Trump rents Iowa theater to show Benghazi movie

[mystery-ak]

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2016/01/14/donald-trump-rents-urbandale-iowa-theater-free-showing-benghazi-movie-13-hours/78823046/

Trump rents Iowa theater to show Benghazi movie
Jennifer Jacobs, jejacobs@dmreg.com 9:24 a.m. CST January 15, 2016

Donald Trump has rented space at an Urbandale movie theater and will give Iowans free tickets to a showing of the Benghazi movie that critics of Hillary Clinton have been eagerly awaiting.

“Mr. Trump would like all Americans to know the truth about what happened at Benghazi,” the GOP presidential candidate’s Iowa co-chair Tana Goertz said Thursday night.

Trump will pay for the showing of “13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi” at 6 p.m. Friday at the Carmike Cobblestone 9 Theatre at 86th Street and Hickman Road, Goertz said.

“The theater is paid for. The tickets are paid for. You just have to RSVP,” she said.

The movie depicts the terrorist raid on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya on Sept. 11, 2012. It reportedly makes no mention of Clinton, then the U.S. Secretary of State, but has again raised the topic of the Democratic presidential candidate’s role in the tragedy, three months after Republicans grilled her on her response to the attacks during an 11-hour congressional hearing in October.

Trump, a billionaire New York real estate entrepreneur, flies to Iowa for a 10 a.m. campaign rally on Friday at Living History Farms in Urbandale. He’s currently in second place in the GOP presidential race here, trailing Texas U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz by 3 points, the latest Des Moines Register/Bloomberg Politics Iowa Poll shows.

Trump has said he’s willing to spend a billion dollars to win the GOP nomination. “I make $400 million a year so what difference does it make?” he told reporters in Iowa in August.

Tickets for the movie, which opened Thursday, cost about $8 each, the theater’s website shows.

The word "Benghazi" has re-emerged in the GOP race. In the GOP debate in South Carolina Thursday night, presidential rival Jeb Bush was first to bring it up, saying Clinton would “continue down the path of Benghazi” and would be “a national security mess.”

[alicewonders]

That's a great idea.  Trump - thinking outside of the box and spending his own money in such wise ways.  All the politicians know how to do is waste money.  I do believe Trump will attack their budget and start to destroy waste and fraud.

After seeing him last night, I even more excited about his ability to learn on his feet and try new solutions to the same old problems these stupid greedy politicians have foisted on us!

[Scottftlc]

Trump understands optics and how to magnify an event.  Without saying one word, he reaches hundreds - with the media coverage, thousands.  The movie becomes his speech.  He gets there first with the most firepower. No other candidate can do this now - and the movie will be tied back to his support of it.  The movie will speak in a language far more accessible to this audience - and anyone who sees the movie now and connects it to Trump doing this - than any political speech ever could.

This is something Republicans have been terrible at for decades. This is one of their major weaknesses...it is why they simply can't sell their brand effectively. They don't understand something very important that Trump has imbedded somewhere in his DNA.

[katzenjammer]

I've been saying it for months, we are watching a historic campaign.  There will be books written on Trump's campaign (win or lose) for decades to come.  It will be featured in PolySci cases studies for longer than we will be alive.