The author, Serge Kovaleski, has disputed Trump’s assessment that “thousands and thousands” were cheering. In a tweet, Trump called Kasich a “dummy” and “one of the worst presidential candidates in history”.
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He has told NBC News that he has “the world’s greatest memory” and everybody knows about this, insisting that his claims were valid and flaunted the support he said he received on his Twitter page. “That it was a false rumor. Federal Bureau of Investigation”. Mr Kovaleski reported for The Washington Post at the time that “law enforcement authorities detained and questioned a number of people who were allegedly seen celebrating the attacks”.
John Kasich Sunday would not commit to supporting frontrunner Donald Trump as the party’s nominee, saying that he did not expect the real estate mogul to win.
CHUCK TODD: Well just because somebody repeats something doesn’t make it true.
Trump campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks said in an email that Trump would still be holding a private meeting with the group on Monday before departing for a rally in Georgia.
A quotable and controversial candidate is more likely to put more backsides in the seats than, say, Pennsylvania’s own Rick Santorum, whose poll numbers are so small they are barely visible to the naked eye.
Trump hit back saying “the New York Times should apologize to me”, then cheekily suggested that the newspaper better hurry up and say sorry “before it fails”.
The father and the brother of current presidential aspirant Jeb Bush have let their floundering kinsmen carry the ball against Mr. Trump on the stump and in the Republican debates. Truthfulness matters. Fact-based stuff matters. Why wouldn’t it have taken place? Speaking on Fox News, Trump implied disregard for the demonstrator’s message.
“It’s a miscommunication, ” said Darrell Scott, the senior pastor of New Spirit Revival Center in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, who helped to organize the meeting scheduled for Monday afternoon in NY, said Sunday night.
MTV dug up what is believed to be the television footage Trump was referring to, taken from a documentary called Fight For Your Rights: Aftermath of Terror, which first aired on MTV on November 17, 2001. He knows what hes saying.
The controversy could be starting to hurt Trump, who has dropped 12 percentage points in the polls in the past five days, according to Reuters/Ipsos opinion polling of Republican voters nationally. This election cycle, Trump isn’t the only one going after the black evangelical demographic: His opponent Ben Carson is seeking 13 percent, or double of Mitt Romney’s share, of the black vote to beat Hillary Clinton.
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“I’d say a no-fly zone, creating safe zones in Syria, directly arming the Kurds in Iraq, re-engaging both politically and militarily with the Sunnis, the Sunni tribal leaders that were effective partners in the creation of the surge”.
