That’s the day after the Republican convention is expected to officially nominate Trump.
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Trump’s fundraising total for June is impressive, considering he raised just over $3 million in May, the month he became the presumptive nominee.
The June figures show Trump’s ability to raise large amounts of money, analysts say, and indicate greater cash hauls will likely be seen between now and November 8.
Do you want to build a strawman? The Trump campaign wrote that the candidate “personally contributed $3.8 million to the campaign this month which brings total contributions to $55 million”. They’re racially profiling. Not us. And he said that he would be open to considering another potential role in a Trump administration.
Then, the Anti-Defamation League, a leading group in the US combating anti-Semitism and bigotry, slammed Trump’s use of the image and Greenblatt told CNN he had no doubt the imagery was anti-Semitic and said it was “the classic trope of Jews and money”.
Donald Trump repeatedly defended on Wednesday his four-day-old, now-deleted tweet of what appeared the Star of David superimposed over a pile of money next to Hillary Clinton.
Trump said he was not at all mad at his social media director, Dan Scavino, who posted the tweet. And I love them. I hate Saddam Hussein. Soon after Trump won House Speaker Paul Ryan’s endorsement, top Republicans roundly criticized Trump for his suggestion that a federal judge’s Mexican heritage prevented the judge from fairly presiding over the Trump University fraud lawsuit.
I don’t usually jump on the “if they would have or wouldn’t have” bandwagon but in this case, it is accurate.
“We have no idea from this how much money he actually raised for Trump’s campaign committee”, Brett Kappel, a campaign finance expert and partner at the Akerman law firm, told TPM regarding the Trump campaign’s new numbers. “He’s smart, he’s tough, he gets it”.
“I can not imagine more vivid proof of corruption”, Gingrich said, pointing in particular to former President Bill Clinton’s impromptu meeting with U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch on an airport tarmac last week.
The situation has also become a headache for Republicans who were hoping to be able to focus this week on the Clinton email scandal, particularly after FBI Director James Comey made a public statement on Tuesday calling the former secretary of state “extremely careless” for her use of a private email server while at the State Department.
And in a odd moment, Trump at one point squashed a mosquito buzzing around his podium.
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“I have a son-in-law who’s Jewish Jared who’s a great guy”, Trump said to try and prove he is not anti-Semitic.
