Trump Whines About Disloyalty Then Says He Won't Sign Republican Loyalty Pledge

Donald Trump is officially making himself ineligible to participate in the Republican primary debates by saying that he will NOT be signing the required loyalty pledge. The pledge says, among other things, that he will support the eventual Republican nominee, no matter who it is, and Trump says that he simply won't agree to that. So Republicans will either have to drop the pledge if they want Trump to appear, or he's going to have to sign it if he wants to get on the stage for later debates. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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During an interview with Newsmax host Eric Bowling this week, Donald Trump confirmed that he will not be participating in the first presidential debate, although he wants to, and he hasn't officially made up his mind. But what he told Eric Bowling does indicate that Donald Trump will not even be eligible to participate in the debate because Donald Trump says that he will not be signing the loyalty pledge. That is a requirement to stand on that debate stage. And that loyalty pledge, of course, says that you will support whoever the eventual nominee is. Here's what Trump told Bowling. I wouldn't sign the pledge. They want you to sign a pledge, but I can name three or four people that I wouldn't support for president. So right there, there's a problem. Now, earlier in the week, Donald Trump had been out there whining about certain other Republican presidential candidates, Mike Pence, of allegedly being disloyal.

That's a phrase by the way, that, or a term that Donald Trump uses quite frequently to describe people that used to work for him. But now they don't. He says they're all disloyal. He's accused Ron DeSantis of being disloyal. And here he is, literally saying, I am not going to be loyal to my own political party. I am in fact going to be disloyal, and I'm not going to pledge to support your eventual nominee. Now, here's the thing. It's not just, and I think this might be the bigger issue for Donald Trump in signing the pledge, because you're not only agreeing to support the eventual nominee. I, the eventual nominee is gonna be Donald Trump. So yeah, he doesn't necessarily have to do it. The other part is an agreement that you will not participate in any other debates or forums that have not been approved by the Republican National Committee, and you're not gonna participate in, you know, the presidential debates put on by the, uh, commission for Presidential Debates, which has put on the debate since the eighties.

It's a non-partisan group, and that's the part I think that Donald Trump has a bigger problem with. He's trying to make it about the loyalty part of the pledge, but really, Trump wants any and all media attention that he can get, and the R N C is trying to limit that for some stupid reason. In fact, the stupid reason they're trying to limit it actually has everything to do with Donald Trump who's going out there and attacked these other media outlets and the commission on presidential debates. So the R N C tried to cater to him and be like, okay, well, we'll put this in the pledge. And he's like, well, no. I mean, I still, I'll still do it. 'cause I love the attention. I mean, hell, he even told bowling, he went further. He goes, I'd like to do it. I've actually gotten very good marks on debating talents. No, you haven't. They want a smart president. They want somebody that's going to be smart, somebody that's going to be smart

As opposed to somebody that already is smart. I mean, you need to watch how you phrase things, but either way, Donald Trump, you're not a good debater. You're, you are the analogy of playing chess with a pigeon. 'cause at the end of it, the pigeon's just gonna knock all the pieces off the board, strutt around crap all over the board and act like they won. That's what you do on the debate stage.