Leading Republicans condemned Trump for the attacks.
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Trump is likely to face off with Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee, in the general election.
“I’d like to see Republican leadership be very strong, very smart and you got to be cool”, he said in Moon Township, Penn., saying that Republicans risked losing seats in the House and Senate.
Trump said the recent tell-all book by a former Secret Service agent referred to the former first lady as a “total mess”. “Do you folks? Who the hell cares?”
“Dana White, you know Dana White?”
“I said, ‘Yes, I’ll apologize – to Pocahontas.’ I’ll apologize cause Pocahontas is insulted by this, I think”, he said.
“I feel like Jon Snow, trying to get the Wildlings to team up with the kings of the castles”, Scaramucci said.
“That project failed miserably and that parking lot, excuse me, that empty lot is still there”, said Tampa City Councilman Mike Suarez. “I have so many Mexicans working for me”.
After a surprising – and reassuring – display of bipartisan disgust at Trump’s recent comments that Indiana-born federal Judge Gonzalo Curiel is biased because his parents are Mexican immigrants, Trump had to backpedal.
Trump fans like Sarasota resident Theresa Hill saw nothing wrong with the comments about the judge. “I would love to see the majority”, Trump said. “He is not a racist at all”. House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Alabama Sen. Many GOP leaders called on Trump to tone down his public remarks and he seemed to momentarily take the advice to heart, delivering a more subdued speech with the aid of teleprompters on the final night of the GOP primaries last week.
But the free-wheeling Trump was back in full force Saturday. Elizabeth Warren, whom he has called “Pocahontas” – a reference to controversy over her claimed Native American heritage. And he mocked Secretary of State John Kerry for breaking his leg in a bicycle accident during the Iran nuclear negotiations.
“Do we help each other”, Clinton asks, before Trump says “knock the crap out of them, would you?”
“He said it because she has bad judgment”, Trump said.
Gov. Rick Scott and Attorney General Pam Bondi helped warm up the crowd.
“I don’t mess around”, she said. “And neither does Donald Trump”.
“He’s an unstable, risky individual”, Roe said. And she offered a personal anecdote to impress upon the crowd what type of great man Mr. Trump actually is.
Trump predicted he would win over his critics. They both say it’s a non-issue.
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After enduring days of criticism from Republican congressional leaders including House Speaker Paul Ryan for his complaints that a us judge of Mexican heritage was biased because of ethnicity, Trump said it was time for the party to get behind him. “He choked and he let us down”, Trump, 69, said of the former MA governor.
