Trump then read out Graham’s phone number at a South Carolina rally. Several companies including NBC, Macy’s, and Univision severed business ties with the real estate mogul, and his fellow Republicans have been actively working to distance themselves from Trump’s inflammatory comments.
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Graham filmed a video with help of IJR, above, destroying his old phone – which was a flip phone.
Asked whom he’d vote for if it was between Hillary Clinton and Trump, the senator replied, “I think she would win and that would be bad for the country”.
Donald Trump pushed back ever harder Tuesday against Republicans fed up with his provocations, disclosing one opponent’s cell number in a fiery speech and lashing out at an influential newspaper as part of an in-your-face escalation of the feud. In response, Graham called Trump a “jackass” and said he “shouldn’t be commander in chief”, Politico reported.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio likened Trump to Barack Obama, whom he called a president with “no class” and one who demeaned the office with his appearance this week on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show”.
Trump criticized Sen. John McCain’s military record at a conservative forum Saturday, saying the party’s 2008 nominee and former prisoner of war was a “war hero because he was captured“. On Monday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a press conference that the city will not be agreeing to new contracts with Trump. During a speech covered widely by the media, Trump gave out Graham’s cellphone number to the public. Graham’s presidential campaign confirmed the number was the senator’s.
The reality television star also went after others who have criticized him in recent weeks, implying that former Texas Governor Rick Perry was unintelligent and Bush was weak. “I don’t bring God into that picture”, Trump said. He says there’s no question Trump has singlehandedly changed the tone of this race.
Presidential elections in the world’s self-declared “greatest” democracy is descending into a farce after candidates began calling each other names in a show of petulance worthy of a high-school campaign.
Check out “How To Destroy Your Cell Phone With Lindsey Graham” below. “Your local politician. You know, he won’t fix anything, but at least he’ll talk to you“.
“He’s just making that story up like he makes a lot of things up”, Graham said Wednesday afternoon on CNN.
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Rand Paul printed out the federal tax code, cut it with a chainsaw, shoved the papers into a wood chipper and, yes, set it on fire.
