[TheRealThing]

1) - Like I said, TRT, yes, they are funded, but if they gave in to the demands of their donors then we would see several of them caving on the social issues toward the liberal side. That hasn’t happened, and some candidates have made it a key focal point to defend religious liberty despite being pressured to do the opposite. Trump has wiggle room on the platform issue, because he has hardly established a platform with the exception of immigration.

If you want to talk about people attempting to pull the strings of a campaign, look no further than Sheldon Adelson. To quote Donald Trump from October of last year, “Sheldon Adelson is looking to give big dollars to Rubio because he feels he can mold him into his perfect little puppet. I agree!” This is a quote coming directly from his Twitter page.

Adelson has pledged to provide $100 million dollars to Trump’s campaign. Trump’s attitude toward Adelson has changed quite a bit since his generous offer and it is possible that Adelson will start a pro-Trump super PAC.

2) - As to the topic of the loan, do you have an explanation for it instead of just dismissing it? Why else would Trump have given himself a loan unless he intended on paying it back through donations he receives? If you want to talk about speculation, I would say that many of the Trump supporters made their decision to vote for him based on pure emotion and hope that he would be a conservative president. Even posters on here have admitted that they don’t know what he is going to do once he is elected as president.

3) - If he’s going to cave on an issue such as HB2 and mention NC “losing business” as a defense for his reasoning, doesn’t that show where he stands? If he’s not going to take a stand on an issue that even some Democrats have taken a stand on, do you think he will make the right moral decision even under pressure to not do so for economic reasons?

1 Trump has not caved, and there is no way to know at this point that he will. Nobody but he, has had the first thing to do with his platform to date.


2 I will continue to dismiss it until loftier powers than I bring the details out into the public domain. Your concerns are speculative at this point and I don't make a habit of validating the substance of speculation.

3 Who says he's going to cave? We have this quaint and passé notion of state sovereignty here in this land, right? The governor of NC is dealing very well with the issues in his state. Why would Trump wade into a fight that is already going very well? And BTW, candidates have no authority to act or influence.