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'We'll have fun together': Trump talks up presidency, but still trails behind Obama in latest poll results
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 8:31 PM on 19th April 2011
Trump polls 34% Vs. Obama on 49%
Tycoon calls for seizing Iraqi oilfields to compensate U.S.
'The Donald' hits out at Karl Rove: 'He gave us Obama'
Trump proving popular with GOP members
'I'll release tax returns when Obama releases birth certificate'
Donald Trump would loose to Barack Obama by a massive 15 percentage points in a presidential election, a poll suggests.
But while the president would theoretically win against Trump, who polled 34 per cent, he is still unable to break the 50 per cent barrier, and is instead stuck on 49 per cent - even against a candidate many still consider a rank outsider.
The Rasmussen poll results come as The Apprentice star hit out at former Bush Jr. advisor Karl Rove before telling the Boston Herald: 'I really believe that we would all have lots of fun together'.
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Outspoken: Donald Trump has called on the U.S. to seize Iraqi oil fields in compensation
In an interview with America's Morning News, Mr Trump hit back at Mr Rove calling him a 'joke', saying: 'Honestly, Karl Rove ought to go back and start thinking about other things because what he did is, he gave us, indirectly through President Bush, he gave us Barack Obama.'
And in another interview, the outspoken businessman declared the U.S. should seize Libyan and Iraqi oil fields to reimburse the country for the '$1.5 trillion' spent removing Saddam Hussein.
Speaking on ABC last night, he said: 'Look at what’s going on with your gasoline prices.
President of Your Bathroom
In a more bizarre twist, the will-he-wont-he candidate has found the time to patent a new line of bath products called 'Success by Trump'.
A patent application, filed on April 7 read: 'SUCCESS BY TRUMP for use in selling 'cologne; perfume; fragrances; after-shave lotions; skin moisturiser; shampoo; conditioner; deodorant; soaps for hand, face, and body; body powder; bath oil; bath gel; bath salts; [and] bubble bath.'
They’re going to go to $5, $6, $7 and we don’t have anybody in Washington that calls OPEC and says, 'Fellas, it’s time. It’s over. You’re not going to do it any more.
'I don’t know if you saw yesterday, Saudi Arabia came out and said very strongly there’s plenty of oil.
'They wouldn’t even be there if it wasn’t for us. If it weren’t for us, they wouldn’t be there. These 12 guys sit around a table and they say, 'Let’s just screw the United States.'
Trump went on to suggest the U.S. should threaten to remove key military assets from countries such as Saudi Arabia in order to force them to produce more oil, thus lowering the domestic gasoline price.
On the subject of Iraq, the billionaire was even more outspoken, declaring the U.S. should station troops to seize oil fields as compensation for the money America has spent 'liberating' the country.
He said: 'We go into Iraq. We have spent thus far, $1.5 trillion. We could have rebuilt half of the United States. $1.5 trillion.
'And we’re going to then leave. So, in the old days, you know when you had a war, to the victor belong the spoils. You go in. You win the war and you take it.
Action: Along with seizing oil fields, Trump has also called for a removal of U.S. military assets from countries such as Saudi Arabia to help reduce the oil price
The latest Rasmussen survey of 1000 potential voters found that the president earned support from 49 per cent nationwide, while Trump attracted a respectable 34 per cent.
Given that choice, 12 per cent would vote for some other candidate, and five percent are undecided.
The results come as GOP activists in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina appear deeply intrigued by, and open to, a run by Donald Trump - despite the fact he perpetuates falsehoods about Obama's citizenship and questions the legitimacy of his presidency.
Glenn McCall, Republican Party chairman in South Carolina's York County, said: 'I hear more and more people talking about Donald Trump.
'He is saying on the national stage what other people won't talk about.
'That includes holding forth on trade, China and oil dependency.
Shadow: trump's success has come at the expense of more established candidates such as Sarah Palin
'But Trump's biggest buzz stems from his embrace of the claim that Obama wasn't born in the United States, and therefore is constitutionally barred from being president.
'He's got people fired up.'
Trump's rising star comes at the expense of the more established Republican candidates Sarah Palin and former governors Mitt Romney of Massachusetts and Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota.
A CNN nationwide poll of adult Republicans showed Trump tied for the presidential lead with former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, at 19 percent each.
Palin, the 2008 vice presidential nominee, was third at 12 percent.
Continuing the 'birther' debate, Trump also declared to ABC he would, 'release his tax returns when Obama releases his birth certificate.'
The businessman has previously refused to release the details of his finances.
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BENGHAZI, Libya — With the rebels’ battlefield fortunes sagging, the three men in charge of the Libyan opposition forces were summoned late last week by the ad-hoc leadership of their movement to a series of meetings here in the rebel capital.
Rebels waited on Sunday for dinner to be served at their makeshift camp in Ajdabiya. The inexperienced opposition movement is still trying to assert its authority.

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The rebel army’s nominal leader, Abdul Fattah Younes, a former interior minister and friend of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi whom many rebel leaders distrusted, could offer little explanation for the recent military stumbles, two people with knowledge of the meetings said.

Making matters worse, the men could hardly stand one another. They included Khalifa Heftar, a former general who returned recently from exile in the United States and appointed himself as the rebel field commander, the movement’s leaders said, and Omar el-Hariri, a former political prisoner who occupied the largely ceremonial role of defense minister.


“They behaved like children,” said Fathi Baja, a political science professor who heads the rebel political committee.

Little was accomplished in the meetings, the participants said. When they concluded late last week, Mr. Younes was still the head of the army and Mr. Hariri remained as the defense minister. Only Mr. Heftar, who reportedly refused to work with Mr. Younes, was forced out. On Sunday, though, in a sign that divisions persisted, Mr. Heftar’s son said his father was still an army leader.


As the struggle with Colonel Qaddafi threatened to settle into a stalemate, the rebel government here was showing growing strains that imperil its struggle to complete a revolution and jeopardize requests for foreign military aid and recognition.

In an appearance Sunday on “State of the Union” on CNN, Gen. James L. Jones, President Obama’s former national security adviser, said that the United States “is buying space for the opposition to get organized.”

But a White House official said last week that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was extremely reluctant to send arms to the rebels “because of the unknowns” about who they are, their backgrounds and motivations.






“It’s a moment in time where there is no real clarity,” said General Jones, who is now a senior fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center. “But the things being worked on are being worked on to get that clarity.”






The meeting on the faltering military effort was a study in the struggles of an inexperienced rebel movement trying to assert its authority, hold on to its revolutionary ideals and learn how to run a nation on the job. In a country where politics was dominated for decades by the colonel, his family and his loyalists, the rebels have turned for leadership to former government figures and exiles they seem to know by reputation alone, and whose motives they do not always trust.






There have been several hopeful signs. Experts on oil and the economy have joined the rebel ranks, and a spokesman prone to delusional announcements was quietly replaced. Police officers appeared on the streets of Benghazi this week, in crisp new uniforms. Despite the dismal progress on the battlefield, thousands of Libyan men still enthusiastically volunteer to travel to the front every week.






Still, many decisions remain shrouded in secrecy and are leaked to Libyans piecemeal by a few rebel leaders who seem to enjoy seeing themselves on Al Jazeera, the satellite news channel. And with each day that Colonel Qaddafi remains in power, the self-appointed leaders of the rebel movement face growing questions about their own legitimacy and choices.






After the Benghazi meetings, a screaming match broke out when Mr. Heftar’s supporters berated a rebel leader for choosing Mr. Younes to lead the army. A young lawyer, Fathi Terbil, who helped start the uprising, was reduced to running around trying to separate people. Watching the argument, Wahid Bugaighis, who was recently appointed to oversee oil interests, said the tumult was the inevitable result of Colonel Qaddafi’s long dictatorship.






Even so, he was cautiously hopeful. “At least they’re not shooting each other,” he said, before security guards escorted a reporter away from the scene.






On Sunday, the military shake-up seemed to be under review again. An adviser to the rebels said they were now consulting field commanders as a way of determining who should lead the army.






The location of the meetings last week, in a hotel conference room, signified how the rebel movement has evolved from its earliest days. The courthouse by the Mediterranean where the rebels started their protests now often seems empty, more of a shrine to a popular movement than its headquarters.


It has become increasingly difficult to locate the center of rebel power.

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