Donald Trump attacked the media today for questioning his January announcement that he’d raised $6 million for veterans groups through the fundraiser he held instead of attending a Fox News GOP primary debate.
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On Tuesday, Trump gave further details on his donations.
He called reporters “extremely dishonest”, “sleazy”, “biased”, “nasty”, “not good people” and more.
And he criticized the press for making the money an issue. “I have never received such bad publicity for doing a good job”.
Some of the donations arrived in February or March, some as recently as last week around the time a critical article appeared in The Washington Post.
Though the foundation had received a $100,000 check from Trump’s charity in March, last week’s $1 million donation came as something of a surprise. He said the total could climb higher as more money comes in.
Speaking at a news conference in Trump Tower in New York, Trump called Sessions – who in February became the first sitting senator to endorse Trump – a “fantastic person” who would “absolutely” be looked at for the No. 2 spot on the ticket. Asked whether he would maintain an adversarial stance with reporters if elected president, Trump said: “Yeah, it’s going to be like this”.
As Donald Trump considers a running mate, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee is floating the name of a current US senator.
In training to be the petulant president, Trump spent most of the 40-minute press event complaining about how hurt he had been by the new treatment of his little fundraiser and taking specific aim at the hapless man from ABC News – Tom Llamas.
The press corps seems to be growing increasingly impatient with Trump’s ability to spin every objective inquiry about his campaign into an attack on the “dishonest” media. “Don’t worry about it. Just do your jobs and be fair”, he said. Trump and Bush were arguing over immigration policy, and Llamas took issue with the real estate mogul’s use of the term “anchor babies”.
Earlier this month, Sessions told CNN that it would be an “honor” to serve as Trump’s VP. The foundation had presented Trump with an award at its 2015 gala held at a NY hotel.
Clinton leads Trump by 11 percentage points in the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday responded to Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol’s weekend assertion that he would put forward a strong third-party candidate to compete with Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
“I didn’t want the credit for it”, he said repeatedly. But what you’re going to do is you lose the election for the Republicans, and therefore you lose the Supreme Court. “There are a couple of people that were really disgusting, they call, and these vets group, they don’t get a lot of calls from the press, and maybe some of them would keep quiet or they didn’t know or they want to talk to the press or they didn’t feel comfortable, so if they didn’t say they got the money, which they all did, a hundred percent got the money, all certified checks, if anyone wants to see the certified checks”.
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But one of the veterans who joined Trump for his news conference, Al Baldasaro, a New Hampshire state representative, came outside to heckle the anti-Trump vets, calling them “political pawns”.
