Trump has also used the advantages of national media attention like no politician before him. But Trump wasn’t shy about giving away poster-sized checks at campaign events in the weeks after the fundraiser.
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Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks denied Tuesday that timing had anything to do with questions from the media.
Reporters have been persistently asking whether Trump in fact raised all the money he said he had in January and why it took so long to hand donations over to veterans groups.
“I think the media is frankly, made up of people [who] in many cases – not in all cases – are not good people”, he said.
Inoculation is a tried and true tactic for Trump: When faced with a fraud trial over Trump University recently, the Republican candidate noted that the U.S. District Court Judge “happens to be, we believe, Mexican” – a not-so-subtle signal to his supporters that the judge was likely biased against Trump because of his controversial remarks about Mexican immigrants.
While the country took pause this week on Memorial Day to remember the men and women who have served the nation, some veterans were marching outside Trump Tower in a show of solidarity against Donald Trump, who has been under pressure for months to reveal how much money was collected and distributed in his very public veterans fundraiser in January.
Here’s the VB-based Navy SEAL Foundation’s response to Donald Trump’s 465k dollar donation.
“It was very unfair that the press treated us so badly”, Trump complained Tuesday.
Trump triggered a global firestorm earlier that month when he said that the USA should clamp a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States while we figure out what the hell is going on”.
At a rally Wednesday night in Sacramento, California, Trump said he had seen a copy of Clinton’s speech and “it was such lies about my foreign policy”.
Schiff said one effect of intelligence agencies’ worries about Trump’s reputation as a loose cannon could be that briefers circumscribe some of the information they provide to Trump and Hillary Clinton, his prospective Democratic opponent.
He also cited similarities between Trump’s candidacy and Perdue’s own election to the Georgia Senate – he recounted that the political establishment said that voting for him was a risk and that he “wasn’t Republican enough”. And he has been so effective that many Republicans, elected and not, have decided the smart thing is to refrain from taking on Trump, even if they oppose him.
Polls show the public views the media negatively, so attacking the press could be an effective rallying cry for Trump. And when Trump traveled to Albuquerque, after having clinched the Republican nomination, Martinez told reporters she was “really busy” and did not have time to attend. Her last one was last December.
California Governor Jerry Brown this week endorsed Clinton in the Democratic contest, saying she was the “only path forward” to “stop the risky candidacy of Donald Trump”. At that point, Trump coughed up the money. The last time Trump visited the Bay Area, it sparked a massive anti-Trump demonstration, and the candidate actually hopped a fence and had to use a back entrance to the hotel, according to CBS SF Bay Area.
And as of yesterday, all of this, the Republican candidate insisted, is the media’s fault.
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Throughout Tuesday’s 40-minute question-and-answer session, Trump accused the media of being “unbelievably dishonest” in their treatment of him.
