics.

Malcolm wrote:[url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2016/02/26/donald-trump-suggests-he-was-audited-because-of-his-strong-christian-faith-heres-why-thats -unlikely/]Trump:[/url] the FBI audited me because of my strong Christian beliefs. You'll recall Donnie Dickwad as the guy that couldn't quote his faith's holy book nor even refer to the individual catalogs inside by their proper, commonly known names.

FBI doesn't do a lot of audits, so I'm calling bullshit.

Leisher wrote:Be careful what you say about President Trump. He seems like he'll have the secret police track down and murder his critics.

GORDON wrote:

Leisher wrote:Be careful what you say about President Trump. He seems like he'll have the secret police track down and murder his critics.

This has been known as "Getting Clintowned" since 1998.