Comprehensive List of Donald Trump Positions
I intend to keep an ongoing thread of major anti-liberty positions of each significant candidate. I worked on a few of these in the last campaign also. Please bump this thread with new information as it comes out.
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ON VIOLATING PROPERTY RIGHTS
In 1994, the casino mogul convinced the New Jersey Casino Reinvestment Development Authority (CRDA) to team up with him to use eminent domain to seize an elderly widow’s Atlantic City home in order to build a limousine parking lot for Trump’s clients [Sources: Club For Growth; Institute For Justice].
“Everybody coming into Atlantic City sees that property,” Trump said, referring to the woman’s cherished home. “And it’s not fair to Atlantic City and the people. They’re staring at this terrible house instead of staring at beautiful fountains and beautiful other things that would be good.” [Source: John Stossel]
To no one’s surprise, Mr. Trump voiced approval of the egregious Kelo v. New London decision, which legitimized using eminent domain to benefit private developers like Trump. He said, “I happen to agree with it 100 percent,” in an interview with Neil Cavuto [Source: Fox News, 19 July 2005].
ON CRUSHING THE FREE MARKET
Trump’s record on economics has been alarmingly statist. He has expressed eagerness to use the government to prop up corporations and crush individual economic rights. In 2008, he advocated bailouts for the too-big-to-fail corporations. Regarding the “Big Three” auto companies, Trump promoted a federal bailout, saying to Neil Kavuto, “I think the government should stand behind them 100 percent… You cannot lose the auto companies” [Source: Fox News, 17 Dec. 2008]. Similarly, he gave support to the TARP bailout, saying to CNN’s Kiran Chetry, “I think it would be better if it passed” [Source: CNN, 30 Sep. 2008]. He also clamored for a government takeover of healthcare in the 1990s, describing himself as“very liberal when it comes to health care,” and writing “We must have universal health care” [Source: The America We Deserve]. All of these positions represent a rejection of the free market and a propensity for confiscating wealth and placing it in the hands of corporate elites and government bureaucrats.
ON GUN PROHIBITION
Recently, Mr. Trump has been buttering up constituents by telling them he supports gun ownership and gun rights. But his record tells another story. Trump has spent decades funding anti-gun politicians (see below) and has been vocal about his own eagerness for government restrictions and gun prohibition. In his book, Trump wrote, “I support the ban on assault weapons and I support a slightly longer waiting period to purchase a gun” [Source: The America We Deserve, p. 102]. When confronted about these comments, Trump eluded [Source: AmmoLand] and never actually admitted that he was wrong or that he had changed his mind since the book was written.
ON SUPPORTING THE ESTABLISHMENT
Mr. Trump has a long history of donating to big-government candidates and helping the worst of the Washington establishment stay in power. It would be enough of a red flag if his support were limited to his own party (Republican), but Trump has also spent a fortune — over $500,000 — propping up establishment Democrats.
Trump’s beneficiaries over the past twenty years has included a number of high-powered, liberty-stomping U.S. Senators, including Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA), Sen. John Kerry (D-MA), Sen. Tom Daschle (D-SD), Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE), Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). Congressional recipients included House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) and Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY). Trump also backed former Pennsylvania governor Edward G. Rendell (D), Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D), generously backed Karl Rove’s SuperPAC American Crossroads, and provided over $100,000 to the Bill and Hillary Clinton Foundation. [Sources: CNN, The Hill, WaPo]
Trump has recently been busy spouting rhetoric to distance himself from Democrats — and especially his opponent, Hillary Clinton — but words only count for so much. His decades-long support of big-government politics tells a more accurate story than his campaign speeches ever could.
ON SEIZING BANK ACCOUNTS
To reduce America’s monumental national debt, candidate Trump suggested in 1999 that the federal government should directly loot the bank accounts of private citizens — a so-called “one-time tax” [Source: CNN]. Such a plan would never be popular if the federal confiscation targeted the average voter, which is why Trump directed his economic assault at a minority of Americans — the standard procedure for oppression of rights.
ON EXECUTING WHISTLEBLOWERS
When it comes to dealing with Edward Snowden, the NSA contractor who risked his freedom to expose the agency’s elaborate domestic spying program, Mr. Trump espoused the harshest words yet. “I think Snowden is a terrible threat, I think he’s a terrible traitor, and you know what we used to do in the good old days when we were a strong country — you know what we used to do to traitors, right?” Trump said to Eric Bolling on “Fox & Friends.” Bolling provided the answer: “Well, you killed them, Donald” [Source: Politico].
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