The press conference was less a “conference” and more of a roast with Donald Trump holding the fire to the media.
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A MI veterans charity that has come under scrutiny for its relationship with a much-investigated fundraising company was among 40 groups to which Donald Trump steered donations to his January rally to benefit veterans, The Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press report. Some media outlets “were trying to discredit Mr. Trump”. He called one reporter “a sleaze” and vowed that he would “continue to attack the press”.
“The press should be ashamed of themselves”, he said Tuesday, “You make me look very bad”. But in classic Trump fashion, he quickly derailed his own trail of thought to call an ABC News reporter named Tom Llamas “a sleaze”-and to voice some complaints about the press in general”.
Tuesday’s press conference-during which Trump stood at his usual Trump podium, with a handful of veterans standing behind him-appeared to be an attempt by his campaign to put these questions to bed once and for all.
Trump listed the vets groups – there were more than 40 – that he said had received money and the amounts that had been given to each.
A number of veterans groups listed by Trump on Tuesday as recipients confirmed they had received the donation as listed, ranging from $25,000 to, in one case, $1.1 million, which went to the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation.
In late January, Donald Trump skipped a Fox News presidential debate in Iowa to host a fundraiser for “wounded warriors and veterans”. But in the way that Trump views the world, he tried to do something honorable-raise money for vets-and was unfairly rewarded with negative headlines.
Sara Berry, director of marketing and communications for the SEAL Foundation, declined to confirm the Trump donation or say when it was sent.
Asked if he would maintain his anti-media hostility if he became president, Trump told reporters, “Yeah, it is going to be like this”.
Trump was unequivocal: “I’m going to continue to attack the press”, he said. Any American political candidate who attacks the press for doing its job is campaigning in the wrong country. Don’t worry about it.
As a mainstream political candidate, Donald Trump is under close scrutiny, as he should be.
Trump has attacked the presiding judge as hostile to him. Trump showing a photocopy of the check. “Llamas does not see his job as reporting the news but to create news, and only does so by hurling left-wing talking points that create sound bites for Hillary Clinton”. And this morning, trump dealing with a new problem. Her last one was last December. According to the May 27-31 survey of likely voters, 46 percent support the former US secretary of state while 35 percent back Trump.
Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon told The Washington Post that her campaign can win news cycles on the local and state levels – even if Trump remains the star of national newscasts.
On Wednesday, Clinton retweeted a almost three-month-old tweet from the former MA governor, 2012 GOP presidential nominee and outspoken Trump critic.
The candidate called Bill Kristol, editor of neoconservative magazine The Weekly Standard and a fierce critic of the Republican nominee “a loser”.
“He says he has foreign policy experience because he ran the Miss Universe pageant in Russian Federation”, she said as the crowd guffawed, and she suggested Trump would run the USA economy “like one of his casinos”.
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CNN received no response when it emailed and telephoned Associated Community Services or from Bob McDonald, president of the Foundation for American Veterans.
