Trump’s former campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, tweeted a link to the Times report, without comment.
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“I really believe it”, he said.
“His point about the Second Amendment was that people who care about the Second Amendment should be concerned about Hillary Clinton’s candidacy, and those who are concerned can take up the cause”, Manafort said.
Hillary Clinton’s lead in the polls in Pennsylvania is solid – a Quinnipiac survey of likely voters released Tuesday found Clinton leading Trump 52% to 42%.
Trump in the last few weeks alone has repeatedly insulted Gold Star parents, encouraged Russian hackers to find Hillary Clinton’s deleted emails and proposed that the USA not uphold obligations to its North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies, prompting a steady stream of defections among the GOP establishment and a plummet in national and swing-state polls.
Tapper said Manafort’s claims that CNN did not cover Trump’s economic speech or the release of the new Clinton emails are patently false.
“As a result of this tax plan, and all of the components of the tax plan, the trade elements, the investment elements, you’re going to have a situation where jobs are going to come back to America”, Manafort said. While Mr. Manafort is not a target in the separate inquiry of offshore activities, prosecutors say he must have realized the implications of his financial dealings.
The Times story painted a dire picture of the Trump campaign; said that some of Trump’s advisers “now increasingly concede that Mr. Trump may be beyond coaching;” and asserted that “in private, Mr. Trump’s mood is often sullen and erratic, his associates say”.
Despite Trump’s complaints media monitors say he has received more extensive coverage than any candidate in years.
“Not at all”, Manafort said when asked about the apparent discrepancy.
The national news outlet recommended the Republican party “write off the nominee as hopeless” if Trump fails to act more presidential by Labor Day, in which case it said Trump should “turn the nomination over to Mike Pence”, the Republican candidate’s running mate. He said the bans are in place because the campaign has to “stand up and defend ourselves” from biased reporting.
Weird continued to get weirder as Trump was whining one moment at a rally about the prospect of losing the election, gloating another time about how unbeatable he was. “We raised over $132 million in the last two months”. He has stripped a long list of news organizations – including the New York Times, BuzzFeed, Politico and The Washington Post – of their credentials, and vowed that as president he would make it easier to sue news outlets.
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“My rallies are not covered properly by the media. They never discuss the real message and never show crowd size or enthusiasm”.
