Supporters of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump yell and gesture when told by Trump to turn around and look at members of the media as Trump spoke during a rally in Spokane, Wash., Saturday, May 7, 2016.
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump waves as he walks onto a stage for a rally Saturday, May 7, 2016, in Lynden, Wash.
In Spokane, Trump also addressed his upcoming meeting with House Speaker Paul Ryan, the Wisconsin Republican who said earlier this week that he isn’t yet prepared to support Trump’s presidential bid.
The critique is similar to what President Barack Obama has said he thinks about the 2016 race.
An unrestrained Donald Trump has launched a full-scale personal attack on Hillary Clinton, saying she has been an “unbelievably nasty, mean enabler” of her husband’s abusive behaviour against women, raising once again former President Bill Clinton’s marital infidelities.
Trump, in his characteristic style, responded saying he is not duty-bound to unify the party.
“Don’t forget, I was never going to run for office”, Trump said in his defense. “I don’t think so”.
Trump appeared to be responding to news that Priorities USA, the lead super PAC backing Clinton, has already reserved $91 million in television advertising that will start next month.
Trump toned down his attacks on members of his own party considerably, but still doled them out to his most recent critics, calling Jeb Bush “low-key – “I wanted to say “low-key” cause its nicer than saying ‘low-energy, ‘” he joked – and telling the crowd Sen”. While Trump declares that such GOP naysayers don’t really matter when compared to all the votes he garnered in primary elections, he still takes time to mock Bush and Graham. “She was an unbelievably nasty, mean enabler, and what she did to a lot of those women is disgraceful”.
“Maybe he just doesn’t understand that running our government is not the same as making real estate deals”, said Clinton, the likely Democratic nominee.
“Some of those women were destroyed not by him, but by the way that Hillary Clinton treated them after everything went down”, he went on.
Conservative Party leader Cameron has repeatedly criticized Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric.
But mostly, Trump seemed tickled, if also somewhat chagrined, by the fact that numerous remaining holdouts signed a pledge from the Republican National Committee promising to back the eventual nominee – a ploy initially used by the RNC to ensure Trump wouldn’t launch a third-party bid. For weeks, he then took credit for muzzling the former first lady and her husband, suggesting his counterpunch was more than they could handle.
Trump did not expand upon what he believes Clinton did to “destroy” the lives of those women. He said some were made in the name of entertainment, while others, like his criticism of actress and talk show host Rosie O’Donnell, were warranted.
House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan has said he is not ready to support Trump yet. “She’s awful”, he said.
Trump also found a new target Friday night during an all-out Twitter temper tantrum. Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts Democrat and favorite of the left whom some would like to see as Clinton’s running mate. The former secretary of state says she has offered a specific agenda but “we’re getting slogans and one-liners on the other side”.
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In an interview broadcast on Sunday (8 May), Clinton said that Trump’s stance on women would be part of her campaign strategy.
