#Washington: #DonaldTrump still considers a run as an independent in the general election an option if things don’t work out with the #Republicans.
The billionaire #GOP front-runner told CNN’s Don Lemon Wednesday night that he would consider running as a third-party candidate, if “they don’t treat me with a certain amount of decorum and respect.”
“If they don’t treat me as the front-runner — by far the front-runner — if the playing field is not level, then certainly all options are open,” Trump said. “But that’s nothing I want to do.”
The former reality-television star implied it might just come down to whether or not he gets the nomination.
“We’ll go through the primaries, we’ll see what happens and I’ll make a determination,” he said.
Although Trump feels the Republican “establishment is not exactly being very good” to him, he is confident that he will secure the nomination despite their treatment.
“I’m leading in every poll by a lot,” Trump said. “It looks I’m going to win. My whole life has been about winning. I”m not like so many other of the people that you talk to that are essentially losers. OK. I know how to win. I intend to win.”
Trump also told Lemon, “I am the least racist person that you have ever met,” and he confidently predicted that will win both the Hispanic and African-American vote.
As for his call to keep all Muslims out of the U.S., Trump said what he is proposing is only one-tenth as bad as what former president Franklin Roosevelt did when he forced Japanese-Americans into internment camps.
Trump said the liberals’ “all-time hero,” Roosevelt, “can do it and nobody says anything. And what he did was ten-times worse than anything I’m talking about.”
Drastic measures are required, Trump explained, because “there’s something out there that is evil.”
There are a number of Muslims who have already been radicalized living in the U.S., he said, citing the attack in San Bernardino, Calif. as an example.
Trump said more attacks are coming, and he implied that the neighbors of the San Bernardino shooters were complicit in the crime.
“Why didn’t they call up the police?” he asked, saying many of them must have seen evidence of bomb-making.
“You know why? Because they didn’t want to,” he said. tweeted by
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