Mr Trump, using the “people are saying” sentence structure he often favours to make accusations, tweeted: “Many people are saying that the Iranians killed the scientist who helped the U.S. because of Hillary Clinton’s hacked emails”. Further, Trump said he would end estate taxes, but that would only benefit a few thousand families with multimillion-dollar estates.
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Though Trump argues his “America First” policies will return the economy to the boom era of a half-century ago, his vision sidesteps massive changes that have since occurred in the global economy.
But, she said, after watching – and waiting – for a “new” Trump to emerge on the campaign trail, she had come to the conclusion that Trump is set in ways that do not reflect the values of her party and that she can not support. “Our country will reach wonderful new heights – maybe heights never attained before”.
Delivering his speech from a teleprompter, Trump was interrupted repeatedly by protesters who stood on chairs and shouted at him before being pulled out of the room by security guards. He did not react harshly as he often has in the past, either quietly thanking the guards or simply powering ahead in his speech.
Trump has been immersed in controversy over his repeated criticism of a Muslim-American family whose son, an Army captain, was killed in Iraq, and his refusal for days to endorse House Speaker Paul Ryan in Tuesday’s Wisconsin primary.
“We will put American steel into the spine of this nation”, Trump said. In an interview with the New Yorker in June she said it was unlikely she would vote for Clinton, but did note, “I worked very well with Hillary when she was my colleague in the Senate and when she was Secretary of State”.
If this works, she’ll try daring Trump to drop out of the race.
“Let’s see, he’s got three Wall Street money managers, an oil baron, a former chief economist at one of the big banks at the heart of the financial crisis, he’s got six men named Steve – and they all care about the same things he does, about how to avoid paying their fair share”, she said. He said he wants to “jumpstart America” and added, “It won’t even be that hard”.
“I will not be voting for Donald Trump for president”, she wrote in a Washington Post op-ed published Monday night.
She has scheduled her own speech in Detroit later in the week.
She said that one such analyst said that his policies would cost 3.5 million jobs.
Clinton, he said, offers more of the same: “more taxes, more regulations, more bureaucrats, more restrictions on American energy”. He also called for a moratorium on federal regulations, which he framed as strangling businesses.
Trump released a tax plan previous year that would reduce the top income tax rate from 39.6 percent to 25 percent and bring down the top corporate rate from 35 percent to 15 percent.
“Now the whole party is unified with a tax message”, said Trump economic policy adviser Stephen Moore.
While Trump had tried to paint his original plan as a boom to the middle class, independent groups concluded it dramatically favored the wealthy and would balloon the national debt by as much as $10 trillion over the next decade. But he said households reporting between $30,000 and $100,000, or perhaps $150,000 a year in income, would qualify for the deduction.
In a new proposal, Trump called for allowing parents to fully deduct the average cost of childcare from their taxable income.
The statement was the latest repudiation of Trump’s candidacy by veteran Republican national security specialists, and was remarkable for the harshness of its language.
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The Republican National Committee backed up Trump’s conspiracy theory, though the commission noted that the dates – September 26, October 9, and October 19 – have been set for almost a year, they’ve aired opposite NFL games in the past, and it’s nearly impossible to find dates with no sporting events in the fall.
