On the campaign trail In Ashburn, Virginia, Trump received a symbolic show of support from Lt. Colonel Lewis Dorfman, who gave Trump his Purple Heart, a military medal the veteran received from being injured in battle.
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“It may make him media savvy, but it doesn’t make him qualified or ready to be president”, she added.
Trump has also said that his returns are being kept private due to an audit being conducted by the IRS.
The 65-year-old congressman from Barneveld, N.Y., near Syracuse, said the last straw was the GOP nominee’s tongue-lashing of Khizr and Ghazala Khan following their speech endorsing Clinton at the Democratic National Convention last week in Philadelphia.
Hanna has previously spoke out against the Republican Party, being one of only 13 of the party’s house members to acknowledge that humans contribute to climate change.
Retiring U.S. Representative Richard Hanna of NY also said he would not vote for Trump, calling him unrepentant and unfit to serve the Republican Party.
Dallas Mavericks owner and television personality Mark Cuban also backed Clinton last week, calling her campaign chairman John Podesta on the night she accepted her nomination to say he was ready to support the former secretary of state.
“Now I’ve got news for him, I’m under audit too”, Buffett said.
“Instead of speaking out against instances of bigotry, racism and inflammatory rhetoric whether it’s been against women, immigrants or Muslims, we made a calculus that it was better to say nothing at all in the interest of politics and winning elections”. And believe me, nobody’s going to stop us from talking about what’s on those returns.
“As a proud Republican, casting my vote for President has usually been a simple matter”.
“There has to be a point in which you say this is not somebody I can support for President of the United States, even if he purports to be a member of my party”, Obama said.
Of course, it’s one thing for Obama to call upon Republican leadership to denounce Trump, and quite another for them to follow through.
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Trump took a swipe at Ryan in return, thanking the speaker’s August 9 primary opponent for his “kind words”, apparently in defence of Trump’s proposal to temporarily ban Muslim immigration to the U.S.
