Answering questions in the House of Commons, Osborne said “the best way to confront the views of someone like Donald Trump is to engage in a robust democratic argument with him about why he is profoundly wrong”.
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Damac shares have fallen in the wake of Trump’s comments, losing more than 15 percent over the past week in trading on the Dubai Financial Market.
Trump Tower, a 68-story, mixed-use building in midtown Manhattan, is the flagship property of the Trump Organization, the global real-estate company that Donald Trump leads as chairman and president. Before Thursday, a billboard outside the development had showed an image of Trump swinging a golf club amid a golf course backdrop. Trump’s daughter Ivanka was pictured separately, and that has also been removed. In addition, gold lettering of the course name on a stone wall at the entrance to the project site was also removed.
Arab billionaire Khalaf Al Habtoor revoked his support for Donald Trump as the Republican presidential candidate, following his hate speech against Muslims on Monday when he called for stopping all Muslims from entering the U.S.
The move comes as Dubai-based Landmark Group pulled all Trump home decor products at its 180 Lifestyle stores.
Trump has the GOP in turmoil over his call for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the US following last week’s mass shooting by an Islamic militant couple that killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California.
“In light of the recent statements made by the presidential candidate in the USA media, we have suspended sale of all products from the Trump Home décor range”, said Lifestyle CEO Sachin Mundhwa.
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“This bigoted blowhard of a man is being rightly condemned far and wide, and I’m confident that Scotland will reject his extremist rhetoric”, said Patrick Harvie, a member of the Scottish parliament. But I didn’t want to put him under pressure, No. 1.
