In a video statement released Wednesday afternoon, Congressmen Blake Farenthold said he is glad Trump is visiting Laredo, but not necessarily because he supports Trump as a candidate. Graham later called Trump a “jackass”, which led to Trump’s cellphone comment.
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Lindsey Graham learned the hard way on that you never give your phone number to a petty billionaire.
“This community is nearly 90 percent Mexican Americans, people who have come across to make a living here”, said Raul Salinas, the former mayor of Laredo. “This one is for all the veterans”, he adds at the end of the video as he chucks his phone presumably against the wall. The mailbox was full.
Ben Carson, another of the 16 Republicans seeking the presidency, said there was too much focus on Trump.
On Wednesday those who tried to call Graham were informed by a Verizon message that his number had been changed, disconnected, or was no longer in service.
McCain sparked Trump’s temper last week when the Arizona senator said the businessman’s inflammatory remarks about Mexican immigrants had brought out the “crazies”.
“I’m the only one that speaks their language”, he said.
Trump said he likes people who weren’t captured. “And he couldn’t have endured for five minutes what John McCain endured for five and a half years”. In response, Trump stated that McCain graduated from the bottom of his class at the U.S. Naval Academy, making him a “dummy”.
Lindsey Graham shows how many different ways you can destroy a cell phone.
From party heavyweights like Jeb Bush to recently announced candidates like Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, the contenders are confronted by Trump’s hair-trigger habit of calling out his critics by name, vilifying the GOP establishment and roiling the debate over immigration and more. He then read Graham’s cell phone aloud to the crowd.
Soon after the show aired, Trump’s campaign confirmed the trip sharing it on social media.
For his part, McCain told fellow Senate Republicans in their private weekly lunch on Tuesday that he’s finished commenting on Trump’s provocations.
“There is an ugly truth behind that silence, and it is this: When it comes to immigration policy, there is no meaningful difference between the Republican Party and Donald Trump”, Reid said.
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Rand Paul, R-Ky., earlier in the week addressed the Trump feud nearly serenely, expressing confidence the primary campaign would “get beyond the novelty of a reality TV star”. Donald Trump is the modern-day incarnation of the “Know Nothing” movement.
