“Every single one of these incidents shows us that Donald Trump simply does not have the temperament to be president and commander in chief of the United States”.
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In the speech in Warren, Michigan, Clinton will highlight a new component of Trump’s tax plan that she will dub the “Trump Loophole”, the portion of his platform dedicated to slashing the tax rate on what is known as pass-through income. John McCain and former director of the Congressional Budget Office. For many Congressional Republicans toeing Trump’s line would require a reversal of their past positions that could be personally painful and politically risky.
A source close to Clinton said she would soon release her return, supplementing the decades of filings she and her husband have already made public. “They may provide inspiration or permission for those bent on bloodshed”. Giffords added, “What political leaders say matters to their followers.When candidates descend into coarseness and insult, our politics follow suit”.
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Even while working to restore confidence in his campaign, Trump appeared to court controversy anew when he said late Thursday that he was open to trying Americans suspected of terrorism at the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba. McCain, like many Republicans running for reelection, is in a “very uncomfortable position”, said Bruce Oppenheimer, a Congressional scholar at Vanderbilt University.
CNN reported the Secret Service – tasked with protecting the president and presidential nominees – spoke with Trump’s campaign about his remarks. “He is not a politician”. He is not a person like you who’s very articulate, very well spoken.
“I would be delighted to meet him any place, any time, between now and the election”, he said.
Once again, a Trump supporter himself has reminded viewers that Trump is not qualified to be president. “The answer is to finally make trade work for us, not against us”.
“I hope that after giving a fair hearing to both sides”, she said, “you’ll join the millions of people across the country supporting our campaign, not just Democrats, but a growing number of Republicans and Independents, as well”. “In this case, I said something that’s just completely wrong”.
According to a memo provided to Business Insider by a Clinton campaign official, the Democratic nominee will look to “lay down the choice on the economy” by contrasting her economic plan with the one provided by Trump in a speech on Monday.
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Rather than correct his comments – which to some suggested a threat of gun violence – or express culpability for any misunderstanding, the celebrity businessman has instead dug in, insisting “dishonest media” misconstrued his meaning. “Americans” best days are still ahead of us if we make up our minds to actually go out and make that happen”. “‘If Donald Trump was going to say something like that, he’d say something like that'”. “I want it to be us”.
