“I stick by it. Hundreds of people have confirmed it”, the candidate said. I said he was just teasing as usual. Yes, I’m aware he’s leading in the polls. “Mr. Trump, if I said, “Well people have said, Mr. Trump is not worth $10 billion and people were saying …’ you would say that was insane”.
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“So we’re not even going to go there”, Kasich said. You all said he was going to fall.
For those who haven’t been following, the proto-fascist and nakedly xenophobic Republican presidential front-runner found a new way to broadcast his utter lack of human emotion: mocking a New York Times reporter for his physical disability.
“We reject his racist message and the other Republicans need to reject it, too”, said Junior Salazar, who led demonstrators chanting, “Dump Trump”. And we’re looking for other clips. They told me there that they saw it. But then, seeing the positive reaction from his very conservative base, he flip-flopped again.
“Everybody admits that worldwide, the Muslims were absolutely going wild”, Trump told a crowd of supporters.
Trump then denied knowing about Kovaleski’s condition and suggested he might not have ever met the reporter.
He hasn’t stopped there.
Donald Trump insisted on Sunday he was “100 percent right” when he said he saw Muslims in Jersey City, New Jersey, cheering the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center.
Donald Trump is selling himself as a big bad dealmaker who will get things done in Washington, but he couldn’t handle Chuck Todd questioning him with facts.
“I like that he’s not cloaked by rhetoric, but I didn’t hear how he’d create jobs”. You could rightly argue that Palin differs from Trump in that she actually held elected office and had something of a political background to undergird her rise, but she remained popular well into the cartoonish, “death panel” phase of her post-government career. “No one in Jersey City cheered on September 11th”. To keep us safe is the first priority of the president.
Potentially undercutting Trump’s efforts at luring African American support, however, was the candidate’s initial response to the scuffle in Birmingham. In the general election, Republicans are hoping they’ll receive pre-Obama levels of support from the African American community by appealing to black voters whose views on abortion and same-sex marriage are more in line with evangelicals. He should know better, the solution to terrorism does not lie in Nazi tactics. “Singling out any ethnic or faith group to register with the government is morally repugnant, not to mention unconstitutional”, American Jewish Commitee executive director David Harris said.
Of course, Trump is not the only Republican candidate to have sparked controversy.
Individual Muslims have fired back at Trump.
“I saw it at the time”.
“Anybody is better than Hillary Clinton” Jeb Bush deadpanned.
“I have grave doubts about Donald Trump’s ability to be commander in chief”. “You know I hit him hard at the beginning”.
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Trump didn’t back down from recent suggestions that some Muslims in America should be watched by federal authorities. “You need to generate interest”, Trump wrote in his 1987 book, “The Art of The Deal”. There’s a pretty huge difference between a handful of dumb kids and “thousands and thousands” of Muslims.
