“I do”, Trump said. Almost as remarkable is that the frenzy around each only really began to fade when Trump stirred up a new one. The same day, the billionaire celebrity acknowledged that his lack of political correctness could cost him the election if Americans reject his blunt approach. That would be a certain kind of hell, yes, but it would still be better than the apocalypse.
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Former New York City mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani went to great lengths to support Trump in an interview with CNN on Thursday.
After trouncing 16 challengers in the Republican primary, Mr Trump is encountering worrying signs as his campaign moves into the general election.
The White House has declined to comment on Trump’s claims. In an email to supporters asking them to donate, Trump accused the “liberal media” of telling “outrageous lies about me”. An NBC/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll out Friday showed Trump trailing Clinton by large margins in North Carolina, Virginia and Colorado and locked in a tight race in Florida.
While US presidential candidates are not required to release their tax returns, it has become a common custom, and Clinton’s tax returns have been made public, in some form, every year since 1977. All major USA presidential candidates in modern history have released their returns.
Trump has cited an audit by the Internal Revenue Service in refusing to release his returns.
Trump scheduled a speech in Warren, Ohio, on Monday that will focus on how he would handle the threat posed by Islamic State.
“We’ve really been given a false narrative”, Trump said of his struggles in Utah.
He drew heavy criticism earlier this week after he suggested gun rights activists could take action against Clinton, a statement he later said was aimed at rallying votes against her.
Republicans frequently trace the birth of Islamic State to the Obama administration’s decision to withdraw the last US forces from Iraq by the end of 2011. He also suggested the Mideast would be more stable were Saddam still in power. It was Bush’s administration that negotiated the 2009 agreement that called for the withdrawal of all US forces from Iraq by December 31, 2011.
While Trump generally tries to avoid apologizing for provocative things that he says, he often accuses his critics of misconstruing his words or misunderstanding his sense of humor.
Trump also said in Altoona that the only way he could lose Pennsylvania to Clinton is if “cheating goes on”.
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STAR OF DAVID: In July, Trump’s campaign tweeted an anti-Clinton message that seemed to show the Star of David atop a pile of cash, raising questions about anti-Semitism.
