'Investing' in Trump, I Was Right, They Were Wrong'
Oct 22, 2015 15:19:00 GMT
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When It Comes to 'Investing' in Trump, I Was Right, They Were Wrong
Matt Towery Oct 22, 2015
In December 2014 I wrote the column "Why Trump Should Run." It started with the line, "The elite media will scoff at a potential Donald Trump candidacy for president." They did; I didn't. And if Donald Trump the candidate had been a stock on the NYSE in my new book "Newsvesting" (which, I'll shamelessly note, is available from Amazon and Barnes & Noble), I would have been the lone pundit in America to have reaped a big "profit."
Back then Trump actually retweeted my column, to which one Twitter respondent tweeted, "Matt who?" Well, "Matt Who" is still here, and is still right.
Why was I right when almost every Washington, D.C., expert wasn't? Because I'm a pollster? No. My polls can't predict the future in politics.
Because I ran campaigns for names such as Newt Gingrich, or ran as a statewide GOP nominee for lieutenant governor at age 30, or because I actually served in office as a legislator? Nope. There are plenty of us has-been, washed-up political types out there.
It was and is because I have been and remain a true businessman. No, not at Trump's level or near it. But I have run very successful businesses, along with my share of not-so-spectacular ones. I knew then and know now that building any sizable business, whether closely held or publicly owned, requires more brains, marketing talent, negotiation skills and guts than most politicians could ever even conceive of.
So when I heard the endless media chatter that Trump "just wasn't smart enough or polished enough to be president" I chuckled. My immediate thought was, "OK, pundit, you go figure out how to become worth billions of dollars, and then we will talk about who is smart."
Then he announced for president and allegedly offended the world by having the gall to talk about real issues in a real way, such as immigration and our one-way open gate to some individuals who Mexico itself deemed too dangerous to keep. Most elite media and GOP establishment talking heads buried him. I did not. I did give him presumptuous advice in a June column. It was unsolicited and most of it turned out to be useless. Still, I felt he was in the game.
After the first debate, when focus groups and high-brow commentators were once again burying him, I knew instinctively that he had won the contest and advanced his cause. In my column on Aug. 13 I proclaimed, "Trump Survives." Yes, he did indeed.
read more. very long.
townhall.com/columnists/mattt...wrong-n2069201
I’m all in! Run Donald run! He will get 2 votes from our house if he gets the nomination.
