“So in our shared mission, to make America great again, I support and endorse our speaker of the House, Paul Ryan”, Trump said on Friday night.
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The timing is unusual.
Trump said earlier this week in an interview with the Washington Post: “I like Paul, but these are disgusting times for our country”. So extending an olive branch to Paul Ryan – the popular Republican representative of the 1st District of Wisconsin – looks like a strategic move for Trump if he wants the support of fellow Republicans hoping for a strong challenger to defeat Hillary Clinton come November.
Nehlen says Trump’s decision “is appropriate and is a display of true leadership”.
But Trump’s assault on Clinton’s character also came as he himself faced stinging criticism from top U.S. officials, including a damning editorial on Friday in which the former acting head of the CIA, Michael Morell, a well-respected and non-partisan figure, endorsed Clinton and warned that Trump “is not only unqualified for the job, but he may well pose a threat to our national security”. John McCain, saying he held the senator “in the highest esteem. for his service to our country in uniform and in public office”. Kelly Ayotte, two Republican leaders with whom he’s feuded.
Trump said he had created an economic advisory team and would release his plan to boost the US economy in a speech on Monday.
“But I need a Republican Senate and a house to accomplish all of the changes that we have to make”. She added, “I’m going to work my heart out in this campaign and as president to produce results for people”.
“We will have disagreements, but we will disagree as friends, and we will never stop working together toward victory”.
Mr Trump raised eyebrows this week when he made that assertion and gave details of what he said he saw in the video.
Trump’s campaign said his economic advisory panel included former steel executive Dan DiMicco; Howard Lorber, CEO of tobacco company Vector Group Ltd; and Trump campaign finance chairman and investment manager Steven Mnuchin. Many Republicans, including Ryan, McCain and Ayotte, were critical of Trump’s insistent attacks on the parents.
“So I may have short-circuited, and for that I, you know, will try to clarify”. He has skipped from one misstep to the next, sparking a fresh wave of Republican defections among longtime party loyalists who refuse to support their presidential nominee – including some who even publicly support for Democrat Clinton.
However Mr Trump showed he is not mellowing by unleashing some new and deeply personal insults against his rival Hillary Clinton.
“She’s a monster, okay”, said Trump.
In doing so, she addressed two of the largest issues that continue to dog her campaign: the controversy over her use of a private email server while she was secretary of state during the Obama administration, and continuing scepticism among voters about her trustworthiness.
“All my life I’ve been told, “You have the greatest temperament”, he said.
“As Donald Trump has said stupid things and been rude to so many people over the past year, I usually chalked it up to inexperience and the spotlight of an incredibly hostile press”, Vos wrote.
Last summer in Iowa, Trump touched off controversy by questioning whether McCain was a war hero.
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Clinton had pulled well ahead of Trump on the heels of the Democratic National Convention last week, where she became the first woman to accept the US presidential nomination from a major political party.
