“I’ve never received such bad publicity for doing a good job”.
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“The money’s all been sent”, Trump said at a press conference at Trump Tower Tuesday morning.
The day was a odd, curdled end for an episode that had begun as a stunning success for Trump.
After the conference, Llamas took to Twitter to offer a possible reason why Trump might single him out, pointing to an exchange in which the reporter suggested that the $6 million figure was an exaggeration.
Trump repeatedly insisted during the news conference that he didn’t want “credit” for the contributions.
The poll showed that voters don’t like either of the likely nominees, as 57 percent said they have a “strongly unfavorable” or “somewhat unfavorable” opinion of Clinton and 59 percent said the same about Trump.
The former reality TV star annihilated 16 rivals in the race to sew up the Republican nomination for the White House, and is trailing Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton by just a few percentage points in recent polls. The GOP candidate boasted that he’d raised $6 million for vets, and he’d contributed $1 million out of his own pocket.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump enters a news conference next to his daughter Ivanka at Trump Tower where he addressed issues about the money he pledged to donate to veterans groups following a skipped a debate in January before the Iowa caucuses Tuesday in New York City.
In repeated blasts at news reports questioning whether money had been paid out, Trump said reporters who raised questions “are not good people”, and he described one as a “sleaze”.
Mr. Trump “did the right thing by vetting these groups”, said New Hampshire State Rep. Al Baldasaro, who also appeared with Mr. Trump during an April rally in Pittsburgh. And in most cases, the organizations that received the money had no idea it was coming. The donation: $75,000. A professional fundraiser for the charity, Southfield-based Associated Community Services, has paid a settlement following a cease-and-desist order from the attorney general.
“Trump needs to stop”, Mickiela Montoya said. 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.
The group was also the subject of an “alert” from the Better Business Bureau earlier this year.
Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks denied Tuesday that timing had anything to do with questions from the media. The Foundation for American Veterans did not respond to calls and email messages on Tuesday.
Some observers have said that Trump does not understand that the role of a free press is to hold candidates accountable for their actions and what they say.
Biggio had served in Iraq with the son of one of Trump’s bodyguards.
“They do our fundraising because we aren’t able to do it through normal fundraising”, McDonald said.
Reporter: “You keep calling us the dishonest press, it seems as though you’re resistant to scrutiny, the kind of scrutiny that comes with running for president of the United States”. The biggest donation we’ve ever gotten [before] was $15,000.
“Veterans are a very diverse group of people”. In January, Trump took on Fox News anchor Megan Kelly after she asked some tough questions at a debate.
He didn’t answer the question.
And when Trump traveled to Albuquerque, after having clinched the Republican nomination, Martinez told reporters she was “really busy” and did not have time to attend.
For 40 minutes, he had assailed those reporting on his candidacy with a level of venom rarely seen at all, let alone in public, from the standard-bearer of a major political party.
“I’m going to continue to attack the press”.
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“Unbelievably dishonest”, he called them. Thank you all very much.
