“She is the candidate of the past”, Trump said before the Detroit Economic Club. Some 50 Republican former national security officials signed an open letter calling Trump the most reckless candidate in history, prompting a counterattack from Trump, who said the signers share blame with Clinton for making the world “a mess” and fueling the Islamic State group’s formation.
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Clinton has proposed raising taxes on the highest-income earners, including a surcharge on multimillionaires, but analysts have found lower-income earners would see little change beyond measures like additional tax credits for expenses like out-of-pocket health care costs. The current corporate rate is 35 per cent, and Republicans have long sought to reduce it. “We will work with House Republicans on this plan, using the same brackets they have proposed: 12, 25 and 33 percent”. Further, Trump said he would end estate taxes, but that would only benefit a few thousand families with multimillion-dollar estates.
Senior aides and supporters said the NY businessman, making his first run at public office, wanted to put behind him his disputes with Republican Party leaders and the parents of a Muslim American soldier killed in Iraq. It also is aimed at showing that Trump is a serious candidate despite a disastrous stretch that has prompted criticism from Republicans and Democrats alike. “Massively”, he said for emphasis.
“It’s all very well planned out”, Trump said after security had led several protesters out. Even if he is still working out the logistics of his plan it would have been smart to talk about the plight of mothers and fathers, but instead he dedicated just one vague sentence to a proposal that could impact millions of voters.
On Monday night, seemingly out of the blue, Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta released a statement saying that Clinton “looks forward to participating in all three presidential debates” that are scheduled in September and October. He highlighted the setbacks Detroit has suffered and argued that Clinton’s policies on trade, crime, immigration and education have hurt the city and threaten to hurt the country. She accused Trump of offering “super big tax breaks” to huge companies and rich people and disputed his claim that she wanted the middle class to pay more.
Stephen Miller, a senior policy adviser to Donald Trump, warned that Clinton’s proposal was unsafe, in a statement released Friday.
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Trump’s speech Monday was an attempt to right the ship of his campaign after it listed into treacherous waters last week, as he publicly feuded with the parents of a slain American soldier and declined for days to endorse Republican party leaders ahead of primary elections. Trump also did not spell out any federal spending cuts. And in fact, like most of what he does, the lack of specifics makes you wonder how much he’s thought the whole plan out. Trump’s plan is created to accelerate economic growth, largely in classic conservative fashion: by reducing taxes and regulations on businesses and by opening vast new swaths of federal lands and waters to drilling. “But Donald Trump does not reflect historical Republican values nor the inclusive approach to governing that is critical to healing the divisions in our country”.
