ITB - Donald Trump Wants Oprah as His Vice Presidential Candidate

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Donald Trump Wants Oprah as His Vice Presidential Candidate

Mediaite
Alex Griswold
6/16/2015

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In an interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulus, newly-announced Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said that he would love to have talk show host Oprah Winfrey as a vice-presidential candidate.

“Back in 1999, when you were thinking of running as the Reform Party candidate, you told Larry King that you’d consider Oprah for vice president,” Stephanopoulus noted.

“I like Oprah,” Trump said defensively. “What can I tell you?”

“Is she still on your shortlist?”

“No she’s great, she’s talented, she’s a friend of mine…” Trump said. “I think Oprah would be great. I’d love to have Oprah. I think we’d win easily, actually.”
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Trump: Oprah's 'Terrific' But She's Not Running With Me

Newsmax
Sandy Fitzgerald
6/17/2015

Excerpt:

Donald Trump says he considers fellow billionaire Oprah Winfrey a good friend and a "terrific woman," but that doesn't mean he's going to ask her to join him as his running mate or that she's even interested.

"George Stephanopoulos interviewed me and he said, 'would you take Oprah?'" Trump said Wednesday on Fox News' "Fox & Friends" program. "I said of course I would."

But Trump, who held his huge presidential campaign announcement in New York City on Tuesday, said the question was posed jokingly in reference to an interview he gave years ago to CNN talk show host Larry King, and that the media have taken off with the latest "news."

"Give me a break; she's a friend of mine," he told Fox News. "She had me on her last show. She had myself and all of my children on the show. She's a terrific woman. He said that as a joke. Would you do it? I said of course, she's great. All of a sudden, people make a big deal."

Trump also on Wednesday showed no signs of backing down on one of the more controversial statements he made during his announcement speech, continuing to slam Mexico, which he said is "not sending their best and finest" to the United States.

"I only tell the truth," he told the "Fox & Friends" program. "We're getting drug dealers, sex offenders — I spoke to border guards last week. They said what's coming into this country is not their best, believe me."

And while he said he's sure some "good" people are coming across the border, Mexicans are coming by "walking past security, no checks, no balances."

Trump added that he doesn't care if it costs him votes if he talks about the issue.
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