The agreements will allow the Donald J. Trump for President campaign to raise funds the national party will use to elect Republicans at all levels this cycle.
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While they wound up not looking around George Washington University hospital to fulfill his request, the report said, Bennett did spend the last few months of his life reaching out to Muslims. “And he was very emotional and said, ‘I want to go up to every single one of them and apologize, I want to go up to every single one of them and tell them how grateful I am that they are in this country and apologize on behalf of the Republican Party for Donald Trump'”.
Bennett’s deathbed wish was not fulfilled, but before he was hospitalized, Bennett had acted on his impulses, going up to Muslims in public to express his happiness at their presence in the country and apologize on behalf of his party.
“There’s a lot of Muslims here in this area”.
Bennett, a veteran senator swept out of office in 2010 by Tea Party favorite Mike Lee, was deeply troubled by Trump’s rise to prominence in his party, Joyce Bennett told the Beast.
“I was just very proud of him”, Jim said.
Bennett was reportedly deeply troubled by Trump’s anti-Muslim rhetoric, which has included a proposal to ban Muslims from entering the U.S. as well as requiring them to carry special identification.
Jim said that his father became interested in Islam after 9/11, citing a desire to be informed about the religion while making policy decisions in the wake of terrorist attacks. “He just felt it was his responsibly to push back”.
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While liberals and conservatives have long disagreed on many fundamental issues, the one thing that Donald Trump’s campaign has done is expose who among Republican lawmakers and politicians are honorable and integrious from the scores of yellow-bellied fair-weather conservatives who have either wholeheartedly or tentatively embraced Trump’s nomination. He wasn’t delusional. In fact, he was “sharp as a tack”, his son tells NBC News.
