Under pressure to account for money he claimed to raise for veterans, an irritated Donald Trump lambasted the news media Tuesday for pressing the issue and listed charities he said have now received millions of dollars from a fundraiser he held in January. They are motivated partly by presumed Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, who has said that Mexico is sending criminals, including rapists, to the United States among the immigrants who cross the border illegally. By evening’s end, Mr. Trump announced that he’d raised $6 million, much of which came from wealthy associates like financier Carl Icahn. Trump had previously said he had raised $6 million at the nationally broadcast fund-raiser he attended instead of the debate and that he would donate it all to veterans groups.
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Reading from a list, Trump said he gave money to various veterans’ charities, including Hope for the Warriors, Homes for Our Troops, the Disabled American Veterans Charitable Service Trust and K9s for Warriors.
Trump ticked off the more than 40 groups he claims are receiving donations, some in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. “Who got it?’… And it makes me look very bad”.
Trump was so bothered, in fact, that he stepped on his own good news – interrupting his recitation of $5.6 million in donations to veterans to complain again about the media.
And CBS News reported that much of the money that was donated was dated “May 24, the day The Washington Post published the story questioning whether he had distributed all of the money”.
Republican Sen. David Perdue said that voters want Donald Trump as president, and Republicans must listen and get behind the candidate.
And the questions are relevant, especially given the scandal surrounding such groups as the Disabled Veterans National Foundation a few years ago.
Trump responded in kind, calling a male CNN anchor “a beauty”, referring to an ABC News reporter in the audience as a “sleaze” and vowing to take his war against the press to the White House if he’s elected. “I don’t have any problem supporting him”, McConnell said.
When Trump said that night in Iowa, “I refuse to be called a politician!”
For his part, Trump has defended his namesake business school, blaming the judge in the case in a news conference Tuesday.
“You’re a sleaze because you know the facts and you know the facts well”, Trump shot back. Donald Trump has taken the conservative opinion on the media and made it a campaign promise.
He added, “I find the press to be extremely dishonest”.
“I’m going to continue to attack the press”.
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But he suspects Trump became aware of it through some of the combat-wounded veterans that it has served. “My view is that Trump has earned the nomination because he went out and got the most votes” in the primary and caucus process, McConnell said.
