President Barack Obama suggested the American people are too “sensible” to elect Republican frontrunner Donald Trump as president even as he and Hillary Clinton held commanding leads in the next battle ground of SC. “I like his personality; I like what he represents”.
Advertisement
When asked if American Catholics should vote for Trump, the pope did not want to get involved.
“I think they recognize that being president is a serious job”, Obama said. “If I were African-American, I would be so angry at him”, Trump said at a campaign rally in Myrtle Beach, S.C. with an audience of more than 5,000.
The radio interviewer said that some have interpreted the pope’s comments as a kind of “excommunication, if we can call it that”, of Trump.
Cruz and super PACs opposing Trump’s candidacy have blanketed the SC airwaves knocking the NY billionaire, using Trump’s past support for abortion, some gun control measures and his praise of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to question Trump’s conservative credo. What accounts for the shift? He also said that in relation to immigration in Europe many times.
He heads a sovereign state – Vatican City – and meets regularly with world powers. “Because the Mexican government convinced him that Trump is not a good guy”, he went on. The statement came up during the news conference to which he also addressed the Roman Catholic Church’s stance on abortion and birth control in the wake of the Zika virus outbreak in Latin America. The pontiff in a criticism of the controversial real-estate tycoon had said that Trump can not claim to be a Christian and slammed his comments on immigration in particular building a wall along the US-Mexico border.
But Thursday night, he also softened his tone, saying during a CNN town hall that he likes the pope and what he represents.
Paul Begala (@PaulBegala), a political consultant who is an adviser to a Super PAC helping Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, said: ‘How long before realDonaldTrump says the Pope is totally broke.
Asked if he felt he was being used as a pawn of Mexico, Francis said he didn’t know.
“My opinion as a Christian isn’t spouting your mouth off and then apologizing for it. Think before you speak and say something that’s Christian”, Laurel Hertz said.
Advertisement
“I agree that as Christians we should try to build bridges with everyone that we possibly can, but that doesn’t mean that we should compromise our national security…”
