Details of Trump’s immigration policies remain scant.
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Trump Jr. confirmed that he father would still push for the deportation of undocumented immigrants if elected in November. (He based this on an exotic and tendentious reading of the 14th Amendment that would, in Trump’s view, negate claims to birthright citizenship.) That was the sort of hardline posturing that endeared him to the Republican primary electorate and helped him sink candidates like Sen.
Trump himself has also been promoting the speech on Twitter.
There was a hot second when Trump seemed to attempt to “soften” his stance on immigration in an attempt to prove he’s not a racist (until he nearly immediately contradicted himself on Hannity, that is). That, he said, “is a subject for the future”. Either that or his campaign is fantastically inept and confusion is the by-product of good old-fashioned incompetence.
In an interview with NJ Advance Media on Thursday, Giuliani, a top adviser to the Republican presidential nominee, said Trump’s recent reversal on immigration policy came after his inner circle for several weeks suggested a more nuanced, practical, and humane approach in dealing with the nation’s 11 million undocumented immigrants. “That’s why I’m bringing on fantastic people who know how to win and love to win”.
Following a New York Times report that Hillary Clinton’s campaign was considering various people, including billionaire Mark Cuban, to play Donald Trump in mock-debate preparation, the Dallas Mavericks owner told The Daily Beast that he would be open to the opportunity.
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Though Trump said he was appreciative of Manafort’s “great work”, he was feeling hopeful about his campaign team shake-up, telling the Wall Street Journal, “I want to win”. So even if Trump has it in mind to moderate his views ahead of Election Day, it’s way too late for this to make any sort of difference.
