Donald Trump's 6 biggest campaign trail flip flops
Donald Trump flip-flopping is nothing new.
The GOP presidential front-runner has a history of changing his stances, as NBC's Chuck Todd so pointedly
noted back in July. (The Fix
has also documented this.)
But while many of those flips happened as Trump, over the years, transitioned from a Democrat to a Republican, they're also happening in the midst of his 2016 presidential campaign. In fact, he's made several total reversals within weeks or even days of initially staking out a position. And often his new position better aligns him with the conservative Republican base he's courting than his previous one.
Businessman and 2016 Republican presidential contender Donald Trump, who has been surging to the top of polls following his brash, politically incorrect statements about illegal immigration, wowed huge audiences in Las Vegas and Phoenix over the weekend.
But while Trump was delivering red meat to energized grassroots crowds hungry for straight talk, NBC’s Meet the Press aired a video on Sunday which documents Trump’s about-face on several different important issues, showing an inconsistency that Trump must address if he desires to be a credible candidate for the long haul.
The man spoke out in favor of a pathway to citizenship as recently as 2012/2013. He was a registered democrat as recently as 2009. He has given A LOT of money to establishment politicians on both sides of the aisle. He has been a huge supporter of Mitch McConnell, the very embodiment of establishment politics in the US Senate. He has repeatedly supported single payer health insurance, has been in favor of a wealth tax, has supported an assault weapons ban, supported PARTIAL BIRTH abortion, etc.
Additionally, I honestly don't think he knows the constitution...AT ALL. I would bet you if you asked him his position on the 16th amendment in a debate, he would stammer through it with some BS answer that doesn't even come close to covering what the amendment is about, just as he did with the TRIAD or with the TPP(which, btw, he thought involved China). He's vocally supported shutting down houses of worship, of making people of a certain religion register with the government, of using religion as a criteria for immigration, shutting down free speech, etc. He's a big supporter of eminent domain and has used it for his own benefit.
This man is easily the most far left of the republican field. He made an off-color remark about immigration during his announcement. It was mentioned far less than 8 other topics. But because it was off color, the media picked up on it and made it his issue. He was never passionate about immigration before that. He's a fake. He's a media personality. He is bamboozling everybody.
