Trump: I’d Let Women Fight on the Front Lines
TRUMP: “Today, what do you think your chances of becoming president of the United States?”
TRUMP: “Well, I never liked to talk about chances. I mean I’m doing really what I’m leading every poll. Your polls have been very, very strong. Fox just came out a couple of days ago. It was very similar to your poll leading everything. I was most happy with your poll because my daughter Ivanka came up to me and my wife came up to me, Melania, and she knows how passionate I am about women protecting women and taking care of -- I cherish women and I -- that’s so important. And when I watched Jeb Bush a week ago not wanting to fund the women’s health issues and he wanted to not fund them, he said,
‘Well, I don’t think we need to spend $500 billion. I don’t think they need like.’ Well, I thought it was terrible. Now, I watched him –“
CUOMO: “He says he only meant planned parenting.”
TRUMP: “Well, I watched him make the statement and then he went back and he was, you know, re-round up by his pollsters and they said, ‘By the way, you made a mistake.’ So then he said, ‘He misspoke’ and, but you know, how do you misspeak about something like that. And my wife came up to me, my daughter Ivanka who you know came up to me and they said, you know, that one thing you should do is talk a little bit about women’s health issues because you’re so good on it. You know about it and you cherish women. You want to protect women. And protect them in more than one ways that way I’ll protect them militarily too because we are such a target. This country is such a target because we’re considered to be weak. We’re a weak country. We’re considered to be weak now and I will protect women more than anybody.”
CUOMO: “You don’t think we are considered the strongest country in world militarily?”
TRUMP: “I think we are considered to be a country in decline -- serious decline. You look at our education, we’re number 25 in the world and we spend far more than anybody else per student.”
CUOMO: “Would you let women fight in the military, in a rangers and all the elite troops?”
TRUMP: “Yeah, I guess the answer is yes because they are really into it and some of them are really, really good.”
CUOMO: “You just said, to graduate from the ranger school?”
TRUMP: “Yeah, I would also speak to the generals because I would want to hear that without a political bent. I want to hear the truth. I mean, you know, to the public they say, ‘Yes, yes, yes,’ but I would want to hear without a political bent. But I tell you what, I know some women that are just -- Ronda Rousey is an example who likes me said –“
CUOMO: “Lucky for you.”
TRUMP: “I’d take care -- hey, I’d take care at my side as fighter. So the answer is yes. I would also want to speak however to the military.”
CUOMO: “So you come on last week and you say, ‘I don’t have to talk about what I do with women. I can show what I do with women. We hire them. We put them in positions of excellence and we pay them all from better than male counter parts if they are work warranted.’”
TRUMP: “Better.”
CUOMO: “So your office then comes, they provide us what they call their proof of performance, hear the jobs it happens, it’s a private company. We don’t want to out the people, you’ll say if I want to come in there?”
TRUMP: “Although, they would be willing to do it.”
CUOMO: “That’s right. I’ll sign an NDA, a nondisclosure bill. So that goes out, you issue the challenge to other candidates, the media kind of dismisses it?”
TRUMP: “Yeah.”
CUOMO: “What’s your take on that?”
TRUMP: “Well, for the most part the other candidates never hired anybody. I have thousands of people that work me. I’ve had tens of thousands of people. I’ve created tens of thousands of jobs that mean I pave for education for all these people. I pay for health care far better than in ObamaCare, I mean paid for really great, I think great care of my people and, you know, I have a great couple issue probably notice when I did filing. So I’m very proud of my company. The problem with the other candidates, you know, they might have nobody working for them. They don’t have people working for them. They’ve never created a job before. That’s all -- I’m a job producing machine.”
