Yet the celebrity billionaire continues his unlikely reign as the front-runner of the 2016 GOP presidential field. Which raises the question of whether a party that enables Trump and Trumpism can effectively root out either.
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The political world is beginning to conclude that no one will know the answer to that question until Republicans actually start voting in February.
TRUMP: And holding tailgate-style – tailgate, do you know what that means?
Trump’s bold honesty during the campaign is refreshing and attractive to enough Americans to put him in the lead among Republican candidates, but the honesty he represents should be based on the truth and not the typical political rhetoric that has been used to gain support with gullible Americans.
Talat Hamdani, who lost her 23-year-old son, Mohammad Salman on 9/11, said in an interview on “MSNBC Live with Thomas Roberts” on Tuesday that her son would have been “bemused” by Trump’s latest antics but that “he would not have agreed because this is so unAmerican”. The candidate spoke for more than an hour to an audience at Iowa Central Community College.
Scholars of fascists like Benito Mussolini in Italy and Adolf Hitler in Germany (none of Trump’s conservative critics have compared him to either man) say, however, that Trump does display some of the key characteristics of a fascist.
The Trump phenomenon is a chicken-and-egg conundrum. “I think it’s clarifying”. “There’s an environment that allowed him to arise”.
While Trump may turn Latino and black voters away from the GOP, he may expand the party’s appeal to disenfranchised blue-collar voters, including independents and Democrats, said Ari Fleischer, former press secretary for George W. Bush who helped write the party’s growth plan after the 2012 campaign. “That was not the case, as best as I can remember”.Rubio said: “It didn’t happen and there are fact checks to prove it”.
“Now, I know they don’t like to talk about it, but it was well-covered at the time”.
“Believe me, it works”, he added.
TRUMP: We’ve got to knock the crap out of them, folks. The false information in Trump’s message was attributed to a nonexistent organization identified as the “Crime Statistics Bureau – San Francisco”, but the true source appears to be an Internet poster who uses a modified swastika as an identifying symbol. “To celebrate this tragedy … it’s wrong”, Cohen said while asserting that Trump was making a broader point about enemies within the United States. Only 32 percent said they’d host Cruz, while Democratic candidate Sen.
“We’re going to have to do things that we never did before”, said Trump. Trump was asked about that Sunday morning on ABC News’ This Week.
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Then there’s the matter of Trump’s claims, first made last week, that when the World Trade Center came down on September 11 he saw “thousands and thousands” of people cheering in Jersey City – Muslims. There have also been reports that in Paterson, about 20 miles northwest of Jersey City, a small group of teenagers of Arab descent celebrated in the streets.
