“He can’t do anything about it” because he does not understand it”, Trump said.
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At The Washington Post, Erik Wemple agreed that Trump has gotten a free ride for too long, calling it a “journalistic shortfall” that the Scarborough-Brzezinski town hall failed to hold Trump accountable for his “shameful record of racism, bigotry and rampant disrespect…”
The Republican presidential frontrunner publicly acknowledged he has at least one thing in common with Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders.
Second, the Trump town hall was moderated by Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, the hosts of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, which has become Trump’s platform of choice among morning news shows.
“Actually, I was describing Bernie Sanders”, Brzezinski countered, prompting a laugh from the audience. “Any hourlong session with Donald Trump that doesn’t ask him about those obscenities is a puff session”.
“Is that insulting?” her morning and town hall co-host Joe Scarborough asked.
“He knows that our country is being ripped off big-league – big-league – on trade”, the Republican admitted. “The problem is, he can’t do anything about it, he’s not going to be able to, whereas I’m going to do things”.
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“I think “outlier” is an understatement for this NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll”, Scarborough told Yahoo News. “I was with a very prominent Israeli the other day, he says it’s impossible because the other side has been trained from the time they’re children to hate Jewish people”. Ted Cruz, R-Texas. It will host Trump, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Ohio Gov. John Kasich on Thursday night. “I will say if they get it right, they will be standing alone right now”. “It’s possible [an agreement is] not makeable, because don’t forget it has to last – it’s wonderful to make it and it doesn’t work, but it has to last”, he said.
