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'We'll have fun together': Trump talks up presidency, but still trails behind Obama in latest poll results
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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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Lybian rebels rest outside of Ajdabiyah.


Remember "Comical Ali," the Iraqi Information Minister who claimed that Saddam Hussein's troops were winning the war even as U.S. tanks rolled into Baghdad? Meet his Benghazi cousin, Khaled al-Sayeh. It's three days into Operation Odyssey Dawn, and the military spokesman for the Libyan rebels is brimming with bravado. Thanks in part to the allied aerial campaign, with sorties flown by seven nations, he tells journalists that rebel forces have regained control of two of the four main entrances to the strategic town of Ajdabiyah, which they lost to Muammar Gaddafi's troops the previous week. Now, he says, the rebels are bypassing the enemy and cutting off its supply route. Soon, he promises, the government troops will run out of ammunition. "We are surrounding Gaddafi's forces," he says.
Consulting no notes, al-Sayeh rattles off a string of statistics that suggest the war is going against the tyrant in Tripoli: Rebels and allied airpower have destroyed all but 11 of the 80 tanks that had been moving on Benghazi; 10 have been captured intact, along with 20 pickup trucks, two armored vehicles and another fitted with radar gear. Anywhere from 400 to 600 government troops have been killed.
It all sounds most reassuring, until you drive to the front line between the rebels and government forces. There, 6 miles (10 km) from Ajdabiyah, the mood among rebel fighters is more tentative than triumphant. They are poorly armed. They have AK-47s, a few heavy machine guns mounted on trucks and some rocket-propelled-grenade launchers. Buffeted by a desert wind that whips sand into their eyes, young men in cars and pickup trucks stage impromptu cavalry charges toward the enemy, only to fall back in panic when fired upon. For all al-Sayeh's boasting, Gaddafi's loyalists still have plenty of tanks and artillery.
"We went about three or four kilometers forward ... but then we came back because they were bombarding us," says Ayman Salem, 27, an unemployed laborer from the port of Shahat who is clothed in camouflage fatigues and perched next to an antiaircraft gun lashed to a truck bed. His comrades-in-arms are a 26-year-old auto mechanic and a 21-year-old day laborer, both from Benghazi. Their truck is among the scores of rebel vehicles parked at odd angles along the highway, waiting.


Waiting for what, exactly? Not for a command from higher authority: there is none. There are no radioed instructions from headquarters in Benghazi and no senior officer on the spot to devise a battle plan. The next attack will take place when the driver of one of the vehicles gets a rush of blood to his head and roars off in the direction of Ajdabiyah. Perhaps others may feel inspired to follow.
Salem, however, won't be among them. He's discovered the futility of such charges. While their guardian angels at 30,000 ft. (9,100 m) have the best missiles and bombs money can buy, the rebels are woefully outgunned on the ground. Pointing to his gun, Salem says, "There is no comparison between this and [the enemy's] Grad missiles." He didn't bother to fire it on his brief foray forward, because the Gaddafi loyalists were far out of range. "We launched a rocket. We had one," he says, with a desultory shrug.


The Ragtag Army


Operation Odyssey Dawn is meant to stop Gaddafi's advance and give his opposition the opportunity to regroup and resume its march to Tripoli. But on the evidence from opposition headquarters in Benghazi and from the front line, it will take a great deal more to turn the ragtag rebels into a fighting force capable of taking Gaddafi down. Although the assault on Benghazi has been halted, government troops have lost little ground and continue to pound key towns like Misratah and Zintan. In Tripoli, allied aerial attacks on military installations and the dictator's compound have curbed some of the pro-Gaddafi demonstrations. Residents venture outdoors less often. But the attacks have not curbed Gaddafi's bellicose rhetoric. After dropping out of sight for the first few days, he made a public appearance on March 23, proclaiming before a small group of loyalists, "I am here. I am here. I am here."


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Gaddafi's defiance stems mainly from his confidence that the rebels — or "germs," as he calls them — are no match for his troops. That assessment is shared by Western experts. "What we have, basically, are rebels that have a great deal of enthusiasm and who are willing to risk their lives but don't have discipline or structure," says Anthony Cordesman, a military analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. Even the swaggering al-Sayeh knows this. A day before his triumphal press conference, he painted a far more dismal picture of the rebels' capabilities. "The officers and commanders have no control over the youth who are pushing the front line," he said bitterly. "They don't take orders from anyone."


The problem is not that the rebels are "outgunned." The Wehrmacht was woefully outgunned and outnumbered time and again throughout the first two years of its Soviet campaigns, and yet time and again, it crushed Soviet forces. The Viet Cong were outgunned but won the war.


The fact is that these fools have no discipline. They are self-styled warriors who have no inclination to fight a war. We have legitimized their clueless buffoonery by letting them believe *they* are winning something, when in fact they can only walk forward when twenty-first century airpower blasts their opponents aside.


We've destroyed the planes. That's what they said they needed, and then they'd take it from there. Yet here they sit, showing off their rifles and doing nothing. They're a rabble of thugs and if you think they're ineffective now, wait until we finish destroying the Libyan Army for them. Then you'll see: they'll be very, very effective at rounding up and killing everyone who opposes them.


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